Your Favorite of These "7 Revolting Things About American Culture"

ht: someone on facebook.

Many of these sadly not cofined to the US

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/12/11/6be8e782-41d2-4b02-b54e-59f726871ef8.jpg

i'm gonna go with ke$ha, since i've never read/seen anything harry potter, haven't been on an airplane in probably five years, haven't grinded on anyone while dancing since middle school, and my love of non-designer cupcakes has both priced me out of skinny jeans and begun to expand my own middle.

like I'll help in the quest for a thousand posts but I'll mainly be going "hey ppl who're always going on about 'fatties' and what they should wear or whatever, I'll bet cash money you're a terrible joyless fuck who almost everybody hates"

i feel bad for sb'ing you before you had a chance to explain yourself.

okay, i don't really feel that bad.

how can this be anything but designer cupcakes

can't wait to read her book Of Thee I Zing

your metabolism will give out soon, max.

unless it already has, in which case my condolences.

btw in the old days i would have filed this under "just a bit of fun, lets be cool" so lets keep it lolz-y guys.

(actually i might have filed it under "momus momus momus momus momus" tbh.)

can we dragonpunch anyone who says "men in skinny jeans"

btw the clear winner is "Freak dancing"

favorite in this case referring to the one we like the best, as Americans?

he sb'd me and it felt like a kiss

the security line picture kind of looks like a failed voguing attempt

yes the one which you feel actually best demonstrates america's greatness

i wish some of these these were america-specific things ;_;

i have tried to parse the caption on the security line photo like nine times and i'm still not there

freak dancing brings us all together

at the crotch

re. freak dancing, can i just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA0Z795mkMk

xxxxxp I don't understand the Dora reference or what security procedures have to do with American culture. Tbh I don't understand a lot of whatever's going on here.

I did vote for freak dancing though I was disappointed when it turned out it didn't have something to do with the circus

the joke is that the security woman's name is "Dora" and she is about to "explore" parts of you body. xp

re. freak dancing, can i just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0

it's gonna be so awesome/hilarious 100 years from now when the dance portion of elementary phys ed classes gets to the "drop it like it's hot" unit

here, i need to fix the punctuation on this, the way ingraham intended

Ke$ha says her music is "positive"... I agree... Positively REVOLTING.

http://www.kelseykerridge.co.uk/imagelibrary/Basketball%20Hoop%202.jpg

Oh goody, a hidden racist joke. It's like the cherry on the $5 gourmet cupcake.

your metabolism will give out soon, max.

unless it already has, in which case my condolences.

― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:32 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ohhhhh wait i thought the question was 'worst'

Ke$ha - vomit in aural form
Men in skinny jeans - need to be cockpunched, though the cut of some of these jeans makes me wonder whether there's anything...there to feel the effect
"Freak Dancing" - um this is great, wtf
Grown-ass people obsessed with Harry Potter - i have no problem with people enjoying whatever, and the harry potter books aren't bad at all and even kinda interesting, but the obsession to the point of dropping harry potter terminology into unconnected conversations? MUST STOP
Being fondled in airport security lines? (tbh this photo is kind of confusing) - well from what i've heard it sounds horrific, an outrage etc, but i've never experienced or witnessed it myself and tbh i don't think i'd care
Fancy/"designer" cupcakes - h8 the ~cult of cupcakes~, it is an entirely reprehensible and overly prissy thing, but tbh i would (and have) eaten all the cupcakes myself
Muffintops/fatties in pants too tight for their middles - yeah i try not to be judgey about things like this, it's nagl though

The security officer being named Dora and, by extension, being Latina thing, I mean.

ok well if its favorite than the answer is definitely freak dancing

btw if you play the "too close" clip and turn down the sound on the "freaks" clip it's a joy forever

What is it with Britain being terrified with things that teenagers do for fun. What was that lolarious article where it called playing your iphone on the bus like "half mongoloids marking their territory with audio wee"

some freak dancing might chill you out there

Laurel, Dora is a Greek name and the woman pictured seems to be white.

What is it with Britain being terrified with things that teenagers do for fun. What was that lolarious article where it called playing your iphone on the bus like "half mongoloids marking their territory with audio wee"

trying to figure out the relevance of this to this thread

kids playing music out loud on the bus is great though, a friend of mine did a documentary on it recently

by which I'm trying to say, it's merely an incredibly stupid joke, probably not a racist one.

i think "your least favourite of these" would have been a better question, it would have been much harder to answer

Ingraham is def right to call americans fat becau—

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gcA0ZuKGkI8/TSvpv87GS2I/AAAAAAAAJlg/NjkCgFSTJyw/s640/Britain+obesity.jpg

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3334976/Fattest-man-Paul-Mason-sues-the-NHS-for-allegedly-letting-him-grow.html

trying to figure out the relevance of this to this thread

"freak dancing"

you know Laura Ingraham is an American, right

i can't remember if i've already sb'd you since yr return whines, but i figure one more click for good measure won't hurt

trying to figure out the relevance of this to this thread

"freak dancing"

― harbl bosses (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:46 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah what has it got to do with british people though?

afaik we have freak dancing and people are generally okay with it

tbh we need to just go whole hog and get on the daggering train

one-issue candidate iirc

oh there can be multiple issues

haha that wasn't directed at you but you have at least three distinct issues

took Potterites over cupcakes, freak dancing not on my radar.

xp: sure, if you give me a minute to catch my breath

disdainful "inverted commas" bringing the united states down

you know Laura Ingraham is an American, right

― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:47 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no... :/

she is a pure american delight

As a Dartmouth undergraduate, she was a staff member of the independent conservative newspaper, The Dartmouth Review. In her senior year, she was the newspaper's editor-in-chief,[3] its first female editor.[2] She wrote a few controversial articles during her tenure, such as a piece characterizing a campus gay rights group as "cheerleaders for latent campus Sodomites". She also secretly tape recorded the organization's meetings, and sent copies to the participants' parents.[4][5] Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review, described Ingraham as having "the most extreme antihomosexual views imaginable," and noted that "she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual and might touch her silverware or spit on her food, exposing her to AIDS."[6]

i can't remember if i've already sb'd you since yr return whines, but i figure one more click for good measure won't hurt

― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, July 21, 2011 10:47 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you've been talking sideways about me on ILX for like 90 straight days now.

