Goths / The Metro / Paedophiles hacked to pieces

[Martian Martian]

Does anyone else read this shamelessly populist commuter rag?

The front page story in Scotland this morning was all about the gruesome discovery of a dismembered corpse in a posh part of Edinburgh.

It carried the classic line... 'Police are undertaking a fingertip search'.

Well, it made me laugh!

The victim was a former history teacher who had been previously jailed for kiddie-fiddling.

Result!

[MonkeyDrummer]

yeah i do. I only buy papers to read on the bus so it saves me money.  I can now access the web through my new phone so i can read the BBC website should there not be a metro available.
This is in contrast to what i used to do when there was no metro available which was to sit and fantasise about shooting my fellow commuters in the head with a semi-automatic weapon. Identifying both threats and viable targets was fun, but ultimately feel that a metro while populist is a preferrable way to avert my imagination.

[glitch]

I find the MEtro a frustrating read: ultimately it is farily interesting and a good way to pass an otherwise boring commute, but the fact that it's owned by The Daily Mail (or something) just doesn't sit right with me...

[dan dirty ape]

Is Nemi meant to be a goth or is she just really pale?

[smoker]

this is the second paedophile killing in as many weeks. justice? or the best way to force them underground?

[Vermschneid Mehearties]

:(

At first I thought you said 'The best way to force them to the underground'.

Which would have spawned delights such as me monging 'The Metro' into a paedophilic newsrag. You git.

[hencole]

Result!

so you like vigilanti justice and capital punishment then do you?

[Vermschneid Mehearties]

It's so funny. Only last week I watched my next door neighbour drown a guy for looking at his son in a weird way. He then hit him over the head with a spade and whatched his bloodstrewn corpse dissolve into the river.

[smoker]

i wonder how many people on here would become vigilantes if they had the chance, or the appropriate ninja training. i'd jump at it, ridding the streets of scum. sadly as i can't fight for shit i'll probably just have to settle for community police officer

[Frinky]

i'll probably just have to settle for community police officer

= punchbag.

[smoker]

i'll probably just have to settle for community police officer

= punchbag.

punchbag who gets smiles from little old ladies, thank you very much.

[Martian Martian]

Hang on a bloody minute!!! I don't have a problem with kiddie-fiddlers.







It's history teachers that deserve to die.

[23 Daves]

Is Nemi meant to be a goth or is she just really pale?

I think she's meant to be a kind-of halfway there goth, but the cartoon is deliberately non-specific so as not to alienate the Metro's faithful audience.  I believe she walked off with a chap who was into self-mutilation in one cartoon.

As for the Metro, it's just there waiting for me whenever I use the Waterloo and City Line, and there's normally about five minutes worth of interesting content in it which is the length of the journey.  That's the only reason I look at it.  I can't say I've noticed much political bias in it so far, but then again I haven't been taking strict notes either.

[imitationleather]

Haha, here's some classic quotes from Nemi supporters in the Metro forums:

Nemi's damned hot, I wanna be with her - and I'm delighted to now know she wears fishnets - rrrrrrr!

I absolutely love Nemi - if you can't understand the strip, you're either a ******* **** or you've accidentally picked up the original Norwegian version of the cartoon, because it's translated into English. Nemi is the best cartoon I've seen for years, I didn't even get put off when the artist took the **** out of people who cut themselves (which I used to do). NEMI SHOULD STAY.

Nemi is a Goddess thank u very much.U TWAT!!!!

Nemi's hot. We like Nemi.

I wanna see much more of Nemi - sod that idiot - I fancy her like buggery!

Nemi's a sexy babe who's as cynical as me and I wanna have sex with her!

[Purple Tentacle]

Nemi made me vomit blood for three hours this morning, very inconvienient.

She walked into a pub, and this HILARIOUSLY "normal" girl said that she liked Kylie Minogue, and Nemi said:
"This is planet Earth, beam me up".

HA HAH A HA HA HA HA HA H HA HA HA Iamtheangelofdeath.

What a bizarre coincidence this thread exists, I'm going to start a thread later inspired by my anger at Metro.

Unfortunately work is getting in the way....

[imitationleather]

Nemi hasn't had her collosal crevasse of a vag filled for quite a while, obviously she's losing her touch.

I wonder what the person who "draws" (quotation marks because Nemi isn't really drawn) looks like, and whether or not they have anything in common with the white-skinned oxygen-thief. It could of course be that it's all a parody, intended to fool the people who hate it and those who love it. Not very likely, but possible...

[23 Daves]

I can't believe I actually care enough to research into this, but anyway here's a picture of Nemi's creator Lise Myhre (EDIT oops, it's blocked, never mind, you can find it here):  http://nemicomics.cjb.net/creator.shtml

And here's what she has to say on the subject as to whether or not her and Nemi are "alike":

People always take for granted that Nemi and I are very much alike... Honestly I'm sick of people thinking that the series is so damned autobiographical. I mean sure, we have certain common characteristics. It would be almost impossible to develop a truthful person based on an entirely fictional basis of reference. Ok, so we're both incurable night owls and from time to time I let her borrow some stuff from my wardrobe. I see Nemi as an "imaginary friend" rather than a reflection of myself or my life. Nemi acts, speaks and thinks things that I wouldn't have.

I've always looked up to and identified myself with the misfits in society, and even though I don't think that Nemi is a series for goths only, I like the fact that the main character belongs to an underground culture. I meant what she said once: "It's entitled to us, us that are the most pissed off..." And in spite of the fact that I naturally want as many people to like what I do as possible, it's never the CS student from the good and regular home I think of when working.

