90s teens, we've all heard of drinking in park but what other rebellious teenage stuff did you get up to?
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Hello! We all know the cliche of drinking alcohol in parks (let's be honest, teens still do it) but what other rebellious things did you get up to? Things your parents/guardians had no clue about and how did you get away with it?
UncleLarry4Prez@reddit
Around year 2000 a few schoolmates and I (age 14 or so) decided we could forge £5 notes. Just with a home printer, paper, tinfoil and glue for the notes (two sheets of paper glued together), then scrunching them up to look used. Tested in a few newsagents, buying stuff for a couple of quid then having a few quid of normal change back. To our less-than-should-have-been surprise, they worked. We then used them at the annual fair and more surprisingly they also worked without us getting a kicking from any travellers and each coming back with around £30 of change. We then made the wise decision to quit whilst ahead and to this day it remains a somewhat perfect crime. I would live to have one of the notes saved though to see how bad they really were.
Paulie2gunz@reddit
New colour printer with silver! Haha I remember those days. People never bothered to check fivers.
MaxBulla@reddit
dude, we made it this far without any evidence from a mispent youth (no phones, no photos) I am not starting now.
Mountain-Ad542@reddit
Stealing dustcaps Jibbing from shops Smashing people's plant pots and front gardens Smoking cigs Smoking bongs Drinking in parks! Trashing roadworks Mini punch no return Yellow car Calling the sex line off phone boxes Egging busses Egging taxis Egging houses
Lol
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
All round a good time then 😅
Mountain-Ad542@reddit
Yeah we grew up in blackpool lol had a great time when we were young to be fair
Mountain-Ad542@reddit
We were still good kids though despite all the stuff we would get up to lol
SnooRegrets8068@reddit
SO still does yellow car lol and were in our 40s
letsshittalk@reddit
fuckers would nick my allready nicked if i left a pushbike outside a m8s
MerkinMites@reddit
I mean.. it's more like a ride-share scheme at that point? Still.. "those little fuckers!" 😂
letsshittalk@reddit
dustcaps
Jaded_Valuable439@reddit
Omg the dust cap thing was so weird! Never did it myself but my brothers used to and then trade them in school for better ones?? 😂 madness
GiantBonsai@reddit
This entire thread reads like a Facebook comments section.
Uhtred890@reddit
Are you my brother?
Wise_Focus_9865@reddit
Doing car walks was a popular thing for a while. Like walking over the bonnet and roof of parked cars instead of walking round them.
4321zxcvb@reddit
Ha ha reminds me .. garden hopping. Going through as many back gardens as you dared. Over walls and fences
iridescentblip@reddit
Pool hopping in my town!
4321zxcvb@reddit
As in swimming pools ? Nice town
Midniteman86@reddit
Hedge hopping. Bloody loved that back in the day.
Glass_Assistant_1188@reddit
Me and my mates loved doing that.. Once we jumped into the vicarage garden whilst the vicar was gardening. She chased us... We gobbed off at her, she chased us. Smart arse here decided to push my luck. The wall out of the garden was the same height inside but further up the garden. The height got higher on the other side. I jumped the wall at the back end, not taking into the height difference on the other side. I fell 12ft 👇. Broke my wrist and bloodied my face. In hindsight I was lucky. my mates had jumped over where the height difference was roughly 5-6ft. I was however called a legend by the boys so you know not all bad right?
4321zxcvb@reddit
Leg-end !!
Glass_Assistant_1188@reddit
Ah thank you broseph
Wise_Focus_9865@reddit
Ah yeah!! Good one 👍
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Class
imtheorangeycenter@reddit
Huge bangs from panda pops bottles, gravel, the biggest french banger you smuggled back from the school trip and pressurising it all with lighter gas.
Thank god we were rural and in the middle of nowhere. I suppose Al-Qaida thought the same in Afghanistan though...
SnooRegrets8068@reddit
Yeh we had an abandoned mine nearby and would climb to.the 3rd level and dump deodorant cans into a fire. Only exit being over slim beams 3 stories up then down a half broken stairs.
Mate looked once before it went then had a metal chunk fly past his head into the block wall. Could have been a life ending disaster
MerkinMites@reddit
Holy. Shit.
Reading this is like reading the script for the Butterfly Effect. The postbox scene seems tame compared to the engineering of your amateur incendiary marking.
geckodancing@reddit
We made bolt-bangers by screwing two big bolts onto the same nut. Fill the middle of the nut with crumbled black matchheads & a couple of red matchheads. You'd chuck it and run like fuck.
One sent a bolt through a garage door.
long_legged_twat@reddit
god!! I remember doing that as a kid, me & a mate got hold of a couple of huge diameter bolts + a nut then filled it with scraped off red match heads...
Fuck me! that went bang & we were lucky not to get killed..
We also had a stage of making weedkiller & sugar bombs, again, we were fucking lucky to not get hurt.
