2)"mosher" cool
clothing required: slipknot/linkin park hoodie (must be cheaply printed, unofficial and black), very very baggy jeans, trainers, assorted patches, badges, etc. sports bag with names of various bands written on to it. hair must be greasy, badly dyed, and spiked (a unisex fashion).
music: slipknot, marilyn manson and linkin park are favourites, but any other band mentioned in kerrang! will do.
spare time activities: petty crime, playing guitar/bass/drums and/or screaming badly, roaming the streets smoking weed, self-harm, kinky sex.

so there you have it. life in a small english town.

[ January 31, 2002: Message edited by: Jenny ]

So, to be cool...you must have a car around the price of a BMW..anything less, and you are completly "uncool". Also, giant SUVs are all the rage now too. So if you've got a nice one of those, you are in.

As far as clothes go, it's alla bout J Crew. Of even better, if you bought your closes in Paris or London over the weekend, thats even better.

It also helps to live over by bush lake.

Whenever possible, buy your friends diamond bracelets and exchange them in the hallways.

...and then go cheat on each others boyfriends.

First of all, there are the "jocks." They are the biggest group. Ex-high school football players and cheerleaders. Most people hate this group, because the topics of conversation range from people in H/S that are going bald to how many kids they have. To dress the part, simple jeans and a sweatshirt. High school or college team hat for the guys, girls, just get that hair as high as you can... Note: A ford Mustang or Chevy Camaro ensures your status in this group.

Next there are the fashion chic. Just wear whatever you see on Will & Grace. Talk above everyone, and live in your parents basement until they die and take over their house. Note, you must drive some sort of VW or honda to be in this group.

The thrift store hipsters without a scene. These people dress the part of your typical hipster, but have no understanding of the scene or the music that inspires the dress. These people were either fashion chic that got booted and had to find a new place, of jocks that got beat up too many times. They are really in the scene just to be around ANYBODY.

The useless fucks are next. The second largest group. These are the people that wander through life trying to beat people up or get laid. Neither happens very often, but don't try to tell them that. Their women look like your typical blonde from any movie circa 85, and if you got em' feel free to smoke some newports or marlboro reds while you suck down another can of Bud.

Finally, there are the "rest." I belong to this group. The closet individuals. Nobody really dresses the same, nobody really agrees on stuff, but we all respect each other. This group is actually pretty large. Probably #3 on the scale. This group is all of the people in any scene, the musicians, the artists, the poets, and the hangers on. The hangers on are usually talented, and collaberate on stuff, but never do they do anything alone. That is not a slam on them, they just like working with others. Dress how you want, talk about whatever, and hang out in any place that doesn't play dance music.

anywhoo.

most of the kids where im from were strongly against anything that resembled so-cal style at all. most of the kids had shaggy hair (not to be confused with the indie kids, which, actually, didnt exist) and wore stuff like old navy, abercrombie and the like. you drive a jeep suv or an explorer or something. you listen to dave, o.a.r, various rap artists, wear a lot of khaki cargo pants and have parties at places like somebodies friends' farm and have a bonfire. (dont be confused though, these kids arent hicks at all.) you tend to make fun of anyone with style or taste that differs at all from yours. that includes goth kids, 'skater' (so-cal-ish) kids, and so forth. so basically these groups didnt exist where i was from. there was the huge group i mentioned above, and then the group who were dorks and whatnot. as one of my friends from another school in town (all of the other schools had relativley normal social breakdowns) said "if you were anything differant than the majority, you were forced to either change your style or become an outcast by the 7th or 8th grade"

most of this giant majority group play some sort of sport. lacrosse and football (american) were popular choices. they didnt really go around and beat people up or actually openly mock people, they just remained staunchly elitist. it also helped if youre parents were rather high up in society.

the girls were basically all the same. tight black pants, fashionable dress. they didnt talk to me (very taboo, afterall, i was the one with spikey hair and listening to the faint in the parking lot...)

to be cool where i live (in my part of the city), you have to drive a new car. bmw is preferred. but if it's new looking and you can pretend it cost lots of money (that of course you HAVE...) then it's good enough. dying your hair blond, then highlighting it blonder. wearing abercrombie, american eagle, hollister, etc. platforms. every. day. of. the. year. guys wear the same cargo shorts/pants and puca shells. skater punk is getting VERY popular, of course...so wearing a blink 182 or nfg or whatever is cool. hurley, and other popular skate brands. spike the hair, and wear big ugly skate shoes. cocaine is a staple as well, i guess. yes, my school is a big crack infested cement prison.

