Everybody hates Emos
Every day in Australia, thousands upon thousands of emo kids fail at ending their miserable, pathetic existences. Whether it be excessive drinking, overdosing on sleeping pills or the classic wrist-slash, they try, time and time again, to end their lives, meeting with dismal failure every time.
These white, privileged, cotton-swabbed, mollycoddled children, with their private schools, cool toys and enough spending money to buy my childhood a thousand times over, are unsatisfied with life. It depresses the shit out of them that life is so easy. It depresses them that their parents work hard in high finance and medicine to ensure they go through none of the hardships that their parents didn’t have to go through, due to the hard work of their parents. They have no despair, no adversity, nothing in their life is holding them back… except themselves.
Humans naturally adapt to their environment. But we also have the ability to adapt our environment to ourselves, something rare in the animal kingdom. If our basic survival needs aren’t met, we strive to ensure they are. For most, this means identifying obstacles and challenges along the path to comfort and stability and overcoming those. But what about those without adversity? Should they not accept their situation, their elevated state of being, and achieve actualisation ahead of the rest of their peers?
Well apparently not. Having things too easy is just too hard for people. They either turn into over-privileged dicks, autocratic cunts or pathetic whiny pussies. Our adaptive instinct, when lacking the need to adapt, either creates adversity for others or for ourselves.
With the starting point in life set so high and pressure to improve immense, these precious snowflakes instead desire to wallow in misery. Looking hard for any holes in the safety net their parents have constructed, seeking every opportunity to hurl themselves into the oblivion they crave. They surround themselves with other like-minded people, as people are wont to do, embracing a culture of depression, which inevitably leads to self-destructive behavior and, eventually, suicide attempts.
So what can be done about this? Well, if you’re heavily invested in the alcohol, sleeping pill or razorblade industries, then not a damn thing. These idiots are your primary market. If you’re invested in health insurance, you’re using these dickheads as an excuse to raise the premiums for entire demographics, so you’re happy to let them go. If you’re just about anybody else in the population, then there’s always the outside chance that they’ll one day figure out to go down the highway. Why stop them now?
Sadly, there are some people out there who seem to think that this youth suicide trend is a bad thing. Sure, one might consider such things as Suicide Prevention Week to be entirely noble endeavours, but this is not enough for some. These wretched individuals have sat down, had a little chat and decided that the attention span of the modern Emo is far too short for a week to imprint itself into their subconscious. They have decreed that a day is a better time frame. In a similar vein, they’ve decided that a big, long, overwhelming name like “Suicide Prevention Week” is far too much for these kids, all of whom have ADHD in addition to their clinical depression, to handle. In a pathetic effort to reach them, they’ve decided to go the way of so many other pathetic attempts at reaching the youth of today, by embracing that pathetic evisceration of the English language that is text speech.
Today, October the 7th, has been decreed, by this group of jackenapes, R U OK? Day.
As suicide claims more lives in Australia each year than our national road toll, they feel that the best way to eliminate it is for everybody to pick up a phone and send that to their depressed friends. Because god knows when I’m feeling overwhelmed, somebody insulting me by not taking the extra time to spell out some fucking words cheers me the fuck right up.
And as oggy says, “I guess sometimes that’s all it takes…just to ask someone, R U OK?“
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A lot of your rants seem to have me say to myself “blah blah blah, don’t care” and I move on. This was no exception.
When I see the “Posting to say I didn’t read it” posts or similar, I lollercoastermcrofflecake a little inside.
As someone who overcame severe depression as a teenager and came out the other side being a fucken awesome champ that I am, I’m hugely disgusted and disappointed in the narrow-minded youth that do this to themselves solely for attention. When I was depressed I didn’t tell anyone, I kept to myself, eventually people noticed how withdrawn I had become and helped me out of it. I never once posted on facebook (it didn’t exist yet) or cut myself in an obvious way to gain people’s attention. I was in a pit and I needed so badly to get out but I was too afraid to ask for help.
