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.

I still can’t face having bows on my shoes. My eldest DS (23) has a mullet and my youngest DS (16) has a vast collection of white Nike socks that he proudly pulls up as high as they will go - I cringe daily

The hairbrushes to do the boys' sweeping fringe is bane in my fecking life.
Mullets being popular never fails to amuse.
Scouse trim I think may be an insult at the moment, having been trendy for a while.
Girls lipsynching on videos with their push ups/sports bras on is the scariest thing. They do not shut down their shit even though they'll have been told a million times to - the likes for clout is validation/dopamine rush.
Multiple Instagram accounts/whatsapp whole year group chats/ snapchats with false assurance that things will disappear screenshots, hello?
I do not envy any of them. The pressures and lack of safeguarding is horrendous and I think Australia has the right idea to protect teens, although how they enforce it 🤷🏼‍♀️

Mullets. Mullets (think Billy Ray Cyrus and others) were eyed with derision in my friendship circles.

Last weekend I was agog to see my junior doctor with mullet and moustache looking like an 1980s escapee!

No shame in passing items you no longer need onto someone else. I was mocked in school for having hand me down clothes. Now nobody cares if it’s still useable. One girl who mocked me at school was asking on freegle if anyone had one of those old fashioned phone tables with seat attached. Vintage is trendy.

I desperately wanted a Saturday job in Morgan. But I was too definitely too short and probably too fat.

You had to put your height, dress size and a headshot on the application.

Hard to imagine now 😱

I don't know what a double strapper is and google helpfully said "anything with two straps" 🙄

School bag being carried with both straps on the back. Absolute suicide in the 90s. No matter how heavy

Boys wearing tracksuit bottoms over the age of 11, certainly in the early 90s. Jeans were seen as mature/grownup.

The music does tickle me though. You know you are old when a teenage lad is requesting you play Diana Ross's Upside Down, and is surprised you know all the lyrics to it!! 🥳😂

My son’s old carers in summer used to put him in shorts and white sports socks. I questioned where his half socks were. I mean he is disabled but I don’t want him dressed oddly and being made fun of. I was informed that’s the fashion now.😂😂😂

There was a RI that had a tabby cat.

My school’s students used the Doc Martens bag

The comment about the water bottle! I was talking to my children a few days ago about this. I had 4 kids (two at end of the 1980s and two in early 1990s) and I cannot remember them having easy access to water at home. I mean, we had a tap but they certainly didn't have full water bottles on hand at all times as my grandchildren do. They didn't take water bottles to school with them. I can remember as very young children they had sippy cups but when they were 3 or 4 I think they had to ask for a drink. Was this normal? Or were my poor children dehydrated all through their younger years?

Dance!

you’d have been terrorised at my school if you were into dance, particularly boys.

Another bag-related one - you would never wear a cross-body bag actually across your body, but would dangle it off one shoulder. Like with the rucksacks, it was terrible for your posture. I had a permanent shoulder ache from the way we carried our bags in the 90s.

Anyone laughing about the hands down their pants…. Just remember they go and touch stuff in shops after that… stuff you might pick up.
One mane was doing it outside my granddaughters primary school at pick up. I went up to him and loudly asked “why are you playing with yourself outside a school?” And he sloped off.
it’s utterly disgusting and I’d like to see it made illegal within the realms of public decency.

We had a very regional thing for kids using Jansport bags for school. The local sports shop made a fortune selling them. I went to Aberdeen (60 miles away) and they'd no idea what I meant

being gay, being BAME

Known as a "cooncil haircut" here on the Scottish west coast!

White addidas or Nike socks pulled up with sliders

Isn't that a reference to flags flying at half-mast after someone 'important' dies? So your trousers are also at half height.

Same. So good kids don’t bat an eyelid these days.
I have colleagues (in their 20s) who wear the star patches on their face at work. I find it so odd.

I do remember a lot of kids, including me, liking a wide range of music when I was a teen, but the focus would have been mainly on “the top 30”. My DCs love a hugely broad range of music. No embarrassment at all at telling people they discovered x y z artists / songs through me or DH. Makes me so proud!

Saw some in Oban over Christmas but the girl looked like she was back home for Christmas from university. Saw loads of them In Edi before Christmas.

Ah yes this is a biggie. No shame at all at buying on Vinted, charity shops etc. it’s a badge of honour, actually, when they manage to find really cool stuff.

(Personally I was a second hand shopper ftom mid-teens so I wouldn’t have done the mocking, but loads of people I know would have)

I read your cornment and knew immediately that you were from the NE and exactly which girls you meant 😆