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Subject: Highschool Cliques
Which one were you part of?Were you a jock?punk rocker?nerd?I was everyones friend and always popular and usually interacted with all the groups.
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You were everyones friend and always popular eh?
Secretly I bet a lot of kids utterly despised you.
(just kidding ;) )
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i was the D&D playing loser/geek who was too much the nerd to hang with the metalheads. looking back now i was a bit of a goth without realising it.
how little things change, i'm still a D&D geek ;D .
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I wasn't a teen in the 80's but I bet i'de be either a punk rocker or an outcast. :O
but if I was guy i'de like to have been a metal kid with the big hair, mascara and a van halen shirt lol
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I was into alot of metal and rock, but I did mangae to be somewhat of an outcast and did my own thing.
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You were everyones friend and always popular eh?
Secretly I bet a lot of kids utterly despised you.
(just kidding ;) )
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I wouldn't be kidding!! Some kids can actually loathe the popular ones! It's called jealousy!
Me, I was nothing. A non-conformist. I didn't look like any particular clique, and I hung out with what most people would have called the "oddballs" of my school. The people who were into punk, ska, The Smiths, The Cure, etc. I miss them all. I haven't seen most of them since I was in school. I hated the popular kids and they probably hated me too. I didn't like designer, so-called "popular" clothing, and actually didn't buy a pair of Dr. Martens 'til I entered university because they were so popular at my high school. Incidentally, my Dr. Martens...are fakes. :) I dressed normally at school. No particular fashion. I didn't care what was "in," and neither did my friends, obviously.
I don't really like talking about my school days because most of them were rather painful. I tried to be nice to people, but I was teased incessantly for...well...let's just say my appearance, but not my clothing or the way I presented myself. More like something beyond my control. But at least I had what I considered cool people who would talk to me and eat at the same table as me in the cafeteria. :)
Absolutely Vile
A hostage to kindness and the wheels underneath her...
Subject: Re: Highschool Cliques
I didn't really have a clique. My school was kind of small, and I was kind of eccentric. Wish I'd been more so...I was friends with just about everyone, but I wasn't really close to a lot of people.
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I was in sort of a graffiti group called SCAM VIP.But,it basically for a short time caused they asked me for money to join and eventually My Mother found out about it so I had to give back the dough.
Howard
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A lot of people aren't jealous of the popular people, they hate them because the popular people are jerks. And sometime's they're stupid and annoying too.
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Me, I was nothing. A non-conformist. I didn't look like any particular clique, and I hung out with what most people would have called the "oddballs" of my school.
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In a way that was me at school. I would have been a geek if I wasn't able to face the bullies of my class - As the school years wore on, they were fascinated with me, because I gave them no acknowledgement. I didn't care what they did and they knew it.
By the time I did my A levels, I was 'popular' but that was because an old friend of mine came from another school to mine who everybody was afraid of.
Typical heh? :-/
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i was the D&D playing loser/geek who was too much the nerd to hang with the metalheads. looking back now i was a bit of a goth without realising it.
how little things change, i'm still a D&D geek ;D .
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I did Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying at school (at least I hope that's what D&D stood for, Atari). I liked it to some degree but I wasn't serious about it (not bothered about painting figures of Goblins, Orcs or Skeletons) but a group of us went to Staffordshire for a competition and we came third. I thought it was a good result.
We progressed onto things like Warhammer afterwards.
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I did Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying at school (at least I hope that's what D&D stood for, Atari). I liked it to some degree but I wasn't serious about it (not bothered about painting figures of Goblins, Orcs or Skeletons) but a group of us went to Staffordshire for a competition and we came third. I thought it was a good result.
We progressed onto things like Warhammer afterwards.
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that's what it stands for. i'm big into warhammer too. fantasy and 40k.
Subject: Re: Highschool Cliques
Wicked,if they are jerks then how do they become popular?LOL!You can be popular by being a nice guy ya know?Please explain how popular people are "stupid" and "annoying" too?
