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Prompted by a thread on Teenagers, which got me thinking that I'd have loved AIBU as a teen - in the way I loved Cathy & Claire and Melanie (in Just Seventeen).

If AIBU had existed when we were 12/13/14, what AIBUs would we have asked?

AIBU to snog my bezzie mate's boyf coz she snogged mine? perhaps?

AIBU to buy Adidas trainers over a pair of Kickers (even though they come with 5 tags already)?

(as for the homework YANBU if Shazza has a strawberry scented one)

That Shazza's a slaaag.

AIBU to tell my mum I'm staying at Rachel's even though we're going to party and staying there ALL NIGHT and my mum's a bitch anyway and probably doesn't even care where I stay and I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN ANYWAY

AIBU to fancy my horrible big sisters boyfriend because he's like, so fit and can draw DC/Marvel heroes so well?

AIBU to go and see Romeo and Juliet for a 4th time as Leo is just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot? I totally think he'd ask me out if he knew I existed.

I'm telling on you, Hassled. Shazza and Big Vicky are gonna have you after school.

Jenai, don't be so laaaaaaaaaaame

Everyone knows Shazza's a slag. Like, EVERYONE

AIBU to swap the Grolsch bottle tops off my DMs for 5 Lambert & Butler?

Disclaimer: I never, ever liked Bros or wore beer bottle tops on my shoes. I am not that lame - whatever Abs says

@ I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN ANYWAY.

You should SNOG him confused. Your big sis is horrible and doesn't deserve him.

Shakey she hasn't got a strawberry one, but she's got a cola one, which smells lush.

AIBU to not want to lend my copy of Judy Blume's "Forever" because people only want it for that page and aren't prepared to read the whole thing?

Katie YABU reading Judy Blume, I can lend you my mum's copy of Fear of Flying if you like?

AIBU to have a party in my house when my parents are away and invite the whole school? They'll never find out, I'm sure.

YANBU, sponge if me and Shazza and Big Vicky can come and Darren from 5F is going. Kazza Jones says her sister's boyf can get us some cider.

YABU Kaite coz I leant you my mum's copy of Lace and there is NO WAY you read all of it in two days.

AIBU to ask one of you to explain why you'd want to put a man's thing in your mouth? [very innocent teen traumatised by a scene in "The Horse Whisperer"]

Don't you know already, Abs? You're sooooooo immature.

AIBU to hide my copy of Hollywood wives under my sisters bed coz Lucky Saintangelo gets noshed off in the bath and my mum would have kittens if she thought I was reading it.

mys sister is a slag so my mum would defo think its hers

AIBU to spend my lunch money on 10 B&H because it's not like it's costing mum any more than lunch would, and I'm too fat anyway???

AIBU to tell Dad I don't know my boyfriend's last name so he can't look it up on the police database at work?

ill swap 5 fags for a sarnie and biscuit, Colditz then we can nick a doghnut and chicken soup each out the canteen

AIBU to ignore my country bumpkin boyf when we're in school so no one knows we snog the face off each other every night?
AIBU to apply my make up in rehistration every day? It s the art room so we have a big mirror and i like to brrow my mates earth wind and fire eyeshadow trio
AIBU to tell my mother i am staying at someones house this weekend, when i actually havent got anywhere to stay yet, but am out drinking all wkend so sure i will find somewhere

oops
sounds father too familiar colditz

AIBU to be angry at my Mum for reading my diary?

Aah colditz i remember when 10 B&H were 88p

or you could use shazzers dinner number in the small hall, coz shes on free school dinners and always goes in the big hall.

love it. I'm torn between enjoying the great memories this brings back and then horror at the fact they my two girls are almost this age!

i am sure i remember b & H as 50p - or did i imagine that - or shoudl i even post that information as it makes me sound old.

i remember 10 b&h and and a box of matches and chewwy cost 77p

Some of you are showing your ages, now...

mark my words

anyway

my mum has grounded me for like liiiifffee omfg

i hate her

mosschops me too, was gutted when they went up to over a quid as I only got a £1 a day from me mum.

