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Originally Posted by Platapus

I don't know if BDSM qualifies as a sub culture (although there is an almost clever pun in there).

lol Well I guess if it's a subculture depends on from whose side you look at it

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

I'm a metalhead, though I no logner have long hair and in my black work suit look more like 47.

Yeah I remember seeing a pic of you at some metal festival. You did indeed have long hair, but next time you grow your hair long, you may want to grow it downwards instead of straight up

Originally Posted by privateer

I've been a Sub whatever for most of my life.
I'm 53 in a few days and I'm a Biker.
Not one of the "I just bought a new HD for the first time so I'm bad" Bikers.
But one who has lived most of his life with the True mentality of a Biker.
I'm not a 1%er nor have I ever worn Colors.
As the saying goes,
If I have to explain it? You wouldn't understand.

And that's the right way to do it
Same goes for metalheads, you can put on a band shirt and some jeans and pretend you're part of us. Most real metalheads would have you classified as a poseur within 10 secs of speaking to or even looking at you. Just like wearing the right clothes and listening to the occasional metal song doesn't make you a metalhead, I can exactly understand how buying a HD doesn't make you a biker.

Originally Posted by CCIP

I'm part of a sub culture, the kind we have here at subsim

Bernard!!! When I said "subculture" I didn't mean you should start painting our sub Rembrandt style

I don't think I fit any particular subculture and I've consciously been avoiding that. If I fit any cultural grouping, though, it'd be that of young humanitarian academics, which actually have a lot in common with metalheads. We're generally private, liberally-minded (not necessarily in the political sense), long-haired, and have weird tastes in art. We just use more big words. And fewer of us know how to really rock out, much to my disappointment

Yeah even though most metalheads I know (myself included) are pretty outgoing people, we indeed often have something private in us. We've often got something "nerdy" that most "young humanitarian academics" as you put it also have