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hello mr. man · 03-18-2005, 05:50 PM

nothing in particular but for example: those Lance Armstrong bracelets. They are for an excellent cause but I mean come on...People that smoke wear them...(hmm....HYPOCRISY!!!!) Anyways so yeah what are the most annoying trends that you've noticed...Currently it would have to be those half cut off shirts that girls wear...or how about stupid people who think it's cool to act like they like local music and ruin the whole scene....

StabMaster Arson · 03-18-2005, 05:54 PM

in defense of the bracelets, I happen to be against cancer but before them I had no way of showing it. anyone who doesn't sport one of them is obviously pro-cancer.

I wish they had bracelets that signified that I'm against the sarcasm tag cause I'd be tempted to wear one of those.

underwater · 03-18-2005, 05:56 PM

What pisses me off is that they have all these stupid bracelets now that don't have anything to do with cancer, but yet strangely resemble the cancer awareness bracelets.

Mr. Blonde · 03-18-2005, 06:09 PM

How many of you actually have relatives with cancer?

::raises hand::

Granted, I'd probably still wear one in support even if I didn't, but I hate it when people just call it a fucking trend. I know it became a trend for a while, but who the fuck cares, as long as it's raising money for cancer I don't know why everybody is against it.

On a side note, I got mine like last June before it became a "trend" anyways, and I tried to get fellow nubblites to support it here. However, nobody replied. I continued to wear it, never taking it off once, to shower, anything, until it broke like 2 weeks ago. When I get the chance i'll probably get another one.

[ March 18, 2005, 03:09 PM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]

StabMaster Arson · 03-18-2005, 07:35 PM

I've got a really good idea... how about simply giving what you can to support your cause without getting anything in return. Do you really need something to show that you gave? What does it help to wear a big rubber band around your wrist? I've had people in my family die from cancer and I beat a form of it myself... yet, oddly enough, I still don't feel the need to wear a faggy colored band to show that I'm against it. No one likes cancer.

Niger Angelus · 03-18-2005, 07:52 PM

Well put. But it is just a way to raise awareness and to help people have a common [brain fart] ...

:Someone say what I am trying to say.

underwater · 03-19-2005, 07:58 PM

bond? ...ish type word?

I think the Cancer bracelets were a good idea and I don't necessarily see why you're so negative about them, Stab. They merely show that the people wearing them support a cause: a cause against cancer, a cause for cancer awareness.

I don't know what kind of person you are, but I'm sure that at some point or another you've worn something that supported a cause, even it was just a band T-Shirt. The cancer thing is just a tad bit more serious than any band you could love, but still.. They're just showing their support.

AcTivE · 03-20-2005, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Niger Angelus:
Well put. But it is just a way to raise awareness and to help people have a common [brain fart] ...

:Someone say what I am trying to say.

every time someone sees the bracelet..they are going to either think about it or not. the more bracelets there are, the more the desire their is to find out what it means.

then once they do, they feel a personal connection to the cause..they feel sympathy, and wear their own band...spreading the cause.

i think it's great. people are always going to have their opinions about things...but i think i can say, that, for a fact, it's always a good thing to be headed in a positive direction.

03-20-2005, 04:24 PM

Well you think most people think about cancer, but I for one, and others like me, see people who pretend to be for anything that a celebrety will endorse, spend a single fucking dollar, and wear the fuck out of the thing without actually helping a god damned person.

Cancer is allready the number 1 or 2 disease on the minds of the public (AIDS might be ahead, but I'd suspect Cancer is more thought about), it doesnt need any publicity, and $1 is like a slap in the face. But ooooh they raised millions of dollars blah blah blah, if they charged $20 for something worth while they'd raise billions.

Why not raise awareness for something that the public isn't aware of?! Wow that would be a fucking brilliant idea! Instead we get all these kids running around with their bracelets for all kinds of shit (and yes, its a fad to the extreme, ive seen bracelets in gas stations that say things like "support love" and "support peace" like someone is actually donating your $1 to "love" or "peace." These bracelets go hand in hand with the gay ribbons people put on their cars for breast cancer or support the troops or whatever.

I'm not cynical, I'd be the first to support these causes, or even raise awareness for something that the public isn't aware of, but I'll be damned if I'm going to look like a fag wearing a rubber band on my arm if someone is only going to get $1 out of it.

silver and cold · 03-20-2005, 04:49 PM

I have a POW/MIA ribbon in my car, it hangs from my mirror. I think they are nice.
I got it, because of a close friend over seas. He's been a POW in Baghdad and Kuwait, and Monday he goes back to Iraq.
Does that make me trendy, just because I'm supporting a good friend?
I guess I just care more about helping out others, than what the fuck I look like, or if I look trendy.

AcTivE · 03-20-2005, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by silver and cold:
I have a POW/MIA ribbon in my car, it hangs from my mirror. I think they are nice.
I got it, because of a close friend over seas. He's been a POW in Baghdad and Kuwait, and Monday he goes back to Iraq.
Does that make me trendy, just because I'm supporting a good friend?
I guess I just care more about helping out others, than what the fuck I look like, or if I look trendy.

Prisoner of War? ...

Ugly Bastard · 03-20-2005, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AcTivE:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by silver and cold:
I have a POW/MIA ribbon in my car, it hangs from my mirror. I think they are nice.
I got it, because of a close friend over seas. He's been a POW in Baghdad and Kuwait, and Monday he goes back to Iraq.
Does that make me trendy, just because I'm supporting a good friend?
I guess I just care more about helping out others, than what the fuck I look like, or if I look trendy.

Prisoner of War? ...[/quote]

StabMaster Arson · 03-20-2005, 07:14 PM

I'm sure that POW's are worried about how many people back home have black ribbons on their fucking cars, just like I'm sure that a lot of cancer patients almost care that every other random walking down the street is wearing a rubber band. if you really want to help a cause, simply give all that you can when you can... be it money, time, whatever. Slapping a magnet on your car, wearing a rubberband, tying a ribbon do nothing but make the person doing it feel a little better about themselves.

Mr. Blonde · 03-20-2005, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by StabMaster Arson:
I'm sure that POW's are worried about how many people back home have black ribbons on their fucking cars, just like I'm sure that a lot of cancer patients almost care that every other random walking down the street is wearing a rubber band. if you really want to help a cause, simply give all that you can when you can... be it money, time, whatever. Slapping a magnet on your car, wearing a rubberband, tying a ribbon do nothing but make the person doing it feel a little better about themselves.

Who wants to join me to foreign countries to free POW's? I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

farawayfromhere · 03-20-2005, 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by StabMaster Arson:
I'm sure that POW's are worried about how many people back home have black ribbons on their fucking cars, just like I'm sure that a lot of cancer patients almost care that every other random walking down the street is wearing a rubber band. if you really want to help a cause, simply give all that you can when you can... be it money, time, whatever. Slapping a magnet on your car, wearing a rubberband, tying a ribbon do nothing but make the person doing it feel a little better about themselves.

*raises hand (relatives w/ cancer)

And not meaning to argue Stab, but I agree with you on one level but not on another. I completely agree if you want to make a difference do something more than buy a dollar sticker or rubberband. But, on the other hand I completely disagree with the notion that the perpose of those are to only make the buyer feel better. I have a friend over seas as well and I know that he is absolutly exstatic to know that so many people are 'showing' support. It makes him feel great even if half the people sporting them are only doing it because its a trend. It doesnt only make the person who has it feel good but the people who it represents feel good as well, even if it technically doesnt 'do' anything.

AcTivE · 03-21-2005, 03:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr. Blonde:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by StabMaster Arson:
I'm sure that POW's are worried about how many people back home have black ribbons on their fucking cars, just like I'm sure that a lot of cancer patients almost care that every other random walking down the street is wearing a rubber band. if you really want to help a cause, simply give all that you can when you can... be it money, time, whatever. Slapping a magnet on your car, wearing a rubberband, tying a ribbon do nothing but make the person doing it feel a little better about themselves.

Who wants to join me to foreign countries to free POW's? I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.[/quote]
I would think they'd already have people on that..

Mr. Blonde · 03-21-2005, 03:31 AM

Shit, then I guess i'll just stick to doing what I can...

Niger Angelus · 03-21-2005, 03:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by AcTivE:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Niger Angelus:
Well put. But it is just a way to raise awareness and to help people have a common [brain fart] ...

:Someone say what I am trying to say.

every time someone sees the bracelet..they are going to either think about it or not. the more bracelets there are, the more the desire their is to find out what it means.

then once they do, they feel a personal connection to the cause..they feel sympathy, and wear their own band...spreading the cause.

i think it's great. people are always going to have their opinions about things...but i think i can say, that, for a fact, it's always a good thing to be headed in a positive direction.[/quote]
Thank you Active.

