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.

Ah yes.......... The misogyny wasn't great in the 90s.

Same age, totally different experience. No uni halls for me though.

Yes to analogue! I'm a late adopter but at work there was no choice.

tech is such a problem for me.

pp mentioned Alistair Campbell diaries, no idea this is a thing, but the politicians of the age are such a disappointment, I don't think about them.

I miss old school forums that were practically unreadable because everyone had huge animated signatures with all their favourite song lyrics in 32 different fonts and a ticker countdown to some event that was obviously very exciting to them but no-one else knew what they were talking about.

No coincidence that the 90s ended with a Labour Govt following the only half decent Tory PM ever. The whole of the 90s allowed hope for working people, young people and older people.
No clue why people can't see that over the last 12 years 😞😞

Yes, this. The last 12 years have been a shit show and life feels hopeless. We need to join up the dots here.

I never thought I’d say I miss John Major as a PM! Politics has become a popularity contest with the most powerful just have to get the most attention. Trump and Boris would have been laughed at before they got anywhere near power.

As for misogyny it was pretty grim. But choking during sex was not anywhere near as prevalent as it was now, there were clubs for fetishes and androgyny was a form of fashion, not a badge of identity. My male friends knew that women were more clued up and expected to enjoy sex, they were mostly anxious about not being able to get it up of give their partners orgasms.

My favourite era as being born in 1980 the 90's had so many milestones for me and was pretty much my last carefree decade. Great music, warm summers, Cool Britannia, Euro 96, first kiss, first love, passing my driving test, first job. Only minor irritation was it would be pre-smoking ban but yes I really miss it.

Wondered when a light hearted thread would turn political.

I'm am thrilled that 90s clothes and style is back in. I have gained serious kudos with my DC as I keep a lot of my clothes so they go clubbing in my big velvet coats and tiny T shirts and chunky jewellery <happy sigh> We are just making plans to all buy a long zebra print coat and have equal shares in it (that doesn't sound like a recipe for fighting at all )

In 1994 a lovely BF bought me a (hugely expensive for the time) white velvet short mini dress with black animal print pattern, a satin lining and a zip all the way up the back. It was the most amazing dress I had ever seen. I married the lovely BF and funnily enough I wore the dress last week

I don't let the DC wear The Special Dress but I showed them how to tie dye T shirts and plait their hair into tiny plaits and hold them back with a butterfly clip. The nostalgia was almost painful when I was doing it

God I miss the 90s. Bottle of hooch, or chipped mug of 20/20, or a bottle of Moscow Mule, anyone?

I hear you but I think I just miss being young.

I miss going to Woolworths to buy a new CD, msn Messenger, Mizz and Bliss magazines, amazing music, and things just felt so much more optimistic

Ah MSN Messenger. For all their cool talk I bet kids of today don't know what "a/s/l?" means...

You've put into words what I've never been able to.
Currently having some therapy and we were discussing why I'm not as happy now as I used to be.... just seems like there was so much more to be looking forward to.

YANBU!!

I’ve felt the same way for years. Was the best time. I was born in 1977 so spent my teens and early 20’s in the 90’s.

Music in my car is still 90’s radio stations etc 🤣

I feel like I was dragged away from the 90’s against my will 😂

Yeah , no I was knee deep in nappies so the 90's are a bit of a blur . The 80 's were better .

It’s not just ‘everyone has nostalgia for their youth’. Late 90s there was definitely optimism - a feeling that there might be ups and downs but in general things were getting better.
Now it’s all climate catastrophe, Covid, Brexit, inflation, poverty rising, NHS and other public services crippled by austerity… it feels like we’re just waiting for the next disaster.
When it all gets too much I put my 90s playlist on and pretend to be back there!

Pun not intended? 😂

for me, it's not about youth. Youth just means money stress, career stress, commuting in these shit freezing conditions to work long hours. And I worried so much about shit that didn't matter.

much rather be the age I am. Also, London's population was more manageable, which is such a huge factor in daily quality of life.

Or BRB

There really was. Iron curtain came down, Mandela out of prison. Good things happening that made you feel the world was getting better all the time. We seem to be in a sharp reverse to that now 😞

Funny someone mentioned Louise from Eternal, was at a barbecue and she turned up with a boyfriend on the back of a motorbike...all casual like. Those were the days

Yes. 😍

I am! ☺️

What's ASL and the North America thing please?

I was definitely short changed as as my mid-late teenagehood was 2005-2010.
This was the era where everyone was horribly obsessed with appearance and being thin
Celebrities like Britney Spears were constantly mocked for mental health problems
Phone cameras and social media had just come out and there was the happy slapping and bullying being filmed online.

I was long for the carefree nature good music and simpleness of the 90s or to have grown up in the 2020's where young people have much more of a voice, and look fairly comfortable with themselves in their baggy jeans and big trainers (still having bad memories of trying to cram myself into those god awful body-con dresses in 2010 which rode up into Michelin Man rolls )