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Trends that you used to be lame but are now in

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  • 30-08-2020 11:35pm
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    completedit
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    Wearing band t-shirts used to be for middle aged fat rockers, now it's cool and young and trendy to wear a band t-shirt

    Playing computer games in adulthood. It used to be seen as strange if a man played playstation past 18 but now it seems commonplace

    Grown men liking superheroes


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    Chris_Heilong
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    completedit wrote: »
    Wearing band t-shirts used to be for middle aged fat rockers, now it's cool and young and trendy to wear a band t-shirt

    Playing computer games in adulthood. It used to be seen as strange if a man played playstation past 18 but now it seems commonplace

    Grown men liking superheroes

    Most people form their interests from an early age, these interests are been catered to by big corporations so it makes sense. The people in band t shorts now while grow into the old people you mentioned and then it will fall out of fashion.


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    AllForIt
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    What's a band t-shirt? ( edit, oh a rock band, duh.)

    My adult friend and I used to enjoy playing a golf game on Playstation. Competing against each other. And I love Tomb Raider, but not an avid gamer.

    I don't think grown men like superheros per se, it's the movies they like. Bit of an X-Men movie fan myself. Many superhero movie are in fact pure garbage it has to said.


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    Bobblehats
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    Lamé is making a comeback this season I see


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    KungPao
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    Beards.

    Used to be only old men, smelly rockers and Geography teachers/Sinn Fein leaders who sported the full face warmer.

    Now it’s every second man. Although I think the trend has peaked and Is starting to die off.


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    I've always been into music, going to gigs since I was a teenager but I've never worn a band t-shirt. My friend who usually goes to gigs with me nearly always buys a band t-shirt at a gig, and he's 50 now. Different people are into different stuff...


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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    The computer games thing is a newer one all right. I'm mid thirties and would have been part of one of the first generations of home console owners (in Ireland, at least) from the time I was 6 or 7 years old. I grew up with them, to me they're as normal as going to see a movie. I'll always be into gaming, on some level.


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    Ekerot
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    Wearing band t shirts has always been the hip thing to do


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    Del2005
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    Tattoos. Where considered only for scumbags and now everyone has their unique tribal or sleeve tat. Can't wait till they go back out of fashion, it's not the 1st time having tats is popular.


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    Quantum Erasure
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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    I'll always be into gaming, on some level.

    :pac: o o o


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    FanadMan
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    completedit wrote: »
    Wearing band t-shirts used to be for middle aged fat rockers, now it's cool and young and trendy to wear a band t-shirt

    At least us middle aged fat rockers actually know the bands that are on our t-shirts. Was talking to a friends daughter recently.....she's about 19 or so. Commented on her Ramones t-shirt - she hadn't a feckin clue who they were!

    I still have my battle vest and would wear it with pride if there were any gigs to go to.


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    Skill Magill
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    Battle Vest :D:D:D

    Reminds me of Saxondale



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    pgj2015
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    KungPao wrote: »
    Beards.

    Used to be only old men, smelly rockers and Geography teachers/Sinn Fein leaders who sported the full face warmer.

    Now it’s every second man. Although I think the trend has peaked and Is starting to die off.




    beards make everyone look the same, especially fat guys with beards. There is a guy who i cant stand, a fat guy with a beard, so i keep thinking i see him everywhere but its just another fat guy with a beard lol


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    Thelonious Monk
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    Penney's were selling Ramone's t-shirts worn by young ones who wouldn't be able to name one of their songs, about 15 years ago. I think you're a bit late to the party with the band t-shirts being cool for youths again.


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    the purple tin
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    Lord of the Rings was for nerds only before the films came out.
    Same with GOT. Although a lot of fans of the series and films don't bother reading the books.


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    Pyr0
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    I've worn band t-shirts since I was a young teenager and I still do. In fact, I probably have more t-shirts/long-sleeves than I do pairs of jocks as this stage.

    Music is a big part of my life and the band t shirts go hand in hand for me, so I hope my interest in them doesn't fade "as i get older"


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    Archeron
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    Home brew. When my da used to it many years ago, it was because it was cheaper than buying beer, not because he like the microparticles that infused in it under the stairs.

    Big tin of brown gooey stuff, some white powder and about 80 litres of water in a big drum, leave to fester in a dark place for six months, then bottle it in whatever you can find including beerbottles, jam jars and pickled onion jars . Best served with a grimace and a full ashtray.


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    Church on Tuesday
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    Pyr0 wrote: »
    I've worn band t-shirts since I was a young teenager and I still do. In fact, I probably have more t-shirts/long-sleeves than I do pairs of jocks as this stage.

    Music is a big part of my life and the band t shirts go hand in hand for me, so I hope my interest in them doesn't fade "as i get older"

    I found the fact you could buy Metallica tees in Penneys a couple years ago beyond depressing.


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    the purple tin
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    A lot of trendy young women are knitting now, that used to be the preserve of the little old lady.


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    Your Face
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    Lads wearing earrings.


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    Pyr0
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    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    I found the fact you could buy Metallica tees in Penneys a couple years ago beyond depressing.

    I agree with you there, nothing worse than seeing a classic metal/rock band become part of popular fashion.


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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Penney's were selling Ramone's t-shirts worn by young ones who wouldn't be able to name one of their songs, about 15 years ago. I think you're a bit late to the party with the band t-shirts being cool for youths again.

    Do you mean Penney's was selling Ramones tshirts 15 years ago? Because I saw some in Penney's about a year ago.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    Jedward haircuts and huge quiffs ...very tight jeans for men.


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    FoxyVixen
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    Chunky Caterpillar eyebrows are now in. Have been for a few years I guess at this point. I don't understand it. What was wrong with the 90's eyebrow.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Lord of the Rings was for nerds only before the films came out.
    Same with GOT. Although a lot of fans of the series and films don't bother reading the books.
    I read a bit of the hobbit ...honestly it seemed like they were in a forest for the entire book and that was it. That was the story.


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    AllForIt
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Lord of the Rings was for nerds only before the films came out.
    Same with GOT. Although a lot of fans of the series and films don't bother reading the books.

    That's cuz they know the ending.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    FoxyVixen wrote: »
    Chunky Caterpillar eyebrows are now in. Have been for a few years I guess at this point. I don't understand it. What was wrong with the 90's eyebrow.
    A lot of young girls have thick eyebrows and long term plucking actually ruins them permanently. So for them the trend was a necessity. But then girls with thinner eyebrows started drawing them in ...in that overly blocked way....some are getting a better hang of it now.

    But if you don't have naturally bushy brows its harder to do.

    Also a lot of MUAS told older women it will make them look younger which is bs ...being younger makes you look younger.

    Its a trend tho ..it will change. Hopefully people will just go with what their own brows do tho instead of messing around.


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    Dtp1979
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    Nothing, and I mean nothing, looks more stupid on a woman’s face than changing her eyebrows From natural to bushy/HD/etc etc etc.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Nothing, and I mean nothing, looks more stupid on a woman’s face than changing her eyebrows From natural to bushy/HD/etc etc etc.
    that makes us wanna do it more though

    it suits some girls ..not me tho...my brows are naturally thinish..maybe when i am middle aged i will be bald there!


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    veganism .....


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    Dtp1979
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    that makes us wanna do it more though

    WHY? That doesn’t make sense.


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