She also secretly tape recorded the organization's meetings, and sent copies to the participants' parents.

this is so unbelievably vile.

"hey ppl who're always going on about 'fatties' and what they should wear or whatever, I'll bet cash money you're a terrible joyless fuck who almost everybody hates"

Truth bomb for the ages

She also appeared on the August 3, 2010, episode of The Colbert Report, where Stephen Colbert implied that she had integrated "hideous, hackneyed racial stereotypes" into her book The Obama Diaries. In reply, she suggested that a word Colbert had previously used to label her, banshee, which is of Irish origin, also contained racial overtones, suggesting that it may be offensive to Native Americans.[12]

this is what an Ivy League education gets you these days

well tbf for most of that you weren't here to interact with directly!

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think cakes are the only one of these i take any pleasure from

well, i'd love to defend myself, but forks says its mostly my arguments that get me SB'd so feel free to continue to take shots at me i guess.

also the sb was strictly for that photo because come on now.

She also appeared on the August 3, 2010, episode of The Colbert Report, where Stephen Colbert implied that she had integrated "hideous, hackneyed racial stereotypes" into her book The Obama Diaries. In reply, she suggested that a word Colbert had previously used to label her, banshee, which is of Irish origin, also contained racial overtones, suggesting that it may be offensive to Native Americans.[12]

this gives such a terrible yield in terms of ratio of how right SC was vs her minor semantic triumph. "i may be a published racist, but..."

Ke$ha- Meh - I sorta like Tick Tock or whatever it's called and will sing along when it's on the radio. Don't know anything else by her.
Men in skinny jeans - I'm . . . not a fan. Some dudes can pull it off but I'm generally not into it.
"Freak Dancing" - Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha freak on imo
Grown-ass people obsessed with Harry Potter - Again, not my thing. I've neither read any the books nor seen any of the movies and, tbh, a couple of years ago I would have hated on these folks hardcore but I i don't really give a shit anymore. If dressing like a wizard or whatever makes you happy then more power to you.
Being fondled in airport security lines? I have not experienced this yet. Am flying in two weeks. Might be more bothered by this after that.
Fancy/"designer" cupcakes - Yes the whole cupcake "thing" is kind of annoying but, you know what? They're little individual sized cakes and they are often delicious. Can't hate too much.
Muffintops/fatties in pants too tight for their middles - I don't care what size/shape you are but knowing how to dress in a way that flatters your body is an important skill and muffin tops are never AGL but they're not a huge deal.

WRONG CUPCAKES

nevar forget

wb whiney

hey, where'd the SB button go? Not that i use it, even for WGW's pref for Fucked Up over Arcade Fire.

i don't know what's happened to me when i'm voting ke$ha over cupcakes. it's certainly not that i've gotten any healthier.

btw morbs i sb'd you for preferring af to fucked up

banshee, which is of Irish origin, also contained racial overtones, suggesting that it may be offensive to Native Americans.

how does this work? I wouldn't be surprised if banshee was considered sexist, but racist to Native Americans is a new one for me.

it works if your brain operates similarly to laura ingraham's.

I realized I didn't pick one. I honestly don't know which to pick. I mean if these are the most revolting things about American culture this lady could come up with then we as a nation are in way better shape than I thought we were.

In this thread, right-wing radio hosts confuse banshee with wendigo.

well if it any published at any place other than huffpo it woulda been like

- homos
- black president
- blacks, in general, really
- did i mention homos?
- socialized medicine
- irish stereotypes
- blacks, once more, for good measure

one of those blacks would be Muslims/Arabs and another one would be illegals from Mexico (because that's the only country that illegal immigrants come from, you know)

Whiney, let me ask you out on a man-date, then.

I missed Laura Ingraham at the Nixon Library by 3 days.

why were you shooting at the Nixon Library?

shits and giggles

a true american refuses to choose because THEY LOVE THIS COUNTRY SO GODDAMN MUCH

http://nocureforthat.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/allinthefamily1.png

l to r: strongo, dan, justen, edith bunker

I have skinny jeans, what the hey I have skinny legs so.
Ke$ha, Alice likes her, she won't be around long...
"Freak Dancing" - http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/2009-09-09_0520happyfreaky_thumbnail.jpg
Grown-ass people obsessed with Harry Potter - Not my thing, and people who obsess about HP tend to not batter non-obsessed but keep it to themselves, so ehay.
Being fondled in airport security lines? There's a queue for "plz no" innit?
Fancy/"designer" cupcakes - They look nice, they eat nice, and if they are too expensive, we no buy.
Muffintops/fatties in pants too tight for their middles. Ah. No thanks...

OK, by process of elim. I have my vote.

who will stand up and heed the call of american destiny and finally combine designer drugs and designer cupcakes

I would have very little against the cupcake fad if they were like $1

voted potta

a true american refuses to choose because THEY LOVE THIS COUNTRY SO GODDAMN MUCH

enjoy yr skinny jeans

i dunno dan yr sporting some pretty skinny jeans in that photo

Quite.

A summer fete had them at £3 recently. So, we went back at the end of the day incase, and they were carefully loading them back into boxes, presumably for the next summer fete the next weekend.

