Why do people love the 90s

Cienciano · 25-06-2019 4:15pm

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

A lot of people associate whatever decade they grew up in as being golden times as they were young, carefree and had their lives ahead of them. But the 90's really were great times for Ireland.

I grew up along the border in the 80's and its hard to describe just how grim things were with Northern Ireland. Part and parcel of every day life was hearing about the latest atrocity. When things changed in the 90's, I actually found it difficult to get my head around the fact that we would be able to freely travel between north and south, and that the fighting would actually stop. Roads reopened for the first time since the 60's, and we had an American president helping out with moving negotiations forward.

Aside from that, all of a sudden there was a bit of prosperity. College fees were abolished which opened up the prospect of third level education to a lot more people. The GAA was superb with a raft of teams in both codes making breakthroughs, then there was the Irish football team too. I'll leave the music out of it as thats subjective, and you could make an argument that other decades were better

Yeah, the economy picked up after the misery of the 80's. Rugby fans might not have liked it in the 90's, but at least real fans went to games rather than clueless idiot bandwagon jumpers that go now, like me.

w/s/p/c/ · 25-06-2019 5:02pm

branie2 wrote: »

1995 was that scorcher of a summer

Broke my arm that summer playing football. In a cast for the month of July, was horrible in the heat.

Started the 90's as a child and when they ended I was technically classed as an adult of 18. Great memories, but to see some of the kids today dressing in the shell suit, chunky runners and the button up adidas tracksuit bottoms makes me laugh at how naff (not the coats of the same name.. remember those!!) things looked.

pah · 25-06-2019 6:57pm

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

Broke my arm that summer playing football. In a cast for the month of July, was horrible in the heat.

Started the 90's as a child and when they ended I was technically classed as an adult of 18. Great memories, but to see some of the kids today dressing in the shell suit, chunky runners and the button up adidas tracksuit bottoms makes me laugh at how naff (not the coats of the same name.. remember those!!) things looked.

Don't forget x-works and gravity jeans. Had a pair where the crotch was nearly to my knees FML.

I'm sure the older generation at the time looked on in horror the same way I do at the loss of ankle coverage the young lads have these days.

pah · 25-06-2019 6:58pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Forgot about that, used to love F1 when Jordan were around. Heinz-Harald Frentzen, legend.

You forgot the best console of all time, the SNES

Played a lot in my friends house but never had a SNES myself

Used to love watching F1 on the Sunday, hungover in the couch or staying up late for Melbourne.

For Forks Sake · 25-06-2019 7:13pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

He also kept it and grew it.

He would have been better off investing it in the stock market/

He's made many absolutely appalling investments, including managing to bankrupt two casinos, how incompetent do you need to be to do that?

https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-rich/

Church on Tuesday · 25-06-2019 7:15pm

For Forks Sake wrote: »

He would have been better off investing it in the stock market/

He's made many absolutely appalling investments, including managing to bankrupt two casinos, how incompetent do you need to be to do that?

https://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-rich/

Small change to him.

gormdubhgorm · 25-06-2019 7:26pm

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

Broke my arm that summer playing football. In a cast for the month of July, was horrible in the heat.

Started the 90's as a child and when they ended I was technically classed as an adult of 18. Great memories, but to see some of the kids today dressing in the shell suit, chunky runners and the button up adidas tracksuit bottoms makes me laugh at how naff (not the coats of the same name.. remember those!!) things looked.

Jayus, I remember getting slagging cos I had a naff coat.
I also remember obsessions with the latest lynx fragrances among teenage young lads.

pah · 25-06-2019 7:53pm

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Jayus, I remember getting slagging cos I had a naff coat.
I also remember obsessions with the latest lynx fragrances among teenage young lads.

Still buy a can of Africa every now and again

Oriental and Atlantis were popular too

grindle · 25-06-2019 7:56pm

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Jayus, I remember getting slagging cos I had a naff coat.
I also remember obsessions with the latest lynx fragrances among teenage young lads.

Back in fashion now bai.

Seems to have appreciated in value too, I hope you have a few still laying around!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 25-06-2019 8:59pm

topper75 wrote: »

Don't really consider that part of my life.
I'm shocked by the amount of people who do.

Did you meet him? What did he do to you?

He's the leader of the world's biggest superpower. It's part of all of our lives, whether we like it or not. It's also a rather strange attitude to think that we can only dislike him or his policies if we have actually met him.

I'm sure you'll be calling up everybody who mentioned political developments in the 90s and asking them how people they never met can be part of their life.

rm75 · 25-06-2019 10:31pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Smoking soap bar washed down with a few pints of Breo

God that takes me back , a mate (now sadly departed) had a job promoting that p*ss. Even free i couldnt drink it !!

