Stuff you thought was cool but wasn't

[Althalus]

When I was a kid, I used to think the early 2000s Monte Carlos with the fake cheesy checkered flag stickers, were the coolest cars ever. Probably because it looked vaguely like a NASCAR car if you squinted really hard.



These are just re-bodied Chevy Impalas and today, they have a justified reputation for being poorly-made cars driven by trailer trash.

As shitty and uncool as they are, I still sort of want one all these years later.......

 

[Pina Colada]

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This fucking thing ruined one of my childhood vacations.

Those never worked no matter what I did with the stupid string. I gave up and pretended it was a feather boa for my Barbies if I didn't leave it collecting dust.

 

[Damien Thorne]

I thought the 2 Live Crew was hilarious when I was in middle school. Now I realize they had the dumbest lyrics ever.

 

[beautiful person]

Smoking weed all day e'ryday. Glad I cut that shit out.

 

[Jason Wynn]

In my senior year of high school, I was blasting the Queen of the Damned soundtrack constantly.

Nu metal sucks. That movie sucked.

 

[Pee Cola]

When I was a kid, I used to think the early 2000s Monte Carlos with the fake cheesy checkered flag stickers, were the coolest cars ever. Probably because it looked vaguely like a NASCAR car if you squinted really hard.

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These are just re-bodied Chevy Impalas and today, they have a justified reputation for being poorly-made cars driven by trailer trash.

As shitty and uncool as they are, I still sort of want one all these years later.......

That's still way cooler than any shitbox EV.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

LA Lights. When you're eight, shoes that light up is the coolest thing ever. You're untouchable, hot shit. As a 40 year old, you realize it's one of the tackiest fashion statements conceivable.

i wanted some light up shoes so badly as a kid. they were the coolest thing at one point in my life. once again my mom said no, the excuse being i would do nothing but stomp my heels all day in class to light up the shoe and not pay attention in class. once again my mom was wrong about my behavior.

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i came so close to buying one of those when it first came out. thankfully i never did waste my money on it, but it was tempting up until i saw nothing but bad user reviews for it.

 

[Zetsubou]

Silver polyester jackets. Polyester in general actually I've got no idea how the early 2000s convinced us wearing trash bags was cool.

 

[souschef]

Business suits. Back when I didn't realise that you wear them for work, and that working sucks.

Wearing a business suit is cool until you're wearing a tie in a hot sunny day, fuck that

 

[McMitch]

Progressive rock. I understand that it’s the musical equivalent of playing Magic: the Gathering. I’m still going to think it’s cool, and that it’s the closest in the modern era we will get to classical composers, but it’s created a great game to see how quickly I can get kicked off the aux cord.

Spoiler: Rules of the game

1) No overtly offensive language or themes.
2) No obnoxiously held single harsh tones.
3) I WILL be talking about whatever trivia I know of the current song or album.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

I'm gonna go with Bill Hicks. As a teenager and young adult, you'd think his way of thinking was some bold rebellion against sinister forces, but as you become an adult you find that his type are just a dime a dozen and making gripes without proposing solutions is actually contemptible, not commendable. In my defense, in the pre-internet age, it was more difficult to get "edgy" takes out there and the few that pierced the veil were rare and highly cherished (basic supply and demand type stuff), whereas the coming of the internet showed that these dime a dozen takes weren't the brilliant insights we all thought. Sometimes saying no is a bold act of resistance, sometimes it's just being a petulant child. You have to know the difference and be honest with yourself.

 

[TURBONIGGERKIKE]

NIGGERS

 

[THE SUPREME ONION]

everything i touhgt were cool is still cool ebcause i ahve good taste

 

[DankSmoker]

Razor scooters. Which is funny with all those communal scooters I see goobers riding now, and I'm like "wow, I must've looked like a real faggot"

 

[Broseph]

I used to wear band shirts all the time when I was in high school but now I realize that band shirts are honestly pretty cringey to wear if you're an adult.

 

[DankSmoker]

I used to wear band shirts all the time when I was in high school but now I realize that band shirts are honestly pretty cringey to wear if you're an adult.

It's incredibly humbling thinking you're some badass free thinking rebel and seeing some other kid wearing the same band tshirt from hot topic.

 

[Broseph]

It's incredibly humbling thinking you're some badass free thinking rebel and seeing some other kid wearing the same band tshirt from hot topic.

It's not so much about "being a rebel" it's just that having a wardrobe that consists almost entirely of shirts with band logos on them looks pretty damn cringey when you're an adult and not some angsty kid. I think it's fine to wear a band shirt to a concert or something like that but it's not really something an adult should wear all the time as it looks super cringey and lame, and I would know since I used to wear "heavy metal" shirts all the time back then but then I remembered that I'm not an "edgy" 16 year old anymore.

 

[DankSmoker]

It's not so much about "being a rebel" it's just that having a wardrobe that consists almost entirely of shirts with band logos on them looks pretty damn cringey when you're an adult and not some angsty kid. I think it's fine to wear a band shirt to a concert or something like that but it's not really something an adult should wear all the time as it looks super cringey and lame, and I would know since I used to wear "heavy metal" shirts all the time back then but then I remembered that I'm not an "edgy" 16 year old anymore.

At a certain point I just realized that the only reason to wear shirts like that is as a social crutch and that plain tshirts just look more aesthetically pleasing. Theres a whole nother issue about the fit of the actual shirt, like my manlet brother in law will wear toddler sized garb to show off his muscles then you got the other side of the spectrum where its flowing off them like a dress. Just wear the right size, niggers.

 

[Town Drunk]

EVs. I thought the idea was cool, but unfortunately we ended up with Tesla and their cultists.

WTF happened to hybrids? Best of both worlds.

 

[Pee Cola]

WTF happened to hybrids? Best of both worlds.

Hybrids are still well and truly a thing, and PHEVs (plug-in hybrids) are starting to take off now too. PHEVs are actually kinda cool; most of them can travel around 30-50 miles on battery power before the ICE is needed, and they make EV zealots cope and sneed because they have an ICE in them.

If you do mainly short trips with the occasional long distance drive now and then, a PHEV makes sense imo.