What do you miss about the 90s

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Watching the x files just now got me thinking about the 90s

The sense of hope and optimism. That and hair mascara of course! 😂

Cadbury’s spiras

Going out when no one had mobile phones.
Pic n Mix.
Spice Girls.
Video Shop.

No mobiles. Good music. Optimism re: govt & future for next generations. TV that everyone watched together! Being 9 stone!

My youth. Great times. Smoking. 🤣

Half a lager and lime for 75p

Everything.

Mitsubishis

The thought that things will get better in the future! (Sorry)

No internet or the internet as it was then.

I feel like so much is unappreciated now because of internet/streaming/online shopping.

Hedonism
A sense of positivity once Labour got in.
Smoking in the pub.
Dancing in fields
Going on holiday with a £130 for 2 weeks to pay for accommodation, food and booze (sleeping on the beach and on roof tops, coming back tanned, skinny and exhausted but so many fun memories).

Mistakenly thinking we lived in a progressive society with a progressive government. The optimism! The night Blair won his first term it all felt so exciting and hopeful. The idea that the country would lurch to the right and vote to leave the EU would have seemed like a dystopian nightmare. We all sang ‘Things Can Only Get Better!’ Oh how naive we were! 😔

My flat stomach 🤣
My parents, my grandparents,
Cars that I could look under a bonnet and actually tinker with. Now everything is run by a computer in the car and I have to take it to the garage. I can't just tinker with it...although I'm guessing of my dad was still around he would still be trying to do it himself.

My roaring twenties 😁

I had a very good time in London in my first graduate jobs. It was a great time to be there, and to be young.

Ahhhh going to blockbusters with your mum and dad and picking a film instead of mindlessly scrolling through Netflix and then falling asleep at 2am as your nightly routine is binging on tv.

Being old enough to walk to woolies with my mates but young enough to want to spend my money on stickers.

Raving.

My figure

All of it! What a time to be a teenager it was.

Warehouse raves, shopping in Camden for vintage clothes, young love, simple makeup, thin eyebrows, good friends, awesome music(indie, Brit pop, house, garage, jungle - I loved it all).

Absolutely everything.

What a wonderful time it was to be young.

The wild optimism. Feeling like times were good and getting better and society was moving in the right direction 😅
just everything feeling upbeat and hopeful.

A decent govt

I was coming to say this. I fucking miss the 90s!

Gosh the nostalgia this thread is giving me.

No social media going out and talking to people not all the pouting insta photos every 5 minutes
Raving and getting drunk and waking up without a hangover that lasts 2 days
A body that works
Great music

Impulse o2.
Cadbury Fuse.
The Clothes Show.
Optimism.
Music uniting people in a completely different way.
Topshop as it was before it went global.
Woolies.
Lack of mobile phones.
Libraries - going to look something up if it wasn’t in your encyclopaedia at home.