Poll: School Fads

[TheZapper]

Ah fads. They never seem to last long in my school, largely because the school always sees them as a form of rebellion and stamp down on them hard.

With the shag bands, once randomly in the middle of class our head of year stormed in and launched into a 5 minute speech about cowboys. I forget the point of it because by the end I was crying with laughter.

 

[Angerwing]

and so were those "s" things.

Do you mean these?

Yes, I just did that in paint.

Yes, that is exactly the symbol I'm talking about. People carved that everywhere, I'm trying to figure out what it means (I think someone told me, but I forgot).

I saw my older brother drawing it one day, many years ago. It has haunted me since. I'm Australian as well, so it's a wonder how these things travel across the oceans. I'm pretty sure this was before my family had internet as well. It's beyond me.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

My school is reviving Yu-Gi-Oh, which pisses me off because they all still hate Pokemon.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I remember some plastic rubbery squeezy spiky balls on strings that were filled with liquid and you could tie a hoop round your finger so it was like a bouncy yo yo. They were banned from primary because we kept strangling each other with them.
I remember the anti bullying bands, I wanted one. Scoobies too.

 

[Jark212]

Pokemon was the only fad I can recall being apart of...

I hated mainstream before it was cool!!!

 

[A random person]

My school is reviving Yu-Gi-Oh, which pisses me off because they all still hate Pokemon.

Interestingly, it seems to be the opposite case at my school; it's generally acknowledged that Yugioh was stupid (or at least the 4kids dub everyone knows, the manga was surprisingly dark), but many of my friends and I still love Pokemon, with just this one jock bashing it during a Facebook fad. I have a (rather logically jumpy) theory that it has something to do with said friends being straight-edge, though.

 

[TheDrHuw]

I remember some plastic rubbery squeezy spiky balls on strings that were filled with liquid and you could tie a hoop round your finger so it was like a bouncy yo yo. They were banned from primary because we kept strangling each other with them.
I remember the anti bullying bands, I wanted one. Scoobies too.

you are not by eny chance from St Mary's school are you? Because that is exactly what happened in my school

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Pokemon and crazy bones.

I never joined the rest, and luckily we never had those shitty shag bands. Primary school children wear them.

 

[Standby]

Finger skateboards!

 

[AdamG3691]

in order:
conga lines
pokemon cards
liquid yo-yos (think of a spherical rubber glove with glitter and water in it, attached to a rubber string)
the S/8/mobius strip doodle
crazy bones
aliens (I imported one that DID give birth and messed with everyone's heads)
beyblades
those weird yellow band thingies
yu-gi-oh
"peanutting" ties
pencil/paper/tape/rubber band crossbows
drawing penises on book covers
yawnrape (from russell howard, you yawn, and someone puts their finger in your mouth and says "oooh, yawnrape!")

the yellow bands were the first ones that happened in secondary school
and the yawnrape is the first from college

I never had the "punching, circle game" what was it?

EDIT:
oh, and scoubidoos, I was the one of the only ones who was able to make pen cases and animals (octopi and stuff) from them

 

[Cowabungaa]

I can remember only 1 fad, and that was an online, text-based RTS game called The Last Knights during high school. Even the non-gamers (read: almost everyone except me) played it.

Yes I remember it well, the political intrigue (it leaned heavily on player-to-player diplomacy through IMing), the battle between 2 (in)famous players about being the number 1 player each round even though the game was about conquering the world map with your country (and all the players in that country) Risk-style. It was really cool, lots of teamwork involved, and as I said lots of diplomacy going around.

We talked about 1 of those 2 star players as if he was a legend, and calculated that one day he had to be online all day and night to make a certain amount of mouse-clicks each half hour, and nothing more than mouse clicks. We were in awe of that guy.

Bloody hell that was a great time. And would you look at that, the game still exists! Tempted to go back now, even though it's been about 5-6 years ago. Time flies...

 

[danielsharpe1634]

kindergarten - grade 1 = pogs
grade 3-4 = pokemon
grade 5 = digimon
grade 7-9 = bookbagging [steal someone's knapsack, flip it inside out, put all their books back inside, zip it closed and put it back. all without them noticing]
grade 10-12 = Nintendo DS
now = those stupid BENCH hoodies

 

[neoman10]

I started a Beatles fad, I was pretty proud of myself

 

[Scrythe]

For my school, two of the biggest trends were Tithe and Paradise Lost. Most of the more annoying trends I had already experienced in middle school:

- Slam/Burn books
- Gel pens
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- Getting "zapped"
- Collecting Dragonball Z pictures
- Jhonen Vasquez comics
- Comparing sob stories/pretending you have a vast assortment of mental illnesses

 

[Tairan]

when ever i joined a fad i allways ended up getting cheated out of my things or being to late so found overs like me and started gameing not realy a fad but still...

 

[Hileo20]

I haven't joined in any fads since primary schools. Back then there were 3 main ones. Yu-Gi-Oh, Bey blade and Crazy bones. They were fun and harmless (although kinda exspensive). Fads nowerdays are pretty stupid and I don't give a dam about them.

A: All great toys. B: Bey Blades were insanely dangerous lol We would sharpen them so that they would literally destroy the other ones. It worked pretty well too, but you had to sit for so long waiting for it to stop spinning or risk cutting yourself.
Then again, I suppose if used properly they would be harmless. lol

 

[JupiterBase]

Unfotunatly, most of the fads that went around my school and circle of friends involved drugs. Coricidin(Sp?) was a big thing for a while local pharmacists actualy had to start putting this over the counter drug behind the counter because of the thefts.

 

[JEBWrench]

I admit, i joined in a few fads when i needed to (To stop bullying), but most i didnt join. I had a sense of individuality.
Also, I LOVED Pogs!

Pogs, FTW!

Fads I "joined in" were ones I joined because they were fun. (See pogs), or stuff I was doing before it was a fad (the fifteen minute yo-yo resurgence.)

 

[JEBWrench]

- Collecting Dragonball Z pictures
- Jhonen Vasquez comics
- Comparing sob stories/pretending you have a vast assortment of mental illnesses

So, it's kinda like hanging out on the internet?

 

[Ninjamedic]

"Hey, did ya see twilight last weekend?"
"No, I watched Evil dead 2"
"What's that? twilight's better anyway"
.................I hate modern culture.

My school had a thing where people tore off people's shirt pockets. Just 'cos.
There wasn't a pocket left in the school by the end of it.

That was in my school too!