The Latest TREND.

[Moglet]

Always thought 'Superdry' was part founded by the guy that created 'Cult Clothing' (the guy's had stores for years, including Brum)... well, according to my boss anyway (owns a clothing label himself)... Chances are, whoever was pushing them from a market stall, it wouldn't surprise me if they were knock-offs.
Not that i care for 'Superdry' stuff anyway. (Never had, never will).

I've just Googled it and you're absolutely right! I must be thinking of another company, I remember reading an article about it in a magazine a few years ago.

 

[photonrider]

Prosumers.

Latest trend, getting hotter by the year, soon to become a routine part of our lives. You may be doing it. Unknowingly.

What's prosuming? Getting it before everybody else does. I think that's the ultimate in trendiness. Being 'with it' even before it arrives.

Preorder!

 

[Pupik]

Someone coined the term "prosumer" to define a class of goods that fell between professional and amateur. And since people enjoy stratification of their lives coupled with the satisfaction of owning stuff that others don't, the term was born.

Maybe in the next life, I will come back as a prosumer, if I amass enough stuff to qualify for the world's largest posthumous garage sale. Or at least, twenty-third largest in the region.

As an example, my camera. While an 1100D is generally far better in quality and useful features than any point and shoot on the market (wait, there's probably a $3400 one that's bleeding with awesome), there's double or single-digit+letter models that are streets better, but so as not to seem too uptight about marginalizing those that bought their talents rather than crafted them, they aren't about to call them professonial.

And then, the so-called arguments that never really occur in person are relegated to petty, wasteful quabbles on the internet, rather than actually enjoying said equipment in its own right. You know, for taking images of memories.

 

[Joel]

I guess it's the suggestive moves that are made - making it quite the fuss as when Elvis first appeared and started shaking his pelvis.
My guess is since we are glutted with entertainment of all sorts, anything that goes against the mainstream then becomes of huge interest - and that generates the virality.

It's not really about being suggestive IMO, most American pop or rap videos are more suggestive. I think it has more to do with it being very over the top, silly, and hilarious. As well as being in a language that sounds "funny" to English speakers. It's also rather catchy, and is instantly recognizable.

 

[photonrider]

Someone coined the term "prosumer" to define a class of goods that fell between professional and amateur. And since people enjoy stratification of their lives coupled with the satisfaction of owning stuff that others don't, the term was born............

Thanks for the correction, Pupik - you are absolutely right - that is exactly what PROSUMERS are.
My mistake - it was a typo - I meant PRESUMERS.
I'm hoping no one presumed to prosume something instead of presuming it.
Here's what Presumers are:
http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/infographics/presumers/

It's not really about being suggestive IMO, most American pop or rap videos are more suggestive. I think it has more to do with it being very over the top, silly, and hilarious.

This is what I meant - it was sort of a parody of how serious the mainstream videos take the portrayal of seduction.

As well as being in a language that sounds "funny" to English speakers. It's also rather catchy, and is instantly recognizable.

I was listening to the song before I heard about the video going viral - my youngest played it all the time (it seems to go well with Minecraft) and I myself starting humming it at work before I realised it - it is a catchy song.
However, he's playing something else now repetitively - I'm not sure what it is, but I think it's the 'latest' catchy one.

 

[photonrider]

I have a question about something I keep seeing on the internet lately.
I keep hearing about this "Gangnam Style" stuff. What is it?

It is now - the most viewed video ever on YouTube.

That didn't take long, did it?

 

[Doog]

It is now - the most viewed video ever on YouTube.

That didn't take long, did it?

Not just that, but it overtook Justin Bieber's Baby to become the most viewed video.

 

[photonrider]

This actually might be the first one to hit a billion.

 

[photonrider]

QUICK! What's your TWEETVALUE?

What? You didn't know? Better keep up with the trends - you could be making money, you know. Or, at the very least, you might have some value.

http://tweetvalue.com/

Am I surprised at Lady Gaga? I'm not sure. I mean . . . she is kinda interesting.

 

[Wilbur]

I heard some kid locally in iracing say "nut up" which basically means grow a set or man up but sound dumb. I was just thinking really.

 

[Northstar]

QUICK! What's your TWEETVALUE?

What? You didn't know? Better keep up with the trends - you could be making money, you know. Or, at the very least, you might have some value.

http://tweetvalue.com/

Am I surprised at Lady Gaga? I'm not sure. I mean . . . she is kinda interesting.

Reminds me of the South Park episode where they do the "what What" video with Butters to get money for Canada to end their strike.

 

[TB]

I heard some kid locally in iracing say "nut up" which basically means grow a set or man up but sound dumb. I was just thinking really.

"Nut up or shut up" is used by Woody Haroldson's character Tallahassee in Zombieland.

 

[RTSolvalou]

I took the phrase 'too easy' from a game from 1997 and deployed it in use from 2001, as a form of lightweight, quick conversation ender and/or agreement to conduct your part of X activity (bringing a cake to a party or something). Nowadays everyone's saying it like they get paid to and I hate it. I stopped using it in 2008 or so as someone used it on ME, it's been downhill since then.

 

[photonrider]

Nut up?

Hm. I need to use that on some people around me, check the reactions. If I'm not back . . . call the cops.

Not heard 'too easy' around this neck of the woods . . . however - what's with all the swearing that the younger folk are spouting these days? I'm talking about kids as young as nine, even seven. When is the F-Bomb actually going to be killed and replaced?
There just doesn't seem to be a word strong and macho and shocking enough to take its place.
Then again . . . maybe that's a good thing. I better nut up.

