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"I see them [goths] now in Camden where I live and think 'Fine in your twenties. But when you're 30? Sorry - you look like a twit"

"I loved the bands, especially Siouxsie and the Banshees, but it wasn't a pose - I felt authentically depressed," she says.

As we all did, darling. Honest.

After I read this, next time I'll go to Camden will feel like a trip to the zoo ! Not sure that kind of article makes the goffic genre any good...

Oh b*gger.... that's me done for then!

Where was this seven years ago? It figures it would be a British, and not American research project - too busy trampling civil liberties in the wake of Columbine.

I know it's light-hearted and entertaining, but a report like this could have stopped a lot of upset back in 1999...

And will we ever escape the touch of bloody Coronation Street?

Badlander wrote:

"I loved the bands, especially Siouxsie and the Banshees, but it wasn't a pose - I felt authentically depressed," she says.

As we all did, darling. Honest.

After I read this, next time I'll go to Camden will feel like a trip to the zoo ! Not sure that kind of article makes the goffic genre any good...

Mind you, on the plus side, Camden does compensate with a healthy dose of attractive foreign tourists...

Not that I've ever people watched up there....

timsinister wrote:Where was this seven years ago? It figures it would be a British, and not American research project - too busy trampling civil liberties in the wake of Columbine.

I know it's light-hearted and entertaining, but a report like this could have stopped a lot of upset back in 1999...

I still remember the front page of the Guardian's G2 section with the KMFDM album Adios on the cover and the question asked whether this was to blame for Columbine..

gah,, why can't people seperate art and reality??

Goffs don't do drugs ?

No wonder they ain't violent. Skinny as they are, they can't afford the luxury.

I do know punks are violent and skinny. Only they don't (or shouldn't) care about their hairstyle too much. And a little blood always look cool on your torn shirt.

jay wrote:http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/musi ... 352580.ece

Christ, they even go and reference the bloody PARODY site as bona fide!

The media.

Gottdammerung wrote: Mind you, on the plus side, Camden does compensate with a healthy dose of attractive foreign tourists...

So true.

gah,, why can't people seperate art and reality??

Scapegoating is so easy and convenient, you don't have to ask the real questions. Saves you a lot of hassle.

The goth sticks rigidly to the routine of two and a half steps to the front and back again, while gazing at the floor in an affected fashion and waving hands around mysteriously.

so true.

didnt see this thread

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4828230.stm

is this thread related to the above

Goths are likely to grow up to be doctors, lawyers or architects, the study by Sussex University says.

Oh my lord why art thou forsaken me ?

..., not big on drugs or anti-social behaviour.

they must have missed out the EMWK in their study....

It's every parent's nightmare. Their apparently well-adjusted child suddenly comes home with hair the colour of a coalface, a face whiter than anything made by Dulux, and announces, "Mummy, I'm a goth." However, according to a new study, parents of goths will probably end up boasting about their son/daughter the doctor, lawyer or bank manager

canon docre wrote:

..., not big on drugs or anti-social behaviour.

they must have missed out the EMWK in their study....

I'm really starting to wonder what kind of goffs they dealt with in this study. Surely a methodological issue.

No drugs, no violence, social... Oh my goth these goffs are boring !

I've read A LOT worse.

"Nor do drugs seem to be much of a problem. "Speed is a goth drug because the ideal is to be skinny," says Unsworth. "But for most of us it was Blue Nun wine because That Guitarist from the m*****n drank it."

To paraphrase if I may...

The Article should have wrote:It's every Goth's nightmare. Their apparently well-adjusted life suddenly includes short hair, a smart suit, and a Vauxhall Cavalier...

Wonder what that CofE minister looks like.

You've clearly not experienced the fashion potential of a cassock.

timsinister wrote:You've clearly not experienced the kink potential of a cassock.

timsinister wrote:You've clearly not experienced the fashion potential of a cassock.

Clearly - as those of us who were thin and gaunt in the 80s allow the lack of amphetamines and easy office work to take their toll, we are modelling ourselves more on the body-type of Uncle Fester, the man who made the cassock THE fashion statement of the age

EvilBastard wrote:

timsinister wrote:You've clearly not experienced the fashion potential of a cassock.

Clearly - as those of us who were thin and gaunt in the 80s allow the lack of amphetamines and easy office work to take their toll, we are modelling ourselves more on the body-type of Uncle Fester, the man who made the cassock THE fashion statement of the age

Oooh, it hides a multitude of sins....
...(appropriately enough).

Clearly Goffik - how we can tell:

1. Penchant for contrasting clothing (black & white)
2. Pendants/chains bearing religious symbology
3. Likes choirs, therefore probably has Floodland somewhere in his CD rack ("And now please stand for hymn number 257, 'Lucretia, My Reflection')
4. Uncle Fester(tm) Cassock
5. Terry Pratchett beard