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Samba
06-09-2008, 05:08 PM
I can't believe over half the voters identified themselves as punk rocker/metal heads or loners.

Come on homecoming court, represent...

CKXXX
06-09-2008, 05:23 PM
I was a loner/geek. AP classes,marching band(percussion),choir,bell choir,drama,stage crew,chess club..etc...etc ...etc..

I was also a bit of a slut/attention whore who used to sneak into the woods behind school with my friends and get trashed on SoCo(shudder...cant even smell the stuff anymore), used to argue with the teachers(to the point of writing my senior AP English paper on Satanism just to freak out my uber-Jesus freak teacher who used to preach at us in a PUBLIC school)

Also got accepted early to college so failed a cpl of my last semester classes because..well..it didnt matter anymore, I was already in!

Jade Danger
06-09-2008, 05:57 PM
i was a really popular weirdo. but in NZ we dont have cheerleaders or preppy type groups so its a bit different. i was into grunge wore random oldskool hippy opshop clothes but thats what was in at the time i had lots of piercings and started on my tattoo obsession, i was really popular cos i threw all the best parties my house was the place to be, i was a boozer, stoner, party slut, oh yeah goodtimes.
i was a goody goody geek up untill 14. i was top of the class played violin in the school band quiet and shy then 14 hit and oh man i discovered all the fun stuff i was missing out on and i never looked back!!

head turner
06-09-2008, 06:01 PM
I transitioned a bit.

I was part of the popular prep crowd then I became sick and was more of a loner and then got better and was part of the popular crowd and part of the regular crowd....

cherry_sin
06-09-2008, 06:52 PM
Yep. Did my teachers. They didn't really see me as a "student". I carried myself a lot older; at that point I was already stripping, and had been around adults enough that I didn't act like my peers. I used to hang out in the auto shop during lunch and flirted with him til I got in good with him and hung out with him all the time. I got a free pass to go hang out there whenever I wanted and from there I met my first teacher boyfriend.

He was hot, it was great, but he and I didn't work out. But by then I had met a lot of the faculty. It was unspoken as to who I was when I went to teacher events with him (christmas parties and whatnot). Right before we broke up we had a threeway with another teacher and then she and I dated after I broke up with him. After that it was a piece of cake. ;)

I was a total slut for older men/women. LOL. Still am, just a monogomaus one. Well, monogomous with men. Not so much with the chicks.

Peanut_Butter
06-09-2008, 07:02 PM
At my high school, there were only 2 groups: the preps, and the scummers.
If you weren't a cheerleader or one of their followers, the you were a scummer. They were appropiratly named, as they always wore dirty clothes and did drugs. ( now, the cheerleaders did drugs to, but since they were cool, it was acceptable)

I didn't identify with either group. I liked to wear clean clothes, I didn't do drugs, but I didn't like the cheerleaders either.

The strange thing was through most of high school, I dated a much older boy who had graduated a few years before, but he had been very popular ad everyone still knew of him. He also had family who were in class with me that were popular. So the popular kids felt like they had to be nice to me cause of who I dated, but they didn't really like me or understand why my boyfriend was with me.

I basicially had no friends in school. Ididn't like any of them. It was a very very small country high school. Once, a deer ran out of the wood and crashed through the window in the science lab. That was the highlight of the year. They never repainted, and instead choose to have blood smears on the wall the rest of the year.

I hardly ever went to school, I hated it. My senior yearI missed 120 days of school and they told me I had n ohope of graduating, I had no drive or motivation of suceeding ever, no use in repeating the class, just drop out and get a job. Worst advice ever. a few weeks of summer school and i could have had a diploma. Instead, I took the principals advice and dropped out. I regret it to this day. I still don't have a high school diploma, although I went straight to college. ( where i have gotten straight A's ever since. Amazing how actually wanting to do something can increase your motivation)

Sirona
06-09-2008, 07:18 PM
I have no idea what I was.