That "quite" was about the $1 cupcakes, obv.

if skinny jeans were £3 I would stock up

They probably are at Primark.

muffintop wrapped in an american flag, freak dancing my skinny jeans off to ke$ha while i point cupcakes with the hogwarts logo towards the sky where god lives and smiles down on this great nation

while a security guard fondles me, obv

I sort of which she'd said "jeggins" instead of skinny jeans because I'd vote those in a heartbeat. Not only do they look awful but the name is well . . . jeggins.

PAJAMA JEANS

c/be called Loggers

jjjusten knows how to live *tosses blonde locks*

jjjusten how much would I have to pay you in order for you to actually do that and post photographic evidence thereof on this here website?

Jeggings would be a good name for a butler or a small dog.

x-post - Would you take payment in the form of fancy cupcakes perhaps?

pajama jeans: for when you're too slovenly and resigned for a button but hanging onto human values just enough to not wear sweats 24/7

"pajeggings" 6 results (0.12 seconds)

Why are we not making this happen more quickly?

pajeggings

this is terrifying, like splitting-the-atom terrifying

x-post Those things aren't cheap either! I swear I saw them in Walgreens the other day for like 40 clams or something.

pajegging sounds like something you'd pay for in amsterdam and then instantly regret the transaction

ewwwwwwwwwwww

was there ever a "things that require a safeword" category on Password

"the password is...i can't breathe under this mask"

i figure we're about 100 posts from laura ingraham slash at this point

oh right I'm confusing Password with The $64K Pyramid, aren't I

you've been talking sideways about me on ILX for like 90 straight days now.

lol strongo came back within the last month iirc

"whips...anal beads...latex masks...penis pump..." "things you'd find in amsterdam's red light district...things you order through the internet...things in djp's closet!"

Jeggings would be a good name for a butler or a small dog.

― grit of ad hominem (kkvgz), Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:21 PM (1 minute ago)

this is america, he can be both!

http://img.costumecraze.com/images/vendors/rubies/885933-Dapper-Dog-Costume-thumb2.jpg

^ does not look v small

wtf I made a "small dog butler" post and it never went through

curse you, xposts and short attention spans

that dog looks more like a mr. pemberton to me tbh

http://files.advertolog.com/files/adsarchive/part_1127/11270905/file/dog-kennel-butler-small-32077.jpg

how is laura ingraham herself not an option itp?

now THAT's a jeggings.

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who is going to pick Laura Ingraham as their favorite revolting thing about American culture aside from Rush Limbaugh's nose

oh man i saw these comme des garçons jeans on the internet the other day that are not even jeans, they are essentially sweatpants with distressed denim textures printed onto them -- hoorayyy

"small dog butler" GIS result:

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/191/8/8/Gerard_butler_with_Pug_by_KatherinS.jpg

WHY WOULD SOMEONE (not me, I swear) MAKE THAT?!

http://www.minuteman-bt.org/OLD%20WEBSITE/Tuxedo.jpg

ENBB frontin'

BOSTON TERRIER WINS SMALL DOG BUTLER SEARCH 2011

did gerard butler and a dog get trapped in a trapper keeper or something?

http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/37062/118165_0185_pre_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg

okay Modern Family is weirder than I thought

LOL

x-post The one in the upper R where he's looking off into the distance and the pug's like "fuck this" kind of cracking me up.

xx-post He's so much of a butler he has a built-in costume and only needs a bow tie. Well played little one, well played.

Gerard Pugler

http://www.spirithalloween.com/images/spirit/products/processed/01004845.detail.a.jpg

best not to think about that one too much

r.i.p. gerard butler its so sad he got lisa frank-ed

http://houndbound.com/dogblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/gerard-butler-dog-pug.jpg

That bulldog's name is Zelda iirc.

I shouldn't know that.

I mean how did I not know this is a thing? Am I not on the correct Gerard Butler listservs?

http://houndbound.com/dogblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/gerard_butler_pug.jpg

who is going to pick Laura Ingraham as their favorite revolting thing about American culture aside from Rush Limbaugh's nose

i just thought it was important to include her for fairness sake but really glenn beck is fave most revolting thing about american culture

also i feel like complaining about skinny jeans in 2011 is kinda awesome

If I were Gerard Butler I would name my fat little pug "Sparkplug" so that when people asked me his name I could get all angry looking and say "THIS . . . IS . . . SPARKPLUG!!!!" Then kick them down a giant well or some shit.

gerard butler's pug is actually named henry rollins.

Just to be clear I am kicking the question-asker, not the pug, down a well in this scenario.

Why would I kick a pug down a well?

You really really want me to come find you and kick your ass?

just kidding!

Apparently butler's pug is named Lolita.

if the pug was evil, like in the ring?

Rival pugs threads, who knew?

PUGS!!!

PUGS!!!!!

I've never seen it. There's an evil pug!? O_O

in the japanese original, yes

pug-u

evil pug: About 3,450,000 results (0.17 seconds)

Wait how the fuck did this become about pugs again? I swear I don't do this intentionally. Sorry dudes.

http://www.bitethepower.com/images-shirts/Beelzepugbig.jpg

"small dog butler"

This seems like a worthy combination of things:

http://www.evilpugbrewing.com/

guys this is a thread about horrible things about america

"You watch it, and in seven days you die. **snort**"

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/05/19/6/1654/16540507/49/pug_wallpaper_2.jpg

guys this is a thread about horrible things about america

― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:47 AM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YEAH.

Take the pugs to another thread imo.

Once again I apologize for any role I've played in this derail.

it's sad it was a thread about horrible things about america

guys this is a thread about horrible things about america

Gerard Butler's career in Hollywood? Only joking, he's from the same town as me, howzitgaun Gerry?

i do like the idea of a j-horror movie about small possessed dogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkgUjuYERek

wuht

from 30 rock iirc

oh lol, should have played the video

in addition to pajama jeans did you know you can also get a home drug testing kit at walgreens?

god bless the USA

man the walgreens near my old house was on some this-is-what-the-end-times-will-look-like shit

What kinds of drugs do you get to test?

one time i had to go get some allergy meds and i had a t-shirt on with a hole in it and i briefly felt bad about going out in public like that until i remembered that a few days before i'd seen a lady in there in one of those wolf-howling-at-the-moon t-shirts and zebra-stripe leggings buying an entire case of beef jerky.

