I skipped my 10 year because just a few months before the reunion I saw the jock who tormented me in high school mowing a lawn in the business park I was the tech support manager at a software company. After seeing that, I got all the satisfaction I needed.

I recognized him as I drove past, made a quick u-turn and skidded to a stop in front of him. He looked up to see who the maniac was as I rolled down my window. I then pointed and laughed at him (I can laugh like Sam Kinnison). I sped away laughing hysterically.



He had the most exquisite look of abject defeat on his face when he recognised me.

Found out a while later that the landscaping business was his and he was mowing the lawns himself because he was going out of business and couldn't afford to pay his employees. He went out of business when he couldn't compete with the illegal immigrants who would work for $3 an hour. He ended up moving back home to live with his parents by the time he was 30 and worked at the local gas station in a very, very small Northern California town.

Sometimes life offers the sweetest morsels...

Lets just agree to disagree. I liked band but hated the douchebags on my football team (yes, I played too) while you played football and thought the band was full of losers. It could just be a regional thing seeing as you're from TX and I grew up in southern CA.

/and band hasn't gotten me very far, but it was more of a hobby anyways
//good guess on trombone. kind creepy

Damnit, soporific! You beat me to it!

10-year coming up in 2010, and will probably happen without me ever knowing when or where, unless they send the invite to my parents house. I haven't kept in touch with anyone from high-school (at least not from my class) so I don't see how else they could track me down. Anyone who has had thiers want to clue me in on how it works?

Went to my five-year (hey, it was a small school, and everyone was in town anyway b/c one of our classmates was killed in a car accident the night before) just to see how fat everyone had gotten. Yeah, i got picked on and all of that, but who cares? I'm not bitter about it, so I can still go and talk to people and see what everyone's up to... most people grow up quite a bit after high school and many of my formerly arseholish classmates were very pleasant to talk to. Not surprisingly, the kids who thought they were better than everyone else still behaved the same... which is funny when they're fat slags with three kids hanging off of them and you know they're dirt poor. But if you're that insecure with yourself and bitter over high school that you can't go to a reunion (much less go and behave in a civil manner), then you're the one who never grew up.

You farkers must have gone to some sad, sad high schools. In my school, even if you didn't hang out with each other, everyone was pretty much friendly. We had a graduating class of 250 in a school of 950, so maybe it was the small size. But I really don't feel like our reunion would be that awkward for anyone... maybe the teachers.

At my ten-year reunion, a recently divorced stoner spilled his vodka down my dress; my 7th grade crush who was no longer cute asked me out; and in the bathroom, when the psycho-airhead-bimbo-cheerleader was complaining that someone didn't remember who she was, I said, "How could anyone not remember YOU?"

I want to go to my 10 yr. (this year!) just so I can tell stories like that when I get home!

Language Barrier
...I'd rather be him mowing yards, than you being a complete dick.

Id rather be a financially independent HumTum than an out of work 30ish landscaper who has to wait for his parents to fall asleep before he can spank it


/out of work 30ish landscaper who has to wait for his parents to fall asleep before he can spank it

Apparently, the nasty, biatchy drama queen actress chick who slept with everything in sight in HS has become a born again Christian. I wouldn't miss seeing that for the world.

suck it, band fags
my generalization about band fags
I know more football players with a graduate degree than band fags with one

Anyone else see a theme with Language Barrier's posts?

mybrainleaks


Take it from me, after a while you just wait till theyre out of the room

Language Barrier:

Make sure you use the trimmer near the landscaping, mmkay?

Damn man, what kind of bait do you have on that hook? You reeled me right back in.

The "generalization" in my last statement was not about football players in general, but from my real life experience with ones I know. And I only called them douchebags, it's not like I said "If you play football you are teh ghey!!". While on the other hand that's exactly what you imply by calling them "band fags". Have you ever spent time with them or are your thoughts based simply on the fact they're in band?

I didn't have a good high school experience and I went back for a reunion. You realize that nobody really enjoyed the place and what you thought was being directed at you was just people more miserable than you were lashing out in every direction. The folks who hit it big, say over $10 million didn't show, the excons didn't show and so you're left with life insurance salesmen, ambulance chasers, real estate agents and podiatrists. I walked away with a pocketful of cards from people I didn't know even in high school.



This has to be the dictionary definition of "slags" though.

Tropical Itch

It's probably a generalization born of years watching the trombone player and wishing, dreaming and hoping.

see? "band geek". was that so hard? I've got no problem with that. It's the "fag" part that gets me.

OscarTamerz

Who the heck has 10mil by the time they're 28?

Or am I just naive?

I know more football players with a graduate degree than band fags with one.

a limitiation of your knowledge, not of reality.

jesus most of you guys are pretty spiteful. i guess i didn't have the greatest time in high school, and disliked a lot of people there for their petty, mean, and in general, thoughtless actions they committed while in high school.

but that was 10 years ago; isn't spiting them even more foolish? i dunno...

i still won't go most likely, just because i'm still friends with the people i liked, and i still don't care about the ones i didn't...

