Beatniks: The original punks, or the original posers?

[ghostsofgiants]

[XemaSab]

1. You're the one who didn't go to a protest because you had to shower

:eyes:

[ghostsofgiants]

2. This is not about me!

Plus, I don't do SHIT unless I shower first, and every single towel I own was in the washer. x(

[XemaSab]

4. This is SO about you!

And furthermore, you're supposed to get clean IN THE SHOWER.

The towel is merely for sopping off pristene droplets from your immacualate skin AFTER the shower.

So how are your towels dirty? :shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Sitting in a hamper, damp, for several weeks.

Breeding ground for nastiness, yo.

[XemaSab]

6. So you haven't showered for several weeks?

You're right; you probably shouldn't have gone to the protest. x(

[ghostsofgiants]

8. A few days.

I'll use a towel a few times, hang it on the towel rack, but eventually toss it in the hamper. Last one was tossed in the hamper by me a few days ago.

It's 5 AM and I'm talking about towel habits. I am pathetic, haha.

[XemaSab]

9. It's 1 am and I'm talking about towel habits

:shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

16. 4 hours less pathetic.

:P

[LeftyMom]

3. Turtlenecks and poetry are not punk.

Though they do get some points for a fondness for books.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Depends

Every youth sub-culture had its purists and its posers.



Example of a poser:

[ellisonz]

10. Folk.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. Since you spelled it with an "x", I was obliged to vote for

PUNX ;)

on edit, the argument could be made that Beatnicks were the original Emos :shrug: :D

[TK421]

12. Hot Topic wasn't around back then, was it?

[NoPasaran]

15. Nor Hot Pockets

[datasuspect]

13. beatniks were largely poseurs

beat generation types (and i would include Nature Boys like Eden Ahbez - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_ahbez), and others who repudiated consumeristic culture in post war america or reacted to it initially (prior to widespread marketing-related rehashes in the late 50s and early 60s) were more or less doctrinally pure.

a fly on the wall on some benzedrine and pot sessions around the columbia university campus in the late 40s would have some interesting tales to tell probably.

[mitchum]

14. Beats = original punks.........Beatniks = original poseurs

[Throd]

17. Fat Mike killed punk.

Fuck him with a chain saw!

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Yet he somehow had authority to fire Blake and Fletcher from punk rock.

There is no justice in the world.

[DS1]

18. Beatnick trash is the problem with GD

A: This total loser bashed a girls head in when she tried to break up with him
B: You need to put yourself in his shoes and understand the panic he was going through because he wasn't successful and he was losing his only hope of it. Also, it was her fault for picking a loser in the first place, and she needs a talking to when she gets out of her coma.




C: I wish I could hit you (me)

[Deep13]

19. There's a difference? nt