Growing up in the 70's was wild lol
imtheorangeycenter@reddit
Ooh, remember the strips of 100 caps (on the red paper)? Came in a pack of six in a plastic tube.
Well, fold a while strip in half lengthwise, wrapping it round and round a penny and tape it. Lob it and it makes a decent bang and the coin goes flying. Stick six back in the tube they came from and really tape that thing up, wow, a joke shop claymore.
Then put a dozen in your rucksack while a mate lobs a penny one at your feet so you jump backwards and trigger the whole lot off when you land against the garage wall.
Blew the rucksack apart and me halfway across the room.
None were used for any purpose than "oooh, science!" And I am a peace-loving, ear-plug wearing beaktnik now, intelligence services bot :)
Grower_munk@reddit
Jesus Christ that's some engineering for kids haha - we just used to get a 4 pack of "air bombs" from Morrisons which just happened to form a really good seal when shoved into a 500ml.plastic coke bottle and the bang was obscene. Worst one was putting that combo in the big ass communal "flat" bins, which were inside a little room with a metal door, under the stairs and it was a concrete type hall way... Proper flash bang style BAAAMMMM windows wobbling.
Funny at the time but looking back it would have been absolutely fucking horrendous especially if any old folk in them so... I appreciate we were being proper dickheads / id punch myself in the face for doing it.
catman_dave@reddit
"when I dial this, you'll go to heaven brother crow"
imtheorangeycenter@reddit
Had to Google it because I could only watch it once. What a weird way of saying "that was a good movie"!
Better_Concert1106@reddit
We also did drugs in the park sometimes, too!
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
What sorta drugs we talking, i know nowadays its more whippets, i assume lol
SnooRegrets8068@reddit
Weed for us which meant football was significantly slowed down. Pills and powders/tabs/etc were for clubs or someone with a free house and a crash area.
Grower_munk@reddit
"pills"/mdma for us - lottery of they were any good though, but the "shit" ones were just really weak or nothing thankfully not DEATH ones.
ChieckeTiotewasace@reddit
Double Dove was my 1st but the Mitsubishis were the dogs bollocks.
MissWiggleNjiggle1@reddit
My first pill were Mitsubishis and superman’s!
SnooRegrets8068@reddit
Oh yeh superman's!
ChieckeTiotewasace@reddit
Great times they were.
Grower_munk@reddit
Problem is once one got a rep for being half decent, whoever was pushing out the shit ones would just give them the "good" stamp - so the Mitsubishi's that people were calling the good ones were soon muddled up with the new wave of shit ones.
ChieckeTiotewasace@reddit
For a good solid 5 years from 92-97 I didn't have one dodgy one. I have no idea after that as I was doing normal life by then.
Grower_munk@reddit
Ahh I can only speak for 2000 onwards maybe you were in the golden era with less shit ones knocking about. That was my 17-22/23ish then after that luckily actual MDMA crystals started showing up and oh lawdy that was my jam - minimal techno clubs and MDMA. Then I was forced to grow up when having kids was brought up.
SnooRegrets8068@reddit
Mitsubishis (mitsies), armani were great..plenty of others but those are the ones I remember.
I was bulk buying to get mine free and some spending money. Sketchy as fuck now to think of picking up 200 pils and s sheet of acid. Or growing mushrooms I shared about. Could have gone very wrong. Don't regret a second tho.
Better_Concert1106@reddit
Used to be mostly grass IME. Although I know Mcat was also popular at one point (never touched it myself). Whippets seem to be the popular one now, although I’m kinda glad they have moved onto those bigger canisters and not the tiny ones, at least the bigger ones are easier to pick up and bin 🤣
ODFoxtrotOscar@reddit
But neither of those was new in the 90s
Reminds me of the 90s telly washing powder ad when older teens return home after mud laden festival, and put on a wash, telling their mother that ‘I bet you didn’t do this in your day’
“Of course not dear. We didn’t wear clothes”
BarryIslandIdiot@reddit
Reminds me of the time my friends grandmother told us about her naked mudwrestling in the fields at Gladtonbury. How she used to get stoned all the time. When we looked a bit surprised, her response was, "What did you expect? I was a hippy!"
Oilfreeeggs@reddit
Stealing a bit of every drink out the cabinet ( whiskey , grappa , orange liqueur , cinzano). Mix it all together in a happy shopper pop bottle and enjoy
Smoking down the bottom of the field
SnooRegrets8068@reddit
Yes we did this and it was very pimms forward. Which was not pleasant to begin with.
gilestowler@reddit
The only alcoholic drink my parents had was a bottle of whiskey which my dad would very slowly drink. I think he had maybe one drink a week, very watered down anyway. But, thanks to me, it was a little bit more watered down every time he had it.
sayleanenlarge@reddit
panda pop bottles for us! We were posher than happy shopper. Although, my parents did know but didn't say anything. My mum would pour herself a drink and it would be water because me and my brother would both do the same thing, but not liaise, so we'd double water it down. My mum said they didn't mind unless we hit the expensive stuff, which apparently, we never did. The reason they didn't tell us off was that we were allowed alcohol, we just never realised because we never asked, but they thought we were idiots because the drinks cabinet was in the middle of the lounge and it didn't have a door or any rules around it, i.e., it wasn't hidden or out of bounds. I think they just found it funny and figured as long we weren't sneaking loads, the fact we were sneaking would mean not taking too much, so not drinking a lot. It worked, I guess.
