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Sad fads…
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Add flash mobs and various food challenges (cinnamon, extremely hot peppers, etc.).
Best keep that in the rearview…
I forgot about those. I can report that that I haven’t seen anywhere near as many these days as in the past. Usually those that get them, want to show them off. Either stamps are in decline or we have a wave of modesty sweeping the nation. I’m inclined to think it might be the first.
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Well the old ladies(yes, that’s ladies, not “lady’s”)of today were the young ladies of the early 90’s.
Friend of a friend got a hummingbird tattoo on her left breast for her 18th birthday. My friend says that now, thanks to two children and 20+ years of aging, the tat looks more like a turkey buzzard.Lol! I started saying that would the next thing in tattoos about 25 years ago.
Buyers regret (females) really sets in when that ultra cool dragon dancing with a unicorn starts to look like a dried prune in a clinch with a stale marshmallow as the skin sags.
Lesson takeaway - Maybe don't get a visible tattoo on skin that will inevitably and invariably stretch.
I loved my Moonie. He lived on my car's rear window on the driver's side for many years.
Wish I still had him. Much easier than doing it yourself.
I don't have any tattoos, but I've noticed that tattoo trends have changed over the years. I live in an area with a high concentration of Gen Z/millennials, and they all have tattoos on random places on their body that look like they were drawn on with a ballpoint pen. Very different from the late 90s/early 2000s tramp stamps and tribal art that seemed to dominate.
And it's not beards trending in my area - it's the f-ing mustaches. Awful.
And it's not beards trending in my area - it's the f-ing mustaches. Awful.
When I first getting tattoos, many of the shops in my area had what I called the McTattoo...... in other words, you could select something generic that everyone else already has (a heart, a rose, an eagle etc....) off the wall and tell the artist that you want #14 on your left ankle.
Today most shops in my area are custom work only and that's what I have. I don't want the same crap everyone else has, my tattoos are very personal to me and represent a roadmap of my life. The chances of anyone else having the same tattoos that I have are slim to zero.
You need a shaggy long mop up top.let your freak flag fly! I'm definitely with the cavemen!!
I had it that way, all mountain man hippy-like, but went in the hospital last fall and it all ended up tangled in a big rat's nest knot on the back of my head - had to cut it off with scissors and cut the hair short to match. It was time though, was getting scraggly.
Yeah, I'm all about the practical and pragmatic approach: whatever looks neat while being easy to maintain. If I lose enough hair up top that I end up with a Larry Fine or Larry David fur wreath, then I am shaving the rest off. No more time wasted to dry and brush it, and think how nice and cool the pillow will feel at bedtime.
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In changing rooms, my wife has seen a lot of women with tattoos that must have looked cool in their younger years, but have changed shape and stretched since then.
And then there's the rebellious young people who got neck and face tats, and may be in for an unpleasant surprise when they go applying for jobs where they will not be spending all their time on a computer away from customers and the public.
And then there's the rebellious young people who got neck and face tats, and may be in for an unpleasant surprise when they go applying for jobs where they will not be spending all their time on a computer away from customers and the public.
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I've been beaded since 1982. My wife has never seen me clean shaven. I do keep it mowed down now, but at times in the past it was pretty bushy. During Covid, I left my hair grow for over a year, down to shoulder length, like I had in college. It was way too much work to keep the snarls out and look presentable. I was glad to go back to hair I could wash, towel dry and go.
Pet Rocks anyone?? It was a mid 70’s thing….Of course fads have a short shelf life, that’s just the nature of it all, and people are such sheep anyway, but now in this internet-damaged, decimated attention span state of existence we’re in, not only is it blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, but there’s an increased certain lack of rationality. Tide Pods, anyone? But then, stuffing telephone booths(what’s a telephone booth, daddy?)never sounded like the brightest idea.
Some of this article’s listings is stuff I never caught wind of, some of it is, “oh yeah, that”, some I’d have to disagree with…while it remains at a cult level, there’s still a swing/great American songbook scene, then, the excruciatingly lame man bun continues to this day(and enough with the beards already), but overall it’s an interesting, if uneven, survey of modern monkey see, monkey do…
People Are Sharing The Random Trends That Were Super Popular And Then Completely Disappeared, And I Forgot About So Many Of These — BuzzFeed
I think I still have Flappy Bird downloaded on my old IPad...apple.news
I think he was referring to the wildly overgrown, unkept ugly beards that seem more commonplace today than decades before. I work with a few people that wear those ugly face nests and they look absolutely ridiculous. It is laughable because they think they are sooo cool. Like any part of human existence, hygiene is key...
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A sad fad for me is all of these hipsters pouring gallons of epoxy into and onto wood these days. Even just the environmental impact of the manufacturing of these nasty chemicals in the first place annoys me. And this with a generation that wants to be eco friendly. The fidget spinner’s of woodworking 
