Joined: 6 Aug 2021 Gender: Male Posts: 90 Location: Portland, OR
22 Sep 2021, 8:52 pm
DeepHour wrote:
I don't miss anything about the 1990s.
The 1970s were great though, and the 80s were okay on the whole.
Okay, Gen Xer!
Though, in your defense, the 70s had some great music aside from disco. Not sure why it ever became so popular.
Fixxer wrote:
oh god.... "everything".
It was just a great way of life, just like my parents said the 70s were to them. A great time to be alive in the 90s!!
I couldn't agree more! The kids of Gen Alpha don't know what they missed out on! Not that it was their fault.
Other things I miss about the 90s: -Zombies Ate My Neighbor -the commercials -my Dachshund dog Oscar -no hashtag bs -Dizzy Grizzlies -the slang -Are You Afraid of the Dark & Goosebumps -People didn't swear as much back then as they do now -Going to the bank's drive-thru (sometimes they would give us kids a cookie) -Enjoying Slurpees at 7/11 -Lunchables (I know there still around, but they're no longer desirable) -Getting a lollipop after a haircut at the barber's -Going to Beverly's Crafts for crafting supplies -California was one of the most coveted places to live (At least to me it did. Not so much now, but I regret ever leaving.) -Getting cards at Valentine's Day -Good Tree House of Horror specials and how they actually aired in time for Halloween! (Not a Sunday late or several weeks too early.)
Speaking of commercials, I do miss the ones they had for Halloween! It's coming up already, which is one of the times I get most nostalgic! Halloween used to be great, but I've notice it has been on a decline since 2001 (post-9/11).
Here is one compilation of 90s era Halloween commercials I could find:
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Joined: 6 Sep 2006 Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 7,716 Location: Moved on
22 Sep 2021, 9:32 pm
When people weren't of the attitude, "If you have nothing to hide, you don't have to worry about the government spying on you". Heavy privacy invasion and unusual mass acceptance of it wasn't a thing.
You're considered strange now if you don't use computers and the internet for socialising, whereas before it was considered nerdy/geeky to do so. I miss the old days where there wasn't heavy reliance and insistence by everyone to use social media, including for real life gatherings. Use a f*cking phone. And don't f*cking add people to Facebook and don't talk to them, it's messed up. Did anyone ever used to swap numbers and then not answer their calls?! No. I seriously can't stand it, it does my head in.
Bizz ice cup things from Walls, cola flavour. Casper the Ghost bubblegum flavour ice lollies. Taco ice-creams, I think by Nestle or Walls. Screwball ice creams. Penny sweets. Crisps were 30p, so was a chocolate bar. A can of Coke too I think.
When search engines showed hundreds or thousands of pages of results instead of filtering 99.9% of it out. When their results were more accurate too.
Big Breakfast TV show (I admit, I hardly remember it). Live & Kicking children's show. SMTV:Live with Ant & Dec.
Various kids cartoons/shows. Some of them were actually crap though, when I've re-watched them since. They can be incredibly boring, or depressing compared to todays cartoons.
Joined: 27 Oct 2014 Age: 39 Gender: Non-binary Posts: 25,184 Location: Right over your left shoulder
22 Sep 2021, 9:52 pm
Jib wrote:
the 70s had some great music aside from disco. Not sure why it ever became so popular.
Without repeating complaints made by boomer rock critics, what exactly is wrong with disco?
It's fun music that makes people want to dance and have a good time, that's why it became so popular. It only lost popularity in America due to a backlash from homophobic young men who didn't think music was real unless it spoke only to them.
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23 Sep 2021, 8:35 am
I actually liked disco in the 70s. I wouldn't have admitted that to most kids in my high school, though. Some of it "sucked," so I do believe, partially, what was said on the "Disco Sucks" tee shirts.
I was an adult in the 1990s. Not-so-great stuff happened to me during that decade. I feel no "nostalgia" for it. If I were a kid in the 90s, then maybe I might feel nostalgic.