The Herd: What are College Girls Doing Now?

When I was living in a dorm, all the girls I dated always bugged me to get a facebook page, mainly so that we could "link up as a committed relationship". I have made many mistakes in my life involving relationships, but I am still extremely thankful that I never submitted to facebook. Facebook is just bad.
On a side note, living in NC, the most annoying trend among college girls that has gotten really big in the last five years is the wearing of sperry topsiders. Sperry makes all kinds of bastardized version of their classic boat shoe, and seeing all these girls wearing them nearly ruins the whole thing for me. The billfish model, in particular (as pictured below) seems to be the most popular model with girls at the moment. Preppy sorority girls as well as the fat chicks just love these damn things. I see a lot of fat chicks wearing these along with too-tight jeans that muffin-top their guts, paired with an extremely baggy hoody that advertises a school that they have no connection with, and no chance of getting into. What is the point of wearing a hoody from Yale when you are barely passing your intro-to-economics class and have never even traveled beyond the Mason-Dixon line?! This pisses me off to no end.

No arguments with wearing rain boots when its raining/puddly...

I wish I could pull it off

Originally Posted by Neo_Version 7

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It's hawt if they're hawt -- which 70% of them are.

This is true, no girl would wear such totally unflattering garments if she wasn't confident - so a lot who do this are hot, the others are deluded.

Originally Posted by otc

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No arguments with wearing rain boots when its raining/puddly...

I wish I could pull it off

What? if it is raining and you want to wear wellies just pull the damn things on, wouldn't do this in a large city, but anywhere else just do it. Get some good ones though, my aigles are so damn comfy, don't be fooled by the ubiquity of the hunters, the basic ones are not very good.

Every time a drunken Herd girl appears in a Facebook photo she posts "haha the story of my life!!" or, if she is with fellow Herdlings, "i love ussss."

That brings me to the use of extra letters. This is more rampant than Uggs. For some reason, these ladies find it necessary to attach spurious letters to words. e.g., an AIM away message: "Going to classss" or "Soooo tiredddd."

Originally Posted by Connemara

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Every time a drunken Herd girl appears in a Facebook photo she posts "haha the story of my life!!" or, if she is with fellow Herdlings, "i love ussss."

That brings me to the use of extra letters. This is more rampant than Uggs. For some reason, these ladies find it necessary to attach spurious letters to words. e.g., an AIM away message: "Going to classss" or "Soooo tiredddd."

Well noted. Perhaps this morphology caught on after the widespread use of "hott". Nowadays, all MySpace photos are "olddd" or "Katelyn ownzzzz" etc.

I used to spell like that. I don't anymore.

Originally Posted by Neo_Version 7

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I used to spell like that. I don't anymore.
I always knew you were a girl at heart.

Originally Posted by Neo_Version 7

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I used to spell like that. I don't anymore.

Countless hours spent on Miley Cyrus fan sites will do that to you.

The obsession with men's clothing that is the raison d'etre of these fora is worrying enough for those with one foot still in "normal" society. To see a bunch of young, ostensibly red-blooded males critiquing young women's choice of attire (instead of, par example, discussing the best way to administer Rohypnol or the old standby "So I just said 'Oops, wrong hole!'") is disconcerting to the nth.

What did you say about raisins? They're delicious. Nature's candy

Originally Posted by M. Bardamu

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The obsession with men's clothing that is the raison d'etre of these fora is worrying enough for those with one foot still in "normal" society. To see a bunch of young, ostensibly red-blooded males critiquing young women's choice of attire (instead of, par example, discussing the best way to administer Rohypnol or the old standby "So I just said 'Oops, wrong hole!'") is disconcerting to the nth.

You suck at faux-erudition.

Originally Posted by tagutcow

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You suck at faux-erudition.

LEARN faux-faux-erudition

Running shorts are ubiquitous in Knoxville. Not just athletic shorts, but dedicated running shorts. The irony is twofold:
1) Most of the girls wearing them couldn't run more than 100m.
2) They wear them pretty damn tight, which I like for my own reasons, but is the opposite of how they are supposed to fit.

Do you mean like short spandex shorts? What are "running shorts?"

Every girl here wears short shorts made from some synthetic material. It's like the warm weather version of sweatpants or leggings.