h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sorry I lied about the name but I gotta get atention sumhow. Thiese are the brit equivelants...
Townie, Scally, Trend Whore etc: Listen to dance or rap music. Like the American preps and stereotypically found in liverpool. For a more accurate description go onto www.thingsihate.org/view/301.

Goths: Like me. Anyone who wears black hoodys and denim (but really cotton) baggy trousers. Really there are punks who are less extreme and moshers, metaloids, Grebs who are just the same thing (exept moshers don't have to be goth). They shop at soho have long hair and paint their nails black like me! They listen to Marylin Manson (who isn't a woman) and Slipknot or Korn. Usually wear at least one studded bracelet and not either skater shoes or steel capped boots.

Skaters: They don't even have to skate. They are just people who aren't stereotyped in any other way. Like my ex-girlfriend.

If you read this , tell everyone you know because im an attention seeker and will do anything for people to notice me. RULE ANARCHY.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, Goths HATE Scallies and visa Versa. I should know more than anyone.But i don't get started on because anytime a scally approaches me I remove my bracelet and KILL THEM. RULE ANARCHY.

Relax....

I live in England too but in Essex we have a different terminology for the Preppies as they are known. We also have the Garys and the Sharons who like to beat on the Goth's, Metalheads, Anyone not like thems....etc.

I for one am a quasi gothic, Latino metalhead who also enjoys the sound of 80's pop. There really is no way people can pin someone down into a label like that unless they really are 100% two dimensional. I hope that people are deeper than that, even if my experiences of most Garys and Sharons points otherwise.

Wow. That is so true.

Me, I'm sort of gothic getting there. There are so many different meanings of goth. For a perfect description of me go to www.goth.net.
So, 80s pop. Guns N Roses 80s pop or Iron Maiden 80s pop or (help me out, my knoledge of 80s pop is not exceedingly great).

Funny how only us goths/goth-hybrids are writing in here. I agree with that point about labelling people: you have to be really, really shallow to conform to a stereotype entirely. I see myself as a goth/skater/"freak" - I change according to my general mood, which generally changes according to the time of year. In autumn/winter I become more Gothic and dark, and in sring/summer I become lighter and more skater-y. Strange, ne?
The group I hang out with at school generally don't fit into any stereotype clique - our school is very small, only about 400, so ours is a banding together of skaters, freaks, a couple of goths and moshers, and norms/gamers. We are generally intelligent - most of us are in the higher sets. Those who aren't are generally aggressive, as is usual for the less intelligent.

I find it really hard to place myself into a category. My taste in music ranges from the likes of Slipnot, to Spice Girls, Linkin Park to 2pac, Eminem to classic 80's rock/pop, Motown classics and 90's number ones, punk, reggae, you name it. It depends how I'm feeling and I suppose my surroundings. I dress in tight jeans, baggy jeans, low cut tops, hoodys, I have little trendy adidas trainers and black and pink DC's which totally emo. I think I'm just confused. My group of friends are just as bad, they range from the almost gothic to the moshers, emo's, ranging chavs (but not quite... thank god) utter geeks, and couldn't-care-less either way's. We're the kind of people that would give the Americans a headache, which I think is awesome

"Goths: Like me. Anyone who wears black hoodys and denim (but really cotton) baggy trousers. Really there are punks who are less extreme and moshers, metaloids, Grebs who are just the same thing (exept moshers don't have to be goth). They shop at soho have long hair and paint their nails black like me! They listen to Marylin Manson (who isn't a woman) and Slipknot or Korn. Usually wear at least one studded bracelet and not either skater shoes or steel capped boots."

This is not a description of a goth. It's a pretty accurate description of a teenage wannabe-goth who has completely got the wrong end of the stick, and it actually more of a skater or mosher.
Goths do NOT listen to Marylin Manson, Slipknot or Korn. There is actually a genre of music known as "goth" or "gothic rock", which is totally different from any form of metal (or whatever marylin manson etc is)

Us Americans aren't so simply stereotyped as you think. I recenty found out my friend didn't know about stereotypes so I started explaining. Me and my other friend who was helping realized just how many subtypes there are in just our small school. Americans like to have just the simple 5: nerd, jock, prep, goth, and loner. But we have so many subtypes and almost nobody fits just one. My friend is a nerd/jock who dresses like a prep. That's supposed to be impossible. But she's in all advanced classes As and Bs, and works out for 2, 3 hours a day. And dresses like a prep. I am a hippy who dresses (according to some people) like a goth.

And then there was realisation amongst the readers that the tongue was in the writers cheek.... face cheek, not butt cheek. :P

I personally am in many of these social groups in a day, though I'm primarily a nerd. When I feel like goofing off, I hang out with the preps, and when I need to have intellectually stimulating conversations (almost all the time), I hang with the nerds.