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Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:33 pm
by Neptune
Some of the things we got up to were fucking crazy, but we did it cos we had nothing else to do.
For teenagers now they do crazy stuff because it's cool, and they can post pictures on Facebook. We didn't upload photos on any social networking sites, this was just before facebook got big.

Oh god, I'm getting nostalgic.

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:40 pm
by fergus222
Neptune wrote: Yeah, all this stuff I said happened in inner city London. I don't know if people, from say, Watford have the same experience.
Word, it's similar in Glasgow but on a smaller scale.

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:43 pm
by magma
Neptune wrote:Some of the things we got up to were fucking crazy, but we did it cos we had nothing else to do.
For teenagers now they do crazy stuff because it's cool, and they can post pictures on Facebook. We didn't upload photos on any social networking sites, this was just before facebook got big.

Oh god, I'm getting nostalgic.
Meh, they're still doing it for the same reasons... if we'd had Facebook we would've been all over it.

I had the tamer end of all this as a teenager because I grew up in the sticks... it was all about getting wasted in the countryside; cider, spliffs and cow-tipping unless there was a rave to go to... moving to London and witnessing St Martins parties was another fucking level... I'm amazed some of those girls made it out alive with the battering their kidneys took for 3 or 4 years straight. That shit cray, mayne...

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:46 pm
by Neptune
magma wrote:cow-tipping
this sounds like something I'd like to indulge in.

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:47 pm
by particle-jim
All i have to add to this discussion is thank fuck i don't know anyone like the pricks in Skins

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:52 pm
by clifford_-
i thought cow tipping was a myth?

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:53 pm
by magma
Neptune wrote:
magma wrote:cow-tipping
this sounds like something I'd like to indulge in.
Less satisfying than you think it's going to be.... plus, it takes a gang of teenagers to topple a Fresian. And they just get up again. We thought it was supposed to stay down until the farmer sorted it out. Disappointing.

The funniest bumpkin thing that happened at one of our teenage seshes was when someone forgot to close a gate on our way through some fields... we all passed out in a couple of tents in the corner of a field, woke up with the sunrise and started to walk home only to discover that an entire herd of cattle had walked into a field full of almost-ready-to-go lettuces... they'd already munched their way through about a third of the dude's crop. :lol: :oops:

Respect the countryside code, kids!

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:55 pm
by jameshk
magma wrote:
Neptune wrote:
magma wrote:cow-tipping
this sounds like something I'd like to indulge in.
Less satisfying than you think it's going to be.... plus, it takes a gang of teenagers to topple a Fresian. And they just get up again. We thought it was supposed to stay down until the farmer sorted it out. Disappointing.

The funniest bumpkin thing that happened at one of our teenage seshes was when someone forgot to close a gate on our way through some fields... we all passed out in a couple of tents in the corner of a field, woke up with the sunrise and started to walk home only to discover that an entire herd of cattle had walked into a field full of almost-ready-to-go lettuces... they'd already munched their way through about a third of the dude's crop. :lol: :oops:

Respect the countryside code, kids!
Oh dear, bad boys.

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:57 pm
by magma
jameshk wrote:
magma wrote:
Neptune wrote:
magma wrote:cow-tipping
this sounds like something I'd like to indulge in.
Less satisfying than you think it's going to be.... plus, it takes a gang of teenagers to topple a Fresian. And they just get up again. We thought it was supposed to stay down until the farmer sorted it out. Disappointing.

The funniest bumpkin thing that happened at one of our teenage seshes was when someone forgot to close a gate on our way through some fields... we all passed out in a couple of tents in the corner of a field, woke up with the sunrise and started to walk home only to discover that an entire herd of cattle had walked into a field full of almost-ready-to-go lettuces... they'd already munched their way through about a third of the dude's crop. :lol: :oops:

Respect the countryside code, kids!
Oh dear, bad boys.
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Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:59 pm
by Forum
magma wrote:
jameshk wrote:
magma wrote:
Neptune wrote:
magma wrote:cow-tipping
this sounds like something I'd like to indulge in.
Less satisfying than you think it's going to be.... plus, it takes a gang of teenagers to topple a Fresian. And they just get up again. We thought it was supposed to stay down until the farmer sorted it out. Disappointing.

The funniest bumpkin thing that happened at one of our teenage seshes was when someone forgot to close a gate on our way through some fields... we all passed out in a couple of tents in the corner of a field, woke up with the sunrise and started to walk home only to discover that an entire herd of cattle had walked into a field full of almost-ready-to-go lettuces... they'd already munched their way through about a third of the dude's crop. :lol: :oops:

Respect the countryside code, kids!
Oh dear, bad boys.
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Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:05 pm
by gwa
leeds has a really boring tame scene

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:47 pm
by herbalicious
magma wrote: Respect the countryside code, kids!
dun kno

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:54 pm
by Genevieve
There's periods in my life, even still and I'm 23, off and on, where it's pretty similar to Skins really. It's kinda periodic.

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:00 pm
by particle-jim
I was thinking i should write a script for Bromley's equivalent of skins, it's like skins except nothing ever happens

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:09 pm
by DRTY
particle-jim wrote:I was thinking i should write a script for Bromley's equivalent of skins, it's like skins except nothing ever happens
:lol:

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:17 pm
by herbalicious
The most 'Skins' I ever got was smoking solid, drinking fosters and falling asleep in random peoples houses....waking up to hearing people shagging upstairs....and then falling asleep again.

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:29 pm
by gwa
get a life herb

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:33 pm
by herbalicious
I TRIED! THIS IS ALL I WAS LEFT WITH :'(

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:57 pm
by NickUndercover

Re: The 'Skins' lifestyle? Myth or reality?!

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:47 pm
by test_recordings
Skins was funny in the ridiculously bait way it exaggerated real life and made loads of well-off kids think there's some kind of 'cool lifestyle' they can be part of :lol: