overlooked reasons why life is better now than it was in the 90's

1) chewing gum doesn't run out of flavor after 5 minutes

2) everything isn't served with chipotle or white chocolate and macademia

3) I'm not a teenager.

4) easy to find troll dolls at bargain-basement prices

http://toybook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/TrollDollPinkHairSweater.jpg

5. Morally bankrupt decaying civilization 15-20 years closer to annihilation

6. I have money now oh wait...

7. I have deeper respect for fans of all levels than frogbs

8. $1 coins don't resemble quarters anymore

9. I'm no longer drinking alcohol in quantities that would knock out a rhino.

10. blue M&Ms exist

11. No more distracting pop music of quality

11. When this week's chart is shitty we can play tunes from 1997

12. the following commercial is no longer aired:

"What's the weather going to be like tomorrow?"
"Supposed to be hot...like yesterday"
"Yesterday? You said you'd call Sears yesterday?"
"I'll call Sears tomorrow"
"You'll call Sears now"
"I'll call now..."

"'nother scorcher!"

13.) I no longer have to pretend that I'm cool.

14. i am legally able to drink alcohol in quantities that would knock out a rhino

##. its not

15. I don't have to pretend I care about football

16. Books, movies, music and phone in a phone

17. odds of hearing oasis on any given day fallen, if not dramatically
18. finally rid of that pesky New Labour

19. i have a king size bed

19. not having to pay €€€ (actually FFFF) for some rare bootlegs burnt on shitty cd anymore.

20. all the live score updates during football/baseball/basketball broadcasts

20. Top four, baby

21. being able to watch any music video at all time (and not watching any as a result).

re 21, during one of my italo-disco binges I got to thinking abt how amazing it must've been to be in Milan in 1983 or w/e, and then I realised that if I had been (even if I had been of clubbing age and spoken Italian) I wouldn't have found out about the right clubs, which I wouldn't have been dressed well enough to get into anyway, or been able to find the 12"s in the shops, if I even knew what they were because I wouldn't be reading the right magazine, and even if a magazine even covered that stuff it probably all sold out before the review was printed, etc...

and so even if most of my listening now comes from previous decades I am better off being here and now so I can dial that shit up whenever I want, and not even need to pay for a haircut first.

22. can now talk to phone, not merely on phone, so no need to be lonely anymore

23. All the 80s toys your mum threw out in the 90s because you were too old have now been reissued for your newly expanded adult wallet to collect the set for your kids (who may or may not be allowed to touch them or get them out of the limited edition packaging)

(note to self: have kids as excuse for the amount of Lego, plastic Daleks, etc cluttering up the flat)

Netflix/Hulu/whatever means

24). No late fees
25). Nobody needs to know how many times you've watched Oklahoma! and Annie in the past few months

26. Air travel so much less stressful thanks to security precautions keeping us safe

27. most public places are non smoking now (in France) which is good even though I'm a smoker.

28. PKD's exigesis finally published

29. People now know to no longer pay attention to George Lucas

30. No more adverts for shit-green Dodge Neons

31. I can surf the Internet in a bar

32. Can pay my rent from my phone while on the train. Can pay pretty much anything and track my finances that. This has turned my financial world around, lemme tell you.

33. Alternatives to Minesweeper on slow work days.

34. No longer having to wait for funny memes to come in through the fax machine.

35. not having to play Fantasy Football by mail

2) everything isn't served with chipotle or white chocolate and macademia

were those so much a thing of the era? anyhow i was just showing up here to say:

36. no fucking sun-dried tomato stuff being shoved in my face

My wife tried to buy a Dodge Neon last year and I had to stop her, like "look, there's a reason why these cars never have more than 100,000 miles on them"

37. E-filing (thinking about court filings at my job, but also taxes and probably other stuff) saves SO. MUCH. TIME. And money, and paper. I could go on about this at great length.

Basically <3 <3 <3 e- anything.

38. No having to sit through crappy music videos to watch good music videos.

39. not having to watch music videos

40. There are emulators now to play those silly but grebt 90s games, so they won't hang/crash/just not work like in the 90s

41. Nobody talks about Dire Straits anymore.

42. You can entertain yourself for hours and hours on like $10 worth of Android apps (as opposed to the old NES/SNES/Game Boy cartridges which were $50-70 and weren't really that much more sophisticated)

shit I must've spent days on Angry Birds and that's free on Android!

I need this thread today. Just checked my bank account and am mystified/depressed how everything is so fucking ridiculously expensive. Maybe I'm just tired of London...

41. Nobody talks about Dire Straits anymore.

― Mark G, Thursday, January 5, 2012 6:00 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Are you calling Geir a nobody?

Fairly certain that nobody was talking about Dire Straits by the 1990s, either, tbh.

xxpost

well, in the euro zone, things are crazy more expensive than they used to be when we had the franc !

my guitar teacher was talking about Dire Straits in the 90s

indie rock is way more interesting these days, some bands even have beards

43. AOL finally ups its game: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/crystal-ball-3

i think the chewing gum point holds up tbh

Books, movies, music and phone in a phone

― carpy deems (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:36 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

im a convert to tablet now, which i wasnt back then

No one listed ILX.

🤔

I propose that chewing gum flavor was still more potent prior to the 1990s. Exhibit A: the song "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?", 1961. This lyric suggests the possibility said flavor was not exhausted at bedtime. Such a suggestion would have been laughable in 1990.

44. Clothes fit properly, and they’re neither ecru nor taupe.

xp need to confirm the dataset of answers and then compare to a similar study from 99

appeal rejected

In the 1990s the world was caught in the viselike grip of fear and uncertainty over the Y2K bug. All that is behind us now and at present provides a cause for lighthearted merriment.

twasnt the whole decade

rejected

and the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head or post his imperfect thoughts upon the 90s.

hes welcome but he'll be weighed and measured by output like anyone else of the flock

45. free porn

and easy accessed, yep

granted, my own wool output has been quite sparse for several years now.