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A lot of people aren't jealous of the popular people, they hate them because the popular people are jerks. And sometime's they're stupid and annoying too.
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I loved D&D too.If I could only wear the Boots of Speed one more time.sighs
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i was the D&D playing loser/geek who was too much the nerd to hang with the metalheads. looking back now i was a bit of a goth without realising it.
how little things change, i'm still a D&D geek ;D .
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Wicked,if they are jerks then how do they become popular?LOL!You can be popular by being a nice guy ya know?Please explain how popular people are "stupid" and "annoying" too?
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You certainly can be popular by being a nice person (best way of going about socially) but some are popular because they are confident and command an audience. Some call it charisma, I sometimes call it being self absorbed.
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^I agree with you there Bobby, most "popular" people are self absorbed....it sorta goes hand in hand with being "popular".
I think there is a difference between those people who are sincerely well liked by many others and generally do indeed tend to get along with most groups,.......and those that are "popular"/"cool" as in that snobby, smug, self absorbed high school/politician type popularity. These guys usually are always on the debate team or something like that and to them their "popularity" or "leadership skills" is something to put down on their resumes to prospective colleges or possible places of employment. If they weren't on the debate team or student council, then they were one of those jocks that thought a funny school skit is the ever so cliched guy dressing up in drag. Gee, no one's ever seen a man dress up like a woman before, yeah that's real original and hilarious ::)
These people are also either really good looking, and/or very confident, sure of themselves, and often have the instinctive ability command an audience like Bobby said. Other people who have ideas on how to handle things may be afraid to cross brains with these people for fear of being cut up and humiliated infront of everyone.
Subject: Re: Highschool Cliques
I was never part of a clique. I seemed to always be the "new kid" and never felt that I belonged anywhere. I managed to find a few friends-some of them may be concidered "misfits" others could be concidered "druggies" and even a few of the "brainyacks". I joined different clubs to find my nitch. I was (believe it or not) on the cheerleading squad (at the jv level) and there was only one or two other girls who I really talked to. The rest, I had absolutely nothing in common with. The one group that I seemed to hit it off with more than any other is the drama club or chorus. But, of course it was the popluar people who always got the leads. I was always in the background.
Cat
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Well, my high school was a college prep school (last all girl public school in the U.S.) so we were all brains... and we had no cheerleaders or jocks... Me? Everyone wanted to know me (well, except for the girl who, for some reason, was petrified of me and would turn around and go the other way if she saw me... okay, she was afraid of me because in our freshman year, me and another friend convinced our music class that she was a werewolf and I was a vampire, the silly idiots). Complete strangers would call out my name and wave to me as I crossed the quad. Popular? No, not popular. Infamous? Yeah. Always taking risks, never getting caught... I didn't belong to a clique, I couldn't stand them. Most people would have called me a freak but most of my friends all fell under the catagory of "the normals".
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HS for me was 80-84. We had a few groups, Jocks, Stoners, Young Republicans (YES!), and Choir/Drama people (didn't have a lable for them really, they just hung out together though) My group was called the "Reid Roaders", we were the party people, mostly made up of comics (wannabes) and musicians. The groups mixed pretty well and we didn't have major conflicts. I wouldn't say I was popular but I can say I was well liked.
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Tried to be a jock and good student but didn't try hard enough, mostly was a loner and a rebel. Now, I'm really into my kid enjoying highschool, and we're going to the game tomorrow night. She didn't want to go last week, but had a great time and talked to me 30 minutes last night about one of her classes. So I'm going to try to get her into things I failed to do in highschool :D
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Which one were you part of?Were you a jock?punk rocker?nerd?I was everyones friend and always popular and usually interacted with all the groups.
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I skipped school a lot. I couldn't handle public speaking.We all had to try to avoid the janitor as he had a rep.as abusive.
I spent a lot of time playing "Mumblety Peg"
The highlite of HS was dateing the Band Major for awhile.
I was an unappreciated track star.
The popular girls were the one's who put out at the drop of a hat.
Most of my friends were the kids who went through Elementery with me.
