Emo to be made Illegal in Russia YAAS!

Zeltar · July 28th, 2008, 02:10 AM

Guys check this out!

mate of mine sent me this article after floundering around online, finally a sensible decision has been made on this irritation.

Check it out lol Article Here

Cpt_Keys · July 28th, 2008, 03:56 AM

First Mexico took action. Now Russia! We are on a roll here people!

-Gavin- · July 28th, 2008, 04:27 AM

Why do people care so much?

Metalheads dress equally stupid and usually act far worse.

Zeltar · July 28th, 2008, 04:53 AM

Probably cos for the most part we are acceptable members of the human race, metalheads are just out for a good time, whats the point of a group whos not into that?

[brummies, austrians and pirates are at times also considered acceptable... smee too]

-Gavin- · July 28th, 2008, 05:00 AM

Metalheads are usually the most stupid arseholes on the planet...

I've met more arsehole metalheads than arsehole emos.

Zeltar · July 28th, 2008, 05:07 AM

I guess its just down to personal preferences,

NeglectedField · July 28th, 2008, 05:19 AM

Gavin has a point. Emos can have smug scene/hipster mentalities occasionally but in the realm of metalheads there are far more people who are abrasive wankers, deliberately. Far more pretentious cunts, I mean, I consider myself pretentious at times but offending/alienating people is only a side-effect, not my actual aim as with some people. I guess because it's an extreme style and so you correlate that with people who are at the peripheries of the personality spectrum, some good, some bad.

Besides, this topic came up on another forum and firstly, they say it's a ban on emo/goth (and do we expect people in government to differentiate from that and metal?), and secondly it's supposedly a complete hoax. It'd never pass through. It'd be a stupid rule anyway, this is more "yay I h8 emos!" shite. The government's clearly trying to mould it's youth to "acceptable" terms, metalheads are as much a deviation from that as anyone, and in Russia there's no music subculture that's more against the ethos of the current government, because NSBM is more popular over there than anywhere and have links to the skinheads who are actually planning some sort of coup in their millions. However, the Duma has a few National Socialists in it's ranks so it's not really as driven underground over there and there's less of a ban on that sort of thing as there is in Germany. Post-Soviet Russia is a fascinating, complicated (if somewhat frightening) place.

Yogge-Sothothe · July 28th, 2008, 05:23 AM

Gavin speaks the truth. Metal fans are generally just as tedious as any other adolescent social group. Anybody who refers to himself as a "metalhead" immediately identifies himself as a contemptible dunce.

And obviously, anything that encroaches on anybody's civil liberties is A Bad Thing. Besides, it's just a draft of a bill that almost certainly won't be passed.

TomAwesome · July 28th, 2008, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Gavin-

Why do people care so much?

Metalheads dress equally stupid and usually act far worse.

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Gavin-

Metalheads are usually the most stupid arseholes on the planet...

I've met more arsehole metalheads than arsehole emos.

I find pretty much the opposite to be true. In my experience, most metalheads are just laid back generally happy people. Most of them don't dress silly except for the ones who insist on wearing craploads of metal and spikes and just otherwise going overboard with it. Normal metalhead attire is long hair (just long, not generally styled into some ridiculous shape), a band t-shirt, and jeans (or maybe camo pants/shorts)... maybe some piercings and/or tattoos. Emo kids, however, are almost always pricks who dress ridiculously (to me they look like they grab random clothes from their sister's room and their grandma's attic and randomly put them together to make outfits), have gender inappropriate hair that looks silly anyway, and who tend to just have this ridiculous, smug, whiny outlook on everything.

Of course this isn't ALWAYS the case. I've known emo kids who are decent people and metalheads who are complete assholes, but generally, in my experience, metalheads are laid back fun loving people, and emo kids are dramatic, vain, ridiculous pricks.

In any case, though, it shouldn't be illegal to dress a certain way... even tough part of me would like to make an exception here.

Swabs · July 28th, 2008, 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by TomAwesome

I find pretty much the opposite to be true. In my experience, most metalheads are just laid back generally happy people. Most of them don't dress silly except for the ones who insist on wearing craploads of metal and spikes and just otherwise going overboard with it. Normal metalhead attire is long hair (just long, not generally styled into some ridiculous shape), a band t-shirt, and jeans (or maybe camo pants/shorts)... maybe some piercings and/or tattoos. Emo kids, however, are almost always pricks who dress ridiculously (to me they look like they grab random clothes from their sister's room and their grandma's attic and randomly put them together to make outfits), have gender inappropriate hair that looks silly anyway, and who tend to just have this ridiculous, smug, whiny outlook on everything.

I've had a similiar experience, the only "metalheads" that I've found to be arseholes are the metalcore faggots, and hell they're practically the same as emos anyway.