Coldplay

I'm down However, if someone else wants to do it give them priority over me because I'm in no hurry I also nominate you Bradcock :heart:

Nice interview, you didn't do a bad job at all. It was really sincere and enjoyable. Bahaha Irish bastard You're good looking btw

IMO simply replying in one post takes all of the excitement out of it, it's not just the questions that make this whole idea it's the fact that it could all be done live and it shows the thoughts and the human side of the members on here, not just reading some words on a screen as we always do

I don't hate Texas. I just hate the obese people and rednecks there.

Mmm 60 year old men

Wasn't even anywhere in my mind that you were one Realized the ridiculousness of my question when I remembered we're on a Coldplay forum

You were a skinhead?

Poor Dfit I guess all he was really looking for was a friend

Hahaha, it wasn't even a meaningful question to begin with. It's a question about your navel: Innie: Outie: Didn't think at the time to ask any proper challenging questions but I guess it doesn't really matter anyway because they're mostly sort of dodged

No worries, the "voice in my head was not as angry or harsh as the words I used to express it" could definitely apply to myself too hahaha No harsh feelings; I liked your next post a lot. Thanks for the reply.

Not just in Mongolia, this is a thing everywhere. When I was younger and I walked around the city with my family they told me to always go and buy some food from a store instead of giving beggars money because you never know if the money can be used to support some sort of addiction or something. As far as I can remember they always accepted the food so I guess it's a good idea. I've heard of fake homeless people on the news, I don't think I've ever seen one but I guess my family's been aware of it lately and has been giving change to people a lot less. I feel so bad when my mom or sister walks past someone asking for money but at the same time my feelings are twice as negative towards someone who would lie about being homeless like that. It's a very complicated thing. I'm not sure how cool and likeable it would be if you couldn't find food on some days etc. Unless you mean just wandering around with plenty of money on you to spend on these things?

NumbersGirl summed it up very well, I started jotting off on some random things from my experience since I'm in an American high school right now, I live in Los Angeles btw. 1) Many of my classrooms are a little like this now Personally it has no effect on me because I do well in school and the teacher still teaches like they used to, but I worry for the people who get distracted in class and need help. The classes for the brightest kids in schools are the ones that have the lowest teacher-student ratios, which is an absolute joke, the kids that need the help the most are not gonna get this help because they're in clusterfuck classes of 40-50 students. 2) Food doesn't really have much to do with the education but I'm gonna mention it. I've heard that in less populated areas of the U.S. there are schools that are serving food that is actually cooked in the cafeterias. It would be cool if we had that. I'm really not a picky eater at all, the food can range from decent to truly inedible. A lot of my peers who eat the school food just avoid the shit food and keep the milk and piece of fruit, or just go hungry for the rest of the day. It's something that really upsets me because these kids go hungry every day, then again it's avoidable, bring a fucking sandwich to school. So I'm not sure what to say. I bring a sandwich every day just in case the food is very very bad, if it isn't I give my sandwich to one of these people. 3) I'm pretty sure my state's high school exit exam will make GCSE's look like rocket science. :bomb: More examples to prove I didn't just pick the easiest one: http://lang.dailybulletin.com/socal/beyondabc/test/math_test_04.pdf 4) Sorry, a lot of negativity. One of the things I like about the American schooling system is that if you can work hard, and you're in the know about how the system works and how to use it to your advantage, you can get really really far. Here's an example: There's a law here (I think it's a nationwide law but I could be wrong) that students in kindergarten-12th grade can attend a community college part time, for free. Basically you can get some college done for free while you're still in high school, like our AP classes but much less difficult. (AP, btw, are like the highest-level classes you can take in high school, very rigorous, but you get college credit if you pass a tough exam) Now, when I was in middle school (I was around 12), I started taking these classes for fun, eventually I began to take it seriously and one by one took all the requirements needed to transfer from a community college to a 4-year university. I had a counselor guide me along the way and the plan was to graduate high school early by taking an exit exam and get a 4-year degree by the age of 18 or so. We had very little money, but the fact that community college transfers are top priority when universities admit students, plus my very young age and good grades pretty much guaranteed that I was gonna get plenty of financial aid. Unfortunately, it ended up not being right for me for different reasons I will not dwell into. Still, I've heard of a few kids here and there doing the same thing. It was a hell of a good experience and I'm still doing it, but with a completely different major and a slower pace. 6) :nod: I can definitely vouch for this. I'm at the end of my school year and we must've had around 6 or 7 big tests mandated by the district throughout the whole year. Some are taken a lot more seriously others, but it's a looong experience, and I'd bet the class time spent prepping for all these tests and actually doing them would take a big chunk of the time we should be spending learning. However, right now they're starting to make changes to the way they teach in schools, it's called common core standards. I don't know much about it and I might graduate high school by the time it's in effect but I know it's something about basing education around thinking at a higher level and being a good communicator and problem solver, stuff like that that employers need nowadays. So for testing, instead of cramming stuff and bubbling in things on a multiple choice exam you'd do something like work collaboratively with students in projects. I think it sounds promising. Overall my school experience has been good but nobody hands you anything so you have to work for it. There are people in my classes who don't 'get' anything but most don't even bother to ask for help or get tutoring or something so I'm not quite sure what to say. I hope this new type of teaching that's coming will be of some help to these students so that they can think at a bit higher level at school but I'm not that optimistic.

