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TOP 5 THAT’S SO FETCH TOP 10 LISTS
Today, July 9, marks the 1st year anniversary of That’s So Fetch. I started this website with Top 10 lists in mind, simply because its a simple and efficient way to convey opinions to the reader. The Top 10 list was popularized by David Letterman, and still to this day is one of the most popular forms of information sharing on the internet.
Here are the TOP 5 TOP 10 LISTS from the first year of That’s So Fetch:
5. TOP 10 HOTTEST FORMER CHILD STARS
I had the pleasure of meeting Lacey Chabert (above) earlier this year, which gave me the idea to do a list of the hottest former child stars. With some “before and after” pictures and a lot of hot ass, this list slowly become one of the top lists in TSF’s short history. Although not the most popular of my “Hot Chicks” lists (Top 10 Hottest Chicks with Talent gets that award), this list has the most creativity and a great collection of girls whom you probably didn’t know turned out to by hot. [see the list]
4. TOP 10 MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK
There’s so much to say about Facebook. I’ve had my account since 2004, only a few short months after the site’s launch. It started as a networking tool for college students - in which you were required a .edu email account to join - and I slowly started to witness the demise of its cult-following, and the rise of a narcissistic society. With the implementation of the news feed, the status update, the photo albums, and allowing parents, teachers, and high school students to join, “The Facebook” had become a cesspool of dumbasses … thus this list. [see the list]
3. TOP 10 WORST SKYMALL PRODUCTS
SkyMall is a fucking joke, but you knew that. As I was on a flight last year, I had stowed away my iPod (because a we all know, it can interfere with landing an airplane…), I picked up the SkyMall magazine and entertained myself with the absurdity. But a list like this isn’t only making fun of the inventors, it’s making a mockery of the people who buy these worthless items. The dude who invented the Indoor Dog Restroom is laughing all the way to the bank, but he’s only a jackass if he actually uses this idiotic piece of ingenuity. So I brought the magazine home with me, and a Top 10 list was born. [see the list]
2. TOP 10 CHICK REPELLENT ITEMS OF 2008
I have never been one to stop short of making fun of someone for wearing a bluetooth headset or using a neck pillow on an airplane, so I found it only fitting that I brought my degradation to the internet. We’re not all perfect, there’s people reading this right now who are probably wearing Crocs and think its cool … but don’t say I didn’t warn you. The list spawned a Part 2 shortly thereafter, and is the second most popular post in TSF history. [see the list]
1. TOP 10 MOST OVERPLAYED SONGS AT COLLEGE PARTIES/COLLEGE BARS
On August 4 of last year when this blog was just shy of a month old, I created a list that would catapult it from virtual obscurity to nationwide attention. As I was driving across the country last summer helping a friend move to Los Angeles, a song came across my iPod and through the stereo that sparked a conversation about overplayed songs at college parties - and Journey’s 1981 hit “Don’t Stop Believin’” was without a doubt the most overplayed song at college parties and college bars. A song that only reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time is now the most downloaded song of all time not released in the 21st century.
The list spread like wildfire and over 45,000 people visited my website in just under 2 days. The list was picked up by Sports Illustrated and used as the basis for the morning show of a Las Vegas radio station. The day after I published the article, I had over 100 emails in my inbox. Evidently I was the first person to notice and publicize the fact that these 10 songs were being overplayed at colleges across the nation. [see the list]
No commentsMEGAN FOX IN A CORSET
The above picture is not Photoshopped, it’s from Megan Fox’s new movie Jonah Hex - see the rest of the pictures.
Which New Yorker has the hotter girlfriend: Jets QB Mark Sanchez or Yankees Pitcher Joba Chamberlain?
Just because you de-tag your embarrassing pictures on Facebook, doesn’t mean they’re gone forever.
3 amazing bands, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, and Kings of Leon will be headlining Austin City Limits in Austin, Texas in October. Road trip.
The Boeing 747 Intercontinental looks interesting.
Tailgating is half the fun of attending a sporting event - and Dodger stadium has killed it.
No commentsCRASH IS STILL NETFLIX’S #1 MOVIE
Crash won Best Picture in 2006, and ever since then has amazingly maintained the spot as the #1 rented movie on Netflix. EW.com has a funny look at why it hasn’t been dethroned.
New life plan: go back to college, enroll at Florida State, and stalk meet this girl.
Women over 55 are the fastest growing demographic on Facebook.
Time has the evolution of the college dorm.
Madonna is moving to the Upper East Side for the low, low price of $40 million.
Rihanna got a new tattoo! … and it’s spelled incorrectly.
No commentsFACEBOOK MAKES TWITTER-LIKE REDESIGN
If you’re not on Facebook yet, you’re really missing out on what random people from your past are eating for dinner or where your high school girlfriend is going for the weekend.
