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Things you did as a teenager to look 'cool'

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  • 14-04-2013 3:00am
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    Wurly
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    Great article in the daily edge today about all of those cringeworthy things we did to look cool when we were teenagers.

    http://www.dailyedge.ie/teenagers-trying-to-be-cool-854688-Apr2013/

    I definitely did the ripped jeans thing and the scraped back pony tails.

    Being a dub, I also used to wear a lot of gold. The more rings the better.:o Even though I much preferred silver.

    What did you do to look cool when you were a teen?


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    LizT
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    Double denim

    Bandana

    Platform shoes

    Hair band with my name or a band's name written on it.

    Stick on earrings.

    /cool 90s child.


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    kjl
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    smoked.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Smoked Cigarettes, a girl I went out with in 6th year smoked so I decided to join her between classes. She's long gone, the smokes have stayed.:pac: :mad:


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    brummytom
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Smoked Cigarettes, a girl I went out with in 6th year smoked so I decided to join her between classes. She's long gone, the smokes have stayed.:pac: :mad:

    Apart from this ^^ (though the 'looking cool' thing was only part of it), nothing. I've long given up trying to be cool, it's never going to happen. I'm a glasses-wearing, banjo-playing politics student on a message board at 3am on Sunday morning...


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    PickledLime
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    The trendy years saw me wearing shoes that were so loosely laced I would have had more secure footware if i went around in flipflops.

    Also wore Kappa tracksuits - just 'no' :embarrassed:

    The alternative years saw a canvassed school bag that had such poor straps it practically cut my shoulders. But hey! It was cool :pac:

    Jeans ripped open from the knee to the cuff, with torn off back pockets.

    Still, i'd take any of those over the skinny jeans you see these days!

    Edit - Re; the thread title. Certainly these things were done to look cool, but none of them actually worked!


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    [Deleted User]
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    Smoked, wore a leather coat, listened to punk, read Kazantzakis and Bukowski, and looked like a younger, taller, better looking Toto Schillaci. Though that last one came naturally. :cool:


    p.s None of the things listed in that article are even remotely "cool". Not then, not now, not ever.


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    April O Neill
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    Susst flares - preferably bright purple.
    Army bags with bleach splashes.
    Ripped school jumper cuffs (with thumb holes).
    Lots of lip gloss.
    Perfected drawings of band logos.
    Adidas tracksuit bottoms. :o (glad to say I never owned snappy ones though)
    Rolled up school skirt (sometimes too much, made me look like I had a spare tyre)

    EDIT: Hint of a Tint, mother of jaysus, been there. :o
    EDIT 2: And jeans slits! Fúcking hell, forgot about that. What a cliché I was. :)


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    ozzz
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    kjl wrote: »
    smoked.

    If there's one decision I regret, its that.


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    Vicar in a tutu
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    wore a hat with propellors


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    Duckworth_Luas
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    Lived in a fridge!


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    beefstew
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    Wore those stupid new rock boots that became all the rage for a very brief spell.


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    Push Pop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭Push Pop


    Wurly wrote: »
    Great article in the daily edge today about all of those cringeworthy things we did to look cool when we were teenagers.

    http://www.dailyedge.ie/teenagers-trying-to-be-cool-854688-Apr2013/

    I definitely did the ripped jeans thing and the scraped back pony tails.

    Being a dub, I also used to wear a lot of gold. The more rings the better.:o Even though I much preferred silver.

    What did you do to look cool when you were a teen?

    My hair cut had a 'step' at the back. I wore Xworx jeans. Think that's what they were called. I tried to 'shift' a lot of girls.


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    starviewadams
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    Wearing English or Scottish football club jerseys and singing Dubliner songs.

    Sniffing glue and giving my dads vodka out to every girl in the 1st year school discos.

    Wearing brylcreem.

    Pretending to like dancing,and dance music.


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    Galwayguy35
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    Smoking in the shed behind the school, only ever smoked 3 or 4 cigs though and decided it wasn't for me.

    Drank the night of the Inter Cert results as well even though the Smithwicks tasted dire, no such thing as being asked for ID in a pub 23 years ago.


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    Grayson
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    Absolutely nothing at all. I think i was probably the most uncool person in the country at that time.


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    schnitzelEater
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    Grayson wrote: »
    Absolutely nothing at all. I think i was probably the most uncool person in the country at that time.

    And that made you cool..


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    speedboatchase
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    Tying a jumper around my waist was the coolest thing in the world when I was a kid. I also had an undercut haircut with a #1 blade. Once I even had it shaved with a half blade :cool:


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    Grayson
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    schnitzelEater wrote: »
    And that made you cool..

    No. No, it didn't. I was so uncool that when I started playing Dungeons & Dragons, I became cooler.


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    theteal
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    Air-bubbled runners and I'm fairly sure there may have been a pair of cream Levi 501s on the go about 16 years ago. . . .


    . . .oh sh!t, I had a step haircut at one point too, although that lasted a sum total of 2 days before I realised how ridiculous it looked and shaved it off :pac:

    ah, misguided youth


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    Layinghen
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    Leg warmers and fingerless gloves :eek:


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    mfceiling
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    brummytom wrote: »
    Apart from this ^^ (though the 'looking cool' thing was only part of it), nothing. I've long given up trying to be cool, it's never going to happen. I'm a glasses-wearing, banjo-playing politics student on a message board at 3am on Sunday morning...

    You must be beating the women back with a shítty stick tom...


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    #23
    hardCopy
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    Bleached my hair.

    Ended up with yellow spikes like Bart Simpson.


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    #24
    Omackeral
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    Pretended I was chewing gum when,in fact, it was my tongue.

    Playing it cool with a football when girls came by thinking a few nonchalant flicks would impress them. It didn't. 12 year old girls don't care for technical prowess on the pitch.

    As states above, nicked my dad's Brylcreem and lathered it on. Hair would go rock hard after a while.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Wore an x-works polar neck top with a black leather waistcoat over it :o
    I had one pair of Nike air max, they were black and purple.
    Smoked. Thankfully gave that up years ago.

    I was never really cool :(


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    oldyouth
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    Had my mother sew additional material in to the end of my already flared jeans. Leather belt with a massive skull buckle. Wore them with my blue platform shoes with 2 inch orange soles. Denim shirt with a collar that resembled the wings of a jumbo jet.

    I've kept my figure so, thankfully, they still look well on me today


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    Daveysil15
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    I went to the school discos and learned the art of fingering!


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    #28
    doubleyoubee
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    Drank black coffee in a vain attempt to appear bohemian.


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    Mr Benevolent
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    Nothing, I wasn't cool and never tried to be.


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    jojobeans
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    Naff jackets, airmax with airbubbles, ill fitting levis, ben sherman shirts, gold jewellery big ass gold hoops and clown chains! Oh and trousers with a skirt attached, sponge jeans,morgan tops and buffalo runners the type the spice girls wore. Ah memories!:)


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    In the 40s and 50s, made guys would wear a black shirt and white tie. It was a code among the folks of Little Italy in NYC. During my first year in college I used to wear the black shirt and white tie, they thought I was gay, I thought I looked like a wise guy. :( :mad::mad:


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