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Now's a pretty good time I think. At winter it'd be too easy.

Good trends:

More young people getting into golf
More shows about extraordinary animals
Teen stars/role models gradually getting thicker and more sensible-looking (witness the delightful chubbening of H. Duff of late)
A return to slightly slower rapping

Bad trends:

Still increasing skateboard influence in everything
Teen goatse
GWB: 4 more years (jk!)

― LC, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Fat Hands

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Women to become more like mice.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Reality TV shows involving animals and/or robots

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything to get faster and brighter.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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― ..., Wednesday, 28 July 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

18- to 26-year-olds being drafted into the military

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Psy-Trance infiltrates Urbania

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Fat Hand Delusion

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Satanist Chic.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Sludge

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

and the ironic embrasure of daguerrotype portraits as the new trucker hat of indie cool.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

There'll be a reality TV show so repulsive and dehumanizing that people will actually start to think whether reality TV is a good thing in the first place.

Or at least I hope so.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuomas - have you heard about The Swan? I haven't seen it but from the sounds of things your prediction may already have happened.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that the one where several men ejaculate into a jar and the woman gets to be impregnated by the one with the pluckiest sperm?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably not, as I can't think how a swan would be involved in all this. Maybe the swan wanks them off.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I haven't heard about The Swan. I try to keep away from reality shows because they distress me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

For the next series of Big Brother they should just get ten tramps off the streets of Camden Town and keep them constantly plied with Super Tennents. Don't pretend you wouldn't watch it.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Biedermeier style

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Leiderhosen porn.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

As far as I know, The Swan offers ugly contestants to have all-over cosmetic surgery to make them beautiful and then they film them.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone getting older?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds scary, The Swan that is. I think they haven't showed it in the Finnish TV (yet).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

more 80s nostalgia in the form of the return of parachute pants, ridiculously sculpted hair, more one-finger synthesizer riffs

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

... and the distant footsteps of '90s nostalgia with the regeneration of Hammer pants ...

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Early 90s revival is in full swing. What the fuck is the difference between:

1. Messy bowlcuts vs Inspiral Carpets "cuts"
2. Shapeshifters vs Black Box
3. The Streets vs LaTour

err.. well, maybe not the last one.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't think perhaps an earlier revival? Why do we never have 20s or 30s revivals? I, for one, would be glad to dress up like a flapper.

It will be the 90s, though, you're right.. People will say things like 'Wow, do you remember The Charlatans??'

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Teen goatse

goatse?

goats?

goatsex?

Which is it?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Charlatans still release records. The 90s are unrevivable really - for reasons explained in detail on about 10 million other threads.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be great if it was the 90's, but the 1890's. Art nouveau and opium for everyone.
I hope by next year those damn Jessica Simpson shawl/poncho things are gone.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Space 1899

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The Charlatans still release records.
The 90s are unrevivable really - for reasons explained in detail on about 10 million other threads.

The bit about the Charlatans being my point.

The revival will happen. There's a difference between the 90s returning and a 90s revival. The one demands some spirit of the former decade being revisited, the other means people will start deeming it acceptable to spend lots of money on a designer shell-suit. There's plenty of cultural trends to draw on even if these are, by themselves, largely unoriginal.

I can't wait for the Britpop revival. A revival of a revival. How exciting.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The mod revival revival revival?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's going to be a big 90s revival, GTA: San Andreas will be the starting of all this. Expect "Peaches" by Presidents of the United States of America to become de rigeur playing in all hellish nightclubs, and if Take That don't reform within the year I'll be very surprised.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Marvel's already revived the 90s, it was only a matter of time. Guess Katie Puckrik will have a career again.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

We need the return of thin black guys with glasses and high-top fades.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ultra garish music videos where people in tulip bants and baggy t-shirts are superimposed with jerky camera movements on a bile and magenta oil projection.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Revivals happen immediately after the event now. What does a 90s revival entail anyway? Baggy? new Jack Swing? Tie-dye shirts? Lumberjack shirts? Bandanas? Flight jackets? Big beat? Yoof TV? Superclubs? The internet being rubbish?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

New Jack swing, that's a good call.

Pokemon revival.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, why not?

Spliffy Jeans and black bomber jackets too!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

and these guys

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p002/p00297o9fem.jpg

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― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

no New Jack Swing please!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is it when a decade is revived people tend to focus on the first year(s) of that decade - see 80s (ooh Flock OF Seagulls haircut! enormous mobile phones!) and 90s (Baggy, Yoof TV...altho Britpop seems to rival it for immediate recall)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure people in 1990 talked about it being a "new decade" much more than anyone talked about it being a "new milennium" in 2000. People were sick of hearing about it by then but i think people were desperate to escape the 80s.

Catchphrase of 2005: "Relax, it's the 80s!" which will soon be quashed by "Get a dog, pal!"

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem, it's pretty obviously because it would feel a tad too early to revive the arse-end of the 90s. Revival wise we're sort of 1988 atm, with 2000-2002 being 1982-1985. See?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a dog, pal.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not seen anyone with a bowlcut resembling those of the Inspiral Carpets. The thing about their bowl cuts is that they weren't messy at all - they were cut really severely, resembling medieval monks.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Extreme weather: flooding in the Sahara; freezing in Ecuador; heat wave in Siberia

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Rigged elections. Oh wait, that's 2004 (and 2000).

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Billie Piper tee-shirts.

