By: Ellie O'Hagan
[2001-09-10]
TOWNIES SHOULD BE DROWNED AT BIRTH
This is what I hate.
WHAT IS A TOWNIE?
Also known as trendies, preps and scallies. They're everywhere, and you either hate them or...are one. They're the ones in beige skin-tight circulation stopping trousers that are two sizes two small and shoes that are so big and rubbery that they bounce rather than walk normally.
THE SOPHISTICATED TRENDY:
The most common disguise is white hipsters and synthetic, bright pink boob tubes, with plastic stilettos and an obviously fake leather jacket they bought/stole for 10 pounds/nothing in the sale in the local market.
If you should happen upon one of these, which, if your neighbourhood is anything like mine, you most certainly will, take precaution and stand at a far distance. Otherwise, the toxins from the huge amounts of hairspray holding their ponytails up as high as possible is bound to have some lasting effects on you, none of them good. This disguise works best, as it is hard to recognise them under the layers of orange foundation and lip liner.
The male versions of this kind wear Pinstripe trousers and polo-necks, Tank tops or Ben Sherman shirts, and have a random blob of hair gel with no apparent use positioned somewhere over their fringe. These trendies are the ones who walk down the street waving their mobile phones in the air for all to see and be jealous of (and it works, honest).
THE HARD TRENDY:
These are the trendies who offer themselves as walking adverts for sports companies everywhere. They too have huge amounts of hairspray, but are likely to wear less makeup. The boys have all shaved their heads at least once and / or bleached it like Eminem.
They chew gum a lot, and you will know them from far off because of their posture. If standing, there will probably be a group of them around a bus stop / shop doorway / park bench / some swings. They slump their heads, have a permanent glare, and for some reason stick their chins out like someone is pulling a string attached to their jaw. It is also more than likely they will be holding a cigarette but not smoking it properly.
These trendies are those most likely to hurl abuse at people like myself across the street, for being different to themselves. Most common insults given to boys are all variations of the label gay, for example homeboy, queer, nancy etc. Girls will receive dyke, slapper, and, if like myself, freak, grungey or goth. Beware: it is good for their reputations to fight a lot, so they are looking for excuses to beat you up. Thus they must hunt for their prey.
One of their hunting techniques is to stare at a random person, usually someone younger than them / more intelligent than them / different from them. Then, when the person glances at them and wonders why they are staring, they will say, "What are you looking at? You starting?" and proceed with their popularity gaining antics.
Another trick is to, again, choose a random person, and then quickly make something up like, "Jaye said you've been talking about me? What you been saying about my mother? I heard a rumor goin' round that you wanna start on me" and then beat them up.
This technique is good, because after beating the person up, they can then say - "Jaye, why'd you say she'd been talking about me / my mother? You trying to start something?" and then beat her up. However, do not despair, because these trendies threaten on average 20 people a day, and usually only get around to carrying out 3 of these threats.
THE ALTERNATIVE FASHION TRENDY:
One thing I must make clear is that these trendies do not really dress in alternative clothing. Also, the fact that they are wearing flares and bandannas will not stop them shouting at any real hippies that may walk by.
They will attempt certain looks - for example, the skater look, the rock chick look and the bohemian babe look (as they describe it in tammy girl). However, they will never be able to pull any of these looks off.
The easiest way to differentiate between an alternative fashion trendy and an actual person of alternative fashion is that trendies will usually wear a top saying, "rock chick," "hippy chick" or "urban chick." The genuine article will not wear anything like this.
Also, once you have found one person wearing one of these, anyone else around dressed like that is likely to be a trendy too, as when the rock look comes in to fashion those who were into it before will usually stop dressing that way.
A common aspect of all types of trendy is chunky, fake gold jewelry. The girls wear 8 pairs of huge hooped earrings, and gold crucifixes as an attempt at being holy, but then if you go to a religious school / church you are then a victim for being a "bible basher"... This phrase does not fit as "bible basher" means devil worshipper, but how are they to know?
The boys wear a gold stud in one ear (and if it's the wrong ear then you're gay) and chunky "chains" round their necks. Both sexes wear huge rings with coins stuck to them with cheap glue.
QUESTIONS TRENDIES ASK US:
These are all questions me and my friends have actually been asked. Amazing, isn't it?
You're a virgin aren't you?
You sacrifice virgins don't you?
YOU drink alcohol?! But you're too busy doing homework and stuff...
You drink blood all night don't you?
Is your head an animal? (I promise)
Are you a blacksmith?
Did you just call ME gothic?
Do you get a buzz from dressing like that?
Do you like dressing like that? (No, I hate it...)
Are you a dyke?
Are you gay?
Are you a hippy? A hippy from a chippy?
You're one of them old fashioned people aren't you?
Do you worship Satan?
Do you wear odd socks?
YOU swear?!
You take drugs don't you?
Are you into witchcraft and that?
Do you fly a broomstick?
Are you a weirdo? (Yes.)
Do you make your own clothes?
Are you a fugitive?
Are any of your clothes white?
Do you make lucky charms?
Do you live in a castle?
Are you like that boy on home and away?
Are you a vampire?
Why do you wear red eyeliner?
Why are your eyes red? (They're contacts!!)
Don't you like Adidas? What do you wear then?!
Are you a dog or something?
Are you one of them gothics?
Can you raise the dead?
Are you a kryptic?
Do you have any friends? (What do you call those? Bats?)
Do you wear black because you think white is poisonous?
Do you wear makeup?
Can you read my palm?
Are you a mangled goose?
Are you a hippy-crit?
Are you a human being?
Are you natural?
Do you like Limp Bizkit? (NO!!!!!!!!)
Can I join your witch gang?
Can I be black too?
You're a stupid fockin freak. You worship the devil. You look stupid. I'd kill myself if I was like you. Can I borrow a pencil?
Do you like the moon?
Do you hug trees?
Who would win a fight out of God and Jesus vs. you and the Devil?
Is your underwear black? Can I check?
Are you scum? (You are.)
Are you a witch, cause you're wearing a bike chain around your wrist?
Are you a not well in the head dyke / lesbo in black?
Are you that girl from the Adams family?
Are you a gothmoth?
Why do you have those chains? Are you a dog? (Well, you have lots of "chains" so...Here doggy doggy dog)
Can I burn you?
What do you do when it's not a full moon?
What's a goth?
Are you a GrUnGeEeEeEeEy!!?
THINGS TRENDIES SHOULD KNOW:
The fact that I wear baggy jeans does not make me a goth. Will you get that into your fucking heads?
If someone is a goth, they ARE goths, Thus calling them goths, gothics or gothos will not insult them.
There are only so many times you can tell the "dead have arisen" joke.
Just because we don't sit in bus stops drinking lemon hooch doesn't mean we don't go out.
There is no need to look surprised when you see us doing our makeup. I don't have naturally black eyelids.
Adidas is NOT a designer label. Neither is Tommy Hilfiger, Gap or Ben Sherman.
Rock music is not Elvis.
All people dressed differently than you are not gay, hippies or freaks.
9-year-olds smoking is ridiculous, not cool.
Walking like the hanger is still in your coat does not look hard. Neither does spitting, quoting Eminem lyrics, shaving your head or talking like you have a brick up your arse.
It's fuck, not fock.
Wearing a gold coin on your finger does not make you look rich.
It's not a medallion or a chain, it's a necklace. Get over it.
