So where do the goth kids buy those stupid dusters with 85 pounds of chrome crap dangling off them?

[MrCoffee]

I've never seen them (the jackets, not the sullen youth) in stores.

[DarkTirade]

1. Hot Topic.

Duh.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Beat me to it!

Yep

[MrCoffee]

4. Seriously? The goth kids hang out at Hot Topic?

That makes me want to mock them even more.

I'm going to put that down as Why MrCoffee Stays Far Away From Malls Reason #486

[DarkTirade]

7. I know somebody who works at the one at the mall across the street from my work

and he said that the episode of South Park where the goth kids burn down the Hot Topic to cut down on the poser goth problem was the most cathartic thing ever for him. :P

[AlCzervik]

9. south park kids should move on to the bermuda triangle of douchebaggery

with their accelerant and matches, Abercrombie, Aeropostal and American eagle.

i hate the mall so much.

[DarkTirade]

10. I'd be afraid to light a match in most of those places.

You walk buy and a smell of bad cologne or perfume or something is just overpowering. I think if you light a match there you'd just cause a flash-flame through the air that would suck out all the oxygen and the flame would die in seconds. So nothing except for the top layer of clothes on the shelves would get scorched.

Although everyone inside would be eyebrow-less for a few days. :P

[AlCzervik]

11. they'd be a lot of guys named "Chas" buying eyebrow pencils.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. OMG, I totally forgot to tell you! We were at the South Shore Plaza

2 days before Xmas, and we saw a real, live Guido Douchebag™!!! :bounce:

Popped collar, blown out hair, chains, douchebag face. I couldn't believe my eyes! :o

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

14. sounds like every guy i went to Meffa High school with, long live Guidos.

woot woot.

[SoxFan]

48. You're from Meffid? Well, damn!

My parents went to St. Clement's HS.

[AlCzervik]

73. 2 of my friends went to St Clements, catholic school kids always threw the best parties.

still a meffa girl but i don't have giant aquanetted hair anymore.

[Shakespeare]

31. Would you believe CA was unaware of that group?

We were each online posting at different places this weekend, and he yells out "this person doesn't make any sense--what's a guido?"

I said "go do a google image search on 'guido'"

He was amazed and knew not what to say. :rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

35. Bwahahahaha!

Oh, that's too funny! :rofl:

[pokerfan]

36. That was one of the best eps of the season

Goths vs. douchebag vampire wannabe boners, per se.

The voice of Goth 1 (oh my Gohhd) was hysterical.

Goth 1: So, all of a sudden you Justin and Britney wannabes think it's cool to dress like us?
Vampir: We dress the way our souls feel, to express the darkness, per se.
Goth 2: Aren't you Mike Makowski?
Vampir: That's Vampir Makowski now.
Henrietta: You kids need to all go put your freakin' Banana Republic clothes back on, right now!
Sparkly Vampire: Hey, we're just as dark as you guys, maybe darker!
Goth 1: Really. Do you guys even smoke?
Vampir: Of course not. Smoking's bad for you.
Other Vamps: Yeah.
Goth 1: (buries his face in his left hand) Oh my Gohhd.

[DarkTirade]

37. I don't know if it was the best, per se.

But it was certainly one of the funnier ones, per se.

:P

[pokerfan]

38. I like Butters-centric episodes, per se.

Not the best of the season (Major Boobage) but pretty damn good, per se.

[Sequoia]

12. Oh now, you were young once, probably a hippie with beads and peace signs.

I like Hot Topic, the kids are cute and I can buy Hello Kitty stuff. I like those coats you mention but they are too big and heavy for me and my daughter would just take my coat anyway. She already wears my Hello Kitty and Domo shirts. I only get their t-shirts when it's on sale.

I've gotta say though, those plastic braclets stink to high heaven.

[DarkTirade]

19. Those pink bracelets are also occasionally hilarious.

The one near me stopped carrying this particular one, but for a while they were selling little soft rubber pink bracelets... shaped like barbed wire.

:rofl:

[Sequoia]

20. I've seen them in black.

They stink so made I took them outside. You walk into the store and you can smell them they're so bad. You just know they have to be toxic. Long long ago when I was a preteen we girls used to wear those loops you use on those little square looms they used to make and probably still do around Christmas. You could make dorky little pot holders out of them. The adult women would get upset and we were banned from wearing them like braclets.

[DarkTirade]

27. Oh man, I remember those.

I haven't seen those in years though. They never let kids play with the cool stuff anymore.

