I was a bit of a swot and very quiet until about 3rd year (not sure what that equates to in today's money). In 4th year I grew taller and lost puppy fat and became much more confident. In 5th year I was a womanising show off who spent lunch breaks in the girls' powder room – with their consent of course. I was hoisted out a few times by irate female teachers. I thought I was the top comedian too – "entertaining" the pupils and teachers alike with my observations and anecdotes.
If I could observe myself in 5th year mode today, I'd say I was a right arrogant ****t!

I like to think I have mellowed over the years and become a more pleasant, less grating person.

It was fun though back then. I never, ever wagged school…

i am Neil from the inbetweeners

And the puppy full-grown-hound fat is back again.

😉

the quiet one who turned out to be a bit mental when he hit 16 and discovered beer and women

quiet and goody-two-shoes, despite the smoking.

Didnt study particularly hard but sailed through to a good Uni on an ability to appear quite bright if I was interested in the subject. A chorister, good rifle shot and hockeyist.

Didnt know what to do with girls until I was 19 though. Made up for that at university.

So, you were quite the attention whore back then too?

So, you were quite the attention whore back then too?

That's a bit harsh on Stoner.

A chorister, good rifle shot and hockeyist.

😆 posh boy!

Bright top sets but a gobbby opinionated nutter who got expelled *…I would like to say I have grown up and learnt my lesson but …..

I discovered girls before 4th year

* who would have though there were rules about setting off air bomb fireworks inside the school building during lessons. It really did sound like the building had been blown up and I new it was coming.

but sailed through to a good Uni

Thats breeding for you and going to the right [private ]school eh

Didnt study particularly hard but sailed through to a good Uni on an ability to appear quite bright if I was interested in the subject. A chorister, good rifle shot and hockeyist.

Apart from the singing, that could have been me.

Oh, and except for the beer, girl chasing and occasional class b consumption.

A knob (though obviously I thought I was fine)! 🙂

Voted, I learned a few years ago, "most likely to become a heroin addict by age 20" by the teachers!
Given the quality of classmates, that's a hell of a statement…

brainiac wimp 🙂

I was much cleverer than anyone else without trying (small rural school). I got called a swot, but really never did a jot of work 🙂

Outspoken and confident in myself but utterly failed to get along with anyone until I learned more about interacting with people, and my classmates reached the age of 14 or so 🙂

Also a bit troubled and dissatisfied with life intellectually and geographically..

So basically just like now except that I have a loving wife 🙂

oh f*ck, I've just discovered I'm SFB 🙁

Everything I enjoyed at school – English, Geology, History, Geography etc – was simply an extension of a childhood spent running (and later biking) around the woods n' hills of Somerset.

I then went on to a better university than Stoner. 😉

Junkyard – you're my hero. Letting off an air bomb inside the school. Top marks old boy!

I'm the one on the far right. I'll let you decide what I was like 🙂

(PS not the arse BTW!)

Since when was Geography an extension of biking around hills?

The practically silent fat geek in the corner with the side parting and comedy NHS free specs. Reasonably academic, had small group of friends, otherwise horrifically insecure. Sheer mass made the only sport I was any good at was Rugby, in which I usually just smashed into people, as I was half blind from having to remove my specs. I also quite liked cross country running, as we got into the proper hills round Church Stretton and as I knew the area it didn't bother me that I was about 4 miles behind everybody else. My dad also used to get me out on my bike, which I loved. It eventually became my only release from the snooze-ville we lived in, and really my bike was my only friend, out into the wilds for days at an end. Sad *unt aren't I? At school I just kinda lived for science.

Got to sixth form and the first year was more of the same, only no uniform so some really horrific fashion choices were aired, until I discovered music, got some really good mates, decided that I wanted to get into MTBs in a big way, and started sporting the skate shoes, huge jeans and MTB T shirt look. Cut hair, got contact lenses, discovered hair gel. I even managed to get a girlfriend before I went to Uni. Go me!

little ginger kid who everyone bullied .

Since when was Geography an extension of biking around hills?

No better way of exploring a landscape than crashing face first into it… 8)

Swatty yup at "posh" school then moved to a Cornwall comp aged 14 and had to rapidly fight my way to popularity at the expense of exam grades.

Then surfing and women became an interest and suddenly I was a bit of a rebel.

Oh well.

Lazy

Geography in our school was nothing to do with landscapes, but more to do with waffling stupidly obvious stuff about nothing at all.

Dunno really I was never there much, when I was there I was usually on report for fighting with other pupils or arguing with teachers who were not very bright/bloody corduroy wearing middle class ponces who insisted on reading Tolkien to us.

Passed the exams for a private school, that was worse, got suspended constantly.left. never look back.

LOL @ ADH – would never have figured that knowing you now. Funny how people turn out different to how they were as kids.

I liked school typically finding it interesting but pretty easy (sorry, it's true) but went to a pretty academic school so didn't really get labelled a swot.

Pretty sociable though definitely not in the cool set as I was much more interested in sports (well rowing specifically) and models (the radio-controlled type 😉 ) until 16 or so when I started to get a bit more interested in socialising with the other sex…

I really hated school, it being something I was made to do instead of what I wanted to do.

Doing the minimum to get by, as such my grades weren't amazing but just above average and good enough to get me into 6th form and then uni which I've just finished with hopefully a First 😀

In year 8-9 I was quite outgoing and I daresay popular, but year 10-11 onwards I've got a lot shyer for some reason. Since losing a load of weight recently some of the confidence has returned but its not like it used to be!

I was a swotty geek – and the bullies victim one of a small group of similar who banded together,

Somewhere about 15 suddenly became coolish – a result of being sporty and being able to speak to the girls.

Young, gifted and awesome…….

I was very bad – got into fights several times and played up badly.

On one particular day I recall setting off a fire extinguisher, smashing a plate glass door insert (by sliding a piece of marble up a marble floor – that really flew) and throwing a condom filled with water at the school matron. My head of year was not happy with me. I told more than one teacher to F off and bunked off quite regularly.

Then I got into the sixth form and got my head down a little (enough to get me into art college) and started to behave more like a normal person.

got into fights several times

Really? I'm very surprised 😉

Funny how people turn out different to how they were as kids.

Very nice of you to say so clubber, but I really don't see many differences in myself 🙂 Maybe a little less mass and fairly secure in myself.

Me and the boys

Conscientious and got good grades as a result…except A level chemistry! At primary school I was mischievous and often got sent to the head, but I was rarely in trouble at secondary school. Usually got involved in everything and anything going even if I had no real talent (cricket, drama, football). Got to Uni and realised I wasn't that special and – despite a good 2:1 – haven't really applied myself since. What a waste 😆

it being something I was made to do instead of what I wanted to do

I think I work better in those circumstances…I should have joined the army

Really? I'm very surprised

Little man syndrome (I was always the smallest kid in the year) – I had to prove I wasn't gonna be messed with so I stood my ground when being confronted by bigger kids. It generally worked fortunately (I hated fighting and it was generally a victim of circumstance)

just the same……….but a bit bigger. 😆 bigger now that is.

crap at academic stuff, good at sport.

Complete swot, annoying, know it all that always raised her hand first and did any extra activity that was available.

That said I did fall off the rails big time in my early 20's and have become more normal since then

I was great at all sports other than cricket and football, which were the main ones we did. I was a lot better than the others at athletics tho. Should've been a sprinter.. or at least a rugby player.