Limu’s post reminded me that I wanted to share this link, it’s hilarious. My son is home on Spring break and he always has some new cool thing to look at. This is for the ultra-critical social critics (namely, college kids).
My regular grocery shopping day is Saturday afternoon. I stopped by Kroger’s on a weekday after 11pm and saw this whole bunch of people.
I still go to college, and I go in Asheville. There are so many freaks there. The sad thing is they still act like they are in highschool, and they spout their political views like they know what they are talking about, but it is just really their wierd professor’s view that they are using to brainwash the kids with.
I have a job. I live in the real world. I am an old person. There are so many freaks here. The sad thing is they still act like they are in highschool, and they spout their political views like they know what they are talking about, but it is just really their wierd news source’s view that they are using to brainwash the other people with.
Calling people freaks because they dress differently to your average person is a little judgemental.
Well, that’s my judgement 
But it’s every bit as reasonable as attributing liberal thinking among collegiates to brainwashing.
At least the kid’s consistent, eh?
yeah but what about when it’s the people who dress like the average people that a person is calling the freaks?
Trust me, the dressing different is the least of the reasons. I didn’t even mention how they dressed. They go out of their way and love to be called freaks. One even has “freak” tattooed on his forehead.
And nobody said anything about liberals being connected to brainwashing.
Talk about the judging and assumtions. 
Quite true TWC. I accept the charge. I was assuming you were speaking of liberal thinking students and professors. Please do correct me if I was off-base. 
No worries Emmline At my school, there are actually both extremes of professors, right and left. I just can’t believe how much influence they can have over the students.
And no offense of the word “freak”. I am not trying to be mean or anything, but these people at the school go out of their way to get that label. And it is not the way they dress, it is the way they act. I really don’t care how people dress, I grew up in Ybor where grown men would skip down the streets in thongs.
I’ll pick on you because you nailed it most concisely.
I recall back when we longhaired paleocounterculturals of the day called ourselves “freaks”, and very proudly. There is evidence in the fossil record of this. Of course we appropriated the term from those who would have judged us, for the term “freak” was in wide use as a pejorative; what better way to turn it on its head than to take ownership of it? Thus, if I would have called myself or anyone else a freak it was an endorsement of subcultural solidarity. IOW, if you were labelled a freak by freaks, you were good to go. But if the “straight” (meaning cultural conformist, not really referring to romantic orientation at the time) would have called someone a freak, it was just a blanket statement not really saying anything other than one’s cultural recoil. Which also meant you were good to go. If you were condemned by the “straights”, you had to be okay.
I still get called a freak, but it’s different now. I’ve lost the coolth.
oh dear, Nano’s having flashbacks again!
Medic!! Medic!!
That’s “flashwaythehellbacks”, dude.
BTW, we were using “dude” for the male of the species in South Freakin’ Dakota back in the early 1970s, and nary a surfboard in sight.
Geez. You were supposed to laugh with the characterizations, not get all worked up.
It’s about people that are probably trying a little too hard, that’s all. I think it’s funny…
I like the T-shirts.
What the hell is Crabcore, anyway? I suppose I should be satisfied to accept my relegation to the ash-heaps of history and buy the rhetoric that I’d never get it even if it were explained to me, what with my being irrelevant and all.
so what in South Dakota would “cowabunga dude” refer?
Oh, these kids today.
Can’t they just forget their silly intellectual conclusions, and be normal?
Conform, kiddies. Listen to your elders.
Oops. Your elders seem to be philosophically all over the place.
Nevermind… 
I like the one where the kid wears t-shirts “that are no longer ironic.”
The same thing it refers to anywhere else, most likely.
In SoDak, “cowabunga” would’ve gotten you a kicking to the curb for your trouble. Far too “Shakey Side” for us to treat seriously.
Ya gotta love pronouncements. Someone’s gotta tell us what’s what any more.