ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- A Sicilian mother took away her 61-year-old son's house keys, cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late.
Tired of her son's misbehavior, the pensioner in the central Sicilian city of Caltagirone turned to the police to "convince this blockhead" to behave properly, La Sicilia, one of Sicily's leading newspapers, reported on Thursday.
The son responded by saying his mother did not give him a big enough weekly allowance and did not know how to cook.
"My son does not respect me, he doesn't tell me where he's going in the evenings and returns home late," the woman was quoted as saying. "He is never happy with the food I make and always complains. This can't go on."
Police helped the squabbling duo make up and the two returned home together, with the son's house keys and daily allowance restored.
Most Italian men still live at home late into their 30s, enjoying their "mamma's" cooking, washing and ironing.
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Yes, i have been wondering, ever since like the 7th grade
why do so many people have a problem with emo people,
emo can be viewed in many differnt ways,
but most people viwe them as,
whiney depressed kids who cut themselves
but seriously, "preppy" people are whiney and annoying, not many people hate them, to my knowledge,
I am not depressed, and I guess you could consider me emo,
I dont cut myself, cause well, i just never thought about doing it.
and just because someone screams in their music doesnt make it emo, alternative or metal maybe is the correct genre your looking for.
Emos are Enemies of the People.
People hate preppy kids as much as they hate emo kids.
I know a couple really shallow, superficial people that dress emo because they want to feel that they are different. They listen to the Casualities, and they think that makes them somehow better than people that listen to rap. All I see is the same person in different clothes.
The idea of being different, or being emo, in it's self is fine, but I think you can do that pretty well without dressing like you want everyone to know it.
How does really badly cut hair make you any less of a shallow person?
(All the yous here aren't directed at anyone here, nor are the comments; it's just people in general.)
Second that.
hey i like my badly cut hair mofo
Well then your'e not a whiny emo kind. The people we depict as emos, are actually the whiny ones. I guess the emo look isn't connected to that part.
respect your opinion
but i have friends [no names]
who are whiney and cut themselves
but they aren't what you would consider "emo"
Sure sounds like they're emo, they might not dress emo, but they're emo.
nooo, they are cutters.
It is true that a small percentage of cutters actually have depression, but from life experiences, most don't. So...emo.
Racist! Lol Joking...Anyway It seems more other stereotypes seem more Emo then the Emo people that dress sterotypicaly.
YOu know, it will all end with a natural process depicted by Darwin: natural selection.
Emos will die out. If they like to cut themselves and die, hey, it's natural selection at work, praise it!
well said in the uk emo/preppy rich kids are the same rich kids trying 2 make some big statement and piss off there parents
neither
it started in Germany
"Yes, i have been wondering, ever since like the 7th grade
why do so many people have a problem with emo people,
emo can be viewed in many differnt ways,
but most people viwe them as,
whiney depressed kids who cut themselves
but seriously, "preppy" people are whiney and annoying, not many people hate them, to my knowledge,
I am not depressed, and I guess you could consider me emo,
I dont cut myself, cause well, i just never thought about doing it.
and just because someone screams in their music doesnt make it emo, alternative or metal maybe is the correct genre your looking for."
OMG i love you and I so agree. Everyone on this stupid messageboard is so unintolerant... i dont even know if thats a word, but whatever
Haha i meant "intolerant"..."untolerant"? Whatever
haha, i love you too, and you are right, but the way to put it is "their tolerence levels are low" or seomthing lol
Emo. Short for emotional. Emo. A genre of punk rock. Emo. A dress code of tiny t-shirts and horn-rimmed glasses. Type the word "emo" into your average search engine and you'll get over three million results that will encompass nearly that many different opinions of what emo actually is. The general approach to the term is a lot like the approach to pornography, "I can't tell you exactly what it is, but I'll know it when I see (or hear) it."
The history of emo is somewhat less ambiguous than its current meaning. "Emo" music developed out of the D.C. punk scene in the '80s. In its original incarnation, emo was short for emocore, or emotional-hardcore. The name was applied to hardcore punk rock bands who distinguished themselves from their peers by adding an emotional component to their music, dealing with sadness and love and angst in their lyrics. The music was also characterized by particularly dramatic vocals which, at best, left the audience in an emotionally charged state, crying or screaming. These days, emo has been popularized and sent into the mainstream through bands like Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday and Saves the Day.
Emo music has even inspired its own subcultural style. Take your average Rites of Spring fan and you get someone who looks a lot like Weezer's Rivers Cuomo--nerdy glasses, vintage tees, cuffed jeans, Converse sneakers and slightly shrunken tops. Black hair and straight bangs, tight hoodies and thrift shop attire are also associated with emo. And while emo devotees are notoriously upfront about their feelings, instead of wearing their hearts on their sleeves, they tend to favor ironic slogans and band logos.