Like many students of any day and age, nobody was around to give a rip for us but believe it or not,I did make out more than ok..........This is a great topic.
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High school was sooooooo long ago - I'm just about at my 20 year reunion and have absolutely no intention of going!
Ok ok cliques...
I didn't go to either of the 2 main elementary schools that most kids in my 6 year Jr-Sr high school went to so I was one of the odd-balls from the start. Didn't know anyone.
I was kind a nerd the first few years but not in the pocket protector/computer vein, just the tall, plain, skinny, sneakers/ jeans/ t-shirt way. No particular fashion sense or cares one way or the other during that time.
I was a real good student so I did get along with the smart kids, but I was also on the swim team for a couple years so I got along with some of the jocks as well. Of course in my school, swimming certainly wasn't considered a jock sport.
Lastly when I started expressing myself, I was into the goth/new wave/punk look so that put me in with the outcasts.
So in the end I wasn't popular but I didn't get my butt kicked around either. I could kind of fit in with just about any group, but I clearly didn't belong to any of them either. I had 3 close friends and I spent all my time away from school hanging out with them.
Of course after I graduated I left town and never really spoke with any of them again. I'm so glad high school was just a part of growing up and not the most important part of my life.
I don't look back on any silly ass "Glory Days", to quote Bruce.
Zed
Subject: Re: Highschool Cliques
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You certainly can be popular by being a nice person (best way of going about socially) but some are popular because they are confident and command an audience. Some call it charisma, I sometimes call it being self absorbed.
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I think it is very possible to be charismatic without being self-absorbed. Yes, sometimes the two can go hand in hand, but just because a person has the kind of personality that people kind of tend to notice, doesn't mean they're self-absorbed. There was a girl like that in my high school. She was one of those people who everyone seemed to want to be around. I was jealous of her. I also thought she must be extremely self-absorbed. But I got to know her, and I found out that totally wasn't the case: she was actually just as insecure (if not more so) than I was, and she actually was a very nice person. She just happened to be very charismatic and people just happened to like her.
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I think it is very possible to be charismatic without being self-absorbed. Yes, sometimes the two can go hand in hand, but just because a person has the kind of personality that people kind of tend to notice, doesn't mean they're self-absorbed. There was a girl like that in my high school. She was one of those people who everyone seemed to want to be around. I was jealous of her. I also thought she must be extremely self-absorbed. But I got to know her, and I found out that totally wasn't the case: she was actually just as insecure (if not more so) than I was, and she actually was a very nice person. She just happened to be very charismatic and people just happened to like her.
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Very nice, Def Trick - I always like to see an exception to the rule.
I know a bloke at work who is self absorbed, albeit he is popular and one of the worst things he does is butts into a conversation, finds out what you are talking about and then criticizes it - insecure indeed. I do wonder how these people become popular. :-/
Subject: Re: Highschool Cliques
I was a metalhead but I hung out with everyone.
Also our group of 4 was called the Bayside B*tches, we took it as a compliment. 8)
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I was a metalhead but I hung out with everyone.
Also our group of 4 was called the Bayside B*tches, we took it as a compliment. 8)
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You lived in Bayside? Holy Smokes! So Do I.have been living in bayside for 28 years! And proud of it! ;D
Howard
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Apparently I went to a really clique-y high school. For the most part, I remained completely oblivious to this fact.
I had a little too much social interaction to be an outcast, I was a little too quiet to be in any real clique. There were a few people I was willing to talk to, if they were cool. Sometimes they were complete geeks, sometimes they were jocks, sometimes they were the pretty popular girls. There are cool and uncool people in every stereotype.
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I actually lived in College Point for a few years but went to school & hung out in Bayside.
Did you go to Bayside High School Howard?
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I actually lived in College Point for a few years but went to school & hung out in Bayside.
Did you go to Bayside High School Howard?
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Benjamin Cardozo.(1988-1992). ;D
Howard
Subject: Re: Highschool Cliques
Me I went to 2 different high schools.