When I was younger I had a hard time fitting in. I kind of did my own thing and spoke my mind.

By the time I was in high school I was in foster care (mom was bipolar/bpd, untreated) and got bounced around A LOT. I went to five different high school.
It totally sucked because i'd always been a shy introvert.

I think getting moved around so much made me learn to adapt quickly. Whenever I got tossed in a new school I just found the biggest meanest girl and picked a fight with her. After that people either left me alone or were curious. Either way it was all good.

My closest friends were either part of the stoner crowd or the geek crowd.
I ended up kind of getting along with everyone.

*shrug*

Pretty_Penny
06-09-2008, 08:06 PM
i was never into punk or metal really.

where's the goth/sub-pop/grunge/alternative/thespian option? :P

i was a SUPER loner in middle school

in high school i had a tight group of close friends, but i wasn't "popular". i was kind of, that odd girl with bright hair everyone knows but no one has ever talked to.

Malena69
06-09-2008, 08:14 PM
Kinda the same here.
I chose punk rocker, but I wasn't a metal head and def a bit of a nerd.
We had heaps of little cliques at my school (Which was famous for being the 'hippy stoner school' in my city. The punks, the goths, the homies, the skegs, the nerds, the ravers, the muso's etc etc but we all got along, the names we called each other were all kind of tongue-in-cheek.
I wore doc-martins, tie-died pettycoats and had long blue dreadlocks, shaved leopard print hair, all shaved with pigtails with long red extensions and any other wacky hair you could think of. I had piercings and (Shock horror) a tattoo and crazy coloured jewellery everywhere. I took alot of drugs and went out to concerts and raves underage. My 3 major high school relationships were with a rapper, a girl and a punk.
But......... I got along really well with my teachers, won science, math and literary awards. Played violin, cello, saxophone and piano, had my artwork and poetry in exhibitions and was heavily involved in the school theatre. Plus being on the swim team. I also studied silversmithing at night school, trained with the circus, had a job and managed a sharehouse full of punks for the last year.
Oh, and performed in 3 theatre productions outside of school.
I dropped out very near the end because of (ahem) illness. But I was also spending alot of time sitting in a cafe smoking cigarettes, playing cards or chess and debating existentialism.

Fuck, no wonder I got sick. I don't know how I managed to fit all that in while taking any and all intoxicants I gould get my grubby little over-sexed adolescant hands on.

Yikes, what a start to life.::)

XXXS

ETA: I was also on the debate team and very involved with 'good causes' like amnesty, womens lib, animal rights, land rights etc...

So you were the girl nobody noticed?

Malena69
06-09-2008, 08:22 PM
lol! i was totally kidding!! :)

TigersMilk
06-09-2008, 08:47 PM
He was hot, it was great, but he and I didn't work out. But by then I had met a lot of the faculty. It was unspoken as to who I was when I went to teacher events with him (christmas parties and whatnot). Right before we broke up we had a threeway with another teacher and then she and I dated after I broke up with him. After that it was a piece of cake. ;)

That right there is so hot. I would love to do some hot teachers. }:D

cherry_sin
06-09-2008, 08:49 PM
Best part is that I could skip all I wanted and all the classes I hated and thanks to the AT guy being in on things I always got a "C" and was "present". LOL.

jaizaine
06-09-2008, 09:06 PM
I picked i dont know coz we dont have things like cheerleaders in schools here, not really sure what a prep is.......

So yeh I had a group of friends, we weren't the popular crowd or the geeks so something in between.

made_of_sequins
06-09-2008, 09:07 PM
Theatre/music/drama geek! :thumbsup:

gingerlee
06-09-2008, 09:12 PM
I was a total dork. Like, hopelessly dorky. I got picked on a lot for being smart and quiet so I would often fake being sick to get out of going to school and being tormented. I ended up leaving for college early because people made me so miserable.

