to Ask your terrible advice from the 1990’s - early 2000s

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Aibu to ask you to cast your mind back and give the advice you would have in the late 90’s

Here’s mine...

Want to lose weight? Eat what you want during the week and take recreational drugs at the weekend, it’s like the 5:2

Have frizzy hair! Not to worry, some John Frieda, and iron, and a brown paper bag will sort it.

Worried your dp has been faffing you around and cheating? If he says @you were on a break” all is ok

@frenchfancie oh yes! Used to go to the 70s nights in Newcastle too. Rolling back into college in full 70s garb at 3am whilst everyone else was on the car park for a fire alarm....been there, done that!!

Another Durham one. When you go to Klute, be sure to use your free police UV security marker to draw all over yourself and your mates. Looks great. Honest. Then go to the dirty shop up the road for pizza. It's fine. It's not at all a health hazard 🤪

Was it a Thursday night on the boat that was £7 entry and all drinks free? There were conditions like only one drink at a time, halves not pints, and no doubles or shots but it was such a cheap night out. Then walk across the Swing Bridge to get to the take away and taxi rank next to Jimmy's and the Quilted Camel. There was usually always a busker on the bridge, a little burger cart, and a homeless man. He would end up with a million burgers as everyone seemed to buy him one on their way past. I wasn't a big fan of the boat, it always smelled like feet and the carpet in the top bar was forever sticky.

Any other North Easties remember Baja Beach Club? Broadcast live on Metro Radio every Friday night.

@Middersweekly i remember the flares!!they used to wick the water up too, so if it wasa particularly wet day your jeans would be soaked halfway up your legs or more.

Christ. So much drug taking, I’m kind of glad I had my kids in my late teens and didn’t destroy my brain!

I’m kind of glad I had my kids in my late teens and didn’t destroy my brain!

Whose brain is destroyed?

I'm kind of glad I had my kids in my late 20s/early 30s and enjoyed my youth without the responsibility of a family but different strokes for different folks, eh?

I don’t regret the drug taking for a second- irresponsible, stupid but makes for great memories. Aware that I could’ve been singing a very different tune had I been unlucky but raving in the middle of a freezing field in a neon bra was definitely enhanced by substances

@ChidiAnnaKendrick er, excuse me Mrs Sanctimonious, I'm fully compos mentis thanks very much.
Yes I enjoyed my youth, possibly a little too much at times, but I feel for the boring types whose only goal was to get knocked up asap and be mundane and suburban.
We actually had a pisstake funeral for a mate who got knocked up and married off as we were so gutted to lose a good mate to mediocrity.

My advise would be do not regularly

Go to school on a friday
Go to work
Go straight out from work
Get home at 6.30/7am
Go to work all day
Go straight out from work
Get in at 6.30/7am
Go to work
Go straight out after work
Get home at pub closing (which was earlier on Sundays)
Finally bathe, sleep, get up and go to school

Don't drink Thunderbirds 🤮

Or k cider!

Tan towels were great though 😁

Anyone remember the radio station ‘Atlantic 252?’

Oh, I definitely fried my brain and wouldn’t change those years for anything! No social media, dancing until 6 am, coming home at sunrise etc..in fact, if I could go back I’d do it twice as much and for longer 😅

I listen to longwave radio Atlantic 252

Hadn't thought about that for years!

Yes, I remember Atlantic 252. I had one of those dual tape deck radio cassette players (with fast-dubbing - yay!) and I put stickers on the radio frequency bar so I could quickly find my favourite stations (no digital presets in those days).

I don't remember Atlantic 252, but I do know that to get Kiss FM back in the early to mid nineties, I had to tie wire and a pair of scissors down onto the floor from the aerial of my ghetto blaster () to pick it up. It was a bright yellow and neon pink tape deck radio from Boots which I got for Christmas in about 1987. I was still using that into 2002, even when the front of the tape deck came off, and we had to use a butter knife to get the tapes out.
Such was our reliance on it, that when it was nearly knocked from the window ledge of my third floor flat by my sister, who was sat next to it on the window ledge, my (now) DH grabbed the lead of the tape deck and not my sister. She was most unimpressed that she had had to grab the curtain to stop herself falling out. Our defence of "but the tunes!' did not help. I almost think that was the moment I knew he was a keeper.
I do have old tapes of Green Apple FM, and DH used to be on Mystery FM as a DJ. You can probably find old ones of that station online though.

I used to listen to Atlantic 252 on my old karaoke machine, that worked by putting a tape in and reading the lyrics from a little yellow card.

My choice of song was probably you can't hurry love no you just have to wait she said love don't come easy, it's a game of give and take or ain't going to need the house no longer ain't going to need this house no more, ain't got time to fix the windows, ain't got time to fix the doors.

Occasionally I would have a blast at da do run run run da do run run. Ahhh such fun.

Slightly ashamed that most of you are talking about your teenage years here. Having spent most of the 90s knee deep in nappies I hit my mid thirties in 2000, lost a ton of weight, went out clubbing in hipster flares and crop tops, got my belly button pierced and had a tattoo of my chinese birth year on my back, a yin yang tramp stamp and a tribal design on my tummy. I blame HEAT magazine. I still love my belly button piercing btw even at the age of 54....

Ahhh my people!!! This is the best thread ever!!!!

Bagleys!!!!!!!!! Say no more!!! It’s a travesty what they’ve turned it into a bloody Caravan - yuk!

Strawpedo 99p Reefs In Wetherspoons

Buy 10 B&H between 4 of us, in our school uniform from the corner shop!

Getting train back to our town after a night out and everyone smoking and drinking on the train. Old style train doors and windows and many people sticking their heads out of the windows!!!

Just not having any idea about makeup at all - regularly apply foundation precisely only on face and have a nice tide mark round your neck.

I was never allowed the platform kickers - sad times!

Oh yeah!!! And reading More position of the week and literally having no idea what it meant

@frenchiefancie @belindasgleeteam @venger Yes to the Tuxedo Royale/Princess and the 70s & 80s nights in Newcastle - Buz Club, Planet Earth and The Village...

Another avid Atlantic252 listener here. My '93 mix tape recorded off the radio is an absolute classic

There was a cheap cocktail bar in Nottingham- not sure what was in the cocktails but you got pissed on £10 then went clubbing fuelled by speed and Es.
Had a lovely pair of knee length lace up platform boots that I used to end up sleeping in regularly as couldn't work out laces when I was still off my head getting in at 730am.
So off my head one weekend didn't realise the pain in my ankle wasn't from a blister caused by knee high boots it was actually a broken ankle! The boots on all weekend were very supportive!

Planet Earth! I was round the back of The Gate earlier today showing DC the old walls/Black Friars, it's all gone these days. Also what used to be Flares, the 70s bar, is now a 90s bar. What was the one inside the Newgate Shopping centre, downstairs, and the staff wore swimwear?

Did you hear they're turning the Guildhall into a Hard Rock cafe?

Furry boots with low rise mini skirt - basically boob tube for the arse. After a night in a night club chewing your face off on E they looked like Yorkshire terrier dragged through a ditch.