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Emo Boy
2004-07-30, 8:42 AM #1
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10282640%255E13780,00.html

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">He wears his heart - not the latest cufflinks - on his sleeve. He talks about his feelings, shares anxiety about whether he'll make a good partner and even talks during sex.

The downside, as women are discovering, is that with emotional freedom comes vulnerability, mood swings and soul searching.

Gender expert Catherine Driscoll, a lecturer at the University of Sydney, said Emo Boy was the man many women wanted - while the macho bad boy would still hold appeal for a fling, Emo Boy was the clear winner when it came to relationships.</font>


So it turns out I'm more of an Emo Boy than a Metrosexual... Man they have a name for everything these days.

Emo Boys unite?

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2004-07-30, 8:45 AM #2
I dont get it
2004-07-30, 8:50 AM #3
O_o

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2004-07-30, 9:06 AM #4
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ravage:
I dont get it</font>


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2004-07-30, 9:08 AM #5
Had noone heard of emo kids before?
I think like 2 for every 5 people I know are emo. In the city, 1 of every 2 people is emo. It's the new punk!

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2004-07-30, 9:10 AM #6
WTF is EMO?

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mir·ow ( V ) Pronunciation Key (meer-oh)
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2004-07-30, 9:14 AM #7
Emo

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The short and simple answer is that Emo is Hardcore Punk music with sensitive and emotional lyrics. The music is epitomized by post-Grunge, edgy rock with explosive energy mixed with sensitivity. Emotional lyrics about sadness, love and even anger are common lyrical themes. There is also a subculture of young people that are considered Emo.</font>


Or put simply:

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The type of music you listen to when, try as you might, you cannot get laid..and cry about it..</font>


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2004-07-30, 9:14 AM #8
Something to do with men that show their emotions...?

I dont get it either.

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ZGPC
2004-07-30, 9:14 AM #9
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The nickname is a throwback to the '90s indie rock tag - but this time a man who is in touch with his emotions is not hopeless or pathetic. His masculinity is intact.</font>
(see link in first post)

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2004-07-30, 9:15 AM #10
either I'm Emo, or I'm a psychopath ready to kill. I cant decide
Code:
if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}
2004-07-30, 9:15 AM #11
short for emotional, even shorter for crap. you know how bands like new found glory and... (i dont wanna keep listing) yeah. bands like that whine about whatever is making them pissed at the moment because they dont have the talent to write meaningful lyrics and so they whine and it appeals to teenage girls because they're not too smart? that emo.

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2004-07-30, 9:25 AM #12
As much as it hurts, Cazor is right.

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2004-07-30, 9:30 AM #13
Cazor is 100% exactly correct

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<Anovis> mmmm I wanna lick your wet, Mentis.
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2004-07-30, 9:38 AM #14
I think you guys have gone off on a slight tangent from what the artice was talking about... It's talking about 'emo boy' as a way of describing people, not that crap music that my old flat mate played incessantly (I used to like Dashboard Confessional until I heard it through my walls 24/7 for a year).

What is it they say on fark..? RTFA. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

oh, and *raises hand*.
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2004-07-30, 9:41 AM #15
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evil_Tofu:
As much as it hurts, Cazor is right.

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2004-07-30, 9:45 AM #16
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Compos Mentis:
Cazor is 100% exactly correct

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2004-07-30, 9:46 AM #17
umm yeah, we got it. Emo people are the people listening to emo music. Here's some pics of a few of my friends (taken straight from their emotastic LJs)
[http://userpic.livejournal.com/9060806/1497846]
[http://img30.photobucket.com/albums/v91/LBiznatch/Random/DSC04559.jpg]
[http://img30.photobucket.com/albums/v91/LBiznatch/Shows/DSC04484.jpg]

I love emo people, they have such dramatic lives [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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<Anovis> mmmm I wanna lick your wet, Mentis.
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2004-07-30, 10:09 AM #18
Alrighty then, I guess

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2004-07-30, 10:53 AM #19
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by clan ruthervain:
either I'm Emo, or I'm a psychopath ready to kill. I cant decide</font>


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2004-07-30, 12:57 PM #20
I talk during sex, does that mean I am Emo?

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2004-07-30, 1:06 PM #21
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by THRAWN:
I talk during sex, does that mean I am Emo?

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As long as talking doesn't consist of you ordering a pizza over the phone, yeah.

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2004-07-30, 1:12 PM #22
Aside from the fact that I don't listen to any of that music, and I don't feel sorry for myself but instead get really pissed off... I suppose that's what I am.

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2004-07-30, 1:13 PM #23
Ah... it all makes sense now. My friends and I put together a 50 minute video of random nothingness for a Physics class project last year. I did all the editing, and at the end we had a completely random pointless musical tribute in which one of my friends asked me to entitle a segmant "And a special Emo thanks to Alkaline Trio", and play some crappy song of theirs. I didnt get it, but it pissed off my friend that likes Alkaline Trio. I get it now [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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ZGPC
2004-07-30, 1:38 PM #24
Well, I often ponder about how to improve myself, wondering if i'm as good as I can be etc. But i'm also slightly vain, not as badly as Ruthven though [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

To be honest, I think i'll just settle for labelling myself as "me".
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2004-07-30, 1:42 PM #25
I can't stand Emo music and I can't stand Emo people.

