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Things that look ridiculous (lighthearted)

159 replies

Feelinglow8736 · 08/09/2021 15:57

I'll start- people wearing sunglasses indoors.

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HereBeFuckery · 08/09/2021 23:13

Men, I guess in their twenties or early to mid thirties, with neatly trimmed beards, slightly too fitted slim cut shirts, slightly too tight chinos or weird shaped jeans, and usually desert boots or similar.
Often with turn ups on the trousers. Frequently topped off with hairstyles which make abundant use of fading, undercutting or other ways to almost but not entirely remove hair from apparently fairly random parts of their heads.
So. Dull. I do an internal eye roll every time
I see another identikit bloke who struts past as if he is the most original thing on two legs.

TaraR2020 · 08/09/2021 23:50

@leavesthataregreen they blatantly are going to make a come back, I'm sad to predict - we've had every other fashion trend from that era!

pinkyredrose · 09/09/2021 09:04

*LaBellina

Baby on board stickers on cars.

they’re there for safety purposes

They're really not. They're for people who think their baby is more important than anyone else. If they were for safety then why don't parents take them out of the car when the kid's not in it? Not very safe to have emergency services looking for a baby that isn't there!

BrisbaneandGone · 09/09/2021 09:10

@MikeWozniaksGloriousTache

I agree with the babies in bows / hair clips. Poor babies heads being squashed all day long just in case a stranger dares gets their sex wrong. I know how my head feels when I wear headbands (to keep hair out my eyes). A friend kindly bought my dd some, I put one on her just to send a photo and gave them away.
The wide headbands for babies are a suffocation risk, I'd be banning them if I could
Dogsandbabies · 09/09/2021 09:36

Michael Gove dancing

liveforsummer · 09/09/2021 16:43

@Dogsandbabies

Michael Gove dancing
And don't forget Theresa May dancing in Africa. Different set of circumstances but the cringe was of a similar level.
Microfibrequeen · 09/09/2021 16:55

People snogging
Models in catalogues standing with their feet turned in to increase thigh gap or to make them look like little children.
Food served on wooden boards etc
Facebook tat - messages scrawled on wine glasses, hot chocolate kit in a mason jar, scrabble word pictures.
Adults with t shirts with what they imagine are edgy messages on.
Instagram

Biancadelrioisback · 09/09/2021 16:56

@bamboocat

Skorts. Utterly ludicrous and ultimately pointless.
I love skorts...
Sulusu · 09/09/2021 17:01

Moustache with no beard

Beard with no moustache.

Just no

BeaucoupFish · 09/09/2021 17:32

@Microfibrequeen
It’s when the models are pretend laughing and showing every tooth in their mouth which really annoys me - so fake

mirijones · 09/09/2021 17:40

Tattoos.

Microfibrequeen · 09/09/2021 20:49

beaucoupfish. That too. The worst offender I spotted recently was on Lucy&Yak clothes website. They have models with feet turned in, wearing patterned dungarees AND sucking flipping lollipops. I was tempted to email them but then couldn’t be bothered.

Feelinglow8736 · 09/09/2021 21:26

@Miranda15110

People who put filtered images of themselves on SM looking fuck all like they do in real life. Worse still all their friends who say 'Gawjus Hun' etc 😂
Ha! This makes me laugh too. They look like a cartoon Grin
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YourFinestPantaloons · 09/09/2021 21:27

Fake nails. All fake nails, even the ones that costs hundreds of pounds. They ALL look shit and tacky

BlackeyedSusan · 09/09/2021 21:37

feet.

God knows why, I just think most feet are weird looking on anyone older than about 10, including mine.

Chunkymenrock · 09/09/2021 21:41

Your when it should be you're. Bare when it should be bear.
Fake grass.
Rucksacks worn on the front.

EastWestWhosBest · 09/09/2021 21:44

This fashion among young men to wear a bum bag across their shoulder.
I think it comes from so drug dealer chic. They look like twats.

RampantIvy · 09/09/2021 21:49

I have never seen any young man with a bumbag. Although I don't frequent fashionable haunts Grin

Chunkymenrock · 09/09/2021 21:51

Your own phone appearing in a photo. So stupid!

Livpool · 09/09/2021 21:55

Personalised number plates
Men with no top on walking round the street
Obviously fake teeth
Nude leggings
Super long nails

Although the hill I will die on is ripped jeans. Even though my lovely, late Nan said I looked like I was hard up. I wear then now and smile thinking of her tutting at me

goingtotown · 09/09/2021 21:55

Breasts brimming over bra cups. Buy your correct size.

Livpool · 09/09/2021 21:57

Agreed @BlackeyedSusan - all feet are disgusting.

People with foot fetishes make me feel sick

LST · 09/09/2021 22:04

People who have such sad lives they judge other people for what they choose to wear, do with their body, house etc. Very sad indeed..

Oh and people who start threads like this when there are around a million already.

EastWestWhosBest · 09/09/2021 22:16

@LST

People who have such sad lives they judge other people for what they choose to wear, do with their body, house etc. Very sad indeed..

Oh and people who start threads like this when there are around a million already.

People who read threads they think are pointless and then post about how pointless they are must lead very sad lives too.
LookingforloveinAlderaanplaces · 09/09/2021 22:18

Prams/pushchairs with those massive feather boa-esque edges.

Any baby earrings/headbands/bows.

People writing happy birthday messages on bed sheets and hanging them all around town!