The most stupid invention ever.......

[yellow]

3. Low rider jeans/pants. Haven't seen one person look good in them. I'm sick of seeing 20-30 somethings wearing them to work with no underwear, and finding any excuse to bend over to moon everyone. I work in a pretty conservative place, too.

5. Flexileashes for dogs. One of the world's biggest hazards to cyclists on multiuse bike paths.

Oh, good list mickchick (though I've never had issues with rollerbladers, but then I've never really ridden anywhere they are out in hoardes).

Another hazard of the flexileash (which I learned first hand--doh!): a yellow lab BIRD DOG puppy (adolescent, so 70+ punds), walking along on the leash with you at the other end, sees a QUAIL, takes off after the quail at full tilt, and you get launched. Needless to say I was grateful I didn't get hurt worse. I tossed the flexileash away after that and went back to the leather 6' lead.

Re: the jeans and the "muffin top" look, why the h*** can't more manufacturers make "normal" jeans these days? I'm not talking relaxed fit this and that or "mom jeans", but just normal fitting jeans.

As for this thread...I know it's not an invention, but I hate it when things are packaged first in plastic, then in a box, then the box is wrapped in plastic...you get the idea.

[Nanci]

Ok, I have two. That hard plastic packaging is one thing I really hate.

And, those kind of really baggy pants/jeans, that you could fit three bodies in one leg, that hang down so far, that then the guys have to have their boxer shorts sticking out, and why do they wear a belt??? My friend Sue calls those Seven Day Sh*tters, because she says it looks like they've been going in them for a week!! Are they _never_ going to go out of style???

Nanci

[mimitabby]

Ok, I have two. That hard plastic packaging is one thing I really hate.

And, those kind of really baggy pants/jeans, that you could fit three bodies in one leg, that hang down so far, that then the guys have to have their boxer shorts sticking out, and why do they wear a belt??? My friend Sue calls those Seven Day Sh*tters, because she says it looks like they've been going in them for a week!! Are they _never_ going to go out of style???

Nanci

I keep hoping, but you know, what they go to next MIGHT be worse!

[Quillfred]

Here's one for the records:

http://www.thebeerbelly.com/

I hate to imagine what the alcohol is doing chemically to the plastic which you then guzzle down It is even worse that microwaving food in soft plastic containers.

My favorite leaf-blower image will always be when we went camping one summer on Vancouver Island. Stopped at a beautiful site on a mountain top mid-afternoon only to be surprised by the angry sounds of leaf blowers! Kind of took the "pristine" out of the equation.

[mimitabby]

Here's one for the records:

http://www.thebeerbelly.com/

I hate to imagine what the alcohol is doing chemically to the plastic which you then guzzle down It is even worse that microwaving food in soft plastic containers.

My favorite leaf-blower image will always be when we went camping one summer on Vancouver Island. Stopped at a beautiful site on a mountain top mid-afternoon only to be surprised by the angry sounds of leaf blowers! Kind of took the "pristine" out of the equation.

That is REALLY bad. REALLY. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a joke.
But it's not just a joke!

[snapdragen]

Back to clothing for a bit --- I was at Cheesecake Factory last week, and there was a girl in there with an off-white blouse thing - really cute style. Except she was wearing an orange and bright pink flowered bra. When did this become the fashion? Am I just being old?

And don't get me started on the girly with so much product in her hair she looked like she had Crisco drenched curls. (Shirley Temple style curls - or turd rolls as I call them)

[Nanci]

That see-through see-the-cute-bra thing used to bother me, but now I kind of like it. But it's not very new- several years old?

I like half slips. Lots of my skirts are pretty sheer.

I tried that Crisco-hair Alanis Morrisette dreadlocks look a couple times-it looked pretty crappy. I'm not surewhy I did it.

[Duck on Wheels]

I keep hoping, but you know, what they go to next MIGHT be worse!

There was this really cute, sweet kid on the bus one day, but I swear his saggy big jeans were not only well below his waist, they were below his butt cheeks. So I asked, in the way only an old lady can dare: how the pants stayed up without suspenders, whether it was hard to walk in those things, and did kids do pull-downs nowadays instead of wedgies? He said 1) the belt helps, 2) you get used to it, and 3) yes. Now when he sees me on the bus he gives me a little smile and a wave. And if his gang-dressing buddies are with him, they politely ask me the time. Cool.

[Lise]

Definite advantage to being old and being curious. You get to ask.

Our gymsuits were robin's egg blue + navy. Red with horizontal stripes sounds much, much worse! And rompers? Shudder.

[snapdragen]

Our gym suits were bright blue, with an elastic waist and snaps. Big balloony things. In high school I liberated a pair of grey sweatpants with no elastic in the ankles and a white tshirt from the school lost and found. I was the epitome of cool

[crazybikinchic]

I have to agree with the low rise jeans. A few years ago, we had a patient come into the office(dental) and her jeans were so low that the girls in the back said her girl hair was coming out over the top.
Another thing is the shorts/skirts that are so short that butt cheeks are hanging out. Then, the girls spend all night pulling down the garments that they purposely choose so short. Not only that, they wonder why they get a negative rep.

[mimitabby]

There was this really cute, sweet kid on the bus one day, but I swear his saggy big jeans were not only well below his waist, they were below his butt cheeks. So I asked, in the way only an old lady can dare: how the pants stayed up without suspenders, whether it was hard to walk in those things, and did kids do pull-downs nowadays instead of wedgies? He said 1) the belt helps, 2) you get used to it, and 3) yes. Now when he sees me on the bus he gives me a little smile and a wave. And if his gang-dressing buddies are with him, they politely ask me the time. Cool.

I always want to ask them how they will be able to run from someone if they have to. They can hardly walk... and can you imagine them on a bicycle?

[Lise]

Good news is, the boys' pants are so baggy and low hanging that they can't really chase the girls, just shuffle along. And the girls sort of mince along, since they can't really abduct their legs at all...kind of a slow-motion event.

I truly don't get this thing with boys & men wearing huge earrings, pigtails, stuff like that. It's supposed to look manly? Pants falling off them, enormous shirts...they look too dim witted to dress themselves in the right clothes. I suppose it's like yuppies with sweaters tied around their shoulders in the 80s....ah, fashion.

[Beth-Ro]

My vote goes to those rings people are putting in their ears. Not traditional earrings. I don't know what to call them, but the point seems to be to make a big honking round hole in the ear lobe. They start small and can go bigger than a grommet in a shower curtain. (I've seen mostly guys doing this but who knows...it could be a girl thing too)

First off...oh my lord, that has got to hurt!

Secondly...ewwww!

I've probably gone and offended someone with said ear attachment on this forum. But it just looks like a portable torture chamber. And there is no beauty in it. It's ghastly. And useless!