The one I went to in my freshman and sophmore year the high school was small. Their were no cliques. We moved around in groups talking to everyone. During my junior and senior year the high school was huge. 2000 students. Their were cliques everywhere. It threw me in a shock. It was hard to fit in at all. I mainly hung out with my fellow drama buddies. We were a tight group. I made friends with everyone but that all it came to. ;D
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I went to High School from 1994-1998. My first year in high school I was very uncomfortable and did not meet alot of people. I was very shy and timid. Wore tight jeans and plain shirts. I didn't even care how my hair looked.
Sophmore Year was alot better: I carried myself better and had a looser personality. Dumped the tight jeans. I always said whats up to eveybody I knew in the hallway in between class periods. I was very girl shy. I was in a class with a few girls who were seniors and one of them pointed out how shy I was. I just never had much experience talking to girls.
Junior Year started out so well. I had a group of friends to start my junior year with. That didn't last. Somebody in the group of friends got jealous and played a trick on me. I was later not accepted with that group of friends because of that trick that person played on me. I was a loaner the rest of that school year. I think 1997 was the worst year of my life.
Senior Year was the best. Instead of not tallking too alot people said I talked alot which I thought was a good compliment. I used to talk to eveybody and kid around with everybody. One of the people who worked in of the offices where i went to high school she said to me I remember you your freshman year you would not talk to anybody. I just smiled when she said that. I was later accepted with a group of friends who appreciated me for the last few months of the school year.
I wasn't a nerd or popular. I was trying to be myself which is hard when everybody in high school tries to be "accepted" by certain things to fit in. I have always been one of those people where you get introduced to people and then 5 minutes later they forget your name. Some people are just not good at remembering names. Especially the real pretty looking girls always forget what my name is. I don't think I'm bad looking so that can't be it. Even now I got introduced to a good looking woman at work and a few days later she couldn't remember my name. This is still happening after all these years! I'm not upset about it though(well I guess a little.)
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I do not consider anyone that I went to Highschool with a friend, more of an associate at the time.
I considered myself a loner because I didn't fit the stereotype of any one group. I was very shy and very intuative about people. The jocks and cheerleaders were the popular people at school and for some reason people always wanted to be friends with them because they thought that was their ticket to popularity.
I didn't do drugs even though most people who did not do drugs did not fit in with our stoners. For some reason the stoners still gave me acknowledgement. I was not in sports but still got acknowledgement from them also. Etc., from the other groups....This sounds cheesy but people always told me how good looking I was and I think that saved me from being in that one group, they weren't nerds, they were the misfits who always were picked on. Kind of like Ally Sheedy's character on Breakfast Club.
All I can say was I was so happy the day I graduated and thought I was rid of all of those people. Unforetunately, as large as our town is every where I turn there is someone from H.S. who remembers me and wants to chat about the old times. I act like I don't remember them because they are still as fake today as they were then.....I could go on forever about this topic....
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I am a teen of the 00's(unlucky, eh?) And oh how things have changed from what i've heard...but only really style wise, the attitude is still the same, everyone wants to be different (which, their not because everyone tries to be different). In britain, we have what you would call 'scallies' (from, as you would guess, scallywag) and 'moshers' (from moshing , at gigs..obviously). I am very poorly travelled and have no experience except that of schooling in the north west of england...but if i was to look at the people of manchester, as an outsider, you'd just have to laugh...you have to see the funny side, or you'll realise whats happened and break down...whey hey
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High school was 80 - 84.
I was part of the Stoner group. Great times.
Tim
RATT-n-ROLL
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Here I thought it was a local thing to play D & D in high school and then progress to Warhammer 40K and such since there isn't anything else to do. Small towns pretty much suck.
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I mostly hung out with the stoners...in my school if you weren't part of the majority religion you were scum. The stoners didn't care.
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Here I thought it was a local thing to play D & D in high school and then progress to Warhammer 40K and such since there isn't anything else to do. Small towns pretty much suck.
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when i first saw your username i knew what you were into. ;)