Things now, that 90's kid would have mocked?

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This is light hearted. Working in a school it is interesting to see how trends change. Sure some of this is regional, but what things do kids do now that just wasn't the done thing in the nineties?
I have noticed

1. Double strappers. This was so uncool at the time. I am sure I still get shoulder pain now from carrying mountains of books on one shoulder. Single strap now is a bad thing. ( Good!)

2. The star spot patches. Some kids wear about 6. Not seen any adults do this yet.

3. Boys with massive brushes in their pockets which they whip out and swish their fringe. They even borrow each others and swish each others fringe. It is actually quite cute. My mind chuckles when I think of the 90s boys spiking their hair with pointy hair gel. But absolutely no to carrying a brush about.

4. Water bottles. I once got in trouble for taking a drink from my water in 1998 in a lecture. In 1991 it just wouldn't have been a thing to have a watsr bottle.

I am sure there is more. AIBU to think most new trends are probably better but to miss the 90s nostalgia.

Kids of today would rip us for backing our books in wrapping paper.

pre-internet... how we dealt with those situations where you (for instance) can't think of the name of a song or actor etc

It was a social thing, at work or out when a conversation halted because no-one could remember the word or name they needed and everyone spent ages talking it through and delving into their memories to find it. Someone might shout the name hours later because it came to them. I do wonder what the effect is now of never exercising that particular brain function.

Did anyone else have the two strands hanging down at the side of their head with the rest of their hair tied up in a ponytail or was that just where I lived?
I cringe every time I see my secondary photos where I thought that was the in look at the time.

Jane norman was definitely top notch PE bags.

Wearing two straps on your school bag meant you were a square.

Oh I see the opposite! When I look at photos from my primary and early high school we all look very different, most markedly in hair. All the girls my daughter's age have long hair, only a very, very few have hair shorter than their shoulders and I've not seen a single one at her school with actual short hair. They all have the same styles and brands and even things like dye which wasn't typical in the 90s is incredibly 'conformist' now. I was once mocked in the idle of my classroom when I dyed my hair red because it just wasn't seen much.

We had that. Two carefully selected bits of hair just hanging there or the front bit that was puffed up on one side.

God everything. Kids are cringe nowadays! I say that as a Mum of 2 😂

We laughed at mobile phones in the 90s.

Who needed a phone with them all the time?
Only Yuppies...

"I'M IN THE LIBRARY!!!!"

We have the same issue @KnickerlessFlannel
Back in the 90's & early 2000's DP & I used to do a Sunday paper prize crossword so we'd have to finish it by Tuesday morning to get it posted off in time. We had a huge library of general knowledge books at home which we used to work out answers that we didn't know but if we still had unanswered clues left on Monday morning then we had to go to the library to use the computer there and had a regular slot booked just for that purpose. We didn't win until 2011 when we won £1500 - which we used for a laptop, internet set up and a summer holiday.

Youngest DC still doesn't believe that we never had the internet at home until 2011 because it's been around like forever hasn't it????

I went to school n the 70s and there was a trend of wearing your wristwatch with the face on the inside of your wrist. Also very wide watch straps in bright colours. Today you would be mocked for wearing any kind of wristwatch at all.

Just thought of another one!

Longchamp bags. They’re really fashionable among DD’s friends. I associate them with my granny … definitely would have been uncool in the 90s

I remember the two bits of hair thing but it was strictly reserved for the top charva girl and the girls in the second tier of the charva group. Anyone else attempting it would have been bullied into submission.

I have to double strap my work bag or it slips off my shoulders and I bully myself walking in and out of the office every time. It’s just not right. I don’t mind double strapping a small leather backpack, that seems right. But a functional, heavy bag? That has an absolute reason to be worn correctly? Torture.

Oh and our DC look at us with pity at having only 3 tv channels too and laugh piteously at having to read, play games or....shock horror....go outside, like, just for fun 😮

I'm down in the central belt of Scotland and had never heard of them or seen them before, either!

Charva? That’s definitely not the word we used

Double straps, jack ups, big gold-rimmed glasses, moustaches, mullets, trainers for going out, white socks, tracksuits, crocs, dungarees, fleece jackets. And so much brown! And puffa jackets!

The younger people at work basically look like 90s nerds and would have been roundly bullied. I find it bizarre and can't bring myself to partake in (or like) any of the things that were deeply uncool when I was young 😂

😂 Have her Google 'irony' next!

Wearing white socks back then would have.

I think it’s quite a regional thing to the north east. It was never derogatory the way chav is now either. Well it was derogatory if you were a goth calling someone a charva, but it wasn’t about income or intelligence like chav is used now.

Oh I absolutely hate this. I find it so offensive or like they have crabs or are playing with themselves.

Jeans that were too short. Anything that was too short and you were mocked and asked if your cat/budgie had died. Now people wear jeans of all lengths and I never know if it's deliberate. The 90s was very firmly long bootcut jeans that trailed behind you.

Thick eyebrows. They were the thinnest line in the 90s.

My neice wears those star patches.

A section of my year 10 girls are obsessed with the stars patches. Haven't seen them in any of the other year groups which is weird! (West Midlands here)

Leggings with no long top to cover your bum and v. Unless you were an adult at the gym. Or leggings that might be even better a tiny bit see through on the bum.

You'd be considered half dressed and people would be even mortified looking at you.

Bulky runners/trainers or bum bags. They'd be seen as very American senior citizen things.

"Fee-lings" 🙄

My sister is 6 years younger than me and has a row of New Balance and Asics dad style trainers on her shoe rack… I’d have been mortified if my mum bought me them back in the 90’s 😂