My gosh I'm a rubbish blogger . It's been far too long since I posted anything here .I do have a very lengthy post saved but I'm still debating weather or not too post it . My blog is already far more personal than I ever intended it to be . I thought it was moving away from diary style writing but it appears I am bit too used to writing that way . So what have I been musing about lately ?
Well I sitting on the bus other day as you do ( if your a peasant like me) ,an excellent place to think and a source of people watching .You can't deny it ,everybody loves a spot of people watching . I think it was when I spotted two girls walking down the street ,normal teenagers nothing special . They wouldn't have look any different to me ten years. Then I starting thinking to myself ,how long is a generation?
At what point does someone become out your generation ,do the the common factors disappear and you've basically got nothing in common . Five years? Ten years? I'm not sure I share many generation aspects with a thirty six year or for that matter a sixteen year old .I suspect the sixteen year would think I was old ,past it and didn't understand them at all . It's scary ,It doesn't feel that long ago I was a teenager but the last time I could count myself as one,that teenager was eight years old.
A 15 year old today wasn't even born when the Spice girl were about ( for the first time) I mean seriously ? THEY.DON'T.REMEMBER.THE.SPICE.GIRLS.
Then I went all nostalgic ,as I tend to do a lot .And I come up with a list all the words ,crazes etc I remember from being a teenager .I worry if kids even use them today,or have they faded away in late 90s - early 00s oblivion .I don't know any teenagers personally to ask .I'm twenty six it would look a little weird ,if I marched out to the crowds who suddenly appear in my street and ask them if they fancied sharing some cider. There is a word for people like that.
1.) Backwash - Never ever drink the end somebodies drink ,because apparently it's 99% their spit .In fact never ever drink anything you have haven't opened your self because they've probably spat in it . I haven't heard anyone use this since about 2001.
2.) Gay - Circa when I was school .Everything bad was gay ie "school is gay " "This homework is gay " "Those trainers are gay " " Mr Clarke is gay "..you get the message .Do kids still do this? Or are they all right on and love the gays now ? are the gay kids camping it up in the corridors ,high kicking their way to maths perhaps?
3.) Lush - The opposite of gay .Lush is anything amazing . "This sausage roll is lush " " Ritchie from 5ive is lush "" Michael Owen is lush " "I'm going to the millennium dome next week ,it's going to be lush ".
4.) Halfmast - School trousers that were too short and socks could be seen . I hated this at school , I was paranoid about the length of my trousers .To the point were I wore ridiculously long trousers that covered my whole shoe at one point . Once my trousers were bit short and some cretin took the mick out of my socks .MY SOCKS! kids will pick on anything.
5.) Two stripe - Non branded PE clothing .Ie Gola . Ie "urghh two stripe " Not having three stripes for adidas on your ridiculous popper tracksuit bottoms . Also florescent trainers were very in . Lime green reeboks ,the height of cool circa 2000.
Oh so stylish with the accompanying ORANGE tracksuit .
6.) Bumming - Not what your thinking ,I didn't go to private school . Bumming happens when sharing cigarettes ,because your a teenager your sharing them obviously .I don't smoke ,never have done but on rare occasions I took part in either your standard fag or something a bit more cheeky I always got accused of bumming .Essentially getting the end of the fag wet ,so shock horror my spit would go in next person to suck what was left of it's mouth! Therefore I try to place whatever it was as lightly as possible on my lips, rendering it pointless and never getting high !
(I was going to included "bogging " here ,but since no one I have ever asked as ever heard this phrase aside from people from my home town I won't bother. I appeal to you though ,If you read this and know what I mean by bogging leave a comment below !)
I will leave you with this gem.
The dance routine
The camouflage
The fact two of them are still around .
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