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Things you did as a teenager to look 'cool'

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  • #32
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I used to wear superbaggies, but other than that I didn't try to be cool. Even as a teenager I knew that'd never happen.


  • #33
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Any of the girls remember those disgusting perfumes that we out back in the day?? The likes of 'Tribe' and 'Exclamation'?? I wore them all. But settled for 'Charlie Red' in the end.:cool:

    All the lads seemed to wear either 'Cool Water' or 'Joop'. ha ha

    And most of my friends, male and famale, had used 'sun-in' in their hair at least once. :D


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wurly wrote: »
    Any of the girls remember those disgusting perfumes that we out back in the day?? The likes of 'Tribe' and 'Exclamation'?? I wore them all. But settled for 'Charlie Red' in the end.:cool:

    make a statement, without saying a word :D


  • #35
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Deleted User wrote: »
    make a statement, without saying a word :D

    A statement of 'jaysis, will someone open a window - the f*ckin' bang off ya'!!!

    ha ha. I can still get the smell of it.

    Top marks for the leather waistcoat btw.;)


  • #36
    twowheelsonly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭twowheelsonly


    Smoked - Still do. Still doesn't look cool :(

    Apart from that, anyone else chew matchsticks? it was essential to roll them from one side of your mouth to the other for the full cool effect though :o

    Also had a sleeveless denim jacket. between the jacket and the matchstick thingy I was the coolest kid in the 'hood my head !!


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  • #37
    NoQuarter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,624 ✭✭✭NoQuarter


    I was in a boy band with the lads from my street for about an hour and my nickname was "ice". Its too funny to even cringe about it!


  • #38
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    A fishtail parka , drain pipe trousers and heavy black slip on loafers with the heels tipped in the summer.


  • #39
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Deleted User wrote: »
    make a statement, without saying a word :D

    Urgh. That stuff brought me out in a fecking rash.


  • #40
    Slattsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Joined boards.ie


  • #41
    joe stodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭joe stodge


    I poo'ed into a bathtub at a house party when I was 16 and got everyone thrown out. ðŸ˜႒


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  • #42
    Jhcx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    Never tried to be cool I was just naturally cool. I was the cool kid out of friends and could jump from one group to another. Can't place things done to try and make me cool. I followed few trends such as the sporthouse Ireland bags which in the end made life easy ment less books. But I couldn't care if I was cool or not.


  • #43
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


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


    I never did anything cool, but I remember lads used grow rats tails alright, then there was the 'step' haircut (inspired by NKOTB), oh, there was one chap who thought he was the coolest thing on two legs with his beetle crusher shoes and rolled up blazer sleeves... :pac:

    The new rocks shoes though I was still wearing them up until a few years ago, can still get them too, used wear them with bootcut Jeans... Nowadays though it's more shirts and ties and sensible shoes rather than "spaceboots" :D

    I think the worst think I could cringe about now I look back on it was wearing a muscle vest in public! I just tended not to give a shìte back then, still don't :pac:


  • #44
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Jeans with tartan up the side and rolled up to 8th hole in your ox-blood coloured 12 holer Dr. Martins.

    well we sang shang-a-lang as we ran with the gang
    doin doo wop be dooby do ay


  • #45
    Plumpynutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭Plumpynutt


    Smoked, worst decision in my life


  • #46
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Wurly wrote: »
    Any of the girls remember those disgusting perfumes that we out back in the day?? The likes of 'Tribe' and 'Exclamation'?? I wore them all. But settled for 'Charlie Red' in the end.:cool:

    All the lads seemed to wear either 'Cool Water' or 'Joop'. ha ha

    And most of my friends, male and famale, had used 'sun-in' in their hair at least once. :D
    Oh God I'd forgotten about those. My dad banned impulse deoderant from the house.


  • #47
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    X-works, Nike air max, 10 smokes, a nicholson Jacket, a set of 1210's and a DJM-600.

    I was such a scumbag looking creature.