Being looked at is not an excuse to start a fight.
Working in McDonalds is not a preferable ambition.
I hate to point this out, but you're all wearing the same outfit.
NSYNC do not play their own instruments.
The lyrics to The Backstreet Boys' songs are not deep. Nor is Ronan Keating good looking.
Trying to sing like Christina or Beyonce will not do your common accent any good.
It's not cool to fail all your subjects. Those who pass are not swats who have no life - they're the people you'll be packing shopping bags for when you leave school.
Too much hairspray will kill you.
Buying fake Tommy Hilfiger aftershave will not make you irresistible.
Being good at PE is not an academic achievement.
It may be family practice, but having a baby at 13 is not recommended.
Just because your trainers and shell suit are the same brand doesn't mean the colours can't clash.
Luminous trainers don't go with ANYTHING.
Having competitions to see who can go the longest without breathing whilst consuming the most phlegm of an unintelligent 12 year old outside the school gates does not make us jealous.
Tight combat trousers and coq sportif polo shirts are not skater wear.
Not ALL goths are into wicca.
We don't claim to be original, just different from you.
Chunky gold is horrible, not classy.
Limp Bizkit are not a reference to my musical tastes so saying you like them doesn't impress me.
I think this is thingsihate's first international submission, since Vicarious has not yet favored us with an article. Over here, they tend to be called rednecks, hicks, preppies, or trendies. I think our colleagues in Australia and New Zealand refer to them as bogans.
Though, honestly, goths are just as bad sometimes. Search
Portal for "goth" for a raft of examples.
"Is your underwear black? Can I check?"
Man... I actually kinda think that one is relatively clever, in a sorta.. male pig way. Granted, I never claimed to be otherwise.
And umm.. As far as red eyes, that'd sort abe a natural quesiton I think, you dont often see someone with red eyes, atleast in america...
I guess it's the tone which dictates curiosity vs. disdain, I never was good at tone. All the same, what color IS your underwear Ruth?
As a freak alumnus from my old suburban/rural conversative high school I find much of this only all too resonant. It's unfortunate then that the situation appears to be the same, all the way on the other side of the planet. Back in the day such people would've been referred to as homies (m), preppries, skanks (f), and trendwhores, but they seem to be only all too prevalent now (in the suburbs anyway) -- no doubt corelated to the observation of my English teacher, that "the classes are getting stupider every year".
If I might make some additions to the last part:
You can wear as many chains and rings as you want, we all know you bought them at Sears.
Looking as tough as you do must be a feat, especially when you're shopping in the mall... with your mom.
Nike shoes that look like the Batmobile in armoured mode, only bright white, are ugly, and many people wearing them just make them uglier.
Not even three years ago, big silver hoop earrings were solely the denizen of the prostitute: you're doing nothing to remove the stigma.
Same goes for your one-shoulder-missing top.
If I didn't find the first four hundred fake'n'bake, bottle-blonde, pink lip gloss/blue eyeshadow jail baits attractive, how d'you figure you're any different?
Track pants are the new sweat pants -- they are not pants per se. Please do not wear them outside the gym.
Swagger all you want, but as soon as you leave the suburbs and enter the city (i.e., real world), you'll realize just how far your "attitude" will get you.
Sure, your clothes are far trendier than mine, your car has much bigger tailpipes than mine, and your sunglasses cost more than my entire wardrobe: but at least I've graduated -- and you were in my class!
Incidentally, Josie and the Pussycats is a brilliant, highly underrated, movie, and I encourage everyone to go see it.
Here, Townies are what the Summer People call the locals in places like Provincetown and Bar Harbor (pronounced "Bah-Habba") But a lot of what you describe is what we call "Posers" like a poseur, I suppose. I guess that it's just easier for some people to have a pre-packaged dress-code and lifestyle than to "wing it" in an eclectic sort of way.
Neat article! It's good to hear what's happening elsewhere in the world, even if it sounds rather dire.
Here in Cleveland USA, though, I don't see any of this sort of thing. It may be because I'm 34 and totally out of it, and for all I know Goths and Preppies are shooting each other around me but I never noticed.
Something that's been bothering me of late. My tastes in music did indeed largely stagnate by the time I was 25. The same thing happened to my grandparents, with Guy Lombardo and Glen Miller. But for me it's Uriah Heep, and Emerson Lake and Palmer. So in 40 years am I going to be an old fart going to music stores in a vain attempt to find "Demons and Wizards" in the latest technological format? Will the kids laugh at me for being such a codger? (I already know they will ...)
Some of these song, I've actually heard before!
duck
Some of us kids like King Crimson.
They are everywhere. It may be an ill advised strategy, but when asked one of these questions one might say for instance. "Ah, blow it out your ass." Then produce one of those Klingon styled knives from one's boot, which are easily procured on late-night shopping networks.
Have just finished Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"...holy crap!!!
There is another type as well... my least favorite type that tend to populate small towns all over England. Aged Psyco Trendies - over 30, usually going bald, dresses like a 13 year old and normally hard as nails (bouncers, steroid heads, etc). They seem to live for fighting and maiming things! Quite often go out with 14 year old girls as well.
Wowsers! That pretty much describes me to a "T" except for the 14-year old bald girl part. I yam a right sheila bruce! God save the Queen!
Undead
Music's funny stuff. My big concern with most music these days is, discord and dissonance are too often regarded as complexity; deep down, I see most dissonance as a lack of insight on the musician's part. As the cartoon "The Dot and the Line" taught us, a flexible Line can do far more amazing things than a Squiggle can.
Uriah Heep's good for that. Half their stuff is musically structured, half their stuff is a mess, and the other half is good for laughing at.
King Crimson and ELP demonstrate a lot of musical ability and awareness of what they're doing. I'm willing to regard a lot of it as "experimental", which forgives some of their blunders: the pieces that don't work, pave the way for the pieces that do.
I subscribe to the notion that all art communicates something of value either about the human condition or the nature of the cosmos. When you replace melody with a chaotic mess, right there you're severely limiting your ability to generate art; whereas harmonies have a certain intrinsic value. So doo-wop singers on a street corner, or even the Spice Girls, stand a better chance of producing something of value than most of these damn kids these days. IMHO, of course.
Amongst my last batch of booty was a CD of ELP which I have in the box now; I listen to "Hoedown," and try to identify all the bits of various songs. It reminds of something like Aaron Copeland would write.
And while we're at it, let's not leave out those SUV-drivin', cell phone-talkin', real estate-dealin' yuppie bastids!
At my university there are 3 main categories of student
Aggies (agriculture student):
Wear denim pants, Nike caps, use the words "fag" and "giver" on a daily basis
Comfies:
Wear comfortable clothes (flannel pants, oversized T-shirts) , very easy going, will likely converse with anyone and everyone about anything
Fake Hippies:
Paid to make their hair look dirty, wear expensive clothes designed to look cheap (weren't hippies supposed to have made their own clothes??? It can't really be that hard), talk endlessly about the last Ani Difranco concert but complain that she didn't do the "fuck you" song
Yes, "Hoedown" comes from Aaron Copland's ballet, "Rodeo".
You can't keep a good ho' down
Had me a little puzzled at first - where I'm from, a 'townie' is a university student that grew up in the same town the university's in. Like me.
"Where you from?"
"Here."
"Ah, a townie?"
"Yep."