I'm now the one they talk about and go, 'How did she end up a stripper? Nobody ever wanted to see her naked.'

desavirsire
06-09-2008, 09:22 PM
used to argue with the teachers(to the point of writing my senior AP English paper on Satanism just to freak out my uber-Jesus freak teacher who used to preach at us in a PUBLIC school)

But... but... but... did you make your teacher CRY!?!?!?!? Cause that's what really matters, lol. K not really, but at the time it was SO worth it.

greenidlady1
06-09-2008, 09:42 PM
I was the loner, still am.

MeanGirl
06-09-2008, 10:23 PM
I came on to a teacher once, but he shut me down PDQ. He was gorgeous, about 25, and newly married to a doctor. He had an entire school's worth of Catholic schoolgirls in uniform coming on to him every day, but as far as I know he never even flirted back. Le sigh.

Mee too! and he totally shut me down as well and then guess who i run into at the club and dance for?! He wasn't so attractive when he wasn't my teacher, but the tables sure turned on that one.}:D

firekitten19
06-09-2008, 10:28 PM
I was the " go between the tribes" chick. I was smart, but not geeky. I played sports, drama queen, and I was the only black goth at my school. I know...I am strange.

XxAmber89xX
06-09-2008, 10:37 PM
1 year ago I was a zit face with my natural dark brown hair, no tits, didn't ever wear make-up as I couldn't figure out how to... lol... but, I was class prez and valedictorian for my graduating HS class... I also got many awards for community involvement, christian leadership, etc... I don't think I was a geek 'cause I never played video games or used a computer except for homework... I played competitive soccer, rugby and co-ed hockey.

last summer i took a modeling course with an image consultant... one thing led to another... blonde hair, makeup application, the fashion show, then bar host, then go-go dancer, then amateur night, next- FT dancer, then BA (their fresh!).... now Brad Armstrong is paying me to go visit him in LA to see what life is like for a Wicked Contract girl (porn)... what a life lived in 12 months!

Malena69
06-09-2008, 11:41 PM
Wow Amber! That is totally wild! Good for you!! A Wicked contract too! That is totally awesome! That is quite a year you had!

Bella21
06-09-2008, 11:46 PM
I'm not sure what I was. I was friends with people in all of those categories. I was a nerd in Jr. High, but just stopped doing homework and paying attention in class and traded that for social life. I had sex (three total and all after Jr year), but never with anyone who actually went to my school. I was on the track team for a couple of years, but I wasn't a jockette. I was heavily into art, but I didn't sit outside the theatre building playing DnD... I guess I was Ms. flitter around and flirt with guys and do whatever the hell I wanted to.

Actually, I was a lot like who I am now... but more stupid and petty.

lilymiaomiao
06-09-2008, 11:55 PM
I think geeks and nerds are different. Nerds are smart (and can be fairly 'cool'), but geeks can be stupid, and never cool.

I wanted to check "nerd" since i was into marching band, drama, and certain academic subjects, but i was never into geek trends like online gaming or Magic Cards.

AmArticia
06-10-2008, 12:31 AM
*highfives other color guard kids* Flag tossers, what!

Pfft...FLAG TOSSER?! Thank you very much but I was on sabre by my second season! Oh how I do miss my beloved spanish sabre; 36 inches of pure sparkling wonder!

I was on Legacy in SO Class, thus making me a John Crouch Kid. All our coaches were from Jynx or Fantasia, some both, having either coached those teams or performed with them. Needless to say we were killer with four state championships while I was on the team and the successive years after I left have also been champions.

Some vids of the awesomeness for

2004~"Wanted: Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/WinterGuard/2004DeadorAlive.html

2005~"Red Cape Tango"
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/WinterGuard/2005RedCapeTango.html

2006~"Angel" by Sarah McLaughlin
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/WinterGuard/2006Angel.html

My first season and all time favourite marching show. 4th overall but guard caption 1st place.
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/MarchingBand/2003MyManyColoredDays.html

dancinslifoxxx17
06-10-2008, 01:23 AM
My first season and all time favourite marching show. 4th overall but guard caption 1st place.
http://www.legacybands.org/performan...loredDays.html
Wow. That brought back some memories. :) Some things I don't miss about marching are those awful long hot days and standing still as the sun glares into your eyes.

