'Trendies' vs 'Rudes' = Mods vs rockers?

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Hey Box Boy!

As a pathetic goth in 80s Corsham, I used to get hassled by almost everyone.

Funny thing was, people would label me as all kinds of seemingly contradictory subcultures: "Punk", "Goth", "Hippy", "Mod", and, naturally, "Tosser" - just for not wearing blue jeans and a USAF top.

I'm not sure anyone really understands tribal youth culture any more...

Speaking from a Romford perspective:
1) 'Trendies' don't like metal, they wear Ben Sherman shirts, light blue jeans or black/beige trousers and snakeskin loafers or Reebok Classic style trainers. They will almost certainly like the Stereophonics. Metal is the preserve of...
2) 'Grungers' - this is a blanket term applied to anyone who likes non-trendy/non-rude boy music, so anything from indie kids to the most extreme Goths lurking round what used to be Hollywoods on a Tueday evening. Being a music geek this annoys me as very few grungers actually like grunge.
3) Rude Boys - [DISCLAIMER: I'm only reporting what the word means round here, don't flame me if you don't like it] they are always black or 'asian' and usually like garage or r&b, very rarely hip-hop of any sort (that's for the grungers). Those are the only certain things you can say, as the rude boys I've known have ranged from tracksuit-trousered Ned/charver/etc types to the best dressed well- mannered heroes of the 6th form common room. Class is pretty much irrelevant as well.
Romford grungers like to portray themselves as victims of rude boy/trendy brutality but in my experience actual violence is almost non-existant or vastly exaggerated. I don't think people really give a shit about these things.

the trendies and rudes bit is not my definition but from the kid that wrote the article

Odd part of the article:Kid talking about "buying weed later".

Anyone else find that a bit strange and out of plafce?

I think that article was written by Chris Morris. Do I win a prize?

haha! i think you could be right.

I read that article today and found it mildly amusing/entertaining. Having just re-read it (with the possibility that it may have been written by Morris whizzing round my head) I would say it's the funniest thing I've read in ages. Why is this? Subtle shifts in context type answers.

Sounds accurate to me. I've worked with kids like this (both types but slightly older) and I've heard them talking about these sort of incidents all the time. Did anybody see a programme on tv last week about a slightly rough kid from Brixton who was sent to live in Berkhamsted as an 'experiment'. He was heard to remark disdainfully to someone on his mobile at one point about how 'everyone here is wearing *skateboarding clothes*'.