Language Barrier:

Thanks for the compliment you whining douche. Now get off my lawn so Pablo can GBTW.

"Well, uh being a dick ain't so bad. See, there are three kinds of people: dicks, pussies and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along and dicks just want to fcuk all the time without thinkin' it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want is to shiat all over everything. So pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while because... pussies get fcuked by dicks. But dicks also fcuk assholes, Chuck! And if they didn't fcuk the assholes, you know what you'd get?? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shiat!!!"

I think the best advice int he article is never to go to a Reunion organised by the popular girls.

LanguageBarrier

...because my experience tells me that my generalization is far more accurate than yours.


That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What the hell makes you think your experience is worth any more than anyone else's?

/former band fag, complete with BS, MS.

Language Barrier
I'd rather be him mowing yards, than you being a complete dick.

This from the guy who a few posts earlier said "suck it, band fags"

Who exactly is the immature adult here?

ImJustaTroll:
People with issues project their problems onto other people.

Bingo.

I didn't bother with my 10 year high school reunion. For the organizer of it picked on me. Have no idea how she got my home address. I figured it was a ruse for money. Met another classmate to find out 70+ people showed up. Meh, I still would not have paid $ to be around a bunch of people who I didn't get along with anyway.

Then I apologize for that. But your original cast of "band fag" just struck a nerve and I had to say something. I still stick by my douchebag statement though.

Wow, sorta makes me glad I didn't have any deep rifts with any cliques at my high school. I had a fairly good position as the "smart kid" with social skills, so I got along with pretty much everyone. Was a bit of a straight edger in high school though, so no drinking for me. Found out a few years later about all the hookups I could have had had I actually went to some of the parties I was invited to.

/no regrets, though, things seem to be going pretty well for me
//looking forward to my reunion (if one gets organized) just to catch up with everyone

I know more football players with a graduate degree than band fags with one.

Hey, genius. Did you ever think this is probably related to the company you keep?

Moran.

on the juice: I have my 20 next year and I am a ex-jock turned IT nerd...who do I pick on?

Yourself

Language Barrier:

If I'm such a dick as you say, then you can just suck it!


/BWAHAHAHA

2006-05-17 01:24:20 PM Language Barrier


So you still reproach me for my generalization about band fags, but continue yours about football players?

I'mnot going to agree to disagree with you, because my experience tells me that my generalization is far more accurate than yours. I know more football players with a graduate degree than band fags with one.



Faggy fag fag. I see your time in college did wonders for your vocabulary.


Tight end indeed.

Atomic_Cockroach

My 25th reunion was 4 years ago and I remember exchanging an e-mail or two with the guy who was organizing it. I didn't go because I live 1/2 way across the country and my wife was 8 months pregnant at the time. At that time Classmates.com allowed you to register without paying and I think the organizer paid just enough to allow him to send e-mail to anyone that had registered. I haven't visited classmates.com in a year or two and I'm pretty sure any e-mail from them goes directly into my spam filter so I have no idea how it works now. My office seems to block the site, but not Fark. Go figure.

Language Barrier

WhiskeyBoy: Hey, genius. Did you ever think this is probably related to the company you keep?

Yes.

Ok. Then your argument doesn't hold water.

Language Barrier

Um, what led you to this bizarre hatred of musicians? I can't carry a tune in a bucket either, but damn.

The biatchy popular girls who tormented me are all fat as cows, splotchy, puffy, used up, who have all had multiple kids. It was 10 year so they were all under 30, and looked over 40. They held positions at the local Wal Mart, or driving the school bus, etc.

I looked better at 28 than I did at 18. I was thin and gangly at the time and now I'm slim and curvy. Thank you god for genetics. Have taken good care of myself and have a great and exciting career in a glamourous town.

You know what? There was no need to point out the obvious. I just enjoyed myself and was gracious and effervescant. They were a blast to hang with. They had matured, and so had I.

The jocks who bullied me and called me names were the funniest, though. They were just as others pointed out, fat, balding and underachieving. Their fawning, overexaggerated attention to me was laughable. For a couple of years after, I'd get calls or email anytime one of them planned to visit Vegas, wanting to hang out. I declined. They were not very interesting nor attractive and had room temperature personality. I wish I'd realized that when I was a teenager. Might have spared me some pain.

TJW!

2006-05-17 01:48:36 PM Language Barrier


Tropical Itch: But your original cast of "band fag" just struck a nerve and I had to say something.



I'm sure it did, band fag.



I actually snotted when I read this post. Childish humour gets me for some reason.

/Language Barrier is still a douchebag nonetheless

kangaroo ralph
I was just wondering if everyone else's 10 year reunion was like mine:

See my post above. It just took me longer to articulate what you said. :)

TJW!

