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Original poster

To think the 90s was only the other day and dd should not think it's retro

183 replies

Fannia · 01/02/2020 21:11

The 60s is retro, right?

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BoredOfTheBoard · 01/02/2020 21:13

I agree with your DD. The 90s were at least 20 years ago. Yes, it makes me feel old tooSad

geekone · 01/02/2020 21:13

I would like to think this also but the 60s was retro in the 90s so the 90s are retro in the 10s.

Leave me while I sob uncontrollably at that realisation.

geekone · 01/02/2020 21:13

20s bloody hell not 10s

hula008 · 01/02/2020 21:14

Well they were 20-30 years ago - I think that clothing or music from the 90s is retro.

TheThingWithFeathers · 01/02/2020 21:14

Yep! As you say, the 90s were just yesterday.

Tink2007 · 01/02/2020 21:14

sobs

TeetotalKoala · 01/02/2020 21:14

The 90s were yesterday. Retro my arse. 60s/70s. That's retro.

LadyLooLaa · 01/02/2020 21:15

All my students think the 90s are retro and cool. They think I was lucky to be a teenager in the 90s. I mean, it was alright but it wasn’t iconic in the way they seem to think it was.

TeetotalKoala · 01/02/2020 21:15

Wishing I'd hung onto my awful 90s clothes now. I'd be so on trend.

bellinisurge · 01/02/2020 21:16

When I was in my teens in the early 80s the 60s was retro so, why not.

Original poster
Fannia · 01/02/2020 21:16

She told me 00s style is coming back into fashion the other day and age likes watching 'old shows' from the 00s.

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1Morewineplease · 01/02/2020 21:16

Yes indeed... 90s was the week before last!
Writing 2020 is alien to me , though, like it belongs to that sci-fi series of the 70s, ‘UFO’
The 60s, however, was a good 5 years ago now.
Retro , to me, is the 1930s!
Think I’ll get my Ovaltine now.

LangClegsOpinionIsNoted · 01/02/2020 21:17

The 90s were yesterday. Everybody knows this. Gavel!!!

DobbyTheHouseElk · 01/02/2020 21:18

O0’s style? I’m still wearing it.

AlwaysCheddar · 01/02/2020 21:18

I voted YANBU but then realised the 90’s were 20-30 years ago..... OMG I feel very old now!! And so therefore, YABU!!!

LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 01/02/2020 21:20

Ahh the days of Oasis vs Blur and wearing satin slips with DMs... it was just a few years ago

Supersimkin2 · 01/02/2020 21:22

I blame these so-called 'GCSE's', young whippersnappers can't count. 90s was still around when I started writing this post. The 70s, mind....

june2007 · 01/02/2020 21:23

To my 12 year old I am sure 90,s is a long time a go.

yeraballoon · 01/02/2020 21:24

Urrgghhh

checkingforballoons · 01/02/2020 21:25

It’s only 2001, they can’t be retro

woodhill · 01/02/2020 21:26

Yes it's all relative - 80s teenager being into 60s music and clothes and going up to Carnaby Street.

I feel really oldSmile

FancyPants20 · 01/02/2020 21:27

Old shows from the 00s? Sorry, Op, I know she's your daughter and everything, but she can fuck right off with that kind of chat. weeps

wonderstuff · 01/02/2020 21:28

My dd described music from 95 as 'old fashioned' I was outraged, then I worked out that it was 12 years before she was born, 12 years before I was born it was 1967; if you're a kid the 90s were a long time ago.

DappledThings · 01/02/2020 21:30

The 90s was only 10 years ago. Fact.

Crockof · 01/02/2020 21:31

Agreed. 90s were actually only yesterday.