Irrational crazes and manias

[Lencoboy]

Sorry to sound touchy, but many of the crazes/manias mentioned so far in this thread, I would hardly consider irrational.

[pulisa]

Sorry to sound touchy, but many of the crazes/manias mentioned so far in this thread, I would hardly consider irrational.

Well on my part I certainly behaved like a headless chicken searching for Pokemon stickers (the right ones) and trying to open the cardboard tops of cereal packets surreptitiously in supermarkets to see what plastic toy was hidden amongst the Shreddies (other cereals are available)..

Hope this is acceptable for the thread? If not, I apologise..

[Lencoboy]

Well on my part I certainly behaved like a headless chicken searching for Pokemon stickers (the right ones) and trying to open the cardboard tops of cereal packets surreptitiously in supermarkets to see what plastic toy was hidden amongst the Shreddies (other cereals are available)..

Hope this is acceptable for the thread? If not, I apologise..

Sounds a bit more like OCD to me.
(In the nicest possible way though, no offence intended).

[NoraB]

Sorry to sound touchy, but many of the crazes/manias mentioned so far in this thread, I would hardly consider irrational.

So you don't think it's irrational to remove all of the stickers on a Rubiks cube then?

How about those Tamagotchi thingies then?

[pulisa]

Sounds a bit more like OCD to me.
(In the nicest possible way though, no offence intended).

I was carrying out these missions in the line of duty to satisfy the demands of my autistic daughter! I wouldn't have done this normally! I know I shouldn't have done this but sometimes you just give in for the sake of a quiet life!

[Lencoboy]

I was carrying out these missions in the line of duty to satisfy the demands of my autistic daughter! I wouldn't have done this normally! I know I shouldn't have done this but sometimes you just give in for the sake of a quiet life!

Trouble is, you're often damned if you do and damned if you don't.

[Lolalee1]

Yo Yo’s? Yep I remember my bro always crying like a girl when he would try a trick between his legs and hurting his nuts.
Yep I always laughed and got the wooden spoon off old granny Murdoch

[Lencoboy]

What about the word/expression 'pwned'?

Possibly originated as a typo or even a deliberate misspelling of the word 'owned', but that seemed to be a 'thing' from around the mid-2000s through the early 2010s, and I think it was often associated with chav culture IIRC.

[Lencoboy]

What about 'cancel culture', or much rather, the 'backlash' against it?

[BlueIris]

Is that a craze or mania?