This afternoon was sunny...yeah I know it sounds weird since I m living in Ireland right, I knew that something will happened, it was too good to be true. I was sitting on a terrasse of a cafe with a friend of mine. It was cool, people from everwhere were passing by, Indian, Asiatic, Irish, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, u could recognised the first 3 by their colour and the others by their accent from south of Europe! I was wearing my glasses and enjoying my cappuccino when I heard an hysterical feminine voice 'What the f..., what s wrong with ya, JIMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYY' followed a pursuit with a strong noise, the noise of the flip flop bought 3 euros at Penneys. My friend who was not living in Dublin, was staring at her, open mouth! And then I thought, I ve never talked about the teenagers living there, what a shame!One of the main reason it s because I still don t understand, I m clueless! How can I describe them, let s take today for instance. We have here what we call the 'knackers', usually they are part of gang, a bunch of losers, the guys usually wear sports clothes, too big for them, with one pants down to the ankle and the other up to the knee (very artistic), with a baseball cap. This afternoon, I saw two of them trying to steal a bicycle, they were trying to break the locker in front of everybody, and nobody was saying anything, I can understand they were pretty scary, I walked pretty fast on the other side of the street.

- the more flashier the better, there is a new trend, Reebok commercialize some 80 s look shoes, so Penneys (cheap store) provide some cheap clothes same color (till the underwear, yep). One was wearing a tiny short and top and shoes in yellow, looks like a giant streetlight, she could illuminate the entire city with.

- the tanner the better, u know we don t have sun here, well we all looks like aspirine ... white, but it ain t possible for teenager, specially if u go to pharmacy the first thing u see: BIG DISCOUNT, Do u wanna have the best look ever...look like u re coming from 3 months in Spain. BYE the Fake Tan Spray, 50% discount YEAH!!!!! The problem is, they don t know how to put it.... nope, u can see their legs with different color, like they are dirty and u want to wash them, I don t know why nobody tells them! Even on the face, like these one I found on Internet, it s comon here. I rather stay white than look like that.

And on top of that, there is the Education! I ve been looking, I can t find it! The teenagers I describe earlier are also so not educate, parents are busy at the bar drinking beers, while their kids are hanging around in the street. I don t know at their age we were doing sports activities, hanging out to a friend house! But not on the street, I saw some 12 years kids outside around 11 on wednesday during school week! I ll never leave my kids on the street at 12!
Some kids, asked me to buy some drinks for them, they were less than 14 years old. 3 months ago, in south of Dublin, two teenagers 16 and 17 asked 2 polish guys to buy some alcohol, they refused, the teenagers followed them and killed them with screwdrivers on the head! Seriously!
I know that drinking is part of the culture in Ireland, however there is a biggest concern, u don t drink like an adult at 12!!!!
The way they talked, the louder the better, swearing is not a problem, if u stare them, man u d better walk away pretty fast, insulting u, the F word is like a ponctuation in their vocabulary, they re using it at least once per sentence! Always lookin for trouble, they have nothing better to do! Seems that parents don t care, and sometimes when u look at the parents, boys, the mother is wearing pretty much the same outfit that their daughters, and seriously it s already vulgare on a girl but on a 40+ with the outfit I described earlier...nightmare!
Last time, I was at the cinema, they are out of control, they re throwing popcorn everywhere, they re answering phone during the movie, they re laughing, walking around, don t care about others. And when I leave the cinema, see the guys working for the cine with bin bag to clean the room, I feel sorry for them. I don t say we don t have knackers in France, but in the cine, they don t throw pop corn, neither speak and disturb people, why? because they paid for the movie, and for the popcorn and they dont want to waist it!!!! but here, who cares!!!!!!!!
Of course, all the teenagers are not like that, but unfortunately because they are noiser than the others, u remember them more ;(
How are the teenagers in ur country? fashion? education?