# WWJD? Not wear a fucking bracelet, that's for sure. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 18, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103 "2004-06-18T19:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/61 "2004-06-20T12:27:57Z")
> [@nocturnal\_tick](#): > > Man, now my rant about wristbands is turning into a debate about fads. I didn’t mean to say that we don’t constantly have new items that turn out to be fads. I’m saying that those things are always of the same variety. Just like you said we had plaid pants, then parachute pants, then so on and so on. It’s a different product but with exactly the same concept: “I am wearing pants that everyone else is wearing therefore I am cool” > Now back to my rant: Grrrrrrrrr. :mad: Heh. Well, this is just being nitpicky, I guess, but that’s still not what makes something a fad. If no one else is wearing those same pants, it’s just not a fad. You’re just confusing it with “being different.” The Hula Hoop was a fad. Fins on cars was a fad. Stuffing people INTO a car or phone booth was a fad. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/62 "2004-06-20T18:11:02Z")
I love how people that wear those try to be as “christ-like” as possible, but still need a gaudy bracelet to remind them not to be an ass. If you need jewlery tokeep your behavior in check, maybe Christ is a bit out of reach, try Kirk Cameron or maybe [Willie Aames](http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/9629/willie.html) from Charles in Charge. He was [Bibleman](http://www.bibleman.com/) you know. ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/63 "2004-06-21T01:14:08Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#): > > I’ve got no problem with WWJD. It’s a sentiment that many fundamentalist Christians don’t seem to echo. > > Hell, I once had a “WWMD” keychain that a former Rabbi of mine gave me. It stood for “What Would a Mensch Do?” We reconstructionists are a crazy bunch, lemme tell you. And here I thought it was “What Would Maimonides Do?” Mine is “What Would Machiavelli Do?” which better fits my attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/64 "2004-06-21T03:57:18Z")
> [@Lissa](#): > > 1. Blessed are the peacemakers (not those who advance their nation’s interests via war) Small nitpick, but “cheesemakers” surely? ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/65 "2004-06-21T06:03:59Z")
> [@dantheman](#): > > Heh. Well, this is just being nitpicky, I guess, but that’s still not what makes something a fad. If no one else is wearing those same pants, it’s just not a fad. You’re just confusing it with “being different.” :smack: That’s what I’ve been saying **dan**. A fad is based on it’s popularity, not the item in question. Look: > [@Me](#): > > It doesn’t have to be new to be popular, it is simply **the knowledge that you have what everyone else has.** What is different to what I’m saying to what your saying? In fact, don’t answer that. This is the final word, right or wrong, on fads in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/66 "2004-06-21T10:12:45Z")
> [@nocturnal\_tick](#): > > :smack: > > That’s what I’ve been saying **dan**. A fad is based on it’s popularity, not the item in question. Look: > > What is different to what I’m saying to what your saying? > > In fact, don’t answer that. This is the final word, right or wrong, on fads in this thread. Hope you don’t mind if I answer it anyway. A fad is not simply based on its popularity; what makes it a fad is the short time it’s popular. An item that’s popular for decades is not a fad (see Pac Man, earlier mention). Second, you were completely off base when you said “those things are always of the same variety,” citing two examples of oh, perhaps thousands and thousands of fads. Parachute pants and plaid/checkered pants aren’t two varieties of the same fad; they’re two different fads. From two different decades. Sorry that you’re still unclear on the concept. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/67 "2004-06-22T00:22:28Z")
99.99999% of the people I’ve met over the course of my life that wear their Christianity on their sleeves have been assholes. I even noticed it when I was a young kid and that was one of the early things that turned me off to religion. At the first wholesale mortgage bank I worked for we had a broker [I think they were in New Jersey] called “To God be the Glory Mortgage, Inc.” They were the biggest bunch of lying, scheming, conniving jerkbags you’ve ever seen. A group of these trendy, pierced, dyed-hair, WWJD bracelet-wearing kids literally brainwashed my little sister for awhile too. She was walking around all the time with a dazed look in her eyes and dressing radically different. When my mom said something to her about her new extreme wardrobe she replied in a creepy monotone voice “God tells me how to dress.” That was the straw that broke the camel’s back and my mom cut her off from those creeps. Within only a couple weeks she was right back to normal. That’s why I don’t normally care for WWJD bracelets. It’s not like I wouldn’t give someone with a WWJD bracelet a chance or treat them any different than I would treat anyone else but my admitted bias has held true exclusively for many many years now so it is a bit of a red flag. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/68 "2004-06-22T01:13:31Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > 99.99999% of the people I’ve met over the course of my life that wear their Christianity on their sleeves have been assholes. Wow. Five decimal places. So you’ve met 10 million and one people over the course of your live who’ve worn their Christianity on their sleaves, and only one wasn’t an asshole? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/69 "2004-06-22T04:07:59Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Wow. Five decimal places. So you’ve met 10 million and one people over the course of your live who’ve worn their Christianity on their sleaves, and only one wasn’t an asshole? 😉 :rolleyes: That was obviously a rough estimate. I could’ve been off by 2 or 3 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/70 "2004-06-22T05:49:49Z")
I thought “WWJD” stood for “We Want Jack Daniels”. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103/71 "2004-06-22T06:39:23Z")
The real question is WWOD? > **[The tenets of Og?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256119)** > > I’ve wondered about this for awhile. I see a lot of people like to sub Og for God. Fine with me, I can see why you might. But it’s used in the same context of God. As in , “For the love of God/Og”, “And I think to myself, For God’s/Og’s sake!” etc. ... (The answer is “OG SMASH!”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwjd-not-wear-a-fucking-bracelet-thats-for-sure/251103.md?page=3)