Fads that I hate

[linuxdoctor]

Ok, time for another patented Linuxdoctor Rant® about stupid human behaviour. There is nothing I hate more than fads and fashions. As far as I'm concerned, and I'm never wrong when it comes to these things, fashion is for people who have no style and that is about 90% of human race.

I never follow fashion, that is to say, I do not succumb to it by wearing anything that is fashionable or doing anything that is fashionable. In fact, I positively avoid it. Fashion is another form of peer pressure designed to enforce some sort of conformity to group norms. The most conformist, of course, tend to be those who are avowed non-conformists explaining away their particular brand of conformity as not conforming to cultural norms some going so far as to say that their non-conformity constitutes a sub-culture. Indeed! Non-conformity to cultural norms; conformity to sub-cultural norms. Fine, then they are sub-conformists.

Anyway, here are some recent and perhaps not so recent fashions.

Facebook faux pas

One of the stupidest fads I've come across in a long time is people being stupid on Facebook and other community portals. Now, when I mean people being stupid I mean people making videos of themselves when they are drunk or high on drugs and then making a fool of themselves for everybody in town to see. Just think how you would feel if you went out in public drunk or high on drugs and made a spectacle of yourself. Think further if all your friends and relatives saw you or found out about it. Well, doing that on Facebook is just the same thing, except the public is now the whole world.

People have lost their jobs as a result of what they have said or done on Facebook. Two days ago a friend of mine declined to rent an apartment to someone because he saw this person all doped up on Facebook.

If you're thinking about doing the same thing, don't do it. What you do on Facebook is as good as doing it in public. If a prospective landlord or employer, even your current employer, ever saw it you could be in very hot water.

Rubber Bands as Jewelry

One the most silly things I've seen recently is the fad where people wear these funny multi-coloured rubber (or rubber-like) bands with sayings on them. Some people wear several of them at the same time even on both wrists at the same time. I can't stand them. What makes it worse is that I see them everywhere. Local businesses are giving them away as a form of advertising and at least two of community colleges in town include them in the Frosh Kits. I look forward to some health agency announcing that the material these things are made of or the dyes that are used to colour them are carcinogenic. That will teach them.

Wearing Orange in Public

This one is fairly old by now but I still see some idiots going out in public wearing orange clothing. This is perhaps the single most aggregious sin against style that there can possibly be. Orange is the colour that emergency workers wear so that they can be more easily noticed. People who wear orange in public are certainly in an emergency situation. They have an emergency need for some advice on style. Perhaps the television networks can have a whole new television show: "Queer Eye for the Guy Who Wears Orange" When this fad first started I immediately thought that wearing orange in public was a crime against humanity deserving the death penalty.

Those are three of them. I have plenty more but this should put me at the 55-point limit per message.
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[Rashy]

I thought you were going to start saying that everybody should wear ugly clothing that doesn't fit them when you first started ranting about "fashionable" stuff.

Thats one thing that I can't stand: people wearing clothes that don't fit them. Not the ones that wear them because they must, but the ones that wear clothes too big/small because they can and they think it makes them look "sexy" or whatever reason. Example: guys wearing baggy pants that hang down around their upper legs (although I haven't seen so much of this lately, thankfully). Perhaps it is fashionable to show off your underwear, and maybe I just don't catch on to stupid fashion trends. Or another one are girls that wear clothes way too small, especially when it shows off skin or if the girl is overweight. I have nightmares of this.
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[Pie32]

I don't think there's anything wrong with wearing orange. It's just another color. Besides, I've never seen an emergency worker wearing orange. People I've seen wearing orange are community service people by the side of the road, construction workers (again by the side of the road), and hunters. A lot of people wear orange, especially around schools that have orange as one of their colors like Tennessee.

I myself have an orange t-shirt. Only cost me five dollars, and it's pretty comfortable.
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[linuxdoctor]

Hmmmm ... I'd hoped for more responses from to which to initiate a conversation and get me my 400 PBPP for the month. Oh well, I'll just have to work harder. Here are other fads that I hate and you should too.

Using Numbers as Letters

This one drives me nuts. It all started about thirty years ago around the time that Star Wars hit the movie screens. Whether it was inspired by names of those funny little robot characters like R2D2 and 3CPO I cannot say. At first I found them quite charming. I first encountered them in Provincetown on T-shirts that had phrases like, "2QT2BSTR8" and "IM1. RU12?" Naturally, of course, this sort of thing quickly took off especially on internet mailing lists and chat groups. When once it was quite charming in isolated incidents it is now in proliferation almost intolerable. It's now used in SPAM in the hopes of avoiding SPAM filters where 'V14gr4' replaces 'Viagra', 's3x' for 'sex' and a host of other tricks are used to annoy the reader. Th13 s0rt 0f th1ng sh0u1d b3 1113g41.

Actors as Celebrities

Many people are beginning to object to the constant exposure to the mad antics of actors and actresses who misbehave in public. These people have done nothing in their lives except doing their acting jobs, most of them not very well, for which they demand, and get, adulation and praise. Then, after an all too short period of time, they turn to alcohol and drugs beginning the tragic slide to self destruction.

The number of actors and actresses who have killed themselves in this way forms a long and tragic litany that should serve as a warning to those who aspire to that way of life. For centuries, people in the acting profession were shunned by ordinary folk as people of loose morals. Actors of recent generations have proved that they were justified in their revulsion.

Actors and actresses are not celebrities but pariahs. They should be ignored and shunned; not fawned over or idolised. One should boycott products endorsed by them and ignore their pleas over political and social causes remembering that they are just actors being paid for their high profile to sucker you into whatever they are getting money to sell and promote.

That should be another 55 PBPP in the bank.
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[Neil]

Many of these fads irritate me as well. If you are going to get drunk or high, you shouldn't advertise it all over the internet. My dad works for a specific company. Recently, a recent graduate applied for a job. He got his interview, but what he didn't know was that the human resources people checked out his Facebook and found multiple messages dealing with drugs and alcohol. He was told to fess up to his hideous crimes, and when he decided to lie, they decided to say "PEACE OUT."

Even worse than this, my dad got access to Facebook and looked at my stuff, including multiple personal messages I sent to some friends. I was pissed, but I don't care now. People just need to get over this Web 2.0 crap and find some better ways to spend their time.

[Rob1981]

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[Pie32]

That's a bad argument, linuxdoctor, referencing the Third Reich. That's pretty much saying uniforms are bad, yet your original point was that the orange emergency worker uniform is good.

Besides, lots of good people wear uniforms too: church folk, sports players, and certain schools require uniforms, just to name a few (oh, and almost all businesses require their workers to wear certain clothes, kinda like a uniform, you know?).
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