Laurel, Dora is a Greek name and the woman pictured seems to be white.

Dora the Explorer is a Latino character who speaks Spanish on her show, you may know this already? And TSA agents are likely to be non-white in many places, iirc (altho not West Michigan, but then no one is non-white in West Michigan...officially). And this is Laura Ingraham, so you don't even have to scratch the surface to find her racism, it's not like I'm making a big leap here. Anyway. Whatever. She's an idiot.

Also re jeggins: seen on friend's facebook the other day: "Jeggings can't be troosers."

why is strongo calling me a lady ;_;

terrible things about america:

1. it isnt bigger than it already is
2. too much voting about stuff all the time
3. subtitled films still allowed
4. canadians squatting on our oilfields
5. running out of foreign people to democratize
6. eggheaded professors teaching our children about healthcare
7. we have to share jesus with other countries

i earn my paycheck off jerky-hungry ladies in wolf t-shirts, god bless USA

http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/e/d0/ed07cfe34c3f60fef730f88099bc8ce8-orig

america :'-)

is that... jerky?

or pemmican?

pemmican punani

teriyaki turkey panties

that looks like some weird-ass bedazzled buffalo bill shit right there

teriyaki

turkey

panties

well alright then, it has been nice knowing you all

see you on the flipside

goodbye horses, indeed

This list reminds me of those "Only In America" emails that used to go round, that would say something like "Only in America ...do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke." - even though this happens pretty much all over the world too.

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Was she a great big fat person in turkey panties?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8cpwjMLzSts/TCA7D0qI0sI/AAAAAAAAAbk/LGqJJ0PPC1c/s1600/jame+1.jpg

<3 u

those really seem like they would chafe unless oh god no

:)

And this is Laura Ingraham, so you don't even have to scratch the surface to find her racism, it's not like I'm making a big leap here.

then maybe it wouldn't be too inconvenient to like i dunno wait for her to say something racist instead of revealing this hidden secret like in a dan brown novel..

my mom used to sometimes call me and say "oh yeah, was she a great big fat person?" in the buffalo bill voice and then hang up

guys...there's more of these.

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/05/20/jerky%201.jpg

hahahahaha

My friend got his hands on a voice changer once and used to leave me ocassional "it puts the lotion in the basket" voice mails which was v v funny . . . once I figured out it was him.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY

too bad we can't edit poll options

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2008/12/jerkypurse.jpg

i really had no idea jerky had so many uses.

yeah right

oh man i wonder if i still have that silence of the lambs musical somewhere on my computer

http://www.patsbeefjerky.com/images/oven.gif

"at pat's, we used homemade smokers to ensure only the finest jerky-based panties and g-strings, unlike the coarse texture you'll get from industrial-grade jerky producers."

god i hate the expensive water-bottle trend that is now like a thing

"Journalists" who make self-serving lists to promote paranoia/narcissism of small differences to boost their visibility/meet weekely word quota offend me FAR more than any of this shit.

Ke$ha?! Honestly, I know almost nothing about her but if she's offending middle-aged 'serious' ppl, she's merely being successful at what young ppl's pop has been doing since at least the 20's. Skinny jeans?! Eyeliner on boys?! Lady, they're generational signifiers designed to repel you. Good job on being repelled and leaving the boys to their generation. Wtf is new about freak dancing? Fondled? Whatever. I get absolutely no erotic charge out of TSA personnel so 'being fondled' is fine if it marginally decreases the chance of my dying in some hurtling, twisted, fiery crash. Also, turning bitching about being fondled by TSA annoys me way more than anything on this list.
Designer cupcakes?! My suggestion: do not buy or eat. Problem solved. Bitching about what other ppl eat or like to eat is nagl, btw. Bitching about what fat ppl wear or how they look is always classy, keep it up.

Civilization's demise has more to do with your whiny censoriousness and callous self-regard than any of these trends do, btw.

i dunno i think jerky underwear has gotta be pretty up there on the decline of western civ list.

i bet yr. ass has got to smell terrible in that shit

beef curtains jerky.

there. i'd been holding that in for like a half-hour now. i really am sorry. but i do feel better.

Probably doesn't do much for the taste of the jerky either

there. i'd been holding that in for like a half-hour now.

you're making this worse

i tried phrasing that like six different ways and that was the least innuendo-laden way i could come up with.

you carefully unfurled it?

Bitching about what other ppl eat or like to eat is nagl, btw.

I think your attitude might change if you recall the "Sex and the City" episode where SJP trilled "OOOOOH, CUPCAKES!"

fibrous beef matter tumbling down a pair of flabby thighs with the balletic intensity of the odessa step sequence

"injury to eye motif"

srsly guys the popularity of these sandals is more odious than skinny jeans:

http://shoes4woman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gladiator-sandals.jpg

...

this is about laura ingraham's book not edward gibbon's

i really am flabbergasted if those sandals are a thing.

That is a shitload of buckling to do for casual summer footwear. I think they're doing it wrong.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/8Ccwhv6Wkqcpy2bmYw1z4v13o1_400.jpg

The manufactures even screwed the wrong size head on the torso!

http://static1.purepeople.com/articles/9/64/98/9/@/484428-tony-curtis-et-laurence-olivier-dans-637x0-3.jpg

there was a lady wearing those sandals at the harvey milk show i just went to

and jerky underwear?

it WAS a Harvey Milk show

those sandals are

not good

<3 laura ingraham

Fancy/"designer" cupcakes

^^OTM

i did not check, but the whole crowd smelled kind of like i imagine jerky underwear smelling

I don't get this fascination with cupcakes. Be a man and order the whole slice of cake, you gladiator-sandal-wearing fuckwad.