BeingDry8553@reddit
Zombie piss was our name 🤌
sunkistandsudafed3@reddit
When we were around 14, my friend drank half a bottle of this rocket fuel mix, she was so drunk she pulled her trousers down and pissed into them. In the middle of a road.
Few_House_5201@reddit
We called this rocket fuel. I ruined it once by including baileys.
Apple-Pigeon@reddit
Yep, me too. Bet you still drank it tbo
dprophet32@reddit
Magic mix we called it or punch of death
SiMoN20000@reddit
We called it a shit mix
Fine-Night-243@reddit
Grampa's cough medicine we called it.
Worldly-Ad3474@reddit
We called that a "shit mix." it was foul, but got us wrecked
SalamanderSylph@reddit
Don't forget replacing the clear spirits with water!
My parents didn't discover a bottle of ouzo had been replaced until I was 22... I even put a note on the bottom saying "Sorry!" with the date of when I had done it 5 years earlier
chaoticchemicals@reddit
Ouzo famously goes immediately cloudy with the addition of water. It's called the louche effect.
SalamanderSylph@reddit
The secret is to steal all of it at once!
PatientFisherman7955@reddit
Remember me to never rob a bank with you.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Ahh of course the mystery mix drink
ijs_1985@reddit
Making bongs out of anything we could
Garden hopping
Nicking the milk after the milkman round
Setting up road blockades if there was any traffic cones around
Stealing flags from the local golf course
DefinitelyARealHorse@reddit
Wait, drinking in a park is considered rebellious?
My mates and I just thought of that as something scummy chavs did.
We used to climb church spires to change the time on the clock. Change traffic cone layouts to direct cars where they really couldn’t be going. A mate of mine once climbed onto the roof of the town hall to poss on the flag pole. We once broke into the local RAF base for a laugh.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
I feel like drinking in a park is like, baseline rebellion no?
GuybrushFunkwood@reddit
I once fingered Deborah, my girlfriend at the time, behind the stage curtains of the school disco while her mates kept lookout
ajtyler776@reddit
Classic Deborah.
TowJamnEarl@reddit
Deboree-deb n' deboree-de-bree-deb Oh Deborah...
Max_Power_332@reddit
Please tell me this is a Men Behaving Badly reference…
TowJamnEarl@reddit
Sorry, it's T-Rex song
AccomplishedCar6937@reddit
Was her house very small ?
sayleanenlarge@reddit
I bet it had wood chip on the walls too.
HorrorLover___@reddit
Get in there Deborah.
Phainesthai@reddit
I also choose this guys Deborah.
Vertigo_uk123@reddit
Is Deborah another name for felicity? Exact same thing lol.
PiemasterUK@reddit
Her house was very small. With woodchip on the wall.
GuybrushFunkwood@reddit
You win Reddit today for that! 😂
amboandy@reddit
TBF her name never suited her
BanditoDorito05@reddit
and when I came round to call, you didn’t notice me at all!
Otherwise-Bid621@reddit
Who didn’t?
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
🤣
Accomplished-Kale-77@reddit
When I was at school I spent a lot of time round the bike sheds fingering Daniella
Unusual_Resident_784@reddit
I used to wait for my dad to go to bed so I could watch the 10 minute adult channel preview at midnight and watch the soft core erotic thrillers that channel 5 broadcast every Friday evening.
DeezWuts@reddit
This and watching eurotrash on 1 or 2 volume hoping no one came downstairs xD
long_legged_twat@reddit
Eurotrash was definately what you'd call a 'challenging wank', they had some fucking weird stuff on there lol
Responsible-Mail-661@reddit
Think it's what they call edging nowadays. Few minutes vigorous then something else came on. Just relying on thoughts opening an eye occasionally to hope it wasn't lemon party.
long_legged_twat@reddit
I'll never forget those couple of artists (i think they were dutch) that did paintings using their own shit...
They even went into what they ate to get different shades & stuff..... fucking mind boggling stuff lol
Upset-Elderberry3723@reddit
All I can say about Eurotrash is that the name was perfect - such an odd combination of European camp silliness with nudity, outsider art and sexual liberation. You could go from watching sex to watching slapstick comedy in a matter of seconds.
Another show from back then, although an American import, was Sexcetera. There's a decent retrospective of it here.