Good times

dd973 · 25-06-2019 11:00pm

Socio and politically it was worse than the 80's in many respects, especially in Russia after Communism's collapse and replacement with gangsterism, it's also the decade synonymous with Clinton and Blair, basically hail-fellow-well-met versions of Reagan and Thatcher.

SEPT 23 1989 · 25-06-2019 11:03pm

It was Ireland’s 1960’s

Purple Mountain · 25-06-2019 11:18pm

Longwave radio Atlantic 252.

Emme · 25-06-2019 11:46pm

Coppers opened in the 1990s, 1995 I think

Actually a lot of places were opening up and starting out in the 1990s. It was a decade of beginnings for many, the misery of the 1980s was fading and a higher percentage of the population had a solid roof over their head than now.

It seemed like Ireland was throwing off the yoke of the famine and the Troubles and starting to win worldwide - football, the Eurovision, Riverdance, U2, Hothouse Flowers... For the first time it was cool to be Irish.

People had a better work/life balance in general. Shorter commutes and you didn't feel like a slacker if you left work on time. People talked to each other on buses and trains.

Most of all there was a sense of hope about the 1990s. It was a relatively peaceful decade. Like somebody said earlier, there was a massive shift after 2001. The world seemed to speed up after that, people trusted each other less.

Personally the 1990s was my best decade so maybe I'm biased.

freshpopcorn · 25-06-2019 11:54pm

Lot's of the Uk chains Boots, Tesco, River Island,etc all started opening in the 1990's!

branie2 · 25-06-2019 11:59pm

I went abroad on holiday a few times in the 90s: France twice, England and Wales and Portugal.

w/s/p/c/ · 26-06-2019 10:09am

pah wrote: »

Don't forget x-works and gravity jeans. Had a pair where the crotch was nearly to my knees FML.

I'm sure the older generation at the time looked on in horror the same way I do at the loss of ankle coverage the young lads have these days.

I spent a good chunk of my confirmation money in '94 on X-Works jeans and tops before heading off for a "luxury" holiday in Butlins in Pwllheli, Wales for a week, great times!! :cool:

RINO87 · 26-06-2019 11:49am

Tony Fentons Hotline. The 2fm beat on the streets!!

Someone earlier posted Steal my Sunshine by Len, a comment on youtube about that tune hits the nail on the head.
"It seems the world was just one sun kissed pool party right up to sep 11 2001" The world has really been such a mess since, for many reasons.

branie2 · 26-06-2019 12:12pm

The Harry Enfield shows and The Fast Show

L1011 · 26-06-2019 12:23pm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

He also kept it and grew it.

By less than a market tracking fund would have. E.g. he's worse than a quite crap pension fund.

Church on Tuesday · 26-06-2019 1:35pm

L1011 wrote: »

By less than a market tracking fund would have. E.g. he's worse than a quite crap pension fund.

Christ, he's Donald Trump, he's not going to be on the breadline anytime soon.

I dislike the man as much as you do but he's done well for himself and is president of USA and fair play to him.

maccored · 26-06-2019 1:48pm

people live in the past too much. in 30 years time they'll be saying now was the best time ever

YFlyer · 26-06-2019 1:55pm

Happy Mondays.

odyssey06 · 26-06-2019 1:56pm

YFlyer wrote: »

Happy Mondays.

Were Mondays happier in the 90s?

Church on Tuesday · 26-06-2019 2:08pm

Flashing lights in the heels of your shoes!

riclad · 26-06-2019 3:38pm

People who write on blogs, in magazines are mainly over 25,
they remember the 90,s ,
it was the time when they were teens .
Every person remembers the music when they were young as being
special.
the 90,S was a great time for the media, it was the peak of cd sales .
There were more record stores like virgin .
Before limewire and napster when people discovered they could download
music very easily without being a tech expert .
Before the mp3 file format was invented it was not practical to download
music .
there were pirate radio stations that broadcast pop music ,
before they were all shut down.
People used to listen to bbc radio as they were only a few pop music
shows on irish radio before 2fm was started .
Young people have a more difficult life now , rents are high,
house prices are alot more expensive than the 90,s .
There seems to be no solution in sight to the housing crisis .

BeerWolf · 26-06-2019 4:39pm

If you were a techno geek/gamer the 90s were bloody awesome. Entertainment was great too with films and shows.

grindle · 26-06-2019 5:27pm

riclad wrote: »

There seems to be no solution in sight to the housing crisis.

There's a very simple solution, but landlords, developers and mortgage flippers don't want their property ponzi to crumble so building slowly in order to maintain unjustifiably high prices is the order of the day. A house for €300k is totes bargain, roysh?

SharpshooterTom · 26-06-2019 5:49pm

maccored wrote: »

people live in the past too much. in 30 years time they'll be saying now was the best time ever

You reckon people will look back fondly on the era when Trump was president.

In addition to a global financial crisis, austerity and Brexit. I asked people how the 2010s would be remembered and I didn't get many good responses.

Why do people love the 90s

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