 

[RTSolvalou]

Forgot to add- I'm sure it didn't spread from me that much, I'm actually wondering where the likely vast majority of other people got it from, it's a rather specific sort of phrase.

 

[photonrider]

Sometimes the trendy phrase never dies - it keeps moving through communities, cultures and through time . . . just like a ripple from a stone cast into a pond and it lives as this wave through time itself. I remember as a teen , many, many years ago "too easy' been used, over-used, and abused, before it was let go as untrendy. And so it goes full circle.

I've noticed a new trend by some people - carrying two phones. What they call a 'money' phone and another they call their 'personal' phone. One of my clients called it her 'Business phone' and the second one her 'friend phone'. Usually one is a Blackberry, the other Samsung or Apple as I've noticed.

I'm leaving that trend alone. I can't keep track of the one cellphone I have, let alone trying to juggle two.

 

[lbsf1]

Sometimes the trendy phrase never dies - it keeps moving through communities, cultures and through time . . . just like a ripple from a stone cast into a pond and it lives as this wave through time itself. I remember as a teen , many, many years ago "too easy' been used, over-used, and abused, before it was let go as untrendy. And so it goes full circle.

I've noticed a new trend by some people - carrying two phones. What they call a 'money' phone and another they call their 'personal' phone. One of my clients called it her 'Business phone' and the second one her 'friend phone'. Usually one is a Blackberry, the other Samsung or Apple as I've noticed.

I'm leaving that trend alone. I can't keep track of the one cellphone I have, let alone trying to juggle two.

Just tell them to be careful if they get searched by police. On UK police tv shows they have arrested people for drug offences just because they say having 2 phones is reasonable enough suspicion (ones for legal stuff ones for illegal stuff) to arrest you.

and it wouldn't just be for possession it would be for "intent to supply".


Anyhow back on topic, some of the "swag" people have started wearing t shirts that are so long they go down to their knees. Makes absolutely no sense to me and they look stupid like it.

 

[photonrider]

Just tell them to be careful if they get searched by police. On UK police tv shows they have arrested people for drug offences just because they say having 2 phones is reasonable enough suspicion (ones for legal stuff ones for illegal stuff) to arrest you.

and it wouldn't just be for possession it would be for "intent to supply".

Over here it's a common thing, in fact most small business owners might have multiple phones.
Also it seems like the Z10 offers a different set of dishes in comparison to Apple's 5G, for instance.
Even schoolkids sometimes have multiple phones because of the various deals available over here (Pre-paid and Pay-As-You-Go).
Obviously the UK is a whole other country.. . .

Anyhow back on topic, some of the "swag" people have started wearing t shirts that are so long they go down to their knees. Makes absolutely no sense to me and they look stupid like it.

That down-to-the-knee look appeared before! They're combining it!

 

[photonrider]

YOLO is no more.

Seems like it's going in another direction; I'm hearing Y.O.L.O.D. now.. . .

 

[kennylmao]

Y.O.L.O.D means You Only Live Once... Died???

 

[photonrider]

GTPLanet kills me. I'm out of here. Need recuperation.

 

[Lizard]

Seems like it's going in another direction; I'm hearing Y.O.L.O.D. now.. . .

I see what you did there.

It means you obviously love one direction.

 

[photonrider]

I never race backwards.

What is it with the NSFW thing?

Right. Everybody knows what it is. Or do we? There is no real defined concept what it stands for yet. Yet everybody's using it nowadays. On the net and off.
"Don't go there. It's NSFW," someone says over your shoulder.
"Huh? What?"

What is NSFW, anyway?

I wear steel-toed safety boots quite often, even a hard hat.. . .

 

[AudiMan2011]

I never race backwards.

What is it with the NSFW thing?

Right. Everybody knows what it is. Or do we? There is no real defined concept what it stands for yet. Yet everybody's using it nowadays. On the net and off.
"Don't go there. It's NSFW," someone says over your shoulder.
"Huh? What?"

What is NSFW, anyway?

I wear steel-toed safety boots quite often, even a hard hat.. . .

NSFW- Not Safe For Work. Usually used for referencing internet porn.

 

[photonrider]

Only?

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

NSFW- Not Safe For Work. Usually used for referencing internet porn.

It depends where you work.

 

[Pupik]

Only?

There goes my North, South, Feast, West joke.

It depends where you work.

Or who owns your laptop.

 

[photonrider]

I would think some companies do not permit the use of the internet for any other thing than work-related net-checks - maybe a too strict boss for instance at the helm - and therefore any site - even GTP - would be NSFW.

However - from what I'm experiencing lately at the ripple as it moves wider - NSFW is generally meant a site that would be offensive.

From there . . . what is considered offensive I guess is whether one is North, South, uh . . erm . .

 

[McLaren]

I never race backwards.

What is it with the NSFW thing?

Right. Everybody knows what it is. Or do we? There is no real defined concept what it stands for yet. Yet everybody's using it nowadays. On the net and off.
"Don't go there. It's NSFW," someone says over your shoulder.
"Huh? What?"

What is NSFW, anyway?

I wear steel-toed safety boots quite often, even a hard hat.. . .

If someone's saying it out loud, you better be at a computer.

 

[kennylmao]

YOLO is no more.

Seems like it's going in another direction; I'm hearing Y.O.L.O.D. now.. . .

I see what you did there.

It means you obviously love one direction.

Oh no! So that's what it meant?!!

Stupid boy bands, lol.

I mean it.