I recently found a new skinhead book, in fact I found several gay skinhead books, and all by the same author. I have now read all his skinhead books and really enjoy his style of writing. He tends to write about the fetish side of skinhead life and also is SHARP. I particularly liked his new book 'Fighting Dog' but his other book 'Daniel' had me wanting more also. He understands the skinhead lifestyle and culture and is very discriptive in his writings. He has 3 skinhead books published, 'Matter of Honour' as well as 'Fighting Dog' and 'Daniel' Check them out at this Amazon site. They are all available in soft cover, E-Book, Kindle and 'Matter of Honour' is also available in hard cover for possible gifts.
http://www.amazon.com/Phillip-Lesbirel/e/B005IZQBO6
Welcome to my blog. I am a gay skinhead and a SHARP. I am also an author of skinhead books and my favorite author is Richard Allen, and no I don't style my writings after his books. My characters are as real as I can make them in my mind and all my books try to show my feelings against racial, sexual and religious hate. Being a skinhead is not just being a lout although that does help in a fight, but upholding a creed and brotherhood established by working class youth in the late 60's.
12/26/11
11/30/11
Strikes
The drivers of the bus company I work for are talking about going out on strike over a pay dispute. I hate strikes and believe there are better ways. A strike only hurts the passengers and not the company. Personally I believe we should still turn up for work, only refuse to take money for trips. This way passengers still get a service and the company loses money.
It is always the public who lose out on strikes. Bus passengers are usually the lower end of the social ladder, pensioners, low paid workers. school kids and the unemployed. As a skinhead I am usually at the lower end myself and know what a bus or train strike can do to the unemployed, pensioners etc. Like many skinheads, our working class roots are there for all to see and public transport is usually our only way to get around, so why hurt our fellow workers and brothers.
I say no to striking and yes to free travel until the company cough up or lock us out, then its a whole new ball game.
It is always the public who lose out on strikes. Bus passengers are usually the lower end of the social ladder, pensioners, low paid workers. school kids and the unemployed. As a skinhead I am usually at the lower end myself and know what a bus or train strike can do to the unemployed, pensioners etc. Like many skinheads, our working class roots are there for all to see and public transport is usually our only way to get around, so why hurt our fellow workers and brothers.
I say no to striking and yes to free travel until the company cough up or lock us out, then its a whole new ball game.
11/28/11
Skinheads
I get many questions from people who just cannot understand what a skinhead really is. They have no concept of their culture or what they stand for so in a few short words I am going to try and answer these questions.
First and foremost a skinhead is a working class youth/man, no if's or buts, his roots are working class and he identifies with the working class. Seldom does his work go beyond the lower echelons of working society, laborors, warehouse workers, building trades etc. Some lift themselves out of these mundane jobs but they are few and far between. Many are unemployed and live from hand to mouth on social security.
Skinheads came into existance in the late 60's as the mods and rockers wained and the young working class lad started to find the West Indian culture of song and dance, using their work clothes and adapting it into a recognisable uniform. Boots were high and steel capped, pants were usually Levi jeans, 501 and faded but eventually being bleached to rid them of their new look, braces were a sign of the common working man and the polo shirt which was a later addition, but replaced the work shirt used originally. The jacket started as a donkey jacket or army cast off but eventually the MA1 in olive green took over. The uniform eveolved from a working man style to a smart recognisable style of their own.
The media caught upon the look and their perchance to soccer violence and blew it up out of all proportion but in doing so, others decided to get into the act. Many youth or hooligans hit on the shaved head look and so the soccer hooligan reputation began. The national Front or the military front for the Nazi Parti took the look also and as they had a racial predudice look on life became known as Boneheads, as skinheads were none racially predudiced. Their culture had come from the West Indian culture so why would they be racially predudiced. In all skinhead groups throughout the world all races are accepted into the brotherhood regardless, but the NF or WP (White Power) Boneheads have a racially based membership. They are not skinheads and any media outlet who allow themselves to use this name in relation to them are misinformed.
Why do we become a skinhead? We are working class and we are proud of our roots. Skinheads stand for the working class youth since the late 60's and are seen as more than just a gang of lads. It is the culture, the brotherhood, the music and the friendship that every skinhead worldwide knows is waiting for him in every country and in every city. It is not something you retire from when you marry or find a relationship. It is a love of culture for life, and you hang up your boots on top of your coffin.
First and foremost a skinhead is a working class youth/man, no if's or buts, his roots are working class and he identifies with the working class. Seldom does his work go beyond the lower echelons of working society, laborors, warehouse workers, building trades etc. Some lift themselves out of these mundane jobs but they are few and far between. Many are unemployed and live from hand to mouth on social security.
Skinheads came into existance in the late 60's as the mods and rockers wained and the young working class lad started to find the West Indian culture of song and dance, using their work clothes and adapting it into a recognisable uniform. Boots were high and steel capped, pants were usually Levi jeans, 501 and faded but eventually being bleached to rid them of their new look, braces were a sign of the common working man and the polo shirt which was a later addition, but replaced the work shirt used originally. The jacket started as a donkey jacket or army cast off but eventually the MA1 in olive green took over. The uniform eveolved from a working man style to a smart recognisable style of their own.
The media caught upon the look and their perchance to soccer violence and blew it up out of all proportion but in doing so, others decided to get into the act. Many youth or hooligans hit on the shaved head look and so the soccer hooligan reputation began. The national Front or the military front for the Nazi Parti took the look also and as they had a racial predudice look on life became known as Boneheads, as skinheads were none racially predudiced. Their culture had come from the West Indian culture so why would they be racially predudiced. In all skinhead groups throughout the world all races are accepted into the brotherhood regardless, but the NF or WP (White Power) Boneheads have a racially based membership. They are not skinheads and any media outlet who allow themselves to use this name in relation to them are misinformed.
Why do we become a skinhead? We are working class and we are proud of our roots. Skinheads stand for the working class youth since the late 60's and are seen as more than just a gang of lads. It is the culture, the brotherhood, the music and the friendship that every skinhead worldwide knows is waiting for him in every country and in every city. It is not something you retire from when you marry or find a relationship. It is a love of culture for life, and you hang up your boots on top of your coffin.
11/27/11
Shaving
Skinheads are easily recognised by their shaved or short cut hair. Personally I prefer shaved, but there is a side effect of shaving your head. Apart from a cold head in winter, it is a task you must keep up on a daily basis. The smooth look is hard to maintain and requires time each morning to rid the head of stubble and give the smooth, cue ball look we skinheads admire so much.
30 years ago I had a major car accident that left me with many scars on my head and to leave shaving for several years until these healed sufficiently to allow a smooth finish once again. I maintained as close a cut as a pair of clippers could handle but eventually dared to use the razor once again. The first few days was agony as my head became a mass of blood and the razor nicked and cut into the many scars. But I perservered and am so glad I did. I felt lost without the smooth feel of my scalp like I didn't belong any more.
Now I am proud of the smooth finish, I even oil my head to make it shine. I feel a part of the culture once again for without the smooth finish I did not feel like a true skinhead. Long live the cue ball.
30 years ago I had a major car accident that left me with many scars on my head and to leave shaving for several years until these healed sufficiently to allow a smooth finish once again. I maintained as close a cut as a pair of clippers could handle but eventually dared to use the razor once again. The first few days was agony as my head became a mass of blood and the razor nicked and cut into the many scars. But I perservered and am so glad I did. I felt lost without the smooth feel of my scalp like I didn't belong any more.
Now I am proud of the smooth finish, I even oil my head to make it shine. I feel a part of the culture once again for without the smooth finish I did not feel like a true skinhead. Long live the cue ball.
10/24/11
What is a SHARPIE
What is a SHARPIE? a skinhead is against racial predudice. Why? Because the skinhead culture originated out of the West Indian culture and skinheads are part of that culture. Without the West Indian culture skinheads would not exist. Therefore, to say Neo Nazi Boneheads or WP are skinheads is to say all skinheads are racist. The media call them skinheads, well it's about time the media got their facts straight. By calling Boneheads skinheads is to defame true skinheads. Just because the Boneheads wear our clothes and shave their heads does not mean they are skinheads, because they aren't. They are racist nationalistic youth with a huge chip on their shoulder.
True skinheads are from all races, color and creeds. Skinheads are the most cosmepolitan group of youth in this world because they accept anyone who enjoys the culture of the skinheads. We are SHARP (skinheads against racial predudice) and accept all to our ranks and squads. Join us, enjoy our culture and be part of a world wide youth movement for the working class. We are more active and better know than the scouts and have a better uniform. Dib Dib, Dob Dob, Oi Oi
True skinheads are from all races, color and creeds. Skinheads are the most cosmepolitan group of youth in this world because they accept anyone who enjoys the culture of the skinheads. We are SHARP (skinheads against racial predudice) and accept all to our ranks and squads. Join us, enjoy our culture and be part of a world wide youth movement for the working class. We are more active and better know than the scouts and have a better uniform. Dib Dib, Dob Dob, Oi Oi
10/16/11
Can a skinhead be a property owner?
Well yesterday I decided to put an offer on a 2 bed unit in a beachside subburb. The need to get away from the crippling rent spiral has led me to think buying finally. I am a working man and would usually always be a renter like my parents but times are changing and skinhead or not, rent is dead money, lining some rich guys pocket and not your own.
So for the same price as rent I can buy a small flat of my own. It is hard to find a deposit when you are a worker with half your wage going on rent and the other half on skinhead gear, but I have made the sacrafice and put up with my old skin gear for a while and now have a small deposit, enough to get this flat.
I don't earn much, in UK terms about 300 pounds a week but in ten years I will own my flat and maybe get some new gear again. I know my Doc's will last that long, and my bleachers can survive with care but might have to buy some new braces, sox and polos during that time, but that's ok. So, this skinhead is now a property owner. Now to find a skinhead BF to match the decor. Any takers? SHARP forever
So for the same price as rent I can buy a small flat of my own. It is hard to find a deposit when you are a worker with half your wage going on rent and the other half on skinhead gear, but I have made the sacrafice and put up with my old skin gear for a while and now have a small deposit, enough to get this flat.
I don't earn much, in UK terms about 300 pounds a week but in ten years I will own my flat and maybe get some new gear again. I know my Doc's will last that long, and my bleachers can survive with care but might have to buy some new braces, sox and polos during that time, but that's ok. So, this skinhead is now a property owner. Now to find a skinhead BF to match the decor. Any takers? SHARP forever
10/13/11
skinhead gear
Over the years my jobs have not allowed me to wear my skinhead gear to work. Apart from when I was in the military where I wore the Disruptive Pateren Uniform, this was the only time I felt like I was dressed as a skinhead. Other jobs I had to wear a uniform but I always wore my boots, much to the discust of many of my employers.
Now I have a job as a bus driver, and can finally wear most of my gear. My trusty Doc's of course, a company polo which is ok in royal blue with a yellow colar and sleeve edges but I have to wear the company work pants which are proper work pants. I use my black braces instead of a belt and often get comments, but I don't care. As a skinhead and a working man, the work pants are a good substitute for my bleachers. So now I feel like a skinhead when I am at work.
Being a skinhead and feeling like a skinhead 24/7 is so important as a person identifies whith his peers. I live in a country where skinheads are few and mostly in our southern capitals and the tropics of Australia do not lend itself to this type of clothing. I persevere because I am a skinhead and would live no other life. I no longer have a skinhead mate as he has returned to the UK but I continue to look and hope for another to join me here and become my mate in a LTR.
Now I have a job as a bus driver, and can finally wear most of my gear. My trusty Doc's of course, a company polo which is ok in royal blue with a yellow colar and sleeve edges but I have to wear the company work pants which are proper work pants. I use my black braces instead of a belt and often get comments, but I don't care. As a skinhead and a working man, the work pants are a good substitute for my bleachers. So now I feel like a skinhead when I am at work.
Being a skinhead and feeling like a skinhead 24/7 is so important as a person identifies whith his peers. I live in a country where skinheads are few and mostly in our southern capitals and the tropics of Australia do not lend itself to this type of clothing. I persevere because I am a skinhead and would live no other life. I no longer have a skinhead mate as he has returned to the UK but I continue to look and hope for another to join me here and become my mate in a LTR.
9/29/11
Equals
Well as I said in an earlier post, I am now working as a bus driver. I can wear my skinhead clobber but a little concealment is required. I have to wear work pants as part of my uniform but I have my braces on them, and a Polo is part of the uniform. My boots are always there so I am half skinhead when working.
I would say 70% of my passengers are Indiginous and I wonder where the equality is in our lives. Most are healthy strong and well built but they have a pension card. A pension for what? Because they are Indiginous or because they cannot work because of illness? It's like the govenment gave up trying and now just gives them money to live. Yet I know of many Australians who are in desparate needs due to health or out of work and the government gives them nothing or bare subsistance with so many conditions they are overwhelmed.
I have made many friends in the Indiginous passengers I now carry but I cannot wonder why so many are considered pensioners when they are stronger and healthier than you or I. I am a strong believer in the assistance by governments to those who need it, but this situation is beyond a joke. If most of these Indiginous people can be classified as penshioners them the rest of Australia qualify also. It is a joke.
I would say 70% of my passengers are Indiginous and I wonder where the equality is in our lives. Most are healthy strong and well built but they have a pension card. A pension for what? Because they are Indiginous or because they cannot work because of illness? It's like the govenment gave up trying and now just gives them money to live. Yet I know of many Australians who are in desparate needs due to health or out of work and the government gives them nothing or bare subsistance with so many conditions they are overwhelmed.
I have made many friends in the Indiginous passengers I now carry but I cannot wonder why so many are considered pensioners when they are stronger and healthier than you or I. I am a strong believer in the assistance by governments to those who need it, but this situation is beyond a joke. If most of these Indiginous people can be classified as penshioners them the rest of Australia qualify also. It is a joke.
9/13/11
Censorship
How often have you joined a group, any group, and received a notification of an article in the group, then find the owner or moderator of the group has removed it? It hapens regularly in groups I am a member and it shits me off. I thought censorship was a government thing and something to be fought against with all force at our disposal, yet we find group owners who constantly remove articles because they contravine their own petty rules and regulations.
I have never removed an article from my groups unless they are defamatory to another member, race color or creed. Articles which are aimed even at the owner are welcome as far as I am concerned as they tell the owner and the members what is right or wrong with the group. I have often received hate mail and even death threats with this site, but I do not go all week at the knees. Bring it on, if you think you can carry them out. I believe in the free press and freedom of all to express an oppinion.
As a skinhead and a SHARP I hate racial predudice especially in my skinhead brothers, for they are the ones who are not true skinheads. Skinheads were born of the Jamaican and Carabean culture, so if you call yourself a skinhead then you cannot be racial predudice, otherwise you are a fake.
I have never removed an article from my groups unless they are defamatory to another member, race color or creed. Articles which are aimed even at the owner are welcome as far as I am concerned as they tell the owner and the members what is right or wrong with the group. I have often received hate mail and even death threats with this site, but I do not go all week at the knees. Bring it on, if you think you can carry them out. I believe in the free press and freedom of all to express an oppinion.
As a skinhead and a SHARP I hate racial predudice especially in my skinhead brothers, for they are the ones who are not true skinheads. Skinheads were born of the Jamaican and Carabean culture, so if you call yourself a skinhead then you cannot be racial predudice, otherwise you are a fake.
9/10/11
skinheads are for life
You don't just decide to be a skinhead and go out and buy gear. You are born a skinhead and the lifestyle becomes you not the other way around. When a nipper I always admired the skinheads in my area, their disregard for convention and authority, but then I was just like them. I didn't decide to be a skinhead, I identified with them and it was natural for me to be one of them when I was old enough to think for myself. When was that? Well I don't really know but I think I always was one of them from when I started high school, but I suspect earlier.
I was no Einstein and looked forward to a life on the dole queue or a mindless occupation on a minimum wage but one day walked past a recruiting house and I stopped and looked. Then I ventured inside and talked to several guys inside. Before I knew it I had signed on for 6 years. The military taught me a trade and how to kill; that I already knew from an early age; but they taught me to do it legally. The comradery of a squad became my family much like a skinhead squad. I had a uniform like my skinhead clobber, and I felt I had finally found a purpose in life.
I was still a skinhead, shaved head, a uniform and a squad, but I had a trade I could use when I got out but I stayed for 25 years. Did I enjoy it? I supose I did in a way. It was my life, it was my family and I was always myself, a skinhead. The fact that I was gay never was questioned even though had they found out, I would have been discharged. Now I write about skinheads, about their power and agro, their social position as working class and unemployed or employed in menial jobs, their illiteracy and lack of government understanding. Their love of soccer and a rumble. Their needs are few; a skinhead family, and drink down the pub with their mates, a soccer game or two and a rumble afterwards. What do they ask for? A job that pays their worth and a government that understands them. Look at the number of skinheads in the UK alone and tell me they are not a force to be recond with. They are the forgotten minority.
I was no Einstein and looked forward to a life on the dole queue or a mindless occupation on a minimum wage but one day walked past a recruiting house and I stopped and looked. Then I ventured inside and talked to several guys inside. Before I knew it I had signed on for 6 years. The military taught me a trade and how to kill; that I already knew from an early age; but they taught me to do it legally. The comradery of a squad became my family much like a skinhead squad. I had a uniform like my skinhead clobber, and I felt I had finally found a purpose in life.
I was still a skinhead, shaved head, a uniform and a squad, but I had a trade I could use when I got out but I stayed for 25 years. Did I enjoy it? I supose I did in a way. It was my life, it was my family and I was always myself, a skinhead. The fact that I was gay never was questioned even though had they found out, I would have been discharged. Now I write about skinheads, about their power and agro, their social position as working class and unemployed or employed in menial jobs, their illiteracy and lack of government understanding. Their love of soccer and a rumble. Their needs are few; a skinhead family, and drink down the pub with their mates, a soccer game or two and a rumble afterwards. What do they ask for? A job that pays their worth and a government that understands them. Look at the number of skinheads in the UK alone and tell me they are not a force to be recond with. They are the forgotten minority.
7/31/11
Working once again
Like many skinheads world wide, I am a working class lad and am unemployed regularly for one reason or another. The bosses don't like skinheads working for them, and skinheads have an attitude they find unnerving and agressive. We are who we are and if we were anything different we wouldn't be skinheads. I lost my last job becaause my boss was only wanting the subsidised wages for 3 months, so he had cheap labour. Once that stopped, so did my job.
I finally started a new job last week as a bus driver and apart from cranky passengers, the job ain't bad. It pays shit, but then as a skinhead I expect that and don't expect to be in the top ten earners list. I have to wear a uniform, but at least I can still wear my boots and my work shirt is a polo. I have yet to try wearing my braces but might leave that until after the trial period.
I published a new skinhead book last week called 'Daniel' on Amazon. It is about a young skinhead, questioning his sexuality and goes on to look at his life, his loves and his love of the gay fetishes. It is violent in parts and tender in others. He does find love with another skinhead guy, but loses him in a rumble when set apon by a gang. Hope you all enjoy it.
I finally started a new job last week as a bus driver and apart from cranky passengers, the job ain't bad. It pays shit, but then as a skinhead I expect that and don't expect to be in the top ten earners list. I have to wear a uniform, but at least I can still wear my boots and my work shirt is a polo. I have yet to try wearing my braces but might leave that until after the trial period.
I published a new skinhead book last week called 'Daniel' on Amazon. It is about a young skinhead, questioning his sexuality and goes on to look at his life, his loves and his love of the gay fetishes. It is violent in parts and tender in others. He does find love with another skinhead guy, but loses him in a rumble when set apon by a gang. Hope you all enjoy it.
7/18/11
New skinhead book
I have a new skinhead book being released by Amazon within the next 2 weeks. It is called Daniel. It was written in 3 parts as a trilogy but have decided to release it as a full book with 3 sections, similar to Richard Allen's skinhead books.
It is a story of a 17 year old skinhead youth, unemployed and questioning his sexuality. Skinheads are suposed to be rough, tough and masculine, but he is turned on by young workmen. He meets up with a plumbers apprentice, Pete, and finds out his true sexuality. The story deals with his discovery of gay sex, the gay fetishes of slavery and deals with his loss of his lover Larry. He vows revenge on the gang who kill Larry and with the help of his skinhead mates, track the gang down and reap a bloody and sadistic revenge on them all. But the story turns itself around and Daniel is duped into slavery himself and becomes a dog slave. His eventual freedom finds another love and again a bloody revenge.
The story is about the skinhead culture, about gay skinheads and their fetishes. But is also shows the bond skinheads have for each other and their willingness to support each other regardless. Skinheads are a brotherhood regardless of their political or sexual persuations. They are world wide and you cannot run from skinheads for they will find you wherever you run.
It is a story of a 17 year old skinhead youth, unemployed and questioning his sexuality. Skinheads are suposed to be rough, tough and masculine, but he is turned on by young workmen. He meets up with a plumbers apprentice, Pete, and finds out his true sexuality. The story deals with his discovery of gay sex, the gay fetishes of slavery and deals with his loss of his lover Larry. He vows revenge on the gang who kill Larry and with the help of his skinhead mates, track the gang down and reap a bloody and sadistic revenge on them all. But the story turns itself around and Daniel is duped into slavery himself and becomes a dog slave. His eventual freedom finds another love and again a bloody revenge.
The story is about the skinhead culture, about gay skinheads and their fetishes. But is also shows the bond skinheads have for each other and their willingness to support each other regardless. Skinheads are a brotherhood regardless of their political or sexual persuations. They are world wide and you cannot run from skinheads for they will find you wherever you run.
6/23/11
Jobless again
Well I knew it couldn't last, the job was shit but at least I had a wage, small but survivable. What else can a laborer expect these days. Minimum wage for maximum effort. As a skinhead you cannot expect much more unless you have the education to get a good job. Skinheads are working class men with a working class background of minimal education at best. Many are unemployed which is mostly why the culture started in the first place.
The Skinhead culture and movement grew out of the unemployed working class youth of the late 60's, and although the culture waned somewhat in the early 70's grew back stronger than ever in the late 70's and early 80's. Unemployment has always been the bug bare of skinheads. Many employers don't understand their culture and in most cases scared of their overpowering looks when in traditional gear.
Yes skinheads are angry, arrogant and intense. They wouldn't be skinheads if they weren't. Being working class does not allow them the advantage of good jobs or nice clothes. They enjoy their status as working class; it's what they are. Their traditional gear of steel capped boots, bleachers or denim jeans, polo shirt or button down collar shirt, braces and MA1 are their uniform. It tells the world they are skinheads.
We are here to stay unlike other cultures that have melted into the fashion scene. It's about time society got used to us and accepted our lifestyle and culture. We can work and we work bloody hard for the pittance most employers give us. Respect us and we will respect you and your company, but please just give us a chance to work, to have dignity and to be who we are. Skinheads.
The Skinhead culture and movement grew out of the unemployed working class youth of the late 60's, and although the culture waned somewhat in the early 70's grew back stronger than ever in the late 70's and early 80's. Unemployment has always been the bug bare of skinheads. Many employers don't understand their culture and in most cases scared of their overpowering looks when in traditional gear.
Yes skinheads are angry, arrogant and intense. They wouldn't be skinheads if they weren't. Being working class does not allow them the advantage of good jobs or nice clothes. They enjoy their status as working class; it's what they are. Their traditional gear of steel capped boots, bleachers or denim jeans, polo shirt or button down collar shirt, braces and MA1 are their uniform. It tells the world they are skinheads.
We are here to stay unlike other cultures that have melted into the fashion scene. It's about time society got used to us and accepted our lifestyle and culture. We can work and we work bloody hard for the pittance most employers give us. Respect us and we will respect you and your company, but please just give us a chance to work, to have dignity and to be who we are. Skinheads.
5/27/11
A bootboi in Burma
Love of skinhead boots is not contained to the English, American or German skinheads. I recently discovered a bootboi in Burma and now correspond with him. He cannot always get to a computer or to an email service, but he is so dedicated to boot worship regardless of his situation. His government restrict internet access with an iron fist, yet he still manages to search the internet for his big love of skinhead boots. Would we do the same given the same circumstances? I doubt it as our lives are not restricted or censored. We do not get up in the morning with the uncirtainty of maybe being arrested for the slightest thing, or for loving a culture deamed militaristic and therefore banned. Yes, skinheads are classed as a military culture and a subversive sub group.
Burma has a military junta ruling the country with no regard for its inhabitants or international law. It has no human rights and its jails are full of those who try to make a difference to the lives of others. I am a skinhead and although this contact (his name must remain hidden for obvious reasons) is not a skinhead in the real sense, he is as much a skinhead as all of us for his fight to survive as a working class man in a country devoid of justice. Long live the fight for freedom for all lovers of boots and skinheads.
Burma has a military junta ruling the country with no regard for its inhabitants or international law. It has no human rights and its jails are full of those who try to make a difference to the lives of others. I am a skinhead and although this contact (his name must remain hidden for obvious reasons) is not a skinhead in the real sense, he is as much a skinhead as all of us for his fight to survive as a working class man in a country devoid of justice. Long live the fight for freedom for all lovers of boots and skinheads.
5/6/11
Why is it when something becomes popular, they get all moralistic? FaceBook has recently started culling members accounts for reasons unbeknown to all except themselves. I have had several friends who have lost their accounts and have not been told the reasons why.
One of my friends is a bigoted, white power skinhead. I am a Sharpe. I met him on FaceBook when he wrote abusive and threatening comments on my FaceBook page because of one of my blogs of skinheads and Sharpe. I did not report him but mearly continued to talk with him through FaceBook. I don't think I have changed his attitude, but he can now talk and explain his feelings more freely. I don't think he will ever change his views, but I have got to know him and enjoy our brief if not entertaining banter. Many people look at abuse as an attack on themselves. I prefer to see it as a chalenge to try reason where I can. Oh don't misunderstand me, in a rumble that goes out the window, but on social networks such as FaceBook, it is after all just words and I enjoy a good writen arguement.
So next time a fellow skin mouths off about Nazism or WP, don't report them or have nothing more to do with them, talk with them and learn why they feel the way they do. It is very enlightning.
One of my friends is a bigoted, white power skinhead. I am a Sharpe. I met him on FaceBook when he wrote abusive and threatening comments on my FaceBook page because of one of my blogs of skinheads and Sharpe. I did not report him but mearly continued to talk with him through FaceBook. I don't think I have changed his attitude, but he can now talk and explain his feelings more freely. I don't think he will ever change his views, but I have got to know him and enjoy our brief if not entertaining banter. Many people look at abuse as an attack on themselves. I prefer to see it as a chalenge to try reason where I can. Oh don't misunderstand me, in a rumble that goes out the window, but on social networks such as FaceBook, it is after all just words and I enjoy a good writen arguement.
So next time a fellow skin mouths off about Nazism or WP, don't report them or have nothing more to do with them, talk with them and learn why they feel the way they do. It is very enlightning.
4/24/11
It has been a while since I placed a new blog on this site, mainly because of work but also due to less available computer time and computers being hit by virus and hijackers. To those who use viruses or hacking techniques for their entertainment, they fail to realise the damage they cause and the costs involved. It's not only the big companies they hit, it's people like you and me, hard working people who can ill afford the costs of cleaning out their computers of virus's, protecting themselves from hacking and programs that enter your system to report or thieve your information.
I am a working man, with a weekly wage of $545 therefore a yearly wage of just of around $27k, and spending over $2k a year trying to protect myself or rebuild my computers is becoming harder every day. What do I suggest? When a hacker is caught, jail is the only way to curb them. A hefty jail term, regardless of age or previous offences, plus some way to recompense those who have been hurt through their actions. If a youth is found to be creating virus's, it is not an intelligent mind gone wrong, it is a malicious intent to injure and should be dealt with as such. We deal with young offenders who are caught up in violent crime so why not white collar crime? White collar crime is just as damaging to a person as violence to their body. Therefore I propose all white collar crime be treated as criminal and those caught for producing viruses or hijacking programs and use them, be charged with assault with criminal intent.
I am aware that young IT students have to learn to write virus and hacking programs to learn how to combat them in their working lives as IT professionals, but if they step over the mark, then jail is the only alternative. The world looses billions of dollars every year due to virus attacks, information hackers and phishing programs. It's time to get tough and forget about where the keys are stored. Minimum sentences of 20 years should be mandatory with no parole. Hard? Yes, but will they do it again if we give them a slap on the wrist? Of course they will, so let's make sure they don't have the opportunity.
I am a working man, with a weekly wage of $545 therefore a yearly wage of just of around $27k, and spending over $2k a year trying to protect myself or rebuild my computers is becoming harder every day. What do I suggest? When a hacker is caught, jail is the only way to curb them. A hefty jail term, regardless of age or previous offences, plus some way to recompense those who have been hurt through their actions. If a youth is found to be creating virus's, it is not an intelligent mind gone wrong, it is a malicious intent to injure and should be dealt with as such. We deal with young offenders who are caught up in violent crime so why not white collar crime? White collar crime is just as damaging to a person as violence to their body. Therefore I propose all white collar crime be treated as criminal and those caught for producing viruses or hijacking programs and use them, be charged with assault with criminal intent.
I am aware that young IT students have to learn to write virus and hacking programs to learn how to combat them in their working lives as IT professionals, but if they step over the mark, then jail is the only alternative. The world looses billions of dollars every year due to virus attacks, information hackers and phishing programs. It's time to get tough and forget about where the keys are stored. Minimum sentences of 20 years should be mandatory with no parole. Hard? Yes, but will they do it again if we give them a slap on the wrist? Of course they will, so let's make sure they don't have the opportunity.
2/27/11
A worker and loving it
2 weeks working as a labourer and loving it. Mind you, being outside every day all day, the weather has its effects. Living in the tropics the rain can be torential, and my job is mowing lawns and whipper snipping, but we just keep going, drenched or not. I don't wear my skin gear at work, rather I wear navy work pants, orange hi-viz shirt and 14 hole steel caps. We look after the city council water and sewage plants, water and sewerage pumping stations and the roads leading up to these areas as well as the local dump site. As you can imagine the work is dirty, muddy and in most cases wet. Your boots fill with water, your clothes are drenched and the only thing dry is your tobacco because it's wrapped in plastic.
Apart from mowing etc, we also spray weeds, and cut down trees and bushes with chain saws. Work is usually a 12 hour day 6 days a week, starting at 6am and seldom finishing till 6pm. Hard, hot and steamy but the money is good, not the hourly pay but the long hours give you heaps in the hand. Yeah I know I got a brain I can use for better jobs than labouring but I like what I do and who cares, I'm not a snob and don't care what others think. A skinhead is a worker from working class roots and even if he climbs out of the mire, he is always a working man. I am a labourer and a skinhead. That's who I am so get over it.
Apart from mowing etc, we also spray weeds, and cut down trees and bushes with chain saws. Work is usually a 12 hour day 6 days a week, starting at 6am and seldom finishing till 6pm. Hard, hot and steamy but the money is good, not the hourly pay but the long hours give you heaps in the hand. Yeah I know I got a brain I can use for better jobs than labouring but I like what I do and who cares, I'm not a snob and don't care what others think. A skinhead is a worker from working class roots and even if he climbs out of the mire, he is always a working man. I am a labourer and a skinhead. That's who I am so get over it.
2/20/11
A job at last
Yep, I'm finally working for a living. A job is a job and I'm cutting grass and whipper snipping with a gang of eight other labourers. My new boss has a contract for the local City Council to maintain the water and sewerage plants and we work like trojans from sun up to sun down or whenever we finish and in all weather. It's hard, hot, sweaty work, often soaked to the skin because of rain, but I am happy; I am earning a quid. When I get home I stink from the mud and shit sprayed on me, look like I just got out of a mud bath and am covered in grass, but as a skinhead it don't matter. My work gear is navy work pants, orange and navy hi-viz long sleeve shirt and 10-hole steel capped work boots. Pay is not big, but with the hours I work the pay packet at the end of the week is good. I work 50 to 60 hours at $15 (about 7 pounds) an hour it is more than I ever dreamed of. It took me 7 months on unemployment to find this job and I lived hand to mouth, finding the odd job here and there, some weeks only 6 hours, others maybe 15 or 20 but I made it through.
Poverty is a soul destroying thing and it nearly destroyed me, but never my faith in the brotherhood. As low as I went there was always a skin brother to help me along the way, buy me a beer when I was broke, cheer me up when I was down even to buy me a sandwich when I had not eaten in a couple of days. Unemployment gives you little. It is an amount to survive not to get rich on. My rent took most of the payment and I was left with virtually nothing to live on. But I am a skin and I can survive. Like the skinhead movement, it went through some rough patches but came back better and stronger in the 80's. I am a skinhead, long live the brotherhood.
Poverty is a soul destroying thing and it nearly destroyed me, but never my faith in the brotherhood. As low as I went there was always a skin brother to help me along the way, buy me a beer when I was broke, cheer me up when I was down even to buy me a sandwich when I had not eaten in a couple of days. Unemployment gives you little. It is an amount to survive not to get rich on. My rent took most of the payment and I was left with virtually nothing to live on. But I am a skin and I can survive. Like the skinhead movement, it went through some rough patches but came back better and stronger in the 80's. I am a skinhead, long live the brotherhood.
1/17/11
What is a skinhead
A guy or girl who believes in working class values and respects those who share the same beliefs. Not all skinheads have shaved heads, wear suspenders or wear boots, but these are good signs. Not all skinheads are racist, but unfortunately some are. They are "boneheads" to the rest of the skinhead world because of the blemish they have put on a proud group of working class kids. Skinheads are of every race, every religion, because it's not who you are, what race you are or any external factor. It's what is in your heart. Traditional skins look to their English and Jamaican roots for their lifestyle and their music (Oi, punk, ska, reggae, and rockabilly). SHARP (Skinheads against Racial Prejudice) skins are the democrats of the skinhead world, accepting all and defending their way of life. A skinhead friend of mine once told me that he only fights for 3 things: his family, his friends and his honour. This is what is important to skinheads, not "protecting the white race" or to carry out Hitler’s unfinished work.
It's something you are. It's not a style. It's not a fad. It's a way of life. Skinheads will live on as long as there are fat cats in power who don't give a shit about the youth of today. We're proud, we're pissed and we're here to stay.
It's something you are. It's not a style. It's not a fad. It's a way of life. Skinheads will live on as long as there are fat cats in power who don't give a shit about the youth of today. We're proud, we're pissed and we're here to stay.
1/14/11
skinhead music
Loka Nunda
Skinhead music has wained over the last few years with punk rock taking over the scene, but I recently found a new skinhead music ledgend, Loka Nunda. His music covers several sounds but he remains a true skinhead throughout. The link above gives you a world of songs and video music to add to your collection. I personally love Ska, Reggae and TwoTone but his music style caught my attention. I have several favourites including 'Stomp Stomp', 'Real Men' and many more and some are shown on this blog site. Check the past blogs to locate them.
skinhead music is music with a beat, whether it be Stomp, Reggae, Ska or Carabean style, we all want to dance and hear a beat. Words are for the angry and working man, seldom if any are love songs; they all have attitude. Their music is of an angry woking class youth, pissed off with the government and the world, pissed off with poverty and unemployment. Football, drinking with your mates, dancing with the squad on Saturday nights and a rumble afterwards is the highlight of a boring week.
In the coming weeks I will add some skinhead music for your listning pleasure. In the meantime, watch and listen to Loka Nunda and mabe head over to his web site and download a few of his tracks.
1/7/11
Freedom of speech and thoughts
This blog has been on the web for 4 days and yet I have received several hate emails and one that has threatened my life. Regardless of my race or sexual orientation, I am still a skinhead and to those who sent the emails, I have been a skinhead since 1968, well before they were even a twinkle in their fathers eye. For me being a skinhead is a way of life, but being a gay skinhead came to me later in life. Untill 1978 I was your average skinhead, unemployable, or constantly out of work. I had an attitude problem and a record of many visits to police cells. I was given an option, prison or military service, so I opted for military service. It was more a skinhead gang than many I had been in before and a closer family feel.
I worked with many races and men of many colours and came to appreciate each and their abilities. My hate turned to admiration and to become a SHARP. Hate was never a part of my upbringing but I learnt it as part of being a skinhead. Many skinheads or 'boneheads' have good family backgrounds where hate was not part of their upbringing but more from their association with NF/WP or Nazi groups. Some were born into WP families and know no better.
I don't care about the emails, I believe every man on this planet has the right to express themselves in the form of free speech. I also believe that this blog is open to critism and welcome it. It means free speech is still alive and well. To our WP/NF and Nazi (bonehead) brothers maybe your interest in this blog can be used for your proporganda but it will never change the mind of a true SHARP.
I worked with many races and men of many colours and came to appreciate each and their abilities. My hate turned to admiration and to become a SHARP. Hate was never a part of my upbringing but I learnt it as part of being a skinhead. Many skinheads or 'boneheads' have good family backgrounds where hate was not part of their upbringing but more from their association with NF/WP or Nazi groups. Some were born into WP families and know no better.
I don't care about the emails, I believe every man on this planet has the right to express themselves in the form of free speech. I also believe that this blog is open to critism and welcome it. It means free speech is still alive and well. To our WP/NF and Nazi (bonehead) brothers maybe your interest in this blog can be used for your proporganda but it will never change the mind of a true SHARP.
1/5/11
Skinhead books
I love reading and writing skinhead books. I recently searched Amazon books and found 447 books dedicated to skinheads.There are many more in various subjects that relate to skinheads but not seen as a skinhead book. Richard Allen, Nick Knight are two well known writers of skinhead books and a new writer is Phil Lesbirel, a skinhead himself. His book 'A Matter of Honour' follows a young skinhead who is sent to a Juvenile Prison, but is approached by the Police to try and get close to a 'Bonehead', incarcerated in the same institution, who is associated with a Nazi skinhead group run by an IRA thug named Murphy. He is promised his record would be wiped if he can achieve his goal. He eventually agrees and manages to get inside the Nazi skinhead camp as a new recruit. He is a SHARP and the Nazi skinheads are abhorrent to him but he perseveres and through his efforts and assistance from other skinheads in the police force, manages to put Murphy behind bars. He becomes the leader of the Nazi skinheads with the help of the police and decides, Nazi or not, they are his squad and he stays as their leader. It is a matter of Honour.
This book shows the sheer brutality and racist beliefs of the 'Boneheads' but also shows that a young SHARP can still lead a squad of 'Boneheads' and preserve his honour as a SHARP by controlling their activities. This book is part 1 of a series this writer intends to produce to follow the activities and actions of this young skinhead.
Books on skinheads tell a story of the skinhead movement. Most are fictional and have fictional characters, but the authors have met these people in their research and write them as they see their actions would be based on the personality and attitude of those they have met or been associated with. Some of the writers were skinheads themselves; some were just fascinated by the skinhead movement and their culture. But I have never read a skinhead book where I myself personally could not relate to the character, or the story. Skinheads are unique in so far as they are today’s bully boys, today’s working class youth and today’s urban warriors, an army of youth who have attitude, are angry and could not care a dam about the government but a sincere love of their country and their working class roots.
This book shows the sheer brutality and racist beliefs of the 'Boneheads' but also shows that a young SHARP can still lead a squad of 'Boneheads' and preserve his honour as a SHARP by controlling their activities. This book is part 1 of a series this writer intends to produce to follow the activities and actions of this young skinhead.
Books on skinheads tell a story of the skinhead movement. Most are fictional and have fictional characters, but the authors have met these people in their research and write them as they see their actions would be based on the personality and attitude of those they have met or been associated with. Some of the writers were skinheads themselves; some were just fascinated by the skinhead movement and their culture. But I have never read a skinhead book where I myself personally could not relate to the character, or the story. Skinheads are unique in so far as they are today’s bully boys, today’s working class youth and today’s urban warriors, an army of youth who have attitude, are angry and could not care a dam about the government but a sincere love of their country and their working class roots.
1/4/11
A skinhead day
As a skinhead my day always starts with shaving my head to a smooth feel and look. It is the most important thing for me, as it defines who I am. Coffee, orange juice and a cigarette come next then into the shower to freshen up. Dress for the day depends on what I am doing, whether working or just relaxing. Working is wearing Ben Sherman shirts and a pair of black cotton polyester work pants and work boots well polished. Relaxing is a pair of cotton drill work pants, shirt and steel caped work boots (dirty is fine here), and going out is in my skinead gear teamed with well polished Doc's or my 30 hole Undergrounds. Boots maketh the man (or in this case the skin). Today is a work day so got to iron my Bennie and polish my Doc's, the 10 hole cherries.
1/3/11
Confused?
If you read my profile you will see I show Colorado and Cairns as my place of residence. I live in Cairns Australia but own property in Colorado City CO in the US. It's only a plot of land as an investment but hey, I consider myself a Colorardian as much as an Australian. So any skinheads or lovers of skinheads from Colorado especially Colorado City please contact me.
When will the media realise skinheads are not WP/Nazi youths out to kill and maime. Skinheads are working class youth who come together to support each other where the Government had failed. WP/Nazi elements have hijacked the skinhead look and used it for their own purposes. They are not true skinheads, they are imposters and dangerous ones at that. Skinheads are not racially provoked, they are racially integrated.
The original skinhead movement developed from the West Indian music and culture and it is still part of the brotherhood today. Their music is Ska, Reggae, Oi and 2Tone, the beat of the Indies. Their mode of dress came originally from the docklands of East London where most were born and spread worlwide. The West Indian dock workers wore their pants short (usually tucked into the boots) and their boots high as they worked unloading the boats. Braces were the sign of a working man. Work man's clothing were rough woolen or worsted pants, similar shirts or heavy cotton drill, donkey jackets or leather jerkins and hob nailed boots. Rubber soles took a few more years to enter the wook boot stocks. Braces were of leather or pants held up by strong wide leather belts or just sturdy rope. Jeans were just starting to make a fashion statement as they were still regarded as work pants by many.
The start of the skinhead movement was born out of unemployment, povety and the changes sweeping Britain at that time. The post war era when youth decided that the life of their parents was not for them. For those who could afford it, fashion became important but for the unemployed youth, hand-me-downs of fathers or brothers work clothes or ex army uniforms were all they had. It spurned a culture which exists today, where others fell by the wayside, proudly displaying its working class roots for all the world to see. The progression into a skinhead style took several years and the 80's saw the movement take on a look and a pride in their brotherhood. The traditional skinhead now has a fashion of its own; a shaved head or close cut hair, bleachers, usually Levi 501's, Polo shirt in squad colours again usually Ben Sherman or Fred Perry, sometimes a botton down colar shirt from Ben Sherman for a Saturday night on the town, Doc Martin or Underground boots (steel capped), braces ( elastic from 1" to 2" width) matching the polo or boot laces and finally an MA1 either olive green, navy or marone. Black is usually worn by 'boneheads' (WP/Nazi). This is the traditional uniform of a skinhead but many are now opting for the Scallie look of track suit and sneekers (a look I detest).
Many skinheads are classed as soccer louts and this is true in many cases. Soccer is the national sport of the UK and a rumble the second most important sport for a skinhead. When both combine it is the highlight of a skinhead week. Why to rumble? Why not, it's a way of ridding themselves of pent up fraustrations of the ever increasing povety unemployment brings, or social pressures of low paid work and unending boredom. Please don't get me wrong, some skinheads are employed in good jobs and earn a decent living but they are still skinheads from their youth and they have a mindset when dressed in their gear and with their mates. Long live the BROTHERHOOD.
The original skinhead movement developed from the West Indian music and culture and it is still part of the brotherhood today. Their music is Ska, Reggae, Oi and 2Tone, the beat of the Indies. Their mode of dress came originally from the docklands of East London where most were born and spread worlwide. The West Indian dock workers wore their pants short (usually tucked into the boots) and their boots high as they worked unloading the boats. Braces were the sign of a working man. Work man's clothing were rough woolen or worsted pants, similar shirts or heavy cotton drill, donkey jackets or leather jerkins and hob nailed boots. Rubber soles took a few more years to enter the wook boot stocks. Braces were of leather or pants held up by strong wide leather belts or just sturdy rope. Jeans were just starting to make a fashion statement as they were still regarded as work pants by many.
The start of the skinhead movement was born out of unemployment, povety and the changes sweeping Britain at that time. The post war era when youth decided that the life of their parents was not for them. For those who could afford it, fashion became important but for the unemployed youth, hand-me-downs of fathers or brothers work clothes or ex army uniforms were all they had. It spurned a culture which exists today, where others fell by the wayside, proudly displaying its working class roots for all the world to see. The progression into a skinhead style took several years and the 80's saw the movement take on a look and a pride in their brotherhood. The traditional skinhead now has a fashion of its own; a shaved head or close cut hair, bleachers, usually Levi 501's, Polo shirt in squad colours again usually Ben Sherman or Fred Perry, sometimes a botton down colar shirt from Ben Sherman for a Saturday night on the town, Doc Martin or Underground boots (steel capped), braces ( elastic from 1" to 2" width) matching the polo or boot laces and finally an MA1 either olive green, navy or marone. Black is usually worn by 'boneheads' (WP/Nazi). This is the traditional uniform of a skinhead but many are now opting for the Scallie look of track suit and sneekers (a look I detest).
Many skinheads are classed as soccer louts and this is true in many cases. Soccer is the national sport of the UK and a rumble the second most important sport for a skinhead. When both combine it is the highlight of a skinhead week. Why to rumble? Why not, it's a way of ridding themselves of pent up fraustrations of the ever increasing povety unemployment brings, or social pressures of low paid work and unending boredom. Please don't get me wrong, some skinheads are employed in good jobs and earn a decent living but they are still skinheads from their youth and they have a mindset when dressed in their gear and with their mates. Long live the BROTHERHOOD.
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