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[Akmuq]

I quite like Jansport bags, although for a different reason

At my school, there's this 'fad' called 'burrito-ing.' Essentially, you tip everything out of someone's bag, turn the bag inside out and then put everything back in. Everyone at my school has Jansports. And they're really easy to 'burrito'

That's awesome to do, but its called 'bagging' and yeah Jansports were easy to bag, but I had one for the last couple of years also.

Luckily I've a new bag this year that isn't Jansport.👍

 

[Patrick]

It's burrito-ing, but whatever.

 

[photonrider]

'Bagging?' I'm already out of date? I just learned 'burritoing' for chrissakes!

Well, here's the story:
We had already bought the backpacks - a tough and expensive Kodiak for the 12 year old man who was whining about Jansport, and some other Swiss Army thousand-zippered, 50 thousand pocket thing-a-ma-jig for the 14 year old.
Next day we go to the Mall for clothes - and there is a luggage shop in there with walls (and tables out in the main thoroughfare) covered in Jansports. They all look the same - very flimsy, about two zips, looks like they cost 50 cents to make in some sweatshop. Preteens and teens were swarming around them like flies around crap.
My preteen wasn't impressed that we had already picked the Kodiak; he wanted to get a Jansport, too.
"Are you nuts?" I asked him. "You'll get burritoed!"
"Duh? Burri- wut?"
"Burritoed, man, you don't know nothing," I said nonchalently, the trendiest guy in town (having learned from GTPlanet, of course.) "Burritoed. It's when they take your backpack, empty it, turn your pack inside out and stuff everything back again. Sick."
"Huh? Who told you?"
"Never mind. Can't divulge my sources. You want to be burritoed - well, it's up to you. We'll get a Jansport and return the Kodiak."
The little man goes and examines the lazy, two-zipper, piece of vinyl that is Jansport. They are priced at $39.99 each. These, I remember, look like the same Jansports I paid $14.99 for about 3 - 4 years ago (my sons called it 'babyish' then, and wanted Northern Escape.)
"I'll hold that thought, Dad," he says. " Let me check out what's happening at school first, okay? I like the Kodiak anyway. These Jansports might go on sale later. Hm. Burritoed, eh?"

So there we are - knowing the trend can be handy.
Hope he doesn't start burritoing people at school, though.

 

[lbsf1]

Its not a new thing, we have spent the last 2 years doing that at our school however we called it something different, however I can't remember for the life of me what we called it.

 

[Tahli462]

Well I know what you guys are talking about, but where I live they call it "Ninja a Backpack"

 

[lbsf1]

Ah, remembered what we called it, we called it "nuggeting" a bag.

I did have some pictures on my phone of some of my skilled nuggets however I must have deleted them as I can't find them now.

This craze however didn't stop at bags for us, it continued to pencil cases, coats and even once I saw a nuggeted shoe.

 

[BJBEOSmitty]

Seems like "The Shocker" symbol is becoming less popular in teenagers pictures. It was always quite moronic to see it flashed by guys who have clearly never even kissed a girl, much less, well, you know.

 

[Monatsende]

Beards and lumberjack look for men (not for women!!!)
But there are differences.

Trendy? Yes!

Trendy? No!

 

[BJBEOSmitty]

I have never, ever seen nose hair like that before! Silly Germans.

 

[photonrider]

Just one look at this thread daily, and I'm trendy!

Trends, of course, reappear with different names, but some just never come back; who would sport a Beatle haircut, and wear Beatle boots today?
Yet, there was a time.. . .

 

[BJBEOSmitty]

If you don't realize many, many young male singers of today have Beatle style haircuts then I am astonished...

Not Abbey Road or Rubber Soul style, more "Hard Days Night"

 

[photonrider]

I actually don't, but I'm sure some do - though they probably wouldn't be caught dead calling it a 'Beatle Haircut' !
I know it's still the fashion to pause on the crosswalk and have your picure taken, though.

The SWAG thing is out . . of . . control!
Every clothing store is loaded with . . . swaggisms? Slogans about SWAG anyway.
Saw a really old guy the other day wearing a black T-Shirt with mile-high lime green letters that said DON"T TOUCH MY SWAG. And I saw a pre-teen girl wear one that said CAN't BEAT MY SWAG.

It's become swagadelic, baby.

 

[heingericke]

That's just not right tho. Swag is an acronym that's been around for a long time and stands for "scientific wild assed guess".
If you don't know the true answer to something, or how to do something, then you "take a swag at it". Now, I'm a product of the '70's and was using that acronym long before the kids of today. So I feel I have a certain intellectual right to it's meaning and use. Change it back please.
Teens of today are taking the real meanings of already placed words/phrases and changing them, morphing them, into completely different things. Why can't they leave the stuff alone that's already there and come up with their own like we did? Or did we? lol

How'd you feel about "shotgun"? I work with a lot of uni students, kids really, 18-21. They're always busy shotgunning everything in place of "bagsy", I remember shotgun to only apply to bagsying(spelling?) the front passenger seat of a car, being fairly aware of its American origin, it bothers me somewhat. And of course, can't forgot all of them thinking they're living in an episode of Friends. "like, that is so not true!". Why does every word you say have to be the punchline to the word before? Nobody needs to be that funny.

 

[W3H5]

How'd you feel about "shotgun"? I work with a lot of uni students, kids really, 18-21. They're always busy shotgunning everything in place of "bagsy",

I've always said "dibs" in that situation.


No idea where it came from but I'm sure I'm not the only one who says it.

 

[TB]

Shotgun is the front, passenger seat of a vehicle.

Dibs is first shot/go/turn at something.

 

[heingericke]

Yep, familiar with first dibs and its meaning(though what it derives from?), in the UK a popular alternative is bagsy first etc.

