50 things that are completely played out
As of 10:33 p.m. on 11/6/06, here are 50 completely played out things.
- MTV
- Things being cool just because they’re Asian
- Jack Black
- Gaucho pants (let them die!)
- Terrell Owens
- Naming “futuristic” things with an “i” or “e” prefix (Apple, take heart)
- Cindy Sheehan
- Pop-Tarts
- Flip-flops
- Bobby Knight
- Valentine’s Day — also, all complaints about this holiday, excluding this list
- Omega-3 fatty acids
- News stories about parents getting mad at coaches
- Wil Wheaton
- Jokes about rednecks — these are almost never done well
- Intentionally ironic mustaches
- The FAA’s ban on liquids
- Dirty South rap
- SportsCenter
- Blogging
- Emeril
- Movable Type
- Those motherfucking MasterCard “priceless” commercials
- Jokes about curling
- Adam Curry and the entire idea of amateur podcasting
- Internet Explorer (including IE7)
- Popped collars
- The Heisman trophy
- Cologne
- Cheap Chinese food
- Jessica Simpson
- TicketMaster
- Psychoanalyses of Mike Tyson — the motherfucker is crazy, deal with it
- Big sunglasses
- Wearing shorts during the winter months
- Random shootings on the highway — this has been before and done better
- Tollbooths
- The entire northeast
- Trans fats
- “Man Law” and beer commercials in general — just awful lately
- Rod Blagojevich — look at that name, “Blagojevich,” it’s terrible!
- The local news
- Vegans
- The Mach3, Fusion, and whatever other fucking joke of a razor Gillette’s come up with recently
- Advertising campaigns that are supposed to arouse my interest by revealing their gimmick on some date in the future. Fuck that, I don’t care.
- Road construction
- Paying with a check
- Discussions of outsourcing
- Tom Cruise
- Energy drinks
Add your own.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:10 am
One day you’ll eat those words.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
I’ll eat them as soon as:
(a) audio is as efficient as text for information transfer
(b) amateurs are as informative and entertaining as professional radio people (hey, professionals have podcasts, too)
November 7th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Lists
November 7th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
hahahhahahah
November 7th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Damnit Cameron, you beat me to it, now I have to think…
How about, YouTube.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
John suggests the phrases:
- “iPod killer”
- “What happens in X, stays in X”
November 8th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
In general, “…people adopting speech patterns, catch phrases, and their entire personalities from movies.”
November 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Nick if you think that is played out, then you should meet a friend of mine who bases nearly every conversation she has on a movie or song she has seen or heard. I kid you not when I say she will interrupt sentences to tell you about a movie or song because something you said reminded her of it.
But yeah, it’s played out. My case is just irritating.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
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