_Permanent_Marker_@reddit
Eurotrash was my Jam. As was Emmanuel. I remember every couple of minutes I would quickly switch between channels to make sure the remote was still working in case one of the parents walked in
PatientFisherman7955@reddit
And then granny would appear in the doorway and finish things off 😌
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
😦
religionisanger@reddit
Red shoes diaries with David Duchovny, you’d be forced to watch the diabolical shit for 44 minutes and then there might be a 4 second flash of what may or may not have been a woman’s nipple.
Unusual_Resident_784@reddit
Ah yes, I remember he'd walk his little white dog whilst he read a letter. The X Files was his next job after that.
Flat_Fault_7802@reddit
You had to be sitting ready and primed as you only had 10 minutes.
Unusual_Resident_784@reddit
Yep, then the signal scrambled. You could still enjoy the porn but you had to pretend be blind and just listen to the sex noises.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
10 minutes of pure bliss
paulie_x_walnuts@reddit
Recreating Jackass stunts - I was 15 when it was first on TV, so absolutely the perfect age to try shopping trolley jousting.
IntrusiveUK@reddit
Once we broke into the school on the weekend and hotboxed one of the minivans.
Real-Apricot-7889@reddit
Went through a phase of shoplifting from boots/primark/claire’s. Just for the hell of it really and no idea how I got away with it!! My friends did it too
Eastern_Bit_9279@reddit
Smoked a copious amount of cannabis , one of my mates went to school with a bong in his bag , it literally stuck out the top of his bag he just put a plastic bag over the top of it and that was that.
Icy_Tip405@reddit
Picked and took loads of mushrooms, then ran round a forest fucked up for hours
Suddendeath777@reddit
I used to live near a facility that pupled unsold magazines from places like WH Smiths.
They would have rows and rows of massive skips, full to the top of that weeks/months issues that were off to be recycled. They were all open topped, they were getting turned into mulch so who cares if they got rained on.
This also meant it contained a lot of porn mags. By the thousand a lot of the time. A winning lottery ticket for teenage boys.
We'd go up there in droves, but also on an informal rota system to dig among the Gardeners World's and Radio Times, looking for Mayfair and Razzle. Sometimes you'd find some American import magazines.
We had stashes all over town, and a list of the less than ballsy lads who we'd sell them to for 50p in school.
If you were in a rural cornish town in 2003-2006, those innocent lads you saw coming out of the chippy after school were actually the porno barons of the south West.
stvvrover@reddit
Have Disney approached you for filming rights? I reckon that would make a wonderful coming-of-age film. Pun unintended. Maybe it could be called ‘Monty Don is watching you’ ….for his links to Gardeners World obvs, I’m certain he wasn’t there wanking himself into a frothy puddle behind a bush.
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
We tried to do this but were outfoxed by an older kid who just nicked them all. You can’t really go up to a teacher and say that someone has stolen all your stolen porn mags. So we just acted all shocked and innocent and told her he was trying to sell us dirty magazines.
Suddendeath777@reddit
We had one of our friends older brothers in the gang so we were set for any attempts to move in on our patch.
One time they locked the skip because we got caught, so he came down with an angle grinder and opened it up again.
Nothing stands between a 90s 14 year old boy and his dog eared copy of Fiesta.
CrimpsShootsandRuns@reddit
Have we finally found some of those mythical beings that stashed porn in hedges!?
Suddendeath777@reddit
Even though it's almost 20 years on, and they may be unregonisable but I'm certain that under hedges and behind poorly maintained brickwork the treasure still exists.
MJLDat@reddit
I can imagine the Goodfellas/Scarface montage scene of you guys distributing jizz mags, stashing, counting the money, walking out of the chippy, with Ray Liotta doing a voiceover.
On-Mute@reddit
Getting pinched and telling a rural Cornish policeman "Nah, it's OK, it's alright. You don't unnastand, it's OK."
maxilopez1987@reddit
This probably makes no sense to someone who doesn’t know what this is from but you just reminded me of this red letter media clip where they watched some Christian video where it said mafia controls 80% of the porn industry or some bullshit
https://youtu.be/MRPtM5Q9ZEM?si=7Fw6pZZ-shk5LgZG&utm_source=ZTQxO
Affectionate-Bus4123@reddit
I had a paper round, and I knew who's recycling boxes reliably had spicy stuff in
Flat_Fault_7802@reddit
Legend
Deanosaur12@reddit
We had something similar near me.
They also had news papers and we used to get the scratch cards out of the sun papers. Won a few £1s and £5s but never did cash them in
Suddendeath777@reddit
Another good earner were those Max Power car mags.
They always came with goodies like light up hub cabs or little led strips. We had the best looking BMXs around.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
An enterprising business 🤣
boredsittingonthebus@reddit
Smoking buckets
Shagging
sythingtackle@reddit
Back in the summer of 91 we bought a mk2 escort from the local scrapper, 4 15year olds left Newry for the Donegal rally, 4 trays of beer an an aa road map with our pocket money in punts. We’d mapped out the roads, cassette tapes and took the b roads, took turns in driving, met loads of British army patrols due to the b roads we were travelling, 200 miles there and back and we were only caught out on one of our wedding day’s when it was regaled to the room.
