Trends that you hope will go away soon

Colleen27 · Nov 5, 2018

Cannot_Wait_4Disney said:
That has gone on for years though. Take football for example. So many people think they are Vince Lombardi. The reality is they wouldn't even do as well as Bert Bell or Hue Jackson.

I don't think it is armchair quarterbacks that people are concerned about. The undermining and discrediting of sound science carried out by people more than qualified to hold the label of "expert" is a rather alarming trend on a lot of fronts right now...

TheDisneyNurse said:
To piggback off that, I’m tired of the “millennials killed applebees” “millennials killed voicemail” bla blah blah

And just the general misunderstanding of what a millennial is. Teenagers are not millennials. High school and middle school-aged teens are not millennials.

OMG, yes! It is like "millennial" has become code for "kids these days", rather than a label for a specific generation.

AurumPunzel said:
This may be controversial, but I think the misguided war on plastics in Western countries should end, especially moves that target convenience plastics (ie. straws, lids, carrier bags etc.) which only achieve positive PR and does little to affect 90% of the ocean's plastic waste problem, which is mostly originating from Asia and Africa. I can't help but feel that this whole 'going green' bandwagon is becoming a huge fad, especially given the timing of most announcements that seem to be done off the back of Blue Planet II's popularity, not to mention that some even capitalise on that, feeding into the piety of those calling for such moves based purely on emotion, instead of scientific fact.

My understanding is the country-of-origin part is hard to tease out because so much of our recycling is shipped to Asia for processing. So us using and discarding it fuels their plastic waste stream, on top of the waste they're generating on their own. And frankly, when I applaud local stores for incentivizing reusable bags or even eliminating them altogether, I'm not thinking about the Pacific Ocean. I'm thinking about the bags that wind up tangled in the reeds in the marsh down the road and the ones that wash up on our town's beach.

The way I see it is this: we know plastics are a problem, environmentally. Should it really matter if we can "only" solve 10 percent of the problem? Isn't that better than solving none of it? I do think it is a fad and I don't agree with some of the ways in which it is being acted on, but not all fads are inherently bad. And companies do good things all the time for PR or tax write-offs. The motivation doesn't make the action less valuable.

Squirlz · Nov 5, 2018

Cannot_Wait_4Disney said:
And someone could say Pumpkin Pie tastes like fermented pig snot and I wouldn't get bent out of shape and insulted by it. In fact, I'd be laughing and liking that post even though I happen to like Pumpkin pie.

If someone can't handle me not liking something and describing that product colorfully and gets insulted, that isn't my problem.

I'm gonna go with "She must just be trying to be funny" and leave it at that.

kimblebee · Nov 5, 2018

mjkacmom said:
A lot of the time, folks type out responses with the hope of being helpful, only to discover the OP’s situation was years ago. Some are still relevant, but many are not. It would be nice if older posts could still be read, but closed.

It would help if people would read the op and see the date it was posted.

Professor_Cookie · Nov 5, 2018

TheDisneyNurse said:
To piggback off that, I’m tired of the “millennials killed applebees” “millennials killed voicemail” bla blah blah

And just the general misunderstanding of what a millennial is. Teenagers are not millennials. High school and middle school-aged teens are not millennials.

Could be worse. As the representative for Xennials, let me be the first to say, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.”

meggiebeth · Nov 5, 2018

ronandannette said:
Not a trend - just an on-going lack of knowledge. I presume people would do it correctly if they knew better. I wonder if this sort of thing isn't taught in grade school anymore or if it's just that nobody paid attention.

Seems to be a trend here, at least in my generation. There just doesn’t seem to be much value put on grammar at the moment in the U.K. That said, I’ve seen even supermarket and department stores misspell their signage, so it seems like no one is immune.

meggiebeth · Nov 5, 2018

Turn the Page said:
I wonder if they do that because we say "ten dollars" not "dollars ten" so they think it is correct.....which makes me wonder about the quality of our education system again.

It’s sometimes written like that in French (and likely other European languages too) - that explanation really does make sense.

belle032 · Nov 5, 2018

TheDisneyNurse said:
To piggback off that, I’m tired of the “millennials killed applebees” “millennials killed voicemail” bla blah blah

And just the general misunderstanding of what a millennial is. Teenagers are not millennials. High school and middle school-aged teens are not millennials.

Agreed! Oh why aren’t millennials buying diamonds?! The horror! Sorry we’re too busy paying off our student loans while working our entry level jobs that require 5 years of experience. But my favorite one is we’re killing the American cheese industry. Seriously? You should be thanking us for that one.

Oh and I think it is slowlyyy dying out but the whole avocado obsession. :crazy2:

Can’t stand those overpriced mushy gross things.

Cannot_Wait_4Disney · Nov 5, 2018

meggiebeth said:
I also hate when people misuse apostrophes. I find it so frustrating. Like - it’s DVDs, NOT DVD’s. It’s 1960s, NOT 1960’s.

Just remember, every indicator of possession needs it's apostrophe.

Oh wait.

mantysk8coach · Nov 5, 2018

Professor_Cookie said:
Could be worse. As the representative for Xennials, let me be the first to say, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.”

