Poll: School Fads

[Forever of the Stars]

As far as things i got into there was pokemon in grade-school (elementary school) which I still play frequently. I was briefly into yu-gi-oh for a small amount of time but it didn't really stick. Pogs were the shit, if people still played pogs I would so be there, I still have all of mine.

As for things I didn't really get into there were those stupid water yo-yo things and beyblades, and those moronic live strong bracelets especially when they started to be less charity and more a fucking fashion accessory. There was also this huge AIDS awareness obsession in my second last and last real year of highschool so like grades 11 and 12 (I say last real year because I went back for one semester so I could spend half a year working to pay for university, and because I wanted to boost my average so I could get into the university I wanted (I did in fact graduate before that extra semester though)). It became this huge thing with it's own committee and everything there was constant fund raising and awareness gatherings and assemblies. It was around the time that they started making daily announcements and started becoming an almost militant organization, that I started only showing up to hand in assignments and write tests/exams.

It's not like I'm against the idea of AIDS awareness, I just think that was a little too far as they had in fact made it into a fad.

 

[twaddle]

i feel peoud to say i actually started the pokemon card fad at my primary school.
i got into yugi-oh but dropped it quickly enough. i was goth for a time but soon turned emo (EMO= the poor kid's goth. you know it's true.) now in in college and i used to skateboard and i see all these children wearing skater clothes which i see is now a meger of the skateboard and hip hop culture. on one hand i think thats it's a good thing our cultures are merging on the other had i think those kid a a bunch of bloody wankers because at least the skaters previously had a bit more class and carried themselves (even though we were lazy beyond reason) in a certain dignified fashion with our language not using a swear 4 every 2 word in a sentence.

 

[Scrythe]

- 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?

Spoiler: Haha, yeah sure.

If you're into GaiaOnline.

 

[JEBWrench]

Spoiler: Haha, yeah sure.

If you're into GaiaOnline.

Enjoy your free internets with that Spoiler.

I genuinely lol'd.

 

[Abedeus]

Well, I'm from ze Mighty Country Of Polish Commonwealth... I mean, 500 years later I'm from Poland. We had only Pokemon and... I don't think I remember other fads. I usually ignored them. I try to ignore them now.

 

[Captain Pancake]

There's a fad in my school of people being fucking stupid. It seems every other year wil be in general full of complete idiots. Year above us: Failed their highers. Year below us: Failing their standard grades. Its almost as if we sucked the intelligence from them and into our own year.

 

[Leviathan_]

Pokémon is the only one I joined into and I certainly don't regret it.

 

[RobCoxxy]

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.

They also went through a pantsing phase. -_-

Oh, I fucking forgot about that.
And they decided to take it one step further on one of the most depressing days of my life (After a bunch of other shit including Viagra spiked lunch, very original) they tore my trouser leg off by doing the same thing. I just went:
"Fuck this."
And left for a few days.

 

[KitsunetheFox]

Let's see, Yu-Gi-Oh cards (for about 6 months), Pokemon cards (for about a year), Beyblades (which got banned after a year), those silly stringy-hand-things (for about a week). If you didn't have them.... well then nobody really cared.

Although tucking your shirt in and having a long-ish (beyond the third button down on your shirt) tie is grounds for being called names at my school (until you hit Year 10 when no one cared).
And there was also something called "Jacking", where you ran past a person, grabbing their tie and pulling it down forcefully. Fortunately, I never joined in.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Fads? Who the hell cares about fads?! All fads are are just a bunch of people who have nothing better to do with their lives but to wear and do things that THE MAN tells them to do for HIS amusement.

 

[AdamG3691]

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.

They also went through a pantsing phase. -_-

Oh, I fucking forgot about that.
And they decided to take it one step further on one of the most depressing days of my life (After a bunch of other shit including Viagra spiked lunch, very original) they tore my trouser leg off by doing the same thing. I just went:
"Fuck this."
And left for a few days.

*writes down "viagra spiked lunch"*

ehehehe
I'll remember that one for someone I really don't like

 

[FolkLikePanda]

I never saw the point in scoobies

 

[RobCoxxy]

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.

They also went through a pantsing phase. -_-

Oh, I fucking forgot about that.
And they decided to take it one step further on one of the most depressing days of my life (After a bunch of other shit including Viagra spiked lunch, very original) they tore my trouser leg off by doing the same thing. I just went:
"Fuck this."
And left for a few days.