Wonderwall66@reddit
Me and my mate went to a caravan park in the 90’s with both sets of parents. The dads said we could have a few beers (we were 16 btw) so they bough us a 6 pack of lagers. My mate and I had 2 micro dot acid in our pockets. We dropped the acid thinking the dads wanted us to drink the beers in our room at the hotel. Oh no, they booked a game of snooker for us all. So here’s me and my mate tripping, playing snooker with both our dads in a caravan park in wales trying as if we were in a virtual reality jimmy’s whirlwind snooker thing! Fucking out our nuts trying to keep it real. I still to this day think my dad reckons I’m just very weird after 1 Foster’s
555fir978@reddit
Me and my friends used to call hairdressers and ask if they did full head shaves. I have absolutely no idea why we thought this was funny.
BuzzAllWin@reddit
‘Borrowed a bobcat’ from a mates uncle and dug a down hill dirt jump course through some woodlands
Character_Team_2651@reddit
You could kind of get away with making......things that went bang. Like really BANG
bakedNdelicious@reddit
Going to drum and bass raves and doing ecstasy when I was 15….
OneCatch@reddit
My friend group went through a phase of stealing advertisements. Laminated sheets off of phone boxes, sandwich boards, even most of a billboard once.
I have no idea what started it.
dredge_the_lake@reddit
Sneaking into abandoned buildings… why? Dunno… just something you did with your mates
sumfuca@reddit
Went milking in the morning after the night out getting pissed in the park.
Got hot rock burns on my Adidas poppers.
Set fire to someone.
No_Wrap_9979@reddit
I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
FunGuyUK83@reddit
At 14/15 my best mate and I would go to the local youth club and chat up the girl on the tuck shop to get free stuff. Then we would head up on the roof with a bottle of white lightning or MD 20/20 we smuggled in and smoke a joint or 2 🫠
Scart_O@reddit
Burnt a bunch of cars.
rjmeddings@reddit
Smoking some weed on Dartmoor and then driving home at 10 mph.
theonlytruthbearer@reddit
Kick the lamp posts out up the whole road make it pitch black
Holiday-Poet-406@reddit
Passing round VHS tapes some of the German and Dutch ones where rather educational.
oso-oco@reddit
An absolute twat on our estate used to give us grief all the time. So late one night we sellotaped about a dozen 'readers wives' centre spreads all over his front room window. So first thing in the morning he would open the curtains and be greeted by the sight of more curtains. Of the beef variety.
We were absolute dickheads.
Bardsie@reddit
I'm not sure if this was a national thing, or just local to York, but at my school we had a Pass out trend for a bit.
One guy would stand against a wall with their arms crossed across their chest, then two other guys (or one really big guy) would put their entire weight against the crossed arms until guy one passed out from not being able to breathe. They'd collapse then we'd all laugh when they woke up.
It was dumb as fuck, and I have no idea how it started. We stopped it after one school lunch where Graeme fell left instead of right and whacked his head against the corner of a cupboard. We thought we'd killed him for a moment there.
Outrageous-Arm1945@reddit
Went to illegal raves the wrong side of London. Used to climb in and out of my bedroom window.
Outrageous-Arm1945@reddit
Ohhh god, and before that we used to climb into the milk depot and steal the good stuff, fizzy drinks, OJ, yoghurt. There was a disused warehouse place next door we set up as our den. Til the fat lad fell through the most likely asbestos roof onto a milk float. Could get the fat fuck back out so he was caught in the morning with broken ribs, and the game was up
Excellent_Passage_38@reddit
We used to hafg Glade and the woods behind the supermarket
Hungry-Let-1054@reddit
I lived in a pub for 2 years when I was 13/14. I used to pinch packets of crisps and buy cigs from vending machine. Then I would sell them at school. I was a little shit to be honest. When we moved out of pub there was a shop near me that would sell cigs, cider and fireworks to us, but cider and fireworks were only allowed on a Fri (responsible shop keeper.haha). We would chip in money and buy bangers. Then go around all the phone boxes and light a banger, stick it in the coin return hole. Once it went off you could get the money out. Sometimes you would need to use a second banger. Then go back to shop and buy cigs and cider for the week and more bangers/thunder king rockets for more phone boxes.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Im gonna sounds dumb now Whats a banger? Someone else has mentioned them
craig-charles-mum@reddit
A firework like a tiny stick of dynamite
Hungry-Let-1054@reddit
They were a firework. They got banned as they were pretty dangerous. Kids used to light them and throw them at people, or play a game where you would throw them to each other and see who bottled catching it before they went off.
stuaxo@reddit
Sometimes people would bring back the stronger ones from France.
