# What will we be embarrassed about in 20 years? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860 "2009-06-24T18:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/21 "2009-06-24T20:36:46Z")
> [@Chopper9760](#): > > I support knee-length shorts. I concede that they are a little weird. You know what’s even weirder, seeing the hairy upper thighs of dudes. > > I caught an episode of Magnum P.I. the other day and there was Tom Selleck sporting a Hawaiian shirt and [way too much hairy man leg for my comfort.](http://www.chimpsahoy.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/images//2007/09/selleck_shorts.jpg) I’ll take two of that, please. What’s wrong with a man having good legs? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/22 "2009-06-24T20:40:23Z")
Twitter ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/23 "2009-06-24T20:50:34Z")
What about the look with the g-string sticking out of the top of the pants? Or the stripper pole or belly dancer exercise videos? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/24 "2009-06-24T20:50:52Z")
I thought of another one. Shirts and pants bearing gigantic ads for the company that made them. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/25 "2009-06-24T21:00:41Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Muffintops. I thought “muffintops” was just the roll of fat that spilled over the top of jeans. When naked, muffintops become “love handles”. They’ve been around since people have been wearing pants. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/26 "2009-06-24T21:16:56Z")
“There was this period where everyone seemed to think that vaporware stocks were worth more than companies that made real products, that $5 cups of coffee were a good deal, and housing prices would rise 20% per year forever. Seemingly intelligent and rational people got caught up in the stupidity and it really hurt the country for a very long time.” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/27 "2009-06-24T22:27:12Z")
Reality TV. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/28 "2009-06-24T22:32:50Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > that $5 cups of coffee were a good deal I know that people on this board like to routinely bring this up, but I have \*never \*seen a cup of regular coffee sold for $5. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/29 "2009-06-24T22:44:32Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Reality TV. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Related and closely following behind: the gross-out TV shows that make it look like _Idiocracy_ is starting a couple hundred years early. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/30 "2009-06-24T22:47:33Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I know that people on this board like to routinely bring this up, but I have \*never \*seen a cup of regular coffee sold for $5. Hell, even at Starbucks, $5 will get you can get _three_ of the little iced cappuccino things. Some great choices posted already. I was going to say gay marriage bans, but I’ll add LiveJournal, Will Ferrell, and nostalgia for grandpa clothing. Oh: and adults playing Guitar Hero. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/31 "2009-06-24T23:04:21Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Tattoos. People have been tattooing themselves since before recorded history. I doubt its going anywhere. Certain types of tattoos may well become passe’ though. Tramp stamps, barb wire armbands, nautical stars and barcodes I’m looking at YOU. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/32 "2009-06-24T23:14:01Z")
> [@Chopper9760](#): > > Does anyone outside tennis and basketball actually wear tennis shoes any more? Maybe this is just a northwest thing but I take notice of sneakers now because they are bloody rare. 'Round these parts it’s all Keens and Tevas unless the situation calls for some sort of boot. > . I can’t let this go by, sorry. I’m in the Seattle area. Not only do I wear “tennis shoes” every single day I can (other than court appearances), I see them everywhere. You honestly don’t see Adidas, New Balance, Vans, and even Converse around town? ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/33 "2009-06-24T23:18:39Z")
Skinny jeans. Once the Bell-bottom roamed the earth, today it is skinny jeans. Both look absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/34 "2009-06-24T23:42:06Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I can’t let this go by, sorry. I’m in the Seattle area. Not only do I wear “tennis shoes” every single day I can (other than court appearances), I see them everywhere. You honestly don’t see Adidas, New Balance, Vans, and even Converse around town? I’m in Seattle also, and I was going to say the same thing. I see tennis shoes all the time. Personally, I do wear them less often than I used to, but I don’t think that has to do with the decade; I just like ballet flats, sandals, and :o Crocs. I think I can pull off Crocs and I don’t care what anyone says about it! ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/35 "2009-06-24T23:46:37Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > The pants that only come up to the hips, with resulting bulges even on skinny people. That’s only if they’re too small. I’m pretty thin but not a stick or anything and I can wear them just fine. However, if I try putting some on that are even a TINY bit too small, it’s horrifying! Luckily, I recognize that and don’t wear them. For some reason, a lot of people don’t seem to do the same. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/36 "2009-06-24T23:48:32Z")
Those pointy shoes and boots. Sometimes I feel old because I think they look absurd. But then, they really do look absurd. All I can think when I see someone wearing them, especially with the floor-brushing pants hem so just the needle-point toe peeks out, is “Fashion Victim!” “Vocalists” using pitch correctors and the tone-deaf who like them. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/37 "2009-06-24T23:49:24Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > People have been tattooing themselves since before recorded history. I doubt its going anywhere. Certain types of tattoos may well become passe’ though. Tramp stamps, barb wire armbands, nautical stars and barcodes I’m looking at YOU. Barcodes?? I’ve never seen or heard of people getting barcode tattoos. It’s actually a common thing? Yeah, definitely sounds like a passing fad. ---
**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 24, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/38 "2009-06-24T23:51:34Z")
I wear hip-huggers, because they make me look good. And I do NOT have a muffin-top. Eeeew. I’m with the g-string sticking out of your pants look. How about Gothic-Lolita? ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/39 "2009-06-24T23:52:57Z")
> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#): > > Skinny jeans. Once the Bell-bottom roamed the earth, today it is skinny jeans. Both look absurd. I would never wear skinny jeans, but I think a very specific type can look good in them: tall, thin and long-legged, with smallish feet and preferably wearing heels. But most people who I see wearing them…probably shouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/40 "2009-06-24T23:58:53Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > How about the pants so baggy you have to hold them up style. The ones where the crotch ends up at about your knees. > > Kids, if you have to use one or two hands to hold up your pants when you walk, it’s time to get a smaller size or a belt. I don’t think of that as a contemporary fashion. That was pretty big in the mid-90s and some kids still wear them but I think it’s far fewer than it used to be, and I think it’s widely considered tacky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860.md?page=3)