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.
Pogs should come back
Last week, I had to explain what pogs were to a pair of teammates, had to stop myself from starting with “back in my day, when things were good and people didn’t spend so much time on their phones…”
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.
Seems like I’m a bit younger than you, it must’ve been early 2000s for me.
Oh I figured as much, unless you went to Bayside with Zach Morris and crew!
But I didn’t know Pogs came back in the early 00s, which is super cool to hear.
Pogs are the civilized upgrade of throwing rocks together. Fuck yeah it should come back. It is ingrained in our DNA
I’m already feeling nostalgic for democracy
You don’t really hear about serial killers anymore.
Of course not - they’re in politics now after all.
Nah thats serial Rapists in the politics
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???
Coincidentally I was thinking about this yesterday, along with girls puffing their cheeks in selfies.
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.
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.
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.
I agree but also filler words are important. It spaces out the information, making it easier for people to digest in real time.
A brief pause does the same thing.
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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Fidgets have great therapeutic uses, just they tend to get tossed at teachers who aren’t trained
‘mid’, ‘based’, and the rest of last-year’s clique-signaling kid-pidgin.
Pokemon
Yeah brother wooooo
Motivational posters. I want that kitten to fall to a horrific death.
Bell bottoms need to die. (And in case you didn’t catch it, that means all variations of bell bottoms) (flaired is just one iteration of bell bottoms)
