Young People

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Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

Pink hair was hot back then

My pink hair, my thin eyebrows, my tongue piercing and my school journal full of detention stamps that I wore like a badge of honour.

WhoWhatWhere

LexieOnRale wrote: »

My pink hair, my thin eyebrows, my tongue piercing and my school journal full of detention stamps that I wore like a badge of honour.

You're an untamed rebel. Thin eyebrows? I'm phoning the police asap












Pm sent.

Junkyard Tom

LexieOnRale wrote: »

When we all started to go to the over 16s disco (at 14/15) the biggest fear was seeing someone swallow their tongue from taking xtc. In fact I remember a particular scary incident behind the harriers where some young lad was having some sort of seizure from whatever he'd taken and security turning a blind eye.

Nobody ever swallowed thier tongue from 'xtc'.

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

You haven't a clue what you're talking about.

No I don't, thankfully. Because I never took anything as a kid. I believe now that swallowing your tongue is a myth, but when I was 15/16 it was something that I suppose most people would have heard about. That cousin of a friend of a friend who tried swallow his tongue. I don't know as I never got involved in it.

I know what I saw in regards the seizure though.

Edups

LexieOnRale wrote: »

No I don't, thankfully. Because I never took anything as a kid. I believe now that swallowing your tongue is a myth, but when I was 15/16 it was something that I suppose most people would have heard about. That cousin of a friend of a friend who tried swallow his tongue. I don't know as I never got involved in it.

I know what I saw in regards the seizure though.

Drugs are for mugs

Arghus

Yeah. I hate them for their youth and vitality, but mostly I hate them because I'm not one of them anymore.

Edups

Arghus wrote: »

Yeah. I hate them for their youth and vitality, but mostly I hate them because I'm not one of them anymore.

Gosh darn youth

I don't mind them, by and large, but one thing i hate about them (and people in general) is the excessive use of camera phones.

You can't scratch your ass these days without a picture on feckin' facebook. I remember a thread on here (boards) from a festival with a video, cos someone was drunk and dancing a bit funny (unintentionally). Everyone else was sitting around afraid to move.

Seemed like such a waste of time for everyone. Going to a festival, doing nothing, and when someone does start to enjoy themselves, the 'go to' thing is to record it and try and make fun of it for internet likes.


Seems a bit sad.


That, and I finally got around to seeing Gogglebox for the first time tonight. Whoever watches that, regardless of age, I'll happily agree to meet you and beat you to death with a packet of chocolate digestives. What a load of sh*te, no doubt spurred on by the internet wanna-be-famous crowd :mad:

Junkyard Tom

LexieOnRale wrote: »

when I was 15/16 it was something that I suppose most people would have heard about.

Swallowing your tongue? I only associate that with knocked out footballers and rugby players and I'm formerly one of those young people who you think voluntarily exposed themselves to what you consider risks.

Edups

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I don't mind them, by and large, but one thing i hate about them (and people in general) is the excessive use of camera phones.

You can't scratch your ass these days without a picture on feckin' facebook. I remember a thread on here (boards) from a festival with a video, cos someone was drunk and dancing a bit funny (unintentionally). Everyone else was sitting around afraid to move.

Seemed like such a waste of time for everyone. Going to a festival, doing nothing, and when someone does start to enjoy themselves, the 'go to' thing is to record it and try and make fun of it for internet likes.


Seems a bit sad.


That, and I finally got around to seeing Gogglebox for the first time tonight. Whoever watches that, regardless of age, I'll happily agree to meet you and beat you to death with a packet of chocolate digestives. What a load of sh*te, no doubt spurred on by the internet wanna-be-famous crowd :mad:

Gogglebox has been around for a few years but it's gotten more forced over the years. The Irish one is fairly rubbish.

SomeFool

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I was a very uncool kid. I got pierced, I drank, and I dyed my hair pinks and purples and cosmic blue on one horrific occasion. I was by no means a wild kid

I liked reading... i think you may have a different standard of cool!

Edups

SomeFool wrote: »

I liked reading... i think you may have a different standard of cool!

Piercings are swab boii. Need to get some more myself. All I have is a dermal, eyebrow and industrial/scaffold

machiavellianme

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Ten years ago it was piercings. I wasn't even a wild kid and I was getting holes punched in myself left right and centre, most of the girls I hung around with had sucked dick by about 14 or 15. I was drinking from about 13. Remember a girl in the year above me (2nd year) ended up being carted off in an ambulance from having a bad reaction to some drugs she took at the under age disco. When we all started to go to the over 16s disco (at 14/15) the biggest fear was seeing someone swallow their tongue from taking xtc. In fact I remember a particular scary incident behind the harriers where some young lad was having some sort of seizure from whatever he'd taken and security turning a blind eye.
The last night I was at it the drugs squad raided it and it was shut down shortly after that. And let's not forget planet love and gods kitchen.


That'd be 10 odd years ago. Kids wore too much makeup, made bad decisions, got the ride at an early age, had access to drugs, thought they were the sh1t in tartan skirts, uggs, fluffy boots, lots of piercings. Mad for the raves. No problem sourcing alcoholic beverages.

If young ones prefer spending 50 euro on a foundation or a contour kit and some lipsticks, I'd rather that than a 50bag of Coke from an aul one hanging around the bathrooms.

There's a blast from the past. Crikey, the harriers was a place to behold in your youth. A strong emphasis on youth and an even stronger one on beholding.

Edups

Edups wrote: »

Gogglebox has been around for a few years but it's gotten more forced over the years. The Irish one is fairly rubbish.

