'Goths'

SpinMeRightRoun · 17-01-2006 10:59PM #1

I've been reading through some of the threads here . . . and many people seem VERY clueless about Goths. I'm sorry but it's true.
This site
http://blood-dance.net/goth/grant.html
gives a very good definition of Goth.
Goth is a way of expressing yourself, and it's about colour of mind. It's not about the cloths or music or depression. You could wear luminous green and still call yourself Goth!!! Many people believe the stereotypes about 'Goths', and by that I mean the people who go around wearing misery as fashion. Hopefully this might clear things up . . . I didn't make this thread to be flamed, just to put things into perspective that's all.

RandolphEsq · 17-01-2006 11:28PM

bs dont make me laugh

Rhyme · 17-01-2006 11:30PM

Could you account for the large amount of people who go through the 'goth phase'?

Endurance Man · 18-01-2006 12:01AM

Riiiiight

AARRRGH · 18-01-2006 12:05AM

Goth is something teenagers do because they want attention.

Goths in their 20's/30's scare me.

quank · 18-01-2006 03:42AM

dublindude wrote:

Goths in their 20's/30's scare me.

Goths in their 60's/70's scare me.

mickymg2003 · 18-01-2006 11:54AM

In a nutshell, Goth is very much like 70s Punk with a brain and good manners.

Thought it wasnt about music?

Its attention seeking really!!

Sleipnir · 18-01-2006 11:59AM

Really, I don't care what you look like, but I don't understand why they feel a need to dress in a certain way in order that 'outsiders' will know they belong to a certain clique. With that in mind, they're no different then the members of a golf club.
They try to be very different (which is fine!) but the funny thing is they end up looking exactly the same!!

Zulu · 18-01-2006 11:59AM

Disgruntled teenagers, desperately trying to be "different" by dressing the exact same as their peers.

Smile people, the world ISN'T out to get you.

....well not untill you got all miserable anyway.

rubadub · 18-01-2006 12:03PM

Your creative efforts are often described as dark, shocking, scary, morbid or strange

You don't understand why the people around you spend so much time watching TV

You are not afraid of the dark

LOL, tosser!

18-01-2006 12:16PM

I was a goth once, years ago. I wore bright pink and yellow...very little black actually

thelordofcheese · 18-01-2006 12:17PM

SpinMeRightRoun wrote:

I've been reading through some of the threads here . . . and many people seem VERY clueless about Goths. I'm sorry but it's true.
This site
http://blood-dance.net/goth/grant.html
gives a very good definition of Goth.
Goth is a way of expressing yourself, and it's about colour of mind. It's not about the cloths or music or depression. You could wear luminous green and still call yourself Goth!!! Many people believe the stereotypes about 'Goths', and by that I mean the people who go around wearing misery as fashion. Hopefully this might clear things up . . . I didn't make this thread to be flamed, just to put things into perspective that's all.

If you are really are a goth, where were you when rome was sacked?

mise_me_fein_V2 · 18-01-2006 12:22PM

Goths are just kids into crap music that have rich parents.

ro1798 · 18-01-2006 12:22PM

can i assume this is right?

goth = smelly rocker

just to clear things in my head

ronan

MorningStar · 18-01-2006 12:24PM

This has got to be just some hate mongering.

The OP name is the name of a song produced by Stok Akin and Waterman but uneducated people might has thought had a goth relation. The Aviator adding to it and the fact it the first and only post it just makes it more likely a troll

ST* · 18-01-2006 12:25PM

Guess I went through a phase when I was teenager.
Wasnt so hot on the music. was a black-wearing moody,sarcastic cow.
Thats not goth exactly. I call it my transitional stage from my parents running my world to me taking over. a statement I suppose.
:v: Still cant shake them off though at nearly 27

Demetrius · 18-01-2006 12:28PM

mise_me_fein_V2 wrote:

Goths are just kids into crap music that have rich parents.

Ive always been of that of that opinion myself.

nachos · 18-01-2006 12:28PM

From the few goths that I've come into contact with, they seem very hypocritical and snobby. I'm not a goth at all and the few times I've gone to Fibbers', I've worn my jeans, a jumper and shoes as I would wear anywhere else. When I go into Fibbers' (a metal/goth bar) I can see people sort of look their noses down on me and seem to make snide remarks because I don't belong to their clique.
They complain that people judge them on the way they look, yet they're doing the exact same to "normal"(that's implying goths aren't normal! well...) people.

maybe I've just met the unpleasent side of goth culture.... meh

Sleipnir · 18-01-2006 12:29PM

MorningStar wrote:

This has got to be just some hate mongering.

The OP name is the name of a song produced by Stok Akin and Waterman but uneducated people might has thought had a goth relation. The Aviator adding to it and the fact it the first and only post it just makes it more likely a troll

Just because we don't know that the OP's name it that of a song produced by someone not many people may have heard of, doesn't mean we are "uneducated"

Although now that I know that I agree that it may be a troll.

Beruthiel · 18-01-2006 12:35PM

SpinMeRightRoun wrote:

I've been reading through some of the threads here . . . and many people seem VERY clueless about Goths. I'm sorry but it's true..

and......?
if people are clueless, who cares? you?
I thought goths didn't care what you thought of them

or is that me being clueless?
oops

/edit, btw, what part of celbridge do you live in?

Crucifix · 18-01-2006 12:43PM

MorningStar wrote:

....The Aviator....

The Aviator?

Dave · 18-01-2006 12:49PM

nachos wrote:

From the few goths that I've come into contact with, they seem very hypocritical and snobby. I'm not a goth at all and the few times I've gone to Fibbers', I've worn my jeans, a jumper and shoes as I would wear anywhere else. When I go into Fibbers' (a metal/goth bar) I can see people sort of look their noses down on me and seem to make snide remarks because I don't belong to their clique.
They complain that people judge them on the way they look, yet they're doing the exact same to "normal"(that's implying goths aren't normal! well...) people.

maybe I've just met the unpleasent side of goth culture.... meh

I've gotten the same years ago in the metal part of Bruxelles. I love metal (and all other types). I was there with friends wearing runners cords and and some sort of shirt and was told that my kind weren't welcome around here, by two smelly long haired metallers.

Rhyme · 18-01-2006 12:50PM

Crucifix wrote:

The Aviator?

Good film... Although i assume its the Ankh for an avatar that was the cause for concern

MorningStar · 18-01-2006 12:52PM

Crucifix wrote:

The Aviator?

The little picture by the persons name.

Sleipnir wrote:

Just because we don't know that the OP's name it that of a song produced by someone not many people may have heard of, doesn't mean we are "uneducated"

I was suggesting the OP was uneducated. To say not many people know who SAW are is uneducated though. They have reformed and there was big news reports about it along with a tv documentry.
Currently the lead singer from the band (Dead or Alive) is in Big Brother right now and the song was used in a recent add and is just being rereleased.

ST* · 18-01-2006 01:02PM

Avatar maybe?

MorningStar · 18-01-2006 01:13PM

Shock_treatment wrote:

Avatar maybe?

Sorry I did mean to say I spelt it wrong

Zulu · 18-01-2006 01:35PM

ro1798 wrote:

can i assume this is right?

goth = smelly rocker

just to clear things in my head

ronan

I nearly fell off my chair laughing! Brilliant.

Tar.Aldarion · 18-01-2006 01:39PM

if ten or more of that list is true, heh.
I like museums, i'm not afraid of the dark etc...so I'm a goth?
Very well then.

Mina Loy · 18-01-2006 01:46PM

what a pointless thread:v:

Shabadu · 18-01-2006 01:47PM

Pff Goth-bashing is over. It's all about slagging the emos now.

Sleipnir · 18-01-2006 01:47PM

MorningStar wrote:

The little picture by the persons name.

I was suggesting the OP was uneducated. To say not many people know who SAW are is uneducated though. They have reformed and there was big news reports about it along with a tv documentry.
Currently the lead singer from the band (Dead or Alive) is in Big Brother right now and the song was used in a recent add and is just being rereleased.

So basically, unless I know EVERYTHING that's happening in the world, including all press releases and all subjects contained in the media, I'm uneducated.
I'm also uneducated if there's an ad with music written by the lead of a band who's currently in Big Brother.
Or am I just uneducated if you know something that I don't?

Personally, I think anybody who cares who's on Big Brother isn't uneducated; they're just idiots.

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