Fads/Cliques

[Torex]

Well, what do you think of them?

They've been around for a while, and I'm sick of them. Especially how you have to dress to be a part of one. I hate these "scene" people. Wearing jackets that mix up yellow, pink, green, and purple. With brightly colored, tight pants. This would be okay, if it were just girls. Why the hell do guys wear that? They look gay. Seriously. I'm sure that other people here know what I mean. And they think that putting a little black on their clothes makes them look depressing and cool. Besides, the real "emo" people who were all depressed and cutting themselves (or so I've heard) dress like that. Who are they to decide what's what?

[sheganican]

cliques will exist as long as there is intelligent thought.

the only way to get around exclusive social groups like these is to try to bring them together. before i exited middle school i wasnt in any definite clique. i guess you could say i was part of all the cliques, really.

they're really just a bunch of friends with stuff in common, theres a clique for everyone, and if it really bothers you, then all you can do is try to ignore it.

[scythe]

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_wh ... phere.html

In order to eliminate cliques we'd need brains approximately the size of the Chrysler building.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Or if you're patient, it doesn't actually matter after high school. Not one bit.

[Kablizzy]

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[wolfgang]

The first sentence is golden. And the last.

But I will not say mean things about you.

[blackson]

Which movie is your highschool in?

[Tanner]

Wearing jackets that mix up yellow, pink, green, and purple. With brightly colored, tight pants.

Axonn is obviously writing to us from the past. The kids at his school still think MC Hammer is "da bomb".

[TribulatioN]

I don't think cliques are a problem at my high school. We don't have cliques as much as we have groups of friends, and each group kind of spills into another.

That's exactly how it is at mine. Except it's Junior High. Most of us are all interconnected some way or another, so it's not too big a deal. It's more like grade nine's versus eight's versus seven's.

[blue_tetris]

Wearing jackets that mix up yellow, pink, green, and purple. With brightly colored, tight pants.

Axonn is obviously writing to us from the past. The kids at his school still think MC Hammer is "da bomb".

I was thinking just that.

[BNW]

Wearing jackets that mix up yellow, pink, green, and purple. With brightly colored, tight pants.

Axonn is obviously writing to us from the past. The kids at his school still think MC Hammer is "da bomb".

I was thinking just that.

Or is it you that is stuck in the past, and us, the younger generation, that is leaping ahead?

:P

[Turtle]

I actually finished a rant on this quite recently.
Cliques are pretty huge at my school, and it bugs me how people divide themselves into them, even though they fit into more than one group.
And yes, I'm in highschool. And yes, the kids at my highschool are mostly idiots.

Edit: Deleted the rant. Not sure how to use spoilers on the new forums. It wasn't working..

[Lenny]

Turtle's 'rant', I thought, was very interesting.

I find that our school always seems to have a few groups, but it doesn't really bother me because I find that unavoidable, and the groups tend to interact with each other often enough.

[Atilla]

Axonn is obviously writing to us from the past. The kids at his school still think MC Hammer is "da bomb".

I was thinking just that.

Or is it you that is stuck in the past, and us, the younger generation, that is leaping ahead?

No, I'm pretty sure Axonn's school has stopped in Hammer Time.

[Izzy]

In Bermuda:

Ignorance.
Jeans hanging on to your knees.
White/Black shirts with pictures of weed, guns, or jewelry.
Chains.
A rag hanging from your back pocket.
iPods full of rap/hip-hop/crap.
Gangsta wannabe.

That's about it, and I don't like it.

[Rose]

Besides, the real "emo" people who were all depressed and cutting themselves (or so I've heard) dress like that.

As someone who used to cut himself and was suicidal, I can say that being emo is not about how you dress (I rarely dressed like that). I assume that it works the same way with most other cliques as well; it's not about how you dress or look, but how you act.

I underline past tenses so nobody misreads it and thinks I still am. Prozac helps ^_^

[Yoshimo]

I try my hardest not to fit in, but just sort of float around. Except for the fact that I float a bit to far off, it works pretty good. I hate cliques. Cross-dresser and there's nothing you can do about it!. If it's comfy, I wear it.

[MattKestrel]

As someone who used to cut himself and was suicidal,

Wow, I never pictured you used to be like that. Therefore, you're successful in reprising a new lease of life :)

They don't really exist too much at my school, school uniform cuts down on fashion cliques and only really leaves personality types and jackets.

[isaacx]

there's too much in my school, so i just choose to ignore them

[Donfuy]

"Why don't you cut your hair? It's ugly, no one uses that kind of hair."
"Why do you use that kind of pants? Only old guys uses them, no one on the school uses them, they make you uglier."
"Why do you hear those kind of music? Why don't you hear pop or disco music like everybody else?"
"Why do you play those stupid games? Why don't you play *real* games like WoW or GTA?"
"Why have you bought a Wii? No one has a Wii in our city! It's awful."
"Why do you act like that? Be like everybody else!"
"I hate those shoes, no one uses them. That kind of style is gone."


Just a short list of things I'm questioned.

Sidenote:

I love my hair.

[origami_alligator]

Or if you're patient, it doesn't actually matter after high school. Not one bit.

quoted for a lot of emphasis.

[capt_weasle]

"Why do you hear those kind of music? Why don't you hear pop or disco music like everybody else?"

Seriously? You get asked that on a regular basis?

[Donfuy]

"Why do you hear those kind of music? Why don't you hear pop or disco music like everybody else?"

Seriously? You get asked that on a regular basis?

Seriously. Well, most of the times they say "Your music sucks." "Oh, are you hearing those old musics again?". I no longer bother to say them that most aren't old musics (like dEUS or A Silver Mt. Zion).

And yes, they only hear to those kinds of music. In the bus where I go to school, I only need to turn off my mp3 player to hear da real music. There's always one person who likes to share the music with others (extremely high volume, with extremely bad headphones and with a little bit of "I hear cool music").

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

"Oh, are you hearing those old musics again?"

I am extremely entertained at this use of language, especially given that teenagers are using it.
"Are you hearing those old musics again." It's almost like it's taken right out of a bad dialogue for a fantasy novel and the author has a terrible understanding of how people talked "back then" but is giving a half-assed attempt regardless.
People around here would just say, "are you still listening to that music," or simply, "you still listen to that garbage?" But there wouldn't be an "oh," "hearing" would only apply to awareness of noise as opposed to paying attention to it, and "musics" isn't even a word. It's like they're asking you, a schizophrenic who hears ancient melodies of yore, if you're having another schizoid attack.

Which country do you live in?

[capt_weasle]

Which country do you live in?

Apparently one that thinks Disco is still all the rage these days.