- Being different means more than just a passing youth rebellion I think. I used to have purple hair and piercings and got provoked by everyone, who saw it as a phase I had to go through. It's annoying when people don't understand that what's different isn't necessarily about anything, other than people being different and liking different things - there's not always a STATEMENT behind it. I have seen nervous people walking in circles around some of the nicest people I know - just because on that day they were wearing leather and spikes. People in general are still very opinionated ... I still get some of my stories from that.

So there you go.  That should be all the facts anyone needs.

Personally speaking, I keep thinking I went out with Nemi once at some point in my horrible past, then I remember it's just a cartoon.

[Purple Tentacle]

Hehe, yeah because Goths all dress so individually don't they, it just blows The Man's mind and he can't handle it.

Yay! It's the annual VW goth-bashing!

[imitationleather]

No outside linking, it seems.

Anyway, she looks exactly like Nemi. As if it's not completely based on her and her life. Jesus Christ...

Also, calling goth "underground"... It's in the charts more than most other types of rock music fer crying out loud! Also, didn't it stop being at all underground in the '80s when everyone who wasn't part of it decided that really, it was all just a bit camp and silly?

EDIT: The thing is, we wouldn't feel the need to bash them if they didn't go on constantly about how different they are and that society doesn't understand them. If they want to dress like that and listen to that music, fine. Just don't act like you're somehow better and more of an individual than everyone else just because we don't feel the need to walk around with clothes that basically amount to a sandwich board proclaiming, "I'M DIFFERENT, ME!"

[Martian Martian]

I've no idea who this Nemi character is. I don't think cartoons make the journey into the Scottish edition.

Goths provide great entertainment in Glasgow. They congregate at the Gallery of Modern Art of an evening, and get beaten up by gangs of 'neds' - I believe this species is known as 'chavs' elsewhere.

[MonkeyDrummer]

I've no idea who this Nemi character is. I don't think cartoons make the journey into the Scottish edition.

Goths provide great entertainment in Glasgow. They congregate at the Gallery of Modern Art of an evening, and get beaten up by gangs of 'neds' - I believe this species is known as 'chavs' elsewhere.

Yeah, Irn-Bru had to pull the advert "Cheer up Goth, Have an Irn-Bru" as apparently the local Neds were throwing cans of irn-bru into the GOMA Goth crowd.

[Martian Martian]

[Yeah, Irn-Bru had to pull the advert "Cheer up Goth, Have an Irn-Bru" as apparently the local Neds were throwing cans of irn-bru into the GOMA Goth crowd.

He he he. Am I right in thinking that because goths are so rare in Glasgow, the City Council operate a tagging scheme, not unlike the one they use for swans?

Ergo, do you need the Queen's permission before you kill one?

[fanny splendid]

Heh heh heh.

What is it with goths these days. Since when was being a goth synonymous with being miserable?

[Martian Martian]

In case you're ever in Glasgow.

If ever chased by a gang of neds, always run into the nearest book store. Neds are allergic to words.

Thanks TFD!

[MonkeyDrummer]

Ergo, do you need the Queen's permission before you kill one?

No, you just have to let her know when you have.

[Pinball]

this is the second paedophile killing in as many weeks. justice? or the best way to force them underground?

Aren't there public directories of these sickos now including their addresses? Which as you allude to encourages a different type of sicko to murder them...

[glitch]

No outside linking, it seems.
Also, calling goth "underground"... It's in the charts more than most other types of rock music fer crying out loud! Also, didn't it stop being at all underground in the '80s when everyone who wasn't part of it decided that really, it was all just a bit camp and silly?

EDIT: The thing is, we wouldn't feel the need to bash them if they didn't go on constantly about how different they are and that society doesn't understand them. If they want to dress like that and listen to that music, fine. Just don't act like you're somehow better and more of an individual than everyone else just because we don't feel the need to walk around with clothes that basically amount to a sandwich board proclaiming, "I'M DIFFERENT, ME!"

When is it in the charts? I don't follow the charts, but isn't it still going through the younger-teenage-fuelled nu-metal phase at the moment?

Although calling goth "underground" is more than a little silly. It's one of the most widely represented subcultures on the Internet. Probably something to do with it being 90% white-middle-class-types more than anything else though. Oh and the ones old enough are trying to single-handedly take over the IT support sector.

The majority of goths I know aren't the "I'm so individual. You don't understand" variety. That's something normally reserved to 16 year old Kerrang-readers.

Who aren't goth.

I can't believe I'm defending a subculture that can really annoy me...

[european son]

i was posting about goths in another thread

i really just wanted an excuse to post this again:

Little Goth: They're all a bunch of Nazi conformists cheerleaders.

EDIT: funnily enough, i'm genuinely listening to Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers on a loop as i write this.

[king mob]

I've no idea who this Nemi character is. I don't think cartoons make the journey into the Scottish edition.

Goths provide great entertainment in Glasgow. They congregate at the Gallery of Modern Art of an evening, and get beaten up by gangs of 'neds' - I believe this species is known as 'chavs' elsewhere.

Yeah, Irn-Bru had to pull the advert "Cheer up Goth, Have an Irn-Bru" as apparently the local Neds were throwing cans of irn-bru into the GOMA Goth crowd.

This is one of the reasons i miss living in Glasgow :)

Nemi is odd, its fucking massive in Finland & you cant move in bookshops in Stockholm without tripping over whopping huge collections of the thing.They love the thing over there, i had people raving about it when i was in Sweden but its a really bland version of Lenore & thats a sad goth comic as well.

Goths ehh?

[Vermschneid Mehearties]

Yes. The twatty ones are greebo's. The ones who are alright but have a penchant for black clothing are goths.

And nu-metal went out a bit ago, as judging by sales did Limp Bizkit.

It's the cockshitting Darkness now.