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Posted by Kain on Mon Jun 7th at 6:00am 2004

Basing this survey on what we call "teen movies", to which category do you feel that you belong? Of course your status has probably changed over the years (that's my case for sure), but over all, how do you describe yourself?



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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Jun 7th at 6:06am 2004

I know a lot about computers, and whenever there's a question about them, I'm usually the one solving it, but it doesn't really make me feel like a nerd.



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Posted by $loth on Mon Jun 7th at 6:36am 2004

? posted by Forceflow
I know a lot about computers, and whenever there's a question about them, I'm usually the one solving it, but it doesn't really make me feel like a nerd.

It does to me I'm always the one getting asked about computer problems and questions

Yet im also a punk/goth but not a 'bad boy' ciggerte smoker townie.

[addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Mon Jun 7th at 7:19am 2004

Er, I'm a computer geek who's quite athletic and fairly normal



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Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Jun 7th at 7:54am 2004

I'm not sure what to vote for. I was pretty much a normal guy who most people thought was cleverer than I actually was. I didn't have a computer until I was 15/16, so I didn't get a chance to fall into the geek category. I suppose you could have said I was a maths geek, but it's not like I sat around talking about maths all day.

I think I'll vote normal citizen, as my life didn't revolve around one particular thing,



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Posted by JFry on Mon Jun 7th at 7:55am 2004

I voted for bad boy/ gothic but I meant to vote for extreme bad boy cause thats me w00!

Really tho I fit into all of those categories in one way or another except maybe the normal person one.





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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Mon Jun 7th at 8:41am 2004

Neo-Nazi and Punk aren't the same thing dammit!

[/nit-pickage]

As for the poll, I'm the quiet new guy who gets laid at the end of the movie. Or at least I'd like think I do. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Mon Jun 7th at 8:58am 2004

What are you talking about, Kain? You can plainly see that new-age, pointless hatred based in a localized belief in a horrible individual is exactly the same as corperate revolution. geez

I don't think I fit any of the catagories ... why isn't 'movie extra' on the list?
And how many 'teen flicks' have you seen with neo nazis??

I think it would be easier to compare your self to a teen movie rather then a personality, based on the movies theme.

(Breakfast Club vs. Heathers) [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Mon Jun 7th at 9:03am 2004

Where's the "I don't fit into any category, Bitches!" category?



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Posted by wil5on on Mon Jun 7th at 9:37am 2004

Normal citizen. Usually I just blend into the background. Usually I listen to conversations, rather than take part in them... but I'm not able to be classed in any other category I would think.

Oh crap, I just remembered, today I programmed a VB module for complex number operations. Oh well, too late to change my vote now

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Posted by Kain on Mon Jun 7th at 10:52am 2004

mmm I guess this poll is kind of dumb after all. The characters we see in a classic teen movie (like let's say "10 things I know about you" if I can recall the title) are caricatural extremes of a type of people; in reality, people are much more complex. Like usually, intellectuals are not interested in sports, but there are exceptions (e.g:Lep). And there's the physical type, people who are usually richer than the average, so they don't give a s**t about studies, and invest themselves in sports, but this is also caricatural...coz poor people can also not give a s**t about studies.

as for the neo-nazi and punk (don't exactly know what a punk is Kage)...i meant the extreme undisciplined (like if you steal for example the skeleton from the anatomy course, and you use it for a ritual celebration at midnight, you probably belong to that category).

I believe I was a nerd until the last two years when I became a moderate "bad guy" (I wasn't a part of the skeleton theft)





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Posted by $loth on Mon Jun 7th at 11:02am 2004

? posted by Kain

"10 things I know about you" if I can recall the title

And there's the physical type, people who are usually richer than the average, so they don't give a s**t about studies, and invest themselves in sports, but this is also caricatural...coz poor people can also not give a s**t about studies.

1. its ten things i hate about you, my girl friends made me watch it last nite

2. I know plenty off 'rich' people who do give a sh*t about thier studies, but your right about the poor people, at my school they don't give a sh*t about there studies, they are more insterested in smoking puff and bunking.

[addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Jun 7th at 12:09pm 2004

I'd have thought more typical stereotypes are the following...


