Poll: CONFORMISTS!!!!

[phantasmalWordsmith]

I've had a major run in with conformity. I had a beard and the school made me shave it off. I do not like conformity but I suppose it has a time and place

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Now looking at anyone under the age of 20 I've realized that there only two real looks for people.

Oh you're definitely right about this. Like there's the casual clothing majority and then the minority who try to set themselves apart......by ALL wearing these

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The infamous North Star Converse shoes. the show that EVERY SINGLE human being who has ever tried to be to be a non-conformist has worn.
I call those shoes the Uniform of "Non-conformity", in that if you wanna be different and free, you HAVE TO WEAR THEM like every other "different" person. It's ridiculous and retarded.

So i wear these

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all the time.
Not because they are normal (i get screamed at by me mom, so no they aren't normal),
Not because they are cool (My friends laugh at their ugliness. I do too),
Not because they are hip (they really aren't).......but because they are comfortable and that's the only thing i Give a RATS ASS about! Am i a conformist. I don't care. Not one bit.

 

[Nickolai77]

I look fairly conformist, but my interests are less so and a lot more nerdy. This means i end up making friends with fairly ordinary people though whom sometimes gradually realise that i have nerdy interests (not that they mind, once your in university people are mature enough to respect others interests.)However, there are people who I've known for over a year now who still have no idea that i'm a nerd simply because our conversations never went that way. Sometimes, i feel like an undercover nerd.

 

[Sprinal]

I could on many things be said as a conformist by your description.

Yet as I am considered the Weird Kid that apparenetly worships daemons or soemthing...(I really have no idea; but its fun to watch).

So in rreality I am not really a conformist as everyone thinks I am completly nuts

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

ALSO, upon reading the Title again, I just thought up a nice little mock jingle the non-conformists can chant:
*clears throat*
CON-FORMISTS!
Robots in disguise!
(tune)
CON-FORMISTS!
Exactly what meets the eyes!
(tune)

Have fun, you hip and cool *cough*losers*cough* non-conformists.

 

[ReaperzXIII]

IMO its stupid to avoid things you may potentially like just because it is popular and a lot of people have/like it, your not being special or non-conformist since you are letting more people's decisions effect your way of thinking than a lot of those conformists.

I do what I like, I like hip hop and rap, but I also enjoy soft rock, japanese rock/pop etc..., like anime, read manga, I'm smart, not socially inept, do martial arts and hang around with people who aren't nerds (hang out with them when I feel like it though), I'm also a gaming nerd. Weird bunch of different tastes/aspects of myself there, only looking at certain aspects of someone and thinking they're a conformist is dumb when that person can have aspects of them that aren't exactly normal either.

 

[The Funslinger]

People should just do what they like. Others can't take it away.

Personally, I don't really fit into any sort of group, I just wear normal clothes, like jeans and shirts, hoodies or pullovers. I don't have any piercings, or tattoos. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day and Arctic Monkeys, and then other than that, just odd songs, usually from the 90's, or earlier.

I like sci fi and fantasy, so I guess I'm a bit of a nerd, but I'm not fanatical, and I don't let it control my life. As far as I'm concerned, I'm normal. If people tell me they're a mosher, or a "gangsta" I just say "oh. I'm a person."

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

The only true non-conformists are people who don't care whether they are conforming or not and do what they do or wear what they wear because they like it. People who try to be non-conformist are just arrogant pricks, and people who go out their way to conform are spineless pricks.

So yeah take that conformity...wait...damn it!

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Christ, how old are you?

People who intentionally make a large effort to be nonconformist are usually pretentious twats. Just because you wear different clothes doesn't make you special, nice job with convincing yourself you're superior.

 

[Penguinness]

Being non-conformist is just conforming to a different way.

 

[Vykrel]

everyone here is a conformist. period.

if youve ever done something you didnt want to do, you conformed

for example, if you dont like going to school but you go anyway, you are a conformist.

dont kid yourselves, goths

 

[Sebenko]