Didn't really have anyone like you describe, back home. And once I left, it became irrelevant, so I no longer notice. We only had two subcultures in our school (sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield joke, doesn't it? "Our town was so small...") - Rednecks and Punks.
Rednecks: Denim jackets. Heavy metal or monster truck t-shirts. Mullets or rat-tails. Barely literate. A large percentage of them had the same last name - they seemed to all be cousins. I wouldn't've been surprised to find out they were also siblings, or uncles/aunts, at the same time. (I'm only being a little facetious - I'm from West Virginia, you see.)
Punks: Black leather jackets, with slogans or odd symbols in white paint. T-shirts of bands you've never heard of. Very miscellaneous hair. And they generally didn't _seem_ literate, but if you tried to test them you'd probably find out they knew more than you did.
The tension was pretty thick, but nothing much ever came of it. There were occasional rumbles, but afaik noone ever got seriously hurt. Makes me glad I grew up in a small town, really - there'd probably have been shootings otherwise, especially nowadays.
I was sort of an honorary punk - Most of my close friends were either punks, or close friends of punks. And the rednecks hated me for being a geek, so there was a sort of 'enemy of my enemy' dynamic at work.
I have friends that are townies its just I had to write down my feelings, I thought this website would be a good place to air them.
I have another little thing that happened to me i'd like to share.
One time on the bus to the skate park where people skate and chill out there was an occurance.
We were just getting on the bus in town, trying not to cause people too many reasons to stare at us, cause in my home town no-one has any manners.
As we went up to pay the bus man this girl (lets call her Jade) walked up next to me and my friends (Amys) sister (Donna) and said "Come on Melissa" and stood breathing through her mouth chewing her gum with her mouth opening and shutting... very rhythmic.
She tried pushing in front, but I mean, whats the god damn point!?
Anyway, when everyone had paid and got on, we were sat upstairs on the double decker old banger of a bus. We were on the back seat and they were sooooooooo not pleased. It was FUNNY. But we didn't laugh, I think it was out of fear as they had many people of a similar fashion on the bus, but we were the only 'freaks'.
Later on in the silent journey they were reading their issues of sugar magazine and gnawing away on their disgusting white gum.
As usual for scalls, they were 'smoking' cigarettes, if you can call it that. (Its more like holding it in a poser type way and flicking it now and again.)
Then Jade asks "Do you want tows (twos)?" We were all nearly killing ourselves holding in our laughter. What is it with townies and their accents? Anyway...
I want you to get this image in your head, Melissa (actual name) had short blonde hair and was sat to the left of me on the seat in front reading her copy of the magazine and her friend Jade (not actual name) was looking on her mobile (cell) phone reading messages and airing her views loudly so the whole bus knew what her phone said.
Then they were discussing some skirts which they had both spotted in the magazine. Then Melissa says "I like those skirts" (turning page)
"Urg I hate those skirts!!" then pulls the stupidist face I have ever seen. By this stage Jade had thought of something to say in her air head brunette skull. "Those skirts are for FREAKS!"
Then "I take the piss me don't I!!" Followed by more laughter and some glances at us.
Then they both threw their heads back in complete hilarity. Neither of them realising that the joke wasn't even funny, seeing as though We all may prefer to wear flower surf skirts than beige/denim skin-tight skirts doesn't mean we'd say they were nice, or be offended by their not funny humour.
This is why I believe what I do.
I don't mind townies because they're the un-extreme ones... but when theres a scallie theres always something to be said.
P'raps much of this may be laid to a diet of bubble&squeek, and bangers, eh?
What the hell was that? I'm sorry, I just woke up and I need things to be kind of linear until I've got rid of the tunnel vision and shakiness.
Lou, chaos and discord have their place, I think. Everything is considered discordant when it's new, people went from very strict rules that meant only perfect intervals could be used harmonically, to allowing 3rds, 6ths, 7ths. The tritone used to be literally illegal!
I agree they have their place. But in and of themselves, they don't constitute music.
A diminished chord, by itself, is pretty dissonant. But the great thing about diminished chords is that they can resolve to about eight different chords.
Ruth, I'm not quite sure what the hell you were talking about sometimes there. "I take the piss me don't I!!" -- what on earth does that mean? I know that "taking a piss" means putting someone on or trying to bug them, but you take the piss you don't you? i'm not sure how that ties into skirts or what it means at all.. i think i missed something important.
Lou, have you ever heard anything composed by Charles Ives?
I'm familiar with the name Charles Ives -- I used to work in a music library and I pretty much memorized where all the Charles Ives recordings were -- but I never got around to listening.
I haven't been able to get into the Ives pieces I've heard, but I recall liking something or other from Henry Cowell. Stravinsky had some very pretty progressions that were technically "dissonant".
Somebody find me an English translation of Jean Ray's "Le Psautier de Mayence" and I'll be somewhat grateful.
Not online, as far as I can tell. If you can't find a copy of either of these books:
Ghouls in My Grave, Berkley, 1965
My Own Private Spectres, Midnight House, 1999
then you're sunk. Maybe you can get it on interlibrary loan.
Thanks.
In Washington, there are more than a dozen rare book mongers. One shop has a section of this kind of noire book. Also is the Library of Congress, but they will place your book on a reading desk, and not allow the book to be lent. The LoC has 110 million books, they may have that which you seek.
LoC
That title is not listed a LoC. Perhaps it would be for the best if you didn't open that book.
Thanks for reminding me! Speaking of hazardous writings, I bookmarked the online version of The King In Yellow and forgot about it entirely.
P.S The piss taking fitted into it because they said "Those skirts are for FREAKS!" Freaks of course meaning us. Get it now?
Amen, staniel.
Three various versions of the Mainz Psalter on abebooks.com
My most favoritest booksearch site:
http://www.trussel.com/f_books1.htm#Usedbooks
and of course you're welcome here ruth, stick around.
It is sort of a hobby, or rather, odious idiosyncracy of mine to draw halfbaked conclusions. Submitted for your approval:
Someone recommended to me the "Psalmbook of Mendes", an error I managed to correct by just searching for Jean Ray and getting the actual title(s).
Before I did the author search, &c, and discovered it was a short story, I thought it was actually written in the Biblical format.
Then I saw Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, which features one of the radioactive telepath cultists holding a book titled "Mendes".
I was trying to find Mendes, and I found this! It's got Oregon and The Ramones! Maybe you've heard of it, but it's new to me.
THREE SQUIRT DOG
Unfortunately, for the trade paperback of Ghouls in My Grave, or + for the hardcover My Own Private Spectres is a bit steep. Time to scour the used bookstores. Three Squirt Dog looks like it might be interesting, too!
"collectors: books get expensive! I can almost read enough French to get the sense of it
There are many species of white trash in my area. Some of the more common breeds are wiggers, the aforementioned preppies, and outright crackers. Solution: These fools run from a properly delivered threat of death and/or bodily harm.
GOOD: "You're fucking DEAD!", whilst brandishing a loaded 9mm, as I am known to do.
BAD: "Fuck you!" while walking away.
you should post a warning that negative comments will be deleted. not that I will see it since I won't be coming back for more crap about how cool some dipshit is compared to me and the rest of the MUNDANES.
I think I love you...
I live in a shitty little coastal town in Cornwall, (that's in England, yanks), and there's a 95% majority of townies. All driving round in Ford fucking Escorts. Damn them all to hell...
Anyway, just nice to know someone else has to deal with the shit.
