All i gotta say is 90's cartoons. 
Weren't the nineties great?
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The 90s sucked, especially the music. There were some good books and TV shows and stuff, but overall it was not the greatest decade I've seen. I suppose the best thing about it was that it made the 80s seem not so bad. 
TheLonelySquire
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I discovered latin chicks and never looked back.
Yankees dominated and put together the greatest season ever in '98.
Started my businesses.
Generally a great time.
Yankees dominated and put together the greatest season ever in '98.
Started my businesses.
Generally a great time.
TheLonelySquire
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All i gotta say is 90's cartoons.
Ya think? Give me '70's Scooby Doo and TAS anyday! Of course I'm partial!
Life sucked for me in the 90s. Five the 00s anyday!
EDIT: Wow, it's early. I meant to say "Give me the 2000's any day!" and not "Five the 00s anyday!"
EDIT: Wow, it's early. I meant to say "Give me the 2000's any day!" and not "Five the 00s anyday!"
TheLonelySquire
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For me the end of the good times occurred right around the time NAFTA was signed into law.
Overnight much industry around here ground to a halt and fled to Mexico on the flimsiest excuse, we had 200 plastic factories here when I moved in, A year later we had 10.
Things started picking up again only to have things flee to China in 2002.... Went from 15 plastic factories and over a hundred tool-and-die/metal shops to less than a dozen viable manufacturing companies.
Really pisses me off, we start recovering from that and now things grind to a halt because of the automotive market crash.
Optics is the "next big thing" but I don't want to get involved I'm going to ride my industry into the ground... Soon as they relax transfer-of-sensitive-technology laws (even further) optics will fly overseas to China.
I assume you're in upstate NY? I've been going up there for work since the mid-90's and from what I understand it's not just companies that were leaving, but people have also been leaving in droves because of the lack of work. True or am I mistaken?
the nineties brought us Nerf blasters and supersoakers
Ok, just for that I'll accept that the nineties were good.
Correct
Infraction for incorrectI suppose the best thing about it was that it made the 80s seem not so bad.
I think the recent 90s music thread definitely suggested to me that 90s music was actually pretty good.
The 90s sucked, especially the music. There were some good books and TV shows and stuff, but overall it was not the greatest decade I've seen. I suppose the best thing about it was that it made the 80s seem not so bad.
Actually the 80's were even better than the 90's. This is what life has taught me. The further back in time you go, the better life is.
Ah, the Nostalgia Effect™. Sadly, it's not quite as good as it used to be.The 90s sucked, especially the music. There were some good books and TV shows and stuff, but overall it was not the greatest decade I've seen. I suppose the best thing about it was that it made the 80s seem not so bad.
Actually the 80's were even better than the 90's. This is what life has taught me. The further back in time you go, the better life is.
I definitely look back on the 90s with fondness. I thought the music was great with the grunge movement and then all the great female song writers that came on the scene in the last half. You had Green Day, Matchbox Twenty, Nirvana, Collective Soul, Alanis Morissette, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, The Indigo Girls, Paula Cole, Third Eye Blind, Counting Crows etc. It wasn't all about lip synching and studio creations.
Television was great with TNG, DS9, B5, Melrose Place, Roseanne, Seinfeld, The Practice etc. In fact some of those shows were so good that networks are resurrecting them hoping to capitalize on our nostalgia such as the CW is doing with watered down versions that are only the show in name only like MP and 90210 or in the feature film realm Star Trek. Shows were given a chance to become good now they yank them off the air in the blink of an eye. Plus tv wasn't as complicated as it has become recently. Back then you could just sit back and enjoy tv now you have to consult wikipedia and keep notes because they've gotten so interconnected with massive rosters of characters and plot mythologies.
Clinton was a fun president. CNN was actually worth watching with anchors like Judy Woodruff, Natalie Allen, Bernie Shaw, Lou Waters. Now we have idiots at the anchor desk who can't project the least bit objectivity and don't really report but resort to Twitter for their journalists.
Movies were a lot better. MTV and VH1 actually played music videos and had VJs back then. The Real World was actually a compelling reality show instead of some well-trodden superficial sex/drunk fest like it has been for the last decade. MTV actually covered Spring Break now we are treated to crap like dating shows. The MTV Video Music Awards used to have some credibility.
It was also a more carefree time. No financial responsibilities. I was in high school and college. My dad was still alive as was my grandmother who helped raise me.
No stupid bluetooths, no annoying text messaging, no dumb social networking sites like Facebook. People seemed a bit smarter back then too. Right now like Bill Maher said "America is a dumb country".
