The indie...

The famous 'indie kid' has slowly crept back over the years. The fashionable vintage style and 'cool' hair is now just as popular as sex. Stereotypically the indie boy is usually in a band (which is plastered on 'myspace') and listens to other 'unknown' or unsigned bands. Nothing that fills the top 40 basically.

Many of them take pride in their appearance, but does this mean they are vain? Or just a bit girly?

Its hard not to meet an indie boy wherever you go, they literally fill the streets so its not hard to say that their pride in their appearance reflects greatly on the 'pretty boy' image, but do their personalities?

The heavy metal kid...

The 'heavy metal kid' or 'goth' as some define it, are stereotypically a bit weird. Apparently.

They listen to one sort of music and hate everyone else for what they listen to.

Usually dressed in black with a variety of chains hanging off them sometimes attached to body piercings. Nice. Generally they are not nasty or arrogant people.

You wouldn't catch a heavy metal kid dating a trendy, or an emo. Its like a cat and dog having a relationship. Just doesn't work.

Some stereotype this genre of person as 'Marylin Manson' who supposedly eats puppies and cuts himself to drink his own blood. Are they really like this?

Hopefully not as I'm off on a date with one..

EMO

Why the long face? Oh right your an emo. Fair enough.

I still cant work this stereotype out, why are you so fucking sad? Maybe if you pulled that hair out of your face it might make you feel a bit better.

I'm joking, it'll pass. Hopefully.

Anyway, they wear skinny skinny jeans, always have black hair, eye liner and never smile. Like its impossible or something? Allot of them have a variety of piercings...usually through the nose or lip.

They listen to a particular type of music, and this is in fact where the 'emo' look has risen from.

From experience, at a gig they usually swarm the area in the millions. It looks like a scene out of dawn of the dead. All dressed the same, no one smiling. Normally setting things on fire or being 'sad' for no reason.

Why am I going on date with one? To find out what is so attractive about this kind of guy...

He was a skater boy!!

The skater/surfer boy. Either way they are fit. FACT. Usually the don't actually surf...its just the 'fashion' term. Skaters usually skate, and are very talented.

Normally wearing baggy jeans or board shorts with buff hats and a wicked sense of style. They always bag a bird. What is it about them? The stereotype implies they listen to a unique type of music and have a large amount of friends. They are always friendly and normally fun to be with. With any type of group, of course you get the arrogant ones. Lets hope I don't meet one of them. I'm sick of it.

Lets see how they really get on with ladies?

The 'City' boy...

I've got two dates today, both very different...

One with the 'City boy' . What actually is a 'city' boy? Basically, someone who works in London, or a busy city with a highly regarded job, usually a 9-5 Joby - they always wear suits, or at least a tie and clean shoes. Stereotypically they always look very clean.

So really, just like them bunch of arrogant twats from 'The Apprentice'.

They 'go for lunch' at swanky bars and restaurants, and the only way you can really meet one is if you work with them, or meet them at one of these swanky bars... unless you stalk one and wait outside their work until they finish at 5pm...which I DID NOT do...

They stereotypically meet women and spend allot of money of them, taking them out for posh meals and dates. BUT, apparently the 'city' worker is the highest percentage to have an affair. So are they trustworthy? Or womanisers?

Anyway, I'm off on date with one. Brilliant. Scruffy student with piercings meets 'city boy' for a lunchtime rendezvous. HA. I have a feeling the pretty boy date might repeat itself...

The Funny Guy

So what kind of stereotype is the 'funny guy'? They dont normally follow any fashion but are usually quirky characters. The funny guy I'm talking about isnt a hyperactive retard with crazy hair and way to many drugs, but someone with a dry sense of humour, and very witty.

Not speaking for everyone, but I'm basically describing Ricky Gervais (not Russel Brand humour, he gets a bit excited), he doesnt have to try and be funny...naturally he cracks me up.

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Anyway, the well known 'funny guy' in our society is normally a girls 'mate', not their boyfriend. Why is this? Are they too 'chummy' and not flirty enough? Are they not taken seriously?
My next date sets me this exact challenge...

The 'Geek'

The 'Geek', or how they describe themselves as 'educated' are stereotyped as quiet, lacking in dress sense and have a small number of friends. They apparently dont really go out alot, or have a girlfriend, and focus on their education.

Big glasses, big hair, high trousers is what a sterotypical image of a 'geek' is defined as.

The 'geek' is also known as a nerd, someone that is interested in computing and gaming (anything electronic basically).

And Im going to date one...

The loveable 'Chav' ?

The 'Chav' is varied in our society. You can wear Nike and be classed as 'chavvy' or have a 'Louis vuittoon' handbag and be a 'labelled chav'. But what makes you an top scale 'chav'?

Automatically, 'Burberry' caps, thick gold jewelery, and tracksuit bottoms are visually recognised as being 'chavvy'. But does this make them bad people?

The stereotype male 'chav' usually lives on a council estate, fathers a number of children with a number of women, and lives on 'the doll'. The best selling show Shameless have got it down to every last detail. This show illustrates the stereotypical life of a 'chav'. Brilliant.

This website lets you find out how 'Chavvy' you really are. Brilliant. Because we all have a bit of chav in us somewhere...whether its a favoured pair of tracksuit bottoms...Or some big old bling. Its definitely there.

On my next date, I'm going to find out how close the truth the stereotype really is when it comes to a date.

The 'Pretty boy'

The well known of the bunch in our society has to be...the 'Pretty boy'. They are trendy, follow all the lastest fashion from Topman (like its an actual religion) and have a large number of 'mates' who look like clones of one another. This is just my stereotype of a 'Pretty boy' from past experience.

They normally all listen to a particular type of music, despite trying to pretend they are 'indie' or 'emo' or whatever fills the lines of the local Topman store.

They're not recognised to be rude or a problem within society, but do they do tend to be rowdy as a group, which is normally when their out on a night (which i suppose can be said for any group)...they also tend to go for a certain type of girl. This is generally decided on what their mates agree on (As if they have a monthly 'trend boy' meeting.)

Anyway...only one way to find out if their shallow 'stereotype' is myth or damn right true...im going to 'lunch' with one...

The Notorious 'Geezer'

My first date, is with a self confessed 'one of the lads'. Brilliant.This sterotype is normally given to pub loving, stella drinking, tattoo bearing lads, who refer to women as 'birds' when talking to their mates, and 'darlin' or 'luv' when speaking to a women.

A 'Geezer'" from the 'Urban" dictionary' states: 'A person who enjoys consuming large amounts of alcohol, acting rowdy, and splitting peoples wigs. All because they have entirely too much time on their hands'. So lets see how he sizes up? Can he treat a lady despite the rowdy stereotype?