  • #48
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Massive baggy shirts open with a t-shirt underneath.

    We used to get the hair wraps on holidays but when we were at home we'd string beads onto our hair. They hurt if you hit yourself in the face with them but we thought we were so cool.


  • #49
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 11,249 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    Wore a kilt--yep a proper Scottish kilt.And a white leather jacket.And Docs.

    See I grew up when Axl was the coolest thing alive with his wearing Kilts and a white leather jacket with the strings hanging out of the sleeves..

    Irish lads do not look cool in a kilt..My legs were that thin that I looked like an umbrella.

    That was definitely not cool but I thought it was.


  • #50
    Misticles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,746 ✭✭✭✭Misticles


    Skirts over hipster trousers
    Anything susst
    Platform runner type things
    Rip off track bottoms
    Impulse vanilla musk
    Laces fancily done on my Nike air
    Smoked - cant inhale so that didn't last long.

    I was the geeky smart one in my teens.


  • #51
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Had the tongue sticking out of my runners


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  • #52
    Clandestine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    Barely out of my teenage years, but I did nothing to look "cool". I never wanted to fit in with any cliques or follow trends and I respect my own individualism too much. I feel that following anything just to"fit in" is betraying myself.


  • #53
    Klim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭Klim


    Clandestine wrote: »
    Barely out of my teenage years, but I did nothing to look "cool". I never wanted to fit in with any cliques or follow trends and I respect my own individualism too much. I feel that following anything just to"fit in" is betraying myself.

    Wrong thread. This is yours : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68076528


  • #54
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,448 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    twowheelsonly wrote: »
    Apart from that, anyone else chew matchsticks? it was essential to roll them from one side of your mouth to the other for the full cool effect though :o

    My mates Blondie, Tuco and Angel did.


  • #55
    Boggot Globule
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Boggot Globule


    I used to intimidate old people.


  • #56
    Clandestine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    Klim wrote: »
    Wrong thread. This is yours : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68076528
    Um, no. Not at all


  • #57
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Had no shoes to wear one day so had to wear my white slip on shoes (a muddy brown when the day was over after footie) from Communion. I never got as many compliments as I did that day! :)

    Wore a leather jacket, my brother was nicknamed Fonz and I was Little Fonz when I came to primary school.


  • #58
    Galway K9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Galway K9


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

    the price of those fecking things!! I wish my dad said NO


  • #59
    Auntie Psychotic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Auntie Psychotic


    'Nope' hoodies
    Tying your laces under the tongue of your runners so the couldn't be seen
    Scrunchies /shudder
    I remember the cuffs of my school jumper being so bad the principal pulling me up on it... So of course that made me extra cool.


  • #60
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Threw copious amounts of shapes, walking down the street looking like I'd suffered a brain injury.


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  • #61
    Karona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    I wore these https://marketplace-images.asos.com/dd/55dd885c-ffe9-4e75-af13-41d16e7d3911_large.jpg

    These with the laces done exactly like that too http://www.shoetime.ie/Pics/Products/Original/Shoes%20anytime%2053.jpg

    These although mine were illiminous orange.
    http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/$T2eC16NHJHQE9nzE)jldBQ9+rVCinQ~~60_35.JPG

    I wore these in my hair
    http://s3.amazonaws.com/ths_assets_production/attachment_resources/attachments/889/original/stretch-comb-img.jpg

    And we hung these around our necks
    https://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=dummy+necklace&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45175338,d.ZG4&biw=1366&bih=673&wrapid=tlif136594347437410&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=vKRqUengDpGwhAeyn4DAAw#imgrc=R5aeajxIAqPmFM%3A%3By1XWOUNClpHJvM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.polyvore.com%252Fcgi%252Fimg-thing%253F.out%253Djpg%2526size%253Dl%2526tid%253D17522272%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.polyvore.com%252Fdummy_necklace%252Fthing%253Fid%253D17522272%3B300%3B300

    I was a mega cool teenager!


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