Short lived Fads

[brucetiki]

Basically the way any major disaster in the news gets viral on social media (Kony, Jill Maegher, Sandy Hook shooting, Lance Armstrong, etc). Everyone acts like they are a social and moral savior for 5 minutes and then go back to posting pictures of cats or giving us an update on the weather. Ask people now what they think on guns laws... lol. My stance is just not to care from the start so i don't look like an idiot.

Haha my mate's wife is one of these. Gets all high and mighty with cringeworthy comments like 'much love to (insert victim)' or 'lets make a stand against (insert latest fad opinion)' with her fake emotions, and then 10 minutes later it's back to bitching about something trivial like her doctor being late (and questioning the doctors qualifications as a result).

 

[Ghostwriter]

AIDS

 

[Cleavy]

are those light up equalizer shirts a fad?

 

[childeric]

Society is basically made up of intellectual lemmings.

They have their thoughts and emotions conveniently packaged for them, and then become outraged and display extreme cognitive dissonance if someone dares to challenge this paradigm.

Someone coined the expression "grief pr0n" to describe over-the-top expressions of grief over people you have never met and displays of aggression towards anyone who doesn't buy into it

 

[TheStinger]

Tazos.

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

Someone coined the expression "grief pr0n" to describe over-the-top expressions of grief over people you have never met and displays of aggression towards anyone who doesn't buy into it

Excellent terminology.

The term "Mourning sickness" equally applies:

Mourning sickness is a collective emotional condition of "recreational grieving" by individuals in the wake of disasters and celebrity deaths. Such disasters and celebrity deaths may be linked to hyper-attentive, intrusive and voyeuristic media coverage.

Robert Yates, assistant editor for The Observer, described some media coverage of deaths as producing "Gratification derived from a tenuous connection to the misfortunes of others; the gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy; getting off on really bad news".

Carol Sarler, writing as a guest columnist for The Times, noted that "this new and peculiar pornography of grief" is sometimes called a 'tribute', "the cruder truth is that ersatz grief is now the new pornography; like the worst of hard-core, it is stimulus by proxy, voyeuristically piggy-backing upon that which might otherwise be deemed personal and private, for no better reason than frisson and the quickening of an otherwise jaded pulse.

 

[Varcoe2Chapman]

The song Vicarious by Tool speaks to this point as well. Was written in 2006 before all the social media crazes so they are certainly ahead of the curve:

 

[childeric]

Haha my mate's wife is one of these. Gets all high and mighty with cringeworthy comments like 'much love to (insert victim)' or 'lets make a stand against (insert latest fad opinion)' with her fake emotions, and then 10 minutes later it's back to bitching about something trivial like her doctor being late (and questioning the doctors qualifications as a result).

People like her made it necessary for BF to have a dedicated crime forum where things could be discussed rationally (e.g. the Meagher case)

 

[Marlowe]

The talkies.
Silent movies will be roaring back anytime now...

P.s, 3-D.

 

[DardySingh360]

Gameboy Micro

 

[brucetiki]

People like her made it necessary for BF to have a dedicated crime forum where things could be discussed rationally (e.g. the Meagher case)

Now she's moved onto the next craze: Share random YouTube video of some kid playing guitar, and if said video gets x number of votes the kid will get a new guitar

 

[childeric]

The talkies.
Silent movies will be roaring back anytime now...

P.s, 3-D.

Strange how "The Artist" scooped all the AAs last year

It's almost forgotten already and in 5 years time....

 

[pekay-norwest]

I was skeptical too but my mates mum wore one and to prove to us they worked she made me and my mate arm wrestle. One of us with the Power band one and the other had something else on our wrist so we didn't know who was wearing the powerband and I swear the powerband actually helped. We swapped a couple of times. and the person wearing the powerband always ended up doing better by quite a margin. no joke

Your mate's mum wear a tin foil hat by chance? Or a shirt with Ekon on it?

 

[buddyruff]

Rollerblades
Ghettoblasters
Arcades
Pizza Hut all you can eat
40 hour famine
Undercuts or that shit haircut with a shaved head apart from a massive fringe flick back over the head
Yoyos
Pump shoes
Cross Colours
Starter caps
… spot the child of the 90s!

So basically everything that's already been mentioned on previous pages?

 

[Gough]

Kony.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Your mate's mum wear a tin foil hat by chance? Or a shirt with Ekon on it?

nup nothing like that. although i can why'd you'd think that from the story. those powerbands work dammit

 

[BEEG]

TV Show The OC

 

[kickazz]

MiniDisc
Pop Balls
Subzero
Web Pages with Frames (thank **** for that)
Melbourne Talk Radio
Cat Attack, GO CATS! Cat Attack GEELONG!

 

[childeric]

AM Stereo
8-track players
Laser Disc
Betamax
DAT - (Digital Audio Tape)

 

[JUBJUB]

TV Show The OC

"Don't call it that"

 

[darcytiger]

MiniDisc
Pop Balls
Subzero
Web Pages with Frames (thank **** for that)
Melbourne Talk Radio
Cat Attack, GO CATS! Cat Attack GEELONG!

Ohhh I remember that. I remember learning how to make web pages in like grade 4 or 5 (yr 2000 or something). Teacher was telling us how important it was to have a good border.

 

[tandino]

 

[Copernicus]

I've no idea what they're called, but when I see people who have stretched a wide hole in their earlobe, I always think they'll regret that at some point in their lives. Eyebrow rings or bares always looked terrible to me as well.

No idea what they're called but I think Amazonian earring fits well for that particular brand of stupidity.

 

[MarcusP2]

They're called flesh tunnels.

 

[Xtreme]

Livestrong

I'd be interested to see the reaction to someone if they were still wearing his merchandise out on the street.
Completely different set of circumstances but i purchased a WWE dvd with Chris Benoit on the front cover not long after the murder suicide....... Got the dirtiest look from the person serving me. It was purely a coincidence as the original copy i had of the ppv (Backlash 2004) needed to be replaced.