Trends you'll never follow

popette

I personally won't be wearing one of those blue tooth ear thingies which sync with your mobile. I think they have an alien look about them and are one step away from a chip in your brain. Plus, what is the radiation doing to said brain?
Am I just past it?

My background is IT so I do love computers and technology. I just have an aversion to those ear doofers.

What trends won't you be following???

chrisjsmith

They're a pain anyway - they fall out regularly and don't quite work quite right all the time. You end up having to look at your phone often to see if it's still working properly. Bluetooth could fry your brain as it's in the 2.4GHz license-free band.

I'm also from the IT background (I'm a software dude).

I'm avoiding the PDA phone trend at the moment, preferring the traditional Moleskine week to a page diary and a clanky Nokia 3510i.

crackle

My trouble is I'm not sure I'd know a trend if it fell on me. So I'm either right on the button 8) or so last century :oops: or, more normal a mixture of the two :roll:

SteveR_100Milers

well if you need to drive for a living and use your phone then they are somewhat invaluable. I'm also worried about a radio transmitter stuck so close to my brain, but then the mobile itself is far more powerful.

Anyway to answer the OP, after the weekend I shall not be following the trend of describing coming second as a disaster, which is what most of the press have done. Thats what happens when you give over most of your media control to a whining aussie.

orienteer

I'm not going to give in to the trend of wearing denim jeans; I've never owned a pair.

jimmythecuckoo

orienteer wrote:

I'm not going to give in to the trend of wearing denim jeans; I've never owned a pair.

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Do you wear combats all the time?

popette

SteveR_100Milers wrote:

well if you need to drive for a living and use your phone then they are somewhat invaluable. I'm also worried about a radio transmitter stuck so close to my brain, but then the mobile itself is far more powerful.

Anyway to answer the OP, after the weekend I shall not be following the trend of describing coming second as a disaster, which is what most of the press have done. Thats what happens when you give over most of your media control to a whining aussie.

In the car they're acceptable . I keep seeing people wearing them whilst doing their shopping though.

jimmythecuckoo

I thought some guy was having a pop at me in Tesco's the other day. But when I got past him I could see he was chatting to his mate on a bluetooth headset :roll:

Alex_Simmons/RST

Long cycling socks, yuk!

Panter

Manbags

Bronzie

Crocs...................................I grew out of wearing plastic shoes when I was 4

Eat My Dust

orienteer wrote:

I'm not going to give in to the trend of wearing denim jeans; I've never owned a pair.

I thought it was only me!!! I've not owned a pair of denim jeans since I was in my teens!! They have to be the most uncomfortable thing in the world, especially when you have been soaked in the rain.

ajohn9

haha itwas only a matter of time until crocs came up!

Clever Pun

Bronzie wrote:

Crocs...................................I grew out of wearing plastic shoes when I was 4

ugg boots and all that flash in the pan shit... not for me. in fact 'fashion' is something I don't follow I buy what I like not what I'm told to like as a rule.

phone earpieces can fu<k off as well, you look a right <unt wearing them. IF you're going to talk in a car get a proper hands free set up, as even pressing your ear to activate it could get you fined.

blackberrys... don't even get me started on those

CHRISNOIR

3/4 length shorts. Any man wearing them automatically looks like a failed boy-band member.

jimmythecuckoo

Panter wrote:

Manbags

I like 'em

iainf72

According to this we'll all be wearing the following next year.

Softly tailored suit with a slightly shorter leg length
A Cardigan
A skinny tie
A bright sweatshirt
White canvas lace-up shoes

Get shopping boys!

:P

tyskie

Getting Fat. Seems to be all the rage at the minute.

CHRISNOIR

Slight variation... Anybody got any trends they wished they'd NEVER followed? In order of shame...

Black Metal - Highly screechy Norwegian heavy metal for the sexually inexperienced spotty adolescent. This lost its attraction when I realized the extreme right wing views being expressed (as well as the fact that it was utter crap)... Hilariously the records now sell for a fortune on ebay proving there's always a lot of sexually inexperienced spotty adolescents out there.

Ska Punk - Useless American bands take American Pie as the blueprint for the next musical revolution. Baggy pants duly purchased, nose pierced, tatoos scrawled on. Slow dawning; "this is rubbish..." Laid the groundwork for today's gloomy emo youth.

White Dinner Jacket - Purchased thinking it would add an air of sophistication to my evening wardrobe. "It'll look good with jeans". It didn't... Bin-bound within a week.