The way these kids go around saying they’re depressed because their mum wouldn’t let them go to a shit concert or some other dumb shit is offensive to anyone who ever has had depression, attempted or succeeded in suicide and all the families and friends affected by this.
Depression is not an excuse when you’re having an off day, it’s not when you dont get your own way. Fuck! it’s not even something you openly talk to your friends about! All this bullshit is is someone having an identity crisis, they dont feel a part of something bigger, they’re picked on for being different or their friends and family dont understand the tremendous changes a teenager goes through. It’s not depression, it’s called growing up, everyone struggles with their identity at some point in their life.
And if you have depression, seek help, it’s likely that if you really have it, people may not notice it which can make things a lot worse. Only you can drag yourself out of the abyss, not those faggoty emo bands.
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still nothing better than staring at the back of some kool-aid hair colored emo chick screaming bloody murder as you lay into her…
seconded!
Churchill had depression. Churchill was no emo. depression does not equal emo.
I’d be better if they didn’t use text speak to ask “Are you okay?”.
The Lowest Common Denominator depresses me.
When is “Fuck Off, and leave me alone day”?
I use it as an opportunity to remind myself how of far ahead of the curve I am.
My text messages don’t even contain “text speak”. And I refuse to refer to them as “essemesses”.
People need to gain a global perspective. Think about the shit that millions of other people are going through and then realise you’ve got it pretty good. I know depression can be blinding but seriously, life’s what you make of it. We all control our own destiny.
Be thankful you don’t have AIDs, cancer, you’re not living in a 3rd world country, you have basic facilities like plumbing, fresh running water, electricity, access to education, health care, dental e.t.c.
Anytime I ever feel unhappy with my lot in life, this is how I think of it. People say i’m strong for dealing with risidual nerve damage that impairs my vision and makes it hard for me to talk/eat but I really don’t have that much to complain about. There’s people out there suffering a lot more than I am. I’ve got it pretty good!
Emo kids have some pretty messed up views on life, the lvalue of life and their own existance, not to mention that of people around them. It’s whack!
p.s. I know there’s spelling/typo errors in my post but I get an error when I try and edit it. OMG FML. :p
The Thirteenth of Smarch.
Every day?
Generalise much?
To make matters worse, we as a society are to blame.
Not a day goes by when there at least one long time member telling a noob, or someone, to go kill themself (you know who you are, i wont mention any names). This is just one forum. There are plenty out there just like it. Plus this is only what happens on the internet, let alone out in reality.
So before you go verbally bashing someone for trying to kill themself, perhaps STOP TELLING THEM TO KILL THEMSELF! FFS!!!
I have lost a couple of friends to suicide, and its not good. However i do understand that each and every one of them were pushed to that point by the people around them, either society in general or the people they communicate with on a daily basis.
To the people who bad mouth those who have taken their own life, or those who are in the depts. Of depression…..shame on you.
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
Suicide is a viable means of egress from Newcastle.
I think society is to blame for some of it, especially the social acceptance of drinking and binge drinking in our society. It’s a nasty drug and it’s extremely bad for people who suffer from depression. It clouds judgement and makes people think the most insane actions are a good idea. >_<
I think one of the worst things you can do while depressed is to drink.
Blah blah blah…Depression this, suicide that.
C’mon mate, why dont you pick on a group thats more trendy to insult, like the jews?
I mean, picking on Emo kids is SO last year.
Nah, stop being an idiot Aardvark. Nothing is ever what it seems and just like Nosfer said, emo do not nessicarily mean depression.
Personally i know more than a few people that I’d (and themselves) call emo, and by no stretch of the word are they depressed, or even close to being depressed, no more so than any other normal person.
The whole idea of R U OK day is not to target emo kids and track every single one down and sit them down in a big circle and talk it out. No, this whole thing isnt even about emos, not even close, its about depression.
So yeah, sure, some emo kids are probably depressed, but what has that got to do with anything?