And *are* your panties black? ;)
errrrrrr........ asinine avenger, are you trying to imply that thingsihate shouldn't be negative? I mean it take a special mind to explaine what they hate in a posative way
of abuse suffered due largly, to being a scrawney black-swathed freak. At the hands of a boy who must have been all of 8.
I was in australia, on acount of being a lazy bastard taking a year out between finishing school and getting on with university. Sitting on a fairly obscure beach on the Gold coast, about, oh 5 miles south of Surfers Paradise. it was a fairly overcast day in July, and I'd found a finger of rocks sticking out from the beach to sit on and gaze broodingly out to sea. Partly for the look of the thing, mostly coz I had nothing much to do and can watch waves for hours.
At this point, I glance across the sand to my right and see a small child raceing his still-smaller sister to the rock pools. I smile breifly. Thats sweet. and return to contomlating the ocean. Until he starts throwing rocks at me, swearing like a trooper, and finaly brandishs a spanner at me while his mother looks on benignly from the back ground.
Get out you freak!
Charmed, I leave, deciding that the only way to shut him op would be to lay into him, I'd never convince a jury that he started it, and I don't have time (my flight home (Britain) was in mid August)
I seem to have been repeting my self. appologies.
Quite often my pants are black.
unfortunately i go to a skool which is plagued by these twats/rats called townies.. I have my lip peirced and i wear eyeliner.. and acording to them im a goth..I am not a goth.. i listen to punk music.. EVERY SINGLE FUKIN TOWNIE CAN FUCK OFF AND DIE!!!!! oh and biggup to the site its coooooollllllll!!! Ps go to my site.. www.envy.nu/zoeandnette/bitch.html
i love this site, its so funny... i like the questions bit, its so true. like when u walk down the street and hear "baggy pants, baggy pants.." i just feel like saying "woah where did those come from, i didnt have those on this morning" lol... the best is "are you gonna use your pants as a tent when you go camping" duh?!?!? just because i have black hair does not make me a goth, i wear black clothes occasioanally coz i hate gettin things dirty, and im a messy person lol... i wear what i want, and dont let other people tell me how to dress. i hate to say it but some "moshers" are just as judgemental as the people that they call, "you have not got pants that have a leg wider than ur waist, die" lol, but anyhoo, thats human nature and im warbling, great site...
we call them pikeys. 2day a group of them nicked my crazy spiky hat!! it cost 18 bluddy quid! they got reely angry cuz we wer takin the p!ss outta them hahaha 'eminem, wicked man! addidas rocks man!' hahahahahaha stoooopid pikeys. i
Hey im tristan carree and i love townies especially Astra and Danielle they're the best eva i cant say how much i h8 this site its so gay sorry but its gotta b sed TOWNIES RULE so dont get it wrong or ill fukin kill ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow!this is the best website i have ever gone on. EVER. i just hate townies.
these are the things i dont get
1- what is this big thing about rockports???
i mean they look crap and paying up all that money for them is mental!
2- why do you have the urge to yell 'mosher' at me? i already no i am. whats the friggin point?
3-why do townies HAVE to look identical to each other? it looks like their mums dress them again, like they did when you were, what... um... ONE AND TWO?
4- drop the accents.please.
there are many more thing i dont get though.
these are some of the things i have yelled at me.
urghhhh... mosher!
dont give me the mosher disease
korn are shit
linkin park cant sing
why do you wear sleeping bags on your legs?
why dont you attatch your chains to your dog collar, bitch?
dis mosher (in that townie acent voice)
do you dress all in black
heaven is a half pipe (whats that all about?)
do you go in a mosh pit?
are you a goth?
do all spifs dress like that?(arrhhhh for christs sake all i wana do is do well in my life!)
do you eat people?
are you friendly or are no moshers friendly?
crawling is wicked!
why do you hate townies?
whats a mosh pit?
do you wear white face paint? (my face is naturally whiter than normal coloured skin.really.)
do you like pop music?
nsync are better than blink 182
blink182's all the small things is crap/ well good. (depends who your talking to)
slipknot shit,piss, puke on each other dont they.andthey eat dead birds.
.a.f. are cheap skates.
plus many more.
theres people at school wholl tell me they like mosh music but are afraid of townies.
i just hate it when people do that.
ok so i gotta go, my human and kidney pies going cold.hmmm...
People who agree replied!! woohoo!!
I have some townie jokes... here goes...
What do you call a townie is a box?
INNIT!!
What do you call a townie in a filing cabinet?
SORTED!!
What do you call a female thirteen year old townie?
Pregnant
What do a tortoise and a female townie have in common?
When they're on their back they're fucked
What do you call a townie with a brain cell?
Gifted
If any of you would like to know more about townies, or help in the destruction of them, go to http://www.towniehaters.com (you might want to ignore the reference to d-12)
hay i hate the scallies and im gonna kill them all for wot they dun they jumped my mate few days ago hes in a coma now wot i cant belive is that they cut him wid a split can the rebelion against townies starts 2002 this page is kewl ruth e-mail me back if ya wana chat more
Townies suck especially townies from Hailsham they are gay and all suck each others dicks
hailsham townies r fuckin crap at football and they r cunts
i love your townie jokes, brilliant!
youe not the only person here who has a strange urge everynow and then to slit townies throats and let them bleed to death.
i feel like you do. i live in this area (in england) where its peaceful through the day, and and moshers just hang around, but at night townies all emerge and hang about the street corners.
as you know its xmas and for xmas i got:
lost prophets hoodie
rammstein hoodie
extremely large jeans (i mean BIIIG)
chunky boots with buckles over them
stripy socks+tights
coal chamber long sleeved top
etc
and of course i get stared at.
my cousins are townies and their um,...posse are too, and of course they look down on me.
the main reason i dont like townies is because my mate was walking his mate and his girlfriend home(they wer pissed) and townies beat them up pretty badly. he got knocked out, and the following day half his face was swollen, had two black eyes and his nose was bloody.plus he had a cracking headache for two weeks.
im actually doing ok at my school cos theres about 20 other moshers, but 70%of everyone else is a townie, and theyre in the bottom sets.
i feel sorry for my mates cus theres only 2 other moshers at her school
anywho, i love this site, so keep it going
ps towniehaters.com has shut down cus they cant be arsed with it any more.
Me and one of my friends (who is somewhat nieave) were getting some stuff before christmas. I was wearing baggy jeans, a large chain hung at my side (fuck knows why- I just like them) and a long-sleeved Nirvana shirt. I'd had troubles with townies before, but my friend obviously hadn't. On the opposite side of the street was a group of townies (why are they all dressed in white- is this some sub-culture of the klu-clux clan?) and they were staring at us. I tried to inore them and increased my pace, but sure enough:- "Eh..eh..G..GrungieeeeeeeS!!!" Shit, I think and ignored them and walked on. Then I hear my friend behind me:- "TOWNIEEEEEEEES!!". Bollocks. I turn round and there's my friend (who shall remain nameless) standing there and pointing at them. So how did we survive? Well, we had two strokes of luck: 1. Some friends of ours had just come out of the opposite shop and had immediately recognised our situation, 2. I'm quite big and can put on a scary face (although I hate fighting and am not a violent person by nature) and, 3. Only two of them came over. The two townies started on my friend, pushing him and asking him the usual dum questions, they hadn't seen me or my two friends who had come out of the shop (all three of us were bigger than the townies, but my other friend (bloody hell this is confusing) was not) The three of us surrounded the townies arms folded "bouncer" style. It was hilarious, the victims of townies had never had such a victory. They looked at us and said (wait for it) "Why bover wiv dis lot when we awvready know we frash 'em", let out a nervous laugh and walked off.
i live in cov and i reckon that is 1 of the truest things i have seen.Townies should f**k animals so that they dont reproduce and die out.....
the simplest and funniest way to scare townies s**tless is
1)buy a realistic looking bb gun. uzis are best
2)cut off the red end bit
3)hide it in a pocket and go looking for townies when they go "you startin on me" reply with "yeah i am"
4)insult them a bit then when the get close pull out your uzi and point it at them.
