To miss the 90’s so much it hurts

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😫It was the best.

The Rachel green outfits post has reminded me of it all. I was 15/16/17 early-mid 90’s and it was just the best time. Just about scraped in for the times when clubs were good with house music etc, Blur vs Oasis and the whole Brit pop thing. Proper pubs with pool tables and drinking and smoking, great clothes, jobs more easily available, great music. I know we all probably hanker to the time that was our youth…but really, truly, weren’t the early-mid nineties an amazing time..freedom, no internet/mobiles..if only to go back for a bit.

YANBU!! Life before the internet was so good!!

@Soproudoflionesses It really was! But was it all just about no internet?

Watch Derry Girls!

Yeah agree. Great music. House parties. Hours on the phone to my friends with my parents trying to get me off. Dashing to the phone to beat your dad to it if a boy might be ringing you. Clubbing for the first time. Happy days.

Yanbu. I want to go back too 😫

Where’s the tardis when you need one 😩

The best times! And also as PP said - no social media / internet. I’m so glad those times weren’t recorded ! I was the same age OP and absolutely loved it and also feel my children won’t have the same experience of teenage years and early 20s as I did. It’s just not the same three days!

I miss being young and pretty and free. So yes, I miss the 90's

Anyone else watching the second season of White Lotus? I'm not sure if she reminds me of someone specific but the PA seems lifted straight from 1997 to me, made me feel weirdly nostalgic.

Same. Listen to Vernon Kay 90’s on bbc sounds.

I’d go back if I could; there was such a feeling of optimism then…

I feel you! I miss the late 80s and early 90s - they were the best times of my life.

Me toooo, best time of my life in terms of just carefree fun!

I work on an underwear department and young girls come in and say'I couldn't wear that it looks uncomfortable' I think, unless the padding is coming out your wonder bra and your thong is like cheesewire above your jeans, how do you even know you are alive??

Miss it too. Friday nights we played pool, could barely see in the pub through the smoke! Good times

Oh me too! We really did believe anything was possible and we could do anything we wanted. I really miss that.

42 year old here. The mid to late 90s were brilliant. No responsibilities. Brilliant music. Flares and big second hand fur collared coats. Comfy converse. Marlboro lights. Hooch. Inappropriate liaisons. Portishead. CDs. My so called life. Blur. Pulp. Oasis.

My daughter is 14 and nearly the age I was mid nineties and is having a brilliant time. So maybe it's just being that age, independence and enjoying life before the drudgery of work and domestic shit sets in.

I often miss the 90s!

I was in my 20s then, did Uni, lived in Spain for a bit, then Germany for a year, then settled in England. There were jobs after Uni. We could (just) afford rent, there was a sense of optimism and it felt like racism, sexism and homophobia were on the way out

Maybe that was just an illusion but there was a real sense of optimism and life improving

Yeah agree, but not with the jobs thing. I graduated in 1993 and couldn't even get a job in a cake shop; I had to sign on. I think there are lots more jobs today. My ds thinks it's normal that he can leave one job and walk into another, just like that. Maybe late 90s was different but the job situation was dire in the early 90s.

As PPs said; it was the sense of optimism. We'd just joined Europe properly and the world was opening up. I went to France after uni to work as an au pair and it just felt like the barriers were coming down and there were lots of exciting opportunities in all these new countries.

Oh I totally agree. I was at Uni 92-96 and some.of my best memories are dancing in the union to a weird mix of indie and dance. Seeing Oasis, U2, REM live in stadia just awesome. Friends, ER and the West Wing all first time round. Still some of my fave shows and Absolute 90's my go-to station. Short skirts, DM's and baggy tops. A Labour government and hope towards the end too. The 90's rule

YANBU!! Life before the internet was so good!!

No. The late 90s early 2000s was the sweet spot. Internet at home for crazy online chats, weird forums, and playing video games with your mates - but no adverts and online mega corporations dominating the landscape or social media messing with kids minds. And as soon as you went outside you were free if it completely.

I think there were some dark times in the early 90s, think trainspotting, impoverished estates etc but it did get so much better after May 1997 (not a Blair voter/fan but I can still be objective!)

Real sense of hope.

Amazing music. British music. Working class music. Dancing. No photos. 50p drinks. Wonderbras, platforms and mini skirts.

Ibiza holidays for £200. Jobs with full time hours. No uni fees.

Magazines: 19, company, bliss, sugar, more, mizz, scarlet, new woman, eve.

Pride and prejudice on TV and that scene. Friends series cliffhangers. Going to huge cinema screens with full audiences and seeing event original films like titanic, speed, Jurassic park, new star wars, Forrest gump, independence day.

I believe mid 90’s was the sweet spot.

Everything just seemed better…Def music, that’s the biggie, the rave/house scene was just so special…indie etc. Even tv shows..My so called life, Blossom, Wonder years, Fresh Prince, Friends…I always imagine if there’s a heaven…it’s set in the 90’s …but I need my Dd there with me too, I even feel sad she didn’t experience it with me..I wonder what her teenage years will be like
We could enjoy ourselves without everything being bad for us, it wasn’t rammed down our throats, it was just fun, massive fun

Yes, the films were great then too…barely anything captures my interest now, so many films were so good then..is it just me? How can so many things have gone downhill 🤷🏻‍♀️