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to what extent is the US high school crowd like depicted in movies?

i just watched the movie Thirteen...and i'm wondering how it's in RL. things like being cool, parties, sex,...

i was never in the cool crowd...well...not in that kind of sense, as teenagers we did drink go to parties, hit on girls. well now at uni it's simmilar...parties, alcohol, chicks. last time i got drunk and made out with a chick who probably did the same with 3 other guys that night. yes, i do feel kinda dirty.
but the point is it's not really that segregated anymore...from nerds to cool guys, everyone's invited to come and party. that's what i like about uni and student dorms...everyone's more relaxed.

it's been really long since i was 16, so how's it now?


and to be honest...i like nerdy girls more than the cool ones, not that i had a chance with them, but hell i wouldn't even want to...putting up with their shit and stuff, be something i'm not. **** that! and besides, everyone knows sex is better with less cool girls.
 
thread starts off with innocuous question
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ends with "cool girls are bullshit sour grapes I'd rather fuck a nerd"
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Halflife2.net do you ever look at yourself and just...just wonder what it is you're doing? What are you doing, HL2.net? What are you doing?





Anyway to answer your question yes high school is a bunch of segregated cliques all hating on each other, just like in the movies and on teevee.
 
Why do you make these threads?

also I would **** cool girls in a second, but a relationship would suck.
 
My yankee friends say their highschools were like that. Sounds pretty gorram awful.
 
Darkside55 said:
Halflife2.net do you ever look at yourself and just...just wonder what it is you're doing? What are you doing, HL2.net? What are you doing?





Anyway to answer your question yes high school is a bunch of segregated cliques all hating on each other, just like in the movies and on teevee.
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no no...cool girls to me are bullshit. i'm not pressuring anyone to think like that. ok...cool girls might put more on appearance, obviously everyone would like to **** them (probably), but for me it ends there. having even a short relationship would go on my nerves.
 
Brother, if you think nerdy girls would be better to have a relationship with than "cool" girls...as Judas Priest once said, "you got another thing coming." If anything, nerdy girls are even MORE bullshit.
 
I was a dork in high school, a hero in college and now i'm back down to dork level. i live in a rich suburb where kids get Lexus' and Beamers for their 16th birthdays and smash them up within a year. I'm middle class but at my school the majority were upper middle class or high class so it was really annoying. if you didn't have money you didn't get the hotties. when college hit you could have just about any girl because at any party they were drunk and easy.
 
Darkside55 said:
Brother, if you think nerdy girls would be better to have a relationship with than "cool" girls...as Judas Priest once said, "you got another thing coming." If anything, nerdy girls are even MORE bullshit.
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this is correct.
 
Darkside55 said:
Brother, if you think nerdy girls would be better to have a relationship with than "cool" girls...as Judas Priest once said, "you got another thing coming." If anything, nerdy girls are even MORE bullshit.
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hey man, i wont argue. but now to think about it...i did use the word "nerd" to broadly. what i probably meant is girls who don't put so much on status that everything else get's left behind.


i'll try to picture what i mean, although this method is really lacking any depth:

uber cool girls
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hot, yes. but man, i couldn't be bothered.

istockphoto_6180482-plain-jane-teenage-girl.jpg

plain girl
 
jverne said:
to what extent is the US high school crowd like depicted in movies?

i just watched the movie Thirteen...and i'm wondering how it's in RL. things like being cool, parties, sex,...

i was never in the cool crowd...well...not in that kind of sense, as teenagers we did drink go to parties, hit on girls. well now at uni it's simmilar...parties, alcohol, chicks. last time i got drunk and made out with a chick who probably did the same with 3 other guys that night. yes, i do feel kinda dirty.
but the point is it's not really that segregated anymore...from nerds to cool guys, everyone's invited to come and party. that's what i like about uni and student dorms...everyone's more relaxed.

it's been really long since i was 16, so how's it now?


and to be honest...i like nerdy girls more than the cool ones, not that i had a chance with them, but hell i wouldn't even want to...putting up with their shit and stuff, be something i'm not. **** that! and besides, everyone knows sex is better with less cool girls.
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I don't recall many crazy parties going on in high school, but this is probably because they were held at people's houses and therefore I would have no intention of going to them.

In college, yes. Parties everywhere, all the time.

In my experience, at least, high school was mostly a collection of unbelievably stupid douche bags who were a liability to humanity. There are quite a few of those in college as well -- but not quite as many because many of them end up dropping out.
 
It was the chavs and the goths and that was about it I seem to recall.
 
I'm in high school right now and...meh.

Kind of like IRL.

Anyway, this thread would seem to be about popular vs. nerdy girls now...I'd do either. They both have a vagina, right?
 
My first thought upon entering this thread was:

"Thirteen is one of the worst movies I have ever had the displeasure of viewing"

followed by:

"Yeah, high school is really cliquy"
 
if my two years out of high school hasn't altered my memories at all, high school was exactly like Never Been Kissed. In fact, I often want to go back to school in disguise and be the cool kid.
 
I am in high school and would say that it is definitely not that way.
 
ive been to one party in my life. i was blazing with a few friends of mine and decided to join them when they stopped by a party. it was cramped, blaring music i didnt like, people were playing beer pong (and i dont like alcohol), and i was wearing a suit jacket tripping balls. it was ****ing unreal.
 
at my school there were cliques and shit, but everybody was pretty cool with everybody else. No beef, not unless there was a legit reason for it. Never get made fun of for being a nerd, for being in band, for playing tennis, etc etc.
 