AIBU to join Duran Duran's fan club to get a signed photo of John Taylor.
He is my future husband after all.

AIBU to tell my mum that I should have all the family allowance that she gets for me to spend on the stuff I want and not on boring crap like school uniform, and bus fares, and food, and shampoo and all the crap she wastes it on 'cos like, if I wasn't here she wouldn't get that money at all so, like, it is actually mine, right? And I don't see why I should have to earn my own money by doing her work like looking after my little brother when she wants to go and see Grandma 'cos it's not my fault that he's four and Grandma's old, right? And I don't 'treat this house like a hotel' 'cos a hotel wouldn't have such bloody stupid made-up rules.

I think I might be adopted. NOBODY in this family GETS me.

ha ha coldz i was just going to post...

AIBU to hope I might actually be adopted

nilby - YA soooooooooooooooooo NBU
and now you hav to tell us all where the coupon is

(too many s - sorry)

i'll meet you at the corner shop if ya like, the bloke in there'll sell you a benson and a match for 10p.

oh, and i'm dead tall so the bloke in the off licence'll sell me Thunderbirds

I am adopted, and often shrieked, 'You love him more than me because he's yours', referring to my brother.
In hindsight he didn't ever get in trouble because he was a goody two shoes. Me, not so much

Yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah....Oh my god, I SO can't believe you just said that! God, this is so like the time when Ursula went around telling everyone Andrea Cox was a total slag and Andrea totally had an eppy and threw Ursula's mobile down the girls bogs, but don't listen to her coz she sniffs highlighter pens

Well, at least I'm not a slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag like you are Jenai [sticks out tongue]
Your Mom Works at MacDonald's for minimum wage [ hand gestures]

Life, is like, so unfair.

[slumps off to room and lights lots of scented candles and listens to Nirvana]

No one understaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaands meeeeeeeeeeeeee

hahaha love it.

AIBU to sneak out of school at lunch and hang about outside the corner shop until someone goes in a buys us 10 lambert and a bottle of kiwi 20/20 so that we can drink it on the walk down to church, it'll make mass faaaar more interesting dont you think??

YAsoooNBU FoundWanting that money is, like, ours.

AIBU to not spend my dinner money on dinner or even fags all week and then bunk off school the buy the latest Smiths single the day it comes out?

AIBU to think the only reason Abs keeps calling me a slaaaaag is that she's jealous coz she hasn't got a boyfriend?

YABU to drink 20/20 are you a pussy?

Gold thunderbirds is harder

AIBU to cover my exercise book with a poster of Kurt Cobain, because the yellow textured wallpaper left over from the downstairs loo looks shit and you cant graffiti it without the pen squishing it.

I luuuuuuuuuuuv Kurt hes so fucking hot.

YANBU Ferret - I'll see you there. Abs can come too but don't tell anyone coz she's like really young and it'd really embarrassing if anyone knew

AIBU to dump by bf coz he fingered some slag from 3rd year round the back of the french block.

Well if you're all coming along then you can chip in to make 20 lambert and 2 litres of diamond white, Jenai you've got your national insurance card you could use that as id for the fags, I'll lend you my heather shimmer lipstick to make you look older.

tomhardy YANBUcos I heard that stacey Jones gave him a blow job aswell.

I do too Jenai. Like, he would totally come with us, but he lives in Canada. His name is Kevin. He's well hot

YANBU tomh

(It wasn't be btw. Honest.)

AIBU to loosen the top of a vinegar bottle in the canteen so some poor boy ends up with the whole lot all over his chips and cries?

Not my proudest moment

Chinny reckon he lives in Canada, Abs

Jenai that's why my school had the little sachets of sauces and vinegar.

AIBU to spend most of my lessons graffitting my exercise books with "ferret loves Ashley"

AIBU To think your all total divssssss for not smoking royals?! you do know you get 12? sooooo much cooler! slagggggs!!!!!!!!

