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Back in 95 we were walking around Eugene at probably 1am, and came across this guy standing outside a bar wearing a cape. We asked why was he wearing a cape, was he playing dungeons and dragons? He said it was cloak not a cape, and secretly everyone wanted to wear one. That we all wear uniforms, something about McDonalds, and then he started rambling about being kidnapped and burned with cigarettes. He said he was the singer for some band called The Dark, and maybe they played that night, I don't know.
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There was one kid in high school that wore a regular rain coat, but would treat it as one of those tvtropes columbine coats. He also worse slippers to school once.
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Jul 6, 2016 01:05
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We also had a loosely affiliated group of students who all owned and sometimes wore these puffy green coats with german flags on them they got from the surplus store maybe? I bought all my pants at the gun store and my shoes at a skate shop, cuz they had my sizes.
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Jul 6, 2016 02:03
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These people become the absolute best friends later though, because they almost all mellow out and become pretty normal but they retain a strong streak of groundedness from knowing they were mega dorks as kids.
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Jul 6, 2016 03:03
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There was a girl named Tani or something at my school and she hit the checklist of all these crazy things. Biter, check. Exclusive wardrobe of military jackets and unicorn/anime shirts, check. Smelled like feces, check. Self proclaimed Wiccan, check. She also made these claims that she was a 2,000 year old vampire, also a werewolf, she was an ex-CIA assassin, ran over her boyfriend with a monster truck, ect. There was another girl older than me who had some sort of weapons grade autism, wore a cloak and would yell Harry Potter spells at you. Because I was an rear end in a top hat Teenager I got an advance copy of the 6th (?) book where Dumbledore dies from my girlfriend who worked at the library, speed-read it to find spoilers, then went to our local Wal-Mart at midnight (only place that had a midnight release for the book) and read the spoilers out to the dozen kids waiting to buy it. The crazy girl broke her wand on me and then tried to bite my calves.
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Jul 6, 2016 03:37
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Gatekeeper posted:hahaha yeah we had some goofball who started out with dracula stuff, then it got more & more elaborate, a pilgrim (like the mayflower kind) and a sumo wrestler with a fat suit and a super realistic jesus with a crown of thorns and ancienty looking sandals he made from like, wood and leather strappy bits, the dean kept tryin to make him knock it off, sending him home and threatening him, finally she tred to make him sign a contract that he wouldn't wear costumes or else he'd be expelled and his parents actually hired a lawyer who sent some kind of nonsense legal threat that the school would be sued if they tried to violate his rights because apparently this was not only free speech but also freedom of religion because he had decided he was some nonsense fake religion that encouraged dressing up like a fuckin pilgrim and his parents happily supported his self exploration and the dean decided it was too much of a headache and he triumphantly came into school the next day dressed up as a cartoon satan with lil horns spirit gummed to his head and a pointy tail and a pitchfork with a doll head skewered on it that was supposed to be the dean, pretty ballsy imho I was friends with a pair of the "bad kids" that are well known in small towns. They were named Clete and Chase, and Clete was 2 years older than me. Every year we had "Spirit Week" where classes have competitions and on the last day every class has a color and whoever has the most/best costumes wins. We had a big assembly before school ended for the day, so all 500 of the students were in the gym and the principal was giving some speech on whatever. Clete's class was the color purple and halfway through the speech Clete burst into the auditorium wearing a full on KKK robe and had that was purple. He was carrying some fake torch and started screaming "Purple Power! Purple Power!" before getting dragged off by the school cop.
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Jul 6, 2016 03:43
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i wore my dad's army jacket sometimes but it was because it was water repellent and lightweight and warm - also because i was a loser?
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Jul 6, 2016 04:24
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I rem,ember in high school there was this one nerd who wore a belt to keep his pants from falling down! What a dipshit!!!
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Jul 6, 2016 04:25
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don't u know ur supposed to let ur pants fall down off ur butt and constantly keep pullin g them up, SMART GUY??!
