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It happens all over. A few years ago a ship carrying about 500 Tamil Tigers was spotted trying to enter west coast Canadian waters. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/08/13/bc-tamil-ship-migrants-esquimalt.html FOB (fresh off the boat) is a common pejorative here that is used for Asian immigrants of all types.
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This had been in the recesses of my mind for a while, but thanks to modern technology all I had to do was type into YouTube "candy jazz band movie theater" and it brought up the old General Cinema theater bumper of which I had vague and fond memories. Anyone else remember seeing this before some awsome/awful 90s flic? Starts at 6:50 if the time link doesn't work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5mNAZ_bGjE&t=410s
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Demolition Man is on TV right now. Despite taking place in the 2030's, it's extremely 90's. Especially Simon Phoenix's outfit: Neon t-shirt, giant overalls, and bleached hair. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:Demolition Man is on TV right now. Despite taking place in the 2030's, it's extremely 90's. Especially Simon Phoenix's outfit: Well, yeah; he was put into cryo-freeze in '96.
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Darthemed posted:Well, yeah; he was put into cryo-freeze in '96. And Judge Dredd or whoever that short man in a weird cop suit was eventually taught to use the three seashells. Snipes would probably have just been so far in character (stoned out of his mind) that he would shout obscenities at the director until he got a another copy of the script and use that. Thus proving that Blade is greater than Rocky. "You wanna go for a jog with an old man on his bicycle? You ran up some steps? Have a little montage about how you're gonna beat up some guy no one can give a gently caress about? I'll be in my trailer getting bladzed."
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Darthemed posted:Well, yeah; he was put into cryo-freeze in '96. Yeah, but those clothes were stolen from the "present" (i.e., the 2030's, or whenever it takes place.) So it seems in the 2030's, we'll all wear re-hashes of bad 90's fashion, and then those long, stupid robes.
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DrBouvenstein posted:So it seems in the 2030's, we'll all wear re-hashes of bad 90's fashion, and then those long, stupid robes. At least in 2013 a shitload of people are doing it already. Perhaps Demolition Man was pure clairvoyance.
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Alright, I think I found the most 90s candy. It's a powder, but when you chew it it turns into gum and I think also becomes blue. I have no idea who would think this is a good product.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:The late 90's Ska boom was pretty huge in the Pacific Northwest. A lot of kids in baseball pants, checkered ties and fedoras. We traveled like two hours or so up the highway to see The Toasters when they came by and that was a huge deal at the time. It was also pretty tied to the whole Warped Tour scene, and a lot of the second stringer bands were all Ska and Ska-punk bands. For some reason Christian teenagers in the 90's loved ska-punk. I have no idea why it was that specifically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDLHba9n4X8
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Wanamingo posted:Alright, I think I found the most 90s candy. It's a powder, but when you chew it it turns into gum and I think also becomes blue. I have no idea who would think this is a good product. Man I always wanted that as a kid but for some reason my parents wouldn't let me buy any
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happyflurple posted:Man I always wanted that as a kid but for some reason my parents wouldn't let me buy any I had it at least once. It had a really strange mouthfeel, like cold flour, until it became a glob of lovely quality gum.
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happyflurple posted:Man I always wanted that as a kid but for some reason my parents wouldn't let me buy any They probably didn't want you to fall into a diabetic coma. My parents wouldn't let me get a Virtual Boy. I wanted one so bad, but it had that warning label that said it could damage your eyes. The local mall had a supermarket and a Zellers as its anchor tenants, and I would play Warioland on the demo unit for 20 minutes at a time while my mom was over at the supermarket getting groceries. I wonder how many other kids wanted one and couldn't get it because of that warning label.
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Non Serviam posted:At least in 2013 a shitload of people are doing it already. Perhaps Demolition Man was pure clairvoyance. If Demolition Man can predict iPads and Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming the Governor of California, then surely there will be a cyber-punk fashion revival in the not too distant future.
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magic pantaloons posted:If Demolition Man can predict iPads and Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming the Governor of California, then surely there will be a cyber-punk fashion revival in the not too distant future. Still waiting on those Fast Food Wars.
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Zack_Gochuck posted:They probably didn't want you to fall into a diabetic coma. Considering how lovely the Virtual Boy was, in your case the phrase "A mother knows best" surely applies.
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Non Serviam posted:Considering how lovely the Virtual Boy was, in your case the phrase "A mother knows best" surely applies. Jesus, Virtual Boy WAS horrible. And yet, for the brief period of time that I owned one, I played the hell out of it. It made me physically ill and I wound up hurting my neck because I didn't have a proper stand for it. I think I only liked it because nobody else I knew had one. Yeah, I could do without having had that experience.
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It was horrible, but in 1995 I was ten years old, it had Mario games, and it looked like something from a science fiction movie. I'm sure I'm not the only kid that wanted one when it first came out.
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Pope Guilty posted:For some reason Christian teenagers in the 90's loved ska-punk. I have no idea why it was that specifically. The olde timey feel soothed their paranoid overprotective parents regardless of the "message" of the lyrics and whether or not satan might be involved. Especially compared to rap or metal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiYp8xKjLM
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I miss Scatman John  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cnQCk0u49w
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Pope Guilty posted:For some reason Christian teenagers in the 90's loved ska-punk. I have no idea why it was that specifically. I found myself at a Fiveiron show in 2001 and it was one of the weirdest loving experiences of my entire life.
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Aug 12, 2013 23:56
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Pope Guilty posted:For some reason Christian teenagers in the 90's loved ska-punk. I have no idea why it was that specifically. I had to google them. Found a very 90s fan page on Angelfire: http://www.angelfire.com/mb/fiveironfrenzy/ 
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Rambling Robot posted:I had to google them. code:
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I've been getting into MAME lately and revisiting all of my favourite games. Everyone knows the golden age of arcades as being in the 80s, but arcades in the 90s were something special. Especially the Midway games and Sega Model 2 games.       