Trendys (typically the stars of teen films, pretty popular, at all the parties)

Jocks (all out sporty versions of trendys, typically the people geeks are afraid of due to bullying in films)

Geeks (self-explanatory for all of us no doubt)

Goths / Punks / Alternatives (the "different" crowd, and no I'm not claiming punks and goths are the same, *I* could be classed as punk in ways but no way goth!)

Neds / Townies / Troublemakers (wastes of space, if anyone on this website is a ned or townie, I'll lose all respect for them People who wear crappy tracksuits, spit at other people, start fights when they want ton and so on)


Of course the truth is people are very rarely so readily pidgeon holed. I'd class myself as the geek of my social circle, but I hang out with a popular crowd and am in no way alienated because I like computers....even if they do get the occasional jest in about my chosen profession I also listen to punk / ska music, and skateboard and rollerblade, so could be somewhat classed as one of the "punks" since I've got good friends in the closest our town has to that group.
[addsig]



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Posted by fishy on Mon Jun 7th at 12:33pm 2004

i was a bit of a black sheep during my school days. which was in an age where saying 'black sheep' (amongst other fictional nursery rhyme characters) didn't have a mob of loony-libbers wanting to burn you at the stake for racism. the school eventualy sent me to see a shrink, to see if he could work out why i wasn't performing as well as they thought i should. he done his shrink thing, gave me a few tests, claimed i had a genius i.q., and would be driving a rolls-royce by the time i was 21. for some reason this really bugged the teachers that i liked to bug. these tended to always be the ones that had that aura of 'i'm a superior being, your a turd'.

anyways, i lay back and waited for my roller. the f**ker never showed.

so let that be a lesson to the young 'uns out there that want to go fishing instead of going to school. you might catch a nice fish, but it can be a long walk home.





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Posted by Gwil on Mon Jun 7th at 12:34pm 2004

Intellectual rebel who liked to coast. I think that's how the teachers would describe it, anyhow

Liked or known by most in my year, although there was slight resentment because of my extreme laziness yet ability to achieve. My lunchtimes were spent leaving the school property to listen to Nirvana tapes and smoke cigarettes and drink Budweiser. And then on the other hand I was also an IT systems admin with my geek friend. I struck a fine balance

so basically, none of the options... I was me.

edit: amen to what fishy said - if the teachers think you are gifted, or exceptionally bright and could sweep the "academic board"... please, please do some work

ability = good/average level of success.

ability + effort = unbeatable level of success.





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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Mon Jun 7th at 2:04pm 2004

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(don't exactly know what a punk is Kage)


If you don't know what something is, don't freakin' compare it to neo-nazism. And for crying out loud, neither one of them is going to steal a skeleton for a weird midnight ritual. [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Mon Jun 7th at 3:02pm 2004

Punks are usually typified by their outlandish clothing and hair, and are usually associated with anarchism and so forth, and listen to a lot of punk music (the term itself was used to describe the huge uproar of angry, fast rock and roll that appeared during the late 60s and 70s). While I'm not trying to say all self-proclaimed punks are like that, they are pretty much the opposite of neo-nazism.

A Neo-Nazi is essentially a Nazi. A nazi beleives in facism, and most neo-nazis are associated with anti-semetic political views. Grouping these two together is like linking opposite ends of a political spectrum i.e. they have such opposing views, poltically and well as socially, that's it's mind-boggling you can consider them to be the same sort of person.

But like KFS said, neither are members of some odd cult who perform midnight rituals. Why didn't you just say "troublemaker"? [addsig]



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Posted by Monqui on Mon Jun 7th at 3:08pm 2004

I had to go with "Normal Citizen" I suppose... I'm athletic, I went to a Catholic grade/high school (I'm not that religious, but it would probably fit the Catholic/Boyscout one since the path of least resistance in high school was surface-conformity (so I appeared to be a good little church-boy)), my own mother calls me a nerd, I smoke, and occasionally listen to punk.

So...

True?

/down with stereotypes and cliche cliques! [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Mon Jun 7th at 3:14pm 2004

I put down normal, couldn't be further from the truth though.




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Posted by Cassius on Mon Jun 7th at 3:37pm 2004

And Goths are just ugly and stupid, or at least all of them I've met or even seen. I have never read good goth poetry, despite the mass of it being made, and never seen a good looking goth chick. So there.




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