Why were the 90s so great?
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Anonymous
Not true. The Pre-Trumpers loved it. You forget that the Clinton scandal is what launched Fox News into the mainstream. It was a brand new network and it covered the blow job 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Basically, it gave repressed men permission to talk about sex all day while still continuing to view themselves as righteous and religious. |
Anonymous
You guys were loaded! I paid 400 to share an apt on the red line. No murders near my place but plenty of roaches. I remember all apartments were so dated, especially visiting friends in Arlington. My college friends in Phoenix and Atlanta had new build apts with pools and dc was just a dated old pos. |
Anonymous
Lol the bj. You forget the cigar Clinton used on Lewinsky. |
Anonymous
You need to look a little harder for music. Rock and alternative? Investigate Chvrches, the National, Manchester Orchestra, the War on Drugs, Bon Iver, Death Cab for Cutie, Big Red Machine, the Midnight, etc. |
Anonymous
Which is 100% valid and don’t you dare seek to minimize her expression. |
Anonymous
Your exhaustion about this is duly noted. And she didn’t wait 50 years. And you don’t seem to understand what sexual harassment *is*. That said, let’s not pretend like Republicans cared about sexual harassment. They just wanted to expose Clinton’s philandering because they thought it was immoral. |
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It's nostalgia. In 2050, they'll have a new batch of problems and remember how, because of COVID, they stayed home with family and played board games and watched movies together and isn't it just awful that teens these days never hang out with their parents? Or whatever. The shitty things from the present are always magnified while the terrible things from the past are always minimized.
And, even though each generation laments that kids these days and the world in general are terrible -- not like when they were kids -- the world has generally been getting better decade over decade. |
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Three main things:
- There was very little social media, especially for teens. I didn't get an email address until I started college or a cell phone until a couple years after graduation. That was common. If a regular citizen did something embarrassing or stupid, it didn't/ couldn't go viral. - Terrorism wasn't on the radar like it is now. There was a tangible shift after 9/11. - There was a general expectation that by 22, you were to be "grown and flown". That usually entailed living in a crappy apartment with roommates and eating a lot of frozen waffles for at least a couple years, but it also entailed the kind of freedom that a lot of 22 year olds don't have today. I don't know anyone today who would be okay with their 22 year old daughter backpacking through Europe with friends and staying in youth hostels with no means of regular communication or health insurance, but it was a perfectly normal thing in 1995. |
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I think the 1970s up to early 1980s when aids came out was best time. Fin slowly died off in 1980s with Herpes, AIDS then raising drinking age from 18.
1990s was ok but slowly political correctness, Diversity, cell phones, email chipped away at life. 9/11 ended the fun for good. Heck my whole family is in Life 360 and every move tracked vis my iPhone and work tracks me on my work PC. Purchases are all done electronic and tracked. By comparison my freshman year college I did not even have a phone in room, internet or credit card and drinking age 18. I got dropped off and told Mom see you at Thanksgiving. The shit I got into. The 90s was fun as we all had money. But pre cell phones we met up more. Think 1990s tv shows they all hang out together. No texting, zooming. Pretty much you show up at movie, bar they met you or they did not. Every night was fun. Classic 1991 I was in a club NYC and I see Evander Holyfield by himself. Looking pissed. I say hi. He goes damn Sugar Ray Leonard stood me up. He goes mind if we hang out a bit till he shows up. I go ok. He drinks no alcohol so has a club soda I had a beer. Sugar Ray shows up. So I get introduced he goes thank and in his way. So I get a tap on my shoulder and I get a free drink and they say here is your drink John. Turns out thought i was as John Elway the famous QB. I drank free rest of night. Stuff like that no longer happens. I had a similar thing two years later with Tara Banks and me as she was not on guest list! We both got in. But she could not call inside to friends. So much fun. I think 9-11-2001 was a hard stop on fun. It started at Woodstock and ended in 2001. Good 32 years of fun! |
Anonymous
| When The History Channel actually showed history! |
Anonymous
| Motown Philly |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
And MTV played music videos. |
Anonymous
Thank you! I’m glad too. Whatever Clinton did had zero impact on me. Are you saying you prefer homelessness, opioid addiction, crime, social media, weakening governments, social chaos, pandemic and its associated deaths to….Bill Clinton? Get some perspective! |
Anonymous
Urban kids of color. I remember all of us urban kids of color would wear our 90s jeans and the guys baggy jeans and starter jackets |