I think you missed the point completely Aardvark, unless there are two seperate rants in there.
Let me try and break it down for you, Emo kids dress the way they do because they either want to do one of two things; Dress in black (because they like it) or Dress in black (Because they want attention). Its pretty fucking easy to spot the depressed kids from the emo kids. The depressed kid isnt the one hanging out at town hall with a bunch of similiarly depressed/dressed people, no, The depressed kid is the one holed up in his room with his doors locked and his windows drawn. I don’t know about you, but when i get depressed i dont want to go hang out in masses of people, i dont want to go into a busy public place, i just want to be left alone and dissapear for a while. Like most people.
This R U OK thing is all about trying to prevent people from killing themselves, and its about increasing the quality of life for your fellow man. It has nothing to do with emos Aardvark, its got to do with suicide, and although i dont know you personally, or anything thats happened to you, i really doubt you think suicide is a good thing, or even a normal thing, and if you thought that your partner, or siblings or family or friends were depressed and you were worried about them, i bet it would of been the tenth time you’ve read that website by now. Unless of course, you’re a bastard.
I dont really understand why you would condemn the name of this project, or anything like that, who gives a fuck what its called. Look between the lines you dumbcunt, to the message. It doesnt matter if its spelt R U OK or ARE YOU OKAY? Neither way is insulting, unless you’re a fucking gimp.
What matters is the message and what you can do to help. Suicide isnt fun, and sure, who cares which fuckhead tops himself, they dont exist in my world…That is, Until they do.
So yeah, go ahead and bash the Emos, because..fuck it, i’m pretty sure they’ve all grown up and gotten used to it by now and rant on about how suicide is funny, and emos are gay, and what have you, but just remember, just like you said…Depression isnt easy to spot. So If it effects you, I hope you’re not too busy laughing about suicide, or raging at emos to realise that its too late.
I have determined from the small number of emos on the town hall steps, as compared to years past, that the emo fad is no longer cool. I assume that the emo culture became so saturated that it reached the mainstream, and then died off. I never even hear about emo bands anymore.
Seriously dude, down the highway.
gee, i thought by raising this issue everyone here could post something like, Yeh, i’m OK, cheers for asking…or, no, i hate life, i’m gonna kill myself…
you are all EMO’s…but i’m OK…Thanks for asking…:shrug:
I’m not okay, you’re not okay, but hey, that’s okay.
May I suggest that the manner in which the article was posted led to your intentions being thwarted.
How you doing there oggy?
Feeling pretty shit myself.
thwarted intentions are the new thing…
i’m doin fan-fuckin-tastic thanks…
no-one asked you…but seeing as today is the day, R U OK Shiney?
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His original post was your classic raise awareness post with a slight jab at the waning emo populace. Sadly, he picked a cause who managed to depress me with their name and sent me off into ranty mode.
y so? Lose a case?
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Sorry. Had to.
R U OK? :laughing:
Also, the colour yellow can go fuck itself today.
Cheer up! New Ugly Americans should be out sooon.
Fil, I find the usage of ‘R U OK?’ deeply patronising and not in any way conducive to believing that someone associated with it would have even the smallest insight or empathy with what I was going through.
In this fact is already the makings of a massive fail in campaign efficiency.
As a professional in emo-related counselling I think this campaign stinks of ‘trendy’ (as in watching your dad dancing to a grime track). Treating people who are depressed as adults, who are worth communicating with as adults, is one of the very core conditions of any type of counselling that will help. Saying ‘R U OK’ like that is precisely the opposite.
Frank Grimes?
I’m going to repeat what i said before. Anyone who finds “R U OKAY” as a name, offensive in *ANY* matter, is a gimp and should get over it.
Seriously, spelling is what you’d focus on when dealing with this whole thing? Spelling? Surely the message behind it, regardless of how trendy the whole thing seems, regardless of how its focused towards the lowest common denominator doesnt mean theres nothing to be gotten out of this.
