# What fads or trends can't you wait for to go away **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632 "2006-12-02T23:16:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/121 "2006-12-12T21:56:24Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] The use of “gay” as a general insult. As in, “That’s so gay”. That’s so lame! Pick up a thesarus if you need a synonym for “stupid”. [/QUOTE] Best misuage I’ve ever heard of that was on World of Warcraft last night - someone said “i cant play this game on my moms computer because her cpu is gay” I just stared at the screen for two minutes trying to figure that one out. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/122 "2006-12-13T06:36:46Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] The use of “gay” as a general insult. As in, “That’s so gay”. That’s so lame! Pick up a thesarus if you need a synonym for “stupid”. [/QUOTE] That was around when I was a kid in the 80s. I had no idea people still said that. I’m really out of the loop. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/123 "2006-12-13T06:43:44Z")
Corporate-speak like “Think outside the box”. Workplace motivational posters. Unsolicited credit card cheques in the mail (that I need to shred so no one can dig them out of my trash). ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/124 "2006-12-13T07:13:46Z")
Hipsters and their ugly frocking glasses. Also, really hot Metro-riding hipsters that wear the fugliest freaking glasses EVER as some sort of, lords, statement or something. I wonder if I can knock into him “accidentally” swipe the glasses off his face “accidentally” and crunch them to little bits “accidentally”. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/125 "2006-12-13T07:31:01Z")
- Rap (It will die eventually. It can’t last forever. 30, 40 years? I’m willing to wait) - Women wearing their jeans inside of their boots. - The housing bubble (or, “a crappy 1950’s house with a low ceiling and moldy smell selling for $2,000,000”) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/126 "2006-12-13T11:35:34Z")
White Christmas lights. Most of the houses in my neighborhood have them. That cold, elegant look is okay, I guess…but I only get that real holiday feeling from the houses with the happy, candy-colored lights. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/127 "2006-12-13T12:45:21Z")
Sweatpants, tops with stupid logos on them…haven’t seen “BUM” for a while, but that always made me laugh-who the hell walks around advertising to the world: “hey, look at me. I’m a BUM!” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/128 "2006-12-13T16:46:21Z")
I just remembered something I hate: men wearing super tight pants. Just as super baggy pants are insanely dumb, these new super tight pants that all the teen boys are wearing are just. . . horrible. I don’t want to see a clear outline of your junk. Or your ass crack. Or, specifically, your left ball. Buy some looser pants so you can have some damn kids some day. Oh and speaking of jeans: NO ONE LOOKS GOOD IN WRANGLERS. No one. Especially women. It gives a COMPLETELY flat ass that damn near narrows into a point. That does not look good. And again gentlemen, I don’t want to see your junk, so buy some looser pants. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/129 "2006-12-13T19:52:26Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] And again gentlemen, I don’t want to see your junk, so buy some looser pants. [/QUOTE] _timidly raises hand_ _I’ll_ have a look… ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/130 "2006-12-13T19:56:11Z")
I love this board. _snort_😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/131 "2006-12-13T21:50:01Z")
Web pages with black backgrounds and white text. I’m not a big fan of light text on a dark background to start with (we’ve been using dark text on a light background for thousands of years, why the rush to change?), but the extreme contrast between a black background and white text gives me a headache looking at it. Default dark blue links are _really_ hard to read on a black background, and a lot of web page designers don’t bother to change the link color… Cameras on cell phones (I know, but I can dream, can’t I?) I hate having my picture taken, because I’m completely the opposite of photogenic- I always look much worse in a picture than I do in, say, a mirror. I want to move toward _fewer_ times when I have to worry about having my picture taken, not more. Visible bra straps. They look tacky, no matter what color your bra is, and there are these things called strapless bras now… ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/132 "2006-12-13T23:20:33Z")
It’s raining here now and so it’s time for the dreaded Return Of The Enormous Golf Umbrellas. These must go. Half the people out there are prancing around sporting these 6 foot diameter monstrosities, featuring delightful metal prods where the spars end, paying no attention at all to the people around them. Many of these SUU (Sport Utility Umbrellas) are being held by short women so those damn spikes are right at eye-level of someone my height (5’ 10") and the cretins can’t be bothered to watch where they are going, so walking down the sidewalk is like participating in the X-Men’s Danger Room program called “Agressive Deocularization Avoidance”. If you must tote a brolly, get something appropriate to the size of the object being kept dry. Nobody under 400 lbs who isn’t out there PLAYING GOLF needs a freaking GOLF UMBRELLA. You don’t need to keep the entire sidewalk dry. Get a small bumbershoot. Better yet, get this thing called a “jacket” featuring a “hood”. These will keep water off you, will not fall apart in every gust of wind and can be used to shield you from wind, snow, etc. It’s a breakthrough technology that has been used quite effectively since Thrud The Caveman skinned his first mammoth. Jackets will also not poke anybody else’s eyes out. I really want to see every golf-umbrella-toting jerk blown right into Market Street by a high gust of wind and flattened by a Muni bus. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/133 "2006-12-14T00:34:57Z")
[QUOTE=Valgard] Jackets will also not poke anybody else’s eyes out. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but the bright yellow rain jacket I got so I would be more visible to drivers when I was at UC Santa Cruz might burn them out. I know it’s ugly, but I’d rather be ugly than run over by some maniac. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/134 "2006-12-14T00:42:06Z")
[QUOTE=Valgard] It’s raining here now and so it’s time for the dreaded Return Of The Enormous Golf Umbrellas. These must go. [/QUOTE] Grrr, my SO carries one of those. Its bad enough he has to carry an umbrella; my family never really used them because they are horribly hard to keep track of/ carry around/ you name it. Jackets work juuuust fine. But he won’t go ANYWHERE without it, always forgets it places, plus its HUGE! Why? Just… why? ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632/135 "2006-12-14T03:18:36Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] Yeah, but the bright yellow rain jacket I got so I would be more visible to drivers when I was at UC Santa Cruz might burn them out. I know it’s ugly, but I’d rather be ugly than run over by some maniac. [/QUOTE] A woman in Goretex turns me on more than someone taking up the entire sidewalk looking like a pygmy Mary Poppins toting a satellite dish around. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-or-trends-cant-you-wait-for-to-go-away/382632.md?page=6)