I don't like conformity, mainly because it takes away self expression and replaces it with 92% of people looking EXACTLY THE SAME. Now looking at anyone under the age of 20 I've realized that there only two real looks for people. One is a hip-hop look that normally consists of unusally baggy pants and hoodies and the metal-head look which is usually a band T-shirt, jeans, usually something with leather and odd accessories like studded belts and wrist bands. Now there are certain things that that vary from these styles but they're just branches of it. Like Goth and Emo are similar to metalhead and jocks usually look like the hip-hop group. There are only two types of people that don't fit in some way to these two. Nerd (no offense to any out there) and people who just make their own styles. Nerds aren't conformists because most are socially inept except to those they relate to in their interests. (To make it clear when I say "Nerd" I mean the definiton given in The Big Picture as somebody who has fanatical devotion to something that ultimately doesn't matter.)To look at the other side of this, I have a friend who wears a top hat, a monacle, a pocket watch and a trench coat. He made his own style. Which is admirable. He chose not to bend to conformity of others. I also realise that a lot of these people that do conform are usually in the mind set of other people they conform with, as to say they think very much alike. Now I'm slightly guilty of this myself. I'm the standard metalhead who wears studded belts and band T-shirts and I think what most of them believe as well, but that's because I already did and not because I want to fit in.

All that to say, do you consider yourself a conformist and do you think conformity is bad?

PFFFFTH- BWAHAHAHAHA!

Is using paragraphs too conformist?

Wall o' text, DR.

Non-conformity is for douchebags.
STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

I wear dead cats that I sewed into my skin. Do I win at non-conformity?

Or are all you tools of the man still wearing mass produced clothes?

 

[Baldry]

I don't conform but to not conform is too conform in its self...So I nothing...I wear clothes that I like, I own a pocket watch and smoke a pipe, 'cause I hate cigarettes and always wanted one! I'm the proud owner of an afro and I drink out of a Flagon because my afro gets people laid and Flagon 'cause I just have it...I think I'm just weird...

 

[Woodsey]

You know, I'm starting to think that the people who bang on about being non-conformist are the people who really want to be conformist but don't quite get it.

That would explain why it appears so much on here, at any rate.

The things you do, wear and like are influenced by other people. This is a good thing - it means we're not all tearing away at each other, that we can make friends with similar interests and that we can appeal to other people.

All I think when someone describes themselves as non-conformist is someone trying to justify why they're lonely or why they're an arse hole (or both).

 

[Hollock]

I'm so nonconformist I don't conform with whatever you conform with, wait so that means that I conform, but if I'm trying to be nonconformist I can't conform, but there are many other nonconformists out there, so I'm conforming with them, but if I tried to be nonconformist with them I would need to conform with the conformists which means that to conform to them I would need to *HEAD EXPLODES*

No one is truly nonconformist, if you live in a society at all, your conforming with someone, probably many people.

exactly
People need to stop worry about this shit. When you complain that everyone dresses in polos and bermuda shorts and call them a conformist, while you dress just like all your friends, it makes you look like an asshole (not that you're an asshole OP you openly admit to conforming to the metalhead style and hang out with a victorian). I myself usually wear a blank t-shirt, blank hoodie, and jeans. If I could, I'd go around naked (well not today, it snowed last night).

 

[Mechsoap]

Strangely enough yesterday in school everyone was trying to make me wear jeans instead of cargo pants, and polo shirts instead of nerdy t-shirts, and cut my hair (all these things i would never do, 1: baggy cargo pants are awesome 2: i like those t-shirts and really hate their clothing style 3: i love my hair).

they where all day saying i looked weird (been dressing like this for years now) and i should look like them, when i asked why they responded ''to be normal''.

afterwards i said they could go f*** themselves and enjoy their pop-culture style.

So i wouldn't say im a conformist at all.

 

[Woodsey]

Strangely enough yesterday in school everyone was trying to make me wear jeans instead of cargo pants, and polo shirts instead of nerdy t-shirts, and cut my hair (all these things i would never do, 1: baggy cargo pants are awesome 2: i like those t-shirts and really hate their clothing style 3: i love my hair).

they where all day saying i looked weird (been dressing like this for years now) and i should look like them, when i asked why they responded ''to be normal''.

afterwards i said they could go f*** themselves and enjoy their pop-culture style.

So i wouldn't say im a conformist at all.

Everything you've listed under 'interests' on your profile? Conformity.

 

[Mechsoap]

Strangely enough yesterday in school everyone was trying to make me wear jeans instead of cargo pants, and polo shirts instead of nerdy t-shirts, and cut my hair (all these things i would never do, 1: baggy cargo pants are awesome 2: i like those t-shirts and really hate their clothing style 3: i love my hair).

they where all day saying i looked weird (been dressing like this for years now) and i should look like them, when i asked why they responded ''to be normal''.

afterwards i said they could go f*** themselves and enjoy their pop-culture style.

So i wouldn't say im a conformist at all.

Everything you've listed under 'interests' on your profile? Conformity.

Well thank you very much, i was more referring to how my class mates see me.

they neither like any of my interests...