Jeska
06-10-2008, 03:26 AM
I didn't vote because "normal" wasn't an option..

Darcy Foxx
06-10-2008, 03:34 AM
i was a combination of geek/loner/gothish person. i grew up in the outback and went to a very small public school with lots of christians and rednecks where it was all about conformity. so yeah. i did not fit in and got tormented and picked on pretty much every single day. i voted geek though, as i guess that's what fit me the best.

ahmeerah
06-10-2008, 05:14 AM
I think geeks and nerds are different. Nerds are smart (and can be fairly 'cool'), but geeks can be stupid, and never cool.

I wanted to check "nerd" since i was into marching band, drama, and certain academic subjects, but i was never into geek trends like online gaming or Magic Cards.

What are Magic Cards?

$$$magnet
06-10-2008, 05:40 AM
Pfft...FLAG TOSSER?! Thank you very much but I was on sabre by my second season! Oh how I do miss my beloved spanish sabre; 36 inches of pure sparkling wonder!

I was on Legacy in SO Class, thus making me a John Crouch Kid. All our coaches were from Jynx or Fantasia, some both, having either coached those teams or performed with them. Needless to say we were killer with four state championships while I was on the team and the successive years after I left have also been champions.

Some vids of the awesomeness for

2004~"Wanted: Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/WinterGuard/2004DeadorAlive.html

2005~"Red Cape Tango"
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/WinterGuard/2005RedCapeTango.html

2006~"Angel" by Sarah McLaughlin
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/WinterGuard/2006Angel.html

My first season and all time favourite marching show. 4th overall but guard caption 1st place.
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/MarchingBand/2003MyManyColoredDays.html

*Hmmph* Well of course you went to Legacy.... ;D They did have an awesome guard, if I remember correctly....

$$$magnet
06-10-2008, 05:43 AM
What are Magic Cards?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering

ahmeerah
06-10-2008, 05:55 AM
^^^^ so nerdy. :)

TheTempest
06-10-2008, 05:55 AM
^^^^ so nerdy. :)

Wait I thought it was geeky.

ellebelle
06-10-2008, 06:24 AM
I was some kind of hybred. All my friends were the cool boys, but I was never with any of them so I wasn't a slut. If I wasn't ditching I was on suspension, but I still got really good grades. I was asked to leave one school, and the next should have expelled me, but on paper (I did a lot of extra-curricular activities and was on the state tennis team) I made the school look good.

I wasn't very pretty, and hated most of the girls at my school. I showed absolutely no respect to some teachers. Me and my close group of guy friends were known for pulling elabourate pranks. I just had way too much attitude... and yet all the girls always wanted to be my friend (I guess it was a challange) and every guy always wanted to be the first one to actually fuck me (also probably just because it would be a challange).

I grew up in a pretty "nice" area where high school kids drank and might do a bit of weed, but that's about the limits. I guess I was also pseudo-cool because the other kids knew I was doing a bit more than sneaking vodka from my parents house.

Mmmm basically I was just a drug-fucked bully who barely turned up and refused to sleep with any of the boys yet still managed to do ok academically.

ediblecrayonz
06-10-2008, 07:32 AM
Pfft...FLAG TOSSER?!
2004~"Wanted: Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi
http://www.legacybands.org/performance/WinterGuard/2004DeadorAlive.html



Wow, that was freaking awesome. My older sister was on color guard, I went to a different high school though so I missed out. :'(

vivianbear
06-10-2008, 08:08 AM
I picked punk. I was totally invested in my Anarcho-punk points in highschool. I loved turning 18 in highschool and walking in with a huge circle-A tattoo after my birthday. There wasn't a catagory for "angry/hippy lesbians". That was prodominantly my group of friends. I would have picked that one, too.

xoxoGracexoxo
06-10-2008, 08:45 AM
I had to pick "Don't Know." As far as I know, I never fit in a category, although loner or nerd would come closest. Freshman and sophomore years I was in a tiny country school where you were either a cheerleader, a wannabe cheerleader, or some kind of outcast. I was no cheerleader, so my friends were either extreme dorks or goth kids, but I didn't particularly identify as either of those. I made good grades, didn't do many drugs, and wore whatever I felt...usually thrift-store stuff.

