HIGH School..

[kortag]

So heres one. What where you like in high school? Who did you hang with, and what kind of kid where you? And of course your music. Did you read alot, or where you a jock? A geek? Just curious as to what kind of adolesence we all had, for me it was kind of in the same crowd as Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles, haha. I wanted to be John Cusak and marry Ione Skye. Listend to Metallica, White Zombie and Danzig..

P.S. Can I start a Goth Girl fan club? hehe

[This message has been edited by kortag (edited February 14, 2000).]

[Scarlet oHorror]

my high school was from 85-90....i was totally into teenage boy bands...a-ha...bros...new kids....loved my music, and the only interest the guys had in me was the fact that i knew more about soccer than they did....i was pretty much a geek i guess.......but i never had problems with anyone not liking me...i guess they just felt sorry for me...oh yeah and i read alot...i still do...

[Dragutin]

I was a Long hair hippee freak into sex&drugs&Rock&Roll. I didn't do drugs for fun they did me(NO NEEDLES). Wasn't to destructive. I roamed the hood was never in one place.

All the Cliche's fit. I was from the wrong side of the tracks,the kid your parents warned you about etc.etc.

But I had morals, I didn't do stuff that would send me to jail.

83 what a long time ago

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[Rixy]

I assume high schools the same as doing O & A levels over here in the UK.

There was a bunch of us that stuck together and had a laugh. We played Rugby and drank an awful lot! We formed a band and I ended up playing drums, we were pretty bad but I suppose it didn't matter what we sounded like it was a bit rebellious and that suited us fine.

I listened to all sorts David Bowie, Clash and Hanoi Rocks really sitck out.
I wouldn't say I was the most popular person at school but for the most part i enjoyed myself and I'm still good mates with a couple of guys from then.

The one thing that sticks in my mind was school dances, for some reason the headmaster imposed a 6 inch rule, noone was allowed to be closer than 6 inches when dancing with each other, what a load of bollocks :)

Cheers

Rixy

[SHAITAN]

I was an all around kid in school. I went to high school from 85 to 89 and had a good time. I hung out with the burnouts, the jocks, played football and baseball, was on the debating team and student council. I was the original headbanger listening to heavy metal. But I got A's and B's and graduated in the top 5% of my class. Of course I drank and partied just like everyone else but never got caught or let it interfere with my studies.

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[Mike C]

I listened to bands like Van Halen, Def Leppard, Scorpions etc. I wrestled (not very well), drank beer on the weekends and worked in a grocery store. I had a lot of friends, but I wasn't PROM KING popular. All in all a good time though I didn't think so then (84-86). I read for fun, but that wasn't cool so don't tell anyone.

[Goth Girl]

At secondary school (about 1983-88), I had a small group of friends who stuck close together - we had the piss taken out of us quite a lot 'cos we were pretty intelligent and liked 'weird' music

6th form college was better, all the morons who laughed at us weren't around, so I had a great time - started drinking, clubbing and really getting into music - Hanoi Rocks (yes, me too Rixy!), Bauhaus, that sort of stuff.

Ah, those were the days - no work and a 22" waistline!

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[Atwei]

I'm still at high school age so i guess that I qualify. We have our little alternative culture and a hate - hate relationship with the in-crowd, but they know we could beat the s*** out of them so they leave us alone. I listen to Radiohead, Travis etc, but many of my mates listen to punkier stuff. We have our own music, clubs and of course, literature so we are happy - having said that, I have just been called wierd because I was reading Deadspeak in the school's computer room while the blasted thing downloads so...

[Rixy]

Another Hanoi Rocks fan, nice one Goth, they're few and far between, nice to know theres another on the list :)

Cheers

Rixy

[Pybob]

For the first couple of years at high school I was pretty much your average swot/geek/teachers pet/etc... but at 14 I discovered something much better... smoking... drinking... and, of course, those strange creatures with funny shaped chests.

I'd changed.

I started wearing black (something I still do), listening to music that I liked - not that my peers did, and played truent as if it was going out of fashion (I turned up for class only 38% of the time in my last 2 years!) I once skipped school for a fortnight just to read Necroscope 2 to 5!!!

No regrets though, I still got reasonable grades despite my lack of attendence, and I now do what I want to do.

Mr hudson - if you're out there - I still got a B even when you said it wasn't possible for me to get more than an E!!!

Ahhh, those heady days... http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/cool.gif

[Wallaby]

My high school days were between 88-94 and were pretty uneventful for the first 2 years, after that myself and my mates started drinking, girls etc http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/redface.gif)

Also did a lot of sport including Boxing which gets you mega fit, all in all i had pretty cool school days - and lifes still pretty good!

[Emaleth]

Hmm..High school..'74 through '79. Pool Hall, the lake, movies..oh..heh heh ..what did I do IN high school..ok. Science and Art favorites. In order to not be contributing to the delinquency of any minors who may be members, I will leave it at that.

School wasn't too bad, not anything like they seem to be now.