Team Xennial here! Love being a part of that label!

Julie's Haircut · Nov 5, 2018

Pink Partridge said:
My daughter just got 5 points taken off of a paper because she referred to Amelia Earhart as "she". Since my daughter never spoke to Amelia, her teacher wondered why she would be so "presumptuous" as to assume that is the pronoun Amelia preferred.

"Always go with 'they' until you speak with someone directly".

I really can't believe this is our world.

Teacher, unless Amelia Earhart spoke directly about preferring a different pronoun, it's perfectly acceptable to use "her" and "she" when writing about the woman.

Julie's Haircut · Nov 5, 2018

FlightlessDuck said:
I have to get onto the IPA hate train. And hoppy beers in general. Give me a nice stout or porter anytime. Hoppy beers sour my stomach.

Just give me any mass produced American swill and I'm content. No fancy crap.

Klayfish · Nov 6, 2018

Since the topic of Millennials and Gen X etc...came up, I'll add being labeled as any generation. Just because I was born in a certain time frame doesn't define who I am.

Ed J · Nov 6, 2018

I’m looking forward to a time when people won’t care about what others do. I laugh at people who complain about what others do on social media. Really? It self inflicted, why can’t they see that? Or complaining about someone’s appearance, really? It has no effect on you unless you allow it to.

Oh yea, and food that is made spicy that’s not supposed to be sux .

barkley · Nov 6, 2018

Ed J said:
I’m looking forward to a time when people won’t care about what others do. I laugh at people who complain about what others do on social media.

my step grandfather passed away in 1991. for years he would read the letters to the editor in his local paper and if he disagreed with someone's letter he would look their number up in the phone book to call them and share HIS counterargument. i can't imagine how much trouble he would have gotten in with social media :rolleyes:

TheDisneyNurse · Nov 6, 2018

Kitty 34 said:
I agree with you guys. I raised Millennials and not to brag (GOD forbid) they turned out fine, with jobs and families of their own. Now my younger brother and his three sons 18-23; they fit the description of Millennials better.......but it could just be the age thing.

I wouldn’t expect an 18-23 year old to have an established job and family. And this is coming from a person that had a Bachelor’s and worked as a full time oncology RN by 21. And I’ll have my MSN/APRN and DNP by 27. It’s not the norm, nor an expectation of mine. Nor my parents.

Also, the 18 year old is not a millennial. The youngest millennials will be turning 22 this year (21, if you count 1997). Thank you for demonstrating the trend I mentioned.

Kitty 34 · Nov 6, 2018

TheDisneyNurse said:
I wouldn’t expect an 18-23 year old to have an established job and family. And this is coming from a person that had a Bachelor’s and worked as a full time oncology RN by 21. And I’ll have my MSN/APRN and DNP by 27. It’s not the norm, nor an expectation of mine. Nor my parents.

Also, the 18 year old is not a millennial. The youngest millennials will be turning 22 this year (21, if you count 1997). Thank you for demonstrating the trend I mentioned.

I agree with you. I guess I should have worded myself better. The way they're constantly describing Millennials; it just reminds me more of kids that are in the process of finding themselves right out of HS; possibly college and believe me my sons went through some of that at ages 18-25 ish; as I did back in the day!

barkley · Nov 6, 2018

TheDisneyNurse said:
I wouldn’t expect an 18-23 year old to have an established job and family. And this is coming from a person that had a Bachelor’s and worked as a full time oncology RN by 21. And I’ll have my MSN/APRN and DNP by 27. It’s not the norm, nor an expectation of mine. Nor my parents.

i think it differs from place to place. what the norm is for this where i live now in no way resembles the norm for where i moved from and that region's norm drastically changed with the recession/housing crash b/c while now the established family/job for a person in their very early 20's would be the exception it was VERY common there in the early 2000's as evidenced by the bulk of my then neighbors being IN their very early 20's, working jobs they had held for a few years and raising young kids. the recession/housing crash impacted their lifestyles dramatically and changed their outlooks and attitudes on what kind of self imposed timeline for different life 'achievements' they wanted to set for themselves/their kids.

dd is 24 and she is kind of the odd man out among her high school peers here-she's one of only a handful that haven't been married at least once, doesn't have a child and she's just started begun working f/t. she is entirely within the norm for her college peers but not everyone she went to high school with went to college so those 5 years she was attending many of her former classmates were establishing their careers and starting their families b/c that's their norm.

FlightlessDuck · Nov 6, 2018

Oh, I got another one:

Eagles players getting hurt.

Praying Colonel · Nov 6, 2018

Spam political texts. I hate spam texts, but spam texts urging me to vote for Candidate X merely guarantees (a) you're going to annoy me, and (b) as a result, I won't be voting for Candidate X.

It would almost be a brilliant piece of political strategery to send texts urging people to vote for Candidate X in hopes that it will annoy people and drive down Candidate X's vote total.

jalapeno_pretzel · Nov 6, 2018

Sending packs of unsolicited coupons weekly in my mailbox for things i will never buy and with no way to opt out of the mailing.

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