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2004-07-30, 1:44 PM #26
To be emu, you must:

1: Wear anything sold at Hot Topic
2: Constantly quote "deep" lyrics, especially in your online profiles.
3: Claim that no one understands you

More information on emu, taken from Maddox's "Games you'll never see" article:

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">It's the year 2004 and nobody knows what's cool anymore! Drift aimlessly from one social trend to the next as you eventually find yourself converging to the ultra-hip world of box-framed glasses and studded belts known as "EMO." You have dyed-black hair that is engineered to look messy, but it's not spikey enough to be punk. You wear a skin-tight v-neck argyle sweater and black converse shoes--an amalgamation of old and new. You are a walking paradox. You are EMO.

You're not bound by the confines of traditional denominational religions, yet you're not confident enough to have an independent thought in that thick, vacuous skull of yours, so you dabble in trendy philosophies like Kabbalah and tribal mysticism. The game ends when you stop sucking manufactured cool from MTV's teat long enough to realize what a dumb son of a ***** you're being.</font>


[http://www.couplandesque.net/icons/emukid.gif]

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2004-07-30, 1:49 PM #27
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by LividDK27:
As long as talking doesn't consist of you ordering a pizza over the phone, yeah.

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i've done that before...

the majority of emo kids ALL look alike.. they all have the SAME hair the SAME clothes the SAME number of piercings the SAME annoying conversations about stuff they obviously know nothing about and they all listen to the SAME **** bands



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2004-07-30, 3:36 PM #28
"EMO" kids and goths make me look like a poser. They dye their hair black and put on crap makeup to look pale (not sure if emo does the second one or not...) I have really pale skin, and really black hair. And it's natural. And I wear black. So people judge me as these stupid emo people or the new age goths who listen to Slipknot and Korn and think that they're hardcore. And that's another thing. People ask what i listen to, and I say "heavy metal", and they're like "oh, like Godsmack and korn? or what about slipnot? they're cool..."

Emo people deserve to die!

Well maybe not. That's harsh. We should make them move to Canada or somewhere.

And yes, Cazor is 100% right.

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2004-07-30, 3:44 PM #29
I really hate that kind of psuedo-emotional garbage. I guess it must impress girls.

I've always followed the school of thought that emotions should be delt with and let go. Calm and controlled characters like Boba Fett were the odd heroes of my childhood. I think that, while feelings exist and affect you, they shouldn't control you, or be something to whine about, much less be capitalized upon to form a fad.

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....
2004-07-30, 3:47 PM #30
I have the same problem. I have extraordinarrily pale skin, always wear black and dark blue, and wear a black leather trenchcoat (not in the summer, of course). Visually, I fit the stereotype, but mentally, I'm miles away from.

And for anyone wondering why I continue to dress this way:

Michael Bolton: Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent *** clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm... well why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

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"This world is made of love and peace!"
"Let's live today, let's live tomorrow, and let's live the day after that, even if it means living in eternal pain."
- Vash the Stampede
"I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah? Well, **** you!'
... I thought I had won."
2004-07-30, 4:17 PM #31
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Chaz Ghostle:

[http://www.couplandesque.net/icons/emukid.gif]

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<3

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2004-07-30, 5:28 PM #32
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bounty Hunter 4 hire:
I really hate that kind of psuedo-emotional garbage. I guess it must impress girls.


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nah.

Here's one thing I have to say to those touchy-feely emo guys out there: "a woman already has a p***y, she doesn't need another one! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif] "



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2004-07-30, 5:32 PM #33
No one love me.....
2004-07-31, 8:43 AM #34
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Master Jack:
No one love me.....</font>


I'm sure someone does.

I'm definitely not these "emo boys". I keep all my emotions within myself. I rather have real men in soceity then these "emos" and metrosexuals.
2004-07-31, 9:19 AM #35
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DeTRiTiC-iQ:
But i'm also slightly vain, not as badly as Ruthven though [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]
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ok, you're on my black list, buddy
Code:
if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}
2004-07-31, 9:53 AM #36
I agree with what Cloud's saying.

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mir·ow ( V ) Pronunciation Key (meer-oh)
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2004-07-31, 11:27 AM #37
[http://www.nothingnice.com/strips/03-20-02.jpg]

And just to be fair...
[http://www.nothingnice.com/strips/06-12-02.gif]

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2004-07-31, 3:37 PM #38
You know what's funny? I'll bet half the people here don't really know emo, but only say it sucks because that's the 'cool' thing to do. Isn't it ironic?

OMQ LIEK MAINSTREAM SUCKS BECAUSE POP MUSICIANS HAVE NO TALENT EVEN THOUGH I'VE ONLY HEARD ONE SONG BY THEM. I JUST LISTEN TO MY UNDERGROUND BANDS NO ONE'S EVER HEARD OF CAUSE I'M SO COOL. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/rolleyes.gif]

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2004-07-31, 4:12 PM #39
No, that's absolutely untrue.

Many 'popular bands' are quite good. The Strokes, The White Stripes, Coldplay [and to an extent The Hives] are greatly respected in my mind.

However, Emo flat out sucks. Its whiney music! I heard Bright Eyes and thought it was the most ridiculous thing ever. Folk-wannabe-crap. Sparta is also quite crappy.

Everything Emo that I've come across has been totally fake. The music, the people... I don't care for it at all, and I've been very exposed to it.

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2004-07-31, 4:38 PM #40
Please, no music debates. People like different types of music, end of story.

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