Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Den
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Get your basic knowledge here.
It's British, but I suppose it works for the states too.

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BRITAIN is overrun by “teenage tribes” who dress outlandishly and listen to strange music.
That’s not an old fogey talking — it’s the official line peddled to foreigners by a government organisation.

The British Council receives around £340million of taxpayers’ money a year to tell the world what the UK is like.

According to the Council, grungers, goths and skaters are among the groups who have taken over from hippies, skinheads and punks.

The information has been sent to language assistants in 2,000 European schools and will be used to teach them about modern life in the UK.

Here are the new British tribes as highlighted by the Council:

TOWNIES – Girls: Tight trousers or skirts, chunky gold jewellery, fur-trimmed jackets. Boys: Designer T-shirts and tracksuits. Music: So Solid Crew, Ashanti, Eminem.

GOTHS – Boys and girls: All black. Music: Fear Factory, The Cure, Siouxsie And The Banshees.

GRUNGERS – Unisex: Dreadlocks, baggy combat trousers, hoodies. Music: Jimmy Eat World, Aim Of Conrad, Beltwork.

NU-METALLERS – Boys only: Large T-shirts with rock-band logos. Always carry skateboards. Music: Limp Bizkit, Shadows Fall, Avenged Sevenfold.

SOULSTRELS – Girls only: Sexy, tight clothes, designer bags, sunglasses, gold jewellery, nail extensions. Music: Missy Elliot, Destiny’s Child, Nelly Furtado.

INDIE KIDS – Unisex: Hip 1970s clothes from charity shops. Cheap and casual. Floppy hair. Music: Luna, Jeffery Sez, H2R.

POP PRINCESSES – Girls only: Anything pink, silver or baby blue. Music: Britney, Will Young, Atomic Kitten.

SKATERS – Unisex: Low-slung baggy jeans, labels such as Converse and Silas. Music: Blink 182, Beastie Boys, Avril Lavigne.

CLUBBERS – Girls: Turquoise and white. Boys: Ben Sherman shirts, black shoes, hair gel. Music: Basement Jaxx and Faithless.

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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Disgusting den of creepitude
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Things were simpler when I was a kid. Just loadies, losers and rednecks.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: aggressivly happy
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i wish i were goth so i could be cool

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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Mountains
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Originally posted by Coincidence
CLUBBERS – Girls: Turquoise and white.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Boston
Posts: 6561

They listen to Shadows Fall in the UK?

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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: North Myrtle Beach SC
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pretty much the same tribes here in the US with the addition of middle class white kids who think they are gangsta's , they are the ones who annoy me . i think everyone has a tribe rather they admit it or not , even older people .

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: south afrika
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no Geeks?

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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Den
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They're all geeks. Subcultures have to be geeky today, to keep up.

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Registered: Sep 2001
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Wierd how it's the nu-metallers rather than the skaters that always carry skateboards.

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Originally posted by Coincidence
They're all geeks. Subcultures have to be geeky today, to keep up.

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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Den
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Thank you.

The ones above were highlighted. The nerds and the nazis are hardly trendy subcultures. Sorry.

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: south afrika
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i do hope that teh nazi title will stick around

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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Den
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Why, Jew?

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: south afrika
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BECAUSE IT MAKES ME LOOK HARDCORE AND EXTREME!!!!!

FEAR ME GRRRRR

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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Den
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That is the purpose of the Teen tribes.

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: south afrika
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and im the asylum nazi teen overlord

you will all kneel!

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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Den
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Heil Hawley!

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: south afrika
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i demand that the admins give me tyranny pernts

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: atlanta
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damn, hook me up with some POP PRINCESSES

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: in colorado somewhere!
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...back in high school,I was the skull bong yielding STONER!!! YEA!! YEA! Yea.(cries....I'm old now...)

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Registered: Jan 2003
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Wierd how it's the nu-metallers rather than the skaters that always carry skateboards.

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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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Hmmm... If I were a couple years younger, I guess that would make me a nu-metal grunge townie skater.

I'd have SO MANY FRIENDS!!!!

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