Poll: School Fads

[Deleted]

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.

If you could draw those in two strokes you were the coolest kid on Earth.

 

[niglett]

most of us got in to the rubix cubes. most of us could solve one in under a minute!
i myself got in to the 5x5 cube

Spoiler

 

[SenseOfTumour]

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.

If you wanted an anti bullying band so much, why didn't you just find a smaller kid and take theirs?

I'm a bit older tho, I remember the main things over here in England for me were trading cards and stickers, like the WWF and soccer ones, and the Garbage Pail Kids, which some parents tried to get banned because they were 'sick', not realising that's the one reason kids liked them. I remember being about 10 and already showing my future cynical side by thinking that the sticker companies deliberately held back on certain numbers of the stickers to make you keep buying pack after pack to complete your collection.

I still can't decide whether it's fixed to push more sales or just random.

 

[Baldry]

Me and a friend once started a high five click fad, which if you've seen scrubs you'll know from the Todd, you high five and afterwards click, simple and quickly spread, like bushfire

OT:My schools went thourgh most fads Pokemon, yu-gi-oh and Beyblades were my favourites, proablly because I kicked ass at it and in highschool we've gone thourgh most of the punch fads, although now we've got non skaters coming with skateboards and "skateing", cause their badass

 

[Angryman101]

Each school had its own unique fad. Sure, most schools across each nation may of shared one particular fad because they where seen as popular at the time. For example, Pokemon cards, Yu-gi-oh, "You Been tango'd! and of course, this:

Spoiler

I found that my school and the schools surrounding the area had similair fads that were created for just our area only, i dont know if they spread across the rest of the country or if it was just indeed, our own thing. A few that were around my school back in the day were:
- If your pocket on the front of your shirt was a perfect square, you got punched.
- If your pockets had a white lining, you got punched.
- If you had a bag with a velcro strap, you had to run up to the person, undo their strap and shout "Your bags a rip off!"

I know most these fads are based on bullying, so im going to move onto object fads, as in, if you didnt have one of these pointless things, you were a loser:

Spoiler: Nostalgia

Really, i fucking hated all these fads (Except the shag bands, i liked them lol). What annoys me the most is that they just came out of nowhere and you were pretty much oblidged to follow them unless you didnt want to fit in. Anyone else share similair fads or did your school have its own unique thing?

Besides Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon, I have no idea what any of those things you posted mean. Especially the first one. Is that an upsidedown ok sign or something? And what are shag bands?

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Oh we had fashioning a spit ball shooter out of a pen, conkers, and the usual card ones. I ruled supreme.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Each school had its own unique fad. Sure, most schools across each nation may of shared one particular fad because they where seen as popular at the time. For example, Pokemon cards, Yu-gi-oh, "You Been tango'd! and of course, this:

Spoiler

I found that my school and the schools surrounding the area had similair fads that were created for just our area only, i dont know if they spread across the rest of the country or if it was just indeed, our own thing. A few that were around my school back in the day were:
- If your pocket on the front of your shirt was a perfect square, you got punched.
- If your pockets had a white lining, you got punched.
- If you had a bag with a velcro strap, you had to run up to the person, undo their strap and shout "Your bags a rip off!"

I know most these fads are based on bullying, so im going to move onto object fads, as in, if you didnt have one of these pointless things, you were a loser:

Spoiler: Nostalgia

Really, i fucking hated all these fads (Except the shag bands, i liked them lol). What annoys me the most is that they just came out of nowhere and you were pretty much oblidged to follow them unless you didnt want to fit in. Anyone else share similair fads or did your school have its own unique thing?

Besides Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon, I have no idea what any of those things you posted mean. Especially the first one. Is that an upsidedown ok sign or something? And what are shag bands?

Shag Bands - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shag%20bands
The "Gotcha" game - http://wikibin.org/articles/finger-circle-punch-game.html

 

[Tasachan]

Those stupid plastic bracelets are nostalgia now? Wasn't that like 3 years ago?

Do you mean the little thin ones (which were actually around in the 80s too I think), or the ones with words on them?
Either way, both were around when I was in grade 10... so... like, 2003? A little more than 3 years ago. =)

I took part in fads in the younger grades. Crazy bones! I loved those. I had a few pokemon cards, back when they first came out in the late 90s.

By the time I was in high school, I didn't even bother. I just did what I liked. I'm the same way now. =)

 

[Bat Vader]

When I was in middle school pokemon cards were a big fad. Of course they died out and than when Yu-Gi-Oh came out that was a big fad when I was in high school.

 

[Distorted Stu]

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.

