Your Childhood Sucked

While the majority of us are coming to grips with the big and intimidating decade we have ahead, the remainder are taking time to humiliate the defenseless past, mostly the previous decade, or the eighties, the universal butt of every culture joke. Of course, hilarity ensues among such critics until they reach their own childhood. Then they go quiet.
So much for seeing history realistically through rose-tinted glasses. Everyone, no matter how old, has a soft spot for a certain period during their childhood. For us, I suppose it was around 1997-2002 that we started to remember things fondly. However, although I hate to say it, our childhood sucked. Why? Look at the overwhelming evidence:

• The onslaught of boy bands and 'bubble pop' that dominated the American pop music industry for a short period in the late 1990's. Take vapid and commercial Aqua, *NSYNC, Spice Girls and The Backstreet Boys. The fact that they exist serves proof alone that music hit a new low after the spike in grunge and alternative music.
• September 11, 2001 refueled some well needed paranoia, public outbursts, xenophobia and poor stock market performance in Western society. It also was known as one of the darkest days in (very) modern history.
  
• I have a copy of Guiness World Records 1999. The largest television of the time was 50 inches long. VCR hadn't died out yet, nor had those garish Polaroid cameras. The best console on the market was the PlayStation (With games, I quote, "boasting state of the art graphics") and the... GameBoy Color. And everyone used... ugh... Windows 95.
• The public of the time paid millions, more than any other film then, to see a movie where there's people on a boat and it sinks and they die.

Look, I'm not going to be able to make a point here, so do the research here for yourself. The lesson is not to embrace culture, but open your eyes and see how ridiculous and pathetic it is. Like your childhood. It sucked.
~Ryoke out

12 Trends We Want To See Die In 2010

Trends, fads. We all love them. From Hula-Hoops to Yo-Yos. there are some memorable fads and others that we shudder at the memory of (eg. 80's hairstyles). So, those of us with the observant mind have complied a list of 12 trends from the late 2000's that should be dead and buried this coming decade.

"The late 2000's have given rise to some pretty annoying trends. Every new year brings the promise of change (no, not Obama's kind of change) and with 2010 right around the corner, we can only hope that some of the awful trends of the past few years stay in this decade. As the year winds to a close, let's take some time to examine 12 trends we hope to see die in the 2010. If you fell victim to any of these fads, then do us all a favor and slap yourself in the testicles -- and resolve to let them go tonight at midnight... [more]"

Bring forth the future, without us being hindered by tired and annoying fads!

~Epsilon out