Things that should be buried with the last decade

[Steeley Chris]

The general lack of manners.

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



Once I start complaining about the oughties, I can't stop!

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When people call it "the oughties".

[Steve of Bloomington]

Calling problems 'issues'.

[KickTheBobo]

I was just watching a bit of 'Life After People' on the History Channel. It's kicking off Armageddon Week.

Enough with the End of Days/ Armageddon/9-11 scare porn. I think we all deserve a little break from this for awhile.

[daveB from Oakland]

I was just watching a bit of 'Life After People' on the History Channel. It's kicking off Armageddon Week.

Enough with the End of Days/ Armageddon/9-11 scare porn. I think we all deserve a little break from this for awhile.

People have been talking about the End of Days since The Beginning of Days ... it's just how people are.

[Pregnant Pause]

People that punctuate their online writings with haha.  This one guy I know, uses it every other sentence, even when he isn't attempting humor, haha. 

[Chris L]

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

Sorry, I'd ask them to stop, but I've usually got a short window before they start calling me "The Dud."

[Sarah]

I found Life After People uplifting.  It is heartening to think the earth would be able to shrug off humanity's insults and injuries so easily.

I'm with you on the other scare porn, though.

[Stupornaut]

People that punctuate their online writings with haha.  This one guy I know, uses it every other sentence, even when he isn't attempting humor, haha. 

At least "haha" isn't as willfully dumb as "lulz".

[Steve of Bloomington]

People that punctuate their online writings with haha.  This one guy I know, uses it every other sentence, even when he isn't attempting humor, haha. 

heheh is also pretty bad.

[Pat K]

1. crocks

I would be glad to see the shoes go, but I would be very sad to see actual crocodiles be buried with the last decade, because they are super fucking awesome.

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.

Maybe this is a sign I spend too much time on internet boards, but I'd be happy not to ever read the phrase "FTW" ever again.

In fact, maybe I'll just expand that and say that me spending too much time on internet boards should remain in the last decade.

[Lothar_Brightblade]

I was just watching a bit of 'Life After People' on the History Channel. It's kicking off Armageddon Week.

Enough with the End of Days/ Armageddon/9-11 scare porn. I think we all deserve a little break from this for awhile.

If I remember correctly, they have a Nostradamus show now. I'm up for leaving the History Channel in the last decade. Starting with modern marvels running out of interesting topics and turning to screws, or doing their 50th show about guns, the station went way down hill, way fast.

[Steeley Chris]

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.

Can we leave "the sensitive guy" behind too? He's the acoustic-guitar playing cousin of the geek.

[NJL]

This thread makes me afraid to say or do anything.