FTA: Derek Brown, who works as a senior information specialist at the college, represented the "nerd" label.

He said people who work with computers aren't all social misfits who wear glasses and fanny packs.

Good gawd, can't they get any stereotypes right to "dispel"? Glasses are optional and who the f*ck still wears fanny packs?

I guess I should have added that the social misfit portion was perfectly OK. And then referenced mom's basement and Fark.

/Sorry

Hau Ruck: FTA: Derek Brown, who works as a senior information specialist at the college, represented the "nerd" label.

He said people who work with computers aren't all social misfits who wear glasses and fanny packs.

Good gawd, can't they get any stereotypes right to "dispel"? Glasses are optional and who the f*ck still wears fanny packs?

I'm going to wear a fanny pack, black socks and sandals so I can properly represent to German tourist stereotype.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: You have my attention.

Hau Ruck: who the f*ck still wears fanny packs?

I wear one when I run.

/grist

Anyone else think it funny they listed Virgin as a stereotype?

FloydA: Johnson, 20, a junior from Petersburg, said she thinks of atheism when she sees Goths. "Just people that aren't personable," she said.


What a rube.

As an un-personable atheist, I can tell you that I am in no way goth, Miss Johnson.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Before we become TOO embroiled in a sprawling, unfortunate debate...

Mrowr.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Before we become TOO embroiled in a sprawling, unfortunate debate...

Meh. I dig the more geeky/mechanically inclined type.

It's hilarious that there are all these specific stereotypes on one side and the other is "random black guy".

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Before we become TOO embroiled in a sprawling, unfortunate debate...

No 40 year old woman looks like that. We should clone her.

Hau Ruck: FTA: Derek Brown, who works as a senior information specialist at the college, represented the "nerd" label.

He said people who work with computers aren't all social misfits who wear glasses and fanny packs.

Good gawd, can't they get any stereotypes right to "dispel"? Glasses are optional and who the f*ck still wears fanny packs?



Hipsters, but only ironically.

"College's"? SERIOUSLY? WTF? "COLLEGE'S"?

I can haz goth girl thread?

Well, isn't that true?


/hot like black rage.

G2V: FloydA: Johnson, 20, a junior from Petersburg, said she thinks of atheism when she sees Goths. "Just people that aren't personable," she said.

What a rube.

As an un-personable atheist, I can tell you that I am in no way goth, Miss Johnson.

I'm an agnostic with a lot of disdain for humanity as a whole, but I can get along great with people on an individual basis. I wonder what that makes me in her little world.

holdeestrufs: "College's"? SERIOUSLY? WTF? "COLLEGE'S"?

Oh I'm sorry, would you prefer "University's event"?

Rhaab: I'm an agnostic with a lot of disdain for humanity as a whole, but I can get along great with people on an individual basis. I wonder what that makes me in her little world.

Arrogant?

FTA

Spence likes Gothic fashion, but doesn't have the dark personality that many people associate with Gothic youths.

holdeestrufs: "College's"? SERIOUSLY? WTF? "COLLEGE'S"?

Yes.

I thought Goths were supposed to believe in Satan or Moloch or something. Or worship Neil Gaiman.

Rhaab: I wonder what that makes me in her little world.

GoldSpiderArrogant?

Dammit, I was hoping to learn something new about myself.

zamboni: An unwitting tool of satan.

I wouldn't say I'm unwitting. Not with all the paperwork Satan had me sign.

The fact that people believe this shiat is stupid.
The actual event is a really great idea.
Anyone who walks out of there with their mind opened is a moron, though, and probably a stereotypical moron.

Troy Spence is friendly, smiles easily and enjoys working out and playing sports. And, oh yeah, he also dresses in black, wears eye makeup, colors his spiked hair fire-engine red and paints his fingernails black and gray.

Spence likes Gothic fashion, but doesn't have the dark personality that many people associate with Gothic youths.

You sound gay.

He just wants to express his individuality by looking like other people.

As a gothy-type for over 15 years... wtf, ATHEIST? No one's ever accused me of being an Atheist- they always accuse me of being a SATANIST.


/Atheist

Quantum Apostrophe: No 40 year old woman looks like that. We should clone her.




Yes, I know all magazine shots are Photoshopped. No I don't care.

moothemagiccow: The fact that people believe this shiat is stupid.
The actual event is a really great idea.
Anyone who walks out of there with their mind opened iswas a moron, though, and probably a stereotypical moron.

FTFY, I hope.

I can imagine it:

"Yeah, brah, I'm like totally goth and everything. I love Lil' J....I mean, I love The Sisters of Mercy, brah!!"

Atheism is a Religion.

anfrind: moothemagiccow: The fact that people believe this shiat is stupid.
The actual event is a really great idea.
Anyone who walks out of there with their mind opened iswas a moron, though, and probably a stereotypical moron.

FTFY, I hope.

Nope. 50 bucks they tell the polite, intellectual black guy he's a "credit to his race."

letrole: Atheism is a Religion.

Religion is a Atheism.

Typhoid: As a gothy-type for over 15 years... wtf, ATHEIST? No one's ever accused me of being an Atheist- they always accuse me of being a SATANIST.


/Atheist

The ones who preach their religion the loudest tend to see the world in "us. vs. them" terms, and are usually too ignorant to know the difference between atheists and satanists. Heck, I imagine quite a few of them couldn't even tell the difference between Buddhists and satanists!

/atheist, of the "don't care" variety
//not a goth

Troy Spence may be a warm, engaging and funny guy but this school is doing a real disservice to him (and others) for allowing him to think that potential employers will be wowed by his costume, no matter how many stereotypes he breaks. Instead of encouraging kids to 'be themselves' and have positive self esteem (when they have actually done nothing to deserve it), they should encourage kids to 'be adults' , 'prepare themselves for the working world', 'to learn self discipline' and 'the real world is not just a idiotic MTV television show'.

Considering that many employers have spoken out about the recent grads they hire having no self-discipline, no work ethic and feel that their self esteem comes before anything else, one would think that college would try to instill these useful skills starting with the freshman class.

I guess many colleges now feel they must instill political correctness, the art of victimhood and the ability to say 'would you like fries with that' in 10 languages in lieu of any real skillls.

Rapmaster2000: Religion is a Atheism.

Is Atheism a Religion?

moothemagiccow: anfrind: moothemagiccow: The fact that people believe this shiat is stupid.
The actual event is a really great idea.
Anyone who walks out of there with their mind opened iswas a moron, though, and probably a stereotypical moron.

FTFY, I hope.

Nope. 50 bucks they tell the polite, intellectual black guy he's a "credit to his race."

But if that's the case, their minds haven't really been opened, have they?