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

alcohol playing such a key part in socialising

Hopefully:

The 'fake' look on women.
Weird long wiry beards
AstroTurf 'lawns'
Agree on grey everywhere. I mean I like a greige/neutral but some houses for sale look like someone's put a greyscale filter on the pics. Cold and not homely. Fine in small amounts, not everywhere.
Home working. Think in 5 years time we might have a swing away from it. Not back to centralised offices but to local "desk hire" places where people get the social aspect but work remotely, closer to home.

@LuaDipa

Eyebrows. I am old enough to remember pencil thin brows and thank goodness every day that my dm wouldn’t let me mess with mine!!

Me too. I'm now 59 and my eyebrows are full but natural.

@whetherpigshavewings

people will feel ashamed of the open abuse of overweight people ‘in the interests of their health’.

you can't state that someone is overweight without being accused of "fat shaming", it's the opposite of abuse, but we need to stop normalising unhealthy behaviour.

This.

Weddings - getting into debt for a huge blowout day that is really 90% the same as everyone else's and actually pretty naff.

I'm hoping weddings will become smaller, more personal affairs, focussed on xthe commitment (not necessarily religious) rather than the big white dress, diamanté's and fripperies.

I think a lot less girls/boys grow up these days imagining the highlight of their lives to be a big white wedding.

Agree with so many already

Staged photos for birthdays with balloon arch, cake smash and I feel similar about pumpkin patch shoots.
Wax melts
Lips and eyebrows
MLMs
Maybe brit abroad mass package holiday culture and esp over the top stag and hen dos (home and abroad).
Baby shower and gender reveals
Copying American everything to make money. The way it's going we'll be celebrating thanksgiving before long.
Balloon releases
Declaring pronouns

I've been saying the same thing about Weddins, ChequerBoard ... hoping what should be people's priorities have been given a wake up call this past year.

@Notavegan why would people be embarrassed by wax melts? I don't use them myself but they're just a thing.

MLMS please let it happen.

@NerrSnerr maybe just me. My Facebook feed is full of people flogging them. I think they are unhealthy and dangerous. Maybe like insense of my youth. Feel similar about reed diffusers and plug ins. Make me feel unwell.

Regarding ‘fat shaming’. I used to be very fat but I am now slim, having lost a significant amount and maintained it for a few years. I see it from both sides.
Being fat isn’t healthy and asides a few, most people don’t find it attractive either. However, the reasons why people are fat are wide-ranging and often not a simple case of weakness or greed.
The problem with being fat is that the disorder is obvious to onlookers at a glance and is immediately snap-judged to be a failing. It’s an ignorant and unkind way to think.
At the same time, we should also be wary of normalising being overweight because it’s a killer. Big is not beautiful for our health.
I don’t know how you go about changing things for the better...with so much FOOD being thrust upon us at every opportunity it’s a hard battle to win. Humiliating people certainly won’t help. We should look at our approach to food, not people.

So many of these are just things that people don't like. I hardly imagine many people will be 'embarrassed' by a bit of wax or their breed of dog. (Even if they paid a lot for it as someone up thread said).

you can't state that someone is overweight without being accused of "fat shaming", it's the opposite of abuse, but we need to stop normalising unhealthy behaviour.

We’re not talking about simply ‘stating someone is overweight’ and I think you know that.

I don't think tattoos will go out. But definitely just ones consisting of black lines, no shading or colour, placed seemingly at random. Including, but not exclusively - infinity symbols, mandalas, semi colons etc.
I hope full colour, beautifully placed complex tattoos become as fashionable in future years.

[quote NerrSnerr]@Notavegan why would people be embarrassed by wax melts? I don't use them myself but they're just a thing. [/quote]
They won’t necessarily be embarrassed about the wax melts themselves - but hopefully they’ll be embarrassed that they pretended they had their own business because they flogged three a month (if they were lucky), annoying their family and friends in the process.

@pictish

Regarding ‘fat shaming’. I used to be very fat but I am now slim, having lost a significant amount and maintained it for a few years. I see it from both sides. Being fat isn’t healthy and asides a few, most people don’t find it attractive either. However, the reasons why people are fat are wide-ranging and often not a simple case of weakness or greed. The problem with being fat is that the disorder is obvious to onlookers at a glance and is immediately snap-judged to be a failing. It’s an ignorant and unkind way to think. At the same time, we should also be wary of normalising being overweight because it’s a killer. Big is not beautiful for our health. I don’t know how you go about changing things for the better...with so much FOOD being thrust upon us at every opportunity it’s a hard battle to win. Humiliating people certainly won’t help. We should look at our approach to food, not people.

I agree with all of this I think. Although fat isn’t healthy can depend on what we’re describing as ‘fat’ and wider lifestyle issues - eg if someone is suppressing appetite by smoking and starving themselves to stay slim because they have a slow metabolism and put on weight easily, you’d really have to consider where least harm lay. But perhaps that’s more an argument against ‘thin is always healthy’?

Bin liners
Sleeping on your side
Malta
Walnut Whips

Just all so clichè now

I hate the use of cliche when people mean cliched, but that did make me laugh

@StillCoughingandLaughing the comment I was replying to mentioned MLMs separately so I assume she was talking about wax melts as an item.

Yes absolutely. This is where overweight people get a raw deal. Addictions and compulsions are common, be it alcohol, gambling, spending, prescription drugs, eating, gaming, exercise...whatever. A lot of people have issues. You can’t tell someone has run up thousands in debt on bloody shoes by looking at them. You don’t know that someone is an alcoholic when you pass them in the street. You know someone who takes in far more calories than they are burning up, in an instant. The assumption is a lack of self respect or control that is not assigned to others similarly struggling with their own compulsions.
The amount of times I endured a drunk man verbally abusing me in a pub for being fat, is shocking. Being drunk and abusive is more acceptable than being fat. Maybe we need to look at what the fuck that’s all about too.

@whetherpigshavewings

people will feel ashamed of the open abuse of overweight people ‘in the interests of their health’.

you can't state that someone is overweight without being accused of "fat shaming", it's the opposite of abuse, but we need to stop normalising unhealthy behaviour.

Yiu don't know how healthy someone is by looking at them though. So how does this work?

@Okbussitout

Yes but one can assume that a person who is so big they cannot even stand up without getting out of breath is not in the best shape

You can make some careful conclusions

That does not mean saying all slim people are healthy and all overweight people aren’t as that’s obviously not true.

But when I did jury duty last year, and there were 2 flights of stairs to climb, it was alarming to see that half the people there could not comfortably do so (these were all the bigger people) and they chose not to go out for lunch but have it delivered instead so that they, in their own words , did not have to face those stairs.

@EggBobbin

Bin liners Sleeping on your side Malta Walnut Whips

Just all so clichè now

Why is Malta cliché? It's nice and the public transport is ace.

What's the beef with people wearing gym wear out and about? Genuinely interested.

@EggBobbin

Bin liners Sleeping on your side Malta Walnut Whips

Just all so clichè now