Sunday, August 8, 2010

Class Fads

Class fads. Not that I disapprove, but I was just daydreaming one day when I wondered: What is tje reason and fascination with all these class fads?

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, you're probably not a member of class 2i2. Thats fine. A class fad is basically something an outgoing member of our class randomly shoutsout, during lessons, and activities. Some people even use it to start a conversation.

SOme of our class fads are derived from internet memes, which is a huge topic by itself, so just google it. (On a side note, I have no idea how memes are formed and why they are so popolar) An example of this would be "Its OVARR 9000!"

Someone in class would shout out a class fad when a teacher asks a question like "Who was Hitler's minister of Propoganda?" and the answer would be a random class fad. People like Tsun Lok would say something like "Graherm" when the topic relates to money, or "Wang Fan" when the topic relates to general stupidity. Myself, even though I'm not the fattest one in class, I'm associated with food, for many complex reasons which would take far too long to explain.

Anyway, back to the main topic at hand, the reason why class fads are so popular. After reflecting on the issue for a while, I came to the conclusion that the only reason our class fads are so insanely popular (at least in 2i2) is that there is simply nothing to replace them. When one dies, another takes it's place because if something didn't fil the void, something would just be ... missing. Fads are one of the things that makes 2i2 what it is, besides the people. I'd say that everyone in our class has used at least a few fads in speech before.

I guess there's a reason they're called fads. Long live 2i2!