Dumb Questions.

[glatt]

In "Breaking Away" a cutter was a person who worked in the local quarry, cutting slabs from the rock. There was tension between the cutters and the college community.

But in the thread in question, a cutter is clearly someone who is trying to go directly to the front of the line ("queue" for you crazy foreign types) without waiting like everyone else.

Or maybe it's someone who cuts themselves for any number of psychological reasons, but I don't see what that has to do with goth/druggie/loser/emo/skank/bogan types.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by glatt

Or maybe it's someone who cuts themselves for any number of psychological reasons, but I don't see what that has to do with goth/druggie/loser/emo/skank/bogan types.

Dark, disaffected, troubled teenagers, who engage in sub cultural coping methods to deal with a hostile world?