5)laugh as townie runs.
i am not responsible for any legal action this advice results in
why not hate mail all the people who say that they are townies or who think townies are cool????!!
ps i do not accept any responsibility for any legal bullsh*t or other nasty cr*p that may come your way because of it!
Your thing about Pikeys/Townies/Trendies is the best thing I have ever read in my life!!Me and all my friends are into the rock/greebo/grunger/skater type music and clothes and we find it difficult to walk ANYWHERE without having abuse shouted at us. And more than one occasion its gotten pretty nasty and a few of my friends have ended up with bloody noses (through no fault of their own) which is why I HATE PIKEYS!! Lauren xXx
The most recent abuse given to me was two things:
your trousers are falling down (I liked this one, it was far more intelligent than the usual townie banter)
oh my goth (this was shouted at me by many young townies who looked to be from poor backgrounds, so it is inevitable they will be forever townies and pack my shopping bags in years to come)
I don't hate ALL townies, or people different to me, but it's just that they have to question everything I do and insult me for no reason (other than my taste in clothing/music, which is no reason)
I am lucky enough to never have gotten beaten up by a townie, but i've seen it happen to my friends as a result of my loud mouth.
I tend to think of it like this: If everyone accepted the way I dress I doubt i'd enjoy dressing how I do, life would be easy... but do I want life easy?
My Christmas Presents were as follows:
Harry Potter sleeping bags to take with me to leeds festival
New Rock Big black boots with buckles and metal toe caps
Tights and long socks
c.d walkman for the listening of music
Marilyn Manson, Cradle of filth, Black Sabbath and Nine inch nails albums and other merchandise (posters, hoodies, badges and patches for my bag)
A big black diary
Red and black corset with inverted pentagram embroidery
Black Corduroy trousers
black crushed velvet skirt
That is all, apart from selection boxes, smellies...ect.
I hope every townie hater has a wonderful 2002!
YOU HAVE PORTRAYED THE SCALLY TO A T!
SCALLYS SUCK ASS
AND I HAVE WITNESSED ALL OF THIS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS!!
I GET ABUSE FROM THESE WANKERS
oops NOT ABUSE CHILDISH IMMATURITY
BIG UP ON THE SITE
... and such poor spelling. So I'm going to talk about somthing else. I like slikeys. Slinky prings are the best things in the world ever. I love them so much. [smiles vaguely].
Yankee bastards. You inbred, ignorant, arrogant, gun toting, power hungry, sister fucking, burger eating, species destroying, ethnic cleansing, money grabbing, greedy, self righteous, ammoral, prejudging, exploitative, opprresive, enviroment destroying, unhealthy race of fuckwits.
Thankyou, my name is adam lynn
K, i just wanna say ur site kicks a$$ but im not sayin i h8 steeks (townies) cuz i dont. My best friends and most of my friends are townies and i dont see wot the big deal is. My best friend wears tracksuits and yea u class her as a steek but theres no point being stereotypical 2wards her cuz she dont listen 2 bsb and n'suck , she listens 2 manson and ozzy etc... oh and the hooch lemon thing, i took alot of offence cuz i drink that O_o Everyone likes their own drinks and same goes 4 clothes... The whole point i am tryin 2 make is that just cuz some of them have said crap 2 u and maybe wanted 2 fight u doesnt mean they r all like that cuz they arent. Ive known gothz 2 cum up 2 me in the street and go what the fuck u lookin at and i just go i aint lookin at nuthin, cuz there is no point fightin O_o
k, point made... very badly :(
I always think that this message has been read enough times and that no-one will find it but most everytime I return there is more posts, and it over joys me just ever so much!
I found that article on towniehaters.com, I felt it encompassed nearly all of my anger, so I added my own extras and submited it here.
I am no longer angry, because I have realised that I can deal with the hassle I recieve from them. I get abuse a lot more at school than I used to, but it's always from people at least two years below me, so it doesn't bother me much. It brings around a lot of interest from my peers who never realised what I was like.
People are stupid, A person is smart.
Anyhow: It's becoming very fashionable to like slipknot now, gone are the days when the supposed 'normal people' liked limp bizkit and to some extent, papa roach, linkin park and ooh...what's that other band...well, I suppose a lot of people like greenday.
Normal people are creeping into the gigs I go to wearing hooded tops and baggy trousers. Sporting hooded jumpers with bands like KoRN, Slipknot and Papa Roach labels dribbled over them. It's as bad as wearing clothes just for the labels. Nu-metallers, I think people call them.
They are what I presently hate. I hate people who show hate towards me and I hate people too scared to be who they are. Fake people who don't speak their minds, Although I doubt they have a mind to speak with all the drivel they listen to.
That's my lot.
The other day my friend saw the funniest thing in a paper, there was an article with the heading CLONES LIVE SHORTER LIVES then a picture of a townie beside it...LOL we then photocopied it and stuck it round our school and have about a million people after 'those gays who put up that article' (what do they have against gay people anyway?) but their reaction was sooo funny we couldn't resist. Anyway it serves them right for trying to make our lives hell, one of them threatened to beat us up with his bike seat the other day... lol.
im from near liverpool and a mosher, and in my town moshers are the minority. for example in my year there is 300 people, yet only 4 moshers!
lucky im also near manchester which is liek the mosher capital of england. anyway townies are scared, they shout abuse and i just turn around and leg it at them, they scream asking me not to hurt em!
as its 2002 we shud make this a great year for moshers and turn the tables on the rockport waering, chain smoking, cider loving, tracky wearing poor excuses for humans and start to teach them what its like to be abused!
OMG this is fucking funny, who ever posted this is a genius and if you want come down to warrington and come scally bashing with us.
I love my pets. I have not yet written poetry about them but I have lots of pets now and have always had lots of pets all the way through my life. I have had 8 cats, 2 mice, 20 fish,2 guinea pigs, 5 rabbits, 5 hamsters, 5 rats and a horse.
can't beleive how things are the same all over england(i live in southamton)but unlike you, most of my friends are townies i guess,but their nice and have more of n open mind.all the moshers in my school are not in my form or not in any of my classes,I'd love to dress up how I want to(grungy)but I can't a few times I went out in town with my hoodie,baggy jeans,black make up but then when I got back to school I found out that some kids in my year saw me and started tellin every1 that I'm gothic."are you a goth?", "no I'm not","oh well,a grunger then,just as bad" FUCK! can't they just leave me alone,I can't even go out in town wearing what I want coz I don't want ne1 from my school to see me,coz I don't ant to get picked on.I wouldn't mind if I was in a big group,but I'm not.I dread non uniform day,when every1 looks forward to it,I really wanna wear my normal clothes but they will just pick on me,and if I wear somthing normal-I just don't feel like myself,and all the moshers look down on me,so I end up wearing flayred jeans(not too flayerd)and a black top that says oZZy on it,I figured most of the townies don't know who he is so no1 can really say nething.
what you posted really made me laugh,I can't beleive how small mided those ppl are...so they have been to majorka once and think they have
seen the world.hmmmm...
