Being a goth involves...?

sinjin_smythe · 05-05-2005 09:05PM

LadyJ wrote:

I can only assume you mean satAn!
However,it's just a colour preference dammit! Not a way of life!

ooooooo whos a bit of a moaning michael !!!
and in reply to your question yes i was referring to satin and im stickin with that story

LadyJ · 05-05-2005 09:09PM

Oh god,don't say moany! That implies GOTH!
Nooooooooooooooooooo!

sinjin_smythe · 05-05-2005 09:13PM

only one way to settle this, post a pic and let the good members of boards decide

LadyJ · 05-05-2005 09:17PM

weedhead wrote:

only one way to settle this, post a pic and let the good members of boards decide

Maybe another time! For now it's beer time!

Maybe I'll go to Fibbers like a good goth!

tinkerbell · 05-05-2005 09:25PM

I was out one night in a lil black skirt, black knee-high boots and a Playboy bunny top (it was black and pink). This stupid ass girl says to me "ehh ... you a goth?!" I was like "what the hell!! Whatever happened to the little black dress outfit?!"

I mean for god's sake! In fact, I couldn't be more ungoth, my wardrobe has probably the most insane array of bright colours that is remotely possible. I wear bright clothes a lot, and I never dress like a goth. What a dumbass she was - just because I was wearing a "little black dress" ensemble, she automatically thought I was a goth.

Oh some people .... sooooo stupid!

Le Rack · 05-05-2005 10:56PM

I'm kinda goth. If I had the money for it I'd be a full blown goth, its damn expensive ****! I get called a Krusty which is actually a term from the 70's meaning hippie. I wear almost always all black, ivory foundation, heavy black eyes/lips, my hair is always changing but always a dark puple/black sorta colour, sometimes peroxided pink. I listen to black metal and standard classic rock but the heavier the better. I do have some illuminas clothes too that I wear like illuminas pink parachute pants and bright green t-shirts but most of my wardrobe is blackk as is my make up. But its not all about that and goths dont pretend to worship the devil/occult, some do some dont, I personaly am wiccan and have no Christian belief at all. Having said that I have respect for those who do believe it. Being goth isnt just sbout your clothes its about your standing in life people nowadays (usually scumbags who say "State a you! I'll bate ya! Won't we lads?!") are just too thick to know the real deffinitions of different "groups" so to speak.
Also we're not loners! most of the reasons that poster listed are so stereotypical learn a bit more next time please.

nesf · 06-05-2005 12:24AM

I like some goth clothes. I'm partial to goth women on occasion. Some goth music is good.

But I've never been a goth. Could never really summon the energy to make enough of an effort that comes with the lifestyle. And I never got the whole depression is cool thing for some reason

Stephen · 06-05-2005 12:35AM

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Deadwing · 06-05-2005 12:42AM

Marts wrote:

no no, goths listen to more Drowning Pool and SOAD and ****e like that, rockers and heavy metalers listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath. well Goth is really more of a generalisation, like a chav I mean what exactly defines a chav?

thats just totally wrong right there...mini metallers listen to soad and drowning pool.
Goth girls are fugging hot, some goth music i love i.e. joy division, all in all i dont have a rpoblem with them apart from the pretentious stuck up twatty ones that used to inhabit fibbers back in the day.

Lafortezza · 06-05-2005 04:45AM

Why do goth chicks wear trousers with skirts over them? And why are they so enthusiastically angry all the time?

Willymuncher · 06-05-2005 05:23AM

Marts wrote:

no no, goths listen to more Drowning Pool and SOAD and ****e like that, rockers and heavy metalers listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath. well Goth is really more of a generalisation, like a chav I mean what exactly defines a chav?

I think that is wrong, I listen to the likes of System of a down and Drowning Pool, that is good music, but I am not a goth, or a teenage rocker....its just down to personal taste i guess.

c - 13 · 06-05-2005 08:41AM

OP - I wouldnt read too far into it TBH.

It seems to be a general stereotype by narrow minded people that EVERYONE who listens to any kind of rock/metal/punk etc is automatically reffered to as a "goth" these days.

Example -
Was picking up my lil' bro from school the other day sitting in the car waiting for him and got talking to some girls standing nearby. Had hatebreed (i think, cant really remember now) playing in the car and one of them asks - "Whats that you got on ?" - So i tell her what it is and she looks at me and says "Oh right so your one of them goths then ?" - and for the record i wasnt wearing any black (white/black runners,blue jeans, white/blue quiksilver t-shirt), dont have long hair etc etc.

So obviously the assumptions of "goth-ness" works on either your musical tastes OR the way you dress.

Lemming · 06-05-2005 08:59AM

Not another goth-thread. Please, please let it die!!!

Wont someone please think of the children!!!

Megatron · 06-05-2005 09:07AM

LadyJ wrote:

Well,it's not like I'm 15 or anything! Christ,I'm nearly 20 and I don't hang around central bank! I just like black! Black coats,skirts,tops,the occasional corset maybe but that's about all these "assumers" have to go on!

kk i know a few of the goth tpes and yeah the do tend to wear the above stuff.

But from what i remember being a goth is about the joy of life, they try to experence life for what it is, and the makeup and stuff is a way of making life a touch more dramatic ... now i could be wrong but this has been said to me by a few of my goth m8's.

