What's one overdone thing that is popular now but everyone will embarrassed by in 5 years time?

[Trulyatraditionalman]

I'll start:

High waisted trousers with crop tops
Lip liner that goes over the top of cupid's bow

@dogseggs

I keep seeing these hideous clocks all over Rightmove. What is the point of them?

I'd like to see gardens revert to being places to relax, listen to birds and enjoy a bit of greenery instead of being turned into full on entertainment zones with bars and hot tubs and noisy home cinemas. I want less noise, not more.

Im also hoping that wood burning stoves in towns will go the way of leaded petrol and indoor smoking. Ban them. I may be a miserable sod but that's what I want.

Our garden *is a place to relax. Apart from the nearby school playing loud music outside all afternoon some days, for reasons we cannot fathom. The birdsong is lovely, otherwise. Less noise, not more, I agree with wholeheartedly.

Wood burners. Okay. Why do you hate those? You object to other people keeping themselves warm?

Paying a fee to merely watch live tv when loads pay for sky/virgin etc anyway.

Hopefully driving to the shops that’s a mere 5 minute walk away on safe lit paths.

Can we please make nits unacceptable as well thank you.

@prsecrets naturally full lips look natural. Giant shiny blown up lips do not, these are the type I was talking about.

Maybe longer than 5 years but after covid the focus will shift back to climate change and the environment so I think being seen with a single use plastic water bottle will be embarrassing, huge petrol cars that are now a bit of a status symbol will become the opposite and looked down on for not being ‘green’ and sadly - flying. I think by the time my kids are grown flying regularly will be frowned upon (just in a similar way to not recycling now)
All the TOWIE/ lip filler stuff- meh, fashions change. I don’t think anyone will look back and be any more embarrassed by this than we are when we think of for example heather shimmer growing up.

People using the word gender when they mean sex.

Definitely the fake look and trout pouts. Our generations grand kids will look back at our photos and wonder what the fuck we had done to ourselves.

Men with ankle biter trousers and no socks

@Dandelionflower

Huge black slug eyebrows. Although that's maybe happened already.

Uh, these are my natural eyebrows.

Wood cladding on the outside of houses, particularly in grey. It quickly looks very shabby in our damp climate. Fifty shades of grey everywhere and not just in the book.

Also tattoos.

Also flying abroad for a holibobs.

This whole fake lips fake eye lashes fake face kinda look.

Women being responsible for all contraception.

Maybe men should also be charged with neglect when they abandon m/refuse to pay for their own children. If a mum didn’t feed her kids she would be ripped to shreds but dads can and do just walk away and don’t pay. It’s neglect.

Holibobs. The word, not the concept.

Grey.
Facebook.
Gender reveal bollox - it's sex not gender.
Baby showers.
Fake anything.

OnlyFans especially and pornography being unacceptable to watch or make.

@PrintempsAhoy

Cockapoos

Artisanal Gin

Big gas guzzling 4x4s

I think!

@PrintempsAhoy

My cockapoo is 15 years old this year, def not embarrassed by him ;)

Actually that's not true when he pretends he's more deaf than he is and totally ignores me, when I call him to heel!!

Just a few that have come to mind:

1. Panelling on houses that don't suit panelling. Panelling your Taylor Wimpey newbuild is just odd.

1. Lay-Z spas or whatever they are called. Those inflatable hot tub things, just horrendous!

1. Those strange afternoon teas that come in boxes - you can just buy said ingredients from Tesco...?

1. Artificial grass (at least the ones that are done on the cheap)

1. Crushed velvet sleigh beds, or actually crushed velvet anything

Panelling.

This god awful brushed up brow trend. It started as fluffy and natural now women are walking around with vertical brow hairs glued to their foreheads

Pollution. They produce a lot of mucky pollution.

@Violinist64

Also tattoos.

Yes, after hundreds and hundreds of years these are definitely a fashion item that will stop happening 🧐 People are just listing things other people do that they dint like.

@cardibach They were pretty niche until 20 years ago - it's quite possible they will be again.

It'll probably take ten years rather than five, as even with all their health issues the poor dogs will likely survive that long - French Bulldogs.

Gender identities

@flapjackfairy

Houses that are decorated in a million shades of grey.

You got there first!!!!! Hideous grey fences with brilliant white bits seem to be the norm at the moment.

[quote Gerla]@cardibach They were pretty niche until 20 years ago - it's quite possible they will be again.[/quote]
Depends on your definition of niche I suppose...

Huge televisions in small rooms.
Grey kitchen
Grey carpets
Grey walls

Beards
Duck lips
Trowel thick make up
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