Contemporary things that will seem amusingly dated 15+ years hence

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

what is the wrong way to tie a scarf

 

[silkyman]

Religion

This.

Whether it's fundamentalists interpreting it into 'kill props', old fashioned types thinking it gives them carte Blanche to discriminate or current laws that mean any kid in school in the Uk has to suffer indoctrination....

It should be kept in private.

 

[silkyman]

what is the wrong way to tie a scarf

Any way, really. But especially the 'fold it in half and make it a noose' one. And especially on people wearing them when the temperature is in double figures!

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Can you goons bore off to another thread? Religion, whatever one thinks of it, has been extant in some form or another since recorded history began. It's not likely that it'll have come to be regarded as the philosophical equivalent of a mullet haircut by 2030, is it?

 

[Stevencc]

what is the wrong way to tie a scarf

Tightly around one's testicles.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

Tightly around one's testicles.

if it isn't mr vanilla sex. lights off missionary man. bore off

 

[Stevencc]

if it isn't mr vanilla sex. lights off missionary man. bore off

Bore off sounds right up my sexual street actually, what's that?

 

[blade1889]

Any way, really. But especially the 'fold it in half and make it a noose' one. And especially on people wearing them when the temperature is in double figures!

I always thought that was the correct way to tie a scarf tbh...what is the correct way if not that?

 

[Pliny Harris]

A few have rushed on to say beards, but the real scandal of them being a fashion staple now is the risk genuine bearded fowk run in keeping their beards beyond the 2010s, or whenever whoever decides they're no good anymore.

A moustache can also be a fine thing to keep and grow when kept and grown right, but imagine the long-term moustache haver, being on the end of the "Lmao, Movember was like, two weeks ago?" gags during Advent.

As for beards, I knew a fellow in 2010, looked like he'd grown his for as long as he could: early 20s, a healthy foot'orth of foliage. Looked quite daring then given how unique it was at the time, but I'll feel sorry for him when the curve dips again. It's strange to think summat so fundamental could slip away into unpopularity. They are as old as Martino mentions religion is, after all. I guess (hope) what we mean is full beards that could nest a young family of sparrows, usually accompanied by faux flannel shirts with the sleeves rolled up to display a few biro drawings. The only lumberjack I've ever known was a flannel-indifferent woman anyway.

I'm #notarsed about that particular trend myself though. I love beards and all that they stand for. It's a hackneyed look but doesn't stand out in how ugly it is. Bumfluff is much worse. Sweatpants are worse... Man buns I'm not keen on.

I hope skinny jeans will be on their way out though. Choose having leg hair beyond your 20s, choose slim cut.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Protein shakes.

This. And all these prats blabbing on social media about them being to the gym and posting topless photos of themselves every other day.

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

I doubt vanity is going anywhere.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

#squadgoals

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Stop beating around the bush.

George Michael did years ago...

 

[silkyman]

I always thought that was the correct way to tie a scarf tbh...what is the correct way if not that?

I wouldn't know. Being the owner of a pair of descended testicles, proper, non-git scarf protocol has passed me by. But this:

In March, makes you look a prick.

 

[silkyman]

Can you goons bore off to another thread? Religion, whatever one thinks of it, has been extant in some form or another since recorded history began. It's not likely that it'll have come to be regarded as the philosophical equivalent of a mullet haircut by 2030, is it?

In all seriousness, people who class themselves as non religious have been the fastest growing 'religious' sector in the UK for a good few years now. The taboo on being atheist has lifted in recent decades and more people are realising that they aren't 'c of e' just because that's what their parents stuck on their doctor registration.

Attendances at churches is dropping like a stone, and the country is ever more secular. It might not be in 15 years, but there will be a time when people look back on religion as an oddity from the past. It's been around forever because people needed an explanation for the world around them and religion gave them that. As covered at great length in the religion thread, most of those explanations have already been found and none of them need 'God'.

Hopefully the horrible law forcing kids into 'collective Christian worship' every day at school will be fucked off in short order, though. If we stop five year olds being force fed it by the same people who are teaching them to read and write, then it will make it easier for young people to make up their own minds.

Or, anyone who doesn't agree with religion can 'bore off' because it's your right to enforce your beliefs on everyone and anyone who doesn't like that is wrong.

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

The correct way to wear a scarf.

 

[Jockney]

In all seriousness, people who class themselves as non religious have been the fastest growing 'religious' sector in the UK for a good few years now. The taboo on being atheist has lifted in recent decades and more people are realising that they aren't 'c of e' just because that's what their parents stuck on their doctor registration.