Be a man and order the whole slice of cake, you gladiator-sandal-wearing fuckwad

imo

right now the only saving grace is that the underwear displayed so far have been panties and not thongs

also has anyone made cupcake underwear yet

jerky up your ass is probably nagl

idk guys cupcakes are a really useful way to regulate your thc dosage

jerky up your ass is probably nagl

we should get Hef's exes to weigh in on this

jerky up your ass was a david allen coe album iirc

does anyone here freak dance

I freak dance irl

i'm freak dancing right now

I had to talk a friend out of getting a cupcake tattoo recently.

M. white otm. what a dreary waste of a woman. 'freak dancing' is awesome.

idk guys cupcakes are a really useful way to regulate your thc dosage

^^^

freak dancing with myself oh oh oh oh

i am still having questions jerky panties

are you supposed to even eat them? at what point? can you wear them multiple times? why would you want to? is there a god? why am i crying?

i am freak dancing in gladiator sandals and jerky panties to miami sound machine

don't be afraid

I actually own gladiator sandals and was just about to wear them

i don't believe you

wait which one of us?

because i can assure you that rhythm was gonna get me and then it got me

oh I obv meant fantasy

I totally believe that you would be doing that rn.

I irl own gladiator sandals they were given to me when one of my friends was getting rid of some shit and I lost my actual sandals a few weeks ago swimming in a river

I look hot in skinny jeans, holding my beef jerky.

i cant imagine why anyone would give gladiator sandals away

x-post - But but they're not nearly knee-high gladiator sandals are they?

when I was swimming in the river I passed an old man who said he owned all the land but anyone could stay there forever if they wanted and then he showed me the rocks he collects in the river and then he said he recently had to stop growing fields of weed because someone tried to kill his wife

i actually used to have a pair of skinny jeans but then i was able to afford food again

pretty much all I want to do in life is eat $4 salted caramel cupcakes with a faintly muffintopped girl in ugly gladiator sandals & a judas priest t-shirt design pastiche ke$ha baseball shirt from hit topic

no maybe they aren't gladiator sandals then, they're like just foot coverin gladiator sandals

do they make thigh-high gladiator sandals

glitter uggs are also acceptable

nb everyone hates them when I wear them so I assumed they were gladiator sandals

a faintly muffintopped girl

read this as a faintly mufftopped girl lol

would that be a girl wearing a wallogina-print shirt

would that be a girl wearing a wallogina-print shirt

I thought you had to win gladiator sandals in combat for them to really be yours. Maybe a freak dance to the death or something.

ABC OTM

To be clear when I said I wasn't a fan of them earlier I meant in the way that they've become such a thing and how guys of all ages, sizes, styles whatever seem to think they can pull them off. I just - idk - I don't think there's anything wrong with plain old reg guy jeans every now and then it's not like I'm advocating a return to JNCOS or anything.

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/k-lo-at-homesurreal.jpg

i actually bought a pair of strappy gladiator-looking sandals at the thrift store yesterday but this purchase is directly related to my habit of dressing up like ancient cthonic deities and freak dancing while eating designer cupcakes

E for a terrible second I thought you were talking about gladiator sandals

also lol @ $4 salted caramel cupcakes

it's like I turned around one day a couple months ago and this is everywhere. I'm not actually complaining because I sort of love it but amazed at what a thing it's become.

I don't think there's anything wrong with plain old reg guy jeans every now and then it's not like I'm advocating a return to JNCOS or anything.

i was gonna ask how i looked in these :'(

http://blog.mltd.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/crotchwatchtwelve1.jpg

I WANT EVERY PAIR OF SHOES IN THAT AD

x-post by this I meant salted caramel things in general

right up your alley

idk man those guys look pretty dope

when are overalls going to make a comeback? where's joey lawrence when we need him?

remember when you could dress like that and it wasn't embarrassing? let's all go back to 1992

can i still be 33 or do i have to be 14 again? because if so, pass.

I think maybe it was always a little bit embarrassing.

I do miss floppy male bangs and fringe hair.

I wonder if JNCO even exists anymore or if Kevin Smith is just plowing through a giant lot of cropped jalazzos purchased at a liquidation auction in early 2001

the comically baggy jeans era was a godsend for the husky child

the comically baggy jeans era was a godsend for smuggling bongs past your parents

i know aside from me itt at least dan owned one pair of raver jeans. i'm willing to guess alfred did too.

I owned a few. iirc, ENBB did too.

these were also good for smuggling:

http://cf.mp-cdn.net/4a/7e/47e284baea51255fde60ef3decf7.jpg

bongs

and panthers

http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-201106/d39ae839a717779ee23050edecaeea9e.jpg

Ohhhh,I owned several. JNCOS that is. I would never have been caught dead in a hat like that. Sorry.

Or with anyone wearing a hat like that.

WHAT IS THAT HAT?

RAVER HAT

i dont remember if any of the photos of me in hammer pants have surfaced on the net yet but it is always politically sound to disclose prior to the event

didn't a few of the EMF guys wear those hats?

voted for ke$ha b/c i like ke$ha bye

Ha I've never been to a rave. I just liked baggy pants. They were sort of a sk8ter thing where I grew up? IDK.

that is a comically-long ski hat! also seen in "jester"-varieties.

oh and i totally had a fucking hat like that.

haha they were a skater thing here too. giant pants and nofx t-shirt.

jjj didn't you also have a felt jester cap at one point, maybe green and purple (FORKS UP FORKS DOWN)

xp: lol

the great thing about those hats is how easily you can hang them on your beef jerky

can we commission that jerky-panties concern to make a giant Cat-in-the-Hat style stovepipe deal out of jerky

and since it was the era of safe sex they doubled as condoms

didn't a few of the EMF guys wear those hats?

