Heartland

Hello all.
Growing up in Marple, a small and small-minded kinda town, I was always gonna stick out like a sore thumb with my long hair and gothic accesories (although to be honest I never really went overboard with the gothic look).
It's a town full of scallies and pathetic wannabe scallies attempting to affect a Mancunian accent (Marple is a nice Cheshire town which has absolutely NO connection with Manc.)

Anyways, with sad predictability, I was subject to daily taunts from jumped-up little nobheads trying to impress their gonzoid mates. It never really bothered me, especially since the 'insults' were about as un-insulting as it gets. In fact, it always amused by the often bizarre taunts which were thrown my way, designed to reduce me to a gibbering wreck, but in practice reduceing me to hysterical laughter instead.

My particular favourite (shouted at me on my very own street!) was:

"Nirvana's dead!"

not only is this nonsensical, but I wasn't particularly into Nirvana anyway.

I was wondering; since it is safe to assume that all Heartlanders were social rejects, 'wierd kids', grebos, moshers or goths, or a combination of those, what is the craziest heckle you've ever been subjected to?

i was once called "the sisters of mercy" by some knobs in a passing car....

what, all of them? andrew craig, gary, the dok etc?

cool!

used to get "the cure!" shouted at me a lot as i walked down the street- wouldnt mind but i didnt tend to have huge hair or any makeup on at the time!

these people always seem to shout their insults in a silly voice aswell. whats that about? are they not content with seeming like a moron, and so they have to sound like one too?

on the whole i thuink being called the entire sisters of mercy was probably the highlight of all that sh*te - at least it showed some degree of knowledge about g**h bands

I was once wearing a Tackhead cap in a townie pub and heard some neanderthal say "Tackhead? More like fcukin' dickhead."

Why? For wearing a Tackhead baseball cap? Hardly a reason for such vitriol I wouldn't have thought?

Steve303 wrote:I was once wearing a Tackhead cap in a townie pub and heard some neanderthal say "Tackhead? More like fcukin' dickhead."

Why? For wearing a Tackhead baseball cap? Hardly a reason for such vitriol I wouldn't have thought?

quite whitty though you gotta admit

Quiff Boy wrote:

Steve303 wrote:I was once wearing a Tackhead cap in a townie pub and heard some neanderthal say "Tackhead? More like fcukin' dickhead."

Why? For wearing a Tackhead baseball cap? Hardly a reason for such vitriol I wouldn't have thought?

quite whitty though you gotta admit

I do admit that much. I even laughed into my pint quietly while fearing for my life.

Steve303 wrote:Tackhead

Do you mean the band? Saw them live once - right freaky funk!

Karst wrote:

Steve303 wrote:Tackhead

Do you mean the band? Saw them live once - right freaky funk!

Sure thang man.
Doug Wimbush/Adrian Sherwood/Bernard Lamaar/Keith LeBlanc/Skip McDonald. What an amazing band they were live! Just crap on record.

OI!

Don't drift off topic!

Black Shuck wrote:OI!

Don't drift off topic!

Soz.

crazy heckles....

"i didn't know goths could go up stairs" (sheff station about 2 years ago)

"are you ozzy osbourne then?" (walking home from hanoi rocks gig)

"SLIPKNOT!" (i didn't know about the band at the time and was very confused...)

"industrialist!" (the other week. prolly saw "goths" and thought it qualified as research)

i get quite a lot of old ladies coming up to me telling me i should be ashamed. never quite worked out what they want me to be ashames of (unless they're spying on me )

d00mw0lf wrote:
i get quite a lot of old ladies coming up to me telling me i should be ashamed. never quite worked out what they want me to be ashames of (unless they're spying on me )

Aww, that's never happened to me.
I must look more 'respectable' than I think I do.
d00mw0lf, what do I have to wear to be shocking to the elderly?

