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.
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A lack of values. Quick to anger. No introspection. Controlled by greed and culture. Swearing in the wrong settings.
Celebrity worship
Littering
Vulgar consumerism
Bigotry
Brand worship
Take a picture of yourself holding a gun, for example.
I haven’t met my aunt’s cousin many times, but I did hear about her wedding. For his vows, Mike 3 (the third Mike she dated and I think second she had married) crushed an entire Mike’s Hard Lemonade then declared “I love you so much, Babe!” After the ceremony they took the rifles that had been leaning a few feet away and shot some targets nearby. I think that was a few weeks after she had been excited that 7 years had passed since her last bankruptcy, which meant she could start racking up debt again and go on a cruise.
I guess kudos to them for living their best lives, but if all that’s not a little trashy, I don’t know what is.
I think of trashy as the opposite end of the spectrum from classy.
Respecting others privacy and being gracious when someone is embarrassed? Classy. Arguing in front of others or loudly reprimanding someone in public? Trashy.
Dressed appropriately for the venue and audience? Classy. Booty shorts and flip flops in an office space? Trashy.
Being on time and considerate in your manner of arrival? Classy Being late and disruptive? Trashy.
You don’t have to be rich to be classy, just considerate. In the same way, people of means can be trashy if they’re inconsiderate of others.
I think to me, the ultimate trashy move is to pee in public.
Arrogance and inconsideration
Low effort, badly kept, poor quality. Some combination of those three.
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.
Currently wishing cancer on the guy who walks right past the stationery cupboard to steal sharpies from my desk.
Its like art. I can’t really say but I know it when I see it.
trump
Yep
And his idiot supporters
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!
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.
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!
I actually have trouble understanding anything on the phone if it’s not on speaker, but I still don’t use it that way in public.
You know it when you see it.
The trashiest thing to me is a loud vehicle being revved and driven by a total asshole
I like to yell “Sorry about your small wiener!”
Oh. That was me. Sorry.
Lack of respect for other people, though it’s really usually just a mild annoyance.