I don't think the board could have carried on without those last two posts

hahaha Well, to be fair, Emma didn't really specify how far back in time, there's a big difference between being him being killed before he had any political power and him being killed hours before he offed himself anyway. It still is a mad answer though.

^ :awesome: Jesus, that last sentence was a horrible run-on though

Why couldn't you just tell me it was a joke? You don't have to insult me, you know that right?

You know what I'm just exhausted from replying now, this really does take several hours. And I truly understand what everyone is saying and I agree with it. Especially Spieler, and Reilly who did get to the core of the thread better than others but I don't even really agree with it now. This is just way too much for me, thank you though. Really.

Hello! Thank you for all the replies and I'm glad that the thread turned out to be of some interest despite the questionable writing in the OP which I'm actually very ashamed of now. The thread really should've been just about the speech and a discussion of it (how the accessibility of things in the internet has done a bit of slowing down the motivation to innovate culturally). I planned to do that for a month or two but was far too lazy. And then I began to be in a really ranty/whiny/immature mood and began writing and writing and hit send. Then the next morning I felt really uncomfortable because I felt like I just started making fun of many people when I really didn't mean to, and also I just felt like all those things I wrote about didn't really matter. It's not all bad though, because at least I learned from a mistake. I could've kept my mouth shut and just kept on believing these crude and mean opinions from time to time. But I talked and now I've learned my lesson, and I'm all the wiser for it. So it's all good! No it's not. I didn't even think that at the time of writing it. It was written in a pretty sarcastic tone, but my lack of proofreading and being in the right state of mind at the time made it sound very literal. Basically everyone I talk to at school are different in all their interests and passions, and it's lovely because I can expose myself to different things. I have no idea why I thought not being in a clan of people who strictly read, listened to, watched, and dressed in the exact same things would be a negative thing. Or you can just go on with your life and do whatever makes you happy... (I love how I'm arguing with myself right now.) Okay here's something here that's actually fairly valid. Am I fed up now? No. But it's worth a discussion isn't it? I kept getting all these replies that I'm focusing too much on the present and I should educate myself on the past, and that's really not the point. Of course it's not important that nobody's invented a new type of hat or something like that (despite the emotional bitchfest I had earlier), but you have to admit that it's something worth mentioning that, on the surface, it really seems like mainstream pop culture wants to just look backward instead of being inspired from the past and using that to move forward. Don't care for mainstream pop culture? Hate it? Want to pretend it doesn't exist? Good for you! Doesn't mean it isn't true though, and doesn't warrant a discussion. etc etc Still ashamed of writing this, again I truly apologize and thanks for bearing with me. I miss Brent!! :bigcry: Oh, of course they are not without merit. They are wonderful, and I love to expand my musical knowledge more and more every day. I appear to have come off looking like I only listen to music on the radio from this year, don't read any books at all, etc., even with my skewed and immature post I'm not sure where you could have pulled this from, it's untrue! I haven't heard every type of music, learned all that there is to learn in school, nor have I read every literary classic, but I do work on it a lot and educate myself on these things every day. Music and books, to use examples mentioned, are so much more exciting and make so much more sense when you understand the roots where it came from. But this is very true. I did actually believe this, even when I was in a more mature state of mind, and I did learn that this is not something that is actually necessary or important. So thank you! This is very beautifully written, you know? Thanks again. So Thalia is saying that the wheels are still turning, albeit slower. And it makes sense. It's nice that someone saw through all that and found the original point of the thread, hah :) Neither. As shallow as I was, doing something like going around in a hoop skirt and powdered wig would still have to have some meaning behind it. :juggle: Aw, don't. This is just cruel. I get my OP was bad. But you can set an example of being more mature than me if you want me to be more mature.