I just take people as they are, no one is perfect , so we all have our faults..

Mine happens to be spending too much time on internet forums :rolleyes:

MorningStar · 06-05-2005 09:28AM

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Good stuff so. You shouldn't wear so much black during the summer months though, its a great conductor of heat.

Conductor?!?! Go look up the meaning, heat doesn't travel down or through black. I think you mean black absorbs light the opposite being white that reflects light.

On Point: There is Gothic and Nu Rock. Pretty much the same but Nu rock is the heavier goth music like Slipknot etc.. where as goth seems to be more like Sisters of Mercy etc.
Most of the current kids are Nu Rock as the Goth scene really stems from the late 70's early 80's.
I was called a Goth when a teenager but was not into it at all. Unless you are in the circle of the scene it's hard to tell. Now people think I am an old hippy.

Kingsize · 06-05-2005 10:00AM

theres nothing wrong with the "occasional corset"

06-05-2005 01:25PM

I would consider Slipknot to be a manufatured boy band.

goth, noun.
1. A style of rock music that often evokes bleak, lugubrious imagery.
2. A performer or follower of this style of music.

Gothic
emphasizes the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate.

The Bollox · 06-05-2005 01:40PM

Deadwing wrote:

Goth girls are fugging hot

SOME goth chicks are hot, no question about it, but only some can pull it off right, case in point, check put the pic I posted on here a bit back,here are some examples of where it does work tho

KTRIC · 06-05-2005 01:47PM

OH YEAH BABY

Dimitri · 06-05-2005 01:50PM

Deadwing wrote:

thats just totally wrong right there...mini metallers listen to soad and drowning pool.

I'm confused if these are minies and goths listen to cradle of filth what am i? my music tates range from mid ninties dance back to seventies rock and a fair dose of nu metal like system, drowning pool as well as a touch of 80 old skool stuff by metallica & slayer, lately i've started listening to the road runner produced screamo metal like trivium, soulfly and atreyu! what does that make me, and as for the clothes what am i if i'm wearing chords and t shirts? I always thought goths were those thirteen year olds the wear the long black clothes and hate their parents? i didn't know it graduated over to adulthood! Is marilyn manson a goth? i always classed him as a shock rocker who dresses to make you think while at the same time to cause controversy to plug more records

The Bollox · 06-05-2005 01:52PM

Dimitri wrote:

I always thought goths were those thirteen year olds the wear the long black clothes and hate their parents

no, thats those EMO faggots, don't get me started on them

c - 13 · 06-05-2005 01:54PM

aarrgghh

so ... many .... labels .....
so ... many .... names .....

Brain overloading ....... Grraagh

Dimitri · 06-05-2005 01:58PM

Marts wrote:

no, thats those EMO faggots, don't get me started on them

emo is that like finch and taking back sunday they've a couple of good songs but why, i say, why if they listen to that do they wear long black cloaks i listen to tham from time to time i never wore a cloak!! i think i wasted my teenage years downloading music, i'm all confused!!

Sarky · 06-05-2005 02:23PM

Most of you don't have a clue what "Gothic" means, do you?

Nightwish · 06-05-2005 02:25PM

i'm called a goth wherever I go. I do dress in all black clothes, I do listen to rock/metal music, I do tend to have a permanent scowl on my face, but its not intentional!!! it was a consequence of trying to hide my braces as a teenager. in school i had very few friends. I love all things dark, vampiric and love poetry...oooh and Latin. so i tend to fit in with the stereotype

The Bollox · 06-05-2005 02:25PM

oooh yes I do! *does a Google define*

# characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
# of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"
# extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
# a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
# medieval: as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"
# characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"
# a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches

so there

lol

Lemming · 06-05-2005 02:26PM

Sarky wrote:

Most of you don't have a clue what "Gothic" means, do you?

In Karl Hungus' absence ... praying for Sarky will do

Bottle_of_Smoke · 06-05-2005 02:27PM

Marts wrote:

SOME goth chicks are hot, no question about it, but only some can pull it off right, case in point, check put the pic I posted on here a bit back,here are some examples of where it does work tho

well goth2 and 4 certainly brightened up my day!

LadyJ wrote:

Anyway,some guy at a party came up to me last week and said
" My brother would love you". When I asked why he said
"He's into all that ****"
"What ****? Black?",I asked,to which he responded "Led Zepplin and all that rock ****"
Now,I'm not saying I'm not a fan but,tbh, my taste in music is pretty eclectic and I don't wear black because of any musical influence,I just ****in like it! :rolleyes:

He was just trying to sleep with you(or possibly me) and being from Navan he couldn't think up much intelligent conversation. No one ever said you look like a goth.....

nesf · 06-05-2005 02:46PM

Sarky wrote:

Most of you don't have a clue what "Gothic" means, do you?

Looks at the goth pics...

Heh, heh, heh. Bueno

Big difference between understanding the intricicies of goth culture, and appreciating the finer points of it.

You know me well enough mate to know I have a pretty good idea of the former, you'll just have to excuse me for drooling while contemplating the latter.

Bueno.

goin'_to_the_PS · 06-05-2005 02:49PM

lafortezza wrote:

Why do goth chicks wear trousers with skirts over them? And why are they so enthusiastically angry all the time?

because it looks good.........sometimes

Being a goth involves...?

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