Facebook, or “The Facebook” as us old-schoolers would call it, has progressed like any respectable company would with the advent of the “mini-feed”, giving users insight into their friends’ personal lives.
Are Steve and his whorish girlfriend still I.A.R.? I.D.K.
Fast-forward to 2009, the year of Twitter, the “micro-blog”. Yes, we have now graduated from blog to micro-blog. Twitter is a website that allows its users to update friends, or “followers”, with meaningless babble under 140 words, or some arbitrary number in that ballpark. Regardless, it allows you to blog a few sentences, and that’s it.
For example: Jim says, “I’m at the mall with my girlfriend and I am bored, lol!”, to which Mary replies, “rofl”, and then I bathe myself in acid because I wasted 3 minutes of my life creating a Twitter account.
Facebook has changed its users’ home page to a Twitter-like news feed. A cesspool of worthless information from people you don’t care about.
Mark Zuckerberg (top), founder and CEO of Facebook, ignored the slew of negative feedback about the changes from Facebook users and addressed them in a memo sent out to employees. “He said something like, ‘the most disruptive companies don’t listen to their customers,’” says a tipster who has seen the Facebook memo. Which may be true, but we aren’t customers. You’re providing a product, and we use it … for free. Facebook is a holding place for the next social networking website craze.
So why the sudden change to imitate Twitter, Mark? Evidently, Zuckerberg tried to buy the Facebook competitor for $500 million in cash and stock, but was turned away.
WHY CAN’T WE BE VIRTUAL FRIENDS
Because I can’t get out of bed in the morning without knowing I have a lot of social networking friends. Click here to be my friend on Facebook - or join the That’s So Fetch Facebook group.
No commentsWEEKLY POP CULTURE UPDATE (01.07.09)
FACEBOOK HATES NIPPLES
You read that right. Social networking giant, Facebook, is cracking down on one of the best parts of the human anatomy: the nipple. Facebook apparently has taken a disliking to pregnant women breast feeding their young and posting the pictures to their online Facebook profile. The maternal act’s censorship has caused outraged among borderline insane women who feel it necessary to post pictures of an infant sucking on their exposed nipple. Who the hell are you posting these pictures for? I don’t give a shit if it’s outlawed or not, it will always be socially taboo.
WORST. LIST. EVER
Blender magazine has released their “Top 50 Worst Songs Ever” list and as a music enthusiast, I am baffled by the idiocy used to create this list. First of all, 50 songs is entirely too long of a list. 20 songs would suffice, dudes.
I can’t express to you how much this attempt at a music history opinion by a major publication pisses me off. These people are getting paid to make a list of the worst songs of all-time and they included a song by The Beatles. That’s basically saying that every song Evanescence has ever recorded is better than “Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” by The Beatles. It’s mind-boggling.
These assholes put the following respectable songs on the list (preceded by their ranking):
48. THE BEATLES - “OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA”
42. SIMON & GARFUNKEL - “SOUND OF SILENCE”
41. BILLY JOEL - “WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE”
21. SPIN DOCTORS - “TWO PRINCES”
15. THE REMBRANDTS - “I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU”
7. BOBBY MCFERRIN - “DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY”
I don’t care if Paul McCartney and John Lennon put a microphone in the room during a colonoscopy and released it as a single, it’d still be better than half the songs ever written. The guy who did this list doesn’t even deserve to wipe William Joel’s ass.
Here’s the list.
BEST COMMERCIAL EVER
I can’t remember if I have posted this on TSF previously. It doesn’t matter, this is the best commercial you’ll ever see. Trust me.
SEX OR INTERNET ACCESS?
“…Nearly half of the women questioned by Harris Interactive said they’d be willing to forgo sex for two weeks, rather than give up their Internet access, according to a study released Monday.
While 46 percent of the women surveyed were willing to engage in abstinence verses losing their Internet, only 30 percent of the men surveyed were willing to do likewise.
While 46 percent of the women surveyed were willing to engage in abstinence verses losing their Internet, only 30 percent of the men surveyed were willing to do likewise.
The U.S. survey, which queried 2,119 adults last month, found that the gap grew even wider for both men and woman who were 18 to 34 years old. For woman, the percentage of those willing to skip the sheets in favor of the Web rose to 49 percent, while it climbed to 39 percent for men…”
Here’s the best part:
“Of course when it comes to TV, perhaps size matters, at least according to a different survey earlier this year of Britons conducted by electronics retailer Comet. Almost half of the men polled said they would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV…”
[read more at CNET]
This poll sucks because they should have included the trade for all sexual activity. Which reminds me of one of the best television episodes in the history of moving picture:
FREE DIGITAL BEATLES MUSIC
I love that The Beatles are relevant and haven’t released a song in 39 years. A blog titled after a Lindsay Lohan movie is talking about a band in which two of the members are dead and the other two are over 60.
