18 stupid things people did to look cool when they were younger

Remember that time Gordon Brown claimed to like the Arctic Monkeys? Or when David Cameron started rolling his sleeves up and telling people to call him “Dave”? Or when Theresa May did anything ever? All those are simply proof that politicians are humans and will try to look cool, and fail – just like the rest of us.

Over on Reddit, someone named MinimumPlastic asked

“What stupid things did you do when you were younger to try to look cooler?”

Within hours, the question had hundreds of answers, proving what we already suspected – there are a lot of idiots in the world. Here are 18 answers we thought perfectly illustrated why you should never try to look cool.

There was a whole lotta fakin’ going on.

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Some of it was just odd behaviour.

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