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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Pressure from one's peers to behave in a manner similar or acceptable to them.

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  • noun encouragement by one's peers.

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  • I'm doing my research project over this

    October 31, 2008

  • hey lauren

    October 31, 2008

  • are you there?

    October 31, 2008

  • hello

    October 31, 2008

  • So why are you pissed at brennah?

    October 31, 2008

  • its just that she like all ways calles me and lauren a b

    and she all ways brags about modeling and its really annoying

    October 31, 2008

  • hey guys

    October 31, 2008

  • hey

    October 31, 2008

  • yeah kelsey hates her.

    Idon't really care

    Lauren are you there?

    October 31, 2008

  • wait so brennah doesnt know that tho right

    October 31, 2008

  • woah woah woah kelsey hates brennah?

    i thought they were like best friends

    October 31, 2008

  • yeah me too.

    but she hates her i'm not even joking

    it's pathetic how much she bad mouthes her when we hang out

    October 31, 2008

  • wait does brennah know that kelsey doent like her

    and do you like her

    October 31, 2008

  • bonnie.... what does kelsey say about brennah?

    October 31, 2008

  • yea what does she say

    October 31, 2008

  • taylor who are we talking about?

    October 31, 2008

  • no cuz then yall will tell her. and then she will get mad and you know what will happen!

    October 31, 2008

  • im talking about what bonnie said that kelsey doesnt like her and im asking both of you if you like brennah

    October 31, 2008

  • no we wont or at least i know i wont

    October 31, 2008

  • no we wont!!!!!

    i wont tell her anything cause i am talking about her too.

    hello!

    October 31, 2008

  • Is this page for real? *rubs eyes* Where's a good Russian used-car salesman when you need one?

    October 31, 2008

  • well answer my question

    October 31, 2008

  • just tell us

    October 31, 2008

  • oh sorry.

    She just cusses about her and says how bad she is and all the things they got in trouble for. What they talked about. What she said about other preople when they were still frineds

    October 31, 2008

  • wait does this mean that we all dont like her or are we just doing this cause were bored?

    October 31, 2008

  • oh wow well then why does kelsey sit with us then if she doesnt like brennah

    October 31, 2008

  • both. but lets not gang up on her all now ok?

    lets wait for a while and see what other gross stuff she does. then we can be mad.

    October 31, 2008

  • oh ok. well it does seem like what kelsey would do.

    i hate how she always plays dumb...dont you?

    October 31, 2008

  • well i never said i dont like her i just said that she is annoying

    October 31, 2008

  • well its kinda the same thing....i think

    October 31, 2008

  • kelsey just sat with me today and we kept qwhisper mouthing behind my purse

    "what a brat!"

    thats why kelsey started laughing in the middle of lunch today

    oh and i mean gross stuff as in annoying and stoopid

    October 31, 2008

  • not really and i hate how brennah thinks she can do what ever she wants you know

    October 31, 2008

  • oh okay lol

    so this weekend is going to be fun

    October 31, 2008

  • wait so taylor you don't like her?

    October 31, 2008

  • oh ok.

    October 31, 2008

  • I like Brennah. She is guilty of bragging about her modelling but can you blame her?

    Kelsey on the other hand, what a b.

    October 31, 2008

  • Hey yall. Sup.

    October 31, 2008

  • OMG! You are suck ho's!! I'm telling Kelsey right now. Beeotches!

    October 31, 2008

  • Please, could you all take this somewhere else? Wordie isn't here for IMing. Thanks.

    October 31, 2008

  • yarb - you slay me!

    October 31, 2008

  • Oh, I give up. Now I'm pissed at Brennah. She all ways brags about modeling.

    So we will have fun this weekend lol

    October 31, 2008

  • OMG THATS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROTFLIAWM*

    (*Rolling On The Floor Laughing In A Wordie Mood)

    October 31, 2008

  • okay seriously.

    people who dont even know what were talking need to stay out of this.

    really.

    and yeah.

    i freakin hate brennah.

    she said she had sex with trevor.

    and sucked his dick.

    but i know its a load of bull shit.

    October 31, 2008

  • But seriously: has Trevor corroborated Brennah's claims?

    October 31, 2008

  • Sorry Kelseyy -- no can do! This is not a private chat room and by the way do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

    October 31, 2008

  • Kelseyy, if you want people to "stay out of this" (whatever you think "this" is), then take your private conversations to a private place. Everything you post on this site is fair game for EVERYONE who visits it, from now till forever. You know this is a public site, right? And that your comments aren't ever going away, right? So, like, if Brennah or Trevor or whoever, dickless or not, ever shows up, they'll be able to read all this bullshit you and your friends said about them. You know that, right?

    October 31, 2008

  • I got the impression Kelseyy is the sock puppet of one of our regular wags. Maybe not. How do you tell the difference between people who spell like three-year-olds and sock puppets?

    October 31, 2008

  • Or chatbots, even? It's the Turing Test Plus, isn't it?

    Unless John can see anything suggestive in the IP logs for Wordie, we're probably left guessing. I think the explanation that these really are children is most economical.

    October 31, 2008

  • So if I've got this straight, "Brennah" is/was the queen bee of the social superstructure of this particular high school. "Bonnie", "Taylor", "Lauren", and her b.f.f. "Kelsey" are getting revenge by venting all over the internets.

    What shenanigans will transpire? Will Brennah manage to put a stop to the revolt? Have Bonnie's efforts to replace Brennah's moisturiser with foot cream paid off? Have Taylor's protein bars succeeded in Brennah piling on the pounds (say to goodbye to that modelling career girlfriend!)? Does Brennah know Kelsey has been secretly sleeping with her boyfriend during P.E. every Thursday in the A/V Storeroom behind the auditorium?

    This is more than adequate whilst I wait for Gossip Girl to finish downloading.

    October 31, 2008

  • kewpid: You forgot to mention that c_b is a doosh three times over. :-)

    October 31, 2008

  • Yeah, thanks for reminding him... *deflates* I don't know what I was thinking, trying to contribute to conversations here. I mean, I'm such a doosh.

    I'm such a doosh.

    I'm such a doosh.

    October 31, 2008

  • Hey, lets not gang up on c_b all now ok?

    lets wait for a while and see what other gross stuff she does. then we can be mad.

    *huge eye roll*

    October 31, 2008

  • Maybe we could peer pressure others into acting like sensible human beings. I mean, it's the coolest, all the kids are doing it.

    November 1, 2008

  • *whew*

    November 1, 2008

  • kewpid, just wait until you see their dance in the school talent show. They do the same thing every year.

    This one time, Kelseyy punched me in the face. It was awesome. Also, I think Bonnie is mad at Brennah because she's the only one who knows about her nose job.

    I can't wait to not be a teenager any longer so I don't get lumped in with people like that purely because of age.

    November 1, 2008

  • Plethora, you're not people like that, no matter how old you are. :-)

    November 2, 2008

  • I'm now kind of hoping they come back.

    November 2, 2008

  • The doctor will see you now.

    November 2, 2008

  • And her name is Lucy van Pelt. Five cents, please.

    November 2, 2008

  • If any of you were wondering how to seamlessly join the conversation on this page, help is at hand.

    November 2, 2008

  • If your so freakin mad at us for posting our stuff on here, then don't get so freakin mad!!!!

    November 14, 2008

  • That doesn't even make sense. And someone needs several thousand spelling lessons.

    November 14, 2008

  • Bonniee, you mentioned a research paper earlier in this thread. What is the subject of the research?

    November 14, 2008

  • I think it's something like "ditching class right in front of the teacher," or "using school resources to inexplicably annoy total strangers around the world," or even "pissing off the owner of Wordie because I'm too dumb to read the site first," or something like that, elgiad.

    Just guessin'.

    November 14, 2008