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Hate it when teenagers try to be adults just for the sake of it!

Does anyone else know people like this? What I mean is, for example, i know a guy who drinks a load of coffee but hates the stuff. I ask him why he drinks it then and he goes, "because it's what adults do". Similarly, quite a few of my friends drink loads of alcohol, as in, getting smashed at every chance, and then they show me pictures on facebook of them passed out at the toilet; they're the same because they hate alcohol but still feel compelled to drink it!

I feel like so many people around me are desperate to move on to adulthood - if you want to drink coffee or alcohol or whatever you'd expect adults rather than children to drink because you like those beverages, that's perfectly fine, but few people I know do it for those reasons. Does anyone else know people like this? (I'm 16 btw, to put a context on the situation, not just gone 13 or something :biggrin:

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Reply 1

Pheylan

I'm sorry Judy, I couldn't find that bowl you and Jack were looking for.

Reply 2

goldlock

OP

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whatever reference you made is lost on me :s-smilie:

Reply 3

LunarLeon

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That annoys me, especially when kids do it to follow their friends and/or their older peers (like an older brother or sister). Personally, I do neither of those things, because I don't like them. Some people need to resist peer pressure. Also notice how phony it is and how much of an act it is. I mean, if you're acting like an 'adult', don't admit to it!

Reply 4

clairejoyx

Pheylan

I'm sorry Judy, I couldn't find that bowl you and Jack were looking for.

Must admit it took me a while but... :laugh:

Reply 5

Victor Drazen

I drink coffee and alcohol but I'm not an adult.

That doesn't mean I'm trying to move on to adulthood.

Reply 6

Tefhel

12

Yeah I have some friends who drink coffee because 'it looks mature'... An odd reason to drink it IMO.

Reply 7

ourlastmemory

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Pheylan

I'm sorry Judy, I couldn't find that bowl you and Jack were looking for.

watching that episode RIGHT NOW.

Reply 8

mistermeowingtons

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Pheylan

I'm sorry Judy, I couldn't find that bowl you and Jack were looking for.

Haha, nice. :biggrin:

Reply 9

Magical.Malteaser

I absolutely love coffee. Does that mean I'm an adult?
I like some alcohol (especially Gin&Tonic <3) but I don't want to get drunk because passing out etc. doesn't look fun.
Lot of people do do it though. Because it's mature to get drunk every weekend for some reason. Why coffee and not tea though? Some people think drinking tea is mature too. I don't like tea so don't drink it, but some people drink it because it's "mature". *sigh* I'm happy with being a teenager at the moment :smile:

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Reply 10

Victor Drazen

I like a nice strong coffee with two sugars.

Great thing to have on a cold winters morning.

Reply 11

goldlock

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Victor Drazen

I drink coffee and alcohol but I'm not an adult.

That doesn't mean I'm trying to move on to adulthood.

no mate, I didn't say people who do that are trying to be adults, I'm saying people who drink those drinks despite hating them are the ones trying to move to adulthood

Reply 12

_Shanice_

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Magical.Malteaser

Lot of people do do it though. Because it's mature to get drunk every weekend for some reason.

It's not all that mature to go and get smashed till you pass out every weekend. Quite the opposite actually.

Reply 13

goldlock

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LunarLeon

That annoys me, especially when kids do it to follow their friends and/or their older peers (like an older brother or sister). Personally, I do neither of those things, because I don't like them. Some people need to resist peer pressure. Also notice how phony it is and how much of an act it is. I mean, if you're acting like an 'adult', don't admit to it!

Exactly

Reply 14

Playboy King

I hate that too, it starts properly when students get to uni...getting excited over things that are just pathetic, who the hell treats drinking as an actual event? :facepalm:

drinking is to accompany something you do, socialising whatever...but moronic students get orgasms over the freedom and start going crazy, almost as if they think they're rebels of some sort :sigh:

I don't think there's anything more pathetic than treating the act of having a drink as an actual event :nah:

Reply 15

Victor Drazen

goldlock

no mate, I didn't say people who do that are trying to be adults, I'm saying people who drink those drinks despite hating them are the ones trying to move to adulthood

Oh right, silly me. :smile:

Reply 16

goldlock

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Playboy King

I hate that too, it starts properly when students get to uni...getting excited over things that are just pathetic, who the hell treats drinking as an actual event? :facepalm:

drinking is to accompany something you do, socialising whatever...but moronic students get orgasms over the freedom and start going crazy, almost as if they think they're rebels of some sort :sigh:

I don't think there's anything more pathetic than treating the act of having a drink as an actual event :nah:

Yeah, drinking for the sake of drinking rather than socialising or whatever :frown:

Reply 17

yosrush

12

Lol... coffee... tastes vile.

Reply 18

Smeh

14

I just really like coffee...
But I do understand what you're saying though.
I do find people actually are more mature when they get cars though *shrugs*