Seriously, ANYONE with half a brain would look passed all these irrelevant things and find a deeper meaning in the message. Sure you could just ask “R U OKAY” and move on, but fucks sake, just saying are you okay doesnt do shit, and everyone knows that. The whole idea is not to ask ARE YOU OKAY? but to actually sit and think about the people around you.
Are they depressed?
Do you think they need help?
Are they thinking about suicide or anything related?
Those are the things you need to ask, not Are you okay, and sure, the name of the thing is obnoxious and annoying, but who gives a fuck.
I prefer to look at the message rather than the presentation.
Fuck off and go desecrate some other language, you hun.
Youth suicide is on the rise, youth illiteracy is on the rise. Coincidence?
Probably, but we can’t afford to take that chance. The line has been drawn, ladies and gentlemen. On this side, the few, the proud, the Purists. On the other? The suicidal scum of the Earth.
Jesus fucking Christ Aardvark. Calm down matey.
What happened when you were younger? Did a suicidal man run over your puppy or something? Fuck bro, relax a bit.
And i’m sorry that i’m not up to scratch with my literacy Aardvark, but i dont just dont give a shit. I’ve got more important things to do than spellcheck myself…Like pick the lint out of my pocket.
HOWEVER, let me give you the oppertunity to follow my posts and feel free to correct any and all spelling. Since i’m not going to do it.
Apparently appearing stupid is a badge of honour among today’s youth.
How about you fuck off and die. And while you’re at it, die speaking some language I hate, you epsilon.
Ahhh oldfags, i love how elitest they are.
If the choice is between elitism and willful ignorance, I’ll take my ivory tower view, you degenerate.
Ah look… how cute. It’s from that site where “oldfags” and “newfags” are part of the lexicon. Maybe it will put a V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask on if we poke it.
Woaw, seriously guys. I knew you were going to be harsh, but…WOW. Those quips cut me deep, i seriously hope i can recover from these egregious comments. Please lord, give me the strength.
Yeah, come to think of it, it does think of channer. Probably one of the ones who joined for the kiddie porn and stayed because they didn’t want people thinking that they were only there for the kiddie porn.
Nothing wrong with 4chan. Its good for a lol.
Plus, we all know you have never been there. Dont lie.
Besides, what does it matter where people originally came from, or how they found this fine site. So long as they are here now. The more the merrier!
I did come from 4chan actually. Why would i deny such a thing?
However Aardvark, stop being such a gimp, seriously, the best you can do is fling random accusations at me? I mean c’mon man.
Arent you a grown man? Like..What kind of grown man sits at home (or at his office desk) and flings pedophile at strangers on the internet. Dude, you are the coolest man alive.
Calm the fuck down, Aardvark. You’re not as cool as you think you are and by the way, its spelt STINK.
“It does think of channer.”
I think you meant to say, it STINKS of channer. Try to be more careful with your grammer next time Aardvark. These things are absolutely and unimaginably important, as you surely know.
Aw, wheres my reply? I was expecting something as equally groundbreaking from you elitist cuntbags.
Oh well. At least you know when to shut up, Aardvark.
Go and be willfully ignorant in a language I do not care for, like Hindi, Urdu or Hungarian.
Dude, you said that already.
If i wanted that comeback, i would of wiped it off your mother’s chin.
And it hasn’t sunk in, so I’ll repeat it again and again until it penetrates that dense skull of yours.
Fuck off and be ignorant somewhere else*∞
You first, considering you’re the only ignroant person here.
Edit: LOL i cant believe you just used “times infinity”. Last time i heard that was in the 3rd grade…hahaha..
That seems somewhat “inronic”, don’t you think?
Hah, it does. Okay fuck, you’ve got me, I’ll finally admit that i dont give a shit about my spelling most of the time.
Oh wait, i said that already.
The fact that you would need to “give a shit” about it in order to make sure your posts read as though you hadn’t spent the majority of your schooling getting stoned behind the bike shed speaks for itself.