Junior and senior years I was at a residential magnet school for extreme nerds. There were only 40 of us in my class, so nobody bothered with labels too much. As small as that school was, I still managed to be a bit of a loner. There were some of those 40 kids that I never, ever talked to. I had very short hair and dressed kind of androgenously (suits, ties.) If other people put me in a category, I didn't know it. I was kind of in my own world, I guess. Still am.

StarryEyes
06-10-2008, 10:19 AM
I was The Stoner. :peace:

Tie dyes, Birkenstocks, the Grateful Dead, cutoff denim shorts, LSD, pot, booze, sex. Turquoise jewelry, metaphysical interests, crystals, Allman Brothers, Santana, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix.

I was an anchor for our school's closed-circuit news program and was often on the school TV doing news specials. I also joined in on the school's poetry magazine.

Got A's in Media Studies, English, and Writing, but bombed everything else because my stoner ass was too lazy to keep my eyes open during things like Algebra and Econ. Except the one time I got an A+ on the Biology test that focused on Sexuality and Human Reproduction. So then not only was I a nerd, but a slutty nerd as well. :P

I smoked cigarettes in the bathroom and in the parking lot. Yes I hung with the popular crowd and was often at the house parties they threw over the weekend, but I had my nerdy little thing going on. And I also ran with a group of really cool girls. We had each other's backs. No cattiness or anything. I miss them. They were cool.

CuriousSeeker
06-10-2008, 10:34 AM
So who were you in high school? I was just wondering what kind of girls grow up to become strippers. I was the punk rocker I guess. Maybe the geek, I'm not sure. I was a straight A student and was involved in extracurriculars. Let me know if i forgot any categories.


The rocker type who was getting good grades in honors and AP classes until she dropped out. Moved on from there, I should add. My home life was driving me crazy.

Dottie Rebel
06-10-2008, 10:49 AM
I was a stripper. :blush: I was kind of a stoner/slightly post-grunge fucker. And too cool for school--literally. I thought prom was fucking dumb so I worked that night instead. I made like $900 or something. Haha!

Perry
06-10-2008, 11:15 AM
I guess I was popular. It's kinda hard not to be when there are only 30 kids in your class. It was a small farm school, and I was on the equestrian team, so I suppose I was cool. I partied, drank and smoked too much, though.

Had the biggest crush on my lab partner, who was the star of the football team, president of the honors society and way too goody-goody to ever date me.

Fast forward a couple years later and we're crazy in love. :)

CuriousSeeker
06-10-2008, 11:20 AM
Had the biggest crush on my lab partner, who was the star of the football team, president of the honors society and way too goody-goody to ever date me.

Fast forward a couple years later and we're crazy in love. :)

Did he ever mention how he perceived you, or felt about you, back then?

Perry
06-10-2008, 11:30 AM
^^ He had a crush on me too. But we both thought the other one was too cool for us :)

Arizona_Angel
06-10-2008, 12:53 PM
A cross between the metalhead and a complete outcast. I wasn't popular at all...

reese_x_c
06-10-2008, 01:41 PM
Well...I played basketball, ran track, and was a cheerleader for boys basketball, had friends in all cliques, was in AP classes and got good grades, but all my "real" friends were out of school, being that I hung out with all the guys and they were "thugs"....lol..so...I'd be out on the block hanging w/ my boys whenever i could.....don't know what the hell that makes me

blessthefall
06-10-2008, 01:49 PM
God. This kinda sucks. Ok. So I went to this arts high school and was basically the popular scene/straightedge chick there (YEAH, weirdly at my high school it was cool to be drug/alcohol free lol). Back when, you know, it wasn't all mainstreamed to death with the likes of paramore and falloutbjsdhaskjdhasjdhasjdhask....

