Do "in" groups exsist in Adult life like they did at school

I tried endlessly to be part of the clique at school/college, not I try endlessly to avoid being in any clique!

Never ceases to amaze me how shallow people are though!

In my limited time on this planet it appear to me:

In school: Geeks and private school kids are bullied and laughed at. The loud and popular ones "rule" the school. 

After school: Geeks and private school kids rule the world. The popular kids flip burgers and graft hard for low pay.

Dr Z
 
      Its funny , most of these cliques from my childhood can still be found on a Saturday night in the same old pubs , or in the gutter on the way home.  Still clinging to their cool little gangs ......   Whereas the individuals , the ones that didn't (or perhaps didn't want to !!)  fit into their ecosystem tend to be the ones that have stuff to show for their lives.     

Actually you have a point.
The cliquey cool kids tend to still live in the same area and I sometimes see them when I go back.
 
The ones who didn't quite fit in, all tended to move away, see the world a bit. Some moved back (I moved close to where I was from), and while they may not all be super rich, they do seem to have richer lives.
 

Yeah I don't want to get stuck in the rut of living in the same area for ages and hanging with school friends still. Next year I should be moving away and starting something fresh....my group of friends are getting worse and worse for just getting stuck in a life routine....even going grotty local pubs all the time with mainly old people and just sitting in there rather than going up to a city or something.

I've got another mate that feels the same....so may make the move with him...depends where he goes for uni.

we didn't have any "it" crowds at my school, the people who were more popular were usually the people that were funny or outspoken tbh

for me anyway my circle of friends are all creative e.g graphic designs and marketing  type people

although i'm nice to everyone i meet


for me its about quality not quantity

AWG

Incredible Bulk


In my school there was a direct link between popularity and IQ

the people who thought they were 'it' were dumb as fck and in the bottom sets for most subjects.

So you were one of the popular kids then IB

I was an inbetweener...

There is even clique on here.

Cheshire Cat


In my limited time on this planet it appear to me:

In school: Geeks and private school kids are bullied and laughed at. The loud and popular ones "rule" the school. 

After school: Geeks and private school kids rule the world. The popular kids flip burgers and graft hard for low pay.

This is pretty much it, although there will always be exceptions to the rule.
 
I tried too hard to be in the popular groups instead of just getting on with work, and I am seriously paying for it now...

mackenzie_uk

This is pretty much it, although there will always be exceptions to the rule.
 
I tried too hard to be in the popular groups instead of just getting on with work, and I am seriously paying for it now...

Absolutely ditto-tastic!

Hard to say what group I was in...I drifted between them...I could do that because I was the best at sports and also top 3 in maths as well in my year. Would hang with whatever group depending on my mood....sometimes I'd play bandminton/football/do weights at lunch time....others I'd go down the village and just hang with the supposed 'cool' ones....other times I'd play chess and poker with the more geeky ones. 

Mainly do the sporty stuff, everyone got on pretty well in our year...the supposed cool ones was never the hard ones anyway...it's the pikey's that are the hard ones.

My school as like a proper American High school set-up jocks, geeks, goths, criminals and air-head girls who hung out with the football team. Like the The Breakfast club.

In my work the cooler guys are the guys who say "fu.ckin..." at the start of a sentence. And also the staff who take the piss out of/talk down to the young staff and slag other quieter staff off, after they've walked past.

My school had 240 per year and was more like an American school with so many different types of groups. It was down to the individual which group they thought was cool/most popular I guess.

Trendy's, Rude boys/girls, Asians, Turks, Quiet group, Overly clever group, Chavy group, group with a huge variety of different types. Loads

               Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact
               that we had to sacrifice a whole
               Saturday in detention for whatever
               it was we did wrong.  But we think
               you're crazy to make an essay
               telling you who we think we are.
               You see us as you want to see us...
               In the simplest terms, in the most
               convenient definitions.

               But what we found out is that each
               one of us is a brain...

                     
               ...and an athlete...

                       
               ...and a basket case...

                        
               ...a princess...

                      
               ...and a criminal...

                         
               Does that answer your question?
               Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.

stephen77


There is even clique on here.

Listen don't start talking like that on here... until you've hit 5k posts and get in the cool crew

Blue_Lagoon3000

stephen77


There is even clique on here.

Listen don't start talking like that on here... until you've hit 5k posts and get in the cool crew

I want to be one of the cool kids like you. I better get posting.

Never really played that game at school, certainly don't do it now.

Blue_Lagoon3000

stephen77


There is even clique on here.

Listen don't start talking like that on here... until you've hit 5k posts and get in the cool crew

We all know the alpha group are the cool crowd on here.

You, me, don, neb, 1manriot etc

^ Lol how you doing bud?

yes of course

although what constitutes an "in" group is far more subjective

a wicked bloke/group of ppl could be a bunch of twats to someone else

Blue_Lagoon3000


^ Lol how you doing bud?

doing fine big man, just fine

trust all is good up north in your gay clubs et al