I've got a townie joke,you probably heard it though- WHY DID A TOWNIE CROSS THE ROAD? COZ HIS MATE DID!
I guess you hate me.
but I do it for my own safety.
I don't hate anyone unless they hate me. Two wrongs often make a right, for me anyway.
You sacrifice virgins don't you? (no, I don't)
You drink blood all night don't you? (again, no)
Do you get a buzz from dressing like that? (yes, I fit all my clothes with wires and battery packs, you see)
Are you gay? (no)
Are you a hippy? A hippy from a chippy? (yes, I have been asked this exact question, as I work in a chippy)
Do you worship Satan? (no, I don't)
You take drugs don't you? (only soft drugs, and not often)
Are you into witchcraft and that? (avtually, 'here! do you do witch kind of stuff like?')
Do you fly a broomstick? (no, I don't)
Are you a weirdo? ('I don't know, are you an arsehole?' then he punched me)
Are any of your clothes white? (yes, they are, I just wasn't wearing anything white at the time)
Are you like that boy on home and away? (I don't know who that is, cos I don't watch that program)
Are you a vampire? (Outdoors, on a sunny day at noon)
Why are your eyes red? (They're contacts!!) (they asked me why my eyes were green, and it wasn't contacts, I have green eyes, so did one of the townies)
Don't you like Adidas? What do you wear then?! (I am naked? Tilt your neck forward,dumbass!)
Are you a dog or something? ('I don't know, are you an arsehole?' is starting to become a popular phrase of mine)
Are you one of them gothics? (no)
Can you raise the dead? (no)
Can you read my palm? ('No, but I could kick you in the face')
Are you a human being? ('Yes, are you?)
Can I join your witch gang? ('Only if I can be a prick like you')
Can I be black too? (I'm not black, I'm hispanic)
You're a stupid fockin freak. You worship the devil. You look stupid. I'd kill myself if I was like you. Can I borrow a pencil? ('Only if I can insert it into your eye')
Do you hug trees? ('Does the pope shit in the woods' his reply: 'eh? what are you going on about, you fuckin' freak?')
What do you do when it's not a full moon? ('what do you do when you run out of White Lightning? Fuck ofgf home? well, I can't see any cider, so fuck off home, will you?')
Can you tell that I'm a cheky bastard?
Hi, I so totally agree! townies suck and yeah- y the hell do they think Ronan is good looking? I wear chain, hoodies, baggy pants the works! There is nothin wrong with moshers, they look far better than townies! Me n my mate r the only moshers in my year an get a lot a stick for it! I hate britney etc! linkin park, sum41, blink 182 etc is good music! i think ppl failing all their subjects is pathetic - they'll be sorry when we have good jobs n they're picking up trash on the streets! I also hate smoking especially 9 year olds. how sad can u get?
It's not that I hate townies, I was really angry when that was posted, and have since had a relapse of hatred towards people who know no better.
Townies are who they are because of peer pressure and so I cannot blame them, for their job is following the status quo, and what a great job that must be! The only thing I am against is their constant questioning.
I was born and raised as a 'normal' person, my parents are ex-hippies and my dad used to be a mod for a while. They didn't bring me up particularly to have any religion, I suspect my parents are atheists, but they had me christened into the church of england because they thought it for the best.
They raised me to enjoy being different, to embrace it even, and I went through a phase 5 years ago of wanting to be a hippy. Whilst at school I never quite fitted in, I always had plenty of friends, but the majority thought me stupid because I was an extrovert.
So I changed myself, and eventually became so introverted and cut off that I never had the chances I would've liked. So now I have taken charge, and 5 years later i'm a changed person.
Look at this: I'm off the subject and telling my life story.
Even if they're trying to be friendly like some people at my school who ask me where I buy my clothes, because that is all that's on their brains day in day out.
What people are wearing.
I have also realised it's not about what they wear, it's about how they act. Some people just can't afford to find shops that sell decent clothing at decent prices and instead pay either too much or too little for their clothes.
There's no wonder they have to sink so low as the ask me. Recently I haven't just recieved abuse from townies, but from pseudo punks and people who have 'stick in the ass' walks. So it really is peoples brains that make them who they are, and in a townies case that is mainly snobby, up themselves and trend followers.
I'll admit, I dislike being placed in any class, be it mosher, grunge, goth, punk, retro/eco-metaller or heavy metal fan, because I try to be individual, I get clothes made by my friends mother whos job is making wedding dresses, but I do follow supposed guidelines of how I want to look. There are clothes that, even to me, are off limits.
Who am I to judge how people express themselves. Wouldn't it be easier if everyone just wore signs around their neck saying what others think of them, and what they think of themselves. Afterall, wearing band merchandise is just like wearing name brands. It puts you into a group, even if you don't fit into that group at all.
scallies are normally called townies and recently cackers, after the french 'cac' meaning poo. i mean im all 4 people being they're own person but townies just arnt they just follow whats "cool". also if ure a skater or goth u wear baggy jeans or woteva, and other goths dont laugh at u if ure clothes r cheaper than some of the £50 stuff u can buy. whereas being a townie is ded expensive and if u only have 2 stripes instead of the all important 3 theyll laff at u, i gave up trying to fit in, it sux too much.
I too live in England, land not so fair.
Most visitors believe England to be a beautiful country with hearty locals, however as Ruth describes they are sadly mistaken.
Where I live, close to Central London, well about 7 miles away, we too know these people sometimes as townies but more often than not as "pikeys". This word originally referred to gypsies (which most modern pikeys still are) but now means most people in my area.
Many of these pikeys are relatively safe and will only ask you to buy them fags when you walk past, if you refuse they may shout "prick" but that's about as far as it will go. Many big towns near to where I live were often regarded as quite rough, but I and my friends never seem to encounter anything too bad, and sadly the particular village in which I live which wasonce considered to be "a nice area" has become home to the worst of these pikeys. They come from large blocks of flats and council estates and obviously gypsy camps and stand at bus stops or the local kebab shop. They will usually walk the 100m journey from a bus stop to the kebab shop and back to the bus stop again about 30 times during any night. Even a sunday night when its pouring with rain and they have no shelter. This is their life.
What makes this crowd particularly bad is that if they see you they will come after you and when in close proximity will shout "come ere!" Seriously who is going to be stupid enough to come there. Then they will follow you to your house and try to get in the front door. which never works. Relentless buggers they are.
Favourite passtimes seem to be:
1.Drinking cider, notably "white lightning" which is quite obviously cat's piss mixed with alcohol. they only drink this as it is extremely cheap and becsue they have acquired a taste for it after starting their alcohol abuse at 6 years old.
2.Smoking cannabis on a regular basis to "get them going".
3.Playing with their stolen phones.
4.Getting on buses without paying and then throwing bottles at my friends.
5.Destroying anything.
6.Trying desperately to get food from take-away restaurants in vain.
7.Hanging around in parks.
8.Breaking in to cars and then driving them to the nearest parks to burn them out.
9.Stealing worthless things.
10.Shouting randomly
11.Shouting insults at passers by, usually calling them gay whihc no longer has the same meaning but could just be any random insult.
