أعلى 10 أسوأ البدع Top 10 Worst Fads

A fad refers to a fashion that becomes
popular in a culture relatively quickly, but loses popularity
dramatically. Some fads may come back if another generation finds out
about it and gets interested in it. This is a list of the worst of
them.
10. Saggy Pants

Sure, if the wearers were Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie this might not
be so bad – but, unfortunately, the wearer is usually a pimple-faced
teen with a bad attitude. Saggy Pants (for lack of a better phrase) is
the idiotic practice of wearing your pants so low that your underwear
(or worse – your bare bottom) shows. Admittedly it is often more
attractive than the wearer’s face, but still – cover it up!
Unfortunately rather than passing quickly, this fad is sticking – and
the trousers are getting lower by the season.
9. Sea-Monkeys

Sea Monkeys were first marketed in 1957 by Harold von Braunhut as
Instant Life, though Braunhut changed the name to “Sea-Monkeys” on May
10, 1962. These are creatures sold in ready to go packets. To start
the process, the ‘water purifier’ package is added to water on day one.
The user is typically unaware that this package already contains eggs in
addition to the salt. At day two, one adds the ‘instant life eggs’
package, containing Epsom salts, borax and soda ash, in addition to
eggs, yeast, and sometimes a blue or green dye. The dye is used to
enhance the ‘instant life’ experience by making the freshly hatched
animals more visible. The Sea-Monkeys seen during the second day after
adding the ‘eggs package’ are derived from the eggs added with the
‘purifier’ package. The food package is a mixture of Spirulina and dried
yeast. The ‘boost’ packages mainly contain salts, which induce ***ual
activity in artemia. [Wikipedia]
8. Virtual Pets

Digital pets are distinct in that they have no concrete physical form
other than the hardware they run on. In other words, it is a pet you
can feed and walk with the press of a button, and if you forget – and it
dies – it doesn’t matter – Mommy and Daddy will buy you a one and
you don’t need to learn responsibility! This ridiculous fad started
with the Tamagotchi toy in Japan in 1996 when it was created by Aki
Maita and sold by Bandai.
7. Mood Rings

First becoming popular in the 70s the mood ring (either a hollow
glass bubble filled with thermotropic liquid crystals, or a glass stone
sitting on top of a thin sheet of liquid crystals) was marketed to alert
you to what mood you might be in (as if you didn’t know already!).
Blue meaning happy, black meaning anxious or stressed, and a whole range
of colours in between for anything from ***y to angry. They have
reappeared and disappeared from shelves since the 70s, and even have
their own place in a joke:
“My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring
the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods.
We’ve discovered that when I’m in a good mood, it turns blue. But
when I’m in a bad mood, it leaves a big fucking red mark on his
forehead.
Maybe next time he’ll buy me a diamond”.


6. Cabbage Patch Kids

Invented in 1978 and mass produced for the public in 1982, the
Cabbage Patch Kid was the biggest fad of the 1980s. So much so, that it
caused fist fights and near riots among parents trying to ensure their
precious darlings had one for Christmas.
They were short lived as a fad, but possibly one of the most
successful toys, grossing $600 million in sales in 1985. After the
novelty of these dolls wore off, they were closely followed by the
Garbage Pail Kids, which were collectable cards accompanied by bubble
gum. Each Kid suffered from either a comical abnormality or some
terrible fate, such as “Richie Retch”.
From cute and cuddly, to horrific – pure genius!




5. Lava Lamps

One of the most well liked fad items, the lava lamp was invented in
the 1960s by Edward Craven Walker. Considered horribly tacky by some,
the lava lamp does little else than sit in a corner and heat wax which
forms lava like blobs, rises to the top of the lamp, and then sinks to
the bottom as it cools. Rinse and repeat, and that’s about as far as
the novelty factor goes. Perhaps that’s why they were so popular in the
60s. Just add recreational drugs.
4. Black Light

In the 1960s, the black light took off in night clubs. People would
paint themselves with fluorescent paints, which would become luminous
under the black light. This somehow managed to carry on through to the
80s, and merged into the punk era with such things as fluorescent spikes
of hair. These days it generally tends to be used for detecting
counterfeit money, genuine antiques, and attracting bugs to bug zappers.
It can even be used to reassure the paranoid holiday maker; A quick
pass of a black light over the sheets on a hotel bed will reveal any
traces of semen!
3. Smiley Buttons

The smiley face graphic was popularized in the early 1970s by a pair
of brothers, Murray and Bernard Spain, who seized upon it in a campaign
to sell novelty items. The two produced buttons as well as coffee mugs,
t-shirts, bumper stickers and many other items emblazoned with the
symbol and the phrase “Have a happy day” (devised by Gyula Bogar). Even
today we still see these buttons on nouveau-punks and, of course,
frequently on the internet. [Wikipedia]
2. Pet Rock

Advertising executive, Gary Dahl, came up with this brilliant way to
fool people out of a lot of money; take a rock, stick it in a box, and
call it a pet. While this 1970s fad only lasted six months, its fame
seems endless. The rock came with a “Pet Rock Training Manual”, with
instructions on how to properly raise and care for one’s newfound pet
(notably lacking instructions for feeding), was included. The
instruction manual contained several commands that could be taught to
the pet. While “sit” and “stay” were effortless to accomplish, “roll
over” usually required extra help from the trainer. “Come” was found to
be impossible to teach reliably. [Wikipedia]
1. Baby on Board

Do I care? The sign was first marketed by Safety 1st Corporation in
1984 and became a widespread fad by 1985. According to Wikipedia, its
use in the US rapidly declined by 1986 as parody imitations with lines
like “Baby I’m Bored”, “Pit Bull on Board”, and “Mother-In-Law in Trunk”
became popular. Unfortunately its popularity continues in the UK (and
New Zealand), along with other versions such as “Princess on Board” and
“Little Person on Board”, which may explain why so many English children
behave so abominably in public (particularly in London). An urban
legend claims that the death of a baby led to the creation of the signs.
According to snopes.com, there is no truth to this claim. Comedian
George Carlin considers Baby On Board to be “the three most
puke-inducing words that man has yet come up with”.
Bonus: MySpace

Our bonus item is the cyberfad, MySpace. MySpace, a social
networking site, is owned by Fox Interactive Media. As of September 7,
2007, the site claims to have 200 million accounts. The site has become
famous for hosting some of the ugliest websites on the internet with
loud music and garish backgrounds. The site is home to millions of
early teenaged girls who talk entirely in capital letters with an
indecipherable text-message based variant of English called “stupid”.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLZ.