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"Kerrang- More Moronic Antics"

Mos**t of you will probably be aware of certain hos**tilities between groups of youths in our country. We have seen the forming of ‘gangs’ around various musical genres. There are two main types involved in these hos**tilities, the dance/garage/house etc. fans and the metal/nu-metal, kerrang fans. Some of you may have read an earlier topic I wrote here in the music forum, regarding hos**tilities between these two groups called ‘Warring Factions’. It was basically about how the kerrang fans always seem to play the victims. In an issue of the Kerrang magazine a few months ago there was an article about how rock fans are always picked on, getting abuse yelled at them, and in extreme cases attacked. Kerrang also often get letters with readers complaining about how they are always picked on and s**tuff. My other topic was basically jus**t saying that a lot of these Kerrang / nu-metal fans are hos**tile to others anyway, they’re not all the victims, some are dealing out the abuse.

Well, with the lates**t Kerrang mag they said next week they’re giving away some s**tickers. There was a picture displaying some of them. One s**ticker reads ‘Townies = sh*t’ (a ‘clever’ play on a slipknot song or lyric I believe, ‘People = sh*t’). Now what’s that about? Kerrang, ever playing up the apparent fact that the kerrang fans are victims here are now dishing out s**tickers in order to provoke the ‘opposition’. And you can bet at leas**t some of the whiners will use these s**tickers, misguidedly thinking they are ‘fighting back’ agains**t the ‘enemy’ they have created, when all it is doing is provoking things. It’s truly moronic. They claim the moral high ground going on with all this crap about how they welcome variety (because so many people seem to be obsessed with being ‘different’ rather than being themselves) and they can’t be the ones causing the hos**tilities. Then they go printing this bull, which is going to serve no purpose but to heighten tensions, and maybe get a few of their readers beaten up.

It truly makes me wonder about the s**tate of our country (as if there wasn’t enough to worry about already) when musical tas**te becomes such a big issue for the youth of today. What is the problem with everyone jus**t lis**tening to what they want, dressing how they want, and not slating others because they don’t belong to the same group?

Some people really are total morons.

I know, I'm not saying that, but there are some in both groups who are trying to provoke violence between the groups.

And just a question: Would you put that sticker on a bag or something in full view of everyone? And why would/wouldn't you...?

Not everyone who likes NU-METAL is violent.

I like nu-metal but I dont run around with those stupid chains or those trousers that Godzilla would get lost in. I just like the music, its different.

So we have concluded...

People are stupid.

I get shouted by both herds because I am the rare example of an individual... they're all the same dressed in different uniforms.

Because people are stupid.
If it's not music it's religion. Or it's race. Or it's football.
Or it's....you seeing my point?

It's an excuse for people to vent their frustrations because they wasted their lives and feel bad about it.
It's not the reason.

*shrugs*

Goatboy wrote:

> Lock them in a warehouse, give them really big key-chains to swing at
> each other

lol.

:D


But my point is where's it gonna end? It's not nu-metal fans attacking each other, it's them and other groups being hostile towards each other. And in my experience a lot of people who dislike the nu-metal kids can't differentiate between nu-metal fans and other people who listen to various alternative or rock music. They can have their stupid little fights if they like, but when I get lumped with groups involved with this kind of bull, I start to wonder why.

So nu-metal fans are attacking each other?
Where's the problem here?

Lock them in a warehouse, give them really big key-chains to swing at each other, close the door and come back a week later.
More space at gigs for grown-ups

yeah in the 60's or 70's it was the Mods and Rockers. And I think that's still not as bad as today. At least then they were arranging these fights, it wasn't like you couldn't avoid it. If you knew a fight was being arranged (I think it was like an annual ritual to go to Blackpool or somewhere?) then you didn't have to go. Now it's just people yelling abuse on the street or seeing the way someone looks is different and deciding they're not allowed to look like that...

Todays youth is ridiculous with all this classing etc and I have to live within it.

I listen to the same kind of music (nearly) as Sibs, with my taste going from the bottom of what he listed upwards. I don't get much stick at all, most people who see me would wonder what I listen to as I don't walk around wearing stuff which makes me look like I suit a certain musical genre.

I don't know if this is true but youth has probably been like this throughout the years. I know they had something in the 60's or 70's were fights would be arranged and they would ride certain modes of transport but that's about it. Like that and probably many others the way youth's think will change and soon as things evolve we'll see something new.

All that Kerrang stuff is prejudice and they are just backing up that prejudice with something. I hate the way this kinda stuff is going to be bought by young teens, maybe even people about the age of ten. Is that what parents want them to read? Is that what they want them to think? It's just making the rivalry carry on and on. We don't need that.

We're young, we don't understand, soon we'll mature and realise that we shouldn't fit in a trend and instead should just be who we are. Then we;ll watch the people younger then us do exactly the same and remember what idiots we use to be.

Some young people really need to look up like some older people look down.

simon45 wrote:

> I used to get Kerrang magazine ,Raw magazine and even Metal Hammer
> (does anyone remember these?).

Yeah, Metal Hammer is still around, dunno about Raw though... never seen it I don't think... seen Terrorizer though...