Posters are a necessity growing up. You didn't have the disposable income to invest in quality prints but you felt the bizarre and compelling need to express yourself via wall dressings.

The problem was, if you were anything like we were, your 16-year-old self was a moron. And as such, the posters they chose to adorn their 16-year-old bedrooms were awful, and retrospectively, intensely embarrassing.

The thing is, posters have an uncanny ability to hang around. Turn your back on them and all of a sudden you're 24 and they're still hanging there like a window into your freakish adolescent mind and worse still they can make girls think you're not a good catch, that you're a flake, a goon, a git -- basically someone they'd rather not copulate with.

It's an emerging problem and we've decided to help you by compiling a definitive gallery of posters you should no longer have in your bedroom and we even roped in relationship expert, Adele Forrest, to tell us why girls would hate them.



All images courtsey of AllPosters and GBPosters