What sort of teen were you?
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Apr 8th 2007, 5:18 am
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Re: What sort of teen were you?
The biggest difference from where we live now in the US was the ease of getting around independently by bus, train or strangers' cars 
I was quite able at school and well-behaved, I guess I started drinking in pubs aged about 16 and got blotto a few times although I am horrified by kids doing it now!
I was quite able at school and well-behaved, I guess I started drinking in pubs aged about 16 and got blotto a few times although I am horrified by kids doing it now!
Apr 8th 2007, 2:07 pm
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Apr 8th 2007, 5:08 pm
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Re: What sort of teen were you?
What sort of teen were you?
The sort that I wouldn't want my children to be
The sort that I wouldn't want my children to be
Apr 8th 2007, 7:31 pm
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Re: What sort of teen were you?
A lot of them are
If only the new generation of young uns were like that ..
Apr 8th 2007, 10:32 pm
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Re: What sort of teen were you?
A boring sensible one. Gawd if I could turn back the clock, the fun I'd have 
Apr 9th 2007, 4:22 am
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Re: What sort of teen were you?
When you are a teenager, you need, I think to be able to do a few crazy or exciting things, so you can look back on your teens and say "thats nothing, remember the time we..blah blah blah" and feel you were once with it and lived a little. I want my kids to be safe but I also want them to feel they did some pretty exciting things in their teens so they can look back with excitement.
Here are a few things I (or teens today, wont say which is which) did/do that the teens in Oz might not be able to. Can anyone think of anything else they did or kids today do that they may not be able to experience in Oz?
1) Going to see a Premier league footie match with a capacity crowd of thousands. Even if you hate football, the atmosphere and banter and bit of edge is amazing at big matches.
2) Going to old, creepy graveyards and trying to do something supernatural (or sexy!)
3) going on a package holiday with your mates
4) lying about your age to get into pubs/clubs
5) Catching a train to a town you've never been to before - just for a night out.
6) going to your twin town/having or being an exchange student
7) Having mates that live in mansions and mates who live in council flats - but all going out together just the same.
8) pub crawling because you like the music scene from pub-pub
9) going to a city and seeing someone famous or their house ....and thinking its not that big a deal.
10) Going to a live gig with thousands of people like Glastonbury, getting soaking wet and cold but it doesnt matter "cos yer hard"
Of course, in Oz there are opportunities that we couldnt have here, especially around the sea and wildlife and some sports, but its good not to loose sight of what you did as a child that made it great to be a teen in the UK too.
Any other suggestions?
c
Here are a few things I (or teens today, wont say which is which) did/do that the teens in Oz might not be able to. Can anyone think of anything else they did or kids today do that they may not be able to experience in Oz?
1) Going to see a Premier league footie match with a capacity crowd of thousands. Even if you hate football, the atmosphere and banter and bit of edge is amazing at big matches.
2) Going to old, creepy graveyards and trying to do something supernatural (or sexy!)
3) going on a package holiday with your mates
4) lying about your age to get into pubs/clubs
5) Catching a train to a town you've never been to before - just for a night out.
6) going to your twin town/having or being an exchange student
7) Having mates that live in mansions and mates who live in council flats - but all going out together just the same.
8) pub crawling because you like the music scene from pub-pub
9) going to a city and seeing someone famous or their house ....and thinking its not that big a deal.
10) Going to a live gig with thousands of people like Glastonbury, getting soaking wet and cold but it doesnt matter "cos yer hard"
Of course, in Oz there are opportunities that we couldnt have here, especially around the sea and wildlife and some sports, but its good not to loose sight of what you did as a child that made it great to be a teen in the UK too.
Any other suggestions?
c
Apr 9th 2007, 4:55 am
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Re: What sort of teen were you?
We used to practice our dates of birth before going into the pub so we wouldn't slip up! Two fave pubs we used to frequent at lunchtimes were The Tin Donkey, where you got served as long as you took your school tie off, and The Black Horse, where the local copper would ring before dropping in for a pint, to make sure he never had to arrest us!!
Hmmm.....bunking of school to watch Grease and Star Wars for the 189th time - we had to skip the last lesson, change in the loo, and creep out through the back gate, and then lie to our parents bout going to So-and-so's for tea
.......locking ourselves in the school lecture theatre with several bottles of cider to watch the Ashes from Headingley in 1981....think that was the day I fell down the steps of the school bus to see my dad standing there saying "Have you been drinking?"
.........School geography fieldtrips, where you could disappear for a while behind the sand dunes and other geographical features for a quick biology lesson
Watneys Party Seven - who remembers those? An essential for the teen lifestyle of the late seventies. For the children amongst us, this was a 7 pint tin of beer, best opened by thrusting a screwdriver through the lid, resulting in a fountain that covered everything within reach in Watneys! I know at least three church halls that reeked of the stuff for weeks afterwards. Parents hated having them in the huse because of the mess
My mate Neil got himself a job as a barman in a dodgy local when he was 16 and I was 15, so I used to tell my parents I was going round to his place to do homework.........God, what a horrible teenager I was.
