Things that are currently very popular that you do not "get"

Laura P · 08/02/12 - 10:18

One person's trash is another's treasure, as the saying goes, but what current fads just bemuse or even bewilder you? I know there have been threads about this in the past, but it's been a while so here's a new one.

Anyway, my answers include:

- Wearing PJ's to the shops/school run
- People who post every last detail of their private lives on the web
- Derren Brown
- One Direction
- Danny Boyle films
- The Guardian newspaper (I hate all newspapers but the Guardian bewilders me because I don't think it's the beacon of purity some of the more die-hard readers seem to)
- Americanisms
- Stand-up comedy

Agree? Disagree? Have answers of your own? Vent here.

Croctacus · 08/02/12 - 10:21

The wearing pyjamas out I'll never fathom. I work at a doctors and we get adults turning up in theirs!

Jane Doh! · 08/02/12 - 10:22

Agree with all yours, Laura, and I'd add reality television.

Star_Bright · 08/02/12 - 10:23

iPads/iPhones.

alan29 · 08/02/12 - 10:24

Apple stuff.
Soaps.
Pop singers talking about their "art."

Rorschach · 08/02/12 - 10:24

I'm not sure if some of those count as "very popular", rather than "some people like or do".

I mean sure about 230,000 people read The Guardian every day but 2.7 million people read The Sun daily so surely The Sun is the Popular one? And the Guardian is hardly a current fad either, it's been around for many years.

And the number of people I see wearing their nightwear to a shop is a tiny percentage of everyone I see using that shop.

Rednell · 08/02/12 - 10:25

I'm sitting giggling to myself that I agree with all but one on your list. For my sins I quite like Derren Brown.

I suppose I would add:
-Justin Beiber
-Apple stuff, and this is someone with an ipod. It's nice but its not the greatest thing ever.
-the Olymics
-alternate comedy

there'll no doubt be loads more, but that's what I can think of at the minute.

s2k · 08/02/12 - 10:25

Dubstep
Facebook
iPads

2shy2007 · 08/02/12 - 10:26

Texting

You have a phone on your hand,talk to the person!

Bagpipes · 08/02/12 - 10:26

Twitter. I can understand its usefullness with breaking news, but the whole 'Twitter gossip' thing is beyond me.

Apple products. Don't own one, don't give a shit about them.

hammerfan · 08/02/12 - 10:28

Twitter
Justin Beiber
Most modern music - I realise this makes me sound about 100, I can't believe I've turned into my parents. Gawd help me!

[Deleted User] · 08/02/12 - 10:28

Attacking people on benefits when things get tight :yawn:

Star_Bright · 08/02/12 - 10:28

2shy2007 wrote: »

Texting

You have a phone on your hand,talk to the person!

It's easy to send a quick text and do other things, that to be on the phone to someone. I know I can't multitask when I'm actually on the phone.

[Deleted User] · 08/02/12 - 10:30

Don't know if it's popular enough to count, but 3D TV is one I can't get my head round. It's an electronic version of 3D, and existing versions won't be what 3D eventually becomes.
Am I the only one who thinks it's just the latest fad designed to sell tellies?

Just thought of another- the electric car. Surely everyone can see it's a stopgap for hydrogen fuelled cars?

Agree with all the others mentioned too.

2shy2007 · 08/02/12 - 10:31

Star_Bright wrote: »

It's easy to send a quick text and do other things, that to be on the phone to someone. I know I can't multitask when I'm actually on the phone.

It would take me half an hour to send a text,nothing like a human voice, and I can tuck the phone under my ear and carry on doing what I am doing.I sent a text ince, it just didnt feel right,perhaps I am old,lol but then again, I love other forms of technology,I just see texting as a step backwards.

[Deleted User] · 08/02/12 - 10:31

Diesel cars

[Deleted User] · 08/02/12 - 10:32

Twitter

Monty python (just never saw why it was funny- and I have an otherwise perfectly good sense of humour)

Harry Potter

Things like The Only Way is Essex

How getting completely trashed counts as a great night out.

[Deleted User] · 08/02/12 - 10:33

i don't get twitter because i have never used it and never intend to either. But i sometimes feel i'm the only person in the world who doesn't use it lol. i was on facebook for a while but hardly ever used it so in the end i deleted it, i can do without it but so many people can't seem to get thru the day without it.

I also hate x factor/dancing on ice/britians got talent/i'm a celeb/big brother. they just seem to be on tv constantly:yawn:

[Deleted User] · 08/02/12 - 10:33

And yes- agree with 3 D tv too

Caltonfan · 08/02/12 - 10:33

-Facebook/Twitter
- One Direction
- the Pyjama thing
- 3D TV, just seems pointless
- the constant attack on the less well off when the country starts to struggle.

Star_Bright · 08/02/12 - 10:33

2shy2007 wrote: »

It would take me half an hour to send a text,nothing like a human voice, and I can tuck the phone under my ear and carry on doing what I am doing.I sent a text ince, it just didnt feel right,perhaps I am old,lol but then again, I love other forms of technology,I just see texting as a step backwards.

I can send a text within seconds

probs why I prefer it. And you can reply to a text at your leisure.

nessyfencer · 08/02/12 - 10:34

Laura P wrote: »

One person's trash is another's treasure, as the saying goes, but what current fads just bemuse or even bewilder you? I know there have been threads about this in the past, but it's been a while so here's a new one.

Anyway, my answers include:

- Wearing PJ's to the shops/school run

Who does this?

- People who post every last detail of their private lives on the web

Not really seen people do this. Unless you mean Facebook... but that's not really "on the web" as it can easily be made private - seen by friends only.

- Derren Brown

Pretty sure he's not been popular for years.

- One Direction

Not sure who you mean.

- Danny Boyle films

Not sure who you mean.

- The Guardian newspaper (I hate all newspapers but the Guardian bewilders me because I don't think it's the beacon of purity some of the more die-hard readers seem to)

Not much a fan of any of the majour newspapers. BBC website will do me.

- Americanisms

Unfortunately, the amount of TV and movies coming from America, this cannot really be avoided. We need more British films and arts being made.

- Stand-up comedy

Love it! Try going to the Edinburgh festival one year, see the variety of up and coming comics that are actually out there.

user1234567 · 08/02/12 - 10:34

The strange new way of writing english. I could understand (but still hate) txt spk when texting used to be relatively expensive but the way people write is mind boggling eg lyke instead of like, mi instead of my. It's the same number of letters! Another one I saw on facebook was foll for fool?!? WTF is it all about?

:eek::mad:

soulboy77 · 08/02/12 - 10:35

Twitter - it's a step too far in social networking. I don't want to know every banal thing someone does or thinks.

s2k · 08/02/12 - 10:35

Sinking feeling wrote: »

Don't know if it's popular enough to count, but 3D TV is one I can't get my head round. It's an electronic version of 3D, and existing versions won't be what 3D eventually becomes.
Am I the only one who thinks it's just the latest fad designed to sell tellies?.

No you're absolutely right. Its nothing more than a gimmick. Unnatural and bad for your eyesight.

Plus the Japanese have rejected 3D TV so its dead in the water already.

Hogzilla · 08/02/12 - 10:37

The obsession with 'cupcakes' and baking. wtf? I bake constantly but only cos I have to. I wouldn't pretend for a second it's interesting or an art. It isn't.

Tattoos. Why get someone who probably doesn't even have an A Level in Art to scribble all over you - permanently?

Sun-beds, and being orange generally.

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