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First, I wonder if this goes alogn with OCD or if it's just me, but I rarely feel sad. Allow me to explain, my grandfather died, I was noy sad, but I knew that I should be. My uncle was diagnosed with cancer, I was not sad, but I knew that I should be. I do love them, in a non-redneck way, but I did not feel sadness. This happens often. I do not feel moved by art, but I can analyse it and know that it is moving. What do you make of this? About the only thing I do feel is anxiety.

Oh, and six easy steps to being emo:

Step Eins!
<> Dye your hair black

Step Zwei!
<> Convert to Judaism

Step Drei!
<> Become clinically depressed

Step Vier!
<> Drown a puppy

Step Fuenf!
<> Eat the puppy and then write a poem about it.

Step Sechs!
<> Slit your wrists, then repeat.

Step Sieben
<> Start a disinteresting and melancholy blog detailing inane events of daily life, poor poetry, poorly photoshopped pictures of your friends and a thousand links to even less interesting emo-blogs

If it goes along with OCD it would explain a lot, I'm the same way.

Step Sieben
<> Start a disinteresting and melancholy blog detailing inane events of daily life, poor poetry, poorly photoshopped pictures of your friends and a thousand links to even less interesting emo-blogs

Preferably on MySpace.

Don't you have to fall in love with a girl who never really dated you, and you talk crap about how unfair the world is yadda yadda....

how much you hurt....

sort of like a really depressing modern version of Barry Manilow, with a jar of sleeping pills and complementary slashed wrists?

Don't you have to fall in love with a girl who never really dated you, and you talk crap about how unfair the world is yadda yadda....

how much you hurt....

sort of like a really depressing modern version of Barry Manilow, with a jar of sleeping pills and complementary slashed wrists?
But emos don't fall in love, they just say how painful and depressing it is.

But emos don't fall in love, they just say how painful and depressing it is.
Yes - that's why I said the emo never actually has a real relationship - they just talk shit about it as though they knew.

But emos don't fall in love, they just say how painful and depressing it is.

FALSE!

There are the "fake" emos who are simply in it for scoring on hot depressed out chicks. It's like crashing a funeral: horrificly degrading and offensive, but I'll be damned if it doesn't get you laid.

I really don't get this emo bashing. Green Day, which is a PUNK band, got America's attention for messages on its last album (which are not at all incoherent or puerile). They do dress a bit "goth"-ish (and they have done so for only a little while), but their music is only marginally emo.

Bands of no talent have been included in this "trend" by the precise attitude Green Day were singing against, because Good Charlotte and some others thought they could join in the ride. Kid Rock-loving, macho, monster truck watching, and tasteless-passe middle America (that has the audacity to think it understands things it found out about only yesterday), has taken things out of context because Bill O'Reilly or whomever thinks the world is mocking it by displaying diversity not available to rednecks.

"Real emo", which is a term coined by the press, applied to subtle and ellusive punk bands such as Weezer. It has little to do with the Green Day of yesterday or today, and it has nothing to do with Good Charlotte. Green Day and Weezer are different, but both good (Green Day used to be incredible - but America did not notice they had been around for 15 years or so). Good Charlotte sucks by all standards. Funny thing is that Good Charlotte might be describing itself as "emo" - they nonetheless belong in monster trucks, and so does Blink 182.

You used 6 steps instead of teh 5 advertised, and you misspelled "fünf" and "becoming", that should be enough to send you spiralling into an escapable depression.
It would do it for me.

You used 6 steps instead of teh 5 advertised, and you misspelled "fünf" and "becoming", that should be enough to send you spiralling into an escapable depression.
It would do it for me.
And now it appears that I have misspelled "inescapable", which completely changed the meaning of that statement towards an even stupider and nonsensical one.
I think I will go slit my wrists now.

And now it appears that I have misspelled "inescapable", which completely changed the meaning of that statement towards an even stupider and nonsensical one.
I think I will go slit my wrists now.

