[quote]StevenF wrote:
Dude, no one is actually going to go out and beat up people with black hair and wearing girl pants. We’ll just laugh at them. [/quote]
Exactly!
Where I live there aren’t that many emo kids. But almost everyone here is a wannabe gangsta even though they all have middle class suburban backgrounds.
Yeah, I forget right now who it was but he said “If your mom drops you off at school, you’re NOT an gangsta!”.
All the day students at the PREP school I go to try to be emo. Not quite the goth-emo that most people think of, but more of the bad haircut ugly clothes thing. I stay as far away as I can, so I have no idea if any of these kids hate the world. But as they’re going to prep school, I sure hope not, as they have very little to complain about.
[quote]semper_fi wrote:
Where I live there aren’t that many emo kids. But almost everyone here is a wannabe gangsta even though they all have middle class suburban backgrounds. [/quote]
Yeah, we call em “Wawa Thugs” here in Delaware cause DE has like 8000 Wawas and you always see these gangstas parked out in front in their 92’ Corollas with spinning hubcabs sporting their x-long white tees and flat brim hats. Usually they rock the chinstrap goatee as well.
I’m not sure what’s worse, emo punks or Wawa thugs. I’d have to say the emo kids because the Wawa thugs are a lot less self-righteous. They also generally walk much slower and are thus easier to ignore.
[quote]hockechamp14 wrote:
All the day students at the PREP school I go to try to be emo. Not quite the goth-emo that most people think of, but more of the bad haircut ugly clothes thing. I stay as far away as I can, so I have no idea if any of these kids hate the world. But as they’re going to prep school, I sure hope not, as they have very little to complain about.[/quote]
I grew up in the '70’s and when I see pictures of what I wore and how I cut my hair it makes me laugh because it was so goofy. And we weren’t even TRYING to have a special look. We bought the clothes that were on the racks. Wore sneakers from Sears.
The crap I see kids wearing now makes me shrug my shoulders in disbelief. It’s like they raided my closet from when I was 12 years old.
Why is it cool to look shaggy and unkempt? And why do people try so damn hard to get a look? Especially when you have to go out of your way nowadays to look dumpy. Them dumpy looking clothes is damned expensive!
[quote]kligor wrote:
I’ve never quite understood… what’s an emo?[/quote]
JMac10’s graphic is quite helpful. If you’re still confused, think of any music store clerk who is white and not a metalhead.
[quote]derek wrote:
Why is it cool to look shaggy and unkempt? And why do people try so damn hard to get a look? Especially when you have to go out of your way nowadays to look dumpy. Them dumpy looking clothes is damned expensive![/quote]
True! I love seeing these new/old shirts and pants on the rack at stores that are pre-beaten-the-shit-out-of and cost a small fortune!
[quote]Digital Chainsaw wrote:
derek wrote:
Them dumpy looking clothes is damned expensive!
True! I love seeing these new/old shirts and pants on the rack at stores that are pre-beaten-the-shit-out-of and cost a small fortune![/quote]
Yeah, jeans with holes in the knees? Now I see hats like Budweiser, 7-Up etc. and even Dickies that have fake freakin’ GREESE on them and the bills are sanded down to look worn.
I say, buy a pair of jeans, unload a few flatbed trailers full of haybales and you’ll get your “distressed look” jeans, drop some bodyfat and make a little money.
A friend of mine used to buy steel toe boots and take a 4" angle grinder to the toes to have the steel show through. Shit, if he changed a dozen flat tires and did a brake job in his driveway he get the same thing and be proud of himself at the same time.
Geez!
[quote]derek wrote:
Digital Chainsaw wrote:
derek wrote:
Them dumpy looking clothes is damned expensive!
True! I love seeing these new/old shirts and pants on the rack at stores that are pre-beaten-the-shit-out-of and cost a small fortune!
Yeah, jeans with holes in the knees? Now I see hats like Budweiser, 7-Up etc. and even Dickies that have fake freakin’ GREESE on them and the bills are sanded down to look worn.
I say, buy a pair of jeans, unload a few flatbed trailers full of haybales and you’ll get your “distressed look” jeans, drop some bodyfat and make a little money.
A friend of mine used to buy steel toe boots and take a 4" angle grinder to the toes to have the steel show through. Shit, if he changed a dozen flat tires and did a brake job in his driveway he get the same thing and be proud of himself at the same time.
Geez!
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No shit? I saw a t-shirt on the rack at a store with a Pac-Man on it that was purposely all cracked and faded to look old and, I guess, “retro”. I personally put enough wear and tear on my clothes that I don’t need them pre-trashed.
But I’ll go you one better…
About 6 years ago when my wife and I bought our house and were furnishing it, we purchased a dining room table through a catalog from a store where we had bought several other items. When it arrived, it had multiple groups of small holes all over the surface of it. Figuring it was a shipping mishap, we sent it back and got a new one and it looked exactly the same!
We went back to the store to ask “what the fuck…?” and we were told that the holes in the table were done by the manufacturer! Apparently, they beat the table top with chains to get what is called a “distressed finish”. Having always thought that the person using it should be the one doing the “distressing”, we sent that table back and ordered one that was normal.
What the hell is the world coming to when people even want their new furniture to look used?
[quote]Digital Chainsaw wrote:
derek wrote:
Digital Chainsaw wrote:
derek wrote:
Them dumpy looking clothes is damned expensive!
True! I love seeing these new/old shirts and pants on the rack at stores that are pre-beaten-the-shit-out-of and cost a small fortune!
Yeah, jeans with holes in the knees? Now I see hats like Budweiser, 7-Up etc. and even Dickies that have fake freakin’ GREESE on them and the bills are sanded down to look worn.
I say, buy a pair of jeans, unload a few flatbed trailers full of haybales and you’ll get your “distressed look” jeans, drop some bodyfat and make a little money.
A friend of mine used to buy steel toe boots and take a 4" angle grinder to the toes to have the steel show through. Shit, if he changed a dozen flat tires and did a brake job in his driveway he get the same thing and be proud of himself at the same time.
Geez!
No shit? I saw a t-shirt on the rack at a store with a Pac-Man on it that was purposely all cracked and faded to look old and, I guess, “retro”. I personally put enough wear and tear on my clothes that I don’t need them pre-trashed.
But I’ll go you one better…
About 6 years ago when my wife and I bought our house and were furnishing it, we purchased a dining room table through a catalog from a store where we had bought several other items. When it arrived, it had multiple groups of small holes all over the surface of it. Figuring it was a shipping mishap, we sent it back and got a new one and it looked exactly the same!
We went back to the store to ask “what the fuck…?” and we were told that the holes in the table were done by the manufacturer! Apparently, they beat the table top with chains to get what is called a “distressed finish”. Having always thought that the person using it should be the one doing the “distressing”, we sent that table back and ordered one that was normal.
What the hell is the world coming to when people even want their new furniture to look used?[/quote]
i almost bought he same kinda crap, but the holes are really cheezy and don’t add anything. it’s pretty retarded, why not just buy a piece of shit table if thats the look your going for.
p.s. this is waaaaayyyyy off topic
[quote]mazilla wrote:
i almost bought he same kinda crap, but the holes are really cheezy and don’t add anything. it’s pretty retarded, why not just buy a piece of shit table if thats the look your going for.[/quote]
My thoughts exactly.
Oh, yeah: Fuck emo!