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During which period in history would you most like to have been a teenager?

19 replies

onthehushhush 0:00, reply

i would have liked to be joan of arc or lady jane grey - and dead before acne scars ruined the rest of my life.

deidre 21:24, reply

Ohhhh....Germany in the 1930's...the bosomy frauleins, the healthy youth camps, the rallies in torchlight, the idealistic belief in the future...I just hope that they would not have minded me being Jewish.

powermaster 17:08, reply

Now, stabbing mans has never brought such street cred.

splut_cunker 16:16, reply

Right Fucking Now- I have a weird desire to be stabbed over some ridiculous slight with a fellow Yoot.

whats_the_beef_chief 15:58, reply

Jurassic, or early Cretaceous.

danceswithmustelids 15:26, reply

this period / these periods:

kunani 15:24, reply

When I was one i.e. mid to late 80's. Good clothes, music and scenes that were genuinely underground making them feel more special for it.

kuff_dam 15:17, reply

haha, you said period!

rick_gassko 14:15, reply

"Would like to have been" ROTFLMAOWPIMP!!1

kps_jockstrap 13:23, reply

Right now. The music's just as shit as it was in the early 90's but the girls seem to make lot more effort. Black jeans, DM's and overgrown pubic topiary were a waste of my teenage years.

bathwithkirsty 12:18, reply

I'd like to be a teenager now. School standards are so low, that exams are a piece of piss, and even if I do fuck them up I can blame it on so-called 'dyslexia'. All the music I liked growing up in the 70s/80s is still available so I'm not missing out on that front. The internet means I won't spend my years being a frustrated bummer and can hook up with married men whenever I like. Video games are better and there's more skateparks than ever, so one doesn't have to settle for the two kerbs and a handrail for fun. Finally, most of my peers will be off killing each other, so I can blatantly walk in to a quality job as a 'consultant', teaching people twice my age about things I've never actually done myself.

7zark7 11:28, reply

beryl_the_peril 10:50, reply

Never. Being a teenager was probably just as shit at any time as it was in the 1980s.

bobbifleckmann 9:48, reply

could I not opt out of the whole teenage thing entirely? for a skinny poof with ginger hair they weren't the best of times.

thegingerprince 9:44, reply

The one that saw Thatcher so pissed off she decided to take over. I would have bought her some posh chocolates and run her a nice lavender bubble bath and told her we do love her, really, and we do appreciate what she's done in taking all the milk away. It used to work on my mum, so you know.

spank_daley 9:42, reply

The 1350s. Half the population are dead following the Black Death so I would be considered an elder. Also, being a fertile woman I would have my pick of the men. Perhaps even catch myself a nobelman. Though I would have been working since the age of 3. Wow - the endless possibilities.

tamara_bumpdeeay 8:50, reply

Obviously. And I would have made everyone embroider 'coldplay are cunts' into their clothing.

deep_stoat 0:54, reply

1967- 1982....the Zep, Beatles, Stones, Who, Yes, Genesis, Fairport, Sabbath, Priest etc all live in concert- and mindless revolution and free sex....

The last Zep album came out in 1982 along with the Who splitting up and the Stones' last great single.....

I became a teenager in 1983. Oh fuck it.

m50 0:08, reply

My 40s.

grimly_fiendish 0:06, reply