how old am i?

[spycedtx]

Have I gotten so out of touch with modern society? Can someone please tell me wtf "emo" means in reference to self description, often in personals?

surely they didn't mean "elmo" and flubbed a letter.

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[zoltrix]

Emotional

huh.

[spycedtx]

Emotional. As in "blubbering bundle of nerves" or "I feel more than a tin can" ?

Is this a new angst? A new de rigeur? Is this the new "bomb" ? *shakes head and pops a geritol*

Re: huh.

[zoltrix]

Something like 'Dashboard Confessional' would be considered emo. Download 'Again I Go Unnoticed'. That's a good sample of emo.

Re: huh.

[spycedtx]

well, huh. thanks for the audio, Ryan.

i still don't get it. i never got angst. i was never one of those tori's tampon smoking fags, either. dar and whomever else -- nice aural stimulation, but.. no puppet strings being pulled here.

and my life will go on. quite unlike the guy in aforementioned song, i suspect.

[thespisgeoff]

Emo as used in a personals ad probably refers to fashion and lifestyle, rather than music specifically.

Emo is sort of nice-guy punk; angst, rather than anger.
Emo boys (because there is no such thing as an emo man) wear tight t-shirts (preferably vintage, either an advertising shirt or a shirt for a Little League team), slim-fitting pants, skater shoes or boots, and that clean-but-not-showered smell that some guys can pull off.

They shop at Urban Outfitters and thrift stores.
They don't believe in schedules.
They generally run with a large, ever-changing "crew" of people, rather than a few closely-selected friends.

And they are hot.
Boy are they ever hot.

ah hah

[spycedtx]

a whole subtype i'm not versed in.. and i suspect not interested in.

what makes them so hot? hotter than other guys.. err, boys.. ? the angsty aloofness?

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[thecityclerk]

Just how hot are they, and where do the emo flock?