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NONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I refuse to deal with DOS any more!!! I would rather put up with the minor quirks of Win Vista, that's how bad DOS was. I'm off to check my DVR now, so suck it, 90's!!!!!
Albatross wrote:The term 'grunge' was coined well before Nirvana had 'overground' commercial success, IIRC. I think it comes either from Mark Arm (from Mudhoney), or from a seattle fanzine. I can't remember which, and I can't be arsed googling it.
I believe it was the guy from Mud Honey as well who coined the term, but as a commercial classification used by the music/entertainment industry and pop culture it came into popular use in conjunction with the rise of Nirvana and the two will forever be joined at the hip.
A hit in the UK but she was American Was also a bigger hit in the States afaik My point being that if you don't recall it then you are still a spring chicken
Cheesecat wrote:There was some good music in the 90's (and a lot of crap too) although I prefer 60's-80's musically, the 90's is a step up from today's music however.
Okay, I think we've determined that music was better, but I'm surprised that no one has really gone off on the TV aspect yet.
90s TV, although lame at times (Arseino Hall, Mia Peebles Dance Machine to name the two that stand out in my mind), was way better than the gak pumped into living rooms now. X files, Star Trek TNG, the best years of the Simpsons, SG-1 to name but a few. What will we remember from this era? So you think you can fart? American Idol? Survivor? Reality shows?
It must be all the fluoride in the water and prozac that has made everyone into gak loving zombies. My wife still watches TV, but I haven't watched anything on TV in over 3 years. (Gasp!) Aw, Gawd! I'm turning into my father! lol
Cheesecat wrote:There was some good music in the 90's (and a lot of crap too) although I prefer 60's-80's musically, the 90's is a step up from today's music however.
You win this thread. The 90's proved that metal will never die, no matter how badly it is tortured by lameness.
Yay, A thread win!!! And yeah about the metal part, so true. I just realized how many awesome metal releases there were in 90's and there still some good stuff even to this day it's just modern metal attempts are overshadowed by other
I like the TV subject that was brought up. The TV may have had some gak shows like the birth of reality-TV and Jerry Springer style gak. It also gave us the OJ controversy, Bill Clinton's Dick scandal, and most of the bands were whiney pussies trying to look 'sensitive'
("And I said... what about... breakfasat at tiffinys..."), ("Its closing time... waah wwah wwaah"), ("...don't let the days go bye..")
But there was a lot of innovation in comedy, animation became popular, and vastly improved over the toy manufacturer cartooms, beacause of the Simpsons, Beavis&Butthead, the origional south park, space ghost coast to coast and so on.
Windows computers and internet became accessible even to stupid kids and senile old ladies (not that this is a good thing, but at least its there for anyone who wants it). For that reason alone I must condemn the decade. The TV and comedy kind of balance out the wimpy pop-alternative music, but making computer and interwebz usage accessible to anyone who can figure out point-and-click is what led us to the TWIT generation.
I liked my DOS. I had no problem dialing my friend's house on a bulletin board to bounce off his phone line. Kids these days will never be able to comprehend a command prompt. Just click on the big blue E and go find your porn kiddo, you don't have to know HOW it works. That's what I cannot forgive the 90's for.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
Guitardian wrote:I like the TV subject that was brought up. The TV may have had some gak shows like the birth of reality-TV and Jerry Springer style gak. It also gave us the OJ controversy, Bill Clinton's Dick scandal, and most of the bands were whiney pussies trying to look 'sensitive'
("And I said... what about... breakfasat at tiffinys..."), ("Its closing time... waah wwah wwaah"), ("...don't let the days go bye..")
But there was a lot of innovation in comedy, animation became popular, and vastly improved over the toy manufacturer cartooms, beacause of the Simpsons, Beavis&Butthead, the origional south park, space ghost coast to coast and so on.
Windows computers and internet became accessible even to stupid kids and senile old ladies (not that this is a good thing, but at least its there for anyone who wants it). For that reason alone I must condemn the decade. The TV and comedy kind of balance out the wimpy pop-alternative music, but making computer and interwebz usage accessible to anyone who can figure out point-and-click is what led us to the TWIT generation.
I liked my DOS. I had no problem dialing my friend's house on a bulletin board to bounce off his phone line. Kids these days will never be able to comprehend a command prompt. Just click on the big blue E and go find your porn kiddo, you don't have to know HOW it works. That's what I cannot forgive the 90's for.
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN DOS RUN
your actually complaining we now have to spend less time finding porn
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:
Bedtime Horlicks malty drink: ON
Comfy Slippers: ON
and relax...
Only Slightly Crazy wrote: GO CROGGY GO!
Underhand wrote:
The answer is never the Devildog.
No I just wish people who were slightly more literate and intelligent enough to know how their computer actually works before they get going with the twits, blogs, spams, and so on. There would be far less of that gak to sift through if there was actually an intelligence/education standard in order to even know how to get online.
Someone once said that if you get enough monkeys banging away on enough typewriters, eventually one will randomly come up with something interesting, and Windows and the internet has shown us that this is clearly not the case.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
well at the same time by giving these "idiots" the chance to use the internet also means more great things on the internet as eventually one of them will type something interesting by default
o and i think it was shakespear they would eventually write - not sure though - can someone confirm please
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:
Bedtime Horlicks malty drink: ON
Comfy Slippers: ON
and relax...
Only Slightly Crazy wrote: GO CROGGY GO!
Underhand wrote:
The answer is never the Devildog.
"It was best of times, it was the BLURST of times?!", stupid monkey!
Even though the above is Dickens, the actual platitude did involve Sir Francis Baco...I mean Shakespeare.
And quite right Guitardian, although I said 90s TV was better than the steaming turds they pump into living rooms now, Springer, and the OJ and Clinton hype was the genesis of the previously mentioned steaming ones. The shows I loathed that were on every day to program the youth how to behave were Saved by the Bell (A four word magic spell to make one want to tear their eyes out) and Fresh Prince. But, they are better than Zack and Cody (A three word magic spell to make one want to take a flame thrower to the place).
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Guitardian wrote:I like the TV subject that was brought up. The TV may have had some gak shows like the birth of reality-TV and Jerry Springer style gak. It also gave us the OJ controversy, Bill Clinton's Dick scandal, and most of the bands were whiney pussies trying to look 'sensitive'
("And I said... what about... breakfasat at tiffinys..."), ("Its closing time... waah wwah wwaah"), ("...don't let the days go bye..")
But there was a lot of innovation in comedy, animation became popular, and vastly improved over the toy manufacturer cartooms, beacause of the Simpsons, Beavis&Butthead, the origional south park, space ghost coast to coast and so on.
Windows computers and internet became accessible even to stupid kids and senile old ladies (not that this is a good thing, but at least its there for anyone who wants it). For that reason alone I must condemn the decade. The TV and comedy kind of balance out the wimpy pop-alternative music, but making computer and interwebz usage accessible to anyone who can figure out point-and-click is what led us to the TWIT generation.
I liked my DOS. I had no problem dialing my friend's house on a bulletin board to bounce off his phone line. Kids these days will never be able to comprehend a command prompt. Just click on the big blue E and go find your porn kiddo, you don't have to know HOW it works. That's what I cannot forgive the 90's for.
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN DOS RUN
your actually complaining we now have to spend less time finding porn
The more time you spend looking for the porn the more rewarding it was at the end.
