What are some trends/fads that you are glad the world has moved on from?
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I think you'll be waiting a very long time. The specific words and phrases will shift, but I think filler words are just a natural consequence of thinking while speaking. Some people are better at that than
meothers but it's not going to disappear.Obama: "Um."
Vonnegut: "Um."
Yeah, um, it works.
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Duck face came to mind yesterday - randomly realized I hadn't seen duckface in the wild for a long time.
Or, alternatively, what are some old fads you wish would make a comeback?
The spirit of the question is social fads. Please try to keep replies to lighthearted things. I'll delete the post if the comments turn into political commentary.
'mid', 'based', and the rest of last-year's clique-signaling kid-pidgin.
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Yeah, because many people didn't have cell phones back then. For me it was when I was maybe third grade; two or three kids out of the whole class had phones.
Oh wow, do you mind if I ask when pogs hit for you? I would've been in early grade school, so, maybe 94/95.
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Oh wow, do you mind if I ask when pogs hit for you? I would've been in early grade school, so, maybe 94/95.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Seems like I'm a bit younger than you, it must've been early 2000s for me.
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A brief pause does the same thing.
But then.....you sound like....William.....Shatner.....and I'm not...sure....if that is any....better.
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Omfg yes. I remember when Facebook had that promt next to the posting input, prefixing all statements.
"Person".. is feeling like somebody hurt me badly.
Repost if your a strong black woman who don't need no man
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The fidget spinner.
Currently waiting on people to stop using "know what I mean", "end of the day", "umm", "like", "I mean", and other filler words.
Fidgets have great therapeutic uses, just they tend to get tossed at teachers who aren't trained
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I will give up my bell bottoms when you pull them off my cold, dead, child of the 60's butt.
Likewise, my boot cuts
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Low-rise jeans are equally heinous.
Nope. Love, a short waisted person.
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But then.....you sound like....William.....Shatner.....and I'm not...sure....if that is any....better.
Here is an example of what I mean https://youtu.be/qqfk7-3iN-U This man is pausing briefly to gather his next thought instead of grunting like someone with a double digit iq.
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Pogs should come back
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Duck face came to mind yesterday - randomly realized I hadn't seen duckface in the wild for a long time.
Or, alternatively, what are some old fads you wish would make a comeback?
The spirit of the question is social fads. Please try to keep replies to lighthearted things. I'll delete the post if the comments turn into political commentary.
Skinny jeans, ultra tiny phones, basically anything that was a PITA to use or traded comfort to look fashionable.
Two things I want to see come back is JNCO style jeans that are enormous, and zipoffs. Oversized jeans - that's comfort right there. I lived through that. There's nothing like being able to put your 2" thick 10 lb math textbook in your back pocket like a wallet, lol. Zipoff pants / convertable pants were the bomb. You could be warm on a cold morning and have shorts in the afternoon. I really miss those, and the lack of cargo pockets today. Where have all the cargos gone???
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Vaguebooking. At least it died out for me, when my age group grew up past high school. Specifically, the vaguebooking that would involve lame-ass "motivation quotes" or worse song lyrics that were obviously about some dramatic thing happening in their life, usually pointed at someone.
I still have one person who never moved on from high-school who still does crap like this, but now I just still follow them for the pure nostalgia and the joy of seeing these. Seriously, they show how immature they are, unable to actually go talk about their emotions a veil so thin of "please I want my privacy" while posting about it online.
Omg u ok hun? PMd u xx
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NFTs. They have not been and will not be missed.
NFTs. They have not been and will not be missed
crypto in general can go away anytime now also
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Of course not - they're in politics now after all.
Nah thats serial Rapists in the politics
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Omg u ok hun? PMd u xx
Thx im fine thx 4 always being thrre xxxx
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Likewise, my boot cuts
At this point ITT, we have disavowed all forms of pants. Guess I am going commando.
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What’s the term for the guy equivalent? Is it like jaw-maxing r something? I’m happy that seems to be gone as well
Ooohh I heard of that one. I think it was called mewing.
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Duck face came to mind yesterday - randomly realized I hadn't seen duckface in the wild for a long time.
Or, alternatively, what are some old fads you wish would make a comeback?
The spirit of the question is social fads. Please try to keep replies to lighthearted things. I'll delete the post if the comments turn into political commentary.
I don’t go to business meetings anymore, so maybe it’s still going strong, but I feel like the wave has kind of crested on using “ask” as a noun. Like, “that’s a big ask,” or, “my ask of you is this.”
I know that nouns get verbed and verbs get nouned all the time in popular usage and normally I’m totally fine with it. Impact as a verb never bothered me, for instance. But for some reason ask as a noun was always super annoying to me.
