Shut up Mum, I'm off to join a band.

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On one of the article responses the other day, Tom said something about being 16 again. And this got me thinking, "hmmmmm well I was 16 two years ago WASNT THAT AMAZING? Er no......not really".

So what is this "being 16 again" feeling? I'm sure I can't get my hands on it. I suppose being 18 is just like being 16 again anyway isn't it? 16 was kind of crap, I was too young to go anywhere.

At first I thought that this was all rose tinted bullshit, but I'm not too sure the more I think about it. Well actually, I'm presuming it's not a technical wish to actually be 16 again, but rather a romanticisation of all things inherent to being 16 and a reproduction of these things in a glossy package.

I dunno, educate me.

― Ronan, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought of this question at about 2.45 this morning while dancing to X-Press 2. Odd.

― Ronan, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the attractiveness of premature ejaculation and acne lies in being 45, impotent, with skin cancer...

― Geoff, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would usually resist the rose-tinited shite but sadly being 16 was the best time of my life so far...now, 18 on the other hand, that was shite. But not as bad as 19. 20 was OK, and being 21 doesn't seem that bad at all.

― DG, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when i was 16 i wasn't cynical, so in a way i had a lot more fun then.

― di, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh being cynical isn't all bad though, once you settle into the rhythm of it.

― Ronan, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

16 = 4 x 4 = GRATE
21 is divisible by 7 = kewl

Others = boring or worse

― mark s, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

13-16 - sheer, utter misery, 22-25 too much fun, 26-30 ready to jump off Centrepoint, 30+ and it's actually better. Weird eh?

― dave q, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about 16-22 Dave?

I seem to be having a ball.

― Ronan, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

age 16 is a little obscene BUT 24 IS A REAL TOTAL BORE

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Age 28 / you'll become the man you hate.

― N., Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was really boring when i was 16, so it wasn't that amazing. But being 17 was when i started going mad... still on that downwards spiral now.

― jellybean, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would not want to be 16 again! Terrible, terrible age. "The world hates me, I'm going to do the art of death for my art GCSE final exam (drew copies of death metal album covers combined with a world ravaged by global warming theme, listened to Slayer whilst painting it), is the sun going to implode?, does she even know I exist?, I'm gonna start a metal band etc." It's all quite funny now.

I don't think I liked my teenage years one little bit.

― jel, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I HAVE TO ADMIT i'M MORE FUN AND MORE STABLE OF CHEERY GOOD TIMES TODAY I'M MORE ABLE

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

26 = listening to The Man Whose Head Expanded over and over and over.

― RickyT, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And over and over again. But only for part where it slows down and the guitar starts up. Bloody details.

― RickyT, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

16, it's not like its horrible than any other age, it's just kind of normal and everyday, like most years. Personally, I'm nostalgic to be 10 or 11. I was thinner and my friends weren't angsty and the the simplest comment from a boy was so exciting, now they're all grody pervs. I've never understood this male music critic 'makes me feel like I'm 16' again. All the 16 year old boys I know have crap taste in music, their 16 feeling is jumping around to Korn, chugging 40's of whiskey and passing out by the toilet.

― Evangeline, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like being 16 because I've got good friends, basically, but I don't like the idea that my life goes downhill from here because it's not THAT great. And as Ronan said I am too young to go anywhere.

― Maria, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ricky t, the urgent and key question is "which -version- of "man whose head..."?

nostalgia, like valentines day, can eat it. i have no desire to occupy my picked-on elemtary school days, my spotty and fat high school period, my emotionally tumltuous college days, my equally emotionally tumltuous post-college days, or my spotty and fat present for that matter. tomorrow is the only thing which keeps me going at this point.

― jess, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Being dragged 200 miles accross the country by my parents under the premise that you'll be "leaving home soon" (=2 years) to a hell hole while in possession of no social skills. I want to be right back there. Being 18 fucking rocks.

― Graham, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

im not 16 yet and i feel 30 not fun im to mature now i dont want to see me at 16 *sigh* my poor poor friends ill be like that person thats the adult and is always a bring down there dead ::smile::

― jenna, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm rather afeared of turning 20 (TWENTY!!) in a few months. I think I've missed out on a lot. 16 wasn't a particularly good year.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Twenty. Fuck.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Being 20 is great Mitch...you've got a lot to look forward to!

― jel, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, mitch. i think all things considered - and despite what i said above - 20/21 were my best years so far.

― jess, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but being 20, you're supposed to be Grown Up and Mature and stuff. Occassionally I get the scary thought that I'll be 20 by the end of the year, and I still feel guilty when I go to by drinks in the Pub, like I'm underage or something.

― jellybean, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

15/16 = worst years of life so far. Vile. I was a miserable cow and an awkward little madam on top of it. My mum reminded me on the phone yesterday about the time she had double glazing installed and I was so offended by it I kept my curtains shut for TWO MONTHS.

I had forgotten that. I wish my mother had too.

Everything from 17 was a marked improvement.

― Anna, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think being 16 with the wisdom one has at 30 is key.

― Samantha, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The actuality of being 16 was shit obviously. Not unbearably shit but I was shy and had no real social life.

But! The reason I said it was that 14-16 was when I was just getting into music in an "I am excited enough by this stuff to want to tell you" way - so discovering things and talking about them and enthusing about them. I still get that excitement now but it's harder to come by. What I was saying is that the Strokes remind me of being 16 and mad keen for anyone who was on the front cover of the NME, and I remember that now with some fondness. BUT they dont make me envy people who *are* 16 and living through that, i.e. they're exciting but not that exciting.

(Of course the converse of this is that when I was 15-16 I had the most enormous shift in UK pop music ever happening almost on my doorstep and I would never ever ever have dared to go to a rave or club back then.)

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I missed that ship completely. Unless the fact that I seem to be becoming some kind of dance music purist is a similar feeling.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thing is, I hated being 16, in every way, but already it seems preferable. I can't really explain it. I'd rather be somewhere else whatever I'm doing. Even though I know things are actually much better for me now in many respects I still want to be somewhere in the past. Then I wouldn't have to think about things.

― alix, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I'm thinking of nothing but Buzzcocks songs. "Feeling...like I'm almost sixteen again..."

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum reminded me on the phone yesterday about the time she had double glazing installed and I was so offended by it I kept my curtains shut for TWO MONTHS.

Goth.

― N., Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

END THIS SICK GOTH WITCH HUNT MADNESS NOW!

― Anna, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you could be 16 again would you like to go back knowing what you know now (except for sports scores etc. to prevent Back to The Future Part II type scenarios) or would you like to be all innocent again? I'd like to wipe my mind I think.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What would be the point of going back with memory wiped? You'd never know you'd gone back at all and would just end up repeating it all the same again. It doesn't make any sense. Go back with all knowledge, I say. Get the girl! Pass the exam! Skip the crap career choices! Je regrette tout.

― N., Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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