If you feel like you’ve seen this trend before, it is because you have. This month, the stupid sensation sweeping the nation are SillyBandz.

In middle school, everyone wore Lance Armstrong’s much hyped “Livestrong” bands, and now everyone wants SillyBandz. Ironically distributed by the same company as Livestrong, but without any of the Livestrong campaign’s redeeming social value, SillyBandz are just plain dumb.

These colored rubber bands are supposed to assume unique shapes when you take them off your wrist/ankle, but unless the SillyBand is supposed to be a spilled can of soup, or the “Blob,” it really doesn’t look like anything.

Maybe the appeal of these things is that you can show your interests to your friends or maybe the appeal is that you didn’t want to spend $10 on a original looking bracelet. No object should have to remind you of what you like in life, or your so called “friends.” The SillyBandz are made of plastic and colored dye, not your hopes and dreams.

Not only are these things principally flawed, but most of the middle-school minded people walking around with them have whole armfuls of bands. Granted the walls in our high school are a bit spiky, but you don’t need an arm protector made of rubber bands.

Some of these rubber bands are just wrong. It is good to express your religious faith and start a conversation, but if the best way you can let people know about your faith is to wear around a SillyBand in the shape of the Star of David, you have bigger spiritual problems. Jesus probably wouldn’t want his crucifixion to be immortalized through a piece of plastic either. Fads change, and some of them help define our childhood, but please don’t let these little colored office supplies from Japan be one of them.