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Jul 6, 2016 04:27
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Tequila Sunrise posted:Because I was an rear end in a top hat Teenager I got an advance copy of the 6th (?) book where Dumbledore dies from my girlfriend who worked at the library, speed-read it to find spoilers, then went to our local Wal-Mart at midnight (only place that had a midnight release for the book) and read the spoilers out to the dozen kids waiting to buy it. The crazy girl broke her wand on me and then tried to bite my calves. My cousin was gonna do this at the book store when the final book came out, but he couldn't do it because, "I'd feel bad ruining these people's lives."
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Jul 6, 2016 04:35
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Farts posted:We go to the local convenience store on LARP weekends when we're out of junk food in full costume. I wouid bet real money I can beat you in a foam sword fight.
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Jul 6, 2016 04:35
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There was a whole group of "kids" who kept getting in trouble for playing Buffy in the local cemetery at night with stakes they had made by carving down water weenies.
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Jul 6, 2016 04:53
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what in the hell is a water weeny?
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Jul 6, 2016 05:29
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kazr posted:what in the hell is a water weeny? That kid with the floaties who makes it all the way to the top of the high dive or big waterslide and then starts crying and everyone has to move to the side while he climbs back down in shame?
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Jul 6, 2016 05:33
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In school I was super weird because I didn't wear jeans ever. It was all Dickies and one pair or lovely cargo pants. I don't I owned any denim until I was 20.
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Jul 6, 2016 05:47
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kazr posted:what in the hell is a water weeny? Those long foam tubes you play with in the pool. Edit: after googling, apparently they aren't called water weenies like I always thought. I'm talking about these things: 
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Jul 6, 2016 06:15
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Those are pool noodles, water weenies are the weird water sock things guys think look like a vagina
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Jul 6, 2016 06:21
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those are pool noodles i have never, ever heard them called water weenies
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Jul 6, 2016 06:22
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Maybe it was an Indiana thing? Everyone called those water weenies when I was a kid.
criscodisco fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jul 6, 2016 |
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Jul 6, 2016 06:24
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thank you for this gift i will always call them water weenies now
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Jul 6, 2016 07:43
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this is a water weenie
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Jul 6, 2016 08:15
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Oh I tried to gently caress one of those once. It had little dinosaurs in it and it didn't work. It was just like rolling and unrolling a condom on your donger.
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Jul 6, 2016 08:20
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Is sportcoat/t-shirt/jeans a weirdo outfit? Because that was me. high school through... my second year of college? good god.
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Jul 6, 2016 08:42
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The backwards hat makes it worse, but I give you points for not getting to pull off loafers with it. Plus that was such a quintessential 90's look that you can be forgiven.
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Jul 6, 2016 08:55
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One time I wore socks with sandals. We had a few kids with dusters or trench coats then columbine happened and they said it was gang clothing. There was like a line up of those kids at my countys mental health office. Seems the school reacted by taking everyone the feared would shoot the place up and make them get therapy. Yes I was one of them. No I wasnt gonna shoot up the school. No I didnt have a trench coat. yes wanted a fedora but I wasnt able to find one. Later in college I wore a bunch of animal shirts I got a natural wonders where I worked. I latter was known as "that napoleon dynamite guy" and "creepy uncle max"
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Jul 6, 2016 09:27
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criscodisco posted:The backwards hat makes it worse, but I give you points for not getting to pull off loafers with it. that was in 2008 or so
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Jul 6, 2016 09:31
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Then I take back everything I said.
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Jul 6, 2016 09:38
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Is sportcoat/t-shirt/jeans a weirdo outfit? Because that was me. Ah, the "libertarian-leaning social sciences teacher" look
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Jul 6, 2016 09:51
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I'm gonna be completely honest here and admit that if it were socially acceptable I'd wear them in the winter. I imagine they're really good against rain or sleet and I wouldn't have to worry about wet pants when I didn't wear a coat.