Language Barrier:
I understand how you came about your conclusion. But that is not indicative of someone with a graduate degree. Your statment pointed at that assumption.
"...my experience tells me that my generalization is far more accurate than yours. I know more football players with a graduate degree than band fags with one."
Your observations inside your firm are not universal. Almost everyone I know has, or is working on a graduate degree. Only a small handfull of them were sports players.

Just a note, an "accurate generalization" is an oxymoron.

Why is it that every former "geek", "nerd" or "band fag" seems to think that after high school, every former jock is now completely envious of your life after high school and hating their own? Not to mention that you all seem to think that we were all complete dolts with limited intelligence that would eventually fail at life...

I'm a former football and hockey player. I have a good, high-paying job (granted, I do get extremely bored with it from time to time). I have a great circle of friends, most of whom I met in high school (playing sports, no less), and seeing as I'm still a single guy with no kids, I have plenty of free time and disposable income to have the time of my life whenever I want to...

Seems like I live a pretty good life. And from what I've seen, it seems like the norm for most of the "jocks" I knew in high school...

Not to mention, more often than not, the former band rats are hanging out in the same places I am. Yeah, their life is soooo much better than mine...

The only difference is, the girls we're with are a lot hotter than the ones they're with... And they all seem to be staring at ours...

Language Barrier

Gracious, I will be sure never to mention athletes in a derogatory manner!

Goodness knows they're all intelligent, mature gentlemen and ladies who never do things like randomly accusing members of high school cliques of homosexuality. Why, that would be thoroughly stereotypical, something that only the boorish jocks in Revenge of the Nerds would even consider doing!

/Good lord man, a jock calling people gay? Be more original.

//although marching bands are just a tad silly, it's true.

*Language Barrier shoves Tropical Itch into the nearest locker*

I love how jocks and former jocks act like football is so much more worthy than any other high school activity, utterly failing to realize that NOTHING that ANYONE does in high school matters after graduation.

/Unless you get little Suzie Whatshername knocked up on prom night.
//That might have some lasting consequences

When I was in high school our family didn't have much money and I was always the uncool kid in K-mart clothes. Things have changed a lot since then. I got a job, worked hard and now I'm an assistant manager at Wal-mart which, for those of you who don't know, is practically like an executive.

I'm looking forward to my class reunion.

I wish i'd done more drugs in high school. I honestly think it would have helped my grades.

How to be a phoney around other people. Great. Thanks Fark!

Language Barrier
But you're supposed to be a mature adult with a professional career, right?

I'd rather be him mowing yards, than you being a complete dick.


Well spoken. I agree. Smugness is not an attractive trait.

TryinToThink
I do not think the I am any better than the "jocks" nor do I think any should be envious of my life. The only reason i even started commenting was because one of those former "jocks" decided it was his duty to call every person in the band gay.

The flip side of the coin is: why do so many former "jocks" think they had/have such better lives than the bandos? What is with the complete hate and degredation or those that don't choose to devote their lives to a pastime that can cause serious injury and that they won't be able to do when they get older?

That bolsters my argument.
Actually, it would only bolster the argument if the argument was about the number of men in your office with graduate degrees who are ex footballers or ex band members.

If you're a genius band-weenie, you should see that.

Actually, I'm not a band-weenie. We could debate the genius thing though. I'm just pointing out your inadequate argument. It's not a jab at your personality or intelligence. One must learn from their mistakes. As for the company you keep, it seems like they share similar interests, and are active both physically and intellectually. Nothing to be scoffed. So do not take this as an attack on them either.

While some people may hold a grudge with those who tormented them in high school, and push a jock stereotype, I am not one of them. The only people I wish to laugh at are those who had no drive in life. You did, and I applaud your success.

"Band fags in my experience are more likely to go through the motions, maybe go to college, maybe not, get a mediocre job and never really get ahead."
In my experience, (and from reading this board, I'm not alone here) it was the sports players who fit this description. But these "failures at life" are the real dreg, who cares what their background? Making pointed assumptions (and you aren't the only one guilty here) is useless and only perpetuates stereotypes and hatred. Useless baggage.

And really, "fag"? Who says that anymore? It's obnoxious and insulting. I think we can raise the bar. If you want to win an argument, don't sink to the level of those with whom you are debating. As someone who works in law, you should know this already.

Language Barrier

You're going a helluva lot farther with it. Hey, at least submitter said "do NOT"

Um...Language Barrier, the headline never said jocks all bag groceries. Calm the hell down.

Athletes are more competitive, and work harder and go farther

yes, because it's sooo easy to memorize an entire show's worth of music and feild positions and to get all 150 people in the right spot at the right time. That doesn't take any dedication, cooperation, or hard work at all.

It's been 12 years since highschool and we've yet to have a reunion. Anyways, I'd be hesitant to go because I feel bad about all of the friends I ignored after graduation.

Also, a whole evening dedicated to "So what do you do?" sounds tedious.