A Public Service Announcement

[Chovexani]

Since some people still seem to be having problems with this.

These Goths kill people:



These Goths do not:





:hi:

[New Earth]

1. yes

and they are not all depressed and suicidal....

[Chovexani]

2. The last thing that really depressed me

Was VNV coming to town and I had to work that night. :cry:

[New Earth]

15. hahhah aww

I would have called out, but that's just me. I probably would have risked my job if I had to. Sadly, VNV is one of my top priorities. :shrug: :cry:

[Chovexani]

25. Believe me, I would have

Only problem is my boss took the night off to go see them, so I probably would have gotten busted. He would have busted me too, he could never stand me.

Hazards of working for a rivethead, I guess. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Are you serious?

There're people who think Goths (not Goths) are violent or something? :wtf:

[madeline_con]

5. Funny, they've never struck me as having enough energy

to be violent. Or even mildly irritated, for that matter. :shrug:

[Chovexani]

11. It takes a lot out of us

Flailing on the dancefloor like we're looking for lost contacts, I assure you.

We can barely lift our shiny metal purses, really.

[madeline_con]

29. Funny

:rofl:

[Chovexani]

8. Anyone who actually knows us

Knows how silly that notion is.

[Connonym]

4. aww and I was hoping it would be a public service announcement....with guitars

telling me about my rights. And damn, now I've got to go put some Clash on my ipod

[Chovexani]

9. Hee.

Sorry to disappoint.

[TimeChaser]

6. What? People are seriously scared of goths?

Is this high school again? O.O

[Chovexani]

10. Apparently so.

I was having flashbacks.

(Psst: your sig pic wins at least four internets.) :hug:

[DarkTirade]

18. Yeah... I remember when that whole Columbine thing happened.

My school tried to outlaw black trenchcoats. :wtf:

[Chovexani]

22. Mine did

I got sent home along with a couple of my friends.

[DarkTirade]

24. Yes, because the Columbine shooting was CLEARLY caused by the wearing of black trenchcoats.

Had they hidden their guns under any other color of trenchcoat, the situation would have been defused immediately with no problems.

Only reason I didn't protest and wear a black trenchoat when they passed that rule was because I lived in Florida and didn't OWN a black trenchcoat.

[Chovexani]

26. My school was mostly hip hop kids.

So yeah, that was a fun couple of weeks.

It actually wasn't long after that I dropped out, when my best friend got fag bashed for wearing eyeliner and the administration suspended HIM for wearing a trenchcoat. The football players that did it got slapped on the wrist.

The irony is, if you recall the reports from back then, Klebold and Harris were subjected to homophobic taunts.

[DarkTirade]

27. If it wasn't so blatantly stupid I'd call that ironic...

but no, I think I have to settle for stupid.

I'm just glad nobody tried to bash any of my gay friends in high school... because I KNOW I would have been suspended. Even though it would have been in defense, most schools look down on people who break the limbs of their football players.

[LeftyMom]

7. Was there a thing? I missed it.

Oh well, it would have just brought up weird teenage memories anyhow.

[Chovexani]

12. Oh. Just more silliness in LBN.

Apparently some local guy here in Tempe turned himself in before shooting up the Superbowl or something, someone dug up his Myspace and found a bunch of shitty death metal bands on it, then proceeded to mistake the guy for a Goth and then there was pearl-clutching.

Maybe I should post a guide to spotting subcultures so people know the correct ones to scapegoat for things.

[DarkTirade]

13. Damn those visigoth punks... gettin' all up on my lawn.

With disease.

[Chovexani]

16. National and International

:mad:

[Orsino]

14. Then the latter should be called InvisiGoths...

...since they hurt no one, and blend into the shadows.

[davsand]

17. Gasp! Does your MOTHER know you are goths?

Sorry, I was flashing back to Rock and Roll High School and Eve Arden asking about The Ramones...



Carry on. This old fart will now shuffle back to her rocker.


Laura

[Chovexani]

23. LOL

:hug:

[underpants]

19. Just their mothers' hearts

[NewJeffCT]

20. wasn't there a lengthy thread a few weeks back on DU

about a goth couple in the UK where the bus driver booted them off because he had his girlfriend on a leash?

[Chovexani]

21. Yeah. And people were just as ignorant on that one.

That was right here in the Lounge, too. :(

[DarkTirade]

28. To be fair, there was only one person going nuts on that one.

A few other people who obviously didn't get it, but they weren't making a big noise on that thread.