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> I've seen the future, and it's goth, An interesting article
Mikkaelson
post Mar 29 2006, 09:10 AM
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Your damn straight

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/....html?gusrc=rss

.... although I'm a little unsure about their dance moves laugh.gif

So how do you measure on the 10 question scale???

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post Mar 29 2006, 09:38 AM
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read that before...
good article though.


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post Mar 29 2006, 11:28 AM
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I've read that before too. But I'd have to disagree and say that its chavs that are everywhere, i barely ever see goths around. But i do live near Basingstoke so maybe thats why.



Basingstoke
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Stoker41 _WRITES "Ahhh, Basingstoke! Famous for it's roundabouts and general awfulness, it now has a new draw for Chavs from all over Hampshire - The Festival Place shopping centre.

You begin to realise the true Chav horror that awaits you inside as you make your way into the car park. The entrance ramp is full of obnoxious adolescents in their pathetically enhanced bangers conducting a competition for the loudest stereo/exhaust and the most over the top engine revving. It must also be remembered when inside the car park that Chavs can't read the directional signs (possibly due to the illegal tinted windscreens) so it's quite possible you will turn a corner and have to slam on your brakes to avoid the oncoming Chav wagon, packed to the gunnals with Chavs and their 'Wilkinson' shopping bags.

Once you've made your way into the shopping centre, you will be overcome by the number of Chavs parading around, most swigging from the largest McDonalds cups, which isn't surprising when you look at them. It's quite reasonable to assume that none of them have ever eaten a vegetable in their lives.

The Basingstoke Chavs that you can see in Festival Place seem to have a genetic modification that renders them impervious to cold. So, be prepared to see rolls of belly fat protruding from short t-shirts and hanging over the waistband of their cropped trousers at any point in the year. It's also possible that these midriffs will not only be pasty white, untoned but also decorated with piercings. Nice. Shoes will always be one of two types - designer trainers or cheap and nasty designer copies. Bags, similarly, will be rip-offs (probably purchased from Blackbushe Sunday market but that's another story altogether) or the Chav will carry all their worldly goods in a plastic sport shop duffel bag - oh, the class.

Main Chav gathering points are the entrance by the cinema (Burger King is here and as we know, these always attract Chavs) and the exit leading towards Wilkinsons and the various pound shops. Chavs can be found grouped around these exits in large numbers. Feel free to observe them at length because they're so engrossed in texting the person standing next to them that they won't be able to see you.

For pure amusement value, say in a loud voice 'Oh, there's a sale on baseball caps in JJB Sports' or 'They're giving away phone top up vouchers in Carphone Warehouse' and then stand well clear of the stampeding hoards who would commit any crime (even ones they've not yet done) to get some freebies.

If you need some time out, head into Marks and Spencer or Costa Coffee - these shops seem to scare Chavs (Costa especially because of the 'foreign' words on the menu)

However, possibly the most deadly form of Chav to be seen in the centre is the young mother Chav - the pushchair she's pushing will be laden down with crap and she'll also be trying to steer the thing with one hand whilst either talking or texting or cramming a pretzel into her mouth and managing to remonstrate with 'Kyle' or 'Paris' at the same time. They can flatten you and break legs without breaking stride so you have been warned.

So, come to Basingstoke and enjoy the 'delights' that Festival Place has to offer."


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post Mar 29 2006, 11:38 AM
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I don't think your shopping mall is any different to that of another. That's why I buy clothes from the internet to save my eyes from the horror of chav central


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post Mar 29 2006, 11:18 PM
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most chavs in Guildford are scared of me anyway, so I'm fine.


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post Mar 30 2006, 01:23 AM
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QUOTE(raspberryman @ Mar 30 2006, 12:18 AM)

most chavs in Guildford are scared of me anyway, so I'm fine.


So what ya gonna do when the largest arms in the world and Hulkamania, run wild on you!!......


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quiet rob
post Mar 30 2006, 02:47 PM
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Fecking goths...

Oh and as for chavs... here a very funny and very true video... for you to laugh at... http://www.fat-pie.com/devvoasowt.htm
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post Mar 30 2006, 04:06 PM
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QUOTE(quiet rob @ Mar 30 2006, 03:47 PM)

Fecking goths...

Oh and as for chavs... here a very funny and very true video... for you to laugh at... http://www.fat-pie.com/devvoasowt.htm


HAHAHAHA.. they don't how stupid they look laugh.gif
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post Mar 30 2006, 05:34 PM
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QUOTE(quiet rob @ Mar 30 2006, 03:47 PM)

Fecking goths...

