The Sisters of Mercy Forum
No one will ever stop me from wearing my stylish hat and leather raincoat... even if it might be true it makes me look a bit like a Gestapo agent.timsinister wrote: Nah, this sort of thing makes me cringe, because it does rock our boat. It's hard enough getting by with a decent jacket and shades after dark...these idiots make life that little bit worse.
No s**t, I've walked through town with you many a time and I can testify to the fact that you do attract a significant amount of jolly Northern "humour", especially with le chapeauxtimsinister wrote: Nah, this sort of thing makes me cringe, because it does rock our boat. It's hard enough getting by with a decent jacket and shades after dark...these idiots make life that little bit worse.
), but these days I don't seem to attract so much as a snigger no matter what I wear. Possibly because I lost the whole teenage "I'm so anti-"society" and misanthropic" vibe, 'cos minus the dodgy trousers I don't look much different. I'm just a lot less self-conscious now, look people in the eye and got a bit more humour about the whole thing. It was character-building 
I wasn't aware of this!SINsister wrote:Erm...in case you weren't aware, one of our very own was GGotW's first-ever superstar, ages ago...EvilBastard wrote:It's just a matter of time...
Who was it? Who who who? 
boudicca wrote:I used to get the s**t ripped out of me (well I did wear a cornucopia of cringeworthy fashion choices, from PVC trousers to purple lipstick, into Glasgow city centre, and this was in the '90's
I think it's a very simplistic - and rather childish - view to place anyone who wears a dog collar as an "individual" flying in the face of "the masses" and "convention", and to assume that is without exception a positive thing. Human beings are herd animals, like it or not our societies are one of the keys to our success and survival and it's very hard to organise a society without convention. That's not to say we should be slaves to it, and that there is no place for those who aren't blind followers - far from it. But I get really sick of people just (rather ironically) jumping on the trendy, lazy-thinking bandwagon of saying everyone should "do their own thing" all the time. If we all operated as complete individuals, without any common ideas or views, we'd all be constantly ripping each other to pieces, or at the very least nothing would ever get done as there would be no consensus. We'd disintegrate.
I'm all for great and original individuals fulfilling a particular role in society, innovators and catalysts for real change - but you know, I don't think wearing a Lip Service trenchcoat and dragging your girlfriend around by the neck quite fits that bill. Far more common than genuinely original individuals are those who like to think they are.
Just my two euros, natch
Carl?SINsister wrote:Erm...in case you weren't aware, one of our very own was GGotW's first-ever superstar, ages ago...
James Blast wrote:Carl?SINsister wrote:Erm...in case you weren't aware, one of our very own was GGotW's first-ever superstar, ages ago...
Actually, it was "...of the Month," in that era. My bad.SINsister wrote:first-ever
Of course not - not for a moment. Don't get me wrong, I dislike this aspect of humanity as much as anyone else with half a brain. But it's like all things - there is, sadly sometimes, always another side to the coin. The traits that help us survive as a species do also contain the seeds that will probably wipe us off the planet one day, if we don't keep them in check. If it's not a self-destructive society it will be the atomic fruits of our own "intelligence", probablySINsister wrote: Incidentally, the herd mentality - not the ideals of individual thinkers - led to the annihilation of entire groups of indigenous peoples here in the Americas and elsewhere, and the enslavement and brutalization of an entire race of human beings here in the U.S., just as a couple of examples. Perhaps the herd mentality of certain Europeans in the early part of the last century, which led to the mass slaughter of Jews, "gypsies," free-thinkers and nonconformists, should also be ignored...
. All I was saying was that the "herd mentality" doesn't always spring from an entirely bad place. SINsister wrote:No. See "first-ever," again.
I hear you calling, MarianPista wrote:Anyone reckon "Graves" is his real name?
No 'plus 1' obviously, as Claire says there'd be far too much howling in derision.Oooooh.Planet Dave wrote:Yorkshire indeed...they won't let her on a bus, but they've no problem letting her run round badger sets / rabbit warrens trashing everything she comes across.
Hey maybe she should get an invite to the subculture Sarah?
No Rock and Roll Fun wrote:Dani said: "He doesn't like the fact we wear black clothing. We expect the odd comment, but we don't expect it off a bus driver."
We're not entirely sure - despite having bus drivers in our family - that we'd necessarily be more surprised to find bus drivers being less tolerant of crypto-alternative lifestyles than anybody else. Perhaps Dani was brought up on On The Buses and believes that drivers are disposed to take sides against authority.
Ah, ironic understatements.boudicca wrote:No s**t, I've walked through town with you many a time and I can testify to the fact that you do attract a significant amount of jolly Northern "humour", especially with le chapeauxtimsinister wrote: Nah, this sort of thing makes me cringe, because it does rock our boat. It's hard enough getting by with a decent jacket and shades after dark...these idiots make life that little bit worse.
That's a bad thing?badlander wrote:... even if it might be true it makes me look a bit like a Gestapo agent.
