• JackbyDev
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    11911 months ago

    A false dichotomy created by pop culture to divide teenagers into cliques.

  • TimeSquirrel
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    11 months ago

    Is this divisive jock/preppy/nerd/skater/gangsta shit still going on 23 years after I left high school? I thought y’all zoomers were better than that.

    • @bigmanjezza@lemmy.world
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      4611 months ago

      hello, I’m a 2020 hs graduate, I’m probably in the zoomer category. from my experience, this does not exist outside of movies.

        • KluEvo
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          1111 months ago

          fun /s

          I mean, as a nerd with no interest in prom, it wasn’t all bad. My hs has us still do graduation almost as normal (masks and spacing, ofc), with the only major difference being that it was split across multiple days so we could fit everyone on the front lawn.

          The fact that they had to do the speeches six times was the only reason I was slightly glad to have missed out on being valedictorian/salutorian

        • @bigmanjezza@lemmy.world
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          211 months ago

          pretty boring tbh. most of it was the same, just with masks on, and classes online. thankfully, mu part of australia was mostly unaffected by covid, so final WACE exams were basically the same. the big send off was already done before hand

      • Norgur
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        -1211 months ago

        Can we stop this “Introvert” BS? An “introvert” is someone who will tend to keep their thoughts to themselves. Nothing more. This “the extroverts are the sports guys and the introverts are the intellectuals” is completely made up and people will not like you more or less depending on wether you wear your heart on your tongue or not.

        • Aesthesiaphilia
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          An “introvert” is someone who will tend to keep their thoughts to themselves.

          That’s not correct at all, and it’s funny because you’re so confident about it

            • Aesthesiaphilia
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              1211 months ago

              That’s not how they’re defined, just typical manifestations of the underlying personalities.

              Introverts emotionally recharge from alone time, extroverts emotionally recharge from time with others.

              • Norgur
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                This is exactly the kind of made up division I’m talking about. There is no such thing as “someone who ‘emotionally recharges X or Y way’”.

                First of all: Why exactly would Wikipedia - edited by thousands - be wrong if the way you put is “what they are defined as”? Wouldn’t people have written Wikipedia that way then?

                Next, there is no such thing as “emotionally recharge”. Our “emotions” aren’t a battery. Also, there is “recharging process” or anything. Generally speaking: Activities that make us happy in that very moment “recharge” our batteries. Parents of young children will confirm that this not neccessarily a task that gives you respite, but can be the most exhausting thing ever, still you’ll come out of it with more energy than before.

                And we all - everyone! Yes, you too! - have varying ways of doing that. Sometimes, we’ll want to be around others and it’ll do us good, sometimes we want to be alone and it’ll do us good. While all people will have tendencies towards one way or another, no one has a defined “recharging mode”. No one.

                And lastly: The main issue with this division into “introverts” and “extroverts” is not that it’s impossible to divide people by that line. You can, as you can with many, many other lines one could draw. The issue is that people offhandedly attribute all kinds of stuff to this division. All of a sudden, extroverts are “loud” and “confident” and “energetic” and “sports guys”. Even IF we applied your definition… how would the way someone wants to take a break in lead to them being even one of those things? It’s just not logical.

            • @Severed_Fate@lemmy.world
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              111 months ago

              Guess what kind of activities the average outgoing and energetic teenager will pick to indulge in compared to the more reflective and reserved teenager. Sports.

              You just proved your own statement wrong.

              • Norgur
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                511 months ago

                How would a tendency to keep thoughts on the inside instead of the outside make you more prone to being a sports guy?

  • @bighatchester@lemmy.world
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    1611 months ago

    I was actually both . I was in the robotics club and programming/ gaming on my free time. Then on the weekends I was out drinking and hanging with a completely different set of friends.

  • Sagrotan
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    911 months ago

    In the 90s it wasn’t a problem to do both, so I became a double loser.

  • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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    811 months ago

    I’m about to blaze up and jump into this Tarkov wipe with the boys. The fuck is this.

    • R0cket_M00se
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      211 months ago

      Me, dropping into DMZ with a single plate carrier, a throwing knife, my vape, and a DREAM.

  • GeekFTW
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    811 months ago

    I was the Internet/Gamer kid raised by television who got drunk at 17 and fell off a roof. Why was I drunk on a roof? Fuckin’ 2001.

    Not sure which category I fall under.

    • tetris11
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      111 months ago

      I lived in terraced housing and I used to walk across the steep rooftop of my house down to the neighbors. At the time I thought I was being cool, like my hero, Daredevil. Looking back on it now, it was ridiculously dangerous.

      I lament the loss of quite a few of my parallel selves.

    • platysalty
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      Yeah lol. I was an internet troll through and through, and somehow found my way into a pretty diverse group in uni.

      I don’t even want to start on the drunk shenanigans we got up to.

  • bigmonkey [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    I was both of these as a teen and basically still am. I’m also a confirmed loser so this meme checks out!