Mr. Blonde · 03-21-2005, 03:36 AM

When I had mine, people were always asking me what it was and what it stood for...I was always anxious and told them the website and such.

underwater · 03-22-2005, 01:59 AM

Then you're a perfect example of the people who should be wearing them. Not the dumbasses who, when asked, say, "Uhhh... I got it for a buck from this chick, and the whole 100 cents went to some people researching Cancer, I think. All my friends are wearing them."

03-22-2005, 02:09 AM

They really do more harm than good, I'f I saw a bunch of highschool punks wearing these things just to look sensitive and I had cancer, I'd be genuinely offended and probobly kick their asses.

George Sherman · 03-22-2005, 02:49 AM

talkikgn about hjating rterends is terndy

MAGICLIT · 03-22-2005, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by George Sherman:
talkikgn about hjating rterends is terndy

Sober translation : talkin about hating trends is trendy

Sober opinion: I agree

AcTivE · 03-22-2005, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MAGICLIT:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by George Sherman:
talkikgn about hjating rterends is terndy

Sober translation : talkin about hating trends is trendy

Sober opinion: I agree[/quote]
My translation was "Talking about hating retards is trendy"

St. Anky · 03-22-2005, 04:34 PM

I always thought that the cancer awareness was a pink ribbon... oh wait, thats for breast cancer. If only they could make some more money selling bracelets with different colors specifying the type of cancer.

Pink = breast
White = testicular
Brown = colon

wow, im gonna be rich...

03-18-2005, 05:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
StabMaster Arson Roscoe P. Coldchain Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Stabbin Cabin Posts: 2,759 Internets: 1425	in defense of the bracelets, I happen to be against cancer but before them I had no way of showing it. anyone who doesn't sport one of them is obviously pro-cancer. I wish they had bracelets that signified that I'm against the sarcasm tag cause I'd be tempted to wear one of those.
	LEGALIZE CRIME!

03-18-2005, 05:56 PM	#3 (permalink)
underwater Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: indiana Posts: 1,453 Internets: 10	What pisses me off is that they have all these stupid bracelets now that don't have anything to do with cancer, but yet strangely resemble the cancer awareness bracelets.
	We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, because your friends don't dance and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine.

03-18-2005, 06:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	How many of you actually have relatives with cancer? ::raises hand:: Granted, I'd probably still wear one in support even if I didn't, but I hate it when people just call it a fucking trend. I know it became a trend for a while, but who the fuck cares, as long as it's raising money for cancer I don't know why everybody is against it. On a side note, I got mine like last June before it became a "trend" anyways, and I tried to get fellow nubblites to support it here. However, nobody replied. I continued to wear it, never taking it off once, to shower, anything, until it broke like 2 weeks ago. When I get the chance i'll probably get another one. [ March 18, 2005, 03:09 PM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]
	Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. ― Terence McKenna

03-18-2005, 07:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
StabMaster Arson Roscoe P. Coldchain Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Stabbin Cabin Posts: 2,759 Internets: 1425	I've got a really good idea... how about simply giving what you can to support your cause without getting anything in return. Do you really need something to show that you gave? What does it help to wear a big rubber band around your wrist? I've had people in my family die from cancer and I beat a form of it myself... yet, oddly enough, I still don't feel the need to wear a faggy colored band to show that I'm against it. No one likes cancer.
	LEGALIZE CRIME!

03-18-2005, 07:52 PM	#6 (permalink)
Niger Angelus We still believe. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 4,697 Internets: 216	Well put. But it is just a way to raise awareness and to help people have a common [brain fart] ... :Someone say what I am trying to say.
	I enjoy knives and fire.

03-18-2005, 05:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
hello mr. man Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: somewhere around here Posts: 30 Internets: 10	nothing in particular but for example: those Lance Armstrong bracelets. They are for an excellent cause but I mean come on...People that smoke wear them...(hmm....HYPOCRISY!!!!) Anyways so yeah what are the most annoying trends that you've noticed...Currently it would have to be those half cut off shirts that girls wear...or how about stupid people who think it's cool to act like they like local music and ruin the whole scene....

