emo
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An entire subculture of people (usually angsty teens) with a fake personality. The concept of Emo is actually a vicious cycle that never ends, to the utter failing of humanity, and it goes something like this:

1. Girls say they like "sensitive guys" (lie)
2. Guy finds out, so he listens to faggy emo music and dresses like a dork so chicks will see that he is sensitive and not afraid to express himself (lie). He dyes his hair black, wraps himself in a stupid looking scarf, develops an eating disorder, and rants about how "nobody understands".
3. Now an emo guy, he meets Emo chick and they start dating, talking about how their well-off suburban lifestyles are terrible and depressing (lie)
4. Emo guy is just too depressed to bathe, and has more mood swings than emo chick, and he doesn't even have a menstrual cycle. Emo chick dumps him, saying "It's not you, it's me." (lie) as she drives off with Wayne, the school jock and captain of the football team.
5. Emo guy goes home and cries, proceeds to write a weak song and strum a single string on his acoustic guitar. Another emo chick sees how he is so in touch with his feelings, and the cycle continues.

This is the sad truth of the emo lifestyle/music, and now that I look at how pathetic it really is, maybe the emos DO have something to cry about!

When she sees how sensitive and emo I have become, she'll definately go out with me!

Edit; removed inappropriate link.

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I thought since some Emos post on UM that I should pop this on.

Learn something new everyday. Is this some teen culture in the US, not too much unlike "Goth"?

BA, how could you?

I can hear the moaning of "See, you just don't understand me!" already. And I think I also detect some single strings being tuned already.

EMO is a type of music!! It is a music GENRE people.
Secondly, EMO is short for EMOtional.
Technically, everyone HAS emotions, therefore if your going to call someone EMO, call everyone EMO!
Stupid people make me angry!

No need to name call Xo. Beside Bella is quoting a website.

Well, I thought it might be helpful because I could not understand why if you offered them cookies or asked locally if they would like to do something fun with you to feel better they go all freaked out and angry as if you were trying to neuter them.

My sons told me that I should stay away from Emos as I am the type who drives them nuts. They said I always study on people and try to find ways to make them happier, which is apparently a terrible thing to do to some now.

I wasn't name calling. I mean when people do it in general!
It just makes me angry. Making fun of people who hate their lives, cut themselves etc.
Its sad and uncalled for. So therefore, I found the definition quite insulting! Nothing against you.

I'm not a teen, nor do I know any. We don't have these "emo's" here in Mexico, but clinically it sounds like teen depression or bi-polar repackaged. Just wondering.

I don't think the Goths like Emos much, as it was explained to me, although they hang out at the same places. I was told the Goths are mostly video gamers and hard partiers who like being happy just fine, they just enjoy dressing in black like vampires and doing their hair in different ways. They told me a lot of Emos look like they just crawled out of bed after being in a four day coma, often with messy hair and clothes. Some even wear their pajamas and house slippers into class at the college sometimes.

Apparently the Goth look is not mandatory for an Emo. My son just now told me some dress like preps with square rimmed black glasses. Those must be the higher class Emos or something.

Anyway, to all of the UM Emos who read this, I think you would prefer me or others like me to leave you alone rather than pester you with unwanted sympathy, so this post was to let all of us older folks in the UM community know that you exist so that we won't. A lot of us are parents and grandparents, this site is not all teens, and it is a knee jerk reaction for many of us to want you to be happy and try to make it so.

Are you sure? I've seen/talked to people who look like the type described above from Mexico. Maybe not around you?

emo used to be a genre of music, but now you call people emos because they act depressed dress in black and strum single strings on a guitar. in my opinion its gone past just a genre of music, your right in saying its a subculture.
music can define who we are but in this case its probably a bit extreme.

Does it even matter?

Get over life, it happens.

Probably only in trying to understand the young community members to communicate with them, which is why I plopped the definition in community for the older members so we do not interfear with any teen mating rituals.

"I thought since some Emos post on UM that I should pop this on."

That is quote of the day right there folks.

As a rule I hate emos, because everyone I have ever met has been a complete idiot.

Blah.

I'm sick of suburban kids thinking they have it so bad, whether they listen to emo or not. It's old. If you have $200.00 shoes, and Ipod, every game system made in the past 10 years, and your mommy drives a Hummer life isn't that bad.

There's no such thing as a poor emo.



EMOS!!!

Sugar, this thread is going down down.

Emos can be hella annoying, but I could care less. It's the current trend, it will pass just as all the rest have.

Emos have nice hair.

Wow. So this is what pathetic really looks like. So-called 'adults' throwing pre-emptive insults at teenagers. Nice.

I'm not insulting anyone. This is a thread about emos, so I posted a pic of them.

