1. What’s a fad/trend from the early 2020s that faded so quickly you can barely remember it?
Spotify used to have this weird car gadget that would plug into your car, but that was dropped about the time that streaming music apps became ubiquitous,s and they dropped the product so fast you barely saw it coming.,
2. What’s a fad/ trend from the 1990s that faded so quickly you can barely remember it?
Nextel phones with the Direct Connect walkie-talkie. Those were pretty cool, and I’d love to have a way to bring that technology back, but they got bullied out of their bandwidth.
3. What was that thing that was such a big deal from your high school years?
Blow-dried hair and silkie disco shirts
4. What were all the cool kids doing in your middle school years?
Listening to music on the new cool tech known as cassettes.
5. What fad/trend were your parents into when you were a kid that, looking back, caused you to say, “Man, those guys are weird?
They were really into the Jaycees – like it was their entire life and social scene. They went to conferences and conventions all the time and participated in locally sponsored events – there was always something. Obsessed.
1) Zoom. It blew up during the pandemic, but has faded just as fast as the mega-companies Apple, Google and Microsoft crush them out of existence.
2) Digital storage methods, we wnet from 3.5 disks to ZIP drives to CD to jump drives, and now using a USB jump drive is archaic.
3) Malls. Everyone went to the mall and hung out and did stuffs and things.
4) Here’s a deep dive, marbles made a brief and brilliant splash comeback in my 7th grade year. Before school out in the school yard, there would be actual circles on marbles going on. The middle school’s version of back alley dice games.
5) Bridge. once or twice a month my parents would have folks over and a couple card tables of bridge going on. I, now, appreciate those old card games like bridge, cannasta, pinochle, spades, cribbage and hearts.
[Tony’s answers were en fuego today!]
1. The Floss. It was a dance that everyone from toddlers to the elderly could do. Now it’s been dumped into the junkpile of dance history just like the Macarena, the Nae Nae, and the Dougie.
2. Wearing grossly oversized grunge clothing. I still have one of my gigantic A&F flannel shirts that would hang past my wrists and nearly touch my knees. I should give it to my niece to become a shirt dress.
3. Standalone video games. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Q-Bert et al. were standalone dedicated machines that did ONE thing.
4. Smoking weed. Or what we called weed back then. From what I recall, we actually wound up puffing on dried parsley more than a few times.
5. My parents weren’t particularly social nor were they all that cognizant of popular culture. We were left to fend for ourselves to navigate the “modern” world.
1) The silly tik-tok dances that would flood the app then disappear to be replaced by a different silly dance.
2) SoBe elixirs. Man those things were everywhere. So many flavors and nutrients. Now everything is an “energy” drink.
3) Girbeau jeans, girls rolling their pant cuffs up and tucking them into their socks, Nintendo.
4) I have no idea, I was not included in those circles.
5) Gourmet dinner clubs. Bunch of couples that would each month all get together and try to out cook/ chef each other with fancy meals & wines.
Friday Fives – our parents fads
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What’s a fad/trend from the early 2020s that faded so quickly you can barely remember it?
Man buns – a man’s hair put up in a pony tail, but up top… not behind him like a gal does. To me, it is what it say. It says, in a subconscious way: I am more thoughtful than you are. I am more attractive than you are (usually is), you didn’t even notice my $200 LL Bean flannel. I work from home, a cool little loft in that nice neighborhood. I recycle. I am not only a luthier, but I know what the world means. I buy local. My girlfriend is in the peace corps. I’m vegan. I use words like ‘local and ethically single sourced’ and knows what that that means. ****
What’s a fad/ trend from the 1990s that faded so quickly you can barely remember it?
Razor/Oakley sunglasses. You know the kind… super pointy and reflective and say I’m definitely going to date rape your girlfriend. I have a truck, it’s a Chevy for some reason, it’s way too big for them. I’ve never used to haul a think. You know he has about 15 tank tops that say ‘club bad boy’. If you get the full package, he has truck nuts on the back and a decal that somewhere says ‘NFC’
What was that thing that was such a big deal from your high school year?
That era? Star Wars. the idea was if there was a nuke launched at us by Russia, did we have the technology to wipe it out in mind air before it hit ground? I think it was a hot top because the sides were fighting for the funding; To be honest – without googling it) I still don’t know if that is a thing we hae or can do. I hope so. Between Russia and us, we both made a fucking TON of nuclear bombs and we don’t exactly know who has them. And if they are friends. Here is how much I know, the term is called ‘broken arrow’ when you have totally lose a nuke.
What were all the cool kids doing in you middle school years?
Ask them. I know it involved the girls having Volkswagen convertible rabbit, called the Cabriolet. Anyhow, ask them. According to EVERY John Hughes movie
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What fad/trend were your parents into when you were a kid that, looking back, caused you to say, “man, those guys are weird?
fondu parties
*** man bun – actually, all of these things are great. We can and should all live like that. I’m just jealous of that fantastic hair. In fact, I do all those same things, and more. Just don’t have cool hair.
one last point, and I have to apologize. When I put mandala art up, it is always ‘safe for wok’. This means if you if hear your boss passing through, you are not asharmed. Today, I dook a different arc. If they can show dead bodies every night on every every primetime show, then you and your kids can see a bit of a boobie.
Wanna send a letter about how fucked up your whole family is? I’ll help. It is called ‘the Parents Television Council’. It is one guy. One single guy in charge of making sure your sonr or daughter or wife EVER see a titty on tv. His name is Brent Bozell.