*writes down "viagra spiked lunch"*

ehehehe
I'll remember that one for someone I really don't like

Remember to make sure they get aroused, else nothing happens (I got lucky there was nobody all that sexy at my school, munters, the lot of 'em.)

 

[ygetoff]

and so were those "s" things.

Do you mean these?

Yes, I just did that in paint.

Oh, and our English class would throw as many things into the fan as possible when the teacher wasn't in the room. One threw a pen in one time, it exploded, and landed on our teachers $400 pants just as she walked into the room. She was attractive. That tradition stopped when someone threw a chair into the fan, because the fan wouldn't work after that.

Oh those stupid, stupid "s" things. I remember I had to collect homework for a teacher (my class used a semi-socialist rotating chores system) and every single piece of paper had one of those things on it.

Also, my school had a strange thing going on where everyone wore rubber bands on their arms. The bands themselves weren't particularly stupid or annoying (because let's face it, rubber bands are useful) but some people decided to start shooting the rubber bands at people. I remember one classmate went waay overboard with this idea (he was one of those people who don't know when to stop doing something) and combined 20 or 30 rubber bands into a massive, single behemoth band. He then went around trying to threaten people with it, saying things like "this could kill you if I hit you in the face with it" and other absolutely brainless statements.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Those annoying S drawings
Stealing keys from the keyboards in the computer room
Playing counterstrike 1.6 on the school computers
Having your pants at your ankles to show your underwear.

 

[persopolis]

-If you saw a yellow car, you could punch someone
-GODDAM RUBBER BANDS
-sex jokes
-more sex jokes(yes it was a horny bunch)
-being incredibly stupid(except me and a few others of course)

 

[Angerwing]

and so were those "s" things.

Do you mean these?

Yes, I just did that in paint.

Oh, and our English class would throw as many things into the fan as possible when the teacher wasn't in the room. One threw a pen in one time, it exploded, and landed on our teachers $400 pants just as she walked into the room. She was attractive. That tradition stopped when someone threw a chair into the fan, because the fan wouldn't work after that.

Oh those stupid, stupid "s" things. I remember I had to collect homework for a teacher (my class used a semi-socialist rotating chores system) and every single piece of paper had one of those things on it.

Also, my school had a strange thing going on where everyone wore rubber bands on their arms. The bands themselves weren't particularly stupid or annoying (because let's face it, rubber bands are useful) but some people decided to start shooting the rubber bands at people. I remember one classmate went waay overboard with this idea (he was one of those people who don't know when to stop doing something) and combined 20 or 30 rubber bands into a massive, single behemoth band. He then went around trying to threaten people with it, saying things like "this could kill you if I hit you in the face with it" and other absolutely brainless statements.

We used to put rubber bands on thirty centimetre (1 foot) wooden rulers and snipe people. It was actually awesome. We had this Hungarian relief teacher who was actually terrible. I used to shoot the whiteboard when she was writing on it, and she'd get massively confused at what hit the board. Also I could shoot a standing pencil off a desk from half the room away.

Man I miss school.

 

[AdamG3691]

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.

They also went through a pantsing phase. -_-

Oh, I fucking forgot about that.
And they decided to take it one step further on one of the most depressing days of my life (After a bunch of other shit including Viagra spiked lunch, very original) they tore my trouser leg off by doing the same thing. I just went:
"Fuck this."
And left for a few days.

*writes down "viagra spiked lunch"*

ehehehe
I'll remember that one for someone I really don't like

Remember to make sure they get aroused, else nothing happens (I got lucky there was nobody all that sexy at my school, munters, the lot of 'em.)

in my college, trying to get people to have an... erm... embarrassing expansion is practically a sport ;P

 

[dex-dex]

the end of the year we did the pocket rip thing. it was more on guy's shirts but hey it was still fun! yet that was secondary school.


in elementary school there was crazy bones, pokemon cards, and for a little while there was digimon cards. but then they all got banned because we started getting too intense with it according to the staff. but it still did not stop us from having underground cults at lunch time.

 

[RobCoxxy]

in my college, trying to get people to have an... erm... embarrassing expansion is practically a sport ;P

Bwahahaha! Well enjoy using Viagra or Golden Root on somebody's din-dins. We did Golden Root on somebody's dinner here at uni... looks like pepper or some form of seasoning. So be sly about it, your chump eats up... "Hey, look at these porn pics I found" *Show nudie mag or summut*
RAGING HARDON.