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Negrostrike posted:There's nothing better than some sweet sweet backfiring On the one hand, it's nice to see them out-think you. On the other hand, you've just been punked by your kids. My father had a similar conversation with me after he saw me play Quake. I told him, "You, uh, know that's not real, right?" Dad had to stifle a guffaw there, but it did satisfy his concern. e: Oh, hey Negrostrike! Do you mind if I ask you a question over PM? Nothing weird, I swear.
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Sep 9, 2019 15:54
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Parents, telling kids not to do something.... Making kids do exactly that since the dawn of time.
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Pastry of the Year posted:ah, Natural Wonders, you sold me so many fountains I swore I would properly maintain and ended up having to throw out I think one of my friends still calls Hot Topic "Unnatural Wonders" because 20 years later it's still funny to him
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Sep 10, 2019 00:49
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A bit later than the 90s, but one day the principal of my high school, a rising star of the education world who later headed the qualifications authority, pulled the males of every cohort in the school out of class over the course of a day and eloquently ranted about low riding shorts and the origination of the style from american prisoners who were not trusted to have belts. It was clearly intended to be a source of shame but you could look around and the lightbulbs going off in various head of various people who respected only toughness. Needless to say the situation did not improve. Today having thought back on this little episode, all I can think is how pointless and indulgent it was that the one man who absolutely should have best known deprived the school of more than 800 hours of class time for absolutely no gain.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:50
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Jaguars! posted:low riding shorts and the origination of the style from american prisoners who were not trusted to have belts Yeah, I heard that story in the early/mid-‘90s when gangsta was really taking off. I’m sure this was even kind of late compared to certain areas of the country too, considering this was in the forgotten rural rear end in a top hat of Cowtown Ohio
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Sep 10, 2019 01:01
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Also it was a whoolllllleeeee lot of "those """"""thugs"""""" are corrupting our youth" going on with the saggy jeans hate.
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Sep 10, 2019 03:55
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My dad wouldn't let me watch Beavis and Butthead until he actually saw a couple episodes. I think he just didn't feel like having to act like it wasn't funny in front of the rest of the family.
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Sep 10, 2019 04:11
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Jaguars! posted:A bit later than the 90s, but one day the principal of my high school, a rising star of the education world who later headed the qualifications authority, pulled the males of every cohort in the school out of class over the course of a day and eloquently ranted about low riding shorts and the origination of the style from american prisoners who were not trusted to have belts. It was clearly intended to be a source of shame but you could look around and the lightbulbs going off in various head of various people who respected only toughness. Needless to say the situation did not improve. I got the homophobic version, so the prisoners wore their pants baggy so that they could have instant access to anal sex whenever they wanted, the worst possible thing!
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Sep 10, 2019 04:12
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Yeah, I went away from NZ for a year in 1999 and when we returned everyone was hanging out with their boxers showing and their shorts halfway down their calves. Before that everything was 'normal', I'm really struggling to think what people wore in '98 and no one in NZ seems to have bothered uploading photos from that time. Here's what I was familiar with, being in the first year of intermediate school at the time. http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/mt_maunganui_primary_centenary/topics/show/2154-mount-maunganui-primary-school-photos-1998, probably the same the world over and for many years before and after.  Auckland 115 in Foxton 30/7/1998 by Wayne Duncan I like the sound recordist's style here, the trousers aren't so absurdly high waisted, contoured a little better and not having white clown shoe sneakers helps build a more coherent shape compared to early 90s stuff. The dude on the left was much like how I dressed in Canada, at least after the first day that I wore sweatpants and copped a fair bit of flak. Also over there, all gear had to be Fubu branded.   Random dudes setting up when Metallica came to town, like the real mix of styles here, not all metal archetypes either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R34krgWFWbY 1998 commercial roll, includes one of the more infamous blood and guts road safety PSAs at about 22 minutes.