For those who are unaware, The Beatles entire catalog has never been available digitally … until now. Every single Beatles song will played via a legally published podcast, allowing the songs to be sold individually on the internet. [read more here]
PAULA SOBBING VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Paula Abdul crying over nothing is always a good time.
THEY HAVE CROCS STORES?! QUICK…
GET THE CAMERA, BETTY. TAKE A
PICTURE OF ME POINTIN’ AT THE SIGN
LINDSAY HAS NO HIPS BIKINI PIC OF THE WEEK
TOP 10 MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK
Facebook was the greatest social networking site ever when it originally launched in 2004. There was no 
mini-feed obnoxiously “updating” you with irrelevant information and no high-schoolers or parents. With the new facebook and an even further step in the wrong direction, it’s still the people that make it sometimes unbearable. I can’t hate on Facebook too much though - TSF does have a facebook group. I even have a Facebook profile myself - but I can 100% guarantee I do not constitute one of the people on this list.
Out of the say 500 friends you have on Facebook, you probably care about maybe 50 of them. Seeing updates every 30 minutes from your first girlfriend in 7th grade is something I know I love logging in to. It’s funny how much people think we care about their lives. Why else do you think we enjoy movies so much? Because the average person’s life is a bore-fest.
10. 1000+ Pictures Self-Tagger
Tagging yourself in a picture is acceptable to a limit. Use your discretion. But having 1,000+ pictures of yourself is not only lame, it’s unequivocally narcissistic. We know your cool with your 2,000+ friends list - we don’t need to be reminded by 1,000+ pictures of you standing in front of your mirror striking poses and eating dinner with your friends.
9. Parents/Teachers
To quote Mean Girls: “seeing a teacher outside of school is like watching a dog walk on its hind legs”. Getting a friend request from your Geology professor is not only creepy and unsettling, but it’s annoying.
8. Embarrassing Photo Tagger
Respect people’s privacy. We’ve all been there: hammered and unaware there’s a camera around. Don’t act like you haven’t passed out on a toilet naked with a German hooker once or twice. It’s just common decency to not plaster these images across the internet of your so-called friends.
7. Internet PDA Couple/Kissing Profile Picture
I can’t even begin to express everyone’s disinterest in your love life and seeing you playing tonsil hockey with your lame boyfriend. But I guess anything is better than your past few profile pictures including a beer bong, short skirt and keg stand, “finger in the mouth seductive look” or a combination of all three.
6. Creepy Guy Who Somehow Figures Out Your Last Name
There should be some sort of friend adding rule. It’s extremely taboo If I meet you in class and only told you my first name, then I get home to a friend request from you. This immediately earns you a spot on my “creepy” list because you obviously searched for my last name for hours on my network search.
5. 30-Minute Status Changer
“JANE DOE is walking my dog then meeting the girls for lunch!!!” No one cares. Is that difficult for these people to understand? Your life isn’t interesting and people on the internet have no interest in what you are doing today outside of saving a baby from a burning building or developing a cure for cancer.
4. The “Kissing Face” Girl (a.k.a. “Pucker Face”)
4a. Gang Signs
Every picture you take you pretend as if you are kissing someone. Why? I’m not sure. Is this sexy? No, it is not. Maybe you’re self-conscious about your lips not being full enough and you overcompensate for this by puckering up in all of your pictures. And the gang signs have got to go - you’re a 19-year-old Caucasian female from an all white suburb in a Sorority - trust me, it’s not cool.
3. On-And-Off Relationship Changers
It’s funny when people think that we care if you are still in a relationship. This goes back to the “your life is boring” theme of this post. You aren’t famous. You and your boyfriend aren’t J-LO and whatever marginally talented guy she’s boning. If you and your boyfriend/girlfriend are on and off, do us a favor and just leave your relationship status blank.
2. High-Schoolers
You shouldn’t be allowed to have a social networking page until you are 18. Getting a friend request from your 13-year-old cousin or having your younger sibling on Facebook is just obnoxious. It’s kinda like walking into a 21 and up bar - we don’t have to worry if the chicks are 18 or not. Same should go for Facebook. It’s a win-win.
1. The Philosophical/Political Note Writer
Political Propagator
Politics are annoying enough in person, but some dude from my freshman year English class waxing political is extremely dissatisfying. Writing a note every 2 days about how Obama or McCain sucks isn’t going to change anyone’s opinion - it’s just going to further solidify your place in life as an arrogant asshole. This goes the same for the people who create political groups and send invites to everyone on their friends list. I appreciate the enthusiasm - but leave your political insights at the proverbial internet door.
