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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:45 pm
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It seems that every generation is "going to hell in a handbasket" according to it's elders. I know I heard it in the 70's when I was growing up and I heard it being said about the hippies in the 60's. The nice thing is that every generation eventually puts highschool behind them and grows up just fine. The kids typing some strange jibberish today will eventually learn that it makes them looks stupid and illiterate and they'll start using proper english. It's just another form of rebellion. We all did it and we all grew out of it. Oh yeah, those hippies from the 60's? They're republicans now and they run the country.

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...And ain't they doin' grand.................. *hums "Eve of Destruction" to self* :lol::lol::lol:

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...And ain't they doin' grand.................. *hums "Eve of Destruction" to self* :lol::lol::lol:


Yeah, I'm not too happy with them either. Talk about selling out.

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The Vietnam era certainly did not pay its respects to those returning home who served, and still, to this day, the nation has yet to rise to the occasion with respect to the quality of the benefits it represented would be due those individuals and others.

In my own experience I feel that technology is putting to bed many of the communication skills we took for granted in reading, writing and the like. I see it reflected in what my students in professional school bring to the table. Apparently secondary, and post-secondary education is not re-enforcing the skills of which I speak because they are embracing the technology in the process.

Presently, an entire professional curriculum is contained in a DVD for which I still have, sitting on my bookshelves, at least a dozen textbooks from my era.

Things may not really be as 'the same' as CryingStrat would have us think.

Only time will prove this one way or the other.

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I havn't read all the threads here but I know the inital gist is that the poster guy does not care for the models on the side of the screen.Now Im not sure about Fender but I know that Taylor uses their employees to model their clothes. i.e girls from the office guys from the shop etc.So I'll bet you'd be suprised at how many of them are "real rockers" and probably kick but at that.Just my 2cents


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Classic! Emo used to be (probly still is) a pretty unique comedian who used to make me laugh my $@! off, just in case anyone didnt know who he was, spooky coincidence with his name/hairstyle though, i can see why the emo girl thought it was aimed at her!
I personally feel its worse for someone to aspire to a cliche' and consider their image is worth more than their personality, whatever your into, its what YOU'RE into, who cares what anyone thinks, if you wanna 10 ft mohawk, metal in your face and a winnie the pooh t shirt with leathers then do it cos you wanna not cos you think its what people would want or it would make you 'cool' thats being fake, in the old days we just said lame. Or Bon Jovi (nowadays we could start using the term "nickelback" for everything thats just awful and wrong and not to be wished upon anybody!).
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Classic! Emo:

A rather interesting treatise on the term can be found within "Wikepedia' if any of you care to explore it.
With regard to the expression "Nickelback", in the context in which it was offered by example, the term in my day was "gork(ed)" (God Only Really Knows) to describe a patient whose condition was moribund and outlook extremely poor.

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cryingstrat wrote:
It seems that every generation is "going to hell in a handbasket" according to it's elders. I know I heard it in the 70's when I was growing up and I heard it being said about the hippies in the 60's. The nice thing is that every generation eventually puts highschool behind them and grows up just fine. The kids typing some strange jibberish today will eventually learn that it makes them looks stupid and illiterate and they'll start using proper english. It's just another form of rebellion. We all did it and we all grew out of it. Oh yeah, those hippies from the 60's? They're republicans now and they run the country.


Fake rockers, haha, firstly i'm largely in agreement with you cryingstrat (also +1 for the zappa quote) :), i'm gonna continue adding to your point and rant on. Maybe i'll even lower myself to the stereostypical level that this thread had in mind.

So, these "real rockers"/countercultural rebels have been playing the same game for over forty years, and it obviously doesn't work. With the hippies, nothing symbolized their rejection of the "consumerism" of American society more than love beads, Birkenstocks and the VW Beetle. Yet during the '80s, the same generation that had "tuned in, turned on and dropped out" presided over the most significant resurgence of conspicuous consumption in American history. The hippies became yuppies. And nothing symbolized the yuppie worldview more than the SUV-the vehicle that one commentator aptly described as "a gated community on wheels." So how does one get from a VW Beetle to a Ford Explorer? It turns out to be not so difficult.


