Rebellion

[RemyZee]

I was always strong willed and independent and never particularly cared if my attitudes conformed with the rest the rest of society or not. I never cared about style or fashion and I always had a lesser opinion of those that need to follow the rest of the sheeps and buy whatever the man on the television tells them to. I've always done what I liked when and how I liked with little concern for other people's opinions.

Am I a rebel? No.

I agree with that totally. It always amused me whenever people tried to put a stereotype to me, just when they thought they had it nailed down it would turn out that that's not who I am at all.

I tend to purposefully surprise people, they think i am a slightly doughty leftover kind of person, but I'll come out with something that totally surprises people when they try to box me in. People always are surprised that I curse a lot.

 

[RemyZee]

It took me more than half a lifetime for me to realise I am a Rock freak!
Better late than never.
Call me a relic, call me what you will.

Spoiler

Great song

 

[RemyZee]

I was just doing the only thing I could do.
Be myself.
"I yam what I yam." <shrug>

Spoiler

Wisdom of Popeye

 

[Jumpinbare]

I find it hilarious when some people, who get a tattoo, think they are a rebel, these days.
Every man, woman, gender-diverse, and their dog has one these days.
Well, except me.

I got a tatoo, not to be rebellious, but to commemorate my wife. The circle with the P inside was her monogram. The tracing to the right is a copy of her EKG during her terminal hospital stay. I photographed the monitor screen, printed that, and gave it to the tatoo artist. So it's not stylized. It's her actual EKG.

 

[Misty Avich]

The bully at work has tattoos all down his legs and wears shorts all year round to show them off but then shouts if somebody leaves the door open.

 

[velociraptor]

I think a lot of what is called rebellion is just people being their authentic selves, which seems like a worthwhile thing to me.

 

[Mary Terry]

I think a lot of what is called rebellion is just people being their authentic selves, which seems like a worthwhile thing to me.

I see the same thing with people who are called eccentric. Who's to say what is eccentric and what is just being an individual? We're all unique in our own ways.

 

[Judge]

I see the same thing with people who are called eccentric. Who's to say what is eccentric and what is just being an individual? We're all unique in our own ways.

Good question.

So what are the societal conditions used or assumed to make such a determination? Those who seemingly "violate" or defy presumed societal norms? Note the word "presumed". That we aren't all even on the same page when it comes to such things. That what is being discussed is inherently ambiguous.

Indeed, everyone can be unique in our own ways, whether it contrasts with what is an expected norm or not. I'm just bewildered that in the society I exist in, that such determinations are often a matter of net worth more than anything. That often the rich and famous are most easily dismissed as being "eccentric" when everyone else is categorized in something less than congenial.

Seemingly at times, a residual form of class consciousness without all the Marxist rhetoric. When the tabloids crucify a celebrity in print while the law crucifies a commoner in prison or worse.

Why should net worth drive good or bad impressions of people as individuals?

 

[Outdated]

So what are the societal conditions used or assumed to make such a determination? Those who seemingly "violate" or defy presumed societal norms? Note the word "presumed".

 

[Shevek]

I didn't know I was unusual in school. I tried to distinguish myself by the way I installed my shoe laces. After I left home, my rebellion against bedtime ran over fifty years, and my biography immediately started becoming steadily more unusual, not in rebellion but just by following logic instead of the herd.

 

[Misty Avich]

I was anxious about being in trouble at school so that was why I tried my best to be good, although I wasn't top student or anything, but just good enough to keep out of trouble. I used to do little things like eat in class without the teacher seeing, stuff like that. I wasn't a perfect rule-follower or anything like that but I just didn't like being in trouble either.

 

[blitzkrieg]

I started rebelling in the last two years of high school, after I switched from a small friend group to just one friend who had joined the school only the year before, in year 9 and who was a bad influence on me.

I was expelled during the last couple of weeks of school and there was a question of whether I was going to be allowed to sit my GCSE's (UK high school qualifications) that I had been working towards as others did in mainstream school, from year 10 and onwards.

I was allowed in the end to sit my GCSE's and did well regardless of this setback and got fairly good grades for my GCSE's which surprised my head of year, who congratulated me when I saw him at some school related, end-of-year leavers assembly that I was allowed to attend.

 

[Misty Avich]

I wish I had been more rebellious at school. I didn't get high grades anyway. I was an underachiever and didn't really care, yet I attended school and every class. Well, I think I bunked off class a few times in my last year but I just hid in the bathroom and caught up my homework for other subjects because I hated science and didn't feel it had any use to me. In fact most the classes at school had no use to me. The only class that did have use was this class you could take instead of languages, called ASDAN. It stands for something but I can't remember what. You learn useful life skills such as job interviews, signing cheques, housework, stuff like that. I think that should be mandatory for every teenager aged around 14-17.

 

[RemyZee]

I got a tatoo, not to be rebellious, but to commemorate my wife. The circle with the P inside was her monogram. The tracing to the right is a copy of her EKG during her terminal hospital stay. I photographed the monitor screen, printed that, and gave it to the tatoo artist. So it's not stylized. It's her actual EKG.
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That's beautiful

 

[Jonn]

People always are surprised that I curse a lot.

I like cursing, too!

Spoiler: joke

This is a favourite mine:
"May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!"

I heard it first from the TV series "M.A.S.H", and was said by Klinger, I believe.

Oh, you mean the other sort of cursing.

 

[RemyZee]

It took me more than half a lifetime for me to realise I am a Rock freak!
Better late than never.
Call me a relic, call me what you will.

Spoiler

I was born in the 1990s and I can't stand hard rock. I don't know the differences between all the specific type variations but I don't like the loud noisy growling ect. rock music styles. I don't like rap music or most country music either.

So what kind of music DO you like?

 

[FayetheAspie]

I like classical music and I like Messianic music.

 

[Jonn]

In fact most the classes at school had no use to me.

99% of what I did at skool was ultimately useless for me in RL.
The main benefit was simply exercising the brain, imo.

The only class that did have use was this class you could take instead of languages, called ASDAN. It stands for something but I can't remember what. You learn useful life skills such as job interviews, signing cheques, housework, stuff like that. I think that should be mandatory for every teenager aged around 14-17.

Developing critical thinking skills would have been nice, but they didn't do that in high skool when I was there.
On the plus side, there was no ideological indoctrination, either.

 

[Jonn]

So what kind of music DO you like?

"Bad to the bone is a favourite."
"Du Hast" is probably my number one, partly because it is an anti-Nazi anthem.
Some ppl think it is the opposite.
I find that hilarious on an epic irony scale.

Spoiler

 

[NB79]

I enjoy a lot a good rock guitar riff / melody.