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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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 Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: Emo Kills, Apparently |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=564611&in_page_id=1770
Girl, 13, hangs herself after becoming obsessed with Emo 'suicide cult' rock band
by ANDREW LEVY
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A girl of 13 killed herself after becoming obsessed with a fashion which links death with glamour, an inquest hearing.
Hannah Bond hanged herself from her bunk bed with a tie after becoming an "Emo".
Emo fans wear dark clothes, practise self-harm and listen to "suicide cult" rock bands.
Two weeks before her death, she started following U.S. band My Chemical Romance.
One of their songs contains the lyrics: "Although you're dead and gone, believe me your memory will go on."
Hannah, described as a model pupil, had started cutting her wrists but told her father it was part of an initiation into the Emo fashion.
Coroner Roger Sykes said yesterday that Hannah's death was "not glamorous, just simply a tragic loss of a young life".
Hannah's mother Heather told the inquest she had researched the trend since her daughter's death.
"There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves," she said.
"She called Emo a fashion and I thought it was normal."
She added: "Hannah was a normal girl. She had loads of friends. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager."
Hannah's father Ray, a karate teacher, said: "Two weeks before, I saw the cuts. I asked her about them and she said it was an Emo initiation.
"She promised me she would never do it again."
Hannah gave her name as Living Disaster on her page on social networking website Bebo.
The page is decorated with a picture of an Emo girl with bloody wrists after slashing herself.
Another picture shows a child's exercise book scrawled with the words: "Dear Diary, today I give up. . ."
The inquest in Maidstone, Kent, heard Hannah had been with her boyfriend at a friend's house on the evening of September 22 last year.
She had been angry when she was told she was not allowed to sleep over and when she got home in East Peckham she went straight to her room, saying: "I want to kill myself."
The inquest was told Hannah had not used drugs or alcohol before her death but Vanessa Everett, her head teacher at Mascalls School, said self-harm had become commonplace among other Emo fans.
Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Sykes said: "The Emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing."
�The Emo phenomenon began in the U.S. in the 1980s. It is a largely teenage trend and is characterised by depression, self-injury and suicide.
Followers wear tight jeans with studded belts and wristbands. Their hair is dyed black and worn in long fringes to obscure their faces.
Emo - from the word emotional - is a reference to the angst-filled lyrics and melancholy themes of the rock music central to the culture.
One of the foremost of these "suicide cult" bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey.
Their first single, Welcome to the Black Parade, from the album The Black Parade, was released in 2006 and became a huge hit, going to number one in Britain.
The concept album follows the story of a character called The Patient, who dies of cancer.
The Black Parade is a nickname for the place where Emo fans believe they will go when they die.
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Brits, Is the Daily Mail a complete rag?
I've heard that journalistic standards vary wildly in the UK, but this story is so ridiculous I want to punch the reporter in the face.
Do they have fact checkers in England?
Emo started in the 90's with bands like Braid. And you could trace a line straight back to Joy Division with the current bands that pass for "Emo."
The most ridiculous aspect of this is that the discussion centers around a musical tradition that only vaguely exists, rather than a real discussion of mental health. A kid that commits suicide for not being allowed to hang out is a troubled kid no matter what music he or she listens too. Is this the UK's chance to throw a 'your music kills our kids' back at us after the debacle that Tipper Gore created in reference to Judas Priest?
I really shouldn't be this annoyed by the stupidity of others. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Emo Kills, Apparently |
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| Czarjorge wrote: |
Brits, Is the Daily Mail a complete rag? |
Yup, it's a self-righteous reactionary Tory rag where everyone's trying to rape our babies or turn them into homosexuals.
p.s I thought the title read 'Elmo' kills. Emo sucks. |
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jim_we
Joined: 06 May 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| The tree of life is self pruning! |
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KirbyMagnus
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't miss the Daily Mail one bit. |
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crash bang
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| i dont know why, i read the thread title as "enron kills" the first several times |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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fruitcake
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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Twenty five years ago, the kid would've played an Ozzy record backwards and blown their head off with a shotgun. Thirty years ago, they'd've done a bunch of smack and OD'd at a GG Allin concert. Forty years ago, they might have drank Mr. Jones' Kool-Aid. Fifty years ago they'd likely have done themselves playing 'chicken' a la 'Rebel Without A Cause.'
Young people always whack themselves for dumb reasons. If not for emo, then for Goethe's young Werther, or some other equally stupid thing.
Kind of a bummer really...think I'll go be by myself in my room and listen to Depeche Mode or something... |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| blurgalurgalurga wrote: |
If not for emo, then for Goethe's young Werther, or some other equally stupid thing.
Kind of a bummer really...think I'll go be by myself in my room and listen to Depeche Mode or something... |
I so forgot about that loser Werther. If you're going to kill yourself over a married chick, at least hit it first. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: Emo Kills, Apparently |
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| ED209 wrote: |
| Czarjorge wrote: |
Brits, Is the Daily Mail a complete rag? |
Yup, it's a self-righteous reactionary Tory rag where everyone's trying to rape our babies or turn them into homosexuals.
p.s I thought the title read 'Elmo' kills. Emo sucks. |
It's not everyone, it's just them dirty illegal immigrants, they eat babies as well from what The Mail says. |
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crash bang
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:00 am Post subject: |
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Aren't they getting that mixed up with this:
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Kimchi Cowboy
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| And I thought this had something to do with our venerated DESLC comrade, Eamo... |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:44 am Post subject: |
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^^
Kimchi Cowboy, whenever I do a lesson on health issues and going to the doctors for advice etc, that pic in your avatar is always the one I use, to denote somebody who's not going to make it past ten years old. His parents must be very proud! |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:28 am Post subject: |
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That's not emo, for heaven's sake. That's GOTH.
Emo is just whiny, not grim and morbid. Thanks to Fruitcake for helping to demonstrate this with a DerrickComedy video. |
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