Maybe i just picked up on it wrong, but it seems to be just people watching TV?

I never liked big brother or the likes, but i understood why some people would watch it. put a few random personalities together, and start getting them to do silly things til they get annoyed at each other.

People would watch like a science expirement to see how people react when stuck in such close quarters with each other and the conflict etc. (or just to see a huge pair of tits in the shower). :P


But gogglebox? It's people sitting there, aware that they're being recorded, and chair-dancing and miming along to TV? At what point does it get interesting?

Edups

[Deleted User] wrote: »

But gogglebox? It's people sitting there, aware that they're being recorded, and chair-dancing and miming along to TV? At what point does it get interesting?

Yes, but the older ones were okay because the people made an effort to make some jokes and keep entertainment, to a degree. Nowadays it's just eejits commentating on what we've already seen and it's by no means interesting.

JupiterKid

The youth of today are a disgrace, Joe, a bloomin' disgrace.:mad: In my day...



We smoked hash and weed like it was going out of fashion.
I got eyebrow and multiple ear piercings.
Dropped acid a few times.
Clubbed after dropping yokes.


That was 20 years ago. I'm an ancient 41 year old now. People will always moan about the "youth."

Jealousy and bitterness I reckon. But thank God camera phones and internet social media weren't around in the 90s.:)

Edups

JupiterKid wrote: »

The youth of today are a disgrace, Joe, a bloomin' disgrace.:mad: In my day...



We smoked hash and weed like it was going out of fashion.
I got eyebrow and multiple ear piercings.
Dropped acid a few times.
Clubbed after dropping yokes.


That was 20 years ago. I'm an ancient 41 year old now. People will always moan about the "youth."

Jealousy and bitterness I reckon. But thank God camera phones and internet social media weren't around in the 90s.:)

Second person to mention this... What's the problem with piercings?

JupiterKid

Edups wrote: »

Second person to mention this... What's the problem with piercings?

Nothing at all. But to get piercings as a young lad in the 90s raised a few eyebrows among my parents' generation. It was still seen as a bit "out there" back then.

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Swallowing your tongue? I only associate that with knocked out footballers and rugby players and I'm formerly one of those young people who you think voluntarily exposed themselves to what you consider risks.

I guessed

Hammer89

I'd hate to be a teenage lad in this day and age. They find out they have small dicks way before they're supposed to, by virtue of smart phones and porn. Well, they're not small in the willy department, but that'll be the belief. Just you wait and see, folks.

If I ever have a boy, best believe he's going to get a Nokia 3310 and a boxset of Eurotrash to fulfill his needs. He's going to have to work for his nut, like his old man had to do, praying to Jesus H that the segment on Eurotrash wasn't about a nudist couple in their late 60s.

With my genes the poor little mite will have a small dick, but I wouldn't want him to know that until he's old enough to recognise, for himself, that the freaks in porn do not accurately represent his gender.

Galwayguy35

Quite a few of them drive to school now, one fella came around the corner so fast he ended up on my side of the road and nearly went straight into me.

That's the only gripe I have, driving too fast when not an experienced driver, if they want to kill themselves off they go but I don't want to be taken with them.

Shannon757

Jesus lads, I know people are still getting there ears pierced but I don't think anyone in my school has a tattoo and no one has pink hair. You guys must have been mad altogether. And as far as drugs, I've not heard of anyone doing "xtc" or anything like that, just a small group who do weird. Us young people these days are not that bad.

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*disclaimer. Only spelling escasty as xtc as I couldn't be bothered googling the spelling of it last night. Was too busy in school dying my hair pink to learn my spellings. Soz

Sam Kade

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

You're 21 ffs :pac:

He's married at 21? God help him.

eviltwin

Shannon757 wrote: »

Jesus lads, I know people are still getting there ears pierced but I don't think anyone in my school has a tattoo and no one has pink hair. You guys must have been mad altogether. And as far as drugs, I've not heard of anyone doing "xtc" or anything like that, just a small group who do weird. Us young people these days are not that bad.

Yeah I can't say that's common among the young people I know either. Every generation has its dicks but I think young people are generally a pretty decent group.

Edups

Shannon757 wrote: »

Jesus lads, I know people are still getting there ears pierced but I don't think anyone in my school has a tattoo and no one has pink hair. You guys must have been mad altogether. And as far as drugs, I've not heard of anyone doing "xtc" or anything like that, just a small group who do weird. Us young people these days are not that bad.

I had my first tattoo at 16, am I cool now?

Edups

Sam Kade wrote: »

He's married at 21? God help him.

You people know too much

Donald Trump

There was none of that in my day I tell ya.

Walking to school barefoot uphill and back and it snowed every day. And we had respect for our elders.

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Donald Trump wrote: »

There was none of that in my day I tell ya.

Walking to school barefoot uphill and back and it snowed every day. And we had respect for our elders.

Yeah well we walked to school with no feet

Sam Kade

Edups wrote: »

You people know too much

Are you the op?

Edups

Sam Kade wrote: »

Are you the op?

What's an op?

Donald Trump

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Donald Trump wrote: »

There was none of that in my day I tell ya.

Walking to school barefoot uphill and back and it snowed every day. And we had respect for our elders.

Yeah well we walked to school with no feet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

diograis

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise." - Socrates, Athens in 5th century BC

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And to be honest, elders might do well treating younger people with a bit of respect too. Lead by example.

Shannon757

LexieOnRale wrote: »

And to be honest, elders might do well treating younger people with a bit of respect too. Lead by example.

I agree.