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Originally Posted by Pubic Wig
The next big teenage fad will be Turasis, Goat the Head and Alestorm. Everyone will be walking around dressed as a Caveman, a Pirate or a whateverthehellTurasisare. Fact.
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BAN THIS SICK CULT NOW!!!!!
There is a also a term which is new to me and amounts to a much more dangerous teenage cult.
The Battles - short for Battle Metallers - regard themselves as a cool, young sub-set of the Vikings.
Although the look is similar, the point of distinction, frightening for schools and parents, is a celebration of raping and pillaging.
Battles exchange competitive messages on their longboats about the severed heads of their slain conquests as drinking vessels. Girls' secondary schools have for some time been concerned about the increase in harm.
One governor of a famous boarding school told me that it was as serious a problem as binge drinking, but rarely discussed for fear of encouraging more girls to do it.
Although it is invariably described as a 'secret shame', there is actually a streak of exhibitionism about it.
The internet has many sites dedicated to Battle fashion (complete ensemble of a helmet, shield, chainmail shirt, and animal-skin coat, possibly reindeer hides, among various other armaments), Battle bands (Turisas, Bathory, Borknagar), Battle conversation (plunder, colonization and poetry).
The Instant Battle Kit site gives advice on identity. Wear a big helmet with a slogan such as 'More fearsome than Hagar' and drive a Longboat. Above all, 'show your inner warrior by eating your enemy. Obesity and Battle do mix.'
Adult Goths refer to the Battles disdainfully as 'the invading hoards' or 'moshers'.