[Sequoia]

39. I still have my kids' Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs

which no one will pry from my cold dead hands !!! I still like toys.

[DarkTirade]

43. I wish I still had my old Legos.

Alas, when I went off to college I didn't have room for 'em. So I left them for my little sister to use.

[Sequoia]

44. Oh lord no, those droze me bats.

I keep finding them all over the house like Christmas tree needles in July. There weren't even Logos, just another brand which never held together.

[AlCzervik]

6. yup.

[DainBramaged]

21. I spent a LOT of money in Hot Topic when my beautiful Daughter was in high school

I enjoyed going there, and at the time, having a ponytail down my back did not make me a dork. She turned out OK, and again, I find another thing DU is 'against'.

Will it ever end?

[DarkTirade]

22. ... who said DU was against Hot Topic?

I love that store. Cool stuff mixed with ridiculous stuff to sell to posers. As opposed to every other store, which just has ridiculous stuff to sell to posers and a severe lack of cool stuff.

It's the posers we make fun of.

[DainBramaged]

23. Why are they posers? We're not? That's EXACTLY what I mean

What a fucking joke. The kids are tying to find an identity, and YOU think they are posers? What were you a cheerleader? Oh, how about a jock? A geek? or just a jerk, same as now.

[DarkTirade]

24. Dude, you need to calm down.

Seriously.

Did you even read the comment you responded to in the first place?

[DainBramaged]

25. You need to stop judging people because they don't fit 'your' criteria for cool

'CLICK' on the red x for you. Goodbye 'dude', I don't need to be called dude, I'm old enough to probably be your Grandfather.

DU is becoming fucked up.

[DarkTirade]

26. .... what the fuck?

Seriously? What the fuck? Have you read a single word I've typed?

[LanternWaste]

47. Out of idle curiosity...

Out of idle curiosity, I emptied out my Ignore box (primaries era, you see) to see who your "dialog" what with as it seemed just a little too delicious to pass up.

What inanity! We half-jokingly mock a consumer store, and individuals read that as an attack on them personally.

[DarkTirade]

51. And he didn't even respond to anything that could REMOTELY resemble mocking either.

That's what really threw me. Someone asked where people buy those jackets. I said, "Hot Topic." And that's what he responded to.

:wtf:

[Hanse]

30. Kids who shop at Hot Topic are poseurs.

Kids who's parents buy them clothes from Hot Topic are epic, second-generation poseurs.

Parents who buy their kids clothes from Hot Topic and then get upset when somebody jokes about Hot Topic- well, they're just sad.

[DarkTirade]

32. Hope your modem is asbestos lined.

:P

[BarenakedLady]

63. My daughter (11)

Has told me that I'm not "cool" enough to go into Hot Topic.

:eyes:

[DarkTirade]

64. And that is the best reason to go in there with her.

And make sure you embarrass the (*&% out of her. :P

[BarenakedLady]

66. Oh, I certainly plan to

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

68. I can totally picture it.

Just make sure you grab something with Gir on it and hold it up to her and say, "Aww... he's so cuuuuute!" loud enough so that everybody in the store can hear it.

[BarenakedLady]

70. Duly noted

I will have to take your word on the embarrassment factor there. :P

[DarkTirade]

72. Really squealing 'Isn't it CUUUUTE' to your 11 year old would be embarrassing

Gir is just the cutest thing you'll probably find in there. :P

[BarenakedLady]

75. Good point.

A close second would be going to Sears and holding training bras up to her.

Gawd, I'm an evil mom.

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[DarkTirade]

76. Or better yet, going to Hot Topic

grabbing something sexy and lacy and saying, "Do you think this would look good on me?" :P

[BarenakedLady]

77. I like the evil way you think.

:evilgrin:

[DarkTirade]

78. Extra scarring-for-life points if you pick an outfit that involves a plaid schoolgirl skirt.

:P

[Dr. Strange]

2. You can buy the dusters in any clothing store.

But the chrome has to be earned.

[DarkTirade]

8. ... or bought.

:P

[flvegan]

5. You'll look a little geezerish in one, Coffee. Don't do it.

[jobycom]

16. He wants to take off the chrome, buy a rifle, and tell kids to get off his lawn.

:rofl:

[flvegan]

17. He'll shoot his eye out.

[jobycom]

18. .

