I beg to differ. They’re still quite prominent on my campus, a definite favorite of sorority girls. They do kind of make sense here though; the weather gets quite chilly.
I’ll add my vote to the list of people who don’t like elementary school aged girls dressing like hookers. Bratz dolls really piss me off too. At least Barbie held down some decent jobs. What do the Bratz dolls do? Stand around looking skanky? Kids these days…
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”.
Addressing people as"bro" in every other sentence, after every pause. Bro, it’s like the most annoying thing ever, bro. Especially, bro, when you’re pushing forty. And please don’t address a woman as “bro”. It is not endearing. It is strange.
Guys walking around with spiky hair (or bedhead, which has already been mentioned). It is hard to take you seriously when your head looks like a kooshball.
People talking on cell phones EVERYWHERE. I realize this is never going to go away, but I still wish it would. Go to any college campus and watch the traffic streaming out of any randomly chosen building. Chances are you’ll find 90% of the students gabbing away on cell phones because that ONE little hour they spent in class deprived them all their chitchatting. It’s totally insane.
Shaky camera work in movies or television (BSG, I’m really looking at you). Used judiciously, this can be an effective method to give a feeling of cinema verite; used for half the damn show, it just gives a feeling of nausea.
Okay, got another one, but thankfully I haven’t seen too much of it lately so it might finally be going away:
Advertising EVERYTHING with foreshortened pictures of people (pic taken from above the person, so their head’s really big and their feet are tiny). It started with those damn dogs (“The Dog”) and made its way to people. I’m SO glad it’s gone–for awhile, it seemed like you couldn’t turn around without seeing one of these stupid pics.
I can fully understand why a man might not want to begin every day by dragging a sharp object across his face. But I’ll bet you shave when you want to look good.
What I object to is ads in glossy magazines, showing hunky models with stubble. No, it’s not sexy. Kissage involving stubble is painful & causes a rash.
The love affair the media is having with Stupid Spoiled Whores (tm South Park). OMG, Lindsay and Paris are feuding! Ha ha, somebody stuck a mike in a brainless twit’s face and she said something dumb! Oooh, we took 875 shots of her getting out of a limo, and one of them was an upskirt shot! (And WTF is with the bare snatch trend, anyway? If it’s to avoid panty lines, I thought that’s what thongs are for.) Stop focusing so much on their stupid, spoiled whorishness, and ordinary teen girls might stop acting like stupid spoiled whores themselves.
Boob cozies. (Those bulky half-sweaters.) Bad enough that you have to make your bottom half look out of proportion with lowrise pants; now you have to obscure the lines of your torso, too?
Competitive birthday parties. It’s not about outdoing your friends and neighbors; it’s about making sure your kid and hir friends have a good time. You could give them a jug of fruit juice, a cake that tastes better than it looks, and let them run around in the yard, and they’d say it was the best party they’d ever been to. Don’t throw money down a bottomless pit.
Pretty much every modern trend in women’s clothing. Sweaters are almost all boob-cozys or long jacket-style. Jeans are all tapered at the ankle, which makes god weep. Sleeves should be relatively straight, and not six inches narrower at one end. Sweat pants should not say anything on the ass. Old Navy should reintroduce their size 0-short, because I really need new black trousers.
Also, security paranoia and “OMG terrurrrists!!11” can really die off now. America as a collective nation has been hyperventilating and overreacting for five years now; it’s time to take a breath.
Hmm… from the stuff that has been seen in this thread so far…
…all the way back to page 1, the “stainless brushed metal” look for kitchen appliances. Way to go for something that will see use around grease, man. And throw in the 6-burner “pro-style” stove. Don’t pretend, people, you are NOT chefs. Heck, “professional-style” in general: you want a “professional” appliance? BUY one. Not a cosmetic imitation thereof.
… Flavor Flav… come to think of it the entire Surreal Life/ Breaking Bonaduce / etc. wave of either washed-up has-been showbiz people or “stars” from the niche fringe, being presented as some sort of iconic cultural referent. All I ever got from watching episodes of these was a reminder of exactly why they are washed up has-been, or why they never went past cult status.
… always-on bluetooth headsets. If only because ity conveys to me that I, the live human being in front of you, am potentially not as important as whoever may call.
… across-the-ass slogan pants; it’s a stupid placement, and if your ass were worth my staring at it, you would not need a slogan to call attention.
