In high school you were...?

dac · 07-06-2009, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

So would you prefer I call them "People who dress like they're going to a tennis match, drive expensive cars, act snotty, wear pink, and generally radiate douchebaggetry"... Or simply encompass it in a single term called "prep"?

It's not a generalization. It's a compression of observed features into an easier to say name.

If the guy isn't a prep, I won't fucking think he's a prep, thus, I won't refer to him as one.

I don't expect you to understand the common sense in that, but at least respect the fact that intelligent people do.

Dude shut up. Seriously. People will dress however they want, and if they decide to dress all proper then ****ing let them. Don't act like you wouldn't use money on stupid **** if your dad was paying the bills.

music_phantom13 · 07-06-2009, 09:41 AM

Well I'm not voting because I wouldn't really fit into any of those... I was a pretty big stoner in high school, so that's probably what I would classify myself as. But I listened to a lot of music, and I hung out with all sorts of people. The "jocks" in my high school (which I consider to be the football/baseball/basketball players, and the people that were like them) were all huge deuchebags to most people so I didn't get along with many of them. Besides them, even though my school had about 3500 people the cliques weren't really clearly defined; most people didn't hang out with just one group.

Vote With A Bullet · 07-06-2009, 09:51 AM

I was no one special, and didn't really conform to any set stereotypes. Which feels so cool to say now, but at the time it just meant I had no friends.

Ricochet~kun · 07-06-2009, 02:56 PM

i was SOO cool D=<
*not*

Freebase Dali · 07-06-2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by dac

Dude shut up. Seriously. People will dress however they want, and if they decide to dress all proper then ****ing let them. Don't act like you wouldn't use money on stupid **** if your dad was paying the bills.

What are you, 12?
You still haven't understood an iota of anything I've said.

Astronomer · 07-06-2009, 06:43 PM

^ Ugh who cares, why are people obsessed with putting other people into stereotypes?! He's not a prep, he's this, she's that, because she wears this, blah blah blah. It's the same as all those music subgenre arguments. So pointless. Like dac said, people can wear whatever they like, whether that be band tees or more proper clothes. Who cares what 'group' they fit into. People are people. Rah.

Freebase Dali · 07-06-2009, 06:46 PM

*shakes head*
We ain't ever gonna make it.

Say, what do you people call those things that have 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and goes VROOM VROOOOM when you step on the go pedal?

And don't you dare stereotype...

Astronomer · 07-06-2009, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

*shakes head*
We ain't ever gonna make it.

Say, what do you people call those things that have 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and goes VROOM VROOOOM when you step on the go pedal?

And don't you dare stereotype...

Calling a thing with 4 wheels and a steering wheel a car isn't stereotyping, it's a name. Stereotypes =/= names for things.

Freebase Dali · 07-06-2009, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by shiseido red

Calling a thing with 4 wheels and a steering wheel a car isn't stereotyping, it's a name. Stereotypes =/= names for things.

Thus, I am proved.
Read this while you absorb the situation:

Preppy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Prep is a name given to people to which fit the description. Who cares if it's stereotypical. It's common observation. Everyone stereotypes to some degree. It's part of our nature and it certainly makes things easier to say. There doesn't have to be negativity attached to a stereotype.

Astronomer · 07-06-2009, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Thus, I am proved.
Read this while you absorb the situation:

Preppy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's fine if people like to group similar people in categories but arguing over who fits into which stereotype is just stupid.

Also, that Wiki article means nothing to me because I'm not American and the word 'preppy' over here means something completely different... it refers to 4 to 5-year-old children who attend a 'preparatory' year before they begin school.

So yeah, don't know what the deal is in the US with all these names and the obsession with grouping people in them.

View Poll Results: Which did you fit into?
Nerd	24	14.29%
Jock	5	2.98%
Cheerleader	1	0.60%
"Popular"	17	10.12%
Artist (musician, painter, etc)	47	27.98%
Goth (lots of black clothing)	5	2.98%
Teacher Pet	2	1.19%
Class Clown	23	13.69%
Troublemaker	11	6.55%
Rebel	25	14.88%
Not in high school yet. (if in it now just pick)	8	4.76%
Voters: 168. You may not vote on this poll

07-06-2009, 02:56 PM	#274 (permalink)
Ricochet~kun SO IS YOUR FACE Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: in the groove Posts: 113	i was SOO cool D=< not __________________ *ROCK AND ROLL*

07-06-2009, 06:43 PM	#276 (permalink)
Astronomer we are stardust Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,894	^ Ugh who cares, why are people obsessed with putting other people into stereotypes?! He's not a prep, he's this, she's that, because she wears this, blah blah blah. It's the same as all those music subgenre arguments. So pointless. Like dac said, people can wear whatever they like, whether that be band tees or more proper clothes. Who cares what 'group' they fit into. People are people. Rah. __________________

07-06-2009, 06:46 PM	#277 (permalink)
Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	shakes head We ain't ever gonna make it. Say, what do you people call those things that have 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and goes VROOM VROOOOM when you step on the go pedal? And don't you dare stereotype... __________________

07-06-2009, 09:41 AM	#272 (permalink)
music_phantom13 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 942	Well I'm not voting because I wouldn't really fit into any of those... I was a pretty big stoner in high school, so that's probably what I would classify myself as. But I listened to a lot of music, and I hung out with all sorts of people. The "jocks" in my high school (which I consider to be the football/baseball/basketball players, and the people that were like them) were all huge deuchebags to most people so I didn't get along with many of them. Besides them, even though my school had about 3500 people the cliques weren't really clearly defined; most people didn't hang out with just one group.

07-06-2009, 09:51 AM	#273 (permalink)
Vote With A Bullet Groupie Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 31	I was no one special, and didn't really conform to any set stereotypes. Which feels so cool to say now, but at the time it just meant I had no friends.