[Allen W]

I'd have to say mostly a geek. I'd probably be correct saying that now too http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/smile.gif Head buried in a book - mostly sci-fi at the time - and in the band, pretty much summed me up in high school (82-86). The music was mostly the new wave stuff of the period, Devo and the like. Although my percussion teacher got me interested in Rush. We spent a 45 minute lesson working through a five page arrangement for the drum set, then he asks if I'd like to hear the recording, which turned out to be a 5 minute song.

[Emaleth]

Well, to that time period it wasn't the smartest of things to do in school if you didn't want to become a regular in detention. But I began smoking at an early age, and anyone remember T.J.Swan?? heh heh...sheesh..compared to what the schools are like now (which is sad), the stuff I did and saw were nothing. Um..a few fights (smiling innocently), cherry bombs in the toilets, you know..that sort of stuff :-|

Even, and yes, do not repeat this because I WILL deny it...streaking :-| No comment... :->

[Emaleth]

Seriously..yes, the school systems have in fact become very bad, if given the chance, I would NOT go back in time to go to a school in this day and age. I do not blame the many families who are deciding that Home Schooling is a much better place for children to learn. So sad.

[Luna]

Hated it. I went to four different high schools(92-95), I had always changed schools alot. It was fun though, I got to test all those different personalities living in my head.
At one school I hung with "preps", another it was "headbangers", another it was the "nerds", and in the last I finally made it where I belonged, with the "freaks".
No matter what group I was with it only took them a couple of months to figure out that I am "wierd", so I always ended up as a loner that no one messed with (good or bad). I got alot of reading done, and I did many things against the rules and, even though I really tried to, I never got caught.
okay music..... don't laugh, I was the Beatle freak. You know, every school's got one.... so I hear.
And I'm not crazy, much
neither am I,
me neither,
count me out too!
Ha

[Quail]

Shaithis, I admit to having the spelling of a four year old due to the fact that in English class my friends all played blackjack, and you have said that bad spelling pisses you off but above you put "site to see"
shouldn't that have been SIGHT to see?

[Kirby]

I'm in high school right now and loving every minute of it. I'm friends with what pepole would consider the cool kids - and about 80% of my grade drinks and/or does drugs. I don't know what it's like in other schools, but no one insults anyone else, and everybody talks to everyone else; jocks talk to acting kids, druggies talk to the computer kids. I don't drink but i do smoke weed. I guess my school is really weird because basically everyone drinks, and overall our grade is really smart - maybe 2% of my grade isn't going to a college.

[Rikus]

I was in school in the begining of the 90's. I was in the "gifted" program, I played football. I also listened to every heavy band I possibly could, anything from Metallica to Slayer. The louder and heavier the better. I didn't fit the typical image of the geeks in my school. I was the incredibally smart, bully, jock type dude. Not real sure how many people liked me, but everyone knew me. I really tripped people out 'cause I wrote a lot of poetry and short stories. I also wrote and directed a lot of mini-movies that I shot and showed in school. In high school I did everything I could to have fun and tick people off. Never got caught either. don't know if that is good or bad, but I've since changed my ways.

[dracul]

Well I'm from the Netherlands and I think your 'high School' can be compared to our 'middelbare school'. So I went to middelbare school from '90-'94 and I must say that in our little corner of the world there are no specific groups at school (I mean 'jocks', 'geeks' etc.). I just hung out with friends, drank a lot smoked a few and listened to Beck and NWA.

Still like to go out and have a drink but the music is mostly Cake, Beck and the Presidents these days!

[Vasagi]

I've been out of highschool for almost 2 years now, but id give anything to do it again. I really loved it ....too bad classes got in the way.
All of my friends there were musicians and stoners , so all we really did was lie around on the campus play frizbee and smoke a lot of weed. We really didn't go to high school we kinda just went to school high.
Thats probably the reason i had to hang around another year to graduate. But I eventually got out and made the honour role.

[Tonka]

At school I was always the "thick" kid in the corner... however it was because I am Dyslexic, and I am now a lot more sucessful than any other 23year old i know, (sorry i don't mean to boast).

I just want to see the teachers that I had in Junior school and find out what they say to me now!.... One of those bastards even said to my paretnts that I would be a complete failier at what ever I did because I didn't try!..

it's gonna be the provisioning in the spider cave for them...

[Goth Girl]

It's great fun going back and laughing in the faces of those who put you down, isn't it?

I did that 2 years ago.. the most popular girl at school is now the size of a bus, with a tiny flat, lager-lout boyfriend, 2 ugly kids and part-time job in a factory packing crisps. I tried not be too smug describing my life... gorgeous hubby, house, management job etc, but it was difficult!

Revenge is better than Christmas...

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Goth Girl ~ your favourite nightmare!

[Katie]

I'd love to go back to my school and rub some of my old teachers noses in it.

