OT: Goths, punks, metalheads, longhairs, and other assorted weirdness

[trekgeezer]

O.K. ,  if you want to hear uncool, ask me how warp drive works. I can explain it and a lot of real world things in excruciating detail.

[Mr_Vindictive]

I too was seriously uncool back in high school.

Yeah, I was a skater.  I was the guy who always had his board in class with him.  Never did fit in with the other skaters though due to the fact that none of them really skated.  They were just going for the look which I normally tried to avoid.  I didn't care about the look.  I just wanted to skate.  It was kind of stupid at the time that they would want to be skaters, because back then skaters weren't "cool" like today.

Hell if I were in high school today and still skated, I'd be considered one of the "cool" kids.  Funny how things change.

But on second thought, that wouldn't be a good thing.  I think that I'd have to shoot myself if one of the cool kids said:

"Hey isn't Good Charlotte THE BEST!?"

or

"Have you heard the new Korn song?  They rock so hard!"

At the point of being asked about Good Charlotte, I would tie the kid to a chair and make him listen to some good ole Operation Ivy.

At the point of being asked about Korn, I would sit them down and listen to the self titled album in it's entirity.

Might even give em nightmares.

LOL

[Mr_Vindictive]

Deej wrote:

> Nope, but I can fart the theme from Love Story. Okay, now I'm
> just being incoherant, time to go to bed.
>



Dude, if I had that skill I'd be a millionare!

lol

[Eirik]

Evil Matt, I'll go you one further and say that just as few people in college and, in fact, adult life are cool.  Go ahead and mock the high school in crowd for paying lots of money for crappy, ridiculous looking clothes just as a status symbol.  For my money, they've got nothing on the 30-something jerkoff who lives in a city where parking is difficult and he only has himself to drive around and still he owns a gigantic gas-guzzling SUV or pickup truck because he thinks it makes him look cool.  And worse still are the guys who drive around in the $65,000 import cars that are in the shop three days a week.  Look at what our society now views as the pinaccle of coolness:  The Friends Show characters.  THAT'S what cool is.

In high school and for the rest of our lives, there's the uncool and the uncool who just don't realize it.  I place myself squarely in the former category.  I just spent twenty minutes singing Mary Had a Little Lamb to a sick three month old.  My illusions are shattered.

[Kirk]

Eirik wrote:
I just spent twenty minutes singing Mary Had a Little Lamb to a sick three month old.

That, sir, makes you cool.  I hope your child gets well.

Kirk

[Velvet Brotha]

> Eirik wrote:
I just spent twenty minutes singing Mary Had a Little Lamb to a sick three month old.

Awwwwwwwww.... : ) Don't you just love babies?

[Velvet Brotha]

> And worse still are the guys who drive around in the $65,000 import cars that are in the shop three days a week.

Try working around the a***oles that work with. Engineers driving around in $200, 000 dollar cars and trying to hog up the women to make up for their past short comings. ; ) Sometimes I feel like giving them wedgies and put them in headlocks, just so they don't forget who they really are. ; )

[Eirik]

Thank you, Kirk.  Her spirits continued to rise through the afternoon.  Light at the end of the tunnel.

[Illusion]

A few things I've noticed as I've aged, a term which instilled hatred in the most level headed child is now a compliment, a NERD.  Thankfully when I was in high school I was a pretty big boy so no one really bothered me and left me to shove my nose in the books, although at the time being 6'3 250 seemed such a burden. I think back to those days at what I would have done to someone who dared to refer to me as a "NERD", but now I think of it as a great compliment when my peers introduce as the nerd of our group :) and would have ever thought I would be proud to say I have an MSCS lol.

Also for those not old enough to have experience a high school reunion, you'll be pretty surprised when you do.  3 years ago I went to my 10 year, and it was the best revenge ever.  Our high school stud was still sporting a mullet, had 4 kids and a wonderful job at a local bowling alley (funny he was voted most likely to succeed).  The school hottie now had thighs somewhat reminiscent of a rhino's and worked as a retail clerk at a local strip mall.  Many of the people that were cast as "Nerds" or "Geeks" were the people that actually had done something with their lives.  The strangest thing was the girls that never wanted to give me the time of day were now apologetic and shamelessly interested in me now.

And lastly, I know I'm cool, my son thinks I'm the coolest thing that ever happened to this planet, and that's all that matters to me :)

[Evil Matt]

"And lastly, I know I'm cool, my son thinks I'm the coolest thing that ever happened to this planet, and that's all that matters to me :)"

I'd love to be able to say the same thing, and in truth, my kids DO think I'm the coolest thing around, but I can't really say they're the authority on it when I catch them spinning around in circles until they get stomachaches.  :)

Oh, and I totally agree that the word "nerd" is sort of a badge of honor now.  Hell, I have a wallet with the word "dork" embroidered on it, and it's the coolest thing ever...

[Deej]

I went to my 10th reunion last Sept. I didn't recognize many people and nobody outside of a few friends knew who I was. Fairly lame s**t. I do admit that I get a mean-spirited thrill everytime I go to out local United Supermarket, because bagging my groceries is one of the most popular guys in my HS class.

[Eirik]

"I'd love to be able to say the same thing, and in truth, my kids DO think I'm the coolest thing around, but I can't really say they're the authority on it when I catch them spinning around in circles until they get stomachaches. :)"

Sounds like the three of us are in the golden years of parenting.  Wait ten years.  Whatever our kids think of us, "coolest guy on Earth" probably won't enter into their equation.