Fobs who have ruined Abercrombie & Fitch

Ed. note: Granted, I'm pretty much too old for A&F now but nonetheless...

Many moons ago, in the late 90s to mid 2000s, wearing Abercrombie & Fitch (and Hollister to a lesser extent) in Canada meant something special. That you either went to the States to go shopping and had good enough taste to not just go buy from the same old Canadian chains or you bought it online or through the catalogue (having a catalogue meant you were extra special because that meant you got onto their mailing list from a prior purchase or some other method, so you got to receive the catalogue to gawk at the hot shirtless guys). Basically, it meant there was a conscious effort for you to buy the Abercrombie & Fitch brand and it wasn't like you were wearing it because it was on sale and you bought it for no other reason than that and you just can't walk around naked.

Since they opened up the stores in Canada, and as of late with their crazy sales (a recent thing because as recent as 2009-2010, a mere 20% or 25% is most you could hope for and even then, you might as well just buy it at full price because the good sizes are always quickly sold out), it's like every fresh off the boat person is decked out in A&F.

Those of us who are Asian but fall into the "I was wearing Abercrombie & Fitch before it became commonplace amongst all the fobs" tend to find ire with this phenomenon because it automatically lumps us, visually and subconsciously, into the same group. A big homogenous group of fobby Asians who bought a shitload of A&F because it seems name brand and it was hella cheap on sale.

I don't want to ever be lumped into fob culture because that's far removed from me. But now whenever I don a piece of clothing that has the moose emblazoned on it, I feel like I should preface things with "I'm not a fob but...".

Stinky ass people at the gym who move right beside you

Just as you're getting into the groove and want to use that machine to focus on that specific muscle.

But then you're gagging so much, you just have to pack up and leave because the stink is overpowering.

People who suck on DrawSomething

These are just two of the examples of shitty drawings I get. One to depict "ring" and the other to depict "Russia".

Draw less shitty, people! Put some effort into it!

Like my art work for "yoga" and "Marge". Skill!

CRAP

 

 

SKILL!!

Ugh! The TTC/subway isn't your personal living room!

People chilling in bus shelters or benches by bus stops

That's fine and dandy EXCEPT when they don't wave away (or some other kind of visual indication) bus drivers who are on that bus route that don't need to stop for them.

So then that results in stopping, opening the door and them not getting on... thereby wasting minutes because someone doesn't know how to wave.

When the bus is like empty but someone decides to stand beside me

Oh my god!  They are now grabbing both poles, trapping me in!

Sitting on gym equipment, talking on phone

Bitch, why are you hogging the equipment just so you can sit down while you talk or text on the phone? The equipment area isn't your living room.

People who talk on their cellphones like a walkie talkie

Technology has come a long way. You no longer have to move the mouthpiece/mic to right beside you mouth to speak and then move the earpiece part back to your ear when you have to listen. Just leave it there normally!

The Jennifer Hudson Weight Watchers commercials

With her over-exaggerated arm movements and, the worst, when she's singing to herself.

Terrible.

Linkedin profile pictures with other people in them

Why do people use profile pictures for a professional/business oriented networking site of them and other people? I get quirky photos for Linkedin (I am guilty of that myself) but a group photo isn't appropriate nor makes sense.

You don't know who exactly is the potential job candidate, so you might as well not have a profile photo at all. Or it shows the candidate is too stupid to crop a photo.

Or you can be in a non-group photo but a photo with someone else, looking like a douche.

See example below, a legit Linkedin profile pic (from a really sketchy looking profile).

Clicking a link in a tweet to end up on the status update on Facebook

I personally find syndicating content across numerous platforms a fine art in not annoying the shit out of your core audience.

If you are using a Twitter feed to syndicate your posts from your website, like big name publications like New York Times or Mashable, great - I'll always be on top of the news by following these brands on Twitter.

But then there are some brands or obnoxious people who use tools to post once to Facebook to then syndicate out to other places like Twitter and vice versa. Normally, this isn't that bad but with the 140 character limit, sometimes you'll end up just seeing a link towards the end. 

When you click on it, thinking it goes to the place mentioned in the tweet, it then takes you to Facebook WITH THE EXACT SAME MESSAGE and sometimes, no link at all.

 

And you're like, why the hell did I even take those 3 seconds to click to the link and wait for the thing to just load the EXACT SAME THING but on FACEBOOK?

 

Learn to do social media right, "social media gurus".

No man-sitting on the TTC

People who walk up the bus steps ridiculously slow

And then they slowly survey the area before moving out of the way from the bus door.

By the time you get on the bus, and the idiot moves out of the way, there are no more seats.

Especially frustrating when you were waiting outside in the cold for a long time just to miss out on a seat because of a slow tard.