Emo

[Wade]

I don't think "emo" people are any more emotional or prone to sadness than anyone else, it's just a fashion statement/music genre as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't bother me. On the right guy, the emo look can be pretty hot, I think. I've never had the guts to commit to any such fashion style though. I tried wearing a "The Beatles" black wristband once in High School and took endless amounts of shit for it. My face is too Howdy Doody for me to pull off anything like that.

[MisterTinkles]

I don't think "emo" people are any more emotional or prone to sadness than anyone else, it's just a fashion statement/music genre as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't bother me. On the right guy, the emo look can be pretty hot, I think. I've never had the guts to commit to any such fashion style though. I tried wearing a "The Beatles" black wristband once in High School and took endless amounts of shit for it. My face is too Howdy Doody for me to pull off anything like that.

[SIZE="5"]Howdy Doody?
How the fuck you know who Howdy Doody is?????[/SIZE]

[MisterTinkles]

Emo died when scene came in.
And now we shout "scene is dead shave your head!"
Tho I do have a few scene kid friends.

"Scene" ????

Hmmm, Im behind on that stuff. I have seen those anime looking creatures, but I didnt know there was a name for it. Now I know.

[Wade]

[SIZE="5"]Howdy Doody?
How the fuck you know who Howdy Doody is?????[/SIZE]

I always find these things funny. I had a conversation yesterday about the misfiring of cultural allusions and references due to generational gaps. A professor said to me that he told a student that he sounded like a "broken record" and the student didn't understand what he meant. I find that hard to believe. Although the student may not have grown up listening to records, "Sounding like a broken record" is a common enough phrase that the student should have known what he meant. My conclusion: that's not a generational/cultural gap issue, that's a the-student-is-a-fucking-moron issue.

I know who Howdy Doody is not because I grew up watching the show, but because the character is still a part of the cultural subconscious and relevant in our collective reference pool.


Also....

Try spending your life looking like the spitting image of a famous puppet and see if someone doesn't let you know once or twice.

[MisterTinkles]

I always find these things funny. I had a conversation yesterday about the misfiring of cultural allusions and references due to generational gaps. A professor said to me that he told a student that he sounded like a "broken record" and the student didn't understand what he meant. I find that hard to believe. Although the student may not have grown up listening to records, "Sounding like a broken record" is a common enough phrase that the student should have known what he meant. My conclusion: that's not a generational/cultural gap issue, that's a the-student-is-a-fucking-moron issue.

I know who Howdy Doody is not because I grew up watching the show, but because the character is still a part of the cultural subconscious and relevant in our collective reference pool.


Also....

Try spending your life looking like the spitting image of a famous puppet and see if someone doesn't let you know once or twice.

Oh, I DEFINITELY agree with the moron thing. And they let these dimwits have drivers licenses!!!!!

I dont think you look like Howdy Doody. Although I dont know if you prefer having a mans hand shoved up there...........(oops!!! Did I say thaaaaat???????) LOL

I think they need to teach cultural icons in grade schools, as well as euphemisms and sayings.

[Wade]

Oh, I DEFINITELY agree with the moron thing. And they let these dimwits have drivers licenses!!!!!

I dont think you look like Howdy Doody. Although I dont know if you prefer having a mans hand shoved up there...........(oops!!! Did I say thaaaaat???????) LOL

I think they need to teach cultural icons in grade schools, as well as euphemisms and sayings.

This is kind of off topic... but I have a friend whose father was a comedy writer for various television shows (and for a few years, the head writer for the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson). My friend told me a story once about how his father (who has a dark sense of humor) got fired from an obscure children's puppet TV show by writing this bit:

The puppet gets sick and has to go the doctor. So the doctor gives him an X-Ray and the X-Ray just shows the puppet with a man's hand inside it.


... I love that story.

[MisterTinkles]

This is kind of off topic... but I have a friend whose father was a comedy writer for various television shows (and for a few years, the head writer for the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson). My friend told me a story once about how his father (who has a dark sense of humor) got fired from an obscure children's puppet TV show by writing this bit:

The puppet gets sick and has to go the doctor. So the doctor gives him an X-Ray and the X-Ray just shows the puppet with a man's hand inside it.


... I love that story.

[Ekwarph]

I always find these things funny. I had a conversation yesterday about the misfiring of cultural allusions and references due to generational gaps. A professor said to me that he told a student that he sounded like a "broken record" .

Just to be sure, you use this expression to say that he repeats the same thing more as a "scratched" record than a broken record that I think wouldn't work at all, no?

(Yes I have my driving licence )

[KingOfSnakes20]

I'm emotional and listen to a lot of 90s grunge and I wear skinny jeans and tight shirts and all of that good stuff. However, I don't consider myself to be a emo...

[Wade]

Just to be sure, you use this expression to say that he repeats the same thing more as a "scratched" record than a broken record that I think wouldn't work at all, no?

(Yes I have my driving licence )

This is accurate. However, for whatever reason, the common American phrase is "like a broken record" when we mean "like a scratched record." It's the same logic that we use when we say "I could care less" when what we actually mean is "I couldn't care less."


... I don't know. We're kind of dumb, you know.