AIBU cause mr snow to burst a blood vessel cos i was to busy signing lizzs shirt? GOD! does he not know how important it is. she my bessie mate in the wholeeeeeeee world. heart you lizz.

I am old. 34p for 10, same as a gallon of petrol

AIBU to think that insisting school skirts are not rolled up at the waist is an outrageous abuse of my basic human rights? Dan Phelps will never notice me dressed in that granny outfit.

<storms off, trailing an aroma of White Musk, to listen to Ride through the spare earplug of Louise Ridgeway's Sony Walkman>

Ferret I thought it would be funny. And I didn't know it would be Sweet Nice Boy who ended up with a vinegared lunch. And now I keep thinking how Sweet Nice Boy was probably a lot like my own ds now, who quite possibly would cry

YABU to wear White Musk Bronte

AIBU to want jugs with lids in the dining hall because some twats keep pouring salt and/or vinegar into it, meaning that I either have to die of thirst or have to buy a can of coke from the tuck shop (which costs 25p )

AIBU to wish that our PE skirts were our proper school skirts?
much nicer colour, shape and length

AIBU to totally believe that smoking menthol fags means your mum can't smell them? Cos they're like, minty, innit so it's just like having a Polo afterwards?
That and my Charlie Red bodyspray means I totally smell lush all the time. Not like Stacey. She's gopping.

AIBU to spend my lunch money on 10 Benson and Hedges and a packet of Nik-Naks?

AIBU to forge notes from my mum so I can sack off PE?

AIBU to draw Yin Yang symbols all over my school books when I have no idea what they mean? And to have a Bob Marley poster in my room even though I've only heard one of his songs, and didn't even like it that much?

AIBU to think that my DMs are proper school shoes, even though they're boots with rainbow laces and CND signs drawn on in Tippex

AIBU to wear foundation five shades darker than my skin tone?

"i'll meet you at the corner shop if ya like, the bloke in there'll sell you a benson and a match for 10p."

ha ha! such places were fabled at my school, I never ever found one but would always hear hushed talk of the shop where you could buy single cigarettes.

we had shops that sold single fags.

Anyone wearing White Musk come over here please;

I'll look deep into your eyes and read you, in a low voice, the goldfish scene from 'Lace'.

AIBU to insist my mum doesn't remove my Adam Ant poster (in Prince Charming gear) from my bedroom wall as it frightens my gran?

AIBU to kiss my poster of Wham every single night and especially George Michaels because he is AMAZING?

AIBU to use my dinner money to buy Smash Hits, it costs 40p

My mum says Family Allowance is for rubbish things like shoes, and uniforms, as well foundwanting

It's sooo not fair, that money's for me

And why can she not get me a proper jumper, not that stupid hand knitted things she makes me wear that everyone laughs at

YABU ShirleyKnot

Cos you should be kissing Phil Oakey, so there!

Have like totally run out of Wella Shaders sachets and I so need to sort out my hair before the disco. AIBU to try Sun-In and make sure it works faster by using a hairdryer then crimping? I think it'll look brilliant, what do you reckon?

AIBU to buy NME when I really want to buy Smash Hits but am trying to impress cool boy in the 6th form?

AIBU to ask what the hell a condom is, is it the same as a durex?

It's the same as a rubber johnny, Febreeze.

Sue - forget the Sun-In. Get yourself some Born Blond. It'll be lush.

Watch out for BelfastBloke girls. He only wants to get off with us. He's a user. I might snog him if he gets me my own bottle of Merrydown though.

Yin yang symbols! Oh the memories!!

AIBU to wear five scrunchies on my ponytail?

In fact, AIBU to wear a scrunchie edged in gold beads? And cover my ponytail with a blue and White spotted hankie before attaching said scrunchie?

<< fashion crimes of the 90s>>

Bella, those scrunchies are totally so cool. I wear all mine on my wrist when they're not in my side-ponee.

Blimey, Bella. YABVVVU

YANBU to buy NME, Febreeze. You'll need to hang around the 6th form common room at break though, looking all insouciant, for it to work. Maybe borrow some of Bronte's White Musk - seems to work on BelfastBloke. I have some Twilight Teaser you can borrow, too.

