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By tombugler
#216590
How you know you experienced the 90's:


1) 10p Mr Frosty Ice Pops on long summer days!

2) Gordon the Gopher!

3) You could do or tried to do the Prodigy step. 'You're no good 4 =
me....'

4) You owned or longed for an Adidas three stripe tracksuit

5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain", "What
= is love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" and 'How Bizarre, How Bizarre"

6) Girls thought Blue Mascara was cool!

7) Girls actually fancied Garry Barlow more than Robbie Williams

8) The Racoons! (nuff said)

9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max, and wore them to death

10) Mr Motivator (What ever happened to him?)

11) Running on the spot dancing!

12) You wore leggings/cycling shorts with long t-shirts

13) You owned a Bennetton, NafNaf, sweater shop jumper or waistcoat

14) Girls owned scrunchies in an array of colours and tacky headbands =
with their names written on in thick glitter

16) You bought Smash Hits for the song lyrics and the immense amount of
stickers that you would stick everywhere!

17) You had a pen pal

18) You could only watch the Simpson's on sky

19) On a Saturday afternoon you watched Catchphrase, =
Gladiators,Generation Game, Noels House Party and then Casualty

20) You taped the Pepsi Chartshow on radio one and tired in vain to =
pause the tape before the annoying guy talked and ruined the whole
thing.

21) Cans of Coke were 25p

22) 10p Space Raiders Crisps

23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have

24) Sharkie & George were the crimebusters of the sea

25) Puffa jackets

26) You used the line "it's a free country" every day

27) The Sky Sports Blimp!

28) Impulse body spray for girls

29) Hooch Alcoholic Lemonade (where's it gone?!)

30) 'Don't forget your toothbrush', 'TFI' and Big Breakfast with Chris =
Evans

31) You had at least one troll

32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Night. Youalso tried to

scat like Scatman John! Bi bat ba ba da bo...

33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie & Sharni got
together!

34) You watched Byker Grove 'ha ha ha whatcha laughin at!' (the =
themesong ending), and saw PJ get shot in the eye with a paintball!

35) PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec! Dodgy Pop Not Dodgy Presenting!

36) Shellsuits & bumbags!

37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210

38) Home and Away was a prime time ITV programe watched by millions

39) You owned a Spice Girls album

40) Fruit salads and black jacks!

41) Strike it lucky on a sunday night with Michael Barrymore when he was
straight & married

42) Chain letters

43) You had fake ID

44) You remember Todd Landers in Neighbours

45) You religiously watched Saved by the Bell on a Saturday morning!

46) You more than likely lost/nearly lost a wobbly tooth on a wham bar!!

47) CK one (probably the fake one from the market)

48) Going Live, then Live and Kicking was the place to be on a Saturday
Morning - you know you remember the number 0181 811 8181

49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air

50) You collected Premier League Stickers and did swoops at playtime

51) Girls wore crappy lipstick such as - coffee shimmer, heather shimmer
= and birthday suit!

52) You wore kickers and wallaby's with the tags hanging from them

53) You thought saying - "I know you are, you said you are but what am =
I" to every cuss that that came your way!

54) "love got the world in motion" with the John Barnes Rap

55) when you used to run away from some thing and shout ' leg iiiiiitt'

56) rubbing your chin and saying 'Bo Yeah!'

You loved the 90's!!

Big it up!
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By Quincy
#216593
pepsi chart show was on capital network not radio 1
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By kendra k
#216596
the american 90s were cooler. we had michael jordan.
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By tombugler
#216597
And a war.
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By Quincy
#216598
so where did you copy and paste that from thomas?
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By Sidders
#216600
Can't be arsed reading all of them. Aren't space raiders still 10p?
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By kendra k
#216602
only one war? we had a couple different armed conflicts- iraq pt.1, somalia, bosnia...
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By Quincy
#216603
yeah they are but you get one crisp less
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By tombugler
#216604
Quincy wrote:so where did you copy and paste that from thomas?


Someone emailled it to me in work
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By Quincy
#216612
yeah its crap

also i find it hard to believe you have a job
By David
#216620
all so true:

8: The Racoons! (nuff said)

19: On a Saturday afternoon you watched Catchphrase, Gladiators,Generation Game, Noels House Party and then Casualty

35: PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec! Dodgy Pop Not Dodgy Presenting!

48: Going Live, then Live and Kicking was the place to be on a Saturday morning.
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By Console
#216622
Incredibly only 2 of those apply to me (18 and 40). I must not have experianced the 90's in full!
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By kendra k
#216625
none of those apply to me, except maybe 17 because my school made us try. oh well.
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By parody number 9
#216628
2, 5, 8, 10, 18, 19, 30, 35, 38, 41, 48, 54.

However - 48 - Remember the other 'great' number anyone? When they changed it to a 0800 number?
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By Steve.
#216649
I'll say yes to the majority of them. God that brings back memories!
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By fish heads
#216651
parody number 9 wrote:When they changed it to a 0800 number?


It was never 0800.

They did change it to 0845 though. 0845 610 1515 if i'm correct and thus a saddo
By David
#216745
Sidla wrote:Can't be arsed reading all of them. Aren't space raiders still 10p?


By sheer coincindence... note came into the shop I work at (well, I'm in the post office bit) today to say that space raders would be going up to 20p (a whole 100% price increase) from next week.
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By Gigglyboots
#216746
They are nasty smelling crisps, I would never eat them.
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By fish heads
#216747
At the spar I went to today, they had a box full of 10p packets, and next to it a different flavour that was 20p. Strange
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By Betti911
#216751
Gigglyboots wrote:They are nasty smelling crisps, I would never eat them.


I used to eat them as a student after a drunken night out if I couldn't afford chips. Times were hard!
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By kendra k
#216755
you guys have spar in the uk? neat!

the crisps sound horrid. i sort of want to try one.
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By Quincy
#216758
there are loads of different 10p crisps.
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By Betti911
#216761
They go from being so bland they are tasteless to being so packed with flavour they make you choke.
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By Sidders
#216768
Yeah, Space Raiders make you sweat buckets.
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By kendra k
#216771
are they full of msg or something?

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