Hungry-Let-1054@reddit
Only got them once, I was a fan of back cat thunder kings. They would fire a green ball out of top that would explode. Went with a right bang.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Ah okay I assumed as much lol
Hungry-Let-1054@reddit
At the time I thought it was stupid that they banned them. Now I am older and slightly wiser it was a good thing.
Fit-Bedroom-7645@reddit
Soap bar shotty bongs and whiteying
latesttrick@reddit
A Scotsman I see? A true connoisseur.
Fit-Bedroom-7645@reddit
Busted
latesttrick@reddit
Knew a guy that claimed to do 43 shottys over a weekend at a beach
Fit-Bedroom-7645@reddit
I remember we used to use biro tubes to stack the hash in, with drum tobacco as a filter. You'd occasionally just get a full lung full of melted plastic fumes and drum. Fucking horrendous state of affairs, amazed we didn't die tbh.
latesttrick@reddit
Ooooft sounds hellish. Remember always searching for the holy grail of the grolsch bottle with the pop cap for a shotty. A tier material
buy_me_a_pint@reddit
Not me
Someone in the form group I was in, used to make prank calls, and once posted his sandwiches in the post box
Putrid-Assistant598@reddit
Drinking in car parks when it was too wet for the park.
illegal raves. Lots of illegal substances. Ohh wait my parents knew all about the above. Maybe I was lucky to have liberal parents but I think most parents know more about what their kids are up to than what the kids actually think. Mum knows best and all that.
QPWOEIRUTYTURIEOWP@reddit
We once pulled off a hubcap of every car on one street and threw them all in one person's front garden.
We also used a load of bricks that were outside someone's house to build a low wall across the road. Stupidly dangerous.
I was a right little prick as a teenager.
_Permanent_Marker_@reddit
Me and my old buddy T would run through fields of wheat. Proper naughty we were
Wild-Individual6876@reddit
She was a girl ol’ T wasn’t she, such a rebel. Terrible dancer if remember rightly
loveandpeaceandunity@reddit
Fingering. By the horse's field. The girls would usually swap around at some point. So you'd get a bit of variety. Oh those hedonistic days.
Wild-Individual6876@reddit
As much for them as for you I suppose
SiMoN20000@reddit
Hedge hopping peoples front gardens
Wild-Individual6876@reddit
We used to hang around the back of our coop supermarket where the hot air came out some vents to keep warm. We would open the wheelie bin and eat the food that had been thrown out before closing. Mostly bakery items etc. We weren’t starving or poor, this was just for fun
SeaBreezeDreamer@reddit
I got in one little fight and my mum got scared And said "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"
pocketfullofdragons@reddit
~~Vandalising~~ improving posters with googly eyes. 👀 😂
My friend group was very wholesome lmao.
Used-Eagle3558@reddit
Ouija boards in the cemetery. Exploring sewer tunnels.
Impressive-Option474@reddit
Set fire to the headmasters computer monitor then danced around the blaze chanting the roof the roof the roof is on fire
One-Prior3480@reddit
Going to the pub and claiming to have been at the cinema. In a town with a single screen cinema that only changed the film every 2-3 weeks. But had several pubs that seemed happy to serve anyone. Had to read the film reviews so we had a vague idea what it was about, given we’d often claim to have seen it 3 or 4 times. Assumed my parents would have figured it out but when I asked my Mum a few years ago she had no idea 😂 Bunking off school and spending the day in the park. Only problem was we were mainly in the same form at school. Form teacher said ‘I’d suspect you all of skiving, but I know you wouldn’t be that stupid when there are 6 of you in this form’. Don’t know if he knew and was warning us or was just happy not to have us to deal with.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Underage drinking at the pubs always seemed like something easier to get away with as well
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
I remember the astonishment of the landlord when my mate had his 18th at the pub we’d been drinking in for a few years
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
This happened to me when i was working in a small town pub. The guy had been drinking there long before i started working there, and everyone knew him so i never id him Came in on his 18th flashing his id at me 😅
chequemark3@reddit
Cool running! I've never watched the film, I wasn't sleeping at Claire and yes I was up to no good.
Nedonomicon@reddit
Arson
Few_House_5201@reddit
Accidentally set fire to one of the golf courses used for the Open.
Fire on the beach, someone threw some stones in and sparks set the adjacent golf course alight. We rang the fire brigade and legged it.
Luckily the fire didn’t spread enough to cause significant damage.
Fine-State8014@reddit
The key to my first car would open every other mini. Proper minis not the massive BMW's. So people would find various things in their cars the morning after I'd been drinking. Frogs, mannequins, me on occasion.
Drink was easy to get, we'd got a mate who worked at Sainsbury's to attach my reward card to the scanners that you had to be 18 to use. Scan the alcohol and they'd never id you.
adeathcurse@reddit
I used to set a lot of fires with my friends. Dunno if that was normal or not haha.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
There seems to be a lot of fire in the comments 😅
mangonel@reddit
Oh, goodness me. Well, I suppose... gosh. Do you know, I'm not quite sure. Nobody is ever perfectly behaved, are they? I mean, you know, I have to confess, when me and my friend, sort of, used to run through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren't too pleased about that.