Suepurbly - yabu to use sun-in.
you should try Shockwaves colour spray instead - then you have have 3 or 4 different colours on your hair.

but still crimp and back comb.
anything else will make you look like your mum.

Ta Jenai I've pinched some of big sis Charlie and gonna hang out in the chippie coz he plays PacMan there (sigh)

Oh I am so totally crimping. Apart from the hair wrap my friend Louise did for me when she came back from Magaluf. It's brilliant, she could totally do it for a career or something.

AIBU to hide my dangly earrings inside my ears when Miss inspects us on the way to Assembly?

...oh, and NettoSuperstar- your name ruuuules

Merrydown, you say? Well cool.

SpringHeeled, she so won't notice. She shouldn't be looking at you anyway, it's against your human rights.
I've turned my socks right over my DMs so they look like shoes, she'll not notice that either I bet. Anyway, I heard she is living with Miss Newton in a two bedroom house with a spare room cos her husband ran off with Leanne from the fifth form.

we didn't have human rights when I was at school

AIBU not to lend my twighlight teaser lipstick to Lesley as she has a huge gross cold sore on her gub?

AIBU to make my school skirt from the "skirt and slack centre" even tighter by taking it in so it's --even more--skintight?

AIBU for going two'se up on a doobie, thinking it was a consulate fag? Am I now a druggie like Zammo on Grange Hill?

Thinking about it wouldn't AIBU be called "SUSSED AND BOLTED, OR NOT?"

Gosh Shirle, I have no idea what that means.

KatieScarlet is a druggie btw. Watch out out for her - she'll nick your Impulse and your Swatch to buy drugs.

I've already nicked your lunch money Jenai to buy "coke" off Dionne, dunno what coke is meant to do but that headache I had has gone.

Don't listen to that cah Jenai, Shirl, she's a grasser.

<sneer>

AIBU to take a little bit of booze out of each of the bottles in my mum's drinks cabinet, and mix it together? The concoction tastes terrible, but my mates and I can get pissed on it.

I love this thread, I'd forgotten about scrunchies.

AIBU to get really stoned with 3 other people before our English Lit exam and get the insane giggles when X ran past me with his face extremely green to get to the toilets to throw up and I saw our PE teacher Mr Williams miming throwing up to one of the other teachers.

I still managed to pass
just

<offers thread mixture of Bulmers cider, Drambuie and Irn Bru>

<thinks fondly of the time we made our own alcopops>

AIBU to be well brassed off that my Dad noticed my "knee length skirt" was actually my tiny black lycra mini pulled down so the top was an inch under where my coat came to?

Arsehole, even comes and stands in the hallway tutting when i'm on the phone to my best mate (and yes, the phone was one of the ones where you wound the dial around hehe)

Can anyone lend me a pound note? - I need another can of Boots Super Firm Hold Hairspray.

hope you're going to take it to school, Cheer, and spray it liberally in the girls' bogs, thus representing extreme fire hazard when the fifth years come in for a Regal King Size

AIBU to refuse to carry a Winners carrier bag home from my Gran's house.

or to tell anyone my Mam works there

of course Jack, after all, the bogs wouldn't be the same without that thick layer of hairspray on the mirrors.

am now dancing around to Glen Medeiros (sp) "Nothing's gonna change my love for you" fucking ace song.

d'you know, my brother reckons Elton John is a poofter - no way man - next thing he'll be telling me George Michael is too!!!

AIBU to take my manky Clarks shoes off on the bus (so my Mum can't see) and to wear my court shoes from Freeman Hardy Willis?

AIBU to attack aforesaid Clarks mingers with a compass so I'll have to be bought a new pair of shoes?

AIBU to wear my prefect badge upside down coz like I'm really cool, like?

AIBU to plaster my spots with orange Clearasil and not realise that it just makes them look worse?

ursula, you are so right. You need to save the River Island bags, the ones with decoupaged cherubs (why?) on. Or get yourself an army surplus satchel and write 'Pearl Jam' all over it in felt tip. Much better than a Winners bag.

