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scottydoesntknow		2012-12-12 01:18:53 PM

8 votes:

Missing from list: Linking to Gawker articles

Tax Boy		2012-12-12 04:33:01 PM

4 votes:

#24 Zombies in everything

/2013 is going to be the year of the mummy

Makh		2012-12-12 03:55:36 PM

3 votes:

Blogs like this one.

Cyberluddite		2012-12-12 01:29:34 PM

3 votes:

phlegmmo: Talking about bacon: Man, please, just shut the fark up about bacon.

BLASPHEMY!!!

Nah, I'm with them on that. I like bacon as much as anybody else, but the complete obsession with it is a little weird. It's not like bacon is anything new, or significantly different from what it's been the last couple hundred years.

sethstorm		2012-12-12 04:32:41 PM

2 votes:

23. Unionbusting
24. ALEC's influence

Pick		2012-12-12 04:31:48 PM

2 votes:

23. Obama's presidency

UrCa		2012-12-12 04:30:39 PM

2 votes:

I was always led to believe swag was "stuff we all get" in reference to the magnets, buttons, stickers and whatnot you got from the stands. When I went to Comiccon a few years back even the people at the badge station were inviting people over to "come get your swag!"

croesius		2012-12-12 11:02:22 PM

1 votes:

WhippingBoy: StoPPeRmobile: Bill Frist: Nerds were never really cool, but at least it used to mean that you liked a certain class of things that other people didn't like (just like being a punk or goth did with other things).

Now every farking person calls themselves a nerd just cause they... like what everyone else likes!

If it takes me a couple of hours to know all you know about a topic, you are not a nerd.

But I have glasses and I'm wearing a "Talk Nerdy to Me" t-shirt!!!

mirthbomb.com

QT_3.14159		2012-12-12 10:54:34 PM

1 votes:

Steampunk is awesome. Anything that inspires my 15 year old to design and build expanding wings, exposing her to metal working, design, leather working and some basic mechanics is great with me.

akula		2012-12-12 08:44:44 PM

1 votes:

pxlboy: zedster: Korzine: Dr. Dre Beats are not $300 headphones, they are a $300 fashion accessory (it's kind of like Bose for young people).

$300 (and higher) head phones would be things like Sennheiser (my preferred brand), Grado (my brothers preferred brand), Audio Techica, Shure, ect. I've never seen such headphones on people in public.

Ya, You are buying image and not quality, they are good headphones but not good bang for your buck.

Also Bose = Buy Other Sound Equipment

/likes Sennheiser and few pairs of Monoprice earbuds, if I lose them no biggie

Thank you. I read the specs on those Beats phones and immediately realized that Beats are the new Jordans; and overpriced "luxury brand" for morons to buy. Yeah, if I'm dropping $300 on a set of phones, they're going to be good goddamned phones.

Also, wearing the full-sized cans in public makes you look like a moron.

High fives all around.

I have a set of Sennheiser HD580s (the Grados are nice, but not shaped for human ears), and they cost me $200 several years back... they're still awesome cans. But they aren't for use in public- comfy, but way too big.

For out and about use, I have a set of cheap Koss that sound great, wear easily, don't cost an arm and a leg, and don't scream "mug me because I have so much money I spend it on shiat audio equipment."

WhippingBoy		2012-12-12 08:37:59 PM

1 votes:

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Can I add "If you're going to try to be a curmudgeon about things at least try to be clever." That was the equivalent of the hit star of the 90s comedy SEINFELD Seinfeld's "HEY WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH..." schtick done by Dennis Leary.

The idea that steampunk is somehow "overexposed" to anyone who hasn't gone well out of their way to look for it is ridiculous.

I'd disagree. It's an extremely shoddy one-note concept that wears really, really quickly. Kickstarter is diseased with projects for gluing cardboard gears onto things.

I have to agree. I like the aesthetics and concept of steam punk, but I can't take it seriously due to it's over exposure. I have more respect for bronies or furries than I do for people wearing "steampunk" fashions.

Steampunk is a condiment, not a main course.

SockMonkeyHolocaust		2012-12-12 08:34:08 PM

1 votes:

Can I add "If you're going to try to be a curmudgeon about things at least try to be clever." That was the equivalent of the hit star of the 90s comedy SEINFELD Seinfeld's "HEY WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH..." schtick done by Dennis Leary.

The idea that steampunk is somehow "overexposed" to anyone who hasn't gone well out of their way to look for it is ridiculous.

I'd disagree. It's an extremely shoddy one-note concept that wears really, really quickly. Kickstarter is diseased with projects for gluing cardboard gears onto things.

pxlboy		2012-12-12 08:17:17 PM

1 votes:

zedster: Korzine: Dr. Dre Beats are not $300 headphones, they are a $300 fashion accessory (it's kind of like Bose for young people).

$300 (and higher) head phones would be things like Sennheiser (my preferred brand), Grado (my brothers preferred brand), Audio Techica, Shure, ect. I've never seen such headphones on people in public.

Ya, You are buying image and not quality, they are good headphones but not good bang for your buck.

Also Bose = Buy Other Sound Equipment

/likes Sennheiser and few pairs of Monoprice earbuds, if I lose them no biggie

Thank you. I read the specs on those Beats phones and immediately realized that Beats are the new Jordans; and overpriced "luxury brand" for morons to buy. Yeah, if I'm dropping $300 on a set of phones, they're going to be good goddamned phones.

