Poll: School Fads

[Wicky_42]

So many fads through my school years, but none of them were violent - at least in my year. Someone in the year above was hospitalised in some chair-throwing related incident - kinda worked as a deterrent to retarded behaviour. Maybe we were a bit too laid back to bother with birthday beats n all that.

Some people played 'raps' - that card game which ends up taking all the skin off the back of your hand. Yeah, I guess our year had retards too...

 

[cptawesome]

We don't really have a lot of fads at my school, but at a movie theatre where I work, there was a phase where everyone had these weird paperclip hearts attached to their nametags. Actually, they were kind of cool, until my manager (the awesome, bitchin' woman who once caught a bird WITH HER BARE HANDS when it flew in the lobby) told everyone to take them off because we looked like gay retards. The next day, they were gone.

 

[probunk]

Remember when the media was freaking out about 'sex bracelets?' They were kinda a meme at my school, to scare parents and laugh at the unhip squares who believed The Man, daddy-oh. So making fun of and being shocking about sex bracelets was, I think, our only really unique one.

 

[Eggsnham]

Fads suck (I did get caught up in Yu-Gi-Oh and the armband thing, though) and generally only exist to single out those who can't afford something/don't like something/aren't able to do something.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

This was one of the only fads that I really liked. However, I'm pretty lazy so I haven't actually braided any mahself. :x

Spoiler: Braided String Bracelets

 

[CJ1145]

I don't tend to join in on fads, but right now my name IS a fad at my school, which is rather interesting.

 

[AWAR]

- Whats the capital of Thailand?
- Bangkok?
- *Kick in the nuts*
- AAAH! WHATS YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM

sooo immature

 

[Darkwolf9]

I was always in my own little world. I hardly ever noticed fads coming and going. When I did notice I just always assumed it would pass. As far as pokemon goes I think I was actually ahead of the fad.

 

[x0ny]

Pogs, YoYos, those little skateboards or techdecks, Magic the Gathering, Pokemon. I was into Pogs, MTG and Pokemon.

 

[Deadpewl]

I joined in on the Pokemon and the Yu-gi-oh, but thats about it.First Ive heard of the shirt ripping though. If you tried to rip someones shirt pocket off in the schools I went to, you'd probably get your ass beat.
We also traded pictures of dbz characters for a while in my old grammar school. I cant believe I didnt see how retarded that was back then.

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)

this is going to sound racist but I dont care I'm equally unamused by all races. Do you go to a black school? Or a school full of people trying to be black? Because thats what it sounds like.

 

[Ruagh]

I wasn't even aware of the fads when I was at school.

Which I actually count as a good thing.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

The only fads at my school were collectables, like Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh! cards or anime pogs.

We were so cool.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I'd forgotten about the fad for stupidly expensive trainers, it seemed at one point among many kids that if trainers cost less than about £60 you were obviously some kind of pauper.

To which the more sensible of us decided, we know we have limited access to money for gifts and the like, we'll take more SNES games over having a silver tick on the side of our trainers or having a pair with an air bubble in the heel.

The hilarious bit being once this thing was rife thru the school, and it became clear people were mocking kids for not having gold played trainers (sneakers), the school made it a rule you have to wear black shoes for school, trainers were only for PE.

Oh and the other one was to straighten someone's tie, and in doing so, pull really hard so the knot was the size of a damn peanut and impossible to undo

 

[Mozared]

We only had one real schoolwide fad, which is when students in our country decided to "go on strike" because they alledgedly "didn't agree with the educational system" (most just wanted to skip lessons but w/e). "Going on strike" at my school meant going to the auditorium, yelling at the top of your lungs and possibly throwing around chairs and other small pieces of equipment. Until a teacher saw you doing that last bit anyway, that's when you got detention.

Needless to say, I didn't join and just went to do my geography test instead. Along with the rest of my class.

Oh, come to think of it - a shitload of people brought playing cards to school and played random card games during breaks. I joined in in those once or twice, because it wasn't a terrible way to pass time. We even built half a decent card house once.

 

[drisky]

ahem...
POGS BITCHES!!!!

In any case I've never regreted buying in to a fad, collecting things like pokemon and benie babies was fun, I like collecting things. I think I only stopped becose over the years, both these things started to suffer from over design, but fads are a part of childhood, I don't hate them.