I wonder how long Goths have been around now? I seem to remember they were everywhere back in the 80s and I still see many around today. Perhaps they had a longer stint than most.


And as for pathetic, the title of the thread clearly stated that it was intended for UM members over thirty. Unless you are over thirty you JUST CANNOT RELATE and UNDERSTAND all that WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH TODAY and how very HARD IT IS FOR US to be able to cope.

Ok. If you say so. Not an insult at all.

Who cares?

I'm not bothered. Live and let live unkempt. Just like hippies.

This is true, it has been awhile. I'm an ex-goth who went "skater" in the 90's trying to fit in which then turned into my own thing.

In time emo kids will grow up and look back...and say the same thing me and almost everyone else does - "damn, it wasn't that bad"

Edit: oh I should stfu, I'm not 30.

Well .. if a person wants to be 'Emo', good for them - whatever floats their boat. Live and let live.

My bad. I've had a few run ins with emos, so just bare with me.

The only Emo I have known was a comedian.
Uh-oh....my age is hanging out.....

:slaps forehead: Oh. Well that makes sense.

I'll just sit on my hands for about 7 1/2 more years until I reach such a magical age, then maybe I'll understand bigotry.

Yes, but as teenagers you cant not expect us to nosey on in. EMO is still a genre of music, and always will be. You cant label someone EMO!

Bigotry? Because some adults think its kinda dumb to create a subculture around being moody?

I'm 32, but I'm not so ancient that I don't remember high school. At least 75% of the teenagers were depressed. Being depressed is not a fashion statement. EMOs seem to make it so - they wear their moodiness on their sleeve like a badge.

Its DUMB... to the mature mind. There are plenty of things that kids and teens do and believe that are just plain dumb to adults.

From your sig...

"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."

Take it or leave it.

So apperantly its wrong to have EMOtions. Since EVERYONE does.

Oh yes you can. Words take on new meanings all the time. Look at the word "gay". Originally meant happy, but if you call some people gay now you're likely to get a fist in the face.

Protest all you like, but English evolves, and this is just another example of it. You'll survive.

Gay still means Happy. I believe your trying to refer to homosexuals?

So would that mean emos aren't gay...or are they??

*rubs forehead*

Xo, personally rejecting the common meaning and usage does not support your argument. If you choose to do that, then fine, but don't try to impose your bizarre outdated English on the rest of us, mmk?

Oh, also:

gay /geɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[gey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, -er, -est, noun, adverb
–adjective
1. having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music.
2. bright or showy: gay colors; gay ornaments.
3. given to or abounding in social or other pleasures: a gay social season.
4. licentious; dissipated; wanton: The baron is a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies.
5. homosexual.
6. of, indicating, or supporting homosexual interests or issues: a gay organization.
–noun
7. a homosexual person, esp. a male.
–adverb
8. in a gay manner.

Yes, you can. It might be a genre of music, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a clearly defined subculture.



Titles that stem from other words rarely have the same definition . Not everyone that 'has emotions' is an emo. Have you ever met a real Goth? No.




EDIT: Oh, before I forget...



Like Christmas all over again.

Look it up, EMO is an abbrivation for emotional.

1. So?
2. Where should I look it up? It's not in any respected dictionaries. Urban dictionary, wikipedia, and/or various myspace meme graphics do not count.

...and your point is?

The term 'Emo' is a title. The strict definition of the word is irrelevant.

I found it perfectly fine on dictionary.com
=)

Yeah, but not in the context you're discussing.

The sole two results:

Not my results when I searched it!


"Emo (an abbreviation of "emotionally-driven Hardcore punk") is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punk's limited emotional palette of alienation and rage."

Look what I found on dictionary.com:

fruit·less /ˈfrutlɪs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[froot-lis] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. useless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search for the missing treasure.
2. bearing no fruit; barren.
[Origin: 1300–50; ME; see fruit, -less]

—Related forms
fruit·less·ly, adverb
fruit·less·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. futile, unavailing, vain. 2. sterile.
—Antonyms 1. useful, profitable. 2. fertile.

It's a conspiracy! The lexicographers are out to get you!

Oh t3h noezzz!!!!



Funny how googling that phrase brings up everything but an acceptable dictionary, or even dictionary.com itself.

Not to mention Wiki, which I already discounted.

"Emo (an abbreviation of "emotionally-driven Hardcore punk") is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punk's limited emotional palette of alienation and rage"

Yeah, out to get me.

That's odd! that's from Wikipedia!

The funny thing about Wikipedia is that it's 1) NOT dictionary.com and 2) NOT a reliable source for word definitions, given that any biased emo can edit it as they like.

You're right, I could be busy wasting my time somewhere else instead.

Yea...I should be lurking elsewhere.

but watching pwnage is so much fun.

As if I missed most of this