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Gann Jerrod posted:I got the homophobic version, so the prisoners wore their pants baggy so that they could have instant access to anal sex whenever they wanted, the worst possible thing! I lived in a suburb of Seattle, so we got the version where it was because gangs. Gangs were apparently the most terrifying thing ever out there for a time. In middle school sagging was defined as below your belly button, and I definitely got busted for it once and was forced to wear a length or rope for a belt like I was Jethro Clampett. No one cared by the time I went to high school (1994) as long as my underwear wasn't visible.
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Sep 10, 2019 13:35
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Iron Crowned posted:In middle school sagging was defined as below your belly button, As someone who grew up in the era of the 'microrise jean' this is hilarious and I love it
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Sep 10, 2019 14:46
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umalt posted:This car has big 90's energy.
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Sep 10, 2019 15:31
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Finally my car matches my transparent ConAir phone!
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Sep 10, 2019 16:07
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dinahmoe posted:The booklet that comes with the Jellyfish box set talks about how they were the only ones who actually submitted a song about the subject matter. I found that song on limewire when I was looking for "the ghost at #1" and I was like what the hell? They wrote a song from Bowser's perspective? Thanks 90s thread, for clearing up that 2000s mystery!
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Sep 10, 2019 16:44
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Killingyouguy! posted:As someone who grew up in the era of the 'microrise jean' this is hilarious and I love it I was in high school 2000-04, the height of the Paris Hilton era when teen girls could not buy jeans with a zipper longer than 2” without going to specialty Mormon stores, and I got sent to the office for a Baggy T-shirt of Feminine Body Shame because like an inch of the small of my back showed when I leaned forward. I actually cannot wait for those to come back; it’s the only cut that really works for my bone structure.
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Sep 10, 2019 16:54
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ChocNitty posted:Anyone who lived in southern california in 1992 will remember people wearing t-shirts that said, “My wife said if I go surfing one more time, she would leave me. Gosh i’ll miss her.” I had a Big Johnson shirt...Whatchu talkin' about Willis? I remember my mother hated it. We couldn't wear them at school, but I would wear it on the weekends thinking I was cool. Then one day it dissapeared. My mom said she washed it but it was nowhere to be found. A few weeks later, my cousin who did drywall work stopped by our house, and lo and behold, what was he wearing? My Big Johnson shirt, now covered with a few weeks of drywall mud and grime. I did my own laundry from that point on.
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Sep 10, 2019 19:28
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Your mom did you an absolute solid with that life lesson you should thank her.
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Sep 10, 2019 22:10
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dialhforhero posted:Your mom did you an absolute solid with that life lesson you should thank her. empty quote
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Sep 11, 2019 00:50
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Neddy Seagoon posted:When I was in the third grade, the teachers sat down all the third and fourth grade students for a very special lecture to not watch that filthy disgusting new show South Park. South Park was originally on satellite only in the UK and somehow the one kid at school who had it (so his dad could watch porn I suspect) managed to convince one of the science teachers to let us use one of the labs to watch it during lunch times. This probably only worked because we were such a bunch of nerds that they knew perfectly well we weren't going to get corrupted or whatever.
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Sep 11, 2019 23:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66GT1HkPsPI So 90s MTV it hurts. And I like it.
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Sep 13, 2019 16:22
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loving hell imagine spending $30 and getting this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f0cmY_H93I "hey bob are you free on tuesday?" "uh, hang on, let me boot my Windows 95 machine and fire up my 100 x 200px Seinfeld calendar which only works until the year 2000"
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Sep 13, 2019 23:59
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Well DUH; haven't you heard of Y2K?!
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Sep 14, 2019 00:08
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The Y2K bug IS the most 90's thing.
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Sep 14, 2019 16:11
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Pentaro posted:The Y2K bug IS the most 90's thing. If you include it as a plot point in a King of the Hill episode that no one really cares about until they think it becomes relevant again in 2001. But banks still functioned because c'mon, and almost nothing discernible broke and meanwhile in the 2010s you have state of the art fighter jets that explode when they cross the international dateline. 