12.Obviously, fighting. With metal poles, chains, wheels, my spades, knives, other sharp objects.
All pikeys believe that "decks" (Dj turntables) are an instrument, no matter how many times I tell them that they aren't. They also believe that the only way in life is to smoke crack, listen to drum 'n' bass "music", and to try to "MC" along to the "So Solid Crew"
Police cannot control them and my personal view is that these so-called people deserve to die, the only reaosn I'm pleased that they might not die at 17 is that I will have the satisfaction of scraping their blood off of the fender of my brand new jaguar in about 10 years time.
One final point-many of these children go to my school, I have read their barely legible broke English and they truly are the morons of the world.
Ok that wasn't the final point I forgot all anecdotes.
1.My friend Sam Lake was walking through a church yard (of all places)
when he encountered two pikeys. One asked if he had any money or a phone to which Sam replied no. Then this boy asked Sam to jump up and down to see if he was lying, luckily Sams money was in a tight wallet pocket so made no noise. All this while the other boy had been silent and had just looked at him with menacing eyes, he then came forward, hot Sam in the face and said "you were lucky, but I'll get ya next time"
2.My friend Robin was once walking to an off licence to buy some beer when he saw 15 or so pikeys in a church yard (I never understood either, different church though.) The pikeys said to him "Oi!, mate got a fag?" to which Robin replied yes. They then said, "Gimme em then!" to whihc he replied no which disgruntled the pikeys who decided to come over and hurl abuse at Robin. Next I came round the corner with about 20 of my friends and the pikeys remarked "whoa", where'd all the boys come from?" They then became very friendly and asked us "do you smoke the crack" and we said no, he seemed annoyed and remarked "but you gotta smoke da crack or you ain't really livin"
We didn't really understand, after about ten minutes of them asking us why we didnt listen to jungle music they asked my taiwanese friend Hang if he was from Feria(a council estate notorious for its "hardness") and Hang told them he wasn't to which they said "are you sure you ain't from Feria?" Hang still said no, as he was actually from Bromley. Then they said "Do you write (graffiti a "tag")" and Hang told them he didn't. After a minute of two of deliberation they asked Hang if he had a cousin in Feria as they were sure they had seen him, then they realised that they weren't too bright and that all Chinese people looked the same to them. They left without a fight, probably because there were so many of us, but we still hate them.
I can't think of anything else, maybe some more later.
Thanks Ruth for showing people how bad it is in Britain. As for asinine avenger, you are clearly a townie. I just wish they would all realise that they are morons.
"Josie and the Pussycats" is a great film, I may be biased as I actually worship Tara Reid.
It's the biggest diss you can have given to you to see people acting like a scallie/pikey yet wearing supposed alternative clothes. (baggy jeans, a small cheap dog lead chain and a black hoodie)
The worst abuse I have is at school, and only from scallies who do not know me (younger and older). Today it was 'come as you please' so I did.
Im a bit of a swat ( apparently ) but theres not many days when you wont find me out skating with my hair spiked up and sprayed white. There are some people who wear cacker clothes who are alright and can sometimes be pretty intelligent and the opposite to that lot. It the fuckers that go around with knives and their 40 cousins that really piss me off. The fact that i go to a grammar school and live next to two of the biggest cacker schools in the whole of poole is pretty worrying when i go to the shops and theres 12 of them smoking and attacking people up at my local shop. SAnother thing that pisses me off is when cackers try and be skaters (IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!). This just means that you get about 20 cackers hanging at all the skateparks and trying to attack anybody who looks funny. Why do all the fucking gypsys dress in cacker clothes WHERE DO THEY GET THE MONEY!it mental. I reckon that cackers are starting to die out . im sure it wont happen but we can live in hope. Hey Ruth your sites brought amusement to most people in my school ;-) well done.
Matt
I think every thing that Matt expressed is exactly true, i live, go to school and hang about with the Sporty fockers and it pisses me off when i see The typical "Townie" wearing a GAP hoodie and bluue skin type ADIDAS Trouser and probably REEBOK CLASSIC TRAINERS As we both know about matt! I say we kick these dicks into place! seeya freedom fighters! alex
Everyone who would like Sean to install a message board and dedicate it to UK moshers and their dislike of townies should email him. No worries, it's just that there are over 80 comments on this article now and it's becoming unwieldy.
Methinks I touched a nerve.
Before I say anything -
I am not a townie( I dont share any features of being a townie) ,
I am not a trendy ( May have been true when my parents bought me designer clothes on my birthday so many years ago *annoyed*),
I am not a mosher (I havent been to mosh anywhere in my circumstance) I am not a goth (Even though its been said to me many times before)
I am...........something....
Coming from the suburbs of London, it seems that around 90% of people (mainly aged between 12 to 18) are townies, which is hardly surprising from the accounts of what others had said here.
When I joined a college nearly 2 years ago I realised how apart I was from most people there. I am regulary in hoodies eg S.O.A.D LB, soulfly and spineshank ( I wear them because I am a fan of these bands, not because it trendy thing to do as interpretated by other people), jeans (yes they are baggy because they are more comfortable), collars and chains, though I have seen girls who are townies take up this style, well they think its cool...
And its all these factors that bring this:
On a frequent basis I actually get things called to me that are so dumb and stupid eg
'Are you a devil worshipper?'...
'When do the human sacrifices take place'
...Considering Ruths own list of comments made I see townies are getting jealous/pissed off/wanting to riducule someone on the basis of who they are
In these instances I laugh it off, because now I do not take townies seriously)
I can expect to hear this more than twice a week.
Just because I dont follow their usual fashions of wearing gap pullovers, schott clothes and adidas trousers.
( I got to note here that
1) More and more teens are appear in exactly the same clothes, maybe a different colour, but *always* the same brand name
2) Its an apparent disadavantage to not be into s club 7, so solid crew, Britney/Christina/Kylie, any form of commercial garage/trance/house music, and perhaps every pop song from the weekly top 40.......)
From the time of year 7 ( 11 to 12 year olds) to year 11 (15 to 16 year olds, they often have to be trend followers to fit in and be *accepted* with the crowd. That is understandable enough. From then on they may be different, gain their own style or interests.
I became interested in more alternative music than the mainstream pop stuff you get on radio/tv right back in year 7-8. It was mainly indie music such as Ash, Oasis and The Verve. Later on there they a group of girls who called themselves goths and dressed up the stereotypical way that the media portrays goths to look like. (Needless to say, they prefered music like Korn, Marilyn Manson, but at that age nobody was concerned with what goth meant)
That time I went on to favour metal bands, just a break from the dullness of mainstream stuff that everyone else prefered.
Concluding this, I say 'If you got through your school years without being labeled *see the beginning of what I put* , then congratulations to you.' No sarcasm intended either.
I would have liked having no name given to me, instead of being judged and insulted about the choice of clothing/music/general lifesytle that I have.
I could easily say 'Fuck townies' 'Die townie scum' , 'townies suck dick' and all the rest of it, but I dont because I suppose not all townies are the same. In any case what I say wouldnt make a whole lot of difference.
Now I'm gonna say ' I dont care anymore, because I dont want to care. If being different from a whole lot of sheep sets you apart in a field, so be that, and you live by it and accept it.'
I felt like hating townies, but now I ignore them:
Simply because they are not worth the effort to diss.