Also, wearing the full-sized cans in public makes you look like a moron.

zedster		2012-12-12 08:10:24 PM

1 votes:

Korzine: Dr. Dre Beats are not $300 headphones, they are a $300 fashion accessory (it's kind of like Bose for young people).

$300 (and higher) head phones would be things like Sennheiser (my preferred brand), Grado (my brothers preferred brand), Audio Techica, Shure, ect. I've never seen such headphones on people in public.

Ya, You are buying image and not quality, they are good headphones but not good bang for your buck.

Also Bose = Buy Other Sound Equipment

/likes Sennheiser and few pairs of Monoprice earbuds, if I lose them no biggie

Arachnophobe		2012-12-12 07:05:03 PM

1 votes:

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: Who the fark is Karmin?

Seriously, never heard of them

Oh good, I'm not the only one.

DontMakeMeComeBackThere		2012-12-12 07:03:13 PM

1 votes:

Who the fark is Karmin?

Seriously, never heard of them

Tr0mBoNe		2012-12-12 06:52:20 PM

1 votes:

Bill Frist:
None of that shiat makes you a nerd!!!

Right. My 3D printer, HO scale train layout, handmade mechanical computer and bed shaped like a race car make me a nerd.

Bondith		2012-12-12 06:49:47 PM

1 votes:

Bill Frist: Pretending that being a nerd is a bad thing anymore: It's no longer self-deprecating to call yourself a "nerd"-"I'm reading 'Game of Thrones.' SO NERDY!"-so stop pretending that it is. Nerds started Apple and Facebook and everything else people obsess over nowadays, and comic book movies are consistent blockbusters at theaters. Nerds are the most powerful people in the world now. Nerds are the new jocks.

This is the worst one.

It isn't just pretending "nerd" is bad, but also the whole idea that you are a "nerd" for liking shiat that everyone else likes. You watched Star Wars, one of the most succesful film franchises ever? You watch a popular TV show like Game of Thrones? You read popular books like Hunger Games? You know the names of the superheros in the Avengers, one of the best box office movies in recent history? You play video games like half the country does?

None of that shiat makes you a nerd!!!

I was a nerd before nerds were cool.

/the irony in that statement is threatening to suck my keyboard into a black hole of hipster-nerd douchebaggery

Whatthefark		2012-12-12 05:37:26 PM

1 votes:

23. American Idol
24. 3.2% beer
25. Women voting

/I do agree with the other poster about zombies being in everything.

Jedekai		2012-12-12 05:26:56 PM

1 votes:

Came for "The Epic Jar" - leaving happy.

Especially since no rational person knows that using it as an interjection came from Vanilla WoW... when finding a Rare drop was a 1/25000 chance.

Getting one was, LITERALLY, epic.

Stratohead		2012-12-12 05:21:29 PM

1 votes:

LowbrowDeluxe: Stratohead: Tax Boy: #24 Zombies in everything

/2013 is going to be the year of the mummy

#25 "Steampunk" anything

You know what, both of you can go fark yourselves. Name 5 steampunk media released in the last year. I dare you. I DOUBLE farkING DARE you.
Back at you you lazy bastard

heres the deal, anything good can be ruined by over-exposure. Bacon is still good, and "SteamPunk" is still an interesting genre of fiction in its own right...and Zombies...well...Zombies have sucked for like 20 years... but people constantly talking about Bacon, or pretending that ANYTHING and EVERYTHING can be "made better with bacon" (it can't) or slapping bacon logos on everything is just retarded.
Steampunk as a genre can be good.... pretending we need bands that sing about airships and how cool it is to glue watch cogs onto everything for no reason just soRenFaire geeks have an excuse to recycle their rennie "garb" by adding watch cogs and goggles...equally retarded.

Zombies...totally played out...there is nothing left to be added to the genre at all. its all be done. It's been done well a few times...but mostly its just been done poorly to cash in... and all the "Zombie Squad" and "zombie Crawl" people can just get over it.

/cope

the opposite of charity is justice		2012-12-12 05:15:40 PM

1 votes:

If over half the stuff you talk about hating is twitter-related, the thing that must end is *you*.

Ed Grubermann		2012-12-12 04:53:11 PM

1 votes:

23: Vertical videos!
24: People looking at their mobile screens while taking a picture in the mirror. Look into the lens, you rat-raping morons!

ManateeGag		2012-12-12 04:47:33 PM

1 votes:

Pick: 23. Obama's presidency

maybe you missed it, but Obama won last month. you are going to have to cry like a little biatch until January 2017.

thecpt		2012-12-12 04:42:56 PM

1 votes:

DrTheo: Bacon!!...How did this article get a green light on FARK? WTF?

It really is annoying. There. I said it.

GoldSpider		2012-12-12 04:35:19 PM

1 votes:

GAT_00: Too bad mass shootings aren't on that list.

Just take away the guns. Problem solved!

Stone Meadow		2012-12-12 04:33:12 PM

1 votes:

The word "Swag"? Really? That word has been around for FIVE-HUNDRED farking years. And when someone my age uses it we aren't talking about being gay.