Tommy_B

I am a bee employed by the British army..... that makes me a tommy_b

Everyone but Ryan it seems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p0htxklR8U Well, Ryan 'n me.

No, there are a lot of truly stupid people out there, not ignorant, not narrow minded, just stupid.... can not create independent thought, can not learn, but muddle through life anyway.

There are no places in Malibu that I would say teens congregate other than the beach and even then it is usually Will Rogers, not Malibu, you might meet friends at Starbucks, Crumbs or Malibu Kitchen, but it isn't like those are places people go to hang. During summer when you are younger, meaning don't drive you'd probably do a camp or two at Pepperdine, when you are able to drive you head into Santa Monica or the places I said before, but a bunch of people just sit home I guess too because it isn't like the whole school is at the beach or at the Mall. Football still gets a disproportionate amount of attention, but most people go to the game to find out where the parties are. And of course the school as a hierarchy, but it is different from other schools? Who knows. There aren't any mega beacthes if that is what you are asking. It is also important to remember that Malibu kids go to Harvard Westlake, Loyola, Crossroads, the Brentwood Scool and maybe a few at Saint Monicas or Marymount and that is significant because those people are still part of the social mix. And yeah there are kids who are pretty active in politics and stuff. The school has GSA, Habitat for Humanity, Operation Smile, Amnesty International, Heal the Bay and more, but the usual, Key Club and those type clubs too.

I don't have PE because athletes don't have to take it so I don't know what they do there. Most of the swim and polo guys shower in their Speedo because you want to get the chlorine out of your suit. A lot of guys then towel change, but I don't know if that is because they are shy or because we deck change so much it becomes a habit. I have no problem being naked in the club we belong to to shower and all that but I usually wear a towel in the sauna or steam room. It seems it is the really old guys who are naked every place. Gravity is not kind.

There are no malls in Malibu. Malibu is actually a really small city population wise and really really long, almost 30 miles long , but only a mile wide at most. If there is a mall people would go to just hang, most people would go to the 3rd St Promenade in Santa Monica. Some might go to the Commons in Calabasas, but usually you'd go there with a bunch of friends to get coffee or go to Johnny Rockets. Serious girl shoppers go to the malls in Woodland Hills where you have Nordstrom, Niemans and Macys. And remember Malibu High isn't very big, 1,200 students in 7 grades (6-12) and it is only 17 years old, before the school was built Malibu kids going to public school went to Sa Mo High.

Okay.... so I misread the question..... I DO want to look like him when I am that age.....

Him.

This works for me quite nicely..... nothing child-like or woman-like here.

Not sure the context in the stories you are reading, but in southern California a "shirt lifter" is a male hustler. That is one of the signs they use to let guys know they are available. They'll stand on Santa Monica Blvd. and you see these guys lifting their shirts a little to show their abdomen and you know they are for rent. And they don't do it like flashing, they lift it and kind of ball their fists up in the shirt trying to act like it is an unconscious movement.

I started high school in 2007, I doubt too much has changed in Malibu or any of the southern Cal beach towns all that much over those years. I talk to Tim and his parents and their families have been by the beach for 100 in So Cal and they say it has been pretty much the same since the 1970's. I know the styles have changed a little and the brands have changed, but I don't think the brands have changed that much in the last 10 years. Shirts guys wear are Ezekiel, Volcom, Hurley, DC, Fox, Skin, Element, KR3W, RVCA, Vans, Tapout, Matrix and Infamous. Some are t-shirts, some are button up and kind of plaid. Shorts tend to be Volcom, Micros, Quicksilver, Blue Crown & Subculture, also a lot of pattens. Shoes guys like are Etnies, Osiris, Vans, C1rca, DC, Nike, Adidas, Lakai and DVS.

Malibu High is like any school along the coast. Mostly well off kids, but not all there are lower middle class kids too. Surfers, preppies, emos, gothy vampirish kids, etc. The rich kids go the Brentwood School, Harvard Westlake, Crossroads or Loyola. The really rich kids get shipped off to the east coast or europe, usually switzerland. An otherwise cool guy could be gay, but a nerdy little dweeb or drama guy, gay is strike three. They wouldn't get beat up, pretty much just verbally abused, but mostly ignored, the worst fate in high school. A lot of the kids drive Lexus 4WD, BMW's, MBZ, but also a lot of Toyotas, esp the big 4WD, a few mini Coopers and some Prius's. Not preppy at all, more beach grubby than anything. Guys usually wear t-shirts and shirts, the t-shirts are surf or band or skaterish. Most Colony kids don't go to public school. Nobu is where the rich bitch's go, normal kids go to Coogies, Howdy's & Malibu Kitchen. Hanging out is done by group, jocks go to Will Rodgers St Beach, stoners and drinkers go to El Pescador or El Matador cuz it is harder to get caught, rich kids go to the Bel Air Bay Club or Jonathon Club Beach Club. If they aren't beach types they might go to the Riviera or Brentwood Country Club. For general hanging, the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Colony kids are generally cool, but they don't get they live in a bubble, that not all kids have bodyguards or "drivers" as they pretend to be. They don't get that not all kids jet off to Sundance on private jets or France for the summer. "sick" is still around, "rager' is gone if it was ever here, "dude" will never die.

I love Marty.

I hate hate hate Hemingway (A). "The sun was hot. It rose high in the sky. I felt the sweat on my face." But I ain't fond 'a Faulkner (B either. "The cerise orb called the sun ascended altitudinous in the eastern sky; there was a deep, burning heat I felt as the egest water pushed its way up from my core only to meander down my visage." Good God what is wrong with these people!!

Wow, I wanna see that, "in fact while swimming they'll change right in front of me", if they are swimming while they are changing don't their clothes get all wet? thank you folks, i'm here all week. But seriously, don't you think the friends who are swimmers would feel differently if they knew you were interested in them 'that way' and if in fact you were hitting on them all the time? none of the guys I swim with know anything, but I think they would be uncomfortable if they did.

Shower. I am already submerged 4 hours a day.

I think it is cheatin'

When I was younger I liked the Ranger's Apprentice, Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter. Now I like T. Jefferson Parker, James Patterson and Lilian Jackson Braun (the cat books) mysteries. But pretty much any mystery, suspense or history.

Can you love puppies and kitties and not like cats and dogs??? Kitties seem cute, curious and wonderful and cats cynical and indifferent.

Make it simple, cheer for the Sharks!

My first pride was San Francisco Pride in 2008 and to be honest I was pretty intimidated. There were over a million people there, that alone was pretty intimidating, and since I go to a Catholic school and I am not out, I tried to avoid all the TV cameras and anyone with a camera. It was cool to feel affirmed (i hate that word, but don't how else to say it) and not alone. It also made me wish I had the patent on construction boots, cut off jeans and wife-beaters. I'd be a zillionaire.

Wizards of Waverly Place.

Your Type is ESFJ Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging Strength of the preferences % 33 12 50 1 You are: moderately expressed extravert slightly expressed sensing personality moderately expressed feeling personality slightly expressed judging personality I dunno, haven't done too many of these and I haven't really read what it all means, but when I do, I'll tell ya if it is accurate!!

Mmmm I swim 4 hours a day and we have to lift two days a week, that is enough for me. I ain't giving up Mountain Dew, it is how I cope with life.

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