Wow, I was just playing around on my computer (avoiding revision) when I came upon this site, and that article is really funny, but sadly, so true also. I also live in England and in the city I live, there are townies everywhere, but also a lot of what we call "Teeny grebs" - mainly year 9s or 10s who sit around in baggy jeans and korn hoodies, drinking cider and stumbling over to the Alternative Clothing Sale where they can find more t-shirts and hoodies of bands they have never heard of. It's quite strange yet entertaining to watch them all, particularly in the holidays.
Peronally I am not an anything, I have been called many things, but most people agree that you couldn't class me as anything from the way I dress, just because it's so random. Sometimes I wear hippyish clothes (on these sunny summer days hurrah for floaty clothes!), sometimes I wear gothic clothes, sometimes I wear totally bizarre things and get laughed at. For example, I have a recent passion for dungarees (no I'm actually not pregnant), and I have started raiding the wardrobes of my mum and my gran and slicing apart their old clothes to make things for myself. This is because I don't want to be the same as everyone else, and, at least where I'm living, it is becoming just as fashionable to be a greb as a townie and I dont want to be involved in any of it! It does mean that I get lots of abuse from people though, in some cases more than my goth friends, because at least they are part of a group whereas I am just a little old me being totally crazy on my own, but hey I'm not complaining!
As for music, I am quite strange again, because I like so many different things that I can always find something to argue about with people. This is a selection from my current winamp playlist: The Strokes, The Supremes, The Beatles, System of a Down (yay just went to see them =)), Dope, Shampoo (yes yes I know), Pearl Jam, Groove Armada, In Flames... ok so a list of what music I like is getting boring. I just wanted to sort of say (in a really roundabout and hungover way) that people don't have to fit into any labelled group, they can just be mad individulas! I hate it when grebs won't admit that 60's pop music DOES make you want to dance around and laugh!
Anyway, cheers for the entertainment of such a good article on this lonely Friday afternoon. Byebye
Stealing relatives clothes is so fun! I raid my dads old hippy stuff, like he has this tie... Well he had this tie.
The first alternative music I liked was David Bowie. Then I liked the Kinks. Then my friends all became hip hop fanatics, and as most people come to realise, hip hop and rock music are linked. So they're now into punk and ska, and i'm into anything that has psyco-acoustical guitars or God bashing lyrics.
I'm really into Anyone at the moment.
thins i hate...... ok lets see ...... townies yep im done
Hi we hate scallys so this is the perfect website for us we wear hoodies and baggy pants and we are asked mostly all of these questions including"Do u slit your Wrists?" We just say "yeah so fuck off!"i really hate it when u walk past an estate and theres a scally trying to skate with a ciggerate in his mouth showing off to girls it pisses me off so much i call them and start to run like fuck!.just now i went outside with richard to skate but some scallys said let me have a go but before i could decline they took it off me and tried to skate i dont know what is funnier the fat one trying to skate or the scallys falling off it was so funny i nearly pissed my pants ne way just kill as many scallys as you can those sons-of-bitches dont deserve to live.
i fuckin hate them, they are inbred, they will soon over run the world since most of the girls have 8 kids by the time they 20, us 'freaks' have to put our foot down and change the law, either
a) have all scallies children neutered at birth to prevent futher contamination of the gene pool.
or
b) send them to afghanistan, osama biun laden will soon turn himself in, if he has no parks/street corners/bus stops to hide since all the scally shits will be there drinkin white lightning.
Everyone deserves to live. Scallies, inevitably, get what they deserve.
every saturday for 3 years now (started by me for some friends back at school.) a group of moshers has met up in town. the current place which is some what a sanctuary for us (queens gardens hull) is now being invaided more and more aggressivly by townies, bearing lock-knifes and bringing in many gangs. it came to a head yesterday with 2 victories, but to the expence of one of our eyes which left the field blackened. I am asking you know for any tricks you have coem across or any ideas you wish to put forward whoever reads this to help us put an end to the invasions. there is about 60-75 of us, mostly young moshers (i am 16 for the record) also i am in a position of authority with alot of them being one of the elders there.
after 2 hospitalisations i am putting my foot down and asking that they all join me in action to defend them selfs and ideas from elsewhere will be greatly appreciated, please e-mail me anything you make have to help. pussnugget@hotmail.com
thankyou
hasta la victoria viempra
- dave -
I was actually looking for a picture of some scallies (doing a journalism project in Warrington) and it gave me a link to your page. Nice one! The questions they ask are beyond belief sometimes. There's no question I find more offensive than "Do you like Limp Bizkit?", but at least Warrington scallies call me mosher, which is accurate and not an insult, rather than 'greebo' which i get in Mansfield.
My last scary scallie moment was last night.
I know a boy called Sam, He has a sister. Someone hit his sister, and it was a boy. He thought this unfair and so went to the boy to even the score. The boy knows a gang who carries knives and have members from New York and London. They came looking for him and they started on his friend who looks a bit like him. To top it all off, I have a friend who's boyfriend is in the gang. She wasn't there, otherwise we could've avoided conflict.
The moral is beware of boys who hit girls. They're not always gay.
Hey what the fuck you doin making fun of me and me m8's . I'll have ya ....yeah thats rite me and m8's and me dad and there dads will come round and do ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can i borrow a pencil
>hi
>i like your web site
>please add more stuff
>i think most of it is true
>every one in my school goes round asking if u r a townie punkor goth
its pritty annoying cause u get the same queston every day and its pissing me off.
please reply james ahier
>hi
>i like your web site
>please add more stuff
>i think most of it is true
>every one in my school goes round asking if u r a townie punkor goth
its pritty annoying cause u get the same queston every day and its pissing me off.
please reply james ahier
Townies are twats they all ask you if you worship satan and what r u goin to say. Townies are dick heads and y would they want to check your under wear and see if its black how homosexual!!! And y on gods earth would they think everyone who dresses in black is a witch or warlock. So over all they r all stupid fuckin pricks. And the website rules its so cool
After reading your views and opinions, I felt compelled to write a comment to express that I indeed share your views and am living in exactly the same situation. I too am a skater/goth, and have made the same analogy concerning townies. I live in a town called Melton Mowbray, and the townies here are as common as rats in the 19th century. I am 15 year old girl, and the school in which I attend is litter with the filthy vermin that are townies. All they ever say is 'thats well bangin'!' and then they shout across to a individual that doesn't own a mobile phone "What you haven't got a mobile, well then what do you do when you lose the keys to your Nova, and have to ring your mum for help? Cus your can't use the phone boxes cus we've smasked them all up!" As you obviously have noted townies are ignorant pieces of shit that drink cider and think that the priority on the top of their list is where they are goning to get their next cigarrette from! There morals, mentallities and logistics are to put it blunted - absolutly stupid. For example, as you mentioned skipping everyday, and failing exams ( This of course they are proud of despite the fact that they do not seem to realise this would result in them having shit low paid jobs for the rest of their lives) I mean I'm not a 'swot' or anything, but i do complete work etc. but I also party as much as the next person, withthe exception of holding it in a house rather then a park, and also having a strict ban on the carrying or drinking of cider!
But anyway to the point (sorry about the long rant! But as you can relate, townies just anger me with their idiotic realisms and lifestyle) I just wanted tyo congradulate you on your site, as you have made my day, hearing at last someone genuinly not a townie, expressing the hileriousness about their whole existance. The funniest thing is I now hear townies making fun of townies, and its like WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE A TOWNIE!!! Thanks anyway.
