Press mention in todays Times
Posted: 23 Aug 2004, 13:21
Very brief but I thought I'd share...
Tribal teens and a big lie about drugs
Essentially a story about how all the horror stories about 90% alcholism in pre-schoolers and compulsory heroin injections instead of PE the yoof of today don't actually take drugs but just say that they do to impress each other.
WOWSERS!!!
I vaguely remember being 13 to 14 and doing nothing worse than drinking the occasional strongbow and trying not to be sick after sharing a packet of 10 Sovereign between 4, but if anyone ESPECIALLY a reporter had asked us we'd have been whizzing our nipples off and mainlining snakebite.
Teenagers tell fibs 'cos theres nowt else to do. Also why theres so much sex at that age; rampant hormones coupled with the total lack of access to cars, pubs or clubs.
The only reason I WAS able to get away with nightclubbing and its associated hedonism (lager'n'black and Marlies) was thanks to goth you could cover yourself in pancake make-up thus making it more difficult for a (usually uninterested) bouncer to twig that you were under age.
[nostalgia]Ahh! those were the days.....[/nostalgia][/url]
Tribal teens and a big lie about drugs
Nice to see the old stereotypes being dragged out again, although they did manage to remember the 'the', even if they failed to use a capital 'T'.5 Goths, unlike other tribes, do not all listen to the same bands as each other, although they are typified by an affinity for gloomy music. Idols include Marilyn Manson, the Sisters of Mercy and Black Sabbath. They wear pasty white make-up and black clothes.
Essentially a story about how all the horror stories about 90% alcholism in pre-schoolers and compulsory heroin injections instead of PE the yoof of today don't actually take drugs but just say that they do to impress each other.
WOWSERS!!!
I vaguely remember being 13 to 14 and doing nothing worse than drinking the occasional strongbow and trying not to be sick after sharing a packet of 10 Sovereign between 4, but if anyone ESPECIALLY a reporter had asked us we'd have been whizzing our nipples off and mainlining snakebite.
Teenagers tell fibs 'cos theres nowt else to do. Also why theres so much sex at that age; rampant hormones coupled with the total lack of access to cars, pubs or clubs.
The only reason I WAS able to get away with nightclubbing and its associated hedonism (lager'n'black and Marlies) was thanks to goth you could cover yourself in pancake make-up thus making it more difficult for a (usually uninterested) bouncer to twig that you were under age.
[nostalgia]Ahh! those were the days.....[/nostalgia][/url]