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Jehde posted:I've been getting into MAME lately and revisiting all of my favourite games. Everyone knows the golden age of arcades as being in the 80s, but arcades in the 90s were something special. Especially the Midway games and Sega Model 2 games. E: PYF rule #1 label your youtubs. This would be the original arcade soundtrack for Daytona USA as sung by some guy who would probably own you at karaoke but it's still amazingly terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlwxrdpuGtI syscall girl has a new favorite as of 02:29 on Aug 13, 2013 |
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This right here was my cousin and I's go to game at arcades in the 90's: Lucky and Wild. Though I never understood why, if it's Lucky's car, Wild is the one driving... 
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Daytona USA's music makes me crack a smile every time I listen to it. Going back a few pages here but Craig Charles (from Red Dwarf) was the host of Robot Wars from season 2 onward. Season 1 was hosted by Jeremy Clarkson back when he still had a full head of hair. Apparently between tapings the audience would sing the Red Dwarf theme to piss off Craig.
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Speaking of ska, I loved The Aquabats as a kid. I think a lot of their music holds up surprisingly well, though. I occasionally play Aquabats vs. The Floating Eye of Death. Chemical Bomb is such a pretty song.
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Pope Guilty posted:For some reason Christian teenagers in the 90's loved ska-punk. I have no idea why it was that specifically. Because there really weren't any alternatives back then. You listened to MxPx and Five Iron Frenzy because your options outside of that were Stephen Curtis Chapman, DC Talk, and Newsboys, and your parents won't let you buy any other CD's and you don't have the internet because of satan.com. The ad executive who invented 90's Christian music was a loving marketing genius. Content: This is literally the best Christian music band from the 90's. Take a shot every time someone steals a pose from a Backstreet Boys video. edit: they later went on to become a moderately successful band called Mutemath
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Radio Help posted:Because there really weren't any alternatives back then. You listened to MxPx and Five Iron Frenzy because your options outside of that were Stephen Curtis Chapman, DC Talk, and Newsboys, and your parents won't let you buy any other CD's and you don't have the internet because of satan.com. The ad executive who invented 90's Christian music was a loving marketing genius. This is true. I liked FIF in part because they were as happy to yell at other Christians for being dicks as anything else- I saw them at some Christian music festival in Kentucky and their singer gave a little speech about how homophobia is a sin and needs to be purged from the church, just before singing a song about his experience overcoming it and realizing what a jerk he'd been. These are the two arcade games that I think of when I think of the 90's:  
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I was lucky enough to grow up near one of those really ghetto arcades that were stocked almost entirely with beat-up old Japanese cabs, so I got pretty drat good at this: Virtual On is the poo poo.
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Wanamingo posted:Alright, I think I found the most 90s candy. It's a powder, but when you chew it it turns into gum and I think also becomes blue. I have no idea who would think this is a good product. The one I had didn't become blue. Also, one of my friends had the amazing idea to bring it to my house at a pool party. People got it poured in their hands and the gum "disappeared" but the sticky hands didn't. .jpg) Does anyone else remember this? I saw an animatronic bug thing at the Westfield Mall in my area way back when I was a kid, probably around '98, '99. This pic is more recent but I can't find any pics of it from before. This exhibit is called "Xtreme Bugs". DrHerpington has a new favorite as of 11:47 on Aug 13, 2013 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:This right here was my cousin and I's go to game at arcades in the 90's: He probably has a DUI.
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DrHerpington posted:The one I had didn't become blue. Also, one of my friends had the amazing idea to bring it to my house at a pool party. People got it poured in their hands and the gum "disappeared" but the sticky hands didn't. When I was a kid the museum near me had a display of giant anamatronic bugs, featuring a huge spider in the middle. I was like 6 at the time and that loving nightmare spider scarred me for life 
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Wanamingo posted:Alright, I think I found the most 90s candy. It's a powder, but when you chew it it turns into gum and I think also becomes blue. I have no idea who would think this is a good product. I gagged a little bit upon seeing that and then thought of another "I can't believe I ate that as a kid" candy:  totally awesome to a kid, though that picture looks a little obscene.
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DrHerpington posted:
That photo is actually from my local mall where I grew up - no recollection of bugs, but I remember seeing similar things with dinosaurs.
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Lava Lamp posted:I gagged a little bit upon seeing that and then thought of another "I can't believe I ate that as a kid" candy: The 90's sure did have a lot of weird, "gimmick" candy (though for all I know, so did the 2000's and today, and I'm just too old to notice.) have some candy rocks. No, not rock candy, but candy rocks:  With a  dinosaur mascot because 90's.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Vn_D4bKwo Edit: Ok, the voice of
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mactheknife posted:That photo is actually from my local mall where I grew up - no recollection of bugs, but I remember seeing similar things with dinosaurs. What mall is that? It's definitely in Chicago or the suburbs from the display, but I can't place it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:The 90's sure did have a lot of weird, "gimmick" candy (though for all I know, so did the 2000's and today, and I'm just too old to notice.) I never saw this ad on TV, but I came across it in a tonne of comic books:  I pictured his voice totally different.
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As a kid that commercial annoyed me, because his name is Rocky D but his varsity jacket says "BR"
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Lava Lamp posted:I gagged a little bit upon seeing that and then thought of another "I can't believe I ate that as a kid" candy: Hah, I remember that too. Between that and the bubble tape I think Hubba Bubba made the worst of the 90s candy.
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