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  • For all those who grew up in the 90's....

    You know you're a 90's kid if...

    1. You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
    2. You remember when it was actually worth getting up on a Saturday morning to watch Live&Kicking (you know the number - 0181 811 8181!) or SM:TV.
    3. You had a huge fringe at some point in your childhood.
    4. You remember reading and watching "Goosebumps".
    5. You took plastic cartoon lunchboxes to school.
    6. You remember the craze of YoYo's and Tamagotchis (and the subsequent banning of them in school).
    7. You still get the urge to say "Not" after every sentence. Not.
    8. You knew that Kimberley, the Pink Ranger, and Tommy, the Green Ranger, were meant to be.
    9. You collected Pokémon cards.
    10. You played and/or collected Pogs.
    11. You had a weird alien that lived in gooey stuff in a plastic 'pod' and thought that if you stuck 2 back to back they would have a baby!
    12. You watched the original Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Ninja Turtles (back in the day when they were 'Hero' Turtles).
    13. You remember when the new Beenie Babies were always sold out.
    14. You got your mum to buy 'BN' buscuits.
    15. You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears but at the corners of your eyes.
    16. You know the Macarena by heart and Saturday Night too.
    17. "Talk to the hand".
    18. You remember the time before Literacy and Numeracy hour existed.
    19. You thought that Brain from "Pinkey and the Brain" actually could take over the world.
    20. You remember Bum Bags, they weren't even cool then.
    21. You always wanted to be on Fun House.
    22. You collected Tazos.
    23. 2 words, Spice Girls.
    24. "Clarissa Explains It All" and "Saved By The Bell" were your favourite shows.
    25. You wore as many shag bands as you could fit on your arm.
    26. You remember Robbie leaving and Take That splitting up :'(
    27. You wanted lights in your trainers like the cool kids.
    28. Nintendo was replaced by Super Nintendo.
    29. Computer screens were black (or green) with white writing.
    30. Disney, Coke and MacDonalds ruled the world.
    31. You thought that "South Park" was hillarious even if you didn't get half the jokes.
    32. You had a Nokia 3310 (or really wanted one).
    33. Michael Jackson was weird but still respected for his music.
    34. All the boys had their hair in 'curtains'.
    35. Nickelodeon was cool.
    36. The Chuckle Brothers were not.
    37. "Wax on, Wax off." Need i say more?
    38. You wore Addidas 3 stripe joggers or poppers.
    39. Nike Air Max and Reebok Classics were 'must have' trainers (and Kickers for school).
    40. Girls thought blue mascara looked good.
    41. Girls thought hair mascara looked good.
    42. You remember Mr. Motivator.
    43. You had scrunchies in every colour and hair bands with your name on it in glitter.
    44. You bought Smash Hits Magazine for the song lyrics.
    45. Everyone owned something from NafNaf or Fruit Of The Loom (probably in grey).
    46. You ate Spicy Tomato flavour Space Raiders (and they were only 10p!).
    47. Tammy Girl was where we got our cool clothes.
    48. Good Saturday evening telly consisted of "Gladiators", "Catchphrase" and "Noel's House Party".
    49. You loved CKone.
    50. It's PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec.
    51. Everyone ate Fruit Salads and Black Jacks.
    52. Chris Evans presented everything.
    53. You had at least one Troll.
    54. You had / wanted / hated Furbys.
    55. You remember that "Hooch" was the original alcopop.
    56. You taped the Pepsi Chart Show.
    57. "I know you are, you said you are, but what am I then?" was the answer to all insults.
    58. You shouted "LEG IT!" when running away from something.
    59. You wore jelly shoes.
    60. You loved "Knightmare" and "The Crystal Maze" (which are now repeated on Challege TV!).
    61. You were always singing the theme tune to "Round The Twist".
    62. They will ALWAYS be Opal Fruits, not Starbursts.
    63. You had a million gel pens.
    64. You watched "The Poddington Peas".
    65. You remember classic Levi's ads such as "Spaceman" and "Flat Eric".
    66. "If you like a lot of chocolate on your buscuit join our Club".
    67. You remember the craze of Sratch and Sniff.
    68. You remember Sony Walkmans.
    69. You know who Alf is.
    70. You waited for TOTP to see who was number 1, especially on xmas day.
    71. You wanted to / tried to make Tracey Island.
    72. You compared football stickers in the playground "got, got, need".
    73. Conkers was a serious playground sport.
    74. You ever encouraged a chubby friend to do the Truffle Shuffle.
    75. You know who loves Orange Soda.
    76. You really wanted to meet Dave Benson Phillips.
    77. You're too sexy for your shirt.
    78. You still get the urge to dog-pile the weakest person when someone shouts "Bundle".
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  • #2
    Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

    Blimey Lindsay.................... Was glad to be a child of the Seventies after reading all that twaddle!! LOL
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    • #3
      Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

      YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2008 when...
      1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.
      2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
      3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
      4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
      5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
      6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your mobile phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
      7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen
      8. Leaving the house without your mobile phone, which you didn't even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
      10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
      11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
      12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
      13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
      14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
      15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.

