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| mellow_head |
| Aiwendil you're sooo BOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING! |
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| Slylee |
i was just kidding about not liking ugly people... i mean c'mon, i like floorfiller:p
no but seriously...they are probably no different or better than "normal" people.
extraordinary people do ordinary things in extraordinary ways people. giving yourself a mohawk and dressing like a freak doesn't make you unique...it's about what you accomplish and who you are as a person. those kids are nothing but attention starved morons.
they'll probably be working at "Hot Topic" and smoking weed every night for the rest of their lives. |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aiwendil
Now when I look at you, I see a goofy looking, polo shirt wearing, hair gelling, college going, beer drinking, bjork loving, weekend clubbing, boring yuppie who judges others based on the way the look because they're different in order to fit in with his muppet buddies. You fit about every stereotype of the typical 18-25 year-old male in the United States Of America, leaning a little on the "softer" side. The sad part is that it's not a phase you're going through, and it's even more ridiculous. Am I right? |
yea well let's see which one of them is actually making a contribution to society other than providing entertainment for all the "normal" folks... |
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| igottaknow |
| quote: | Originally posted by Laughingfennec
excatly, and this kind of debates always remind me how nazism was born |
hahaha jamie he just called you a nazi :tongue3 |
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| Slylee |
f'n jews!
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| Mebot |
I wonder what each of those kids is going to be like in 10 years. Will they still be the same goth/renegade punk or will they mature.
either way, i bet they'll look back at this picture, shake their head and say "man what the was i thinking". |
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| Orbax |
Whatever defense anyone wants to make of them, they are impoverishing their lives by dressing like this. How many of you would hire someone like this over someone dressed normally.
As much psychobabble as you want to say about us all being the same on the inside, you are wrong. For the same reason people use inflection in speech and facial expression during, the outward clothes choice is a paradigm selection for your personal perspective.
They are instantly espousing being touchy little bitches, and the only way to be able to talk to them or make jokes would be to enter their inner circle and go through your ritual vagina rubbing with them. In the end, it is a bunch of people desperately wishing they were loved, feeling increasingly exposed, violated, and vulnerable to this world so they put out a red flag. Help!
Unfortunately everyone has felt like that, and they aren't special bunnies no matter how hard they wish they were, and the only people to come to their aid are the other "special" ones that feel the same way.
Fast forward 20 years from now, and they are working some dead end job thinking about how RIGHT they were when they were young and they weep when they are alone about how "the machine" 'got them'.
Then they look at their old friend Lewis who got into a car accident and realized he wanted to do something with his life. He started wearing suits "like the man wanted him to" and ended up being a doctor. He looks at Lewis and shakes his head, wishing that the system was different and that Lewis should have realized how taken advantage he was and how like "every other doctor" out there he was.
Our little 40 year old emo friend goes home, waxes his bald spot lovingly, and hangs his name tag up next to his picture of some really hot vampire chick he met on Myspace and unfolds his futon. He clicks on his VHS tape (squeaky and washed out from use) of Stand by Me and wishes times were simpler.
He falls asleep with a tear rolling down his cheek as regrets and Ben E. King's "Stand by Me" wash over him.
Somewhere, in some long forgotten box is a pair of fishnets and a mesh shirt that would split in half if he tried putting them on now. A pair of dusty, scratched bubble glasses hang alone on a slowly rusting nail. His mom, who passed away young that year, had given him her family photo album in which, page after page, he was always in the background alone, surrounded by khaki wearing laughing people who just "didnt get it".
The following years are rough for our emo friend. He goes through a few failed Myspace loves. For some reason they don't seem to have the passion and wild interest they used to. The women just seem beaten, tired, and a little cranky.
He makes a few desultory attempts at writing poetry, tries calling his dad a few times but all he ever gets is the machine.
Lewis, you remember Lewis? The "loser" who became a doctor? Lewis is sitting at home one night with his wife and two beautiful children. They are watching "The Mask" on a new DVD that he bought for his kids the other day. They are all howling with laughter, and as the credits begin to roll the kids yawn. After tucking them away to bed, he puts his arm around his wife, tell her he loves her and slips into bed holding her tight.
For some odd reason he thinks of his young days for about 2 seconds and then goes to sleep.
4 years later he gets a call at 11pm for emergency room. His wife looks at him with love and concern filling her eyes after all of these years. "Good luck, honey"
He gets there and there has been a stabbing, self inflicted from the look. As he frantically works to stop the bleeding and calm the spasmodic jerkings of a body almost entirely spent of life, the persons eyes open to quartered slits and a tear rolls out.
"Lewis?" |
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| kr00t0n |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
sorry, i only hang out with hot people. i don't really have tolerance for ugly people...they cramp my style. |
^5 :stongue: |
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| Moral Hazard |
my experience has always been that people who dress in order to shock or indimidate people do so because they are insecure and think that if they appear unaproachable they can provide themselves some protection from the perceived risks/dangers of human interaction.
The great Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once said "one is never as alone then when they are the centre of attention." That is what these people wish to acheive by their style of dress. |
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| bananas |
| quote: | Originally posted by BTG
why do kids feel the need to dress like this?
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ROFLARIOUS |
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| DigitalPhoenix |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
sorry, i only hang out with hot people. i don't really have tolerance for ugly people...they cramp my style. |
Kudos J! |
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| Floorfiller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aiwendil
So you believe it's okay to make fun of someone because of what they wear? Is that so different from making fun of someone because of the color of their skin or the religion they practice? Because you don't actually know anything about those individuals, however much you'd like to think you do. You only know what they look like. Now when I look at you, I see a goofy looking, polo shirt wearing, hair gelling, college going, beer drinking, bjork loving, weekend clubbing, boring yuppie who judges others based on the way the look because they're different in order to fit in with his muppet buddies. You fit about every stereotype of the typical 18-25 year-old male in the United States Of America, leaning a little on the "softer" side. The sad part is that it's not a phase you're going through, and it's even more ridiculous. Am I right? |
hahaha...
well i'll say this...i am all of those things and i don't think it's such a bad thing...i don't find the way i am or the things i value to be ridiculous. what you think of me doesn't really bother me just as i'm sure what i think of those kids doesn't really matter to them.
let's face it, we each choose to present ourselves in a way which we feel best represents who we are...and because of that we decide what others think of us. people like this have chosen for whatever reason to present this image to people and for them to assume that it doesn't reflect on them in some way is ridiculous...as already mentioned in this thread...that's most likely what they want. i don't expect people to not judge me based on appearance or my social interaction because i act and appear the way i want to be perceived...
i can see what you're saying about it being similar to racism, but once again i don't feel it is entirely the same because it is a concious choice. for example:
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