Judge for yourself:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/57535/EMF.jpg

shortly after that pic they totally put on their raver hats

wait – that photo was part of the second album

(I own that album. Shh!)

x-post to strongo - lol totally

they were Angry and Serious for that record

Where it all comes together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ioT2WUbf_g

nah dude my jester cap was like 17 different patterned cotton fabric swatches so as to increase the drug wow factor

oh wait, I think I a purple and black cat-in-the-hat hat

yes folks, I think I'm a hat

omg this is some insane hat crew that I was never a part of

;_;

xpost -- I believe this.

i only owned like one pair of giant pants. mostly i dressed like joey ramone if he'd been horribly addicted to designer cupcakes.

also for all my sins, i never owned a jester hat.

despite ilx evidence that makes this hard to believe, i am pretty sure my college years of clothing are way way more ridiculous than hs ever was

Yeah my big pants phase was prob a year maybe two tops.

Good lord, here's some early nineties fashion/visuals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArOHb1dN6U

did i wear a red and black marching band jacket around in public and on dates WHY YES I DID THANK YOU VERY MUCH

i wore a LOT of polyester shirts in college for some reason. and brown pants. i looked like a frail tyler durden.

at one point in college, a girl in J's entryway thought I was her homeless boyfriend

when I saw EMF in July '91 the lead singer put one of those hats on the mic and started frenching it.

... the mic or the hat?

all of us thought it was terribly subversive

both if necessary

xpost

I had SO MANY polyester shirts in college. I feel like once I abandoned JNCOs I favored ripped levis with 2nd hand polyester shirts and DM boots for a while. I swear this was an OK look to sport at the time. Maybe.

erica i am faintly disturbed we dressed essentially the same way in college.

in J's entryway

You do realize that you cannot write such things w/o suggesting others.

x-post

My shirts probably had more flowers. Or something.

lol

I would do JNCOs/Kikwear with like, hawaiian shirts.

i remember being 14 and thinking al from ministry's BONES ON THE MIC thing was lol crazy

in my defense i was doing a lot of drugs

my jester hat was confiscated by the principal in 8th grade and i forgot to retrieve it at the end of the year

...and a tennis visor.

god is there any thread we can't devolve into 90s nostalgia

My brother was in the Air Force; when I went to college, I was wearing his combat boots, his dress blue trenchcoat and his black military-cut tux coat

so I was running around half the time looking like a short black Jack Harkness, when I wasn't wearing disintegrating flannel shirts over Cure t-shirts

also I was rocking Dwayne Wade shades well into 1994

Also so many band shirts.

I remember this one time I was making out with some boy named Zach who looked like a hot version of a Campbell's soup kid and he said, I don't normally kiss girls in Cure shirts and I was like yeah well you're wearing a fucking Phish shirt. Then I went home.

because i had no money of my own and my mother was a sadist i basically wore sally jesse raphael glasses into middle school, after which i got contacts and you better believe my life improved 100 fold overnight

xxpost -- I thought I was a product of mine but you clearly hit next level.

Also so many band shirts.

This remains unchanged for me.

omg dwayne wade!!! hahaha

lol @ me saying "Dwayne Wade" rather than "Dwayne Wayne"

I'd love to know what the outcry would be if a liberal pundit, rather than a conservative one, put out an article like this with this kind of headline. Right wing heads would explode.

although now I realize why I like Dwayne Wade so much

i need to dig up the photo of me in buddy holly glasses and a polyster shirt with a guy wearing a helmet shirt and a fisherman's cap behind me. it's like a mid-to-late 90s nagl time capsule.

i vote for harry potter, but cupcakes are a close second. file under self-infantilization of grown adults.

http://www.nndb.com/people/817/000110487/kadeem-hardison-1-sized.jpg

basically remove the sweater and this is a good WDYLL '94 for me

you have a very nice joker chin

worst thing about this list: *two* entries for pants? geez, issues.

because i had no money of my own and my mother was a sadist i basically wore sally jesse raphael glasses into middle school, after which i got contacts and you better believe my life improved 100 fold overnight

YESSSSSSSSS.

I am guessing you haven't seen the following pic which I sort of can't believe I'm linking because not only am I fat, wearing SJR glasses and a creepy clone of my mom, I realize now that I also look like I have D Syndrome.

lol high school

also I only typed wade because you did!! lol

so glad none of my hs pics are online

oh look:

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/230900_1059005107927_1009888990_204664_343_n.jpg

And you didn't wear that to your wedding, why.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2iubx2b.jpg

this is probably like 7th grade, so it's not like i was really making my own clothes decisions, but i still have no idea what was going with shirt/hair here

That's YOU?!

that was to jjusten btw

aww lil strongo

You should have seen me in '87 decked out on Morey Boogie Body Board fashion. I looked like a Christmas tree.

best thing about that jjj photo is that it is a PROM PICTURE

strongo plz tell me that the shirt you are wearing just says "JEANS" across the top of it because that is one of my favorite 90s clothing phenomenons

i think that is like a mint green ocean pacific sweatshirt with a white polo shirt collar? honestly now.

lol that says TEAM

wish it did say JEANS, that would rule

I can't handle that prom picture at all.

Minnesota must be wild.

hah, such an awesome picture!

That is indeed OP

i feel like every t-shirt i wore between 1986 and 1990 featured either a patrick nagel knock-off or spuds mckenzie

Team OP

xpost

er, strongo's.

my personal jury are still deliberating re the prom pic

also love that my parents let me go to class photo day wearing that. keep it classy, you two.

lots of these shirts in my collection:

http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.156651554.jpg

omg jj

tbh i think it's the haircut and facial scruff that really elevate the look to a place where i fear for my physical safety

i was at a convenience store yesterday in nj, and dude working there was wearing an op shirt. first of all, i had no idea they still marketed clothing. second of all, he was the most sour fucker i've ever beheld wearing an op shirt.

y'all ever own "crazy shirts"? made by that hawaiian company and featuring overweight cats who like to surf?

no

Kind of wish I did though!