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      • #4
        Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

        Brilliant love it!! LOL ..... But oh how true!
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        • #5
          Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

          What's weird is that you could apply half of those '90s' things to the 80s or the 70s. Wax on, wax off? The Karate Kid came out in 1984 fer chrissakes, I was getting Fruit Salads and Black Jacks in the early 70s and my sister had a Troll in the swinging 60s!

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          • #6
            Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

            I can take it back further than that Wil - we got Black Jacks and Fruit Salads four for 1d (that's right - four for one OLD penny!!) back in the late fifties !!
            Joybee - DYR SUPERGRAN !!
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            • #7
              Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

              Four for a penny ? LOL thats ancient history

              I thought I was going far back when it was two of 'em for a penny

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              • #8
                Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

                Originally posted by ariesangel1985 View Post
                You know you're a 90's kid if...

                2. You remember when it was actually worth getting up on a Saturday morning to watch Live&Kicking (you know the number - 0181 811 8181!) or SM:TV.
                I remembered the pre-new code version was used on other shows so googled and found this interesting snippet, from the BBC website:

                Originally posted by some other bloke onthe bbc site
                I asked a knowledgable friend, who said: "Heh heh - well, I *could* always add my 2 penn'orth and make the following points:

                1) Saturday Superstore's number was ALWAYS 01-811 8055 as it ran from 1982- 1987, well before the 071/081 split and PhONEday.

                2) Going Live (1987 - 1994) also used 01-811 8055 until the 071/081 split (on May 6th 1990), when they then switched to 081-811 8181.

                3) 081-811 8181 was carried over to Live and Kicking in 1994 for part of the first series, before PhONEday in 1995 when of course it then changed to 0181- 811 8181 (it was sometime in March 1995, IIRC) and they kept until the introduced their 0845-610 1515 number sometime in the last 2 years of the programme.

                4) If I were being *really* pedantic, Multi-Coloured Swap Shop's ORIGINAL number (from the first series, 1976-1977) was actually 01-288 8055 - they only moved to the 01-811 8055 number in time for the second series in 1977.

                I COULD, but I won't "
                Toby , Wilts, UK
                Wonder if that's Toby Anstis?

                I must admit, being a child of the seventies, I loved Swap Shop, and actually managed to enjoy nearly every other Saturday morning kid's show ever since (up to about 2004, not including No73 - hated that). SM:TV with Ant & Dec was probably my favourite. I guess some people never grow up!

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                • #9
                  Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

                  OMG! That is ME!!!! LOL That list is so awesome lol

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                  • #10
                    Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

                    Given a bit of time I can think up a few more, some that come to mind:

                    You can sing the Fast Forward jingle.

                    Watching Going For Gold or Turnabout on holiday lunchtimes.

                    Wanting your Dad to by a camcorder so you could get a home video mishap onto You've Been Framed.

                    A new Mr Bean being the talk of the TV.

                    Sony Playstation Vs Sega Saturn arguments at school invloving the term polygon mapping.

                    Burning your mouth on a too hot Poptart.
                    The Trickster On The Roof

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                    • #11
                      Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

                      Poptarts!! lol Ouchy....definatly done that! lol

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                      • #12
                        Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

                        I remember Watchdog (In it's "potential deathtrap" phase) having a feature on the dangers of Poptarts, with lots of digs at the slogan "So Hot They're Cool!".
                        The Trickster On The Roof

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                        • #13
                          Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

                          Might I make some suggestions?

                          You'd buy Vice Versas and Spira.
                          You'd slap some Brut on your face and do that 'Home Alone' scream.
                          You'd tune in to Sky One on Sundays at 6 for a certain yellow cartoon family.

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                          • #14
                            Re: For all those who grew up in the 90's....

                            Calling Baywatch "Babewatch" & impressing your friends by doing the "Baywatch Run". I can still do it.

                            Getting a friend who had Sky to video a show or first screening of a film for you.

                            Joking about the picture quality of Channel 5 when it eventually started.

                            Going from buying singles on vinyl, tape & CD over the course of a decade.

                            Making a Blair Witch Project stickman & using it as a mascot.

                            Having "what was it all about" discussions at school / college the night after Twin Peaks or the X Files.
                            The Trickster On The Roof

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