^ Can't tell if you're joking or not Surely you don't think it's funny to tell people to binge drink and overeat when they're asking a serious question?

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Do you write and take pictures every time you visit a country? I think it would be awesome to keep a big book throughout your life of all the countries you've been to :cheesy:

If you were president what laws would you make What's your dream house What's the furthest you've ever been on vacation Would you ever want to have synesthesia? (Google it) If yes, what kind What side do you sleep on Would you rather trade some intelligence for looks or looks for intelligence Are you an innie or an outie Are you an organized or messy person Do you collect anything Do you believe in karma Do you know more than one language? If not, are you learning or do you want to learn What kind of shoes are you wearing right now

Before reading, I recommend reading into this interesting speech. It's from a celebration of the anniversary of the Internet a few years ago. It's more about pop culture and being a teen before the Internet was around. Highly fascinating, and sort of links in with what I started rambling about. If you don't want to read much then just skip ahead and read my rant, it's enough writing as it is. Right, so everything's boring. Well not everything, but from my perspective it kind of is, because I'm a young person and like the young people before me, all I really care about is pop culture and immersing myself in the world of music and fashion and books and TV shows and all that. And before you call me out, I am aware that there are other teenagers out there who aren't as privileged as I am and care more about their basic rights and getting some food to eat. And I do care about other things, like my family and friends and my job. But I'm still really passionate about being a part of what, growing up, I thought being a teenager would be: finding some sort of club or subculture to call yours and to have people in it to call friends. And having music and movies and clothes and that truly feel like yours and your friends, and nobody else's. And if you don't fit in with anything that's going on, you'd start your own thing. Start your own culture. I'm just getting fed up with the fact that everything about pop culture is about looking backward. Music from the 90s pretty much sounds the same as music now, compare it to the transition from 70s to 80s, 80s to 90s etc. Surely it's not possible to just run out of ideas for musical innovation after a handful of decades? The fashion is all just finding things that your parents or grandparents wore and recycling it. It's not edgy, rebellious, or anti-mainstream at all because everyone just buys a thin, cheap, horrible synthetic version of some 80s fashion item from stores like Forever 21 and everyone looks cheap and shitty and the same. I went to Coachella a few weeks ago and I can't tell you how basic and entry-level all the girls look there, it was unbelievable, you literally couldn't tell one person apart from another, they all looked the same. I'm sure that the average kid wore embarassingly cheap and shit clothes 20 or 30 years ago so that's not much of a point but at least there were different things that people were into and they were (for the most part) creating original things. Grunge people might not have invented dirty hair or flannel shirts, but it was a new thing. Trekkies and mods were new things. Fucking juggalos and weeaboos were/are new things. Going back to what I thought a teenager would be, I thought there would be all sorts of rivalries and antagonism in high schools. In my school there is none, because there are virtually no cliques or subcultures or anything like that. And I guess that's very nice because there isn't some kid who feels like shit for dressing a certain way. But isn't that how the real world's gonna be? Shouldn't you go through the hell of high school to learn to stick up for yourself and what you identify with? Why the fuck are so many people dressing exactly the same? I guess you can call it hipster, but I don't really think that exists anymore because it exploded so much that it's nothing anymore. It's not even a thing anymore. Basically everyone dresses 'hipster'. You could call out anything as 'hipster'. The kid in some band shirt from 40 years ago is hipster. The kid in some band shirt from a modern band is hipster. The person who follows trends is hipster, and the person who leads is hipster, and the person who doesn't want to be a hipster at all is the biggest hipster of all. So that's the vast vast majority of my school, the rest I guess could be lovingly labeled as swag fag, not sure if this is what the hiphop movement has evolved into or if it's just a subdivision of the hipster movement but its shit all the same There are very small pockets of other things like emo and "scene" but it's really just the last bit of life from a movement that is starting to curl up and die isn't it Is it shallow to place such a high value on dressing a certain way and listening to a certain kind of music and all that, and putting pressure on teens to identify with some primal cult where you have to fit in? Is this the end of all these youth subcultures? Or will they eventually adapt and thrive again? I'm sorry for such a long read btw :bigcry:

I love models who have them. But the few pictures I've seen of them in fashion magazines are putting so much emphasis on them it's ridiculous, making them stretch up the top lips as far as they can and craning their neck so you can nearly see the gums: More subtly though? Lovely.

When I was a kid the gap between my front teeth was really big, I remember being sticking straws and lollipop sticks between it in school. (sorry :uhoh:) But now it's closed up some. I really like it though, I don't want braces. I think it looks cute on me.