What do you miss about the 90s

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

Oh where to start.....

Smoking in pubs and clubs.
Taking pictures and waiting for a week for them to be developed, then meeting up with mates to laugh at the pics.

Waiting a week for the next episode of your favourite programme.

Calling mates and having long conversations on the phone.

Being able to park your car anywhere in cental London and not get a parking ticket!

Proper dancing in clubs and raves.

I miss what Ian Brown describes at 4:56 here. There seems to be way more division nowadays.

There's nothing at 4.56?

It's great this thread is still going. Such happy times. I've got a bunch of party photos from then, I think I'm going to digitise and do a bit of wall art with them!

4.56?

Oops Go to 1:50!

In other news this app is getting right on my nerves now

I was absolutely born in the wrong era. Loved the 90s but I was a child to teen. I'd have loved to have been an adult then. No internet, no phones. Loved blockbuster video nights, I can still smell the popcorn 😂 and miss the movies too! But I miss the feedom really. So much has been lost there, due to safety and by being absorb into the digital world. I used to climb trees and roam around quite freely. This wont be true for my children sadly.

Does anyone remember when little plastic dummies on necklaces were cool??

Ah, yes, I miss that! What a great way to express it.

i was a teen to early twenties in the 90s and oh what a time to be young.
I miss the hedonism. The music. The raves. The nights down town. The lack of internet (though in some ways I do love it too). The optimism. The freedom. Again, the music. My parents not being able to track me on a smartphone 😂

I remember my friend's girlfriend wearing one and his dad being

Except it was a proper full sized dummy!

Really enjoyed reading this - brings back memories. I was an older child/teen in 90's and as someone said upthread, I would have loved to have been a bit older and enjoyed rave culture and have been to London jn the 90's when there was real culture and creativity there. Everything has been gentrified and it has made it all very staid.

I was a rebellious teen and agree there was real optimism when Labour came in during the 90's. In hindsight I hate Tony Blair, but I felt at the time I might have a chance of having a decent life. I feel that has gone for me and my kids now. I drank and experimented with all sorts at quite a young age, and even though young adults are now more sensible and switched on I think there is less innocence now. I think the forces than run this world seem a lot more darker and sinister (shit way of explaining, but similar to that).

I think 90/91 was such a diverse year for music. There was those hypercolour t-shirts, citrus coloured clubbing clothes and everything was just cheaper (apart from clothes and luxury items), so things were more accessible on alow income. I could get to town on the bus for 35p! There wasn't overstyled botoxed 19 year old that make themselves look like sex androids. Dressing up was fun.

Not sure if this is early 00's but I miss the Matrix, This Life, Eurotrash and foam parties!!

Being 30!

I miss the pre digital innocence and privacy.
But why hate Tony Blair?
I don’t. He reduced child poverty, poured cash into an MHS that was on its knees, said his priority was education education education. All things I would vote for now. Brown saved us from the economic meltdowns of the Tories and gave us steady growth. They were talented politicians and not just asset strippers.

It was a tale of two halves I think suitcase. I was still quite young in the 90's so not very politically aware. I think he did great things for families but I was still poor and my mum worked crazy hours, and I can't forgive him for the Iraq war, but yes, that era of politics I really miss. Now it is just utterly depraved and embarrassing. No decency at all. The tories are just vultures picking at a carcass of a country now.

It is incredibly sad reading this and realising that we all feel like the country and world has gone to shit. Maybe it is just middle age? Why are we putting up with this shit?

I miss everything. It was a time filled with optimism and happiness. I feel a real sense of loss that all that has been lost.

We were happy for the time we were in too, it wasn't just a case of looking to the future.

as for Tony Blair - pros and cons everywhere. But even then, he was the one who decided to create London as a housing market like Monte Carlo, the source of most of our problems. He said after his premiership that his biggest regret was creating the Freedom of Information legislation.

I met him twice in his premiership and once after. People change, but I genuinely don't think he began as a megalomaniac.

anyway, I'm still going to write that 90s memoir but there will be no politics. Wish I had more photos of places though.

Does anyone know if the Stockpot and West End Kitchen still exist in original greasy spoon format btw?

The Stockpot doesn't. ☹️

I miss my youth and my figure! And being young, free and single. And my dad. And David Bowie. And not being bombarded with data and messages and information constantly.

My age

Thanks Ibiza

I turn off any data and information I can. It finds you anyway but I have been surprised how many people get news alerts on their phone etc.

University. Summers on the beach in Crete whilst pretending to have a job in a cousins restaurant there. Being properly in love for the first time.
The music, the optimism, the feeling that as a country we were in a good place and the Tories were old and tired and gone forever....got that one wrong!

Cough) I can't exactly say flowing dresses with DMs, because we're now in 2023 and I still haven't given them up ...

Me neither 👍

I was a child in the 90s. I miss watching my older brothers & sisters getting ready to go to the local night clubs listening to 2Funky2 brothers & sisters. My brothers in their Ben Sherman shirts lol & my sisters ironing their hair. I used to be so jealous.

I also miss getting a quid off my mum or dad & going out all day with my mates.