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Post by dirtypillows on Sept 22, 2018 3:33:54 GMT
Hellfire club? In Chicago, hellfire club is for gay men who like to get fisted. I can't imagine how that would be a high school clique, but these days ya never can be sure about these things...
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Post by ellynmacg on Sept 22, 2018 5:07:29 GMT
A bit of a loner. And as an Aussie, I don't recognize over half of those categories. Most of them simply didn't exist where and when I went to school. I'm from the U. S., but I'm probably old enough to be a grandmother, or at least a mother, to most of the posters here--so quite a few of the types listed on the poll either hadn't yet come into being, or had different meanings.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 22, 2018 5:15:57 GMT
I'm thinking that "quite a few of the types listed on the poll" were totally made up just to see if anyone picked them !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 12:10:19 GMT
None. No school I attended had cliques. Or if they did, I wasn't aware of them. I suppose that puts me in the oblivious clique...
School cliques seems to be a very uniquely American thing. I often wonder if it actually is a real phenomenon, or just something movies invent or massively exaggerate.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 22, 2018 13:26:18 GMT
...pillows: The Hellfire Club was an original colonial American bawdy club and Ben Franklin was a charter member. My response to this OP was with tongue in cheek...
I was a loner.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 22, 2018 15:15:43 GMT
Punk
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 22, 2018 15:29:06 GMT
There weren't any fulltime cliques in my high school way back when. I think this is a modern thing that kids need to box themselves into. Just how old are you? I know there were cliques in my parents' high schools in the 50s.
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Post by bd74 on Sept 22, 2018 17:32:37 GMT
Unfortunately, my school (despite having a large student population) did not offer much by way of cliques. It was a predominantly Hispanic population, and the only real clique that I can think of that existed in the school was Hip Hop, which was still in its infancy at the time (the early 90s). That was when guys first started wearing "sagging pants". There were a few rockers here and there (with long hair). There were a few artsy people (one artsy white guy sported dreadlocks which was not common at the time). I personally hung out with people who were just nondescript and somewhat nerdy. Some of them were good students, others were just average students. Ironically, years after high school I became a raver/goth.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 22, 2018 23:24:10 GMT
I often wonder if it actually is a real phenomenon, or just something movies invent or massively exaggerate. It's real alright … the movies may make them dramatic or comic, depending on the movie, BUT they are (and probably always were and will be ) real !
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Sept 23, 2018 4:44:04 GMT
There weren't any fulltime cliques in my high school way back when. I think this is a modern thing that kids need to box themselves into. Just how old are you? I know there were cliques in my parents' high schools in the 50s. High school in the 80s. People hung out with certain other people but it wasn't like in the movies where people were exclusive to their group and bulled/ were bullied by other groups. Early on you'd more likely hang with people from your junior high, and then with people with the same spare as you. It wasn't rigid. Football players hung mostly with each other in season but people played multiple sports so you could be friends with someone not on the football team. A cheerleader wasn't a cheerleader all year long and would mix with other people at some point.
The biggest separator was the level of the courses you took. People planning on getting post-secondary education (especially university) took the hardest level and were more likely to be friends with each other regardless of what other interests and activities they had. The lowest level were people likely not to graduate at all or definitely not planning on any post-secondary education. The middle group might go to college or lower level university and could hang with people from the other 2 groups.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Sept 23, 2018 4:51:06 GMT
...pillows: The Hellfire Club was an original colonial American bawdy club and Ben Franklin was a charter member. My response to this OP was with tongue in cheek... I was a loner. I went to Benjamin Franklin HS in East Harlem, which no longer exists. It now has a much classier name.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 5:12:51 GMT
Jeez, it's hard to say. It wasn't just distinct categories of people and it would have gone year by year in my high school because towards the end there was a good deal of overlap.
I would say I was mostly in the unlisted outsider category in the first two years, mostly hanging with what I guess you'd call punks and nerds, but then the punks and nerds also started hanging at parties with the jocks and preps and we kinda got along on those terms. So I was hanging out with punks, nerds, jocks, preps, geeks, losers... whatever... they were just all there.
Overall, I would say I was infamous more than popular. I was definitely not popular but I was well-known for better or worse. I mostly got a pass because I was well-known for not giving a fuck but when I did, you likely wouldn't beat me or make me back down. At least as far as the other kids go. I also mostly got along with people which is probably the most helpful thing I somehow learned from high school.
Mostly I suppose I had an affinity with the punks and the nerds. I don't know, high school was bullshit. I didn't take many social lessons away from it other than that.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 23, 2018 10:17:24 GMT
Just how old are you? I know there were cliques in my parents' high schools in the 50s. High school in the 80s. People hung out with certain other people but it wasn't like in the movies where people were exclusive to their group and bulled/ were bullied by other groups. Early on you'd more likely hang with people from your junior high, and then with people with the same spare as you. It wasn't rigid. Football players hung mostly with each other in season but people played multiple sports so you could be friends with someone not on the football team. A cheerleader wasn't a cheerleader all year long and would mix with other people at some point.
The biggest separator was the level of the courses you took. People planning on getting post-secondary education (especially university) took the hardest level and were more likely to be friends with each other regardless of what other interests and activities they had. The lowest level were people likely not to graduate at all or definitely not planning on any post-secondary education. The middle group might go to college or lower level university and could hang with people from the other 2 groups.
"Exclusive and bullied" probably wasn't the case very often, but you can still have cliques without that. As I mentioned in my post, for example, I was a part of multiple cliques, but if I had to pick just one, I was more of a band geek than anything else.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 23, 2018 15:02:20 GMT
Ostensibly the nerds but I drifted between the subcultures of that clique.
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Post by someguy on Sept 24, 2018 12:24:10 GMT
Stoners and slackers. I never deliberately considered myself a punk, but a friend told me I actually was more punk than most people who do call themselves as such.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 14:14:50 GMT
Loner is not a clique
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 24, 2018 17:36:43 GMT
Sure it is .. the members hang out together and discuss how they are loners and how and why they hate to hang out anyone and to make snarky remarks about the people in cliques actually recognized as cliques.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 17:56:28 GMT
Sure it is .. the members hang out together and discuss how they are loners and how and why they hate to hang out anyone and to make snarky remarks about the people in cliques actually recognized as cliques. whatever
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 24, 2018 18:45:44 GMT
Sure it is .. the members hang out together and discuss how they are loners and how and why they hate to hang out anyone and to make snarky remarks about the people in cliques actually recognized as cliques. whatever WOW ! the thought and brainpower used in that clever reply … you must take a nap to rest up after that expenditure of energy... such imagery ..I can actually SEE the shrug that accompanied your magnificently worded missive !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 19:12:04 GMT
I dont believe the following merits more than a one word response:
Cheeky clever retorts accompanied by stock images idiot's posing.
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