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i miss spitting image and laughing at how much of a gakker licking arse hole john major was

Samus_aran115 wrote:Spice girls? LOL. I forgot they even existed!

lol
Today I saw Geri Halliwell's white platform boots

They were on display at a costume exhibition the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley.
Along with a snare drum (I think) from Oasis and some other paraphenalia relevant to this thread including a Cher necklace

Going again next week armed with a camera!

Sorry chaps but Fred Astaire's shoes > Geri's boots
see Samus I am happy to be old

Being old is fun, I'm sure. Going to college because your country needed scientists must have been fun too. Now you just go to make money and fart around for another 8 years after your masters

b-b-but, the 90's had no Halo!

Psst! I shell sey zis only wunce...

At least the 1980's had Hallo Hallo!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Psst! I shell sey zis only wunce...

At least the 1980's had Hallo Hallo!

You stuupiiiid Woooman!

Oh man, everything that's good about France was in that show!


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Wow, that actually reads back as more sexist than racist!

Mr Mystery wrote:At least Geeks in my day just argued over Star Trek and that. But now? Oh no! Your choice of luxury good makes you a gimp to the right person.

Back in the day we had our Nintendo/Sega wars.

They were also lame.

whatwhat wrote:
And you're comparing that to creating wireless communication via a handset?

Yes, I thought that was obvious by now.

Regardless, its incredibly easy to establish wireless communication via handset. Hand held radio phones have been around for quite some time, and I could very easily have built one in the 90's after a quick run through Radioshack. I was able to do this because someone else had invented the parts, just as you are easily able to code a basic OS because someone else invented a programming language. Innovation does not occur in either case, because we would both be replicating something built by someone else. Compare this to a smart phone, which is a fundamentally different think when compared to older cell phones; notably involving elements that were functionally beyond earlier devices.

My favourite part of this thread is when the OP rages at people for not talking about the 90's

90's had The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

del'Vhar wrote:My favourite part of this thread is when the OP rages at people for not talking about the 90's

90's had The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

win and win.

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If we could perhaps take the somewhat pointless -- even for the OT board and that's saying something ! -- shouting and general name calling elsewhere-- preferably the woods a long long way away, where they can freed and left to shiver in the cold and then die an ignoble death from eating poisonous berries as they don't know any better. -- that'd be great, and we could then continue in a somewhat bemusing attempt to retcon the 1990s into an oasis of enlightenment and uber coolness the likes of which mortal man was not supposed to witness until we've ascended to a higher plane of being where we all kind of float around and build bonzai,self contained universes where we are free to act out our deepest dreams and desires in a consequence free environment. AND bitch about movies of course.

Leave the old grudges and score settling behind please. ta.

90's had their sucky bits (Boyzone) but in my experience the good stuff more than made up for it (Trainspotting, Tarantino hitting the big time).

And s club 7. They were pretty late in the 90's but I always think of them because of the blond girl hannah who was on the BBC show Primeval.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJPYmd8_Qdw And you are back to the 90's. Man that show was awesome..

THIS:

Bah. I lived my college years in the 90s and I gotta say I miss being in the same age range as hot punky rock grunge girls with pink hair, but other than that most of it was pretty gay. That's right I said it, GAY. the techno revolution, the billion alternative bands that sound the same, the fact that suddenly all these kids who were mean to me because I didn't fit in during high school all of a sudden discovered that 'individual' was a buzzword for cool. Yeah yeah I know, we are all individuals now, and we all show it off with our wimpy ballad singing wanna be rock tastes like the Verve Pipe or the Nixons, our 'different' clothing that looks just like everyone else's 'different' clothing. Now all of a sudden a Rancid CD made all these kids who used to be scared of wearing anything but fashionable clothes suddenly rip up their jeans, wear combat boots, and buy a leather jacket to be cool.

The only time to live in is now.

Have fun back in the dark ages of the internet, where your connection could be lost by a sparrow flying in the wrong direction, and you payed by the hour for AOL!

Please, say hi to MC Hammer for me- and to Hammerman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerman

And by the way, feth "political correctness". Whining fething maggots with nothing better to do than bitch about wording. feth "affirmative action" and sloped college entrance requirements. feth everyone claiming to be bi-curious so they can be seen as progressive and hence get laid by a member of the opposite sex. feth Matchbox 20 teaming up with Carlos Santana to give them an ounce of artistic credibility. feth the Spice Girls. feth it move along. The only fond memory I have of the 90s is that gas was cheaper. Well, that, and the fact that I was more of age with the hot punky chicks.