I'm knotting my tie in a v cool way as we speak. I'm such an individual, me.

I'm so not that cool

You so are.Girl Power innit?

I don't really know. I don't really have any opinions of my own or know what's 'in'.

AIBU to fucking hate this town & everyone in it?

AIBU to actually mention that my friend's mum, the friend I go to stay with most weekends, works nights and is completely oblivious to the fact that on Saturdays we go to the pub, where we are bought cocktails by off duty soldiers, despite being only 14.

Should my mum be fucking my boyfriend?

< ahhhh, squaddie pubs. Happy days.....>

As you were

AIBU to scoff the canapes at wedding receptions where am waitressing?

AIBU to snoop round houses when babysitting?

AIBU to refuse to wear those "bodies" with poppers at the crotch 'cos they are too difficult for bf to access and too easy to leave flapping open when departing pub loos?

AIBU to think it's really fucking unfair that my Mum let my sister have a perm like Charlene but I can't have one?

I'll never get a boyfriend, I'm so ugly. It's not fair!!!!!!

Fabby - probably not, unless he's like really old. Say 30.

AIBU to buy a rap of wizz for £2.50 and then spend the rest of the weekend caining lucozade

AIBU to think that the teachers will never catch sight of us smoking on the back field, even though it's directly overlooked by the staffroom?

yabvu you should smoke behind the bench in the 1st years playground no one can see down there and they wont grass you up, poor little things are shit scared

Haha missmiss you just reminded me off when some of us left the school grounds to our smoking 'den' and the fat english teacher caught us, we ran off and she actually ran after us! we found it so funny we could run because we were laughing so much, we got totally busted!

AIBU To lock the crazy french teacher in her cupboard cos the stupid bint leaves her keys in the door?

This is a school tradition! every year group has done for like forever.

(we were the 2nd to last year to do this, she left after a nervous breakdown )

AIBU to want Zack from Saved by the Bell to give me a right proper shag?

AIBU to tell me mam to feck off when she said no to buying a NAF NAF jacket?

AIBU to sneak out at lunchtime to the local chippy and get real food?

AIBU to think Mr. Robinson is proper fit?

AIBU to think coffee went to the same school as me?

dozer don't bother unpopping your crotch; just push it to one side.

Banai you should get a perm anyway. You can buy home kits in Boots - get a friend to help. It'll look amazing, honest. Tell you what, Shazza has a Saturday job at Curl Up And . Bet she'll do it for 10 B&H.

That's Curl Up And Dye.

AIBU to wear white socks over 100 dernier black tights?

AIBU to think coffee and Jenai went to the same school as my boyfriend?

Or are lots of French teachers prone to leaving keys in the cupboard and leaving because of nervous breakdowns?

Dozer - noone fastens the poppers on bodies!
anyone who does is just asking for an itchy fanny.

in fact, the only person I know who fastens her poppers is Amanda Whiteley in the upper sixth, and that's only because she's trying not to let her BF grope her (because she's still a virgin)

AIBU to think that Paula Welkes would do it for 50p and a bunch of grapes?

AIBU to not wnt to go and see Titanic again? One of my friends has seen it 4 times and she always wants to sit right at the front so you have to turn your head to see the sides of the screen.

the only Titanic film that was made when I was at school was the black and white one with that man from Only When I laugh.
what are you, eight ?

Coffeeisking did you go to the same school as my sister?

AIBU to be pissed off that my best friend punched me when I saw her crying when we were watching ET at the cinema?

AIBU to keep my half eaten Highland Toffee bar in the top pocket of my blazer? The lint just adds fibre.

AIBU to feel amazingly smug that I got away with henna-ing my hair bright red, yet Hilary got busted for bleaching her (dark blonde!) hair lighter?

at me not being the only one! Im in hampshire. French teachers are stupid.

Jenai, coffee and ABF'sboyfriend

did you go to Malory Towers? Or St Claire's? I'm sure they were always locking French teachers in cupboards

...has anyone locked any other sort of teacher in a cupboard?

