Things you did as a teenager that you thought made you cool?

certifiedcrepe

In my circle of friends not sleeping until extremely late seemed to be the cool thing. I'd stay up as long as I could and then text my friends saying "Anyone awake?" And then pass out from exhaustion. I don't know why but it was the unspoken thing we always did.

The tables turned when I was 17 and had a bad reaction to general anaesthetic which left me with insomnia. Now all I want to do is sleep!

So what did you all do that was perceived as cool?

smellmepower

Put Brylcreem in my hair,bought hideous clothing and footwear.

Not listen or put any effort into school,or even bother going there.

Vicar in a tutu

wore propellor hats

Chara1001

I was a goth. Leather corsets and PVC trousers, even the memory makes me want to hide behind a cushion:/

MaroonAndGreen

Chara1001 wrote: »

I was a goth. Leather corsets and PVC trousers, even the memory makes me want to hide behind a cushion:/

Can you please explain whats the attraction in being a goth? never understood it tbh

StickyIcky

Wearing random clothing , buying booze while underage, smoking anything and everything , bunking school and going home for shots , buying the biggest speakers especially subwoofers, getting the noise police over, having house parties filled with mostly people you'd no idea about

Osmosis Jones

I've never done anything like that. Then again I am only 17 and probably a huge cnut that does lots of stupid things I haven't even realised yet:pac:

TommieBoy

Piercings - hate 'em now.

pappyodaniel

Coming into school on Ash Wednesday and boasting about eating 23 pancakes the day before when in actual fact you ate 5 at best.

lahalane

I realised quick that I would never be cool so I just tried to be invisible. Worked pretty well I reckon.

Ruu

Brylcream here as well. Wrote on my jeans with black marker, bleach my rucksack to dye it. Leather jacket for a few years as well (my brother did it before me).

Jesus Wept

TommieBoy wrote: »

Piercings - hate 'em now.

hi

Potential-Monke

Smoking.

Punching myself in the face and throw myself around the place to get a few lulz (my hand "got a mind of it's own").

Be the class clown (although, i genuinely enjoyed that one).

Vito Corleone

When I was around thirteen I would say "savage" for something I found impressive, sometimes I would shorten it to "savo".

Cringe.

Tweej

I wore badges to wezz. Spongebob badges.

Greenmachine

The how late have you stay up one used to make me laugh. When I was 18 I often worked split shift in a restaurant. Started 11am on a weekend morning and finished at 3-am. Then waited a few hours for a taxi. (before deregulation) then went home. Employer payed for the taxi. Seemed completely irrelevant how late I would stay up.

Joe10000

All buried too deep now to go digging.

corktina

I can't remember what I had for breakfast never mind what happened decades ago.

jimgoose

I used to wear an extremely naff denim jacket that I thought was the coolest thing since Fonzie. It wasn't, mind you. I still wear extremely naff jackets (or so I'm told) but I no longer give a rattlin' furk whether they're cool or not.

giant_midget

Metallica t-shirts, combats and army boots :pac:

....and also...Xworks jeans

Beruthiel

The 80's.
Shoulder pads.
Drain pipes.
Perms.
*Shudder*

Sam Kade

certifiedcrepe wrote: »

In my circle of friends not sleeping until extremely late seemed to be the cool thing. I'd stay up as long as I could and then text my friends saying "Anyone awake?" And then pass out from exhaustion. I don't know why but it was the unspoken thing we always did.

The tables turned when I was 17 and had a bad reaction to general anaesthetic which left me with insomnia. Now all I want to do is sleep!

So what did you all do that was perceived as cool?

Looks like you were living life on the wild side :pac:

hardCopy

Spiky yellow hair. I looked like Bart Simpson from the age of 17-19

Tearaway pants.

BrokenArrows

Had one of those hemp cloth bags which you would gradually write on throughout the year.

Smoking. Drinking. Hanging out behind the bike sheds at lunch or when skipping class.

Esoteric_

Dressed like a goth. All about the PVC, corsets, New Rocks and so on.

That said, dressing like that suited me, everyone said it.

I still like all of the clothing and stuff now, but I wouldn't wear it because I'm not 17 anymore. Still have a few bits that I'll wear if I'm going to a metal/rock club, but I dress quite 'normally,' with a few small alternative bits nowadays.

certifiedcrepe

Sam Kade wrote: »

Looks like you were living life on the wild side :pac:

Ah we were 12/13 at the time like! Smoking came at 14 and then drinking at 16 for me haha

Ush1

When I was about 10 I used to pretend nipple cripples didn't hurt me even though they were still sore. I'd let people twist them and just be chillin, smiling at them......then I felt hard lumps after a while under my nipples so I stopped.

caustic 1

Smoking

Sunglasses Ron

Facial hair.

Chungfellers are a much cleaner shaven lot these days. Bumfluff tashes seem to be out of fashion.

I didn't have one myself, but step haircuts were all the rage before about 2000.

Surveyor11

Wore a leather tie, cool in 1988 (or so I thought!)

anncoates

Wore a flecked suit in public.

sbsquarepants

Tweej wrote: »

I wore badges to wezz. Spongebob badges.

Well hello there;)

anncoates wrote: »

Wore a flecked suit in public.

Didn't have a suit, but i did have the fleck trousers, slip on shoes and rolled up shirt sleeves combo going on for a while.
Fecking miami vice has a lot to answer for!

JillyQ

Beruthiel wrote: »

The 80's.
Shoulder pads.
Drain pipes.
Perms.
*Shudder*

Same here except for the perm.

LadyMayBelle

Pouring Domestos on my canvas backpack from ArmyNavy store to make it look tyedyed, before writing on it in marker and drawing the Smashing Pumpkins logo on it.

Lovely high waisted straight legged levis from the USA with Doc Marten shoes. Looked f&cking awful.

sbsquarepants

Surveyor11 wrote: »

Wore a leather tie, cool in 1988 (or so I thought!)

Same. Mine was red, dear lord the cringeyness of it is too much to bear!

GoodBridge

Lynx. The more the better.

force eleven

I had a mullet. Think Chris Waddle c 1985.

Beruthiel

JillyQ wrote: »

Same here except for the perm.

Lucky escape.
I had to cut my hair short to get rid of the horrific thing.

Stojkovic

Shag my 42 year old French teacher.

JillyQ

Beruthiel wrote: »

Lucky escape.
I had to cut my hair short to get rid of the horrific thing.

Instead of the perm i decided it would be even cooler to basically go for a skinner

GalwayGuy2

Not listen or put any effort into school,or even bother going there.

That's one thing I'd kick my past self for doing.

EDIT:

Oh God, I just remembered this now.

I wrote "Too cool 4 school" on my school t-shirt. *Winces*

120_Minutes

Thinking dressing like Parker Lewis from "Parker Lewis cant lose" at school discos was a great idea.

For those who dont know, thats paisley shirts, chinos and white air jordans.


**** you, it was the early 90's.

rainbow kirby

Jeans so wide my feet were completely lost under them, skate shoes that probably gave me permanent flat feet, band t-shirts for way longer than I should have...

Toto Wolfcastle

I used to write the names of bands I'd heard of but didn't really know anything about on my copies in school. "Oh yeah I love *random rock band* and I definitely hate all pop music."

Levis verses wrangles was were it was at when I was young, you either wore Levis or Wrangler depending on which gang you wanted to hang around with. Levis were my thing they cost a fortune you would think you had die and gone to heaven if you got a pair for Christmas, plus trying to get your hair to look like Farrah Fawcett from Charlie's angles, unfortunately I could only get one side of my hair to flick out so I always looked a bit lopsided that look was toped off with weaning a black velvet ribbon around your neck and gypsies skirts were big as well.

anncoates

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Didn't have a suit, but i did have the fleck trousers, slip on shoes and rolled up shirt sleeves combo going on for a while.
Fecking miami vice has a lot to answer for!

To have mots hanging out of you in 1982:

• Silvery flecked suit, grandfather shirt, lemon cardigan, white socks, slip-on tasselled loafers from Simon Hart
  
  
• Bum fluff ''tache
  
  
• Blow-dried mullet with a rat tail at the back and your side locks shaved off
  
  
• 20 Major
  
  

whiskeyman

Having my sony casette walkman clipped onto my jeans belt, clearly visible to others.
Flipping thing was so heavy, it'd nearly bring down your jeans if your belt wasnt tightened properly!

sbsquarepants

German army surplus parka jacket. Bonus points if you had an album sleeve painted on the back. I had the coat but never got round to having it painted (my art skills weren't up to it and there was actually a long waiting list for the guy who could do them properly, at 20quid a go in the late 80's!)

LadyMayBelle

Oh god, this one is a horrible flashback...as for a lot of my teens I was sucked into a cultish christian thing, I *may* have written 'A2J' on some of my stuff.... that most definetly did not make me cool in any way, except in some christian camps.
Massive cringe.

Ilyana 2.0

I dyed my hair black and drew giant black rings around my eyes with eyeliner. My grandmother said I looked like a junkie.

Sharing half a naggin of vodka drowned in lucozade between six girls before we went to a disco. Locked, so we were