Stuff that you loved and now you think it’s cringe

agreed. I was in high school posting on dyestat and was legit intimidated by this board lol. if you showed up with a strong argument it would get picked apart by actual people that knew what they were talking about (didnt matter the subject). had more trolling to for some reason.

the board is rather tame now, with more idiots

Flotrack. Was great circa 2007-2009, then steadily downhill.

Ugh I watched Seth Demoor for a few months back in 2020 and now I shudder thinking about it. Never bought an emoji or anything though

The Letsrun.com Forum

John Mayer.

The Joe Rogan Podcast.

Bowerman Track Club.

LOL peak letsrun was back in about 2003 when most of the posters were serious about running and learning about training. Lots of top pros spent time on here giving advice.

I guess everyone learned all they needed to 20 years ago.

Omg, so true. So bad.

Oops, this is so true. Anchorman is still hilarious.

Ayn Rand

Interesting thread

(1) Triathlons and road racing. Let me clarify I am very happy I did that stuff for over 15 years and wouldn't change any on it, however, the idea of now going out now and pushing my myself to test my absolute physical and emotional limits seems "cringe worthy". No thanks.

(2) Packed crowded events. Don't want to wait in lines, look for parking and be packed like sardines with strangers.

(3) Heavy social drinking or heavy eating.

(4) clothing and hair styles from the 70's. (But I still love 70's music, even have a disco playlist for treadmill runs)

(5) I was happy when Richard Nixon won. (That's even painful to post, but at least I didn't vote that election)

Billy Joel's music. I had a weird hangup about asking for things I wanted as a kid, including music. So I ended up listening to my late-boomer parents' CDs a lot. I would listen to them on headphones before bed. This was the early-mid 2000s. Most of the stuff I would put on was good and I would still listen to it today - all that timeless stuff like The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Petty, etc. The exception to that is Billy Joel...The Stranger was what I listened to the most...I could still sing along to that whole album despite actively avoiding any Joel for 10+ years. I get why so many people like his songs, but for me they have now hit that spot where they are too overplayed to enjoy the novelty, and not musically pleasing enough to me to be worth any more listens. If I never heard another Billy Joel song I would be fine with that.

Some of the biggest idiots are still around...congrats.

That's always been cringe to me.

There used to be more off topic discussion about non political topics here, but over the past decade or so it seems all that has moved to reddit. I guess reddit could be the thing that I loved that is now cringe. I know exactly the responses, serious and memes, I'm going to see when I open most threads. I still post there for discussion of media - since that is the biggest board for most fantasy media besides those where people are into it way too much. It gets pretty cringe though - eg people talking about 200 hours in a video game in the month it came out, crazy fan theories for series like A song of Ice and Fire, crazy fan theories by people going out of their way to avoid the books for House of the Dragon, etc.

Then for stuff like ask whoever, til, seeing the same things again and again.

Its hard to believe I really spent so much time on that site that it caused me to struggle in grad school. Even today I'll mindlessly browse it for "a few minutes" at home and catch myself in the 500s on threads before I think what am I doing.

Larry Bird was the biggest trash-talker in the NBA while he was playing.

Sorry? Anchorman is so obviously parodying and making fun of sexism in the workplace, especially the sexism of the 1970s. While there's been some social progress on the issue between now and when the movie came out, I think viewing the movie itself as sexist is more a symptom of the humorlessness of modernity, where even merely mentioning a thing will be treated as if you clearly support it in the worst way possible. Not that Anchorman is a subtle movie, but these days people have no ability to glean subtlety in any degree, and I think the idea that Anchorman is sexist is a sure sign that someone can't read beyond the surface of anything.

However, I still cringe at Anchorman now for other reasons. I don't like a lot of the comedy movies from the 2000s I used to love, because it seems like they were all aiming for the same thing: put a bunch of "random" one-liners out in the world and hope some of them go viral (not sure if that term was invented yet back then but certainly the filmmakers for aiming for the same general idea). From Anchorman its "I'm kind of a big deal," "glass case of emotion," etc etc etc. Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, and Dodgeball all came out in the same summer (2004) and they're probably the three best movies out of all the ones written in the quotable one-liner style. There are a lot of really, really, really bad movies that tried and failed in the same style, and I think after so many of them I even cringe at the "good" ones now.

No I stopped reading because the author is an a-hole

Most of everything considered "Classic Rock". It was even considered oldies when I was going up and yet it is still being played regularly on the radio.

I especially hate any kind of "hippie peace movement" music. Just people making cash on a political "movement".

I think that makes it funnier now.

I recently started rewatching Scrubs and it is funnier than I remembered. Probably for the same reason.