Xposted from maggot land
This thread reminded me of when I was in 7th and 8th grade (millenia ago of course, as I am very, very, very, very, very old, ancient really, not young at all, quite aged, and probably never was actually young), all the cool guys came to school in the fall, wearing Brittania jeans.
It became very important to me to get some Brittanias, after all they were the newest brand, they had really wide legs, triple stitching down the legs, and the best looking girls liked the guys that had them (of course the best looking girls wore Pentimento jeans, which were the women's version of Britannias).
For the next year or so I hounded my mom for my own pair so I too could be like the cool kids, but mom of course would only buy new clothes when the back to school sale came in the fall. However, eventually that time came, and we went shopping.
The cool kids had a certain stitching on the back pockets, which I had always thought was like the standard for the brand, but when we got to the store, the cool kid style jeans were not on sale, and mom would not buy anything that was not on sale. I was crushed. Didn't mom know that I would become one of the cool guys that the girls liked if I could only get those magical jeans!
However, there were other different styles of Brittanias which were on sale! I thought, well, maybe I will still be cool as long as my jeans are Brittanias, even cooler if I'm the first one with a different style stitching on my pocket. Of course I was still as unpopular with the pretty girls as ever, but there was couple weeks there before the first day of school when dreamed of how everyone would be looking in awe at my new jeans.
That's what Newschoolers reminds me of, the perfect insecurity of the adolescent psyche, and the attempt to compensate for it with trappings esteemed as having power to win friends and influence people.
Wow, I'm really really, really, really, really old. I must be, because I capitalize the beginning of sentences, and use punctuation. Man, being so incredibly advanced in years, is really not cool, damn, I guess I'll have to settle for skiing every day, while all the Newschoolers are sitting in their classrooms, doing Newschoolwork. :wink:[/QUOTE]
I aints thats old though
please consider banning the sad practice of putting + k for good helpers in thread titles for at least a week or so trial period