At high school(82-86) I was an average pupil, I hung around with the geeks but was friendly with everyone including the school bully, which was handy. I was the only one who liked Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cramps and The Cure and such, even among my friends I was a little different, they didn't revel in James Herbert or Stephen King, which is what I was reading at the time.

I only came out of school with 3 O'Grades, English, History and Biology, not much you can do with that. At 23 I had my little boy and when he was 2 I decided to go back to college and learn all about these new fangled computers.

Now I have an HND in Business IT and I am a Micrsoft Certified Professional, oh and I have a great IT job.

So Miss Darroch nah nah nah nah nah.



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Katie

[Canker]

Katie..sounds like we are the same age. My high school year 82-86 Graduated in college level classes math being my strong suit. (2 years of algerbra, 1 year of Trig, 1 Of Cal. and took Geometry while in an algerbra class. As everyone can tell....English was my weak area otherwise my spelling would be alot better. *L*

[Katie]

Oh dear Canker you had to put up with being a teenager in those awful eighties as well. Not the best decade to date, or was that just for me.

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Katie

[BadMushroom]

I attended comprehensive school (UK High school equivalent) 1981-86. I had a fairly close group of friends who all had differing tastes, ideas and styles. All "Monty Python" and sniggering at the "Young Ones" (apologies to anyone unfamiliar with the previous UK TV Progs.), whilst reading James Herbert, HP Lovecraft and Douglas Addams. I guess that we were all lumped together as we were quite high profile, academically, ideas and dress-wise. Weird under-active over-achievers.

In 1985 I lost my mum to cancer. One of the worst, (and perversely) best times of my life, now I can appreciate it with hindsight. It made a high profile kid even more so. I learned a lot about life (still am) and people. Some of my friends couldn't handle it (or me), and just when I needed them the most, they gave me a very wide berth. I don't blame them. In their shoes, I'd probably have done just the same, and we were only just kids, after all. Fortunately, my closest friends may not have understood what was going on, but certainly gave me as many breaks as I needed. I could not have wished for better friends than these.

I always find it difficult to describe what I was like in a previous time. It's all so subjective. A bit dull... then a bit swatty, spotty, then it was all over, and college and Uni beckoned. http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/smile.gif


BadMushroom

Ordinary Chap, extraordinary circumstances.

[Katie]

^Regaene^ I was talking to my partner about this, who is slightly older than me, he's 37, I'm 30 and we both decided that it isn't the decade thats the problem (he insists the seventies were worse than the eighties) but the fact that your a teenager is the crux of the matter.

I don't know, I still get spots, am prone to mood swings and get laid even less than when I was single - excuse my explicitness but it's true - Take my advice don't have kids!!



[This message has been edited by Katie (edited May 03, 2000).]

[topol_sheap]

When I was at school, I got the piss taken coz I liked music that was heavy, although things have changed...

what did I like to do.... drink shit loads, smoke pot and generally hang around... I was always an under-achiever at school, but the reports always said that was because I only did enough work to get a grade... This as it turned out was true as I ended up with a good degree (more due to interest) and a good job in web development and design...

most of my friends from school I don't talk to anymore as they all seemed "the in crowd" at the time, but they are still the same and haven't moved on, whereas I have and am glad of it as I wouldn't have met some of the most wonderful people in the world.

I'll stop rambling now as this probably bores people http://www.brianlumley.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Larson]

I hated every minute of secondary school. I was never one of those giggling, excitable girls and got fairly pissed with them on a daily basis.
I had my friends, and we were all considered to be freaks (I think it was cos we didn't find anything amusing about the word sex), but last laughs on them! I don't think any of them finished college, and I know that most of them are working minimum wage jobs!!

I shall have my revenge............

[deadkeoghpal]

I was the biggest nerd in the school. I never played sports. I never went out with girls. All I did with my spare time was practice my music, so I never studied or did homework. I graduated by the skin of my teeth with a GPA of 1.3. And even though I've done a fair bit of stuff that's far less fun since then, I don't miss it at all.

[Brenda]

I hated high school. I got beat up at the bus stop almost daily until I began driving myself to school the day I got my permit. I was made to feel ugly and fat, even though I was neither. I was so devestated by being disliked that I hung out with those younger than me, or kids at the rival high school. I drank, did drugs, and had sex, all in hopes of being more popular. nothing worked, except that I almost screwed up my life hanging out with the wrong crowd who only wanted to be around me as long as I was buying beer or sucking them off. Thank goodness that was in the early 80's and I've grown up.I know now I didn't do anything wrong, I was smart and pretty and that was too much of a threat to those losers. I go back for visits and when I see someone who went to my high school I sneer at them. THe girls have all gotten fat and ugly and the guys are all bald and lazy.

now , was there anything good? Yea, the music. I saw Led Zeppelin, Van Halen ( who I later toured with for a few monthes) almost every rock n roll band that came to Fla I went to see, and because I knew a few people I got to party with a lot of rock stars. Drinking iced cold beer on the beach on a sultry summer night, leaning against the hood of my '66 mustang was cool.