Black Shuck wrote:

d00mw0lf wrote:
i get quite a lot of old ladies coming up to me telling me i should be ashamed. never quite worked out what they want me to be ashames of (unless they're spying on me )

Aww, that's never happened to me.
I must look more 'respectable' than I think I do.
d00mw0lf, what do I have to wear to be shocking to the elderly?

dunno. old ladies seem divided on the subject... half of them tut and attempt to whack me with their shopping, the other half think pink hair and boots with springs in are fantastic.

d00mw0lf wrote:(unless they're spying on me )

The mind boggles.

Steve303 wrote:Sure thang man.
Doug Wimbush/Adrian Sherwood/Bernard Lamaar/Keith LeBlanc/Skip McDonald. What an amazing band they were live! Just **** on record.

Strange combo that, but they were great, esp. on a sunny afternoon - was at some Dutch festival years ago - can't remember which one...

Karst wrote:

Steve303 wrote:Sure thang man.
Doug Wimbush/Adrian Sherwood/Bernard Lamaar/Keith LeBlanc/Skip McDonald. What an amazing band they were live! Just **** on record.

Strange combo that, but they were great, esp. on a sunny afternoon - was at some Dutch festival years ago - can't remember which one...

I saw them at Reading Festival some years back. Doug Wimbush played the guitar solo from Hey Joe on the bass using a paper cup and then somehow managed to flick his baseball cap off and into the crowd without appearing to stop playing. Magical. No, really - it was.

Ginger Tw*t always seemed to be a favourate with other people....



Paddy.

d00mw0lf wrote:"industrialist!"

Bourgeois assassin of the proletariat!

The strange thing is,
I never wear Goth clothes!!
I never wear jewellery and
I ‘had’ short ‘normal’ hear. (There was a hair code on my school, so when I got of it I started growing it)
But still people called me ‘freak’ or ‘strange’. When I asked them why, they answered it was beaus the way I Looked and dressed.


now I gues everyone knows I'm strange so nobody bothers me no more. I never had strangers comming to me though.

I think I musta been invisible most of te 80s cause the only time my 'look' was commented on was by a drunk, 30ish geezer outside a pub in Wishaw, his summation of me was thus; "Radical, man"

I know Marple quite well Shuck and I envy you living there, it's a lovely place with many, many spledid boozers (pubs). I was dating a large chested Maiden from up the road in Romiley a coupla years back, if you ever see a spikey black haired, busty lass driving a gold coloured Daewoo Matiz, tell her J says "Och Naw!"

Elvis was always a favourite with the soccer casual element in my home town.
I think it was to do with the all the black leather I wear.
Though I was once called the Fly (as in Bono's leather 'n' shades character).
Also there was a lot of sniggering and general pointing... ho-hum.
That and the odd kicking...

Some one has also tried to insult me by saying I was trying to look like
Jim Morrison (the young leather trousered rock god I hasten to add and
not the bloated soap dodging alcoholic tramp of his final years).
Needless to say I found that one rather cool.


Oh, and I've recently been referred to as Nero!

Elvis was always a favourite with the soccer casual element in my home town.
I think it was to do with the all the black leather I wear.
Though I was once called the Fly (as in Bono's leather 'n' shades character).
Also there was a lot of sniggering and general pointing... ho-hum.
That and the odd kicking...

Some one has also tried to insult me by saying I was trying to look like
Jim Morrison (the young leather trousered rock god I hasten to add and
not the bloated soap dodging alcoholic tramp of his final years).
Needless to say I found that one rather cool.


Oh, and I've recently been referred to as Nero!

Hey Nero, we got you the first time.

I've been called Bitch, and Snake. I've been frequently called stuck up or aloof . And I've been called *classy*.

@Erudite: Nero, eh? You look nothing like Nero at all.

Black Planet wrote:I've been called Bitch, and Snake. I've been frequently called stuck up or aloof . And I've been called *classy*.

@Erudite: Nero, eh? You look nothing like Nero at all.

I was wearing a black trenchcoat, which appears to have been enough!

mugabe wrote:Hey Nero, we got you the first time.

Glitch in the system, told me it wasn't posted first time arround!