Things that should be buried with the last decade

[fonpr]

If I were to see Samir eating a sandwich, I would normally say something like "It's Samir eating a sandwich, even!"

If I were to see Samir eating a sandwich, I would normally say something like "It's Samir eating a sandwich, dere!"

[samir]

yep, it's a slow news day.

[Martin]

Bravo.

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The phrase "baby bump"

[Christina]

The phrase "baby bump"

Ugh, good one cutout.

[Martin]

I don't even know what that is. Is it like a fist bump, only you bump your babies together?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I don't even know what that is. Is it like a fist bump, only you bump your babies together?

Yes.

[erika]

Baby bump/horror show:

[daveB from Oakland]

the reality tv phenomenon (shows, publicity stunts, would be stars etc.)

American Idol, specifically. I've never even viewed this show for more than 5 minutes. And yet I feel like I can't escape from it. Every year it's a new crop of airbrushed, factory-farmed, over-singing mutants assaulting my eardrums whenever I'm trying to get some shopping done at the supermarket.  Adam Lambert was supposedly in rebellion against the "factory farm" aspect of the show. But was his album any good? I'm gonna make a wild guess: probably not.

American Idol: GET OFF MY LAWN.

[Christina]

Baby bump/horror show:

Jesus, that looks like one of the Body Snatcher pods.

[harris]

That one guy at shows who thinks he is original by yelling "PLAY ANYTHING YOU WANT" while everyone else is yelling out song requests.

[Steve of Bloomington]

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.

Actually I agree. Along those lines we can leave in the last decade geeks pretending or wishing they had Asperger's Syndrome; that is also getting tiresome. It is Geek culture's 'I wish I were black', to quote the Lou Reed song.

[Steve of Bloomington]

Using words like "collective" and "curate" and "granular" to sound smarter.

and 'conflate'.

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

Don't know if it's exactly what you mean but: Moldy Peaches.

[cutout]

Don't know how specific this is to web design, but everyone in the industry writes their bio the same way on various social media sites:

"Husband, father, Apple fanboy, social media guru, Christ follower"


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