the ten commandments of goth (done properly)

[Murasaki eyeliner]

ok there are 11,bite me.


1: thou shalt dress however the fuck thou wants to ,regardless of what others think or say.

2: if thou cantst not stand thine friends playing/talking about maralyn manson,thou shalt get some earplugs.For thou doest not have the right to dictate what thine friends listen to, no matter how bad it is.

3: thou canst still listen to bad music but thou should at least know the difference between bad and good music.

4: thou shalt be nice to baby bats, for everyone was a wannabe once..

5: thou shalt not steal thines mothers/sisters/bestfriend's eyeliner!thou shalt get off thine arse and buy your own.

6: thou shalt not take thineself to seriously.

7: thou shalt be creative and have pride in what thou acheives,even if it is not as good as what someone else does.

8: thou shalt not drop thine non goth friends when thouest joins the legions of the spooky people.

9: thou shalt not scare the mundane's for kicks, save it for halloween.

10: thou shalt learn to spell (and pronounce) siouxsie right!

11: thou shalt think for thines self.

now hear me out before you start flaming me for "redoing a crap thread". i think constanza's thread was a really good idea idea, she just failed to pull it off well,so im going to have a go myself.

add you own commandments if you want.

[Godslayer Jillian]

Doesn't number six cancel out all the others?

[Murasaki eyeliner]

Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

Doesn't number six cancel out all the others?

not really,its rarther dependant on how seriously your taking the other commandments.and if you do use them as gospel truth then your trying to hard.

[Godslayer Jillian]

Now I'm confused. If you don't follow the first one, then you're not being yourself, and like we'd say, you're trying too hard.
But if you take the commandment too seriously and are yourself, then you're taking yourself too seriously and are trying too hard.

My point is that the commandments ought to at least be funny, but these ones look like it's exactly what someone ought to do, which is again taking itself too seriously.

[Delkaetre]

Thou shalt not steal if there is direct victim.
Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets.
Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Decker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barret in vain.
Thou shalt not think that any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a peadophile… Some people are just nice.
Thou shalt not read NME.
Thou shalt not stop liking a band just because they’ve become popular.
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
Thou shalt not judge a book by its cover.
Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover.
Thall shalt not buy Coca-Cola products. Thou shalt not buy Nestle products.
Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend’s best friend, take drugs and cheat on him.
Thou shalt not fall in love so easily.
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants. Use it to get into their heads.
Thou shalt not watch Hollyoakes.
Thou shalt not attend an open mic and leave as soon as you're done just because you’ve finished your shitty little poem or song you self-righteous prick.
Thou shalt not return to the same club or bar week in, week out just ’cause you once saw a girl there that you fancied but you’re never gonna fucking talk to.
Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were.
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music

Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music

Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music

Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music

[Murasaki eyeliner]

thou shalt give credit to scroobius pip when you use his lyrics perhaps?

i like the way you think though.

[$haDe]

Thou shalt slap a cop while eating monkey's brains

[JCC]

You shouldn't make a shitty thread about some commandments that are completely irrelevant to the fundamental element of Goth, as in, liking Goth music, and then fail to use Early Modern English as some sort of validation for said stupidity.

[Wingweaver_The_Vampire]

^ thou shalt not call the goth comandments shitty! lol
thou shalt know that the goth commandments are a joke

[NightmareInShiningArmour]

Originally Posted by Murasaki eyeliner

9: thou shalt not scare the mundane's for kicks, save it for halloween.

PLEEEAAASEEE?

Originally Posted by Murasaki eyeliner

10: thou shalt learn to spell (and pronounce) Siouxsie right!

Is it pronounced "See-ox-see"?

[Sir Canvas Corpsey]

I was always under the impression that Siouxsie was pronounced Susy, like as in Susan, but replace an with ee

[PortraitOfSanity]

Exactly like Corpsey said.

[Metabolik]

Originally Posted by Delkaetre

Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.

I concur :3

[Metabolik]

Also...
Thou shalt drink orange juice on a warm sunny day...

As long as it isn't sunny delight...you fucking bastard

[Breathless Horror]

Originally Posted by NightmareInShiningArmour

Is it pronounced "See-ox-see"?

I was pretty sure it was pronounced "See-ou-zie" or something very similar to that. Think of it as the Sioux native americans, the X is silent.

[gothicusmaximus]

Siouxsie is pronounced 'Susy'. As with the Native American tribe, "Sioux" is said as 'sue'.

[Maldarion_Haliax]

Very amusing,but I think bands with names that simple people can't pronounce should have a pronunciation key in the back of the book,just as a courtesy. (after thought) you may be detracting from the original thread which was good by the way.

[Godslayer Jillian]

Originally Posted by Wingweaver_The_Vampire

thou shalt know that the goth commandments are a joke

Yeah, it's quite hilarious and sarcastic to say:
"thou shalt dress however the fuck thou wants to ,regardless of what others think or say."
": thou canst still listen to bad music but thou should at least know the difference between bad and good music."
"thou shalt be nice to baby bats, for everyone was a wannabe once.."
" thou shalt be creative and have pride in what thou acheives,even if it is not as good as what someone else does."
"thou shalt think for thines self."

This thread wasn't obviously to be a joke. It was obscenely serious but wanted to save itself by saying "after you do this to be a good person, don't take yourself so serious!"
If this thread's a joke, are we supposed to:
- Dress like everyone else
- Not care about music
- Be elitist
- Be consumerists
- Be mindless?

[Wingweaver_The_Vampire]

no that's not what i meant... Like, who doesn't know that it's so wrong to:
- Dress like everyone else
- Not care about music
- Be elitist
- Be consumerists
- Be mindless?
=p it's just that the so called "commandments" aren't that serious

[Disaffected Shoelaces]

Originally Posted by Wingweaver_The_Vampire

- Be elitist

That's not always wrong, sometimes it's necessary.

[Sir_Vex]

Gothicus wins.

[Opteron_Man]

Originally Posted by Sir Canvas Corpsey

I was always under the impression that Siouxsie was pronounced Susy, like as in Susan, but replace an with ee

Gothicus is correct.

[Joker_in_the_Pack]

Thou shalt not make stupid fucking threads like this.

[Chumley]

Originally Posted by Disaffected Shoelaces

That's not always wrong, sometimes it's necessary.

Extrapolate, please.

(Also, with maybe one or two changes in vocabulary, those commandments could be extended to a) mods b) hackers c) EVERY OTHER SOCIAL CLIQUE.