Television was great with TNG, DS9, B5, Melrose Place, Roseanne, Seinfeld, The Practice etc. In fact some of those shows were so good that networks are resurrecting them hoping to capitalize on our nostalgia such as the CW is doing with watered down versions that are only the show in name only like MP and 90210 or in the feature film realm Star Trek. Shows were given a chance to become good now they yank them off the air in the blink of an eye. Plus tv wasn't as complicated as it has become recently. Back then you could just sit back and enjoy tv now you have to consult wikipedia and keep notes because they've gotten so interconnected with massive rosters of characters and plot mythologies.
Clinton was a fun president. CNN was actually worth watching with anchors like Judy Woodruff, Natalie Allen, Bernie Shaw, Lou Waters. Now we have idiots at the anchor desk who can't project the least bit objectivity and don't really report but resort to Twitter for their journalists.
Movies were a lot better. MTV and VH1 actually played music videos and had VJs back then. The Real World was actually a compelling reality show instead of some well-trodden superficial sex/drunk fest like it has been for the last decade. MTV actually covered Spring Break now we are treated to crap like dating shows. The MTV Video Music Awards used to have some credibility.It was also a more carefree time. No financial responsibilities. I was in high school and college. My dad was still alive as was my grandmother who helped raise me.
No stupid bluetooths, no annoying text messaging, no dumb social networking sites like Facebook. People seemed a bit smarter back then too. Right now like Bill Maher said "America is a dumb country".
I definitely look back on the 90s with fondness. I thought the music was great with the grunge movement and then all the great female song writers that came on the scene in the last half. You had Green Day, Matchbox Twenty, Nirvana, Collective Soul, Alanis Morissette, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, The Indigo Girls, Paula Cole, Third Eye Blind, Counting Crows etc. It wasn't all about lip synching and studio creations.
Television was great with TNG, DS9, B5, Melrose Place, Roseanne, Seinfeld, The Practice etc. In fact some of those shows were so good that networks are resurrecting them hoping to capitalize on our nostalgia such as the CW is doing with watered down versions that are only the show in name only like MP and 90210 or in the feature film realm Star Trek. Shows were given a chance to become good now they yank them off the air in the blink of an eye. Plus tv wasn't as complicated as it has become recently. Back then you could just sit back and enjoy tv now you have to consult wikipedia and keep notes because they've gotten so interconnected with massive rosters of characters and plot mythologies.
Clinton was a fun president. CNN was actually worth watching with anchors like Judy Woodruff, Natalie Allen, Bernie Shaw, Lou Waters. Now we have idiots at the anchor desk who can't project the least bit objectivity and don't really report but resort to Twitter for their journalists.
It was also a more carefree time. No financial responsibilities. I was in high school and college. My dad was still alive as was my grandmother who helped raise me.
No stupid bluetooths, no annoying text messaging, no dumb social networking sites like Facebook. People seemed a bit smarter back then too. Right now like Bill Maher said "America is a dumb country".
I can related to everything you said. Brilliant!
The 90s sucked, especially the music. There were some good books and TV shows and stuff, but overall it was not the greatest decade I've seen. I suppose the best thing about it was that it made the 80s seem not so bad.
Rubbish.
The 90s was great for music. The 80s was a wasteland for music apart from the like of the Jam and The Stone Roses.
Pretty much this. The '90s were awesome. I was six when they started and sixteen when they ended. Now I'm coming up on twenty-six years, and while this decade has had its moments (particularly 2004 and 2007I definitely look back on the 90s with fondness. I thought the music was great with the grunge movement and then all the great female song writers that came on the scene in the last half. You had Green Day, Matchbox Twenty, Nirvana, Collective Soul, Alanis Morissette, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, The Indigo Girls, Paula Cole, Third Eye Blind, Counting Crows etc. It wasn't all about lip synching and studio creations.
Television was great with TNG, DS9, B5, Melrose Place, Roseanne, Seinfeld, The Practice etc. In fact some of those shows were so good that networks are resurrecting them hoping to capitalize on our nostalgia such as the CW is doing with watered down versions that are only the show in name only like MP and 90210 or in the feature film realm Star Trek. Shows were given a chance to become good now they yank them off the air in the blink of an eye. Plus tv wasn't as complicated as it has become recently. Back then you could just sit back and enjoy tv now you have to consult wikipedia and keep notes because they've gotten so interconnected with massive rosters of characters and plot mythologies.
Clinton was a fun president. CNN was actually worth watching with anchors like Judy Woodruff, Natalie Allen, Bernie Shaw, Lou Waters. Now we have idiots at the anchor desk who can't project the least bit objectivity and don't really report but resort to Twitter for their journalists.
It was also a more carefree time. No financial responsibilities. I was in high school and college. My dad was still alive as was my grandmother who helped raise me.
No stupid bluetooths, no annoying text messaging, no dumb social networking sites like Facebook. People seemed a bit smarter back then too. Right now like Bill Maher said "America is a dumb country".
), it just hasn't been that great overall. Hopefully the 2010s will be better.