Lately, labeling someone as "emo" is something of a put-down, a stand-in for "overly emotional" or "melodramatic." The implication is that they are excessively moody and angsty, prone to crying jags and plagued by a love of bad poetry. Hot Topic even issued a patch that read, "cheer up, emo kid!" But for those who call themselves emo, the term means something more pure. At its core, emo is all about being upfront with your emotions. Or, as one "expert" defined it, "emo is like being Goth, but much less dark, much more Harry Potter." -- marni
Not all "emos" cut. Anyone can cut. Some people are just so narrow minded these days.
I'm suprised by the number of people who answered yes to the survey, I mean, we rarely hurt anyone but ourselves Though, a large portion of the people who answered yes who may, in fact, be emo. Wouldn't suprise me in the least. I don't hate anybody because of the way they conduct themselves, I try to keep an open mind. I don't always do a perfect job, but I constantly reevaluate myself. Their may be emos who whine, but those people whine because they are whiners, not emos. The same applies to any other stereotype. The white people who don't dance well don't dance well because they don't dance well, not because of their ethnicity. Cutting may be a common practice among emo's, but the general consensus among the psychiatric community is that the majority of people who cut use it as a stress coping mechanism, not as an attention getting tool. While it's true that that is why some people do it, the majority of people do not cut for that reason. I see no reason to hate a group of people for being. That's my two cents
^^^^ gayest thread I've read since I joined
Does anybody even whine and cut themselves in Denmark? lol Its not a fad there too, is it?
I'm pretty much a Gothic Juggalo. I deal with stereotypes all the time. But in terms of hating emo's. Why would you? Emo's (from what I've seen) usually just keep to themselves.
People are usually divided into 2 groups: Mainstream & Underground. When the "punks" came along, they kinda evolved into emo's (though not all of them) and made a subdivision in the the Underground scene. It's like having an annoying little brother or sister, over time siblings get used to each other and help each other against: preps, jocks, glams, etc...
Overall the mainsteam side hates them because they're Underground(ish) and the Underground hates them because they're new(ish). Or I could be completely wrong and we can all just wait till 4:20pm on April 20th to solve our differences. Either way.
Well I mean like me Im not emo I guess Im considered preppy however I love the emo style.. actually i dont consider myself a prep either more of my own punk rock princess type thing (if that makes any sense)... and i use to cut all the time but im not emo im more bipolar than nething
Emo kids, evolved from emo music, Believe it or not, there is good emo music, BUT IT MAKES ME WISH I HAD A GUN WHEN THEY HAVE STUPID VOICES LIKE NEW FOUND GLORY AND GOOD CHARLOTTE AND COHEED AND CAMBRIA. Emo kids, well a good majority of them use fake depression to get attention, thats why i don't like them. "Oh my daddy made me take out the trash last night and i didn't want to, now i'm going to go buy the new AFI CD and cut myself in the dark."
ugh, they wouldnt know real pain if it bit them in the ass.
lol i hate NFG and GC too, and i dont like taking out the trash as much as the next guy buy i dont cut myself about it lol
I don't have problems with emo's per se. But I have had a "creepy" encounter with an emo kid at the park one day. We (me, my sister, and a couple friends) were tokin' in my sister's car at the park. About 10 minutes in an emo kid rolls up and starts starin' at us. This kid was clearly emo, he had the hair covering one eye, really pale complexion, and he had that "emo" expression on his face. Well, we started to notice this kid starring at us and felt it was time to cut out. Sure enough the emo kid started following us. I was like WTF? He followed us for 10-15 minutes then we finally lost him.
Point of the story is, not all emo's can be trusted.
Read the other emo threads....
why was my comment deleted?
I thought supporting emos in their aspirations of auto-genocide was the height of tolerance?
Mr. Pendleberry is just a humble philanthropist.
Why do the mods oppress him, despite him staying carefully within the rules?
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There's this one girl in my class, who calls herself emo. She is stupid, has terrible grades, never finishes her homework, should be in the 6th grade still, and spends all her time either drinking, hanging out with high schoolers, or moaning all the time about how no one likes her and how she wishes everyone at our school was dead and she could move back to her old one. MERR, woman, get over urself! Emo people need to stop screwing up their lives just because God dealt them a bad hand.
I want a serious answer. What joy does it give you to be emo? What satisfaction do you get out of it? It's a serious question. I voted 'I hate emo's' but they are still human beings and God created all men and women equal, so please reply.
That reason is that each little social niche has an aspiration, not a defined effect. For example, jocks may not BE star athletes, but they want to look like they are. This is true for emo folk as well, except that they want to look sad, depressed, neurotic, etc. Most non-emo people view this to a ploy for attention, whiny, etc. Like how my three year old cousin screamed for 45 minutes because she was denied a cookie.
....and secondly, most people, with the exception of preps and jocks, hate preppy people with a fervor. Quite possably more so than emo people, at least in the great state of Minnesota.
Emo music is usually defined as wide use of synths and layered guitars. Often they are presented as rock operas (an album which follows a specific theme, or idea, possably even recurring tune, over the course of all the songs). An excellent example of an emo band (in that it held mainstream success for a while) is The Smashing Pumpkins.
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