21 Slightly Cringe Things All British Teenagers Have Done At Some Point

It wasn't a proper Nando's trip unless you mixed Fanta and Coke.

1. Stirred your Pizza Hut bowl of ice cream until it looked like this.

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Eating solid ice cream was very uncool back then.

2. Combined Coke and Fanta in one glass every time you went to Nando's.

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This was the cocktail of your teenage years.

3. Went to the Apple Store and took photobooth pictures like this with all your friends.

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You still have Facebook albums full of these pictures.

4. Rolled up your M&S school skirt so you got a little roll around your belly.

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The higher your skirt, the cooler you were.

5. Took photographs of yourself inside whichever coffee chain you happened to be hanging out in.

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It was very cool to spend three hours sipping a single Starbucks frappuccino and documenting every moment with a picture from your digital camera.

6. Took photographs of your friendship group's feet in this exact pattern.

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Bonus points if you all swapped shoes so none of yours matched.

7. Took photographs of yourselves on any bus or train journey you went on.

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As a teenager, the best part of any day out was the journey there.

8. Made a new best friend for life while you were covered in body paint at Reading or Leeds festival.

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You still see occasional life updates from them on Facebook.

9. Took photographs of your friend group at night, in a park, sharing a plastic bottle of vodka.

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Sometimes you sat on the swings, sometimes you sat on the see-saw.

10. Got personalised T Shirts or hoodies for a group trip to Ayia Napa after finishing your A Levels.

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Though you also considered going to Newquay, Kos, Malia, and Magaluf.

11. Snuck Glenn's vodka into nightclubs by pouring them into Boots miniatures and then stuffing them down your bra.

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You saved no more than £5 but you felt invincible.

12. Shared iPod Nano earphones on the bus on every school trip ever.

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This was a true sign of friendship.

13. Raced home from school so that you could talk to boys on MSN asap.

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Talking to random boys you didn't know via MSN was the best part of your day.

14. Went to "house parties" that were basically just your friends dancing in a circle in someone's kitchen with an iPod plugged into some crackly speakers in the corner.

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Back then, this was considered a very fun way to spend a Friday night,

15. Tried on hundreds of prom dresses in TK Maxx, and ultimately chose the glitziest one of all.

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You just wanted to look like Hilary Diff in A Cinderella Story.

16. Left a classroom if your teacher was anything over 15 minutes late.

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You wanted to leave at 10 past, but you made yourself wait until quarter past.

17. Hosted a house party for which your mum bought WKDs.

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Or if she shopped at Aldi, the rip of version which was called a VS.

18. Strawpedoed alcopops.

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This was the ultimate sign of being a lad.

19. Bleached your hair using a £4.99 kit from Superdrug.

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It made your hair feel like straw but you did achieve that yellowy look you were after.

20. Pre-drank with your friends in your bedroom, but then pretended to be sober when your parents gave you a lift into town.

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If you couldn't get the bus, this was your only option.

21. And got really militant about the rules to a drinking game that focussed around drinking from a central communal vessel.

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So. Much. Fun.