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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Goth, Hat, and Tie
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It occurred to me today, and yesterday, and the day before.. that a lot
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of little things go on in our lives and we have no fucking clue why.
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Is there any logic to the moments of madness in our lives? Or maybe I
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should qualify that. In particular I am talking about little things
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like clothing, custom, etiquette, or 'society norms'. I know I have
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touched on a few of these in the past, but I think that put together,
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you may question a lot about your daily activities. Especially
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if you work, and even better, if you work 'normal' hours.
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When I go to work I have to do a few things that seem absurd. Not only
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because I personally don't like to do them, but because I can't figure
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out the true logic behind them. Sure, my boss says 'our customers do
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it or expect it'. Gee fucking wiz, they are living the same demented
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lives without logic or reason, just like us. Two stupids don't make
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a right.
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First off, I shave. It has been custom for how many years that people
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in a so called professional environment should be either clean shaven
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or have a full beard (or mustache). Think about it, the two extremes
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of facial hair are 'good', while having a light beard is 'bad'. It used
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to be that long unruly beards were the norm, but now short well kept
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beards are. What's the difference? As long as it is well kept (not
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going down and meeting with the chest hair), and at any length (not
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to exceed 'unruly'), what does it matter?
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Next thing I do is put on work clothes. Sure, I will go ahead and agree
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that nice pressed pants and nice pressed shirt are aesthetically
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pleasing, especially when the entire office dresses that way, but
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I do draw the line at the tie. The tie is the most ridiculous piece
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of clothing a person can put on. Aside from hanging a noose around
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your neck, do you know why a tie is part of tradition? I found out
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and laughed. The tie is worn to cover the buttons on your shirt.
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The buttons on your standard white dress shirt are near invisible as
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is. Aside from that, follow this login: a dress shirt has buttons
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which aren't pleasing to the eye (*cough*), so we put a tie around
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your neck to hide them. Yet if we wear a nice white tee-shirt, that
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isn't dressed up.
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Of course all this is more absurd since I don't deal with customers
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on the average day. So now our office is dressing up, even when not
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needed, despite not seeing a customer, all on the whim of one
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conservative director. Oh yeah.
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So I am driving home and notice another annoying trend. Cowboy hats.
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It's dark out, sun has been down for a while, and this schmuck
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is driving down the road in his pickup truck wearing a big black
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cowboy hat. Why? Because it is now a fashion statement, nothing else.
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And a ridiculous one at that. This big unwieldy piece of something is
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stuck on your head and blocking half your peripheral view.
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Most of the 'cowboy' fashion is just past trends with lost reasons.
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The big belt buckle yet another one. Half these wannabe hicks run around
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wearing the stuff and have no clue why.
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I am kicking back at a club nights afterwards, laughing half the night.
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The club is called "The Dungeon", which halfway implies a more industrial,
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gothic, or bondage club. Low and behold, you have a wannabe rave on one
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dance floor, and ambient on the other. I dig ambient, but not to dance
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to at a club. So I am in the other room watching these people. Most are
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rave kiddies bouncing around doing their style dancing. The other is a mix
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of club rejects (or something) that seem out of place. You have one or
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two goth types that stick out in new ways. One dances like a rave kiddie
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all night, not a graceful bone in his body. The next tries to 'vogue' like
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Madonna... to all the rave type songs. No originality in dancing, no
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style, no grace. Yet they dress that way because it is popular. How do
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I know that is the reason? Because it is in their actions, who they talk
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to, how they dance, what songs they know, how self-conscience they
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appear, and more.
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I don't know. Just seems a lot of things we do are pointless and not worth
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doing. Yet we plod along as if they are requirements to life or something.
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I don't think I need to go into what you can do to change this problem,
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it is only a matter of action. All I know is that doing what I want to do,
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when I want to, and not worrying about how others view me physically
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makes me feel comfortable. Why would anyone want any different?
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- d1s
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