:oops: :oops:

pedylan

CHRISNOIR wrote:

Slight variation... Anybody got any trends they wished they'd NEVER followed? In order of shame...

Black Metal - Highly screechy Norwegian heavy metal for the sexually inexperienced spotty adolescent. This lost its attraction when I realized the extreme right wing views being expressed (as well as the fact that it was utter crap)... Hilariously the records now sell for a fortune on ebay proving there's always a lot of sexually inexperienced spotty adolescents out there.

Ska Punk - Useless American bands take American Pie as the blueprint for the next musical revolution. Baggy pants duly purchased, nose pierced, tatoos scrawled on. Slow dawning; "this is rubbish..." Laid the groundwork for today's gloomy emo youth.

White Dinner Jacket - Purchased thinking it would add an air of sophistication to my evening wardrobe. "It'll look good with jeans". It didn't... Bin-bound within a week.

:oops: :oops:

Must be a generation gap I've never heard of anything mentioned in para 1 and 2. However I appreciate why you came to your senses with the white DJ and jeans - must have made you look like a dental hygienist on casual dress day.

CHRISNOIR

Dental hygienists on casual dress day were laughing at me...

Big Red S

SteveR_100Milers wrote:

well if you need to drive for a living and use your phone then they are somewhat invaluable.

Unless you get a car kit.

Technically, using a BT headset still, legally, counts as using your phone while driving, IIRC. When the guidelines were drawn up, wireless headsets didn't really exist, so the law requires a cradle.

I'm also worried about a radio transmitter stuck so close to my brain, but then the mobile itself is far more powerful.

With no real scientific background to this, I'd have presumed it's a weak enough signal not to cause much damage. No more than standing in the way of far stronger TV signals, for example.
That said, my phone doesn't support BT.

Clever Pun

CHRISNOIR wrote:

Slight variation... Anybody got any trends they wished they'd NEVER followed? In order of shame...

Black Metal - Highly screechy Norwegian heavy metal for the sexually inexperienced spotty adolescent. This lost its attraction when I realized the extreme right wing views being expressed (as well as the fact that it was utter crap)... Hilariously the records now sell for a fortune on ebay proving there's always a lot of sexually inexperienced spotty adolescents out there.

:oops: :oops:

what do you listen to now then?

you're generalising BM massivley btw it's not all european nazi's

I'm not particularly into to BM but I know a few who are

CHRISNOIR

I am generalising massively, admittedly. It was just a bit of a shocker to discover I had a Darkthrone record proudly proclaiming (in Norwegian) to be 'Norwegian Aryan Black Metal'... Their accompanying 'Jewish' comments were horrifying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transilvanian_Hunger

Apologies if it seems extreme but it's just not something I'm into anymore and in 1995 the prevailing ideology behind the music seemed pretty right-wing to an impressionable teenager. Hope it's not too bad these days... No offence intended.

McBain_v1

Trends I won't follow:

Facial piercing - don't get it, never will, don't want it.
Dick piercing - don't want it, not now, not ever!
Colonic irrigation - ain't no-one sticking a hose pipe up my back door :shock:

Clever Pun

CHRISNOIR wrote:

I am generalising massively, admittedly. It was just a bit of a shocker to discover I had a Darkthrone record proudly proclaiming (in Norwegian) to be 'Norwegian Aryan Black Metal'... Their accompanying 'Jewish' comments were horrifying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transilvanian_Hunger

Apologies if it seems extreme but it's just not something I'm into anymore and in 1995 the prevailing ideology behind the music seemed pretty right-wing to an impressionable teenager. Hope it's not too bad these days... No offence intended.

None taken, I was just thinking you might have dipped into the wrong BM pool as such...

spen666

ajohn9 wrote:

haha itwas only a matter of time until crocs came up!

what about alligators, are they acceptable?

Shadowduck

orienteer wrote:

I'm not going to give in to the trend of wearing denim jeans; I've never owned a pair.

I don't own any jeans either, but I think calling them a "trend" at this stage is missing the boat a bit. Might as well call t-shirts a "trend".

Clever Pun

McBain_v1 wrote:

Trends I won't follow:

Dick piercing - don't want it, not now, not ever!

I've considered this.... and not just so I can piss in 2 urinals at the same time. I looked at a few websites and saw a collection of drawings explaining different types of chopper piercing... there was one that came right up through the middle of the bell... and I just went a bit pale and had to have a lie down

Hardly a trend though

Monty Dog

Just imagine the pain if your Albert gets caught on the inside of your shorts?

Eat My Dust

or the embarrassment at the airport!!