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Jul 6, 2016 12:10
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It's not the cloaks that are ugly it's the people that wear them. And the fact that no one normal ever does. If they suddenly became fashionable there'd probably be no problem.Tequila Sunrise posted:I was friends with a pair of the "bad kids" that are well known in small towns. They were named Clete and Chase, and Clete was 2 years older than me. Every year we had "Spirit Week" where classes have competitions and on the last day every class has a color and whoever has the most/best costumes wins. We had a big assembly before school ended for the day, so all 500 of the students were in the gym and the principal was giving some speech on whatever. Clete's class was the color purple and halfway through the speech Clete burst into the auditorium wearing a full on KKK robe and had that was purple. He was carrying some fake torch and started screaming "Purple Power! Purple Power!" before getting dragged off by the school cop. I will never get used to the idea of a school cop. Is it always the same guy? Because they must get the most too old for this poo poo look after a while 
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Jul 6, 2016 13:12
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Strategic Tea posted:I will never get used to the idea of a school cop. Is it always the same guy? Because they must get the most too old for this poo poo look after a while did you never see the documentary 'Kindergarten Cop'?
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Jul 6, 2016 13:16
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Yeah school cops are a weird idea. We just had a shop teacher who wasn't afraid to gently caress a kid up.
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Jul 6, 2016 13:20
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we had a kid who brought a leather briefcase to school every day. carried it everywhere. people gave him so much poo poo about it. really smart too. we later found out he killed himself by shooting himself in the head with a gun.
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Jul 6, 2016 14:41
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criscodisco posted:Maybe it was an Indiana thing? Everyone called those water weenies when I was a kid. Son of Rodney posted:I'm gonna be completely honest here and admit that if it were socially acceptable I'd wear them in the winter. I imagine they're really good against rain or sleet and I wouldn't have to worry about wet pants when I didn't wear a coat. This would only happen if cloaks were a regular thing, made for wear by tailors/manufacturers who are taking things like "sometimes the ground is wet." I paid nearly 200 bucks for my cloak, and the first time it rained, I had a similar thought. It soaked up like 20 pounds of water and I had to ask if I could stuff it in a friend's dryer, lmao Cops in school weren't a thing in elementary school, aside from DARE talks and such. I don't remember there being any in seventh grade, either. Columbine happened towards the end of seventh, there were forever cops after that. Cops and whatever teachers were supervising kids flowing in/out for the day had walky-talkies. I was walking in from the parking lot one day and heard "be advised, Longhair McWiccerson (dude) is wearing a uhhhhh. A leather bra." Longhair McWiccerson was (still is) a friend, so I went and found hi. It was a very 90's leather crop top over his standard A Perfect Circle shirt. I was disappointed, school was intensely boring. They made him take it off. Fun fact; all the goth and punk kids shopped at Hot Topic, which only carried maybe two dozen styles of pants per gender at once, and maybe four styles of fancy dresses. There was much drama over people buying the same items and wearing them, aside from t-shirts for some reason. I bought a purple and black brocade or jacquard patterned corset top and matching fishtail skirt, the kind that you lace up around your rear end. I expected crap from the school, because it was distracting but technically within rules. Instead some random chick I didn't know got in my face and told me it was her prom dress and if I wore it to prom, she'd beat my rear end. Crazy people. It was a crap prom dress.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Is sportcoat/t-shirt/jeans a weirdo outfit? Because that was me. autism tom brady looking good
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Jul 6, 2016 17:09
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tbh if I went back and had to do HS again I'd probably just wear a bathrobe every day because gently caress it
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Jul 6, 2016 17:11
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When I was in college there was an emo girl that wore a tutu to class once.
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Jul 6, 2016 17:25
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If you went to school with a cloak girl and didn't bang the poo poo out of her you are an idiot. 100% of cloak girls are dynamite in the sack.
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Jul 6, 2016 17:43
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just ray posted:we had a kid who brought a leather briefcase to school every day. carried it everywhere. people gave him so much poo poo about it. really smart too. we later found out he killed himself by shooting himself in the head with a gun. My brother took a briefcase to school in the 5th grade and the teacher and principal flipped the gently caress out for some reason. I have no idea why, it's not like there are things you can put in a briefcase that you can't in a backpack.
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The_Franz posted:My brother took a briefcase to school in the 5th grade and the teacher and principal flipped the gently caress out for some reason. I have no idea why, it's not like there are things you can put in a briefcase that you can't in a backpack. Briefcases have been considered a weapon since the late 80's/early 90's because of this man: 
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