I always found people who take pictures with the middle finger as a trashy gesture. I don’t and never know who they’re trying to tell off but it’s out of no where and just stupid. It doesn’t offend me, I just find it a pointless gesture and therefore - trashy.
You must log in or # to comment.
Its like art. I can’t really say but I know it when I see it.
I don’t think it’s about specific behaviors but the way they’re carried out.
I think trashy is socially tone deaf, inconsiderate, selfish, and thoughtless actions.
This. I have run fundraising offices in multiple cities. There’s often one or two “trashy” people in each office, who could learn people’s names but don’t, who insist that everything they do is perfect and others need to change to see it, who love being loud and living large themselves but won’t respect other’s choices or beliefs even in shared professional spaces. They litter. They steal from people they know. They often hide behind a veneer of religious faith, to deflect criticism. They refuse to learn, or reflect upon their actions with anything but praise.
Swearing or aggresive behaviour in public when there are little kids around.
trump
Talking at the movies. It’s happening increasingly frequently here, and it’s making me go less nowadays. I don’t mean a few words, I mean constant chatter throughout the showing. Like, just shut the hell up and get immersed!
I was standing outside of a coffee shop one time when I looked across the street and I saw a 40-year-old grown adult woman take her gum out of her mouth and deliberately drop it in the middle of the sidewalk because she couldn’t be bothered to walk five feet to put it in a trash can.
It’s gross, but if you’ve got a napkin nearby, you’ve got the opportunity to provide some instant karma in the form of social shaming.
AI generated “content”. Especially when it’s blatantly obvious and/or when they’re lying about it.
Trashy is pretty close to the union of inconsiderate and incurious.
Behaving inconsiderately towards strangers.
Lack of respect for other people, though it’s really usually just a mild annoyance.
Fake opulence. Example: donald trump. Gold gilded everything in extreme excess. Properties that look like a “B” movie cheesy bordello. Trying to be ‘hip, flashy cool, in’. And looking ultra cringe trying.
Non-political example: Big ass, loud, overly decked-out truck. Raised up adds 10,000 points, diesel adds 1 million points.
People who are actually classy don’t have to try. And being classy was never their goal. Trashy takes a lot of effort.
Trying to be ‘hip, flashy cool, in’. And looking ultra cringe trying.
‘Trashy’ was a word I’d formerly associated only with trailer parks, and wouldn’t have associated with Elon Musk, but some of the examples in this thread have expanded my view!
Private conversations in public at a volume that ensures everyone knows your business.
Similarly, speaking at full volume on your phone in public.
And the phone is on speaker! Motherfucker, you can hear it better when it’s not on speaker and is pressed against your ear!
You know it when you see it.
The trashiest thing to me is a loud vehicle being revved and driven by a total asshole
Oh. That was me. Sorry.
Donald Trump’s interior decoration choices
And exterior, too.
Being flagrantly disrespectful of basic public etiquette.
A good example from working in a public building is that people will walk on a full elevator before letting people walk off.