[jobycom]

15. Probably the same place poser hippies got their clothes, or poser disco kids got theirs

or poser grunge kids, or even those posers who try too hard to reject all trends and those follow fashions even more than those who imitate fashion.

Clothing stores.

[DarkTirade]

28. Actually the grunge and hippie ones usually get them at Goodwill.

Or as hand-me-downs.

Saves a lot of money that way too. :)

[Lucian]

29. I don't have a duster, but I do have a leather trench coat.

I bought mine online. I don't see them in stores either.

I don't wear the chrome crap.

[DarkTirade]

33. I've got one too

found it at a Goodwill. For 25 bucks. There's probably at least a hundred bucks worth of material in the thing.

I actually bought it intending to cut it up to use for http://stickmanltd.com.c25.sitepreviewer.com/leather/">my leatherwork, but it was so bad-ass I couldn't bring myself to cut it up. Which is a good thing, because I just moved to a place where the temperature occasionally goes below zero, so now I need a coat.

[CreekDog]

34. Actually, there's not that much chrome hanging off

I think you are exaggerating.

[Fire Walk With Me]

42. Oh, who puts rims like that on a DUSTER!?

Call your congressman, right fucking now!

[KamaAina]

40. At Stupid Dusters With 85 Pounds Of Chrome Crap Hanging Off Them Outlet

Where else? :shrug:

[MrCoffee]

41. Well, yeah, the smart ones wouldn't pay full retail price.

[hedgehog]

45. I used to enjoy going to Hot topic in my mamma jeans to buy things

for my semi-goth daughter just to screw with the clerks' minds.

[DarkTirade]

46. Its hard to screw with their heads

they've pretty much seen everything. :P

I actually applied for a job when I was looking, but unfortunately they weren't hiring. Seems like it would have been an interesting place to work though.

[hedgehog]

49. I'd work there only if they'd let me wear ear plugs.

Of course, that's true for most "hip " chain clothing stores! Seriously, i don't knwo why OSHA hasn't been called in somewhere sometime about the pounding music; it's got to be causing hearing damage!

[DarkTirade]

50. Not as dangerous as the overpower cologne smell from some of the trendier stores.

I honestly can't even walk in there without gagging.

... although after seeing what they sell, I might do that if I walked in there anyway. :P

[hedgehog]

53. Hell defined: working in a store with pounding music next to a store

that sells candles and scents or vice versa.

[DarkTirade]

55. I actually don't mind the candle scents

for some reason they don't bother me. But cologne and perfume... blech. Gets me every time.

[TK421]

52. I noticed they always look miserable in Hot Topic.....but can you blame them?

Look at all the posers they have to put up with :hide:

[DarkTirade]

54. ...

:spray:

[hedgehog]

56. I thought looking miserable was part of the corporate image, like looking

blonde, rich and trashed at Abercrombie and Fitch!

[TK421]

57. Seriously....I asked this girl behind the register if they carried goats

blood...and you should have SEEN the look she gave me, like I was from outer space or something!

Oh, don't get me started on the reaction I got when I complained about their selection of whips!

Now I've never been to an Abercrombie and Fitch, but now I must say I am intrigued....:evilgrin:

[DarkTirade]

58. baleeted

duplicate

[DarkTirade]

59. What, she didn't even point you towards where it was on the shelf?

She's not gonna last long at that job with an attitude like that.

[TK421]

60. I just settled for a misery bracelet and boots of sorrow

come to think of it..I never did get her number :think:

[DarkTirade]

61. Ironically, the only time a gothy girl at a store has tried to hit on me...

... was in Radio Shack of all places. Go fig. :P

I really should have gone for it too, she was cute.

[TK421]

62. Did she try to hit you with a radio? I hear they're into pain and stuff

which..is totally cool with me, although weird

[DarkTirade]

65. ... no. No radios.

Although she was interested in my leatherwork. :P

[TK421]

67. Heh....is THAT what they're calling it these days?

:eyes:

[DarkTirade]

69. ... actually there's no double entendre there.

I actually do http://stickmanltd.com.c25.sitepreviewer.com/leather/">leatherwork. :P

[TK421]

71. Oh I know.....just being silly!

:)

[DarkTirade]

74. Unfortunately by the time I worked up the nerve to actually ask her out or anything

I couldn't find her anymore. I guess she didn't work there for too long. Ah well. C'est la guerre.

... I totally was gonna see if she'd model some stuff for me too. I wanted to try my hand at some of the bigger things like corsets and the like. :P