Things you don't miss about the 90s

OPENROAD · 13-12-2010 2:53am

bhovaspack wrote: »

Britpop music and Britpop related paraphernalia, such as faux-vintage zip-up tracksuit tops.

Lack of good music festivals in Ireland.

ah Loved Brit Pop myself

Phony Scott · 13-12-2010 3:15am

paedophile priests getting away with what they did.

Giselle · 13-12-2010 3:22am

Homework, knitted little-girl tights, being forced to go to church.

Saila · 13-12-2010 3:28am

video/casette tapes

charlemont · 13-12-2010 3:32am

Orchard Choice ..Thats the £3 punt 2 litre bottle of cider.. Horrible stuff..

admiralofthefleet · 13-12-2010 3:59am

NAFF jackets

Ruu_Old · 13-12-2010 4:21am

The line dancing craze in the mid 90s. I made my parents promise not to do it! :mad: *shudder*

Saila · 13-12-2010 4:27am

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

NAFF jackets

Nackers Are Fuckin Faggots

Jesus Wept · 13-12-2010 4:41am

speedboatchase wrote: »

Hairy vaginas
Chris Evans on tv
Hundreds of boybands
That anti-piracy videotape ad where the guy complains about his Trainspotting bootleg
Undercuts
The Lighthouse Family
Mr Blobby
Waiting an hour to download a song
Alan Shearers goal celebration
Backwards flat caps
Fully dressed women in rap videos
Playstation loading screens
Macauly Culkin

How could you?

ottostreet · 13-12-2010 4:42am

speedboatchase wrote: »

Hairy vaginas
Chris Evans on tv
Hundreds of boybands
That anti-piracy videotape ad where the guy complains about his Trainspotting bootleg
Undercuts
The Lighthouse Family
Mr Blobby
Waiting an hour to download a song
Alan Shearers goal celebration
Backwards flat caps
Fully dressed women in rap videos
Playstation loading screens
Macauly Culkin

Looking forward to their full tour across UK & Ireland, announced since they reunited last month?

Jesus Wept · 13-12-2010 4:48am

ottostreet wrote: »

Looking forward to their full tour across UK & Ireland, announced since they reunited last month?

lol, nice.

Here is a little number from The Lighthouse Family about shoplifting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9T-tN05L1E

Still, I wish M-People were making a come back.

Saila · 13-12-2010 4:53am

The-Rigger wrote: »

Still, I wish M-People were making a come back.

her voice was just plain SCARY!

Jesus Wept · 13-12-2010 4:56am

Saila wrote: »

her voice was just plain SCARY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOhcyNbyQpk

Shield · 13-12-2010 4:57am

Garth Brooks

OPENROAD · 13-12-2010 5:07am

Choon

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lc02_lighthouse-family-run_music

Irish Guitarist · 13-12-2010 5:38am

The Spice Girls.
Oasis copycat bands.
Kriss Kross.
Vanilla Ice.
MC Hammer.
Snow (the rapper).
Achy Breaky Heart.
Songs from films being number one for months (Love Is All Around and Everything I Do for instance).
Brookside.
Power Rangers.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (in my day we had proper cartoons like Transformers).

jum4 · 13-12-2010 10:27am

Ruu wrote: »

The line dancing craze in the mid 90s. I made my parents promise not to do it! :mad: *shudder*

yeh what was with that!! was it only a crazy in Ireland?

hal9000 · 13-12-2010 11:14am

Pokémon &
Gulf War part I

bonerm · 13-12-2010 11:22am

Take away the Ireland football experience and its knock-on effects and the 90's really had nothing going for it. Even most of the music I used to listen to (in retrospect) was shíte. It was also the decade that killed Star Wars

Orando Broom · 13-12-2010 11:24am

Global Hypercolour t-Shirts, when you sweated you got the multi coloured Joe Dolans.

Riddle101 · 13-12-2010 11:29am

I have list in different categories

Vanilla Ice
Spice Girls
Boyzone
N-ZYNC
Backstreet Boyz
Be*witched
Steps
S Club 7
Star Treck- Next Gen, Deep Space Nine and Yoyager
Dream Team
Sweet Valley High
Beverly Hills 90210

Riddle101 · 13-12-2010 11:35am

I have list in different categories

Vanilla Ice
Spice Girls
Boyzone
N-ZYNC
Backstreet Boyz
Be*witched
Steps
S Club 7
Star Treck- Next Gen, Deep Space Nine and Yoyager
Dream Team
Sweet Valley High
Beverly Hills 90210

NothingMan · 13-12-2010 11:36am

Those stupid feckin trouser with a skirt built in. Make up your mind woman, you don't need both!!!

Too much denim. ie. Denim jeans, jacket and denim shirt. What the hell were you making me wear Mam!

bonerm · 13-12-2010 11:38am

Secondary school. Worst time of my life. Worst people I've met so far too.

OPENROAD · 13-12-2010 11:38am

Riddle101 wrote: »

S Club 7

:eek::eek:

iPlop · 13-12-2010 11:39am

Smog!

Cat Melodeon · 13-12-2010 11:44am

Guys wearing lumberjack shirts buttoned all the way up.
Guys who never washed their chin-length hair thinking it made them look like Kurt Cobain.
Velvet scrunchies.
Girls trying to look and act like Whine-ona Ryder.
The difficulties in spontaneously trying to get condoms until 1993.
Most chart music.
Not having a car and getting rained on waiting for buses/lifts.