Attendances at churches is dropping like a stone, and the country is ever more secular. It might not be in 15 years, but there will be a time when people look back on religion as an oddity from the past. It's been around forever because people needed an explanation for the world around them and religion gave them that. As covered at great length in the religion thread, most of those explanations have already been found and none of them need 'God'.

Hopefully the horrible law forcing kids into 'collective Christian worship' every day at school will be fucked off in short order, though. If we stop five year olds being force fed it by the same people who are teaching them to read and write, then it will make it easier for young people to make up their own minds.

Or, anyone who doesn't agree with religion can 'bore off' because it's your right to enforce your beliefs on everyone and anyone who doesn't like that is wrong.

as has been covered before the collective worship law is not enforced or enforceable, it does not 'force' kids to do anything even when it is practised, and it amounts to little more than singing the odd hymn during assembly. if you think singing mostly abstract hymns amounts to indoctrination then maybe it's you that has the problem. you sure do talk about religion a lot for someone who is supposedly an atheist. as an atheist myself i am hardly ever confronted by it and i was under the impression that we lived in a christian nation.

also according to polls and statistics and all that mullarky, the proportion of self-identifying christians will still be roughly half the population by the middle of the century, and that's presuming the shift continues in that direction.

 

[silkyman]

My little girl comes home from a non faith school asking me about why they keep learning about Jesus in assembly. People who I have to tell her to trust, listen to and believe are also telling her this stuff, and it's mandated by law.

And it is the law that they have to have Christian worship in schools. Some don't do it, but it's basically down to the head and in the majority, it's just what happens.

I talk about religion a lot as an atheist because I dislike it intently.

 

[smat]

I talk about religion a lot as an atheist because I dislike it intently.

Can you please talk about it on another forum?

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

yeah please fuck off u boring old dick, carel explicitly asked u not to talk about it here. and also why u gotta be such a c*** about how people wear their scarves? i mean out of all the many many reasons to judge a stranger that's gotta be the worst. stop pooping up my friend's thread tia

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

In all seriousness, people who class themselves as non religious have been the fastest growing 'religious' sector in the UK for a good few years now. The taboo on being atheist has lifted in recent decades and more people are realising that they aren't 'c of e' just because that's what their parents stuck on their doctor registration.

Attendances at churches is dropping like a stone, and the country is ever more secular. It might not be in 15 years, but there will be a time when people look back on religion as an oddity from the past. It's been around forever because people needed an explanation for the world around them and religion gave them that. As covered at great length in the religion thread, most of those explanations have already been found and none of them need 'God'.

Hopefully the horrible law forcing kids into 'collective Christian worship' every day at school will be fucked off in short order, though. If we stop five year olds being force fed it by the same people who are teaching them to read and write, then it will make it easier for young people to make up their own minds.

Or, anyone who doesn't agree with religion can 'bore off' because it's your right to enforce your beliefs on everyone and anyone who doesn't like that is wrong.

You know what, you've convinced me. 2040 will be an age of glorious and ubiquitous rationality. Religion, the spectre that has stalked the musty corridors of the human and pre-human mind for a quarter of a million years at least, will be totally penny farthing. The kids will share thoughtmemes on their wetwire whispernet saying "You kno your a tensy kid if you remember what a chapel is". Yarmulkes will be shown on that "WTF is this object" round on Going For a Song and people will guess they were ceremonial tea cosies. Stagat will have retired from selling Hindu statuary, and replenished his stock with abacuses, orreries and sextants.

So let's move on.

Another suggestion: the distinctive aesthetic of emojis and Instagram filters.

 

[Stagat]

*sex tents

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

any self-respecting #travelwanker uses a sex yurt

 

[nousername]

Another suggestion: the distinctive aesthetic of emojis and Instagram filters.

Yes - definitely.

Online charity stunts, like the ice bucket challenge.

Beards and the swept over hair is the obvious one. An influx of burgers and craft beer joints too, plus serving food on distressed wooden boards...

Great topic too.

 

[Habbinalan]

Can but hope........

 

[SALTIRE]

Ben Shepherd.

Has a touch of Jimmy Savile about him, do you see the way he gropes people on tipping point, it's very cold and pervy.

 

[SALTIRE]

Men who wax every area, bunch of gays.

 

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

men should be hairy women should be hairless, and they say we don't need feminism

 

[Arkan]

Ket wigs. Liverpool is full of them.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Ket wigs. Liverpool is full of them.

Never heard of that term before now.