Remember across the road not down the street..or is it the other way? Ah screw it just run your arm across a circular saw to be safe.

You used 6 steps instead of teh 5 advertised, and you misspelled "fünf" and "becoming", that should be enough to send you spiralling into an escapable depression.
It would do it for me.
Well, he didn't really misspell fünf, so maybe he can at least forgo the puppy eating part.

Remember across the road not down the street..or is it the other way? Ah screw it just run your arm across a circular saw to be safe.
Down the road not across the street.

Down the road not across the street.

I prefer just throwing your neck on a circular saw, you will be friggin remembered for that.

"How'd he die?"
"Dude threw himself on a saw!"
"L337"
"Uber L337"

Down the road not across the street.

Assuming you'd be able to go directly down the vein, which is rather difficult, multiple times across the street is better

Step Sieben
<> Start a disinteresting and melancholy blog detailing inane events of daily life, poor poetry, poorly photoshopped pictures of your friends and a thousand links to even less interesting emo-blogs
Step Acht
<> Start wearing tight pants and crappy-colored sweaters with the logo of your favorite bleeding-heart emo band imprinted on it in even clashier colors.

Preferably on MySpace.
I know. What the fuck is up with that?

Dude, you need tp delete the OP. You're gonna make more of "them"

how many of teh steps do u have to do before u are labelled?
surely not all of 'em

and they dont dance at shows,
i just dont get it, you pay like 5 times more then i do for one of my shows and then you dont even enjoy it

and i forgot: boys wear make up, girls dont (esp. eye shadow)

"only emos do it sideways"

I really don't get this emo bashing. Green Day, which is a PUNK band, got America's attention for messages on its last album (which are not at all incoherent or puerile). They do dress a bit "goth"-ish (and they have done so for only a little while), but their music is only marginally emo.

Bands of no talent have been included in this "trend" by the precise attitude Green Day were singing against, because Good Charlotte and some others thought they could join in the ride. Kid Rock-loving, macho, monster truck watching, and tasteless-passe middle America (that has the audacity to think it understands things it found out about only yesterday), has taken things out of context because Bill O'Reilly or whomever thinks the world is mocking it by displaying diversity not available to rednecks.

"Real emo", which is a term coined by the press, applied to subtle and ellusive punk bands such as Weezer. It has little to do with the Green Day of yesterday or today, and it has nothing to do with Good Charlotte. Green Day and Weezer are different, but both good (Green Day used to be incredible - but America did not notice they had been around for 15 years or so). Good Charlotte sucks by all standards. Funny thing is that Good Charlotte might be describing itself as "emo" - they nonetheless belong in monster trucks, and so does Blink 182.
Most of that was incoherent, but I’ve never heard of anyone associating Green Day with emo, nor have I Weezer.:confused:

My Chemical Romance and Hawthorne Heights are examples of self professing emo bands, if you don't understand the concept.

Most of that was incoherent, but I’ve never heard of anyone associating Green Day with emo, nor have I Weezer.:confused:

I've been called an emo kid because I like Weezer. I don't get that either.

Most of that was incoherent, but I’ve never heard of anyone associating Green Day with emo, nor have I Weezer.:confused:

My Chemical Romance and Hawthorne Heights are examples of self professing emo bands, if you don't understand the concept.
You should have been here when the rednecks were having a big "I hate emo" thread. The themes and the prejudice were precisely those I described. Again: mainly, that Green Day, Blink 182, and Good Charlotte were emo.

I'm sorry, I am not familiar with the more obscure bands in the US, but I can tell you FOR SURE that many people consider Weezer emo of a middle period:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28music%29 (cited in the article for "Pinketon")
http://www.mtv.com/bands/w/weezer/news_feature_102504/
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/12183
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/genres_battles/what_is_emo.html (cited)

You should have been here when the rednecks were having a big "I hate emo" thread. The themes and the prejudice were precisely those I described. Again: mainly, that Green Day, Blink 182, and Good Charlotte were emo.
Those people are woefully misinformed about the evils of emo.