Trends we admire, Trends we dispise

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I read this then looked at your avatar.

Cracked me up!

Yeah, I'm just a big ol' walking conundrum ain't I?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Some of these may have already been mentioned, and I'm focusing on fashion:

Thick winter boots worn with mini-skirts, in the summertime. (Much more forgiving of winter boots, wool tights, short skirts in the fall and winter months.)

Trucker caps. They are still being worn. Why?

Sweat pants with writing on the butt.

Skirts worn with pants. Choose one!

High-waisted panties, low-waisted pants.

Peasant attire. Are you a peasant, out gathering berries in fairy fields? Yes? Cool, then by all means, wear peasant attire. What is that? No? You've actually got a Lexus and a trust fund, and you're attending an Ivy League school? Then, please, if you must dress down, consider a t-shirt and jeans. Leave the flower power skirts, etc. to....actually, I'd really rather people just left them alone, entirely. Even the peasants.

Distressed jeans that cost $200+ dollars.

Close that are pre-wrinkled and sold for $100+.

T-shirts with holes in them sold for $45+. (I'm looking at you, Urban Outfitters! I really wanted that shirt with the owls on them, but it had HOLES. That t-shirt was halfway to the garbage can, you bastards!!!!)

[Not Afraid]

I noticed another irritant today. EVERYTIME I see thos white, cut-out stickers on car windows I get a creepy feeling. Why the the little boy pissing, or Homer's butt, or the pissing boy nealing at the cross, or yada yada yada? It seems 60% of cars on the road have these silly stickers. They really don't MEAN anything. They don't get you into some secret club as far as I know. But, they are EVERYWHERE!

If you are going to defile your car, give me something amusing, witty or meaningful. And, NO I don't care what your kid did at school.


Along the same lines, why aren't those little parallel parking appendenges put on cars any more? Those were actually useful.

[Kevy Baby]

For the pop-culturally impaired, that little boy is usually Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame.

[NickO'Time]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

For the pop-culturally impaired, that little boy is usually Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame.

Yeah and Bill Waterson never authorized those vinyl stickers. He doesn't have a copyright on any merchandise except the books. He didn't want to become another Garfield or Peanuts "monster" Sunday comic strip.

[modern folly]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I noticed another irritant today. EVERYTIME I see thos white, cut-out stickers on car windows I get a creepy feeling. Why the the little boy pissing, or Homer's butt, or the pissing boy nealing at the cross, or yada yada yada? It seems 60% of cars on the road have these silly stickers. They really don't MEAN anything. They don't get you into some secret club as far as I know. But, they are EVERYWHERE!

One of my little sisters put a white "The Used" cut-out stickers on the back of my mothers white used minivan window. I found the irony of it hilarious.

[Kevy Baby]

I just thought of another one:

What's up with all these "In Loving Memory of..." memorials on the back windows of cars? Or is that just a Southern California phenomenon? It's just weird.

I'm thing of getting one that says:

In Loving Memory of Dead People

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I just thought of another one:

What's up with all these "In Loving Memory of..." memorials on the back windows of cars? Or is that just a Southern California phenomenon? It's just weird.

Is that to memorialize people they've run over? What the heck?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Prudence

Is that to memorialize people they've run over? What the heck?

*shrug*, it's not something I would do, but I try not to judge people for the way they choose to mourn someone they've lost.

[Mousey Girl]

I haven't seen that up here. I would expect that more on gang banger cars.