buffyverse tattoos

The Simpsons are so cool!

And along the phonetics train-of-thought: "Ooh, a tattoooo! That's so coool!" Don't know "tattoo"'s etymology, probably just coincidence. Yet eerie, nonetheless.

And, if you twist the sound of "ooh", just a bit, you get Buffy's famous "eewww". You go from awe to utter disgust, contempt. Sounds are important.

I think the harsh, consonant-heavy sounds of many swearwords explains their power as well.

The specific "eeww" I was thinking of was when Spike manages to convince Buffy to investigate some vamps downtown and they're in his car. He offers her some whiskey or something and you've got the "eeww!" Then, a second "eeww" for emphasis. This "eeww" rises in pitch at the end, like saying "Spike, I just said eeww! Are you deaf?"

Another one I like: "Well, duh!". Sounds like dumb, dummy, dunce. Is "duh" the sound of stupidity? Some sound Cletus the slack-jawed yokel would utter?

And of course, Homer's "D'oh!"
 
nerd4hire
nerd4hire
Not sure about this, but I think "tattoo" is a native word from the south pacific somewhere.
I know this thread is long dead, but I found this piece from 1994. Was just so funny to me. I was at a Lollapalooza show in East Troy, WI in 1992 and I can totally identify with this quest for cool....


"The audience at a Lollapalooza concert is a study in nonconformist conformity. Both sexes wear baggy jeans, flannels, and stupid t-shirts. When I write "stupid" it is not just my opinion, the wearer thinks the shirt is stupid as well, precisely the reason he or she is wearing it. These t-shirts must be worn with a sense of irony. If the wearer is male, the t-shirt must be oversized. If the wearer is female, the t-shirt must be undersized. Regardless of who is wearing the shirt, it is vital that the shirt not look extremely new. One type of stupid t-shirt that appears to be gaining popularity is the baseball style t-shirt with the iron-on decal of a rock band. These were extremely popular back in the late '70's and early '80's. By wearing the shirt, one appears not to care about fashion, and yet looks very fashionable indeed.

Other essential accessories include body piercing and tattoos. It is no longer enough to have a pierced ear or nose to be considered truly "unique", one must have a pierced navel, lip, tongue, eyebrow, and nipple. Tattoos are popular as well, especially ones that involve enduring excruciating pain while receiving them. Those who wear these fashions claim they are trying to be different from the "norm" and that they are rebelling from the mainstream. However, like the junior high school competitions to see who could be the most popular, Generation X battles to see who can be the most different and/or "alternative." "


http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=20623
 
Truly lovely, eh.

Those who wear these fashions claim they are trying to be different from the "norm" and that they are rebelling from the mainstream. However, like the junior high school competitions to see who could be the most popular, Generation X battles to see who can be the most different and/or "alternative."

God do I love this..? Aw... I wish I had written that lol...
 
Mr. Pointy said:
Trying to define cool is like trying to plait smoke - can't be done 🙂...this quote from The Simpsons shows what I mean...
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(Jill, merrily braiding fog)

Well, I'll give it a shot.

The reason you can't concretely define cool is that it's subjective. But what "Cool" boils down to is this: a trait, or more often, combination of traits that we admire, and likely aspire to.

Take Fonzie. He's cool, because he's funny, tough and charismatic. Marilyn Manson is cool because he's fiercely intelligent, has a spectacular understanding of the power of image, and yes, has produced some damn fine music. Caoimhe Butterly is cool because she's not afraid to get shot once in a while for what she believes in. Might disagree with me about Manson, say, but my point is: I consider all of these people pretty cool, but they don't really have any single thing in common that automatically makes them all part of the same club.

Tattoos are generally considered cool because they look good, they take a certain amount of guts to get, and, depending on the size and location, no small amount of pain tolerance. But if Bill Gates got a tattoo, would he automatically be cool? Truly cool people don't need to be told they're cool, because they don't need to know. If you need to be told you're cool... well, that's not cool is it? It's a bit narcissistic. If you're deliberately trying to be cool, well, that's a bit needy, isn't it?

"Cool" as a concept receives an awful lot of hostility by older generations because they dislike who or what are they believe are considered "cool" by the younger generation. But what's so loathsome about the idea? Isn't it just a safe, embarrassment-free way for people to express their admiration for somebody else to their peers? Hey. They're cool.

However, "cool", when used as a synonym for "popular" in highschool, is a different animal to the coolness bestowed onto celebrities and idols. It's insincere power politics, where the cheerleader/ sports jock types hold the power, and promote those they deem fit to the rank of "cool". It doesn't matter that the majority consider those people profoundly uncool - they have the power, and they define what constitutes cool for everybody else. It's not true cool - it's an abuse of the idea.
 
This has kinda morphed into the all-purpose coolness thread, so I thought I'd drop this in here. This article tracks with Jill Valentine's cool/popular comments:


UVA Study Finds `Cool Kids' Get In More Trouble

(AP) - Popular teenagers are much more likely to drink, smoke marijuana, shoplift and vandalize property than their less-popular peers, according to a new University of Virginia study.

