Your least favorite fads. Name them.

[Fingolfin269]

The use of the word "hack" throughout normal life now. The next time I read "Life hack" ...

 

[sdifox]

The use of the word "hack" throughout normal life now. The next time I read "Life hack" ...

Take a hatchet to the dude and hack his leg off?

 

[ultimatebob]

4. Bacon - It's not even that good. Will corp American please stop putting bacon on everything just to get a rise out of people for publicity?

Epic fail. Bacon is awesome and you know it!

Can I add overpriced jeans to the annoying fad list?

 

[Ichinisan]

The use of the word "hack" throughout normal life now. The next time I read "Life hack" ...

I don't find the term "life hack" to be annoying at all. It's just that 90% of the so-called "life-hacks" are stupid and pointless.

 

[Muse]

Organic.

There's nothing wrong with GMOs.

GMO's, you're probably right. There are probably exceptions, though.

Organic? Well, for me pesticide free is almost as good. I do figure the less pesticides I am exposed to the better (read Silent Spring recently). Organic is beneficial not only in terms of reducing the poisons you ingest and subsequently store in your fatty tissues. It also reduces stress on ecosystems, if you care about the planet.

The internet. It has long overstayed its welcome.

LOL Now there's a joke, you better get used to it, it ain't going away until the apocalypse. Now, let go of my leg.

 

[Majes]

FPS games take 100 percent skill. It takes strategy and extreme hand to eye coordination to play on a large map with a dozen or more other players to understand player positions, habits, and scoring the objective.

I exclusively play CoD and Battlefield online. There is nothing else worth even buying besides multiplayer FPS games. "Story mode" games and other puzzle "press x to open" nonsense games are stupid.

I agree that they take skill, but Starcraft Brood War or Starcraft 2 require much more skill than any FPS. To say there's nothing else worth buying skill wise is disingenuous at best...

 

[Muse]

Tasteless/garish color combos

Sorry, I'm color blind, as is 8% of the male population. :'(

Food obsession

Cross pollinated with weight loss obsession.

 

[Muse]

Most people don't use toilet paper, that stuff is for people that don't make much money.

Are you serious?

 

[Muse]

"Open" work place layouts. Give me back my damned cubicle walls so I don't have to listen to and see everyone else in the office 10 hours a day. Or let me wear headphones. It's amazing how everyone has to work in an open office except for the bosses.

My last full time job the cubicles drove me nuts. I was the only programmer there for the application that ran the business. A lot of the time I needed to concentrate on issues such that if I made a boo boo the consequences would be catastrophic for me. I requested and eventually got an office of my own, that I shared with a support guy who was out of the room most of the time. Meantime I'd researched and bought some headphones that are excellent at blocking outside noise (Etymotics Research ER4S, expensive for so worth it).

I cannot get into the scifi stuff. I like my FPS games to be realistic. Even the new CoD sucks because it's too futuristic.

Based on the obvious fact that all you games guys have hijacked this thread I have to add computer games to my list of annoying fads. OK, to each his own, at least they aren't in my face unless I choose so.

 

[rsbennett00]

Are you serious?

Of course, most people use a bidet. I haven't seen toilet paper outside low class public places (and grocery stores) in ages.

 

[Muse]

Of course, most people use a bidet. I haven't seen toilet paper outside low class public places (and grocery stores) in ages.

Well, I've never seen a bidet. I've seen hundreds of toilets, all with toilet paper next to them. Maybe you live in Europe?

 

[Muse]

unfortunately for you, that 'fad' has been around long before you even existed and will be around long after you're gone. how utterly tragic for you :'(

Wow, what are you smoking? I've been around since before all that shit, and will be around long after it's ended. No tragedy here, it's all good.

 

[rsbennett00]

Organic.

There's nothing wrong with GMOs.

Except for those of us allergic to growth hormones.

 

[rsbennett00]

Well, I've never seen a bidet. I've seen hundreds of toilets, all with toilet paper next to them. Maybe you live in Europe?

No, I live in the states and travel all over for work.

 

[Anubis]

also never seen a bidet in person

 

[rsbennett00]

also never seen a bidet in person

Why is that?

I'm trying to think of why someone would not have a bidet?

 

[Anubis]

why? because the % of places with them in the US is fing TINY

even dumbly expensive hotels don't always have them

reasons being 1 expensive) 2) not enough space - in general bathrooms are not designed with enough space for them 3) they are French - which is why they never came over back in the 16/1700s

 

[rsbennett00]

why? because the % of places with them in the US is fing TINY

even dumbly expensive hotels don't always have them

reasons being 1 expensive) 2) not enough space - in general bathrooms are not designed with enough space for them 3) they are French - which is why they never came over back in the 16/1700s

They are not expensive. They are often built into the toilet and take up next to no space. They are probably french so you might be right, the US has never adopted anything that other countries have.

It sounds like you are speaking mostly about public places. Maybe you aren't looking close enough?

More importantly, why don't you have one at home? /shudder

 

[sdifox]

Except for those of us allergic to growth hormones.

gmo has nothing to do with growth hormones...

 

[rsbennett00]

gmo has nothing to do with growth hormones...

Try explaining that to the people poisoning our food. If they are willing to genetically modify animals, you think they'd be too lazy to inject them with hormones? It's just common sense that they go hand in hand. Plenty of food is GMO free but still has hormones. I'm not suicidal.

 

[TheSlamma]

I think you'd be better off calling video games in general a fad if anything. However, people have been playing them since the invention of computers so...

Video games as a hobby is one thing.. it's this new "Immersion" crowd of complete idiots. My guess is it's because their real lives suck so horribly.

 

[TheSlamma]

There is only one supreme answer to this question : hipsters.

May they die in fire.

You know where you take them to drown them right?

Spoiler

In the Mainstream

 

[sdifox]

Try explaining that to the people poisoning our food. If they are willing to genetically modify animals, you think they'd be too lazy to inject them with hormones? It's just common sense that they go hand in hand. Plenty of food is GMO free but still has hormones. I'm not suicidal.

many people dies from organic food as well... face it, the problem isn't gmo nor hormones, it's corporate greed.


btw most of the so called organic food are gmo.

 

[rsbennett00]

many people dies from organic food as well... face it, the problem isn't gmo nor hormones, it's corporate greed.

Exactamundo! You have to know where your food comes from these days. Sad isn't it?

 

[brianmanahan]

Nothing wrong with yoga pants. World needs more women in yoga pants.

you would love the gimp tank then