I always done mine liek this:

 

[Quaxar]

Thinking about, the last fad I took part in were pokemon cards in elementary school. Guess I'm pretty boring, eh?

 

[Angerwing]

I always done mine liek this:

That's cool too. I did a lot of experimentation when I was younger, so I'm familiar with that design.

 

[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.

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

Nah, I doubt we're even in the same area
It was a hazard in many schools.

 

[Distorted Stu]

That's cool too. I did a lot of experimentation when I was younger, so I'm familiar with that design.

Likewise, I used to do this often with my name.

[sub]Over 9000 hours in MS Paint[/sub]

 

[senorcromas]

As everyone here knows, Pokemon was huge. Of course, I'm gonna subvert the usual complaining certain users mentioned and say I legitimately look back on it positively, and some friends of mine still play it. Yugioh was also big, which despite being a Pokemon cash-in and rather stupid (partly because of 4kids) I also remember fondly, not to mention it indirectly got me into better things and the abridged series wouldn't exist without it.

Oh, and making paper spinners was huge at my school for a bit, and so were those "s" things.

Those "s"es are my school's symbol... thing.

Seriously.

OT: My school recently had a weird game called "Birdman", or something.
you make your hands into... a shape (I dunno, I always thought that it looked like a pair of glasses), then you look at someone, and if they look, they have to lay down.

It lasted about two days.

Does that count?

 

[Angryman101]

Each school had its own unique fad. Sure, most schools across each nation may of shared one particular fad because they where seen as popular at the time. For example, Pokemon cards, Yu-gi-oh, "You Been tango'd! and of course, this:

Spoiler

I found that my school and the schools surrounding the area had similair fads that were created for just our area only, i dont know if they spread across the rest of the country or if it was just indeed, our own thing. A few that were around my school back in the day were:
- If your pocket on the front of your shirt was a perfect square, you got punched.
- If your pockets had a white lining, you got punched.
- If you had a bag with a velcro strap, you had to run up to the person, undo their strap and shout "Your bags a rip off!"

I know most these fads are based on bullying, so im going to move onto object fads, as in, if you didnt have one of these pointless things, you were a loser:

Spoiler: Nostalgia

Really, i fucking hated all these fads (Except the shag bands, i liked them lol). What annoys me the most is that they just came out of nowhere and you were pretty much oblidged to follow them unless you didnt want to fit in. Anyone else share similair fads or did your school have its own unique thing?

Besides Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon, I have no idea what any of those things you posted mean. Especially the first one. Is that an upsidedown ok sign or something? And what are shag bands?

Shag Bands - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shag%20bands
The "Gotcha" game - http://wikibin.org/articles/finger-circle-punch-game.html

They both sound really stupid.
I don't think there were any fads at my school, besides clothes trends and your mom/that's what she said jokes, neither of which you were ostracized for if you didn't adhere to. That's what she said jokes were good for a laugh, though, back when it was still funny.

 

[Wintermoot]

the only fad now in my school is wearing your pants in such a way too show your underpants (usually Bjorn Borg or something like that) allot of people protested against this by wearing cheap underpants (wich is now in shortatge) also its a fad wearing expensive shoes (like Nikes) I-sort-of joined it (I currently wear Nike Classics)

 

[boredkid]

Those stupid plastic bracelets are nostalgia now? Wasn't that like 3 years ago?

My school had them like 6-7 years ago, they didn't become very popular though, except with the "sluts" (who were still in middle school - and *ahem* back in my day middle schoolers were considered sluts if they kissed more than one boy a month, now it has taken on a whole new meaning from what I have seen).

OT: My friends and I actually started at fad at our school on accident, where if you came up behind the other person and they didn't see you you would "slit their throat" with your thumb, leaving only a small, painless red mark. That 'dead' person would then fall backwards and be drug by the assassin in order to hide the body. Two weeks later there are kids with red marks all over their throats and stupid kill-trains as bad as AvP with kids lining up to assassinate assassins... It was ridiculous.

 

[faceless chick]

ahh..i remember tamagochi in the 6th grade..all girls were into them..for a year or 2 till the damn thing got annoying with constantly pestering you with being fed and changed and getting loved..

i think that's about the time girls stopped wanting to have a baby and got protected.

god bless tamagochis..

 

[The Austin]

I wore livestrong bands before they were cool. I wore the real ones, too. The kind that you needed to donate money to charity to get.

And all of a sudden, when every other douche in the world has one of the fake bands that say something like "Juicy" or "Awesome", then, all of the sudden, people start calling me out as a poser.

"Austin, what the hell, you cant wear these bands! Your only doing it because everyone else is!"

and to that I say:

"FUCK. YOU."