Fad (present or past) that should be considered illegal.

[ronnykmarshall]

I'll say anything related to those god-damn CD radios. Any song and/or film should be burned.

[LynneSin]

1. Voting Republican

:D

[Initech]

24. Expanding on that one further: neo-conservatism

I'm convinced that neo-conservatism and neo-religious-insanity-conservatism (IE the "justice" Sunday crowd and the "intelligent" design crowd) is a fad that refuses to die the horrible death that it deserves. I cant walk by the book section of my local Costco (which is FILLED with anti-liberal tomes) without wanting to: :puke: :puke:

[Book Lover]

2. Hey, CBs are cool!

It's guerilla radio, man, 70's style!

[Hugin]

3. CD radio? Never heard of it...

Must've missed out on that fad.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Blue eyeshadow

[LynneSin]

5. Even I like blue eye shadow

just that really light pastel eye shadow. My eyes look great with a rich navy blue!

[Sanity Claws]

7. OK, green eye shadow and eyeliner brought way out to the side

Make them go away, please

[Shell Beau]

6. When I was in elementary school we

used to "tight roll" our pants. It is hideous looking. And any big poofy 80's style hair. Ugh!

[Sandpiper]

8. Parachute Pants

n/t

[usedtobesick]

9. two piece polyester leasure suits

[spinbaby]

10. Jarts

Lawn darts that killed.

[WeRQ4U]

11. Mesh fucking hats or Polo shirt collars flipped up.

Both irritate me to no end.

[Left Is Write]

46. It's a good thing I didn't know you in the early to mid 80s.

I had a whole closet full of Izod polos I wore with the collars up. And a wardrobe of belts to match the polos! And those stupid plastic earrings in bright colors.

[ihaveaquestion]

12. Baseball caps worn backwards.

They only make sense on mechanics, who need the bill out of the way.

[Touchdown]

29. Gay guys need that bill out of the way too.

;)

[EstimatedProphet]

34. I wore one that way when I was a cook

Kept my forehead more cool.

[Xithras]

13. Spandex anything!

The fact that a particular fabric looks good on 2% of the population should NOT grant license to the other 98% to wear it at will. There are things I saw during the spandex era that STILL haunt me!
:hide:

[Hugin]

14. Well... ah... Disco!

YIKES!

:hide:

[Sanity Claws]

19. I'm glad disco's over but it was fun!

It's also great music to clean your house by.

[Hugin]

22. There were aspects of it which were o.k.

Then... There were some which really were BAD!

[elshiva]

15. Pet Rocks.

[bertha katzenengel]

16. Streaking.

If I wanted to see men's parts, I'd ask my best friend to drop trou. :puke:

Hey Ronny - speaking of men's parts, maybe you'll get to meet my best friend in November. In my opinion he needs a new man. Maybe you know one. :)

[ronnykmarshall]

17. Streaking jumped the shark ....

at the 1973 Oscars!

[bertha katzenengel]

18. Heh. Was the debate over David Niven's line ever settled?

Me? I prefer to think he ad libbed it. :7

[ronnykmarshall]

25. I think he ad libbed it.

When I met Linda Blair I asked her about that. She said it was brilliant.

[bertha katzenengel]

26. Oh? Well, smell you, Myrna.

Name-dropper. ;)

[ronnykmarshall]

28. and of course this lovely photo.

[bertha katzenengel]

30. Dude.

Nice arms. On you. ;)

[Hugin]

20. Can it still be called, "jumping the shark" if it happened before...

"The shark jumping incident"?

[SmokingJacket]

48. Personally, I like streakers.

But that's just me.

[Zomby Woof]

21. ULTRA-BAGGY pants

ESPECIALLY with backwards ball caps.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. And oversized basketball bomber jackets and bling...

Whenever I go to the mall, there's like a hundred of them at the food court. They don't realize how ridiculous they look.

[Clintmax]

31. Yeah, Holey Gods I'll be glad when THAT'S over!

I am so sick of seeing pants hangin down to the middle of some dudes ass! I see them hitchin up their pants all the time and think to myself...well, if you'd buy pants that fit you, you wouldn't HAVE that problem!

[NaturalHigh]

33. Yeah, baggy pants gets my vote.

Wearing jewelry the size of hubcaps comes in a close second. Hulkamania is third.

[Left_Winger]

35. After some thought, I'll choose this

I was thinking leisure suits and platform shoes, but no, this gets my vote.

[Touchdown]

27. Reading Ayn Rand.

College campuses were filled with "objectivist intellectuals" carrying around Rand's screeds in the 50s/60s. It was supposed to make them "hip".

[leftylady]

32. Liesure Suits and platform shoes.

[Rising Phoenix]

36. stirrup pants

not flattering and the crotch hangs down to your knees...

[bicentennial_baby]

39. hey, you stole mine!

seriously, i was gonna post that one!! :rofl:

great minds think alike baby ;)

[Rising Phoenix]

41. I'm in your brain...freaky

[Left Is Write]

47. Oh, you beat me to it.

I'm guilty of having worn them - pink stirrup pants with my off-white Peter Pan boots and my long baggy sweater with the asymmetrical collar.

*shudder*

[Texasgal]

37. Speedo's

for the over 50 group.... Uggggg. :puke:

[leftylady]

42. Yea - they are really bad.

[ceile]

38. Acidwash jeans

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

40. jelly shoes

& rolled socks. where you wore a couple pairs of socks, and rolled the cuffs so you could see the color of the one beneath

[friesianrider]

43. OMG I used to have like 5 pairs of Jellies...

And I did the "slouchy" sock thing too when I was younger.

*shiver* Bad memories.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

44. I had so many colored socks...

It was actually great, because you know how one sock always got lost? Your socks never had to match back then, so you could still use the sock you had and just substitute with another color for the other foot.

PS - How DID that start? I just remember rolling my socks one day and not really thinking about it.

[Left Is Write]

45. Stirrup pants. Especially stretchy stirrup pants.

Shoulder pads that would make a linebacker proud.

Big colored plastic beads.

Men wearing pastel linen suits and shoes without socks.

Electric blue eyeshadow used an entire tray at a time.

Spiky mullets, ala Christine Sullivan on Night Court.

Dresses worn over jeans.

[swag]

52. Stretchy stirrup pants with flats, even. As endorsed by Jaclyn Smith.

Gacky poo.

[sakabatou]

49. I have a Radio with a CD player... is that close?

[redqueen]

50. What's a CD radio?

:shrug:

I say those pants with the words on the ass... how gauche!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

51. Stomping on 3rd World countries to steal their oil

and WalMart.