God I miss the 90s

[menohnopausal]

That's all I have to say really. <wistful sigh>

I was a teen all throughout the 90s. Yes I listen to some music and feel nostalgic but that's as far as it goes. State of my high school, absolute shite. When I see it now all rebuilt and snazzy in the noughties makes me so bitter! Also the ladette culture did nothing for a quiet girl like me. Rather I was completely overpowered by the loud girls who thought girl power was spitting on other girls. Bullying was absolutely normal and not part of the school agenda. No wellbeing, had a parent pass away during my GCSE year and not one teacher spoke to me to ask how I am doing (no such thing as school counsillor etc). If we didn't aspire to a ladette then it was the skinny supermodels or 'hello boys' wonderbra poster that was hanging over my train station. Oh and walking around in a 'thong tho thong thong thong' was bloody uncomfortable!

Thanks God TOTO are still around. That alone is enough

I will remember

I was at uni in Bristol in the mid 90s and the music was phenomenal as were music venues. Few students had mobile phones, people were less flaky so if you made arrangements you stuck to them. You got eight cans of beer for a fiver. Tony Blair had just got in and there was a huge swell of optimism. I spent a year studying in Berlin as part of my course and it was exciting travelling around Europe making friends. Social media did not exist so societal brain rot had not set in. You met people in pubs, clubs and student events and asked them out on dates. I drove a mostly red shit old fiesta that cost nothing to run but it gave me access to the world (ish). I was happy.

I was too! it was such an amazing time to be living in Bristol back then too. Hitchhiking to Glastonbury and paying security a fiver to climb over/under the fence. Finding your friends from a flag they propped up in the camping areas. Absolutely brilliant.
Alas, I ended up failing my first year at uni because of all this and having to leave, but I have no regrets.

Probably bumped into you in Lakota/Thekla/Blue Mountain 🙌