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so random press interviewed about 4 parents and i have to listen to twaddle on the radio the whole way into work

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 07:49

the premature end of childhood blahblahblah. suddenly everyone over the age of 40 grew up with a wooden hoop and stick and sang songs round the piano until the age of 21.

meanwhile the youth of today are all heading to hell in drink fuel sexually active handcart. ffs! doesn't anyone remember being young? and why does this hand wringing have to concentrate on young girls wearing make up and short skirts.

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PuppyDogTails · 03/03/2008 07:54

I was wearing the most hideous make up when I was 12

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 07:56

i was a teenager in the eighties so you can imagine the state i used to look. thought i looked gorgeous at the time!

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winestein · 03/03/2008 07:58

I was never allowed to wear short skirts. Ae young girls seriously wearing them today? What is the world coming to?

PuppyDogTails · 03/03/2008 08:00

Ditto - puff ball skirts, pink eye shadow and blue eye liner

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:01

i wasn't allowed to wear short skirts but used to roll my school skirt up. i think it is obligatory for 14 - 16 year olds to look hideous to their mothers.

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Oblomov · 03/03/2008 08:02

Goat, were you the wild one with decent makeup(did any of us have that), short skirts and loads of shagging going on then.
Becasue if you did, I think it was you I wanted to be.

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:02

actually i never sank to puff ball skirts! even at the tender age of 14 i kind of knew that wasn't a good look!

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:03

lol @ loads of shagging!

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:03

pink shimmer lipstick ... [sigh]

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Oblomov · 03/03/2008 08:03

I never sank to puffball either. I had an older boy snog me at at party, and I told him I couldn't see him agian, becasue he was too old.
How I regret that one.

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:04

you have to snog lots when you are young cos you don't have time later.

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PuppyDogTails · 03/03/2008 08:07

I didn't manage to get much snogging in .

winestein · 03/03/2008 08:10

Oh god yes - I remember the rolled up skirt phenomenon!

When I was experimenting with make-up, electric blue mascara was de rigeur. Pretty unfortunate all round really.

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:11

you can use the puffball skirt as a cautionary tale. tell your teenage girl if they wear such and such they won't get any snogs! would have work for me.

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Pruners · 03/03/2008 08:14

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Oblomov · 03/03/2008 08:21

I don't think I could have physically got any more blue eyeshadow or blue eyeliner on !!

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:22

i wasn't allowed a poodle perm and i really wanted one. thank feck! i had my hair curled for the school prom and looked an absolute fright, (obviously thought i was gorgeous). my partner wore a cravat and i think a purple suit.

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Oblomov · 03/03/2008 08:24

Pruners, but no one was actually having sex, were they ? I mean we used to talk about it, one girl had and we all collected in the toilets to hear. We were fascinated. Then no one else did for ages.
I was getting all the snogs, but nothing else ( and that went on for years)
believe me , I did enough snogging for the rest of you !!
And I still love snogging now.

Oblomov · 03/03/2008 08:25

we never had a prom. I thought that was a new thing.

Jackstini · 03/03/2008 08:26

Remember the poodle perm - I looked like something our of fraggle rock. (With Maddonna-esque bit of lace tied round of course)
Iced champink lipstick and daring to wear an electric blue skirt to school (not regulation navy) as it matched my mascara
Loads of snogging and everything else but was v determined to hang onto virginity until at least after GCSEs!

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:27

i was at it! the more the nuns told us not to the more we needed to.

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ILiketoMarmiteMarmite · 03/03/2008 08:28

Mmmm I looked great in my lecky blue eyeliner and we all used to wear cowls to school, do you remember?

But re. childhood etc I DO think it's over sooner, also feel v strongly about things like sexy messages on little girls' t-shirts, inappropriate advertising on children's websites, during children's tv programmes, Playboy stationery for teens, etc. I do think it's a valid argument that kids grow older younger now.

Could rant more but have to go to work!!!

Oblomov · 03/03/2008 08:32

Agree with Marmite. Id o think it is over significantly earlier now. And I REALYY hate that.
But to look back with rose tinted D glaasses, is not helpful either.

edam · 03/03/2008 08:37

Also agree with Marmite. We live in a far more sexualised culture now than in the '80s.

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SheherazadetheGoat · 03/03/2008 08:45

i agree to a certain extent. i was blown away by a 7/8 year old on the bus wearing a ridiculous black shorts and tights outfit but she was with her mother and obviously thought she was the bees knees.

children (i.e. 11 and younger) dressed like whores is obviously unpleasant. but on the radio they were talking about 13-16 year olds. you really can't supress puberty and prolong childhood beyond 13.

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