there are abercrombie kids, a very populous number of boys and girls who are the typical high school american kid. they wear abercrombie, american eagle, aeropostale, and dkny. most of the boys now drive jacked up trucks and SUVs (namely tahoes, jeep wranglers, and dodge rams). others drive various other cars (the two most abundant cars at my school are ford explorers and ford mustangs). your status is determined by the size of tires on your car and the number of inches it has been lifted. they listen to the same shitty rap and wear ragged college sports hats (that they deliberately scraped up to make them look 'old'). some of them hunt with their parents to make them seem like rough 'country boys' or something. they all act the same. fun.

there are the artsy types who are so elitist it's sickening. they make fun of anyone who listens to anything close to 'mainstream.' i am friends with a few of them, but they seem to involved with their stupid abstract paintings and sad and 'innovative' books (which are just classics like one flew over the cuckoo's nest and catcher in the rye). they're too elitist and intolerant for me.

there are the thugs. ha! nashville...oh yeah, what a thugged out city. our suburb is frankly a pretty wealthy city and there are basically 0 'true' thugs that live here. sure there are kids with shitty cars on rims with rattling systems who sell weed by the quarter ounce, but they are all idiots who are in remedial and resource classes. they talk about ghetto and raw and shit and then go home after school to a $250,000 house and beg their parents for money to go bowling or to the movies.

there are the freaks. they think that wearing a slipknot hoodie or one of those retarded 'catchphrase' shirts (like the one that says 'i'm not anti-social...i just don't like you') makes them a counterculture superstar or something. they generally thrive on hating anyone who doesn't wear all black or play magic:the gathering during class. it's also a rule that you have to act mad at the world and complain about your 'fucked up life' while, like the thugs, going home to a very nice 2 or 3 story house and eating an expensive dinner at the bluegrass country club with your parents.

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Originally posted by Jenny:
i'm so amazed at how people my age in america can afford cars, any cars (let alone new cars, and don't even get me started on the BMWs).

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people my age who have BMWs dont pay for them.
their rich mommys and daddys do.

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Originally posted by paul:
i work at kmart so eat it!

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Originally posted by Jenny:
i'm so amazed at how people my age in america can afford cars, any cars (let alone new cars, and don't even get me started on the BMWs).

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I'm a melbourne lass. but my true identity lies in my suburb; oakleigh.

all the old greek men sit on the benches at the shopping centre. all day. to the extent that they had to impose 30 minute sitting restrictions. so you're pretty cool if your're an old greek man (i fit none of those catergories...suck. but i have my connections, refer to the mafia cafe story).

so I want to be cool in my suburb, i can resort to any of the following -

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Originally posted by breedge:

- wear really tight, white lycra pants, and put on 30 kg so they look mega inappropraite for my body type. co-ordinate this with a tube top that allows rolls of fat to hang out.

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In Barrhead, you need to have a car or a truck that you've put an $5000 into chrome, megs, and stereo, as well as sex lights. A Mustang will do any year and it's cool. You either have to have played high school sports or for the Barrhead Steelers, the Midget AA team. They have there team coats. An easy way to that they are cool. Clothes need to be a plain colour shirt or sweater vest, with blue jeans that fit perfect, not to long, not to baggy whatever. And the Stone Ridge boots, you need them. You have to go to the hottest party and get as drunk as possible no matter what. There rally cry for insults, usully consists of "Fag", "Whatever Fag", or "Your a fag"

In Swan Hills, you must like punk music, and enjoy doing stupid petty crimes and getting wasted every weekend. Yes I fall into this group. My friends and I had taken over the town but no none of us live there. Anyways clothes you must wera band shirts and baggy pants, hoodies are a must. Hair has to be original, dyed, spiked, dreads, whatever. You have to meet uptown in your car to decide where to party at.

i think the main way (the one i'm interested in) is just being in the "punk scene". listen to lots of punk, pay out on the bands that suck, like the bands that don't, and you're basically in. there are a few people who get their names thrown around so other people are cool (so, if you were in sydney and you mentioned my name, or the word joelcore, people would say "cool!" - you get the idea).

otherwise, to be cool on the "in" scene in sydney, just remember this - money buys everything. and you better have quite a few lebanese friends sitting outside in their hotted up cars, cause you're gonna need them when you try and drug fuck that chick in the back of the dance club and her boyfriend tears you a new asshole.