First QOTW post ever...
I'd like to know what it is about people who dress in black and have long hair that screams "TARGET" at members of the lower echelons of society.

That said, despite the fact that I fall into that category, listen to heavy metal, happen to be a little bit mental, and even went about a year calling myself a goth, I seem to have got off light in terms of bullying. Essentially, the worst I got was heckles, and the occasional stone barrage (read: chav kids throwing stones with roughly a 4-5% hit rate). The heckles would typically come under 3 categories:

Appearance: Self explanatory. "Cut yer 'air!" and "Are you a girl or a boy?" were favourites. Imaginative stuff.

Lifestyle: Essentially digs at the music I listen to and my brief goth period. "ROCK ON DUDE! \m/" was generally met with scorn, as were cries of "MOSHER!", "GOTH!" and, more recently, "EMO!". How offensive is "Mosher" supposed to be to someone who listens to rock music anyway?

My favourite example of this sort of thing happened about 3 years after I stopped calling myself a goth.
Chav kid: Do you cut yerself? (Most kids at my secondary laboured under the misapprehension that self-harm was a majorly gothic thing to do)
Me: No, why on earth would I do that?
Chav kid: Yeah you do!

Name: My name is Conor Macdonald. I like my name. Not many people can claim to being named after the main character from Highlander. However, a surname like Macdonald leaves you open to a battery of mockery. Renditions of Old McDonald and requests for cheeseburgers plagued my primary school years, so, needless to say, by year 10 these had got old. Occasionally, I got modifications of Karma Chameleon by Culture Club, with my name instead of Karma.

Essentially, I have been subject to possibly the most ineffectual bullying of all time. Go me.

Length? Not bad for a first time...
( deathsquirrel Oh dear., Wed 13 May 2009, 17:51, 6 replies)

not many people can claim to be named after the main character from highlander
INCLUDING yourself.
that could be connor MacLeod iirc.

AICMFP
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 13 May 2009, 17:57, closed)

Connor MacDonald....
Is an awesome name!
(Lip Up Fatty Fatty Reggae still loves BBQ food on, Wed 13 May 2009, 18:01, closed)

As a teacher I was Miss McDonald
For the first term I suffered through renditions of Old MacDonald in everey bastard class I taught.

Then when I ignored that assault, they started on "Miss, can I have a Big Mac?"

Thank fuck I left teaching just before the Fast Food Rockers song came out. I would probably have had to kill someone.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 May 2009, 18:40, closed)

I knew there was something else I got...
Bloody Fast Food Rockers. I've got it in my head now.
( deathsquirrel Oh dear., Thu 14 May 2009, 19:28, closed)

find it
funny how if you turned round and shouted chav back they'd have gotten very offended.

well the small mouthy ones usually do.
(stitched, Wed 13 May 2009, 19:36, closed)

Sorry you had to go through this...
but the Karma Chameleon bit made me laugh out loud. That tune, with your name in place of the lyric, is going to be going through my head all afternoon.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Thu 14 May 2009, 16:03, closed)