I_am_Relic@reddit
almost the 90s but for me it was being 15 or 16 and being part of the "lock in" at the local really dodgy pub.
As an aside. The landlord also got really pissed off when I celebrated my birthday and cheekily asked for a free pint while telling him that I was now legally allowed to drink.
That was despite the fact that for several years I was happily being served while underage, and also another patron called "Lenny" would happily glass you for looking at him funny.
Good times 🤪
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Gotta love a lock in
I_am_Relic@reddit
Lol yeah. It's been..christ... decades ... but back then the landlord would surreptitiously peer out of the lead light windows before pulling the blackout curtains. The bolt lock would be surreptitiously "snicked" ("manners... Maketh.... Man" but with only implied and not literal violence). The jukebox would then be turned off, and all of us patrons would suddenly be as quiet as (beer drinking) church mice.
As an (underage and naive) teen, I'd feel that I was part of some illicit secret sect. Then I'd get royally pissed alongside everyone else and eventually stagger home at stupid-O-clock 😆
GoodTelevision9197@reddit
We used to push cows over
Vast-Heron8963@reddit
Bucket bongs...watching eurotrash...spending my school dinner money i saved for Fruit machines at the arcade!!Get off with birds at the local fairground!!
gregd303@reddit
I was 16 in 1990 and 27 by 2000, details omitted, but let's just say I had the most hedonistic time of my life, and lived through illegal raves, gigs, festivals, etc. yep the 90s was the best decade.
WinningTheSpaceRace@reddit
Cool as fuck, wall-to-wall hope, fun as far as the eye could see and beyond. What a decade.
CodAdministrative765@reddit
Starting fires on the playground in the winter to keep warm. We all had to donate one sock each to keep it burning.
cloche_du_fromage@reddit
We used to break of the monotony of park drinking with air gun hunts. Those who had air guns got to hunt those who didn't, on the loose promise they could have a go next time.
We also used to get someone to climb a tree, lure some other kids over to the tree, and the guy higher up would then shower them work piss.
And setting lots of things on fire.
Dydey@reddit
Everybody knew about the one house on the council estate near me that sold knock-off cigs.
Me: ~knock knock~
Angry man: ~rips door open~ WADDAYA WANT
Me: (voice suddenly three octaves higher) er… er… 20 Richmond Superking please mister!
Angry man: £3 now piss off!
TheBlakeOfUs@reddit
I was lighting a roll up off a bin we set on fire when I heard about 9/11
WinningTheSpaceRace@reddit
Climbed into my local football team's c.25,000 stadium at night to have a drunken kickabout.
Anonymous_Lurker_1@reddit
As a result of the drinking in the parks thing, I went through a phase of stealing traffic cones and road signs.
jambo_1983@reddit
We used to swap peoples front garden ornaments around. For example, one neighbour might have a gnome on their doorstep, so we’d put it on the other neighbours. The best was when two people had exactly the same concrete mushroom in the front garden, but one was newer. We really hoped it caused an argument!
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Thi nis so wholesome but i love it
ubiquitousuk@reddit
I was a good kid, but my friends used to steal tons of stuff from the vending machines at school.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
All these answers are amazing lol Thankyou to everyone contributing
Tomatoflee@reddit
The late 90s were pretty insane so it’s hard to pick one story but stealing the keys off a guy in club in Spain then joyriding his motorbike while on acid is up there with the craziest.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Ok thats pretty crazy
thorpie88@reddit
Swimming in the river dodging shopping trolleys and dead sheep as you jumped in
Excellent-Bass-855@reddit
I was running illegal raves. With everything that involves
Pizzagoessplat@reddit
Sold alcohol, cigarettes and porn.......in school 😆
Intelligent-Day-6976@reddit
Nice try coppers
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
🤣
Wide-Affect-1616@reddit
Taking acid in the park
pot_nude_L@reddit
Pills. Lots of pill popping everywhere. 16 to 18.
h00dman@reddit
I didn't do a whole lot tbh, I just grew my hair long and stopped tucking in my shirt.
The teachers weren't too fussed, I think for them it was a case of picking their battles.
turkishhousefan@reddit
Ran a torrent seed box and was a moderator on a private tracker.
ownworstenemy38@reddit
Got a cylinder stuck in a Pringles tube.
griffaliff@reddit
A friend and I made thermite in his garage using the anarchists cookbook, good times.
lysergic101@reddit
Whenever someone's parents went away we setup multiman buckets in their bath tub and got stoned on squidgy black and sputnik.
4321zxcvb@reddit
80s: Squashing things on the trains tracks. Mostly coins but also some live 9mm amo we found.
