What do you miss about the 90s

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

Also this 😂🤣

A woke free world .

Raving. I know it was the drugs, but I have never felt anything like it. The piano. The whistle crew. The feeling of oneness. The smiles. The music taking you away.
I miss it. Too old and knackered now.

Feeling like as a teen, we were allowed and expected to have fun, we didn’t need to worry about not wasting money and saving it for a house. The older generations didn’t relate to us, but we weren’t dismissed as snowflakes etc.
All the waiting: for someone to call, to meet someone, for buses and lifts from parents, for phone boxes, to get cash out. Sitting in field or under a bridge for hours, just chatting.

Everything!

Christmas must have gift hype. The amount of anxiety and then joy that Furby brought me(and my parents). Seeing queues outside The Entertainer when rumours of deliveries were due. People offering to go in and buy someone a second toy as there was a one per person limit but they had two children. Logging into stock check websites and setting mobile alerts is easier but not as much fun.

Falling in love I went through a few serious relationships (I would get bored and move on) yes there were tears but the heady falling in love stage was great

being young, glamours, sexy and gorgeous and I knew it. Living life like Sex and The City (or our versions which wasn’t quite so glamorous) it’s was frivolous but fun

having energy

fun days I was young that’s how it’s meant to be

No mobile phones so when we went to each other’s houses to get ready for a night out we were completely focussed on having fun together as mates and having a laugh. Not all staring at our phones.

Going to all you could drink at the local nightclub for a tenner and coming home shitfaced at 4am.

Spicy spuds with garlic sauce after partaking in the above activity

Using chatrooms to talk to weirdos at school because the IT teacher didn’t know how to block certain websites

Great nights out where you’d start off with your mates and then end up talking to some randoms and then end up joining their group and having a great night even though you’ve got no idea who the hell these people are.

My 19 yr old body

Saturday night tv, Baywatch, Gladiators, Big Break, Noel's House Party, Crystal Maze (can't remember if that was on a Saturday?)

Tammy Girl, Impulse O2, Tommy Girl L'oreal Henna tattoos.

Woolworths CD singles chart, butter flavoured Polos, Cadburys Fuse.

Cinema, Jurassic Park, Titanic, though the year 2000 brought awesome coming of age films too, like American Pie and Road Trip, Scream.

Adidas poppers, handkerchief tops and handkerchief denim bandanas, butterfly clips, dragon shirts.

Britannica encyclopedia on PC, needing to use the library, Goosebumps and Point Horror books.

Bands like B*witched, Backstreet Boys, Hanson, cheesy, catchy, harmless music.

As others have mentioned, an excitement about the upcoming positive future that unfortunately never happened.

The 90's were epic.

Definitely the absence of pouting selfies, as a previous poster mentioned. I find the whole Insta/selfie thing so so grim.

•All the shops that we no longer have.
•Being able to 'live' without the fear of drunkin stupidity ending up plastered all over SM
• sat night tv
• the carefree feeling of coming home from school and watching TV
• platform shoes

My mums green stripped safeways uniform- I thought it looked incredible (my mum did not!)

Watching chatterhappy ponies whilst flicking through the argos catalogue for Christmas inspiration. Toys in cereal boxes! The excitement of finding the wheeto plastic inventor! I also really miss blockbuster - streaming isn't the same.

And these yoghurts my best friend had one in her groovy chick packed lunch box every friday and I always wanted one (mum thought they were a waste of money.) I'm absolutely gutted I never got to try one and never will!

90s grunge bands.
Getting tipsy on less than a fiver.
Blockbusters
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My waist and cheek bones.

Raving. I know it was the drugs, but I have never felt anything like it. The piano. The whistle crew. The feeling of oneness. The smiles. The music taking you away.

Yes…. and the MCs hyping it up ❤️

parties everywhere- old office blocks, empty factories, squats and also the glamorous house clubs and discovering dressing up. So many different scenes all at once all over the country.

Yves Rocher and the Club de Createurs de Beaute

Freddos being 10p, space invaders being 20p, puppy in my pocket and original polly in my pocket, toys in cereal boxes! Watching carebears and the original Disney channel with the my little mermaid series, playing outdoors unsupervised without a care in the world!

Raves (in fields, railway yards, disused hospitals, warehouses)
No phones at gigs and clubs, people dancing
A sense of hope, opportunity and positivity (little did we know what the Brexity types would have in store for us)

A Labour government.

My youth, I miss my youthful prime!

Gameboy Colour and Pokemon Red!! The Sabrina magazine (lol), the Animal Ark books, the school book fair the way you had to wait for stuff or find it out yourself, no instant gratification! Playing Petz II and Ski Free on Windows 95, Woolworths and the holy grail of pick'n'mix, Tammy Girl and MK One, Groovy Chick, singing hymns in assembly.

Mini skirts. I loved those. And the reallllly bad fashion that went down. That pretty much made wearing anything acceptable.

I desperately miss my uni days ('95-'99) Best days of my life. The people, the place, the pizza (I was in Chicago at the time)

The fun, happy, boppy music.

A social media free world.

The parties - there seemed to be a birthday party, a wedding party, a type of celebration every week. Usually in a town hall.

Which leads me onto group dancing - the ones that got everyone sat on the floor rowing or doing synchronised dances.