I miss my high school, it was a fun time and was lucky to be in a place a ton of artsy kids, like me.

Looking back now, its like.. god, I was at the start of all these little 13 year olds grabbing the nearest eyeliner, using it all up on one use, and tormenting their eyes with it.

:/

exotica268
06-10-2008, 01:57 PM
I put the loner. I had friends, but few. I was also/still am a geek I guess. I don't really "fit in" with most people, but when I find the ones I do click with, I love them to death and would do anything for them. I went to a private school, so I was the only one who really liked to listen to stuff like Manson, plus I dressed kinda gothy...so I could be called that, too, I suppose.

PrettyCurlieQ
06-10-2008, 02:52 PM
I have no freaking clue. I was friends with everyone, from jocks to nerds. I wasn't either of those, though. I didn't play sports, I did get good grades, but my nose was far from stuck in a book, grades just came easily. I wasn't so into fashion, but hair and makeup were big for me. I smoked and drank and I think that's why I fit into all the crowds because I hung out with everyone, but I wasn't part of any of them. Just kind of floating around. I was on too many drugs to care if I was popular in highschool.

Of course, I started out as a cheerleader as a Freshman, and got kicked off the squad for not being a good 'role model' for my peers (I left campus for lunch which was against the rules for a Freshman), so I guess I could have been popular if I wasn't so rebellious.

But highschool sucked, I'd never want to go back!

AmArticia
06-10-2008, 02:55 PM
*Hmmph* Well of course you went to Legacy.... ;D They did have an awesome guard, if I remember correctly....

As you can probably tell, we all turned out horrificly snobbish about our accomplishments. Basicly what happened is when the band started, we lucked out with a very good band director who got us a good coach by the name of Shelly Crouch whe was married to an epic coach named John Crouch. John eventually got hired too and when that happened, we got good, really good...really fast.

In the first winterguard season the team got promoted at their first show. Then next fall the guard won mostly on flashy effects...you may have noticed the big yellow balls and 10 foot white silks. I remember standing at retreat and when they announced that we won the guard caption, we all just looked at eachother like it was a joke.

After that we just killed every season flat out. Wanted was massive fun to perform. Red Cape is when we got all technical and serious, but Angel was when we combined technical and serious with a level of emotion.

Then John and Shelly moved to Arizona, and the team got William Chumley and Casey Michaels stolen from Pomona (Scholastic World) and Signature (Indep. World) and they killed the original vibe. Legacy was always about kicking ass, but doing it with our hearts on our sleeves and by the skin of our teeth. We faught for every single moment of every single show. Now they're just clean and stupid good and look effortless instead of like "Oh my god I'm gonna nail this fucking release and smack the catch so you can hear the crack miles away."

They don't break rifles anymore when they catch them, it's just a sweet little click of nothingness.:'(

CuriousSeeker
06-10-2008, 02:56 PM
I would also put loner (and bookworm and artsy nerd, fwiw), though that's not how I voted earlier. I want to pick apart the connections between the strong number of self-identified loners and having the balls to pursue a stigmatized industry that is ultimately about selling yourself as your product.

lil_miss_kabuki
06-10-2008, 07:11 PM
So who were you in high school? I was just wondering what kind of girls grow up to become strippers. I was the punk rocker I guess. Maybe the geek, I'm not sure. I was a straight A student and was involved in extracurriculars. Let me know if i forgot any categories.

LOL well, I was the school slut. I had explored my sexuality with about 15 regular guys there. And then I would have a boyfriend for a while and all the girls hated it that the man their crushing on just wanted me (and only me) to give them a good blow.}:D