The crucial point is that (contrary to rumor) the hippies did not sell out. Hippie ideology and yuppie ideology are one and the same. There simply never was any tension between the countercultural ideas that informed the '60s rebellion and the ideological requirements of the capitalist system. While there is no doubt that a cultural conflict developed between the members of the counterculture and the defenders of the older American Protestant establishment, there never was any tension between the values of the counterculture and the functional requirements of the capitalist economic system. The counterculture was, from its very inception, intensely entrepreneurial.

The so called counter culture as a whole is now the modern image of capitalism! It's awful, especially when you have these "real rocker emo kids" telling you this. Hopefully one day they snap out of it and stop directly associating apparel with ideologies and lifestyles.

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cryingstrat wrote:
It seems that every generation is "going to hell in a handbasket" according to it's elders. I know I heard it in the 70's when I was growing up and I heard it being said about the hippies in the 60's. The nice thing is that every generation eventually puts highschool behind them and grows up just fine. The kids typing some strange jibberish today will eventually learn that it makes them looks stupid and illiterate and they'll start using proper english. It's just another form of rebellion. We all did it and we all grew out of it. Oh yeah, those hippies from the 60's? They're republicans now and they run the country.


Yeah, at about 13 or so, I realized how much of a childish $@! I sounded like with the "internet grammar" I was using. I've since been trying to limit it's use in every situation possible. Even in IM conversations, I try to refrain from it. It annoys me now when people type "u" instead of "you." It's an extra two letters and .5 seconds of time. I know people who use that in formal writing. Little things like that irk me.


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I was the same way. I never went so far as to type "u" instead of "you," or similar things, but I certainly didn't write like I do now.

I'm eighteen, and I can type the something using complete sentences and (mostly) correct spelling at the same speed, sometimes faster, than my friends who use shortcuts like that.

I don't even know what things mean, sometimes. I saw "pc4pc" hundreds of times, and eventually I had to go to Google to learn what it meant.


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Post subject: Re: FAKE ROCKERS!!! hate them...
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:44 am
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y know the peeps on the side of the screen that model the fender clothing line

well they dont look rocker at all they look like preps . i dont like preps... :x

gimmie some feedback on this cuz i want to see others views of preps


You LOOK at the models wearing Logo gear and worry about their lifestyle?

These are people chosen by a photographer for their looks...

I suspect you'd be better off practicing... it clears the mind!!!<g>

I just wish I could afford t-shirts at the retail prices they're asking in the store... and still afford my little guitar collection<VBG>

The T***** catalog uses employees who "walk the walk" building their instruments if you need that kind of inspiration<g>

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y know the peeps on the side of the screen that model the fender clothing line

well they dont look rocker at all they look like preps . i dont like preps... :x

gimmie some feedback on this cuz i want to see others views of preps


Since when do Fender T-Shirts look preppy?


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Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:11 pm
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wingfield m wrote:
y know the peeps on the side of the screen that model the fender clothing line

well they dont look rocker at all they look like preps . i dont like preps... :x

gimmie some feedback on this cuz i want to see others views of preps


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Sorry, you are talking to a different audience than you obviously think you are. Most of us are not prejudiced in any way to Preps, Nerds, Geeks, Skater Punks, Emos, Goths, or any other stereotype of our modern teenage generation. I am in this generation, but stray away from caring at all. And if it makes you feel at all better, I wear predominatly Enjoi shirts, AE and Gap Jeans, Lakai shoes, and a black rubber bracelet saying "Be Holy". So I don't feel I belong in any of these categories except maybe "Skater" or (streching it) "Prep".


P.S. I also have good grammar.


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y know the peeps on the side of the screen that model the fender clothing line

well they dont look rocker at all they look like preps . i dont like preps... :x

gimmie some feedback on this cuz i want to see others views of preps


Dude! So much negativity and tribalism going on here! You need to stop drinking the Monsters, Red Bull, Vault or whatever! Lay off the chocolate too, it has loads of caffeine. :D

You shouldn't worry so much about how other people act. See the thing is, if we as a race were concerned more with how we ourselves act and less of others, then this place, meaning Earth, would be a whole lot better.

Every person has good qualities. And it should be our priority to accentuate them. Only then will our world live in cultural freedom and harmony. Of course we would have to first kill off all of the rappers and Lithuanians first. :lol: J/K


ur a prep in denial by the way wher the heck is cackalacky




And so apperently, you are as well.


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