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 Update: business.com is still doing something, although it's not clear what from their hyper-generic website. altavista.com just redirects to Yahoo, which looks like Bing now. wine.com is still selling wine!!! autos.com looks like it's from 2004, because it is.  (a graphic from a $2.2m website in 2019) wallstreet.com is just three blog articles about nothing. eflowers.com redirects to Interflora rock.com is a blank page drugs.com is a functional website about drugs!!!! university.com is a holding page computer.com is blog spam Money well spent
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Sep 14, 2019 20:44
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Horace posted:
Domain squatting and reappropriarion is very nineties https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com That's comedy gold. I feel like a sad sack wishing misery on startups. All the people who ate poo poo in dot com 1.0 &c. My homies. I'm no Mr. Robot but I think it would be nice if the low hanging fruit got left alone and amazon, goog & anything related to Elon Musk tanked hard.
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Sep 14, 2019 21:18
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It really irritates me that https://www.command.com is not just a black page with a C:\> Prompt in the upper left corner. Instead it's owned by 3M and used to hawk their sticky strips. Boo.
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Vanagoon posted:It really irritates me that https://www.command.com is not just a black page with a ftfy
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Sep 15, 2019 01:23
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Negrostrike posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66GT1HkPsPI Curve is one of the few 90s things that totally holds up ok
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Sep 16, 2019 04:21
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Shrapnig posted:That and Co-Ed Naked Sport/Activity shirts. Even as a kid those shirts seemed lame to me. My girlfriend at the time was made to leave Six Flags Great America and go to the car to put something else on because she was wearing a Co-Ed Naked Volleyball "On the Floor is Where You Score!" shirt. Guessing 1994 or so.
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Sep 16, 2019 18:33
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WescottF1 posted:My girlfriend at the time was made to leave Six Flags Great America and go to the car to put something else on because she was wearing a Co-Ed Naked Volleyball "On the Floor is Where You Score!" shirt. Guessing 1994 or so. Oh man my dad used to take us to Six Flags for some corporate thing once a year and I have CLEAR memories of the brochure/map saying Big Johnson and Co-Ed Naked shirts specifically were banned.
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Sep 17, 2019 07:51
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Let me guess, Six Flags corporate has some uber christian backers in the woodwork.
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ryonguy posted:Let me guess, Six Flags corporate has some uber christian backers in the woodwork. You're forgetting that late 80's/90's was the "But think of THE CHILDREN!!  " era.
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Sep 17, 2019 18:34
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You're forgetting that late 80's/90's was the "But think of THE CHILDREN!! I was born in 1980, and banning a specific brand of shirt outside of a school setting would still be pretty heavy handed for the time.
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Sep 17, 2019 20:27
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You're forgetting that late 80's/90's was the "But think of THE CHILDREN!! I remember in the late 80's when schools were banning shirts with Bart Simpson on them. See also: The local arcade had a bunch of parents band together to get them to remove the Splatterhouse and Chiller cabinets. Splatterhouse owned
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Sep 17, 2019 20:38
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ryonguy posted:Let me guess, Six Flags corporate has some uber christian backers in the woodwork. Cedar Point was still getting pissy about people having playboy bunny logos on clothing. But I haven't heard anyone complain about that in probably nearly a decade? It would have been around highschool since none of the people I interact with since graduation wear playboy bunny things
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Iron Crowned posted:I remember in the late 80's when schools were banning shirts with Bart Simpson on them. I'd join them in banning Chiller for being a waste of quarters tbh But yeah Splatterhouse was rad.
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Sep 18, 2019 02:35
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I don't know if this was just a thing near me or if it was nationwide, but back in my highschool days baseball caps of the University of South Carolina's Gamecocks were popular because they were literally just bright maroon caps that said "COCKS" across the front. And yeah, they eventually got banned because no teacher's going to buy a bunch of kids in the midwest showing support for a college team thousands of miles away.
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