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Is your boss a goth? 10 telltale signs


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1 Drinks snakebite

Former or closet goths still display a lingering thirst for snakebite - half a pint of lager with half a pint of cider, sometimes with blackcurrant. Snakebite is the worst thing the goths ever did after their invasion of the Roman Empire in 267.

2 Penchant for eyeliner

It seems everybody's wearing eyeliner these days, but a goth's make-up is a smidgen more extreme: the skin is powdered white, and black eyeliner is used on eyes, brows, lips and sometimes - to draw cobwebs, probably - the skin. NB: goths do not use bronzer, rouge, or St Tropez self-tan.

3 Cape

Capes have been fashionable this winter, but don't let that confuse you. A goth wears a cape so long it grazes the floor. Looks a little incongruous over a business suit.

4 Went to Leeds university

Strangely, Leeds has a nigh-on magnetic attraction for goths, and there are more cape shops per capita in the city than anywhere else in Europe.

5 Whistles Fields of the Nephilim/ Sisters of Mercy/ March Violets/ Subway to Sally songs

This is why no goth ever had a successful career as a milkman.

6 Strange hobbies

Many of your colleagues will spend the weekend at B&Q, drinking Lambrusco and playing five-a-side. Not goths. They read preposterous fantasy books, do a spot of Wicca and anything "a bit medieval".

7 Black clothing

Though both wore a lot of black, it is easy to differentiate between the goth and the 80s throwback by asking this simple question: can you imagine this outfit in a Robert Palmer video? The goth's predilection for black clothing is a reflection of the Black Aesthetic - taking those things society regards as evil or wrong and making them beautiful. Many items in the longtime goth's wardrobe may now have faded to a sort of charcoal shade.

8 Disturbing dancing at Christmas party

The goth sticks rigidly to the routine of two and a half steps to the front and back again, while gazing at the floor in an affected fashion and waving hands around mysteriously.

9 Disarmingly pointy boots

It is a little-known fact that inside their shoes, goths' feet are just as pointy as their winklepickers.

10 Drives a hearse to work And doesn't work at a funeral parlour.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1735690,00.html

Well it made me laugh, but then again I guess I'm biased.

TG

P.s. FYI I scored 5, maybe 6

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Oh no! Do you have a cape? I used to be a goth in my younger youth, I used to hang out in the electric ballroom at about 15yrs old in a pvc dress and thigh boots !amazed Went to see The Sisters of Mercy at Brixton last year as a blast from the past, they were bloody awful live! :P Slippers n Zero7 for me these days ;)

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Surely nobodies past (or future) can be as dark as VR6Lee's

No, no cape. And no eyeliner, I am 37 after all.

I might have miscounted, unless you count the VR6 as a hearse (it's more then likely to see one dead body, mine ): Snackbite, Blackclothing, the Goth 2 step, Strange Hobbies and partial points for going to York Uni and humming Goth tracks as I can't whistle.

Last time I saw the Sisters live I was astonished by how muck like a turtle Eldritch looked!

TG

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i can understand why some people find goths scary or weird :o

I've never been a goth,never been one to follow any sort of fashion 8)

i think some goths can look quite sexy though :D

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