Oh and as for chavs... here a very funny and very true video... for you to laugh at... http://www.fat-pie.com/devvoasowt.htm


Yours was good... my chav video is better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uja3W-ibifc&search=chav%20rap

laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif


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quiet rob
post Mar 30 2006, 05:40 PM
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QUOTE(Mikkaelson @ Mar 30 2006, 06:34 PM)

Yours was good... my chav video is better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uja3W-ibifc&search=chav%20rap

laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif


Aaah I can see these young men running the country in the future... wispek'!

Check out the other chav vids at www.fat-pie.com/chavs

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Mikkaelson
post Mar 30 2006, 06:05 PM
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More Chav madness

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1740933,00.html

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Mikkaelson
post Apr 3 2006, 05:21 PM
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Keeping it goth.... The Chav Royale biggrin.gif

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GhgQxX7oSRE&sea...battle%20royale


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post Apr 3 2006, 07:43 PM
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People go on and on about goths and chavs and however many other cultures people try to fit into, or are labled into. Since being a toddler I've always bopped along to Ozzy Osbourne and such, at college I had the obligitorary black hair, spiked collar, trench coat and what not but, as my personal preference, I choose to not dress like that now, as to me it seems like a uniform many people seem to feel the need to wear. Don't get me wrong, I know there is people who like to look like that ALL TH TIME, and that's cool, but you get so many style wankers who are ":O you cant be goth, you listen to prodigy, your trench coat isnt long enough, you're too dark skinned!" It's a crock, I think people should fit into their own catagory, be individual, goth has BECOME the popular, the alternative is now the mainstream tongue.gif
I won't let anyone call me a goth no matter how I dress or what I listen to, because it's not, me, and regardless of having a burberry cap I'm no chav either, if I'm anything I'm a biker, and I'm a proud paki halfbreed laugh.gif
My theory on goths being a more intelligent breed is basically, most goths are the nerds, dweebs, outcasts and generally the unaccepted lot from school and life, "im not popular" is drilled into them by wankers and they hate anything to do with popular and mainstream, so if you're already outcast and different, why not be TOTALLY different (like everyone else...) and wear all black! I aint trying to offend anyone but ffs, goth has been and gone, wear it if you like it but ffs dont use it as a credibility tool, because you get far more cred being yourself
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post Apr 3 2006, 08:07 PM
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I have many styles to suit an occassion / mood so I don't fit under one label. Goth, Hippy, Psychedelic, Cyber........ and Zombie wink.gif it's all in the wardrobe.....

Your school seems backwards to ours though. The whole "Coolness factor" was based on education Heirachy.

Goths are the future because they occupied all The A-Set classes. All the dweebs, nerds and people that got picked on were the chavs who had trouble tying their shoe laces together and therefor occupied all the lowly D-Sets.

It was mainly the goths ruling the playground because everyone else was so thick and therefor socially outcast laugh.gif. You didn't get picked on if you were an A Set student.... Like Messier Mikkaelson was biggrin.gif

Of course this is going back 10 years so bears no relevance to me today.

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Mikkaelson
post Apr 4 2006, 10:13 AM
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More amusing goodies biggrin.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDeWJqKx3Y0


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Mikkaelson
post Apr 15 2006, 09:10 PM
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Doesn't look so Goth anymore laugh.gif

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4905898.stm


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post Apr 15 2006, 10:23 PM
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bah i can't stand labeling (although it is VERY hard not to label people) but look at me: i have long black wavy hair (which will be soon dreadlocked), a trench coat and listen to Drum N' Bass, Ska, and obscure suff.. does that make me goth?!
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post Apr 15 2006, 11:58 PM
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I always thought Goth was women in purple and brown crushed velvet dresses, blokes with frilly sleeved shirts and buildings with staind glass and arches, but to most goth is simply wearing black and listening to murderdolls, i say fuck labels, do what you want for you and wear what you want cuz you want to, not to fit into a pigeon hole
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post Apr 16 2006, 09:47 AM
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QUOTE(loser kid @ Apr 15 2006, 11:23 PM)

bah i can't stand labeling (although it is VERY hard not to label people) but look at me: i have long black wavy hair (which will be soon dreadlocked), a trench coat and listen to Drum N' Bass, Ska, and obscure suff.. does that make me goth?!


On paper biggrin.gif laugh.gif


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post Apr 16 2006, 11:54 AM
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I listen to any music, I don't have a preference, I wear what makes me happy and I talk and look the way that makes me happy, anyone else can go fuck off if they disagree biggrin.gif