MetaChat - ARGH!! The plague has returned!

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

05 September 2006

ARGH!! The plague has returned! →[More:]The undergrads are back. They've overrun the city like a plague of rats. Where's my Pied Piper?

post by: LunaticFringe at: 09:36 | 16 comments

Yes, and their fashion sense is WORSE THAN EVAR!

posted by By the Grace of God 05 September | 09:47

Last week I talked myself hoarse giving library tours to freshmen. This week I'll be talking myself hoarse answering the question "How do I print?"

posted by initapplette 05 September | 09:51

Those skinny jeans from the 80's are back. I'm seriously appalled, they weren't awesome then and they're really not awesome now.

I have to venture into the throngs to get my student card validated...Pray for me.

posted by LunaticFringe 05 September | 09:57

pickaxe.

posted by sciurus 05 September | 10:01

Skinny jeans are OK- it's all the leggings that are getting me.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 September | 10:22

I like the leggings and skirt look. Tight jeans make everyone except the tiny, tiny people look fat. Nobody wants to look fat.

posted by LunaticFringe 05 September | 10:25

Word.

And leggings- I'm of two minds about leggings. For every time I see someone make it work, I see two people who don't make it work. I'll be glad when the trend passes away, and only those who love it enough to truly work it will wear it.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 September | 10:29

I think the leggings are ugly, period. And they really hit their stride in the middle of summer -- wtf? I'm usually too hot in just a skirt!

posted by gaspode 05 September | 10:35

I would never pull them out in the summer. I've always thought of them as a its-too-cold-for-a-skirt-but-I-really-want-to-wear-it type thing. That's what I plan to do as soon as it gets a bit nippier.

posted by LunaticFringe 05 September | 12:00

They've been all over NYC this summer.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 September | 12:14

My thighs weep for leggings to go away. The remind me of days wearing baby doll dresses and scratchy lace around my ankles.

Nowadays, if I ever decided to wear anything with an empire waist, I will look pregnant and this is not a good thing.

posted by TrishaLynn 05 September | 12:19

Leggings? That's what I wore when I was in college, and I'm OLD!

posted by matildaben 05 September | 12:41

"How do I print?" is also the thing I keep having to answer. Ugh! How hard is it to watch what a gazillion other people are doing?

And as to fashion... It seems the kids here are still stuck in the rut of showing cleavage, pudgy bellies, and "coin slots" (with or without thong). Who decided underwear as outerwear was ok?

(Wanders off and ponders starting shouting thread.)

posted by lilywing13 05 September | 18:49

Skinny jeans are not okay if you have (like me) chubby legs and can't find jeans that'll even go round your calves.

This is about the only option left (sob!)

posted by essexjan 05 September | 18:58

This week I'll be talking myself hoarse answering the question "How do I print?"

There are a few more weeks until this happens to me too. I'm not looking forward to it. And the kids who think it's funny to dress like Napoleon Dynamite must stop right now.

posted by halonine 06 September | 09:08

All I have to say is: sorority rush week, southern university. So glad I'm not there anymore (for the time being).

posted by casarkos 06 September | 13:52

← Ask Mecha || "Silent Shout," by Swedish duo The Knife →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN