Pathetic attempts at teenage rebellion

takamichinoku

Any you're pretty embarrassed by in retrospect or any you can remember other people doing that stood out as especially lame?



I was in a very restrictive environment up until I was about 17 so I didn't exactly get too many chances to be an embarrassment, but I took what I could get:
- For the most part of my early teens I had a very very lame attitude of "few more rebellious things you can do than not rebel!" So I'd things like putting a seatbelt on on the bus, carrying my bag with both straps around my shoulders, not smoke... and think I was class for it.
- I used to wear the school uniform in on no uniform days because I got it into my head that they shamed poorer students into buying clothes they couldn't afford and so on.
- Would be the kid who'd always answer those "did you like this poem? give reasons for your answer" with a no as default regardless of whether I had any valid reasons.

Can't think of any specific indidents right now but I was a right hoot, I must say!

SureYWouldntYa

In the family pub I'd randomly steal all the toilet rolls from the bogs in the gents and ladies

From doing this i know that most people don't check for toilet paper until they begin

Tail Docker

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

In the family pub I'd randomly steal all the toilet rolls from the bogs in the gents and ladies

From doing this i know that most people don't check for toilet paper until they begin

Rule No.1 ; Check for bog roll before you open the bomb bay doors.

DazMarz

Listening to heavy metal music was about the length and breadth of it for me, to be honest. And it's something I never grew out of!!!

dar100

takamichinoku wrote: »

Any you're pretty embarrassed by in retrospect or any you can remember other people doing that stood out as especially lame?



I was in a very restrictive environment up until I was about 17 so I didn't exactly get too many chances to be an embarrassment, but I took what I could get:
- For the most part of my early teens I had a very very lame attitude of "few more rebellious things you can do than not rebel!" So I'd things like putting a seatbelt on on the bus, carrying my bag with both straps around my shoulders, not smoke... and think I was class for it.
- I used to wear the school uniform in on no uniform days because I got it into my head that they shamed poorer students into buying clothes they couldn't afford and so on.
- Would be the kid who'd always answer those "did you like this poem? give reasons for your answer" with a no as default regardless of whether I had any valid reasons.

Can't think of any specific indidents right now but I was a right hoot, I must say!

Ah will you give over, hoot in hanny more like lol

Faux Socialist

There was a guy in my class in 5th year who use to take newspaper clippings of convicted IRA members and tape them to his school diary. It was very funny until he started sellotaping RIRA clippings and bombings and then they sent him to the school shrink.

Fr_Dougal

Telling the butler he's fired.

My idea of rebellion was not finishing an assignment until the day it was due.

Though once I was supposed to go tell another teacher to come take over the class when our teacher was called away, and I didn't go tell her for 15 minutes. A real thrill ride that was.

steddyeddy

My sister purposely brought home wasters and I got my eyebrow pierced and got three tattoos.

Celly Smunt

TheZohan wrote: »

Telling the butler he's fired.

locking him in the freezer in tomb raider was more rebellious

Son Of A Vidic

steddyeddy wrote: »

My sister purposely brought home wasters and I got my eyebrow pierced and got three tattoos.

Sorry about that, we got a bit carried away.

daveohdave

I stormed the Dail and installed a military junta.

Skill Magill

Theres a difference between a fada and an umlot BURN !

Skullface McGubbin

I'm suddenly reminded of a really crap joke from an issue of the Beano from many, many years ago.

Why did the Teenager cross the road?

Because his parents told him not to.

gavinhenson

takamichinoku wrote: »

Any you're pretty embarrassed by in retrospect or any you can remember other people doing that stood out as especially lame?



I was in a very restrictive environment up until I was about 17 so I didn't exactly get too many chances to be an embarrassment, but I took what I could get:
- For the most part of my early teens I had a very very lame attitude of "few more rebellious things you can do than not rebel!" So I'd things like putting a seatbelt on on the bus, carrying my bag with both straps around my shoulders, not smoke... and think I was class for it.
- I used to wear the school uniform in on no uniform days because I got it into my head that they shamed poorer students into buying clothes they couldn't afford and so on.
- Would be the kid who'd always answer those "did you like this poem? give reasons for your answer" with a no as default regardless of whether I had any valid reasons.

Can't think of any specific indidents right now but I was a right hoot, I must say!

I presume you came from a working class background?

gavinhenson

steddyeddy wrote: »

My sister purposely brought home wasters and I got my eyebrow pierced and got three tattoos.

I'd say she's still hobbling around.

takamichinoku

gavinhenson wrote: »

I presume you came from a working class background?

It's a bit complicated but no

...why?

gavinhenson

takamichinoku wrote: »

It's a bit complicated but no

...why?

Your second point seems like the actions of someone with a working class background, and some of your other posts also indicate that you have a chip on your shoulder about being poor.

takamichinoku

gavinhenson wrote: »

Your second point seems like the actions of someone with a working class background, and some of your other posts also indicate that you have a chip on your shoulder about being poor.

Ahhhh, yeah I can see why you'd be confused there... I'll try and explain.

Went to school in a very disadvantaged area and my parents were from not-very-well-off small farming backgrounds. I'm fairly well off though, have no idea what actual poverty is like, don't feel very restricted financially at all.
Would say I've a fairly big chip on my shoulder about my mam not spending money though, for sure. It got a bit ridiculous at times; now that I'm older and know it was all there, is still all there, I don't understand why she felt the need to make everything so much harder than it needed to be.

Honestly, the fact I'm not poor is a pretty key part in why that one's pathetic. If that had been the sole reason behind it, I think it'd be entirely justified, I hate the idea of no-uniform days and the like for that reason. However, a big motivation for why I took a stand was down to having no clue how to dress myself, was very self-conscious about my appearance; decided to try and put a social spin on it rather than be honest with myself.


Hope that clarifies things a bit.

anncoates

Just being a sarcastic cheeky little cnut. I once annoyed my poor mother so much that she threw an iron at me (and thankfully missed.