Have to say though, in general I loved the 90s, especially:
Docs
Not needing to dress up/wear make-up/do anything to my hair to go out
Grunge music and Fibber Magees
Féile!!!!! Tipp hasn't tripped since

dirtyghettokid · 13-12-2010 11:59am

hair scrunchies, overalls with one or both straps down!
yucckkkk!!

Scram · 13-12-2010 1:38pm

Cassete Tapes

geeky · 13-12-2010 1:53pm

Gerry Ryan.

sensibleken · 13-12-2010 1:59pm

Those manky coats every skanger in school wore. naff jackets i think they were called.

Step haircuts

Blackboard jungle

Soverign rings

All boybands

Rockers vs ravers

smoking on the bus

twink

JupiterKid · 13-12-2010 2:15pm

The 90s was a great decade for me. Leaving school, going to college and having a f***ing ball and being young and carefree.:)

There are a few things from that decade I don't miss...

Spice Girls
Ace of Bass
Other assorted pop crap
Incredibly slow internet - 20 mins to download a picture
Hair scrunchies
Shiny tracksuits
Beverly Hills 90210
The Lyrics Board
Tiny Little Rucksacks for girls
..and sh*tty roads relieved only by the shortest, meanest stretches of motorways imaginable.

But all things considered, the 90s was a pretty cool decade. The Catholic church's grip on Irish society collapsed, the economy started to boom and Ireland became a freer, more open society.

Certainly better than the 2000s music and TV wise.

Duggy747 · 13-12-2010 2:18pm

Drain-pipe jains..........though hipsters seems to love them now.
Glitter everywhere
Sister Sister
Awful reception for Channel 4 / ITV / BBC on your crap aerial
56k modems........*shudders*
Gateway PCs
Glenroe
Manky fringes with shaved hair..........yuck!
Mood rings
Hang Time
Daria
Euro-trash pop music *vomits*
Ibiza Uncovered "'Ave it!!!!!"

jackiebaron · 13-12-2010 2:25pm

sensibleken wrote: »

Those manky coats every skanger in school wore. naff jackets i think they were called.

Step haircuts

Blackboard jungle

Soverign rings

All boybands

Rockers vs ravers

smoking on the bus

twink

Smoking on the bus was banned in the late 80's I thought.

nyarlothothep · 13-12-2010 2:30pm

Cat Melodeon wrote: »

Girls trying to look and act like Whine-ona Ryder.

It was the greatest decade ever.

sensibleken · 13-12-2010 3:02pm

jackiebaron wrote: »

Smoking on the bus was banned in the late 80's I thought.

It might have been but people were still doing it. I think it finally went away with the smoking ban in pubs

bonerm · 13-12-2010 3:09pm

jackiebaron wrote: »

Smoking on the bus was banned in the late 80's I thought.

It must have been gone by the mid-90's at least as I remember first listening to A Day in the Life by the Beatles around that time and when I heard the line "Made the bus in seconds flat , Found my way upstairs and had a smoke," and actually being quite surprised by the whole idea.

ricero · 13-12-2010 3:11pm

heroin and drug marches

123balltv · 13-12-2010 3:11pm

no no no no no no no no no no no theres no limit
Jesus that song wrecked my head in the 90's

Partizan · 13-12-2010 3:12pm

Things I dont miss about the 90s

zits
being an angst ridden sexually frustrated teen (that all changed in 2001 though

)
Xworx jeans
NAFF jackets
Nike Air
crappy music from 1993 onwards (that means you Boyzone)
American military unilateralism
stuffy and overreaching Catholicism
going to mass and confession
crappy PCs and that ear bashing screeching noise you got when you turned on the net
scruffy haircuts
shiny tracksuits and all that LA Raiders ****
Saved by the bell
Beverley Hills 90210

Partizan · 13-12-2010 3:15pm

Riddle101 wrote: »

I have list in different categories

Vanilla Ice
Spice Girls
Boyzone
N-ZYNC
Backstreet Boyz
Be*witched
Steps
S Club 7
Star Treck- Next Gen, Deep Space Nine and Yoyager
Dream Team
Sweet Valley High
Beverly Hills 90210

You should burn in hell for that comment alone :mad:

nyarlothothep · 13-12-2010 6:30pm

Partizan wrote: »

You should burn in hell for that comment alone :mad:

Next Gen and DS9 were great but he's right about Voyager, it was an abomination

Riddle101 · 13-12-2010 8:47pm

Partizan wrote: »

You should burn in hell for that comment alone :mad:

One Star Treck was enough, but three spin-offs(all within the 90's). Two of which had Worf and Chief O'Brien, with Chief O'Brien wearing a red shirt in Next Gen but a Yellow one in DS9:eek:. I think Worf wore the same but the complete opposite. The only thing memorable about Next Gen was the Borg and Jean-Luk Picard.

Voyager was only good when the episodes where about Seven of Nine, cause she was sexy in those outfits she wore, and also when the Borg where in it

DS9 was the worst though, just plain boring, cause they didn't explore and find trouble, trouble had to come to them.

I can live with one star treck but three is just mad, hell they even went and made that prequel Enterprise, which was just tiresome.