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Hobohemian posted:I wasn't talking about white people music, which has and always will suck. ah, of course, living la vida loca
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Parents used to name their kids things besides "Gaydence" and "Sierra".
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 21:26 |
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notZaar posted:School shootings were a rare tragedy, rather than an annual event. My senior year (95) the police did some sort of 21 Jump Street bullshit where they had undercovers in the school and did a full lockdown one morning and searched everyone's poo poo and arrested a bunch of kids, all because a few of the basketball players had been caught with drugs. One friend of mine drove her dad's pickup truck to school that day and in the bed there were a bunch of empty beer cans and a few shotguns for hunting, and it was no big deal. She didn't get in trouble, just got called a hillbilly a lot after that.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 21:32 |
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the steam machines were invented and revolutionized the industry
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 21:33 |
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Wafflz posted:Quake 3 was better than any of the bullshit kids play today and flying didn't suck rear end. i cant even think of anything to add to this, it's entire, it is complete
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 21:35 |
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People were more relaxed and less PC. You could criticize the military without risking your life. People talked more and spoke their mind, now it feels like cold war era Russia were everyone distrusts everyone else and thinks they are spies.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 21:43 |
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Pretty slow, OP. Thank Allah you were born when you were.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 22:27 |
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Mr. Pumroy posted:you can't really talk about the pre-9/11 world without mentioning mega man 3.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 22:29 |
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I learned how to use the Internet (which we called the World Wide Web) from an article in a children's magazine.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 22:32 |
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You didn't need a boarding pass to go in an airport, so you could meet your grandma at the gate and then eat ice cream together (still in the airport) They would serve meals on domestic flights even if you weren't in first class. Airplanes were apparently more comfortable, with more legroom and stuff, but I wouldn't know because I'm short Absolute Lithops fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Imagine freedom. You could smoke and carry knives and make jokes and no one assumed you were up to something. Political arguments were basically: "I like Clinton's economic policies." "Well I can see your point, but I feel an alternative would be more effective." "Well that's fair." No one had smartphones so we all connected with each other like human beings and didn't miss out on life by staring down. There were no furries or pangender demisexual lesbiquatic transethnic gynofloofs. We beat up nerds and those loving nerds knew their god drat place When you spent $50 on a game you got the whole complete game There was no fanfiction or any of this weird poo poo, just star trek conventions and those loving people were properly treated like social pariahs Everything was literally 100% better
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 22:51 |
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Anime wasn't as good and there were only 150 pokemon
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 22:53 |
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I could get on a airplane without being flagged by security for having dark hair and olive skin.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:05 |
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Ur gma ate my ice cream in the airplane bathroom
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:09 |
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my boyfriend was alive, for one thing he died flying a plane into the pentagon
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:10 |
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A misanthrope posted:my boyfriend was alive, for one thing
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:11 |
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symbolic posted:nice rehashed joke its all in how you tell it
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:12 |
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back then when you said "america deserved 9/11" no one knew what you were talking about
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:14 |
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I remember being a few minutes early to my 9:30am programming class in college. At that time in the morning a lot of us had heard that something had happened, but no one really knew what was going on. We tried to use the Internet on the class computers but a lot of sites weren't working. As the clock moved closer to 9:30, our teacher, who was from Pakistan walked into classroom. He stood at the front of the room, greeted us and asked us in an excited tone "Have you guys heard the good news?" When his question was meet by bewildered stares, he proclaimed that "today is a great day because Jordan is joining the Wizards!" Someone asked if he had heard about the planes that crashed in New York and he said "who cares about that? Jordan is joining the Wizards!"
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:18 |
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also there was only one Iraq War, which we won definitively
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:20 |
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When I was a kid during halloween me and my friends would get together and walk the entire neighborhood trick or treating without any parental supervision, at like age 6. The only warnings we got were stay in well-lit areas, stay in a group, and if anyone approached us to keep walking and going to doors. Then 9/11 happened. Now kids just don't trick or treat- or do so from the safety of a car.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:22 |
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Pamela Anderson looked like this OP I know you have no idea whom she is, just google her.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:22 |
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Before the Columbine School massacre we didnt really understand the inherent evil of first person shooter murder simulators.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:22 |
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Nelson Mandingo posted:When I was a kid during halloween me and my friends would get together and walk the entire neighborhood trick or treating without any parental supervision, at like age 6. The only warnings we got were stay in well-lit areas, stay in a group, and if anyone approached us to keep walking and going to doors. Then 9/11 happened. The trunk of treat poo poo is the loving WORST poo poo IMAGINABLE!
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:23 |
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It was pretty much like the movie Reality Bites, OP.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:25 |
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Oh yeah, mass homicide wasn't a thing You could go to a movie theater as a white man and not have everyone assume you're a killer
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:26 |
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We had Koala Yummies and Dunkaroos it was a great time
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:29 |
I was a poor. It sucked
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:45 |
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Post 90s disillusionment had already set in a major way during the 1.75 years before 9/11. You still had the lingering effects of the dot com bust and the country was already very divisive over the Bush election and there was the sense in the air that the good times might be over. Then 9/11 happened and sent anxiety sky high.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:48 |
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You could make sweet movie posters like this
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:52 |
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I did enjoy the huge breast phase of the 90's. Bolt ons as far as the eye could see.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:53 |
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We complained a lot about being bored. As in, as a society. Siiiiiiiiiiiigh, it's the same thing, day in, day out, we're just corporate drones.
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# ? Aug 28, 2015 23:58 |
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dahmer, bundy, gacy, and manson were more likely to be the punchline of an off-color joke
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# ? Aug 29, 2015 00:09 |
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killing people was just sort of sillier, really
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# ? Aug 29, 2015 00:12 |
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There were a bunch of shark attacks at the beaches that summer and my first thought when I heard about a plane hitting the towers was "God damnit was it sharks?!"
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# ? Aug 29, 2015 00:28 |
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You could walk right up to the airport gate without a ticket and welcome people home, that was really nice instant nostalgia, now everyone is on defcon high alert when they fly because it feels like youre traversing through a prison jokes about bombs were just in poor taste and not a call-homeland-security ordeal (meet the parents just barely squeezed by with this) the armed forces were redneck/doofus/homosexual stomping grounds lots more smoking in public and restaurants russians were still bad guys there weren't so many licensed legos, just star wars episode 1 was really bad but we still had hope
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# ? Aug 29, 2015 00:51 |
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Toadvine posted:episode 1 was really bad but we still had hope
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# ? Aug 29, 2015 00:53 |
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You could show up at airport gates without a boarding pass just to do poo poo like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYS7SpFTEI
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# ? Aug 29, 2015 00:55 |
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Pththya-lyi posted:I learned how to use the Internet (which we called the World Wide Web) from an article in a children's magazine. one day each month in science class we got a rad magazine and it always had a "guess what it is" picture of a microscope picture of something gross like a booger or poop, but it was just cool patterns because it was so magnified. We would win a prize if we guessed right. It was awesome. Also being bullied was a normal thing, and you weren't offended if someone was called a fag.
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bullying was pretty easy to get away from, you just avoided the kids who beat you up. now they're on your facebook leaving nasty poo poo on your wall for you to read later.
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