Most of those aren't that bad. The only one that could affect me is the airport one. I don't really care about the others.

The OP brand is now licensed to Kmart or something.

to make that haircut even less awesome, plz note that the top is probably about 10 inches long and pulled back into a topknot per the mike patton rules established at the time

wal-Mart, sorry.

pretty sure there are more crazy shirts stores per capita in honolulu than anything else except "abc stores" and luxury hotels

I was Team OP

I was also Team UNION BAY and Team Girbaud hand-me-downs

jjj, do you remember the grey Guess? jeans I inherited from my brother with the traingular codpiece over the zipper? Fashion, I luv u

tbh i think it's the haircut and facial scruff that really elevate the look to a place where i fear for my physical safety

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Yeah John those two things combined with that particular grin sort of make you look like a creepy MFer in that pic.

omg codpiece what now?!

don't neglect RUDE DOG y'all

http://riktus.thagirion.org/rudedog/RDrudedude.jpg

YES

I was going to say something about how many threads there must be where it all comes back to the fashion of your particular friends group circa 1992 or whatever but, you know what? It's so amazing that I'd probably frequent a message board devoted entirely to pictures of your outfits and the ensuing discussions.

i was more of a dweeb than a rude dude tho sorry to say

the crotch of the jeans had a dark triangular leather piece over it with snaps on one side that covered the zipper; they were awesome

omg

See, I'm a few years older so most of my HS clothes were

http://photos.oes.org/albums/userpics/10002/ChessKingLabelCloseup.jpg

I like the part where they call 30+ year olds our for dressing like Harry and Hermione, but show a picture of older people dressed like two of the oldest characters in the series.

i think i need to go like vacuum or something to not feel like i spent this whole day talking about the 90s again

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2836558567_7ecb5cf108.jpg

oh Phil dude we were also up on Chess King and its spiritual successor OAKTREE

hahahahahaaaaaaaaa dan i remember those pants ahahahahhaaaaa

i think i need to go like vacuum or something to not feel like i spent this whole day talking about the 90s again

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otm

I have never heard of the dog, chess king or oaktree - those must have been before my time.

i remember when suddenly everybody was all about that b.c. ethic bullshit and i was like oh man oak tree had your number a million years ago dummies

plus at Oak Tree you could get like 40 of those shirts for a dollar apiece

bc ethic was mid 2000s right? im finally watching through all the sopranos and by season 6 it seems like there should be one of those game show "tony sopranos wardrobe by bc ethic" credits at the end of the show

Oh god I just remembered a pic I have somewhere where I'm in Germany with my cousins and I'm wearing an OP tank top and JAMS. I loved that outfit so freaking much. I was probably about 10 or so. Man I thought I looked cool. I did not look cool.

man we should start an "OAK TREE DID THIS TO ME" thread. flowy white cotton twill pants man what the fuck how did those ever get on me

i had a friend in middle school who exclusively wore those shirts from merry go round. you know those angular cut shirts that were solid matthew wilder territory. shirt equivalent of assymetrical haircut

yknow what would go well with these gold hammer pants - a iridescent blue polka dot shit with a short cropped shoulder-padded tux jacket

i mean jesus

I remember in 10th grade when we did Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, we had to get brightly-colored shoes as part of our costumes, so I was able to successfully talk my mother into buying me a pair of custom-made sea foam green/salmon pink Vans

shit was supposed to be shirt but really ask dr freud or something

ha thats how i got zebra striped vans

i think i need to go like vacuum or something to not feel like i spent this whole day talking about the 90s again

y'all remember in the pre-dyson nineties, when vacuum cleaners still required bags?

and not these see-through dirt canisters

sea foam green/salmon pink Vans

would rock these, no lie

those shoes rocked, I miss them

when FB and MC were here this weekend, FB and I spent about 30 minutes reminiscing about Generra sweaters

totally remember like begging my mom to drive me to the mall so i could get a pair of slip-on black checkered vans. that was like three months ago, too.

ah j/k

every girl i sat behind in middle school owned like ten outback red shirts that had the tag on the outside. sort of distracting. but not in a teenage hormonal way, but more in a "why is this tag on the outside of the shirt, you contrarian australian ppl?!!"

If you don't remember Chess King you are lucky. It was basically "Making Michael Jackson and Duran Duran Wardrobes Safe For Suburban Kids."

holy shit OUTBACK RED

I hadn't thought about that shit in YEARS

http://trappedinthe80smoms.blogspot.com/2008/10/chess-king-ugliest-damn-clothing-store.html

There is no way to describe the men's clothing stores, Chess King, to someone who has not experienced it. It was, to put it mildly, and 'experience' to enter one of the stores that was present in virtually every mall in America during the 1980's.

This place had some REALLY FUGLEE clothes. Unless it had mesh, nubby acrylic, leather or zippers, it was not carried in this shop.

I can actually recall a sweater carried there once that was comprised of a 'patchwork' of different acrylic sweaters, each patch bordered with a trim of leather piping. Then, the entire 'sweater' was covered in numerous nonsensically placed faux zippers. This piece of 'fashion' was not an anomaly there - this was a normal, and representative piece of Chess King Style.

oh shit, maybe i'm conflating merry go round with chess king

anyway, yeah, everyone of my female classmates circa '85-'87 seemed to dress almost exclusively in, first those shaker knit sweaters from the limited, and then those outback red dealies.

Merry Go Round bought Chess King in the early 90s, I think?

hah, ok then.

LOL, I had that morey boogie shirt and that OP shirt. But my favorite item of clothing around that period was my Primo beer hat with flaps in the back!