03-19-2005, 07:58 PM	#7 (permalink)
underwater Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: indiana Posts: 1,453 Internets: 10	bond? ...ish type word? I think the Cancer bracelets were a good idea and I don't necessarily see why you're so negative about them, Stab. They merely show that the people wearing them support a cause: a cause against cancer, a cause for cancer awareness. I don't know what kind of person you are, but I'm sure that at some point or another you've worn something that supported a cause, even it was just a band T-Shirt. The cancer thing is just a tad bit more serious than any band you could love, but still.. They're just showing their support.
	We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, because your friends don't dance and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine.

03-20-2005, 04:24 PM	#9 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	Well you think most people think about cancer, but I for one, and others like me, see people who pretend to be for anything that a celebrety will endorse, spend a single fucking dollar, and wear the fuck out of the thing without actually helping a god damned person. Cancer is allready the number 1 or 2 disease on the minds of the public (AIDS might be ahead, but I'd suspect Cancer is more thought about), it doesnt need any publicity, and $1 is like a slap in the face. But ooooh they raised millions of dollars blah blah blah, if they charged $20 for something worth while they'd raise billions. Why not raise awareness for something that the public isn't aware of?! Wow that would be a fucking brilliant idea! Instead we get all these kids running around with their bracelets for all kinds of shit (and yes, its a fad to the extreme, ive seen bracelets in gas stations that say things like "support love" and "support peace" like someone is actually donating your $1 to "love" or "peace." These bracelets go hand in hand with the gay ribbons people put on their cars for breast cancer or support the troops or whatever. I'm not cynical, I'd be the first to support these causes, or even raise awareness for something that the public isn't aware of, but I'll be damned if I'm going to look like a fag wearing a rubber band on my arm if someone is only going to get $1 out of it.
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a

03-20-2005, 04:49 PM	#10 (permalink)
silver and cold Ish... Join Date: May 2003 Location: this nowhere Posts: 1,680 Internets: 10	I have a POW/MIA ribbon in my car, it hangs from my mirror. I think they are nice. I got it, because of a close friend over seas. He's been a POW in Baghdad and Kuwait, and Monday he goes back to Iraq. Does that make me trendy, just because I'm supporting a good friend? I guess I just care more about helping out others, than what the fuck I look like, or if I look trendy.
	the killer in me is the killer in you.

03-20-2005, 07:14 PM	#13 (permalink)
StabMaster Arson Roscoe P. Coldchain Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Stabbin Cabin Posts: 2,759 Internets: 1425	I'm sure that POW's are worried about how many people back home have black ribbons on their fucking cars, just like I'm sure that a lot of cancer patients almost care that every other random walking down the street is wearing a rubber band. if you really want to help a cause, simply give all that you can when you can... be it money, time, whatever. Slapping a magnet on your car, wearing a rubberband, tying a ribbon do nothing but make the person doing it feel a little better about themselves.
	LEGALIZE CRIME!

03-21-2005, 03:31 AM	#17 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	Shit, then I guess i'll just stick to doing what I can...
	Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. ― Terence McKenna

03-21-2005, 03:36 AM	#19 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	When I had mine, people were always asking me what it was and what it stood for...I was always anxious and told them the website and such.
	Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. ― Terence McKenna

03-22-2005, 01:59 AM	#20 (permalink)
underwater Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: indiana Posts: 1,453 Internets: 10	Then you're a perfect example of the people who should be wearing them. Not the dumbasses who, when asked, say, "Uhhh... I got it for a buck from this chick, and the whole 100 cents went to some people researching Cancer, I think. All my friends are wearing them."
	We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, because your friends don't dance and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine.

03-22-2005, 02:09 AM	#21 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	They really do more harm than good, I'f I saw a bunch of highschool punks wearing these things just to look sensitive and I had cancer, I'd be genuinely offended and probobly kick their asses.
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a

03-22-2005, 02:49 AM	#22 (permalink)
George Sherman Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Fullerton & Damen Posts: 1,109 Internets: 14	talkikgn about hjating rterends is terndy
	...to abuse the testicles of the establishment.

03-22-2005, 04:34 PM	#25 (permalink)
St. Anky Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,581 Internets: 6603	I always thought that the cancer awareness was a pink ribbon... oh wait, thats for breast cancer. If only they could make some more money selling bracelets with different colors specifying the type of cancer. Pink = breast White = testicular Brown = colon wow, im gonna be rich...