Researchers said results of their study contradict traditional views about the benefits of being one of the "cool kids" in school.

"We tend to think if kids are well-liked by their peers, that provides a safety net for them," said psychology professor Joseph Allen, the lead investigator of the study. "Popular adolescents do have many advantages, but we find they are at greater risk for drug use and petty criminal behavior...."

"...Allen said popular teens tend to be friendly, outgoing people who want to get along with others. He said these traits make them vulnerable to peer pressure.

"Popular adolescents look like leaders. But in reality they are tracking peer opinion," Allen said. "They do the same thing politicians do in tracking opinion polls. They are very much like politicians."

http://www.wavy.com/global/story.asp?s=3408361&ClientType=Printable



"”Leave it to scientists and academics to be surprised by the obvious I guess. These findings totally track with my memories of grade school and high school. They are in fact using the terms "cool" and "popular" interchangably.

Most of the popular kids I knew were prone to partying and taking drugs, etc. Even if it wasn't a regular pattern, they'd at least try everything out. Whether or not you thought the popular kids were actually cool is another issue I think.

I was far from "cool/popular", always hanging out with all the arty/av nerds in the lunchroom. We never did drugs and rarely partied, never vandalized anything"”mostly 'cause we were never invited! LOL. We weren't harassed. We just didn't give a sh*t about any of the "cool/popular" kid's interests. Then, by the time you get to college, that stuff isn't life-and-death anymore. The high school caste system breaks down, people chill out a little bit.

I would be a lousy politician, I think. Hate crowds, public speaking. Like one-on-one interaction mostly. I think it helps to be an extrovert to be a truly "successful" popular/cool high school kid. I just mostly wanted to be left alone, kept my head down.

Although, I think success through personal achievement and hard work boosts confidence, which in turn can make almost anyone more extroverted.
 
Hey, is "geek' the new cool now? Just thinking that since the late 70's Spielberg/Lucas movie phenomenon, sci-fi, fantasy, comics have come to dominate cinema.

In pop music, grunge played itself out ages ago"”the last vestige of true, nihilistic rock (in my opinion). Kids seem less interested in angry, anti-establishment, punkish music. Much of indie music today seems very introverted, more quiet, contempletive. Although really, it gets more eclectic and niche-ified with each passing year, so it's hard to reach any conclusion there.

Buffy glommed onto the geeks of Sunnydale and never looked back. Willow, Xander, Oz"”they were "cool" misfits (to us viewers anyway). Seems like the geek-as-protagonist thing can be traced back to the 80's John Hughs films: Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club... Now there's like a mix of geek/protagonist films and beautiful people films (Bring it On, for example).

Are nerds and geeks dominating youth culture now? I may be full of it. Most of you guys are still in school, you'd know better than I....



"So now we emerge into the 21st century"”an era of emo-rock, wine tasting, board game parties, and tweed blazers. This is unfamiliar territory for the pop-culture enthusiast used to the easily recognizable lexicon of cool. Geek chic takes the conventions of pretty, sexy, and popular, and turns them on their head. Take, for example, the lead characters from the ridiculously popular TV show "The O.C." It is not Ryan, the bad boy with the smoldering stare who has garnered the affection of teen girls everywhere, but rather Seth"”Seth the school outcast, Seth the Comic-Con attendee, Seth the indie music lover. Seth the geek.

Still, Seth is not by any means the prototypical TV nerd; he is no president of the chemistry club. Rather, he embodies all the elements of recognizable geek chic, sporting obscure band names on his T-shirts and spouting inane but bizarrely captivating facts about literature, history, and video games. He isn't the smartest kid at school, and he doesn't need to be. Being geeky is no longer equated with conventional intelligence. It has much more to do with possessing indepth knowledge of interests or obsessions outside the norm."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7503118/site/newsweek/page/2/



"Geek culture was formed in critical opposition to mainstream social culture and is defined through rapidly expanding and evolving technologies. Today's geeks are no longer forced onto the fringe of mainstream culture but have developed a critical perspective and stay on the fringe by choice. A self-actualized geek culture is, by definition, an act of critique and protest.

Geek culture has grown into a deep-rooted critical mentality and willingness to challenge, confront, and build alternatives to deep-rooted social, educational, political and economic institutions.

Also important to geek culture is an obsession with skill, creativity, and an infatuation with new technology. In this way, geek culture couples a critical nature with the tools and the mentality needed to execute real change.

Geek culture is complex. It is enigmatic. It is powerful.

Meanwhile, the number of us, and the influence we have on the rest of society is growing. Fast."

http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/makostory.htm
 
OK Frays tatoo i really like it but am interested to knoiw what it is and to find a clear picture of it. I cant find a pciture anywhere but i found out that the tatoo might be a symbol which represents three wiccan gods, but i aint sure, can anyone help me
 
Inky Palooza

SMG Has a lower back tat, you can see it first ep of season seven when she's in the house talking to xander, you just see the very top of it.
A lot of people have things against tats but i think they should stop judging and just leave it to the individual I know I'm sick defending mine.
 
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