Shotgun is the front passenger who sat next to the coach driver in the wild west when going through indian country. He sat there with a shotgun looking out for Apache.

 

[TB]

in the UK a popular alternative is bagsy first etc.

That one hasn't made it's way across the pond to us. Yet.

 

[ZohsixGT5]

Our rule for shotgun is that you can't call it until the car is in view. Mainly applied when we were younger when people drove hatchbacks and stuff. Now I like riding in the back, everyone has bigger cars.

 

[sneakypete123]

What was once a trend is now mainstream.
Which one am I talking about?
Taking live-action video and photographs of whatever disaster is happening around the person - doesn't matter if the Cessna you are flying in is about to buy the farm, or people getting shot six feet away from you, or a tsunami is about lift you 200 feet into the air - the iPhone has to keep rolling. ( Or Samsung - is that the same thing?)
This started out with Rodney King - an amateur video going viral - with stunning consequences. Along the way - as the public grew braver, and the media got more hungry - and there was fame and money involved in 'iReporting' - everybody picked up on it to the point that most of the graphic images and close-up video of what happened at Times Square in front of the Empire State Building was from the hundreds of iReporters on the scene.
iReporters.
iReporting which was once a trend (before it became iReporting) is now the norm. The trendiness about it of course is that it's now called iReporting.

So if you want to be mainstream - iReport! And hopefully your iReport goes viral. Then you'll be trendy.

Completly agree with this, take a look at this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYo3kORaXAo

Now this was filmed on a device invented for making phone calls anywhere and everywhere but it seems we now live in an age where peoples first reaction to tradgedy unfolding infront of them is to take a mobile phone and film the event instead of call for help.

 

[Pupik]

...peoples first reaction to tragedy unfolding infront of them is to take a mobile phone and film the event instead of call for help.

Generally, this is a combination of two things:

1) The bystander effect in which responsibility and social norms "hold back" people from doing what is essentially the right thing in a large group...this doesn't always happen, there are acts of heroism by taking a moral/logical/authoritative/legal high road which can stop these things, even without a lack of authority or ability to stop a crowd, but there's many cases of it.

2) There's a second phenomenon that can be attributed to this, and I have no idea what kind of name it has...several members of media have later described that on occasions of intense situations, the camera or recording device acts as a type of "shield" which deflects the reality occurring, even though they are recording/filming it or eye-witnessing it. I have heard photographers and filmers later describe that the very lens that records and documents reality also seems to "protect" them from a harsher reality.

While I know not everyone with a camera-phone is a true journalist, I wonder if this latter phenomenon kind of acts like a bubble, in which we feel sealed off by events -- even dangerous ones -- occurring around us. (Or perhaps they just want lots of YouTube views.)

 

[photonrider]

Thought-provoking post, Pupik. 👍

Completly agree with this, take a look at this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYo3kORaXAo

Now this was filmed on a device invented for making phone calls anywhere and everywhere but it seems we now live in an age where peoples first reaction to tradgedy unfolding infront of them is to take a mobile phone and film the event instead of call for help.

What was funny about that video is the surreality of it all happening while seemingly 'life goes on'.
As for the device - this was all Dick Tracy's fault. But, the wristwatch became the phone, and the phone is now the new brain-center - and brains seem to want to record everything. Dangerous trend, though, in certain circumstances; it's like it's more important to get the pictures of the guy being eaten up by the lion, than saving him.
I recall a story from way back about a guy called, (not sure) Neil Moses, who was filming a charging elephant, and continued to film the animal till it ran him down dead. The footage survived.
That I would label as a killing passion for one's vocation, but whipping out your phone to catch the latest tragedy as it unfolds in front of one's eyes seems counter-intuitive - though Nature must have some obscure reason for evolving us as such.

Something new I have noticed since schools reopened - brightly coloured shoes (preferably Nike) - all in one colour. Maybe they existed before - but this school year seems like it has had a new beginning.

Seeing someone walk around in the flourescent green pair near blinded me. Guess they wouldn't get lost that easy, eh?

 

[Doog]

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

 

[W3H5]

Gangnam Style is a crazy song & music video from a popular Korean artist. It's completely insane and well worth watching just for its utter madness.

Just Youtube it and laugh yourself silly.

 

[Azuremen]

Gangnam Style is a crazy song & music video from a popular Korean artist. It's completely insane and well worth watching just for its utter madness.

While he is popular, it is more for being rather odd and refusing to fall into the typical mold of most K-pop artists. And I think his early work was very controversial and restricted in South Korea.

In short, he doesn't give bleep

 

[photonrider]

Gangnam went viral with those moves - but the lifeguards who did a parody on it (and also went viral) got into deep water.

Not everybody can be trusted to shake their booty right.

 

[Pupik]

Watched it, but I don't get all the fuss.

 

[photonrider]

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.

 

[Pupik]

Not really much different than a lot of R&B/hip-hop videos. I suppose we wouldn't be talking about it if the video came from America. Of course, if it was North Korea, then I'd really raise an eyebrow...but it otherwise just seems like flash and noise, just from another land.

I guess if you're a teenager or tween, it must golly-whiz-bang new and special.

 

[photonrider]

At this point no where near special as the iPhone 5, apparently.
And of course the detractors have already started with the memes.

Heard news that 'leather' is in. New flavour of the month? Or will it last?

And, yes, Jansport is now old hat bag. Money saved by those who held back will now be put towards leather, I guess.

 

[Nessy]

Oh dear. Superdry isn't the kind of 'trend' you want to be too proud of starting. Osaka 6! They're not even well made clothes, they're just cheap t-shirts that some guy used to sell on a market in London for next to nothing. He realised the funboys and gym-heads were lapping them up, so put an insane price tag on them and started flogging them on the high street. You'd probably get a better top from Tesco.

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).