The 90s were great. Wars were won. Women were loved. Booze was cheap. The President and blue dresses were in the news. What a time.

That's because we could still get it up back then without viagra, well according to modern commercials at least. I think Bill Clinton's BJ being a hot news item was at once hillariously irrelevant, and dangerously creepy, as far as how people percieved politics. Oliver North has his own TV show now after all the BS during the Reagan/Bush era, where a lot more actually relevant things were happening than who got sucked off by who, but Bill's sex life became almost as popular as the OJ trial. Let's not forget that the 90s gave us Jerry Springer and the birth of MTV's Real World... which gave us reality TV nowadays...

Guitardian wrote: the fact that suddenly all these kids who were mean to me because I didn't fit in during high school all of a sudden discovered that 'individual' was a buzzword for cool.

Y'know, this is so true. The same thing happened to me. I started playing the Guitar when I was like, 12-13, and I was one of about 4 in my school who did. We got pretty universally slaughtered for it by the 'popular' kids. BUT THEN! BUT THEN!

Oasis and Blur came out, and apparently everyone had ALWAYS been listening to guitar music all along, apparently. It's not an exaggeration to say that we became cool overnight:

"Hey, do you play guitar?"

'Yeah, so?'

"Can you play 'Wonderwall?"

'Jog on, knobhead'

Pff...

You guys are a bunch of pansies, whats so bad about things? I dont see how much has changed (im 30)

Its the same gak just recycled a wee bit isnt it?

We had goths, they have emo, we had oasis they had fething.. i dunno.. whats cool now?

Anyway.. yeah.. it all seems pretty similar to me, its just cyclic.. the same but a bit different.

mattyrm wrote:Pff...

You guys are a bunch of pansies, whats so bad about things? I dont see how much has changed (im 30)

Its the same gak just recycled a wee bit isnt it?

We had goths, they have emo, we had oasis they had fething.. i dunno.. whats cool now?

Anyway.. yeah.. it all seems pretty similar to me, its just cyclic.. the same but a bit different.

OF course nothing has really changed, but it sure is fun earning cool points bitching about it...

And could someone get Guitardian a sedative?

I think he's already had a few 'liquid sedatives', if you take my meaning....

Is about the gist of it though
plus ca change plus ca la meme chose
apologies for any misspellings

Now I can't get Rush out of my head
The 70's! Ah Rock an' Roll baby

It's all one.
There are good bands and gakk commercial beany bopp trash whenever you timetravel nostalgically back to

The older we get, the easier it is to look back and see the things differently than the way we looked at them back in the days. Pop culture, whether it is movies (the 90's invented the 'remake' movies trend too, and 2nd gen. Star Wars), or the music (yeah NSync was so much more 'real' than the NewKidsOnTheBlech), or political games (Clinton's BJ vs. Obama's Kenyan roots vs. Bush's ranch visits). A thin veil of what is currently considered 'cool' to the kiddies masks the fact that it is the same damn thing just in different costumes from what I can tell. The kids love the costumes though.

And no I don't need a sedative. I'll take a rain check though.

mattyrm wrote:Pff...

You guys are a bunch of pansies, whats so bad about things? I dont see how much has changed (im 30)

Its the same gak just recycled a wee bit isnt it?

We had goths, they have emo, we had oasis they had fething.. i dunno.. whats cool now?

Anyway.. yeah.. it all seems pretty similar to me, its just cyclic.. the same but a bit different.

Oasis was cool? Hmmm I musta missed it then.

Oasis? Cool? Pull the other one. They were famous for two reasons.

1. They were grade A gakkers.
2. They ripped off, then ripped on, The Beatles.*

*And T-Rex. Listen to Cigarettes and Alcohol, then Bang A Gong. Riff sound well, I would say familiar, when I should say *identical*

Plus the Manc tosspots never appeared in the Trainspotting Soundtrack (a pretty era defining film from my perspective)

You know what really pisses me off? Nirvana T-shirts...

You don't know anything about what they stood for or anything about their lives, and you're a stupid tool who has one of those fgt side swoop emo haircuts. Take that shirt off before I rip your Fething head off and make you eat gak while Playing Territorial Pissings on my hand-held, battery operated stereo. On cassete.

Same with the beatles. Or the sex pistols, or jimi hedrix. Don't wear a shirt if you know nothing about them.