# Trends you would like to see RETURN!! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078 "2002-06-14T18:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/61 "2002-06-16T20:35:07Z")
the death penalty ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/62 "2002-06-16T20:40:04Z")
I think it’s both **Crusoe** I’m reading a lot of wishes for courteous and kind people to come back. \*_wondering why we can’t start to bring that back, right here and now_ \* I know, I know; I’m a :wally ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/63 "2002-06-16T20:41:17Z")
interesting cross post **Critical1** ---
**Author:** ![Sublime54465](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sublime54465](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublime54465)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/64 "2002-06-16T22:30:23Z")
Old MTV … pre-Real World, pre-rap. ive thought that for QUITE some time. Also, pre… -pop -TRL -Road Rules -Any Non Music Related Programing ---
**Author:** ![Sublime54465](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sublime54465](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublime54465)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/65 "2002-06-16T22:35:07Z")
Blimey. Is this ‘trends you would like to see return’ or ‘reasons why the 1930s/1940s/1950s were better than today’? agreed, crusoe…i’ve been seeing a lot of posts like “what young kids do/did.” “what young kids wear/wore”. “how young kids act/acted.” “why young kids are hated by the world for how then dress, what they do, and how they act/were hated by the world for how then dressed, what they did, and how they acted.” ---
**Author:** ![Omnivore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47774/32.png) [@Omnivore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnivore)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/66 "2002-06-16T22:52:38Z")
Well, in many ways, not all, of course, those ancient days were better than today. Like in the 60s, everybody protested, but no one shot kids in school and parents could spank their kids without neighbors calling the cops on them and they being sent to jail. Parents SPANKED their children, not beat them. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/67 "2002-06-16T22:53:11Z")
Well, Sublime, if it makes you feel any better, I used to get _spit on_ for what I wore by people my own age… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/68 "2002-06-17T02:05:57Z")
I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the old days-they just want the good stuff to come back. And leave the bad stuff behind. ---
**Author:** ![Dagny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@Dagny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dagny)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/69 "2002-06-17T03:58:24Z")
1. Men wearing suits. 2. Dresses and skirts for women. 3. Normal colored hair. I don’t care if you choose a haircolor compeletly different from your own, just make sure it’s one that’s found in nature. 4. Neat well cared for hands. 5. People containg their behaivor. You can’t just do whatever you please. 6. Real handbags for women. Not those horrible mini backpacks. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/70 "2002-06-17T04:04:39Z")
Malls closed on Sundays. Every Sunday I miss this one more and more. ---
**Author:** ![Omnivore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47774/32.png) [@Omnivore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnivore)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/71 "2002-06-17T05:12:35Z")
Small Towns. I used to live in one pop# 4500 but now the population is over 100,000 and the place is going 24/7, crime is up, forests are cut down for new gated communities, we have had murders and rapes, drugs can be easily bought and the mom and pop stores are all gone. So are the great empty fields and vacant lots, the fields of grass and ditches with clean water. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/72 "2002-06-17T05:32:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Omnivore \* > \*\*Parents SPANKED their children, not beat them. \*\* Riiii-ight. :rolleyes: While we’re at, let’s bring back snow! School too. And walking -walking in bare feet, none less! Yeah! Walking to school 10 miles in the snow with noooo shoes - _uphill_ both ways!!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/73 "2002-06-17T16:52:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squish \* > \*\*Flashes armpit at **Rug Burn** …you got it! 😉 \*\* Whooo hooo! Pics. please, my imagination isn’t what it used to be. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/74 "2002-06-17T18:53:26Z")
Two words: Rock Opera ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/75 "2002-06-18T04:21:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sKipping girl \* > i’m such an aussie yobbo but… > -mullets for everyone!! > -ugh boots > -80’s anything… especially music Ugg boots are still sold in America. When we were in the SF Bay Area, my SO was an asst. mgr. of an upscale shoe store. The Ugg boots flew off the racks, even though they all started at US$100.00 a pair. I found the same shoes online direct from Oz going for AUS$20.00 a pair. Ya know, **sKipping girl** you gotta travel outside of Elizabeth and Pooraka sometime. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/76 "2002-06-18T04:22:29Z")
good kids tv (ie 1980s). kids today don’t know what they’re missing. how is pokemon and dragonball-z ever going to live up to such masterpieces as teenage mutant ninja turtles or dangermouse? bands that didn’t think it was cool to pepper your songs with words like ‘faggot’ and ‘nookie’. real teen angst, not this fake mass produced linkin park style angst. top hats. compassion for immigrants. accountable governments. xenophobia being the domain of an idiotic redhead rather than official government policy. the afro the simpsons being the end of western civilization as we know it (remember that? the simpsons used to be hardcore. george bush didn’t like them.) dinosaurs. cargo pants. man, those pockets were useful. sure, they look stupid, but the pockets were useful. the ironic horror movie revival. i miss it already. oh, and just so i don’t look _odd_ in this collection, i’d better say that i wish that men were men, women were helpless, children called everyone older than them sir and were thrashed if they didn’t, shops were never open, society was all white and everyone on television was in black and white and slept in seperate beds. and there were no gay people. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/77 "2002-06-18T04:46:39Z")
> [@](#): > > oh, and just so i don’t look odd in this collection, i’d better say that i wish that men were men, women were helpless, children called everyone older than them sir and were thrashed if they didn’t, shops were never open, society was all white and everyone on television was in black and white and slept in seperate beds. and there were no gay people. What the hell, who ever said that? ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/78 "2002-06-18T06:14:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dagny \* > **3. Normal colored hair. I don’t care if you choose a haircolor compeletly different from your own, just make sure it’s one that’s found in nature.** Hey! Are you talking to me? You talkin’ ta me? 😛 I’m currently After-Midnight Blue, thankyouverymuch. And I believe it is found in nature, after all…birds, flowers, that sort of thing… ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/79 "2002-06-18T06:17:02Z")
Sorry, **Rug Burn** , no pics. LOL… ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078/80 "2002-06-18T06:29:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > \*\* What the hell, who ever said that? \*\* Have you been reading this thread? One poster wants a return to children being spanked, seen and not heard and a “normal black person’s hairdo”. I get the feeling that certain posters here would actually like to be living in the 1950s, when children and negroes knew their place. Personnally, it gives me the creeps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trends-you-would-like-to-see-return/114078.md?page=5)