― Careful with that Almanac Eugene (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

- Increase in domestic fascism
- Average price of barrel of oil increases
- More documentaries in wide release in the theaters
- More inferior US versions of UK television shows

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

there's no possible way that increasing fatness is a good thing

it should not be encouraged

we really ought to tax fattening foods/junk food... and subsidize organics/vegetables/etc

the obese are a visual pollutant and will greatly increase healthcare costs in the medium to long term

― Paladin, Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Paladin be hatin on fat people.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

that's because they disgust me

the trend must be reversed now

fatties have greatly contributed to the US being the laughingstock of the world

― Paladin, Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone else disturbed by this?

― Careful with that Almanac Eugene (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

see? say the words "fat girls" and they come a flocking!

let's do the fat debate yet again! ready?!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF? I'm not a fat girl.

― Careful with that Almanac Eugene (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

capelets on girls. mark my words!

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ironic socks.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

People don't revive the beginning of a decade, the revive the most colorful part. The tail ends of both the 60's and the 70's are what hold the most signifiers for most people. I think "the 90's" really started around the end of 1988 just like "the 60's" only ended sometime in 1972.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

And the New Jack Swing revival began happening like last year or earlier but it was subconscious.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I'm sure we're due some sort of ironic rave revival, like a glowsticked Darkness or something.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

BEST IDEA EVER!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Rave IS coming back.

Almanac, sorry - I wasn't calling you a fat girl.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem, it's pretty obviously because it would feel a tad too early to revive the arse-end of the 90s. Revival wise we're sort of 1988 atm, with 2000-2002 being 1982-1985. See?

that's not what i meant, what about the fact that the early 80s is considered more evocative, important and exciting than the late 80s. maybe it just was? is this true of the 90s also?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

So where is the retro clock at the moment then? Because it's both at 1988, and 1958.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

late 60s yes but with the 70s it seems the mid period is recalled the most - glam etc.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do we never have 20s or 30s revivals?

flapper dresses, floppy pearls and cloches were all over the place winter/spring 2004. now we're into 40's/50's revival stuff...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 29 July 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Democrats will blame the left wing of their own party for GWB's re-election.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 29 July 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

For me the "decade years" were

60's: 1965-1968
70's: 1976-1979
80's: 1982-1985
90's: 1994-1997

That's just me though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 July 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

flapper dresses, floppy pearls and cloches were all over the place winter/spring 2004

See, this is what I miss by living in Birmingham. I'd like to see people with Zelda Fitzgerald-style hairdos. Especially the men.

Radio one have, apparently, been predicting that 80s style Radio One T-shirts will be very big in the next few months. Desperation, perhaps?? Also, according to Scott Mills, 'retro is back'.
Did retro ever go away??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 29 July 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Press will be predicting another "toughest week ever for Blair", with speculation over his impending resignation mounting yet again.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 July 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian, did you see the Oscars this year? Look at the hair and dresses!

http://i.timeinc.net/people/images/specials/oscars2004/show/bwhair/ltyler2.jpg http://mapage.noos.fr/southafrica//a_programme/images/oscars.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

capelets are already in, although I suppose they might still be in at the beginning of 2005.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian, did you see the Oscars this year? Look at the hair and dresses!

I should probably recognise these two people, shouldn't I? Is that Ms. Paltrow on the right??

This sort of thing just hasn't made it over to Birmingham, sadly. Perhaps its just going to take too much to shift the mullett-love that pervades this lovely city (mercifully, seemingly on the way out now - although that might just be because the students have gone home).

I'm wondering what a man would get to wear in a 20s revival? A tux, probably - which would be sort of dull..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Re-awakened interest in cold fusion
The BBC will have a major, possibly fatal, crisis and will start to be dismantled
Tourism will become more home-country-centric
The death of pointy shoes

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ian of course that is not Gwyneth! Charlize looks like a very tasty freshly roasted chicken. In a sparkly dress. I don't like that hairdo on Liv though.

Rocking the 50s look today myself, arrgh fashion victim oh no.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ride-on lawnmowers become the new scooters.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

They should really make a Segway-Lawnmower.

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 29 July 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think clothing revivals really count, because the fashion industry revives every decade about 20 times every year in some capacity.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 29 July 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Cuba and Libya will become new 18-30 holiday destinations of choice. Havana and Tripoli destroyed in a flood of clubs, chip shops and drunken British tourists.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Used tissues in shirt pockets.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Teen Goethe.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

New ways of using heroin.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(I expect the market will be flooded with it, if it isn't already. Meanwhile Bush is focusing on marijuana, perhaps to give Afghanistan a chance to increase its GNP.)

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

systematic murder of small children.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 30 July 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.allscifi.com/aridor/pictures/randspock.jpg

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 30 July 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

systematic murder of small children.
-- cºzen (coze...), July 30th, 2004.

...and replacing them with sacks of potatos and/or turnips.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 30 July 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

huge lemons looking at people through unclosed windows.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 30 July 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

pffff, we used to get that round my way all the time back in the day

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 30 July 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I just worked it out: air hostess fashion.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 July 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

2005 - The homeless claiming unused stacks in the libraries as new residences, e.g.:

"I'm looking for a biography of Walter Pater"
"Oh, that's over between Boris the Russian drunk and Twitchy Rodriguez. Be careful getting over there, though, the periodicals are really rough: two knife fights last week."

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

parasols

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm, looking forward to that air hostess fashion. Air hostesses are fit.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 30 July 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Some women more subservient, some less

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

highwaymen

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

longshoremen

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Esp. after the death of Brando, on the waterfront revival

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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