Speaking of being labeled and stereotyped, last night/early this morning my husband and I were coming home from a party in Long Beach, a town down on the Jersey shore. Since we had a forty-five minute drive ahead of us, and we were tired, we decided to have coffee and disco fries at a diner, which at almost 3 a.m., was filled to capacity. (Diners never close here, ever. It’s a Jersey thing.) A few minutes after we got our food, a guy, who was obviously a local and slightly buzzed, burst into the diner and started yelling at the manager about “all these fucking bennys who don’t know how to fucking park their yuppy Audis and Land Rovers!” Apparently, a couple of us bennys parked too close to his truck and boxed him in.
What’s a “benny”? It’s an acronym people from Southern New Jersey use to describe tourists from Northern New Jersey and New York (Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark, New York) who pollute and clog up the beaches during the summer, drown, drive too fast, cause car accidents, and generally make nuisances of themselves for the locals. _________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
The norwegian music/video was absolutly the most worst, rubbish and stupid music and video what exist in *all* the world. Fortualty, norwegian music isn't famous so we don't must hear it LOL!!
Sorry, Fredrik!!!I hope you're not in the video or someone of your family!!!
LOL, don't worry, I don't know these people. But they are one of the biggest Norwegian rap groups and everybody loves them for their ironic rapping. But I guess that any rapping will sound pretty meaningless if you don't know the language (probably why I dislike most English-speaking rap, I can't understand what they are saying!). The special thing about this group is that they rap in Nynorsk, or if you translate it to Belgian conditions, the equivalent of Walloon! _________________ Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. = Those who don't know foreign languages, know nothing of their own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Benjamin & Shouga - What exactly are chavs?
Joanne wrote:
So, tracksuits, stomach out to yea, popping out multi-colored babies every other month? You mean like Vicky Pollard from Little Britain, right?
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WTH? " alt="" border="0" /> I must have missed that episode! _________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject:
There was this apparently newsworthy segment on the evening news on emo kids getting their asses kicked in school. When they promo'ed it I thought, "Now why would anybody want to beat up an emo kid? That's like hurting a butterfly!"
But then this sad, pasty-faced, wisp of an emo chick comes on and offered up this little gem:
Quote:
"The world is falling apart... birds are dying and, like... the birds are dying, and, like... everything is so hard."
In Norway they are called rånere ( derived from "male hog".). They are small-town hillbillies whose greatest pleasure is to cruise around in "pimped" custom cars dressed in sports wear, drink moonshine liquor and pick up local lasses outside the village snack bar. They normally worship kitschy icons such as Elvis.
A humourous insight into rural Norwegian chav/råne culture from the rural Norwegian rap group Side Brok (= Sagging Pants):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-TYD7rEgEE
From, your description it sounds like you're referring to what we call wiggers in America...
SKINNY JEANS (both boys and girls) The tighter the better. If an emo can hardly walk because of their jeans, then they've reached optimum emo status.
"...can hardly walk..."
Uriel wrote:
Ah. Now I understand this sign:
And sort of agree, from a hairstyling point of view -- those are flat-out hideous haircuts!
Yes, I totally agree. I wonder what inspired the creators of those hairstyles.
Donald is kind of emo, isn't he?
David wrote:
...what we call wiggers in America...
I thought diapers were for babies to pee and crap in -- not for guys to wear on their heads.
Shouga wrote:
An Emo is someone who tends to have dyed black hair and wears punk-gothic clothes, including long leather jackets. They are stereotypically portrayed as being sensitive, shy, depressed, quiet and introverted, and the most 'popular' stereotype given to Emo people is that they practice self-harm.
You mean goth, don't you? It seems that we have different views on what is emo and goth. That couple in Joanne's ad looked 'normal' to me too. Well, thank goodness for the old days when kids (guys) didn't bother quite as much with having a 'style'. Now you see these ridiculous haircuts everywhere!
I live two blocks away from the town's mall and all the emos congregate in front of Maccas, hundreds of them. Then police come and supervise them. There are weekend emos, which consist of those kids with naturally dark hair (brown) and they just brush it and spike it up on the weekend when they arent attending their private school and then there is the full-time ones with their piercings etc.
We don't have chavs, the closest is "bogan" in Australia. It used to be the old skinny leg with a black metal band t-shirt, mullet and ripples and a few bad tats (ladies are generally fatter with blond roots growing out, black leggins, kung fu shoes and silver jewellery, esp rings on every finger) but it has evolved now more to dada shirts, baseball caps, trackies and general untidiness (bit like the chavs, neds minus the labels and jewellery).
Example of old style bogan (hair not quite right):
Ah, the old metalhead/headbanger. Now endangered, although you still see the occasional tasty mullet on some guy who still hasn't gotten the message. Some of them evolved into grunge, but those were the lightweight version. _________________ An apple a day....
Ah, the old metalhead/headbanger. Now endangered, although you still see the occasional tasty mullet on some guy who still hasn't gotten the message. Some of them evolved into grunge, but those were the lightweight version.
Yeah, part metalhead but part pub rock. There was a strong pub rock element around when I was growing around which pretty much provided the whole of the Australian music industry in the 80s. Some of it was alright (eg INXS), some of it was terrible (eg Jimmy Barnes). They also picked up on crap like GNR and other international heavy acts. To this day, I'm still allergic to 80s metal.
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I'm not sure if he is real.
Some of them evolved into grunge, but those were the lightweight version.