… spinner hubcaps and ultra-low-profile tires. Gaaah don’t make me even think of it…
… “Pimp chic”. Pimp cups. Pimp’n’Ho’ parties. Pimp slaps. No, dude, you’re no pimp, if you went out in the street and tried pimpin’, even the Ho’s would slap ya silly.
Oooh, I beg to differ. If it’s not excessive, I sorta like “muffin tops.”
Ever see those sweatpants that say “Juicy” on the back? Every time I do, I think of diarrhea. I can’t help it. Is it just me?
If her feet were cold, she’d change into fuller shoes/boots. Dunno your age, but college age kids have the metabolism to pull off a stunt like that. For that matter, so do older people, if they are in shape. I do this all the time, even in the winter, after I leave my gym. Not flip-flops, more like Birkenstocks, but the same idea.
I have. And no, it’s not just you.
More things that I wish would go away:
Emo kids. Is there any more of a useless waste of space than an emo kid? Do we really need MORE people sitting out there crying tears of unending sadness over the high school sweetheart who left them three years ago, and because daddy didn’t really love them? I hate emo kids, really, I do - sadness is one thing, and perfectly normal, but obsessing upon sadness is just pathetic. And it makes people not take people who have actual mental disorders like clinical depression seriously.
~Tasha
I completely agree.
I’ve always felt that Braatz dolls had some kind of Hydroencephalitis going on.
At least Barbie, the Whore of Ages, has a normal sized noggin.
Those tiny purses.
I hate those.
Anything with studs as a decoration on it ( purses, clothing, whatever)
The big hole peircing in guys ears ( or whatever the hell that is that looks like a bullet when through their lobe. It is going to look more stupid when you are 70, m’kay?)
Dammit, I’ve had a tramp stamp for going on 20 years now! When I got it, the tattoo artist said, "Wow, I’ve never put one HERE before . . . " Now all these young whippersnappers are making me look like a trend slut! 
Sigh . . . that’s the trouble with trends. Most of 'em started out as unique ideas. :o
One that I’ll be glad to see go away (and I’m sure someone’s already said it) is those damn skinny jeans.
Agreed, and let’s not even start going into what is now called “emo music” these days. Really it’s all just crappy “screamo” like My Chemical Romance and other flashes in the pan. Why, in my day, all we had was Sunny Day Real Estate, and we liked it! 
That said, emo girls and hipster girls are kinda hot. If only they weren’t all crazy.
I kinda love My Chem.
weeps single emo tear
Despite comments inspired by wishful thinking, and jeans companies actually marketing skinny jeans to males, there’s no sign that boxer shorts will become any less visible than they are now. During my recent jury duty, I spent a lot of time riding the Green and Blue line trains in L.A. and saw enough boxers to last a lifetime.
Small glasses are practical in some ways…generally lighter and more comfortable. And if you have a strong prescription you usually look better in small frames.
Wallpaper has been out for a while, but may be coming back.
Amen! I have to pick a somewhat unusual car color, or else I’d never find my car in parking lots. My last car was bright teal, but my current car is dark blue. That’s not nearly as good, but it was the best color I could get.
I really hope round-toe shoes are coming back- I decided years ago that comfort was more important to me in shoes than how they look, and I go somewhere that requires really dressy shoes maybe once a year max, so I never wear pointed-toe shoes.
My sister, who has always been more into fashion than I was (ie, she has some awareness of what’s fashionable and what’s not) has a pair of those Lisa Loeb glasses. I like small frames (I have horrible memories of when I first got glasses in the 80s, and all that was available were those huge plastic-frame glasses), but I don’t think I look like myself unless I’m wearing glasses with more of a classic “glasses” shape. Fortunately, my eyesight seems to have stopped changing, so I can go a few years between getting new glasses.
Those damned purses with the designer initials all over them. DG DG DG DG DG. Icky. It looks like some free makeup bag I would’ve received with a Hallmark purchase of 20 dollars or more in 1983.
And if you put a small dog in the aforementioned accessory, I hope your head falls off.
I don’t hate hip-hop so much as the whole hip-hop culture invading everywhere. Words like “bling” and “grillz” and “thug” are being thrown around on The Today Show and Regis Lee and Kelly Lee. Give it up guys. You’re not gangsta, and NEITHER ARE HALF OF THE HIP-HOP ARTISTS!
Even though I’m a purveyor of fine female posteriors, add me to the list of people who hate words on butts. Because most of the times the butt is no good or the clothes are on a 12 year old girl.
The incredibly baggy pants thing seems to be going away slowly. Good riddance, although it will make it harder for the cops to catch people.