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Which fad, that has come about in the last 5 years, do you hate the most?

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1. "Fast & The Furious" Wanna Be's
2. Reality Television Shows (especially when they are copy catting off each other.. ie.. Skating with Celebraties, Dancing With The Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and Sleeping With The Neighbors Wife) j/k.. that last one isn't out yet

3. The plumbers crack style of wearing jeans. also referred to as "Rockin'Em"

4. George W. Bush

 
Trucker Hats - (usually mesh) They aren't cool anymore. They were at one point, for like a day, until everyone started wearing them.

T-Shirts with witty slogans - I don't even read them anymore.
 
Reality TV and retro cars. All these fugly cars that have come out in the last few years make me want to puke. From someone who grew up in the muscle car era, please if you want a muscle car buy a real one and restore it. An 06 charger/mustang is not a muscle car period. And the square box cars😕, and don't even get me started on the woody wannabe's
 
Numa Numa. It still doesn't die. Last night at work, at 12:30am, some idiot on a scooter with crappy computer speakers tied to the back of it came driving through the parking lot blaring it out. I have no idea why, he seemed like he was in his mid to late 50s, just kept going round and round in front of the movie theater down the sidewalk.
 
I loathe popped collars followed by that stupid thing that many kids do when wearing a hat and they put the brim at a 45º angle, or thereabouts. It's not forward, it's not backward or sideways - it just sorta sits off-center and looks dumb as hell.

Combine that with a popped collar and you have a walking douche.
 
In order (don't care if they're technically a fad or if they've already been mentioned):

- Git'r Done (DIE!), Dave Chapelle, Carlos Mancia
- Emo (includes MySpace)
- Deadbeat scumbags who walk/talk/dress "gangsta"
- 20 year old women who look like snakeskin
- Coinslots
- iPods
- Ricers / $15,000 upgrades on $400 cars
- Honda Element
- Hats with all the stickers/tags/perfectly straight bill that are worn off the side... FSCK YOU ASSHOLES
- Reality Television
- PDA's (electronic organizers that people are obsessed with for every minute of the daylight hours)
- Car ribbon magnets (except the blue one that says "Send Help. Stuck in Ribbon Factory")
- Bush bumper stickers (he only won because Kerry was even scarrier)
- Kerry bumper stickers (he lost... to BUSH(!)... movethefsckon.org)
- Corporate fads (synergy/proactive/value-add/turnkey/champion/you-name-it)
- Car spoilers. All of them. Who the fsck is going that fast anyway?


PS: Trucker hats were NEVER cool. Ever.
 
You guys have a lot of anger. Can't you live alongside fads that you aren't a part of? Does the existance of some EMO kids, gangsters or wanna-be gangsters, popped collars, reality TV shows or anything else really threaten you that much?

I think you guys are jealous that most EMO kids, gangsters, preps and kids who watch reality shows get way more pvssy than most ATOT members.

PS: none of those are from the last 5 years.
 
Originally posted by: xSauronx
the ballcap thing where guys leave the brims straight and the stickers on bugs me the most. i dont see emo around here as much as i see that, and for some reason it bugs the hell out of me.

guys bring in *nasty* caps to work, where i take the stickers off to clean them....which of course leaves a bright spot where the sticker was, and the customer asking me why i took it off.

"its a price tag, youre supposed to take it off after you pay for it and leave the store. same goes for the shiny one you left on there"

the guy gave me a blank look and left.
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I've never seen that...
 
Originally posted by: n yusef
You guys have a lot of anger. Can't you live alongside fads that you aren't a part of? Does the existance of some EMO kids, gangsters or wanna-be gangsters, popped collars, reality TV shows or anything else really threaten you that much?
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So which one are you? Gangsta with a popped collar? Maybe throw in some gender confusion to get that splash of Emo?
 
Popped collars are from the 1980's. The tags on hats are old too. I remember the nutsacks with the price tags on their shoes.

I would say Reality TV and Ryan Seacrest
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Xanis
Those huge sunglasses that everyone seems to be wearing... ugh.
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Oh man, that's catching on around here too. The funny thing is that those girls think they look good, when they look absolutely ridiculous.
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omg I was gonna say the same thing. i can't f'in stand them..

I want to say the exact thing too, they thing they look hot with them, but they just look like absolute dorks. i'd like to punch a few of them in the face..
 
i'm not really fond of

thong flip flops + jeans on guys - the flip flops look ok with shorts (ie "beach look"), just not wit long pants
black plastic rim nerd glasses
 
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
pink polos and popped collars, the combination of the two makes me want to go on a rampage.
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aww your man boobs arent flattering in anything other than baggy sweatshirts......i'd be jealous too.
 
Originally posted by: brandonbull
Popped collars are from the 1980's. The tags on hats are old too. I remember the nutsacks with the price tags on their shoes.

I would say Reality TV and Ryan Seacrest
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I was in college in the early 80s and we only popped our collars as a joke. It was something Hollywood decided was "cool" - sort of like wearing sunglasses at night or walking around in a biker jacket with no shirt on, or wearing one sequined glove. You saw it in movies and music videos. People who actually did it in real life were ridiculed mercilessly, at least where I was.
 
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