And I seem to remember having some kind of turqoise and black, wayfarer-style glasses from OP that were some kind of rubberized plastic you could bend all around. That was before I grew up, got serious, and bought some Oakley Razor Blades.

well, i vacuumed. where were we?

Chess King and Outback Red

i was too young to shop at chess king but i do remember it being my mid 80s ideal of teenage cool before i found the kids in metallica t-shirts playing joust at the mini mall arcade

"one day i too will cut the sleeves off a master of puppets shirt and grow in a little mustache"

hah. having flashbacks to being twelve yr old me buying quiet riot's record at the mall and record store dudes totally making fun of me. i was twelve ffs! if that!

and that's such a good record, too! "slick black cadillac", c'mon now

i remember there was some kinda weird leftover head shop/record store in that mini mall that i was forbidden from entering but which had fabric wall hangings printed with metal album covers in its windows

hah awesome

one of those still survives in cottage grove mn afaik! its called in concert and i bought my first iron maiden shirt there

THAT'S STILL THERE?????????

did any of you ever get a t-shirt custom-made at one of those mall places where you can have the shirt's lettering spell out some bullshit? b/c of course i totally did.

no but as a child who lived within driving distance of the jersey shore i had my fair share of airbrushed t-shirts

pics pls

life's a beach!

oh my god there is an in concert series of youtube videos

ok i cant derail this thread into nostalgic youtubes of a headshop i will go start another thread

i remember they had like master of puppets and of course a bunch of maiden shit (for about two years i think i thought "iron maiden" was a series of rad horror movies starring a skeleton dude) and maybe some misfits/samhain?

let's not even get into all those tantalizing vhs box covers at west coast video that i was NEVER ALLOWED TO RENT.

dude the derailing damage is done. THIS IS WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT.

ok i cant derail this thread into nostalgic youtubes of a headshop i will go start another thread

Please do, I have just the thing for it.

IT'S A TRAP

Perhaps.

that strip mall (did they have jamesways anywhere by the pa/nj area?) was second only to the dirt-ass "farmer's market" where there was wwii memorabilia shop with a bunch of nazi shit, a comic book store run by a guy who later was outed as a pedo, and a stand that sold nothing but old magazines where i got my first glimpse of playboy.

some random person has made a series of loving videos dedicated to the head shop where i bought lots of iron maiden tees: ROLLING IN CONCERT cottage grove thread

Grown ass people obsessed with Harry Potter - I went to How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying a few months back and the volume of fans waiting at stage door for Daniel Radcliffe was just maddening. The show had NOTHING to do with Harry Potter, either.

"...in my hometown!"

xxp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdkNp1X4n8

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ke$ha might be my fav new artist of the past few years

I too voted for Ke$ha

second only to the dirt-ass "farmer's market" where there was wwii memorabilia shop with a bunch of nazi shit, a comic book store run by a guy who later was outed as a pedo, and a stand that sold nothing but old magazines where i got my first glimpse of playboy.

oh man, i have definitely been to a place like this, if not the same place. "dirt-ass" is definitely the way to describe it. and yeah, at the one i went to they had one stand that sold tons of old magazines, just everything conceivable, from old sewing magazines or whatever, to a huge section in the back devoted to skin mags. and another store devoted entirely to belt buckles. place was weird.

7 revolting things about american culture

1. employing piers morgan
2. employing simon cowell
3. high school obsession and/or glee
4. american apparel weird fascist staff appearance vetting
5. popularity of fox news
6. futura black on every comedy movie poster (f u this is important)
7. ke$ha

that strip mall (did they have jamesways anywhere but the pa/nj area?)

upstate new york, but that doesn't count

Men in Skinny Jeans sticks out as not like the others to me here -- it seems more like a vaguely euro affectation that will probably run its course here very soon. The others seem much more typically American in the "stuff that people who complain about America complain about" way.

anyway I picked Ke$sha -- if I had to kill six of these and spare one I'd spare her.

Ke$ha rather

Weird list. I dont see whats particularly american about skinny jeans, cupcakes, insane adult Potter fans or muffin top women in jeans (that one is particularly wtf).

Also I thought Ke$ha was british, shows what I know.

or muffin top women in jeans (that one is particularly wtf).

i don't know, i guess it was a comment regarding so many americans being overweight and sloppy dressers

which, y'know, there's a lot of truth in

fwiw the wikipedia article on cupcakes gives the impression that both the invention and the resurgence of the cupcake originated in America, although the article isn't completely clear, so you may be experiencing it as an American export.

The Potter thing is kind of silly though since Harry Potter is indeed British.

Also "Freak dancing" clearly originated with Lambada, the Forbidden Dance, which is from some Spanish place.

thought the cupcake thing had to do with sex and the city...and some young american women trying to emulate carrie and her pals

Voted Ke$ha a couple of days ago, but because I misread thread title as "least favorite"

But there are mini cupcake shops all over Melb and Sydney too, have been for years.

I'll pay the Potter thing in the sense that it does seem to be excessively an american thing for the middle-aged-women obsessive set (see LiveJornal for eg). Ditto Twitards.

ah

i feel pretty indifferent about the stuff on that list, except for ke$ha, whom i find kind of annoying

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

the people have spoken. and they want glitter and venereal disease.

http://i.imgur.com/onYar.gif

freak dancing did not originate with the lambada, wtf

dan the lambada is over 4,000 years old

Jesus Christ himself was known to participate in the forbidden dance.

Lambada of God

lol

Lambada of God
Who grindeth in the sins of the world
Have sex upon us

wow. it seems shabba-doo was in not only one of the lambada movies and the two breakin' movies, but he was also in something called Rave: Dancing to a Different Beat

xpost -- you know it's shameful that My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult did not record such a song in 1990 or so, right when it would have worked and they might have gotten attention for it as well.

ha then people REALLY wouldn't have been able to tell them apart from Lords of Acid