Things that should be buried with the last decade

[oilcantim]

This thread makes me afraid to say or do anything.

Just say or do only the right things, and you'll be fine!  Otherwise, we will crush you.

[Jim McGriddles]

2. Geek triumphalism. The appeal of geekiness before this decade is that these people (of which I was kinda one in high school) knew that they were still relatively powerless and had to find solidarity with fellow weirdo outcasts where they could, even if they couldn't see eye to eye on everything, and then eventually they'd graduate high school and find out that the world actually wasn't out to invalidate them, and maybe they'd lose the persecution complex and grow up a bit into genuinely fascinating idiosyncratic people. Now there's too many overgrown manchild types whose every whims are breathlessly catered to by Hollywood and the video game industry and the internet, and geek culture has this weird sense of spoiled, complacent, bullying, nostalgia-slave entitlement to it now. Geeks are the hippies of our times. I think that makes Harry Knowles our Wavy Gravy.

I'm with Joe: this is great. I am a pretty big geek, but I don't get the slavish devotion to terrible things (the Watchmen movie, Dollhouse, etc etc etc) because they are made by card-carrying geeks.

Other things I'd like to see go away:

1. 90% of Boston Red Sox fans (there are a few decent ones out there that should be spared)
2. Kevin Smith
3. Chuck Klosterman
4. People who want to talk about how much better The BBC Office is than The American Office (related: people still mad about Arrested Development getting canceled)
5. Horror movies that are more gross than scary
6. Foursquare

[Chris L]

The phrase "man up," except when followed with "and call me fat."

[harris]

4. People who want to talk about how much better The BBC Office is than The American Office (related: people still mad about Arrested Development getting canceled)

This should have it's own thread. I used to be one of these people but now I can easily think of handful reasons the US Office is such a better and more rounded piece of television.

...And the anger over Arrested Development gets them going on how great the movie, or what they heard was going to be a movie, is going to be.

[KickTheBobo]

I'm with Joe: this is great. I am a pretty big geek, but I don't get the slavish devotion to terrible things (the Watchmen movie, Dollhouse, etc etc etc) because they are made by card-carrying geeks.

Other things I'd like to see go away:

1. 90% of Boston Red Sox fans (there are a few decent ones out there that should be spared)
2. Kevin Smith
3. Chuck Klosterman
4. People who want to talk about how much better The BBC Office is than The American Office (related: people still mad about Arrested Development getting canceled)
5. Horror movies that are more gross than scary
6. Foursquare

Foursquare is so goddamned annoying with all that mayor & badge crap. It's just a feeble attempt at people trying to validate that they are living a full life by earning little stars next to the names of their local bars & coffee shops.

[erika]

Pleeeeeease!

[JustNicole]

When female bloggers coyly refer to someone they've recently begun dating as "The Boy".

I despise this. How demeaning to the person being referred to and how condescending of the person you're talking to. Ugh. "The Man Friend" falls along these lines for me. 

Along this vein, "-ish" added to something or standing alone.

I once dated a girl who had an "-ish" tattoo. As in, the actual fake word. The relationship did not work out. True story.

An "-ish" tattoo? So many questions...

[Christina]

When female bloggers coyly refer to someone they've recently begun dating as "The Boy".

I despise this. How demeaning to the person being referred to and how condescending of the person you're talking to. Ugh. "The Man Friend" falls along these lines for me. 

I just grunt and point at his crotch, and then point at my crotch. I find that identifies it nicely for newcomers.

[Christina]

6. Foursquare

Foursquare is so goddamned annoying with all that mayor & badge crap. It's just a feeble attempt at people trying to validate that they are living a full life by earning little stars next to the names of their local bars & coffee shops.

Okay, I had to go look this up 'cause I didn't know what this was ... Yuck. It also gives me a bad dystopian Phillip K. Dick-esque vibe.

[Christina]

4. People who want to talk about how much better The BBC Office is than The American Office (related: people still mad about Arrested Development getting canceled)

This should have it's own thread. I used to be one of these people but now I can easily think of handful reasons the US Office is such a better and more rounded piece of television.

...And the anger over Arrested Development gets them going on how great the movie, or what they heard was going to be a movie, is going to be.

We could also discuss why Borat works so much better as a movie than Bruno did, but on the show it was the reverse.

[harris]

4. People who want to talk about how much better The BBC Office is than The American Office (related: people still mad about Arrested Development getting canceled)

This should have it's own thread. I used to be one of these people but now I can easily think of handful reasons the US Office is such a better and more rounded piece of television.

...And the anger over Arrested Development gets them going on how great the movie, or what they heard was going to be a movie, is going to be.

We could also discuss why Borat works so much better as a movie than Bruno did, but on the show it was the reverse.

Could it be simply the hype it had? Hype that cause SBC to try too hard resulting in an unfunny movie?

[Pat K]

An "-ish" tattoo? So many questions...

Yeah. It identified her as able-ish to avoid getting dumb tattoos.

[Sarah]

This thread makes me afraid to say or do anything.

Just say or do only the right things, and you'll be fine!  Otherwise, we will crush you.

Better still, don't give a fuck.

On Dollhouse, it's pretty darn good this season.  Surprised the bejesus out of me, since I was disappointed early on (and got scolded about it on this very board, I do believe).

[dave from knoxville]

When people call it "the oughties".

I called it that twice today, you rat.

[Hoboken Brian]

Along those lines we can leave in the last decade geeks pretending or wishing they had Asperger's Syndrome;

It's not often I truly get all "ready to punch someone in the face for being an idiot". But that does it for me every time. It's not actually a fun thing to live with.

(I don't have it; a member of my immediate family does. Said family member would prefer to not have it if given the choice. That says it all for me.)