What do you miss about the 90s

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

I've just watched Spike Island on Iplayer .., nostalgia aplenty including lads with curtains and Emilia Clarke rocking dungarees. And of course Stone Roses

Happy days

Were you there in 1990???? I love the stone roses, my first single was sally cinnamon. I saw them live for the first time in Berlin in 1995. Was there on a student engineering field trip, dancing to "I am the Resurrection" at the Metropol absolutely off my tits and then walked for hours from the venue back to my hotel in east Berlin via the Brandenburg gate in the wee hours feeling more alive then I can remember.

The tunes!

You're twisting my melon man

Dances no but I wish! Your night sounds incredible though!

Sorry Danse rather. Typing without my specs

Hell yeah!

Everything that has already been said! The 90s were my whole teens and my very early 20s, so it was all just MY YOUTH and it was great 😊

Growing up without social media, with limited mobile phone use (although there was a bizarre trend for pagers among my friends in the mid 90s?!) and without a gazillion channels of entertainment and information constantly streaming at you - there was just so much more of a sense of freedom than today’s young people have.

I went to Ibiza with my friends aged 17.. We got a Teletext package for 140 quid, went away with a few bikinis in our suitcase , minimal cash and hired mopeds and blagged into raves and it was spectacular. Sent a postcard to my Mum but didn’t speak to her for a fortnight other than that.

It would probably be some sort of safeguarding incident now. And we’d probably spend the whole time posting filtered pics on Instagram zzzzzz.

Cadbury’s that tasted nice
Shout then Sugar magazine when I got a bit older
Spectacular nail varnish
No social media
Saturday night tv - Big Break, Generation Game, Blind Date, Gladiators
Playing outside for hours and hours in the summer
The music
The Spice Girls and girl power
Hair mascara
Wearing khaki combat trousers and vest tops
Gino Ginelli toffee ice cream

Ah, the days when Cadbury's Dairy Milk tasted delicious and had a perfect mouth-feel.

Don't forget the Curly Wurley's!

I’m reading a book called ‘Faster than a Cannonball - 1995 and All That’ by Dylan Jones at the moment, which consists of interviews and writing about the 90s, culturally, and is both interesting and the biggest nostalgia trip ever.

There’s a section about Pulp at Glastonbury in 1995 - I was at Glastonbury that year and I’ve always wondered why I didn’t see them, but the book says Portishead were on at the same time and I would have gone to that instead. Good times indeed.

Anyone remember the cover for Sorted for E’s and Wizz which showed you how to make a speed wrap?!

I loved the silver metallic one, it was bloody amazing and the dark purple called Morticia...

Silver Cloud? God I loved that one!

Double Decker bars when they still had raisins in the biscuity bit.

Not sure if Sega Mega Drive was mentioned especially the 2nd edition and the original PlayStation also the Gameboy Color. Many hours spent playing Worms, Crash Bandicoot and bring terrified of facing wolves in Tomb Raider 🫣.

Also the classics on Nickelodeon like Doug, Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Kenan and Kel!

Pre mobile phone time.
Youth and optimism

I still wear Tommy Girl now, and CK One, clinging to a bygone age!

NAF NAF and Juice jackets
The boys wore Raiders
White musk and Vanilla from The body shop

Posters on my bedroom walls. Horses from Horse and Pony Magazine when I was younger, Backstreet Boys from Shout magazine when I was a teenager. Is it me or do kids not put posters on their walls any more?

I miss it all, 90s grunge clothes, a particular pair of biker boots I had with a square stiched toe, so wish I still had them, my uni friends (93 - 97) a Labour government funding the NHS. Music, TV programmes, not feeling anxious, speaking everyday to my dad

Oh and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing. People don't have as much social contact these days and don't laugh as much. Its food for the soul.

United Colours of Benneton

DM boots in different colours

Mixing Diamond White and Castaway to make Blastaway.

Body Shop sold good products… white musk takes me back in time.

Shops that sold joss sticks and hippy clothes…

Attica retro shop in Newcastle

Manumission was so much fun. I remember they did a world city themed series, we made it to the London themed night.

Acupuncture trainers. Watching the Word. Reading The Face.

Probably, I liked that it was a bit textured. It lasted better than most nail varnish and didn't show chips as badly. You could further jazz it up with rainbow glitter top coat.

Ah the memories

The lack of social media.