We locked our biology teacher in a cupboard when she went through the wrong door.

I had a teacher who locked himself in cupboards

with pupils

[cough]

We locked the geeky chubby boy with glasses in the cupboard when the accounting teacher turned up late.

Poor child.

Oh wow i'm howling and the thought of my then boyfriend in the Malory Towers school uniform... <gazes off into the distance wistfully> He always did have nice legs...

Ahhh must be French teachers then, my sister was in London at the time. In defence of the poor teacher my sister's class was horrible and she changed schools pretty soon afterwards. (AIBU to point out that my sister is a lot younger than me and not only had I left school by this point, but it was a completely different one to the one I attended?)

You had an accounting teacher, Abs? Accounting?

What, like book keeping? We did typing, but accounting is cruel and unusual punishment, surely.

Where on earth did you go to school?

South Africa

We also had catering, technical drawing, woodwork, sewing and home ec. The school went through some weird "erm, let's try teaching the kids that" phases.

I hated accounting, and accidentally put everything that was supposed to be in the debit column in the credit and vice versa during my exam once and had to rewrite the WHOLE thing.

a friend of mine was in the cupboard with the caretaker...but i think they may have been happy about that...

I looked older than my friends so it was always me who had to go into the beeroff and buy sherry to drink at the park. When he asked me how old I was I had a routine of pretending to be flattered that he thought I was under 18.

nickelbabe If I were eight then I would still be at school. And I would in fact not have been born when Titanic came out!

Have a look over here

AIBU in thinking my mum is a right cow for making me come home at 9:30 on a Saturday night when everybody else is still in the bus shelter drinking cider and also for stopping my pocket money for finding 10 Regal in my pocket when I TOLD her they weren't even mine, I was looking after them for Esther and what's the point in me even speaking anyway when nobody believes a word I say, I want to go and live at katy's house cos her parents go away on weekends and leave her and her brother on their own and he is well fit but my mum wouldn't even let me sleep over there anyway without speaking to katy's mum first, I hate her, she is like the worst mum in the world and why does my dad have to get arsey with a boy if he calls for me, I mean it's not like we're having SEX on the doorstep or anything, i'm well going to run away, bet they probably wouldn't even notice anyway cos they totally love my brother more than me, bet they wouldn't even notice if I actually DIED.

<stomps off to listen to Atlantic 252 and read the problem page in Just Seventeen>

oh, i had a letter published in there once.
it was about being bullied.
I lied, though.
I said "hang on, and it will get better" (and said that I was happier)
it didn't.
and i wasn't.

AIBU to hide a bunsen burner in Sirs bag and watch him go pop eyed trying to find it ahahahahaha was soooooo funny when we all said 'Oooooh sir you nicked it' hahahahahaaha!

AIBU to cover my journal in recognisable cartoons of teachers with big arrows saying 'coffee breath' 'smelly vag' ugh etc and then get DETEN WTF is that about its artistic expression they cant PROVE its of them

AIBU to tip a can of Lilt over Tracy's head after she ate my chips whilst I was fetching the salt?

AIBU to think my Mum's a prude coz she called More mag porn and took it off me?!! Like, WTF that about it's only position of the fortnight

AIBU to think my Mum was well out of order to chuck my clothes and makeup and books out of the window in a temper. My room wasn't that bad....

AIBU to think that the music teacher Mr Wass should stop spending so much time in the music room alone with one particular female pupil? Hand feeding her crisps? No didn't think so creepy fucker

Trillian that chart made me

I'm 36

AIBU to not believe Kimberley King who says she went on holiday and might be pregnant because she had sex with 25, 35 and 45yr old waiters called Julio, Manolo and Fabio? And even though she got her photos back from Boots and she has one of Julio with his arm round her but I reckon she paid him to do it because he looks really scared and she probably threatened to fart all over him if he didn't.

YANBU. That Kimberly King's a total liar. She reckons Nik Kershaw is her cousin.