When I was a teenager, we did all the stuff teenagers do, mad parties, alcohol,drugs and sex, and that was before programmes like skins came on the TV making it seem normal!
What will todays teenagers do to make it feel like they are being Bad when this is 'normalized on TV?
Just wondered!
2007-08-07 07:48:42 · 4 answers · asked by H1976 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
They'll keep doing the same thing - look at it historically, teenagers aren't all that imaginative.
2007-08-09 00:56:12 · answer #1 · answered by duck_hairback 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol and sex are normal for teenagers I'm 50 and, from about 14 onwards, my quest for girls was paramount.
We did not bother with drugs - cannabis and LSD were obtainable, but we did not have the money that adolescents seem to have these days. Alcohol was very hard to get - supermarkets and corner shops did not sell it, and off-licences were all run by frosty-eyed middle-aged women who begrudged selling one a wine gum.
Mad parties did not take place - if you made a squeak after about 10pm the Police would arrive and tell one to belt up.
Teenagers have always acted daft - read the 1950s novel 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' by Alan Sillitoe for proof.
What the media should not present as 'normal' Youth behaviour, is drugs, gangs, gun-crime and parties where gatecrashers trash the venue, along with the punch-ups and vomiting on Friday nights in town centres. The vomiting and punch-ups are the fault of pub-owners and drinks manufacturers, who have created a plethora of stand-up, disco-dinned, wide screen TV venues devoted entirely to youth, and the drinks to go with these outlets, shots, alcopops and strong chemicalised burp-juice (aka Lager). Fast-food, being redolent of grease, naturally induces vomit and additional profit as one then buys a second batch of salt and slaughterhouse slurry to replace the one we have just spewed up.
If the media present this as 'normal', it will become sedimanted in the national psyche as being just that.
My youth was not spent in some leafy suburb, but in the hard reality of North Tyneside, UK. We would go out on Friday evening, drink about six pints of Newcastle Exhibition ale, then repair to an Indian Restaurant, and eat vindaloo and drink Newcastle Brown Ale. It was often said that if everyone in our street lifted their bedsheets at the same time on Saturday morning (with bedroom windows open), anyone lighting a cigarette outside in the street would be blown up as the methane exploded!
2007-08-07 15:52:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aint seen it so would need to to judge.
However sounds accurate...
the probalem with soicity is it won't admit the truth about teen life so nothing gets done to help it
2007-08-07 15:37:40 · answer #3 · answered by Joey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it comes across as soft porn written by some perv
who wasnt getting any when they were younger
2007-08-07 14:55:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