I'm sure my school had some cliques (it was a pretty big high school... there was even a "clique" for kids who aggregated around a certain tree at lunch and associated based on weirdness/not having anyone else to hang out with). I didn't notice it much, mostly because I didn't care.
 
Eejit said:
My yankee friends say their highschools were like that. Sounds pretty gorram awful.
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Babies please.

And yeah, they're pretty much like how they're shown in the media. And yes, its pretty gorram awful.

Thankfully I was one of the invisible kids, who never got caught up in the cliques. Unfortunately, I was one of the invisible kids, who nobody will remember or recognize when they see me.

Maestro said:
I'm in high school right now and...meh.

Kind of like IRL.
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High school is absolutely nothing like the rest of your life. You wont know until after you're out of it though, just keep the thought in the back of your head, that life is infinitely better after highschool. People will finally mesh more and be friendly with each other. I have friends who are super dorks who are like Darkside and know everything about comics and old tv shows, and friends who are nerds and play dungeons and dragons still after graduating college two years ago, and friends who are total jocks and were on the football team, friends who are car freaks, web geeks, rich, poor etc. "Popular" highschool people get along just well with the "loosers."

Everything is so much nicer when people are mature.
 
But krynnn, you didn't go to school, you're a dog.

...

Upon further reflection I have concluded that my earlier statement was right in that there is really no 'I AM JOCK, LET'S DO SPURTS LOL' clique scenario, just as there is no 'LOL I AM NERDZ LETS PLAY D AND DEE' clique scenario. For the most part, virtually everyone in a highschool is connected. The closest thing to cliques are specific groups of friends of which most people have several of. Even if you're not connected with a specific group or person, chances are your friend is. It's kind of a complex ecosystem of relationships in which some have a larger part than others, but most every one plays a large role.
 
Does all those students look ten years older, like in the movies?
 
Krynn72 said:
Babies please.

And yeah, they're pretty much like how they're shown in the media. And yes, its pretty gorram awful.

Thankfully I was one of the invisible kids, who never got caught up in the cliques. Unfortunately, I was one of the invisible kids, who nobody will remember or recognize when they see me.



High school is absolutely nothing like the rest of your life. You wont know until after you're out of it though, just keep the thought in the back of your head, that life is infinitely better after highschool. People will finally mesh more and be friendly with each other. I have friends who are super dorks who are like Darkside and know everything about comics and old tv shows, and friends who are nerds and play dungeons and dragons still after graduating college two years ago, and friends who are total jocks and were on the football team, friends who are car freaks, web geeks, rich, poor etc. "Popular" highschool people get along just well with the "loosers."

Everything is so much nicer when people are mature.
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This is only because you're just floating about in the world, devoid of any sort of solid communal devotion (I assume, I have no idea who you really are). If you poke your head into any sort of community, you'll see it's pretty much just like highschool.
 
Cliques? In high school?

HahahahaahhahaahahahhaahahaHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAAAAHHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHA.

Oh god. Do you live in a bubble? Wait. You live in France, don't you? Well, the movies are good enough, I suppose.
 
I hate the assumption that Marching Band is the easiest, nerdiest thing around (anyone been in it at hl2.net). I've been in band for three years, and you use more energy in a nine minute show then a whole football game.
 
I want to call jverne a **** again.

But tbh I don't even know the answer to the question.
 
Lizardizzle said:
I hate the assumption that Marching Band is the easiest, nerdiest thing around (anyone been in it at hl2.net). I've been in band for three years, and you use more energy in a nine minute show then a whole football game.
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I was actually the percussion's section leader for 3 years, I marched the quads. I played for a bit in the college (symphonic band) but it wasn't as fun so I left. But with marching I had a great time.

I think the big difference between HS and college is people embrace what they are and accept others for who they are.
 
My secondry school was nothing like any of the tv stereotypes. There were groups of friends, of course, but everyone was nice to each other in general and no stupid goths, geeks, jocks groups.
 
I have to call bullcrap on Dizzys (Lizardizzles) story here. No way you use more energy then doing ANYTHING athletic.
 
High school stereotypes are exaggerated in tv shows and movies from real life, mostly. My high school had its fair share of goths, jocks, preps, nerds, etc. but from what I've observed, they weren't at each other in a constant battle of dominance. They certainly didn't have the same group mentality or emphasis on popularity that middle school kids had.

There were a handful of kids that everybody either avoided or mocked, but mostly because they were asshats that deserved it. You wouldn't get eaten alive just for being shy, weak, or nerdy.

And typical day-to-day life for a real life high school student is much more mundane and boring than any high school drama/comedy movies or show out there.
 
ShadowArmy said:
High school stereotypes are exaggerated in tv shows and movies from real life, mostly. My high school had its fair share of goths, jocks, preps, nerds, etc. but from what I've observed, they weren't at each other in a constant battle of dominance. They certainly didn't have the same group mentality or emphasis on popularity that middle school kids had.

There were a handful of kids that everybody either avoided or mocked, but mostly because they were asshats that deserved it. You wouldn't get eaten alive just for being shy, weak, or nerdy.

And typical day-to-day life for a real life high school student is much more mundane and boring than any high school drama/comedy movies or show out there.
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Pretty much this.

Oh man that reminds me of this guy I know with a shark-fin for a nose and the biggest "I AM A CREEPER" personality ever.

I think he hates me.
 
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