Making petrol bombs with flammable materials found in sheds. Setting them off at concrete bunkers by side of railway tracks
Trying to set fire to a local woods . In successful but we did get 2 fire engines attend our attempt.
Sniffing thinners in the back of class.
Looks bad written down but we were good boys really. The bad lads were up to know end of shit.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Yes the good boys were only making petrol bombs 🤣
4321zxcvb@reddit
We were though. It’s funny to think but we were not the bad kids round our way. This is 80s Merseyside.
PatientFisherman7955@reddit
80s Merseyside was like the last days of Saigon though.
mampiwoof@reddit
Setting off fireworks indoors. Joyriding. Selling drugs.
thenewblueroan2@reddit
I love these sort of posts, but at the same time they make me depressed as fuck lol.
Japhet_Corncrake@reddit
Acid.
Rumhampolicy@reddit
The usual. Drinking, camping in random fields, smoking, drugs, makeshift tattoos.
plant-cell-sandwich@reddit
We keep that information from the internet
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Fair
SomewhereVirtual4121@reddit
I had was taking my GCSE’s at the time after a test me and this girl I was taking them with decided it was a good idea for me to finger her on the stairs
Character-Bid-5089@reddit
Little bit of joy riding which I'm not proud of now. Smoked lots of dope in the park as well
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
😅
ORNG_MIRRR@reddit
Strip poker! Preferably with porno playing cards that someone bought in France on holiday.
Sparko_Marco@reddit
We used to break into abandoned mines and explore, probably lucky no one got hurt/trapped in them.
Mag-1892@reddit
Badging (nicking badges off cars)
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
The porn mags seems to be a recurring theme here
Mag-1892@reddit
The wonder off playing football in the park and going into the bushes to retrieve a wayward shot only to come back out with a pile of razzles
DeezWuts@reddit
I turned 10 in 1999, but.. Setting fireworks off in the underpass at opposite ends.
Finding luminescent tube bulbs and launching them from bridges.
Stealing fags from friends aunty's and smoking in the garage.
Staying up and watching eurotrash or horror movies.
Trying and thankfully failing to steal a car.. I was 8, it was Salford.
Gigatron8299@reddit
Smoking resin in the bushes on the school field. Usually through bucket bongs.
Additional-Nobody352@reddit
Bunking off school
shredditorburnit@reddit
I had a friend who went to a different school and we'd usually try and line it up so we picked the same days to skip. Had some wonderful times, and all you needed was a note, which you absolutely hadn't written yourself, excusing you for being sick.
Got caught near the end of year 11 but nobody really cared by then, I was going somewhere else for 6th form.
WestonsCat@reddit
Me and two other lads from my estate, hold the record to this day as being the only kids to have ever bunked off our Primary School. We were busted pretty quick as rumours spread we’d been kidnapped. Caused quite a stir in the Village.
ChieckeTiotewasace@reddit
Haha, my truant life began at primary, so by the time I was at secondary school I was playing streetfighter 2 and getting stoned. My mother was a school governors aswell. Haha good days
NiceCunt91@reddit
Honestly for my lot it really was just drinking in parks and running from police when they tried to take our booze.
ClassroomDowntown664@reddit
I'm a 00s baby but I can still relate as when I was 16 I was at a camp and one of the parent helpers gave me and my mates a can of dark fruits and told us this stays between us . that guy was not allowed to go to any other camps which was a ashme
OverTheCandlestik@reddit
We would skate around the top of a multi storey car park, generally be a nuisance at the shopping centre, little bit of stealing but nothing major just like chewing gum or a red bull, steal my dads tobacco and weed, drink from mum and dads booze and just fill it up with water
GeggingIn@reddit
Poppers.
Rastapopolos-III@reddit
I was into urban exploring in my teens, my parents never found out. 🤣
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
I feel like if you grew up more rural this was one of the only options as well
Rastapopolos-III@reddit
I was in the city, hence urban exploring. Used to wander round derelict buildings and the like.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Ah right 😅
No_Doughnut3257@reddit
The hill behind our village where we grew up is an internationally renowned spot for liberty cap mushrooms.
So yeah there was that. Even the normally sensible non-smoking/non-drinking teens would tend to indulge.
tweaked9107@reddit
Not quite a 90's TEEN but close enough... The milk run after an all nighter camping (stealing door delivered milk). Pushing the farmers hay bales down into a ditch and turning it into a gladiator ring (all good fun until someone inevitably set fire to it and they had to close the main dual carriageway). There was a weird fad where everyone was stealing dust caps at one point. The usual graffiti of so and so "woz ere 1999" or whatever.
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Not the milk 😅
mynameisjodie@reddit
Going out on my bike all day noone looked for me nothing
GrubbyInsides@reddit (OP)
Whatd you get up to on your rides?
mynameisjodie@reddit
I used to pretend to be a car and drive on the roads
paisleywallpaper@reddit
Half inch ties at school
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