The 90s thread

[Del191229]

Also, early career coke fiend Robert Downey Jr delivering the only credible Hollywood Aussie accent (apart from his other one in Tropic Thunder) ever in one of the greatest movies ever.

 

[Gough]

I even had hair the length of Shannon Hoon when this came out.

 

[Kram]

Phone calls were excellent for prank calls though.

I had a prick of a Year 10 maths teacher, we hated each other.

He comes into class one day and announces his missus has given birth and he's taking a week off.

He comes back and I spend the next three weeks calling his house at about 10PM to wake him, her and the baby.

Seeing his sleep deprived face made it almost worthwhile when he failed me lol.

I can't believe the teachers at our school were silly enough to have their numbers listed publicly in the pb with their home address in a small town. Rang one bloke we hated up at like 1am using a stoner voice asking for "Tim". Then wait for about the time it would take someone to go back to sleep and the ring back and ask for the same person again. He also had a beautifully massive corrugated iron roof as well that was just perfect for lobbing rocks and eggs at. Almost dead sure he strongly suspected it was me but just couldn't prove it.

 

[Del191229]

I can't believe the teachers at our school were silly enough to have their numbers listed publicly in the pb with their home address in a small town. Rang one bloke we hated up at like 1am using a stoner voice asking for "Tim". Then wait for about the time it would take someone to go back to sleep and the ring back and ask for the same person again. He also had a beatifully massive corrugated iron roof as well that was just perfect for lobbing rocks and eggs at. Almost dead sure he strongly suspected it was me but just couldn't prove it.

Yep, and ordering pizzas to their house as well, same operation.

 

[Del191229]

At the risk of sounding like I'm ripping off Mick Molloy, AFL Squadron.

Sitting around some lounge room in the inner northwest on a Saturday morning, still flying, and watching AFL Squadron. Golden times.

 

[TJASTA]

So um you guys like Rocko's Modern Life?

 

[Scotland]

I kinda wish I was around for the 1990s Perth pub scene. There was a good little mini doco on one of the FTA networks over here a year or two ago which reminisced about the club scene in the 80s and 90s. I don't think Perth was ever really a haven for dance/disco/trance and pills etc. but there used to be a stack of venues with live music and taps pouring.

This is the Raffles Hotel I remember as a kid. Used to drive along the freeway and see the lights across the river.

The same awesome art deco building is still there, but behind it is a luxury apartment tower. And the Swan Gold sign is long gone, replaced by a cringeworthy Asahi sign which just screams 'this place is now for people who don't have good taste in beer but will pay $15 a pint'.

Used to be a rough and tumble venue with live rock and roll, bikies etc. I know of a car being stolen from the carpark and then later returned after some kind of 'agreement' was reached without police involvement.

Now (and the area has been affluent for a long time, not a recent thing) it's $13 for a pint of Heineken and some NIMBY that lives in the apartment tower keeps taking them to court wanting the beer garden and bar shut down because it's too loud. **** right off m8. The pub has been there since the 1930s.

 

[Del191229]

Another 90s thing - the SBS Friday Night Porno.

Usually perfectly timed to come on after the footy - and unlike kids now that can just anything they want on their phone, the SBS Friday night porno was a lucky dip.

Maybe it would be some Danish coming of age drama with a whole heap of pert young blonde girls getting their **** out, maybe it would be some savage Romanian crime thing where you'd be confronted with enormous bushes, you wached anyway.

pr0n in general in the 90s was usually found in bushes near the park, or provided by that kid at school who had found his Dad's stash.

 

[Gough]

And this mob were everywhere for about 18 months in the late 90s.


Greatest footy tune ever (with apologies to New Order but John Barnes rapping was not cool)

 

[Scotland]

OK this is 1989 but still amaze.

 

[Del191229]

And this mob were everywhere for about 18 months in the late 90s.

 

[Del191229]

Another 90s thing - terrorism was something very different, something that happened other places.

Especially Northern Ireland.

 

[brucetiki]

Double Dare was great, they don't seem to make messy shows like that anymore. That thing with the rollers looked scary, it would take a leap of faith to go into that.

When Channel 10 were desperately broke around 1990, they did Family Double as a spin off. While Family Double Dare only lasted 3 episodes, it was hosted by a young Larry Emdur.

Emdur then moved to 7 to host The Main Event before landing at 9 as host of The Price is Right. His version was meant to be a summer filler for Sale of the Century (hence why the incorrect buzzer was the same as Sale's), but was so popular it was moved to 5:30pm weeknights once Sale returned.

 

[Gough]

Another 90s thing - terrorism was something very different, something that happened other places.

Especially Northern Ireland.

Living in England at the time you were pretty aware, Tubes were constantly being stopped because some dickhead had left a bag lying round, and in Windsor you weren't allowed to leave your bike locked up near the Castle. Most effective IRA campaign imo was the 97 election, made a hell of a mess without exploding a single device.

 

[Del191229]

Sophie Lee on The Bugs Bunny Show.

Those tshirts.

Jeez.

 

[brucetiki]

Most of my cricket highlights of the 90s were based around one dayers. Michael Bevan hitting Roger Harper back down the ground for 4 to beat the Windies, South Africa bottling the semi in the 99 WC, Australia A knocking off Australia and making the selectors panic. There were great test moments also but the 90s was the peak of ODI cricket.

England were also at their lowest ebb in the 90's and were perennial easy beats - even failing to make it out of the group stage of the 1999 World Cup.

 

[Del191229]

Living in England at the time you were pretty aware, Tubes were constantly being stopped because some dickhead had left a bag lying round, and in Windsor you weren't allowed to leave your bike locked up near the Castle. Most effective IRA campaign imo was the 97 election, made a hell of a mess without exploding a single device.

Yeah, early 90s teenage world affairs obessed me would be amazed to know I've walked up the Murder Mile in Belfast and along the Green Line in Beirut without a care in the world.

 

[Mofra]

Another 90s thing - the SBS Friday Porno.

Followed by Eat Carpet

 

[Scotland]

England were also at their lowest ebb in the 90's and were perennial easy beats - even failing to make it out of the group stage of the 1999 World Cup.

I find it amusing watching the cricket now and hearing how smug some of the commentators are when England are on top.

Well all remember how rubbish England were when you were in charge, Nasser.

 

[Gough]

Yeah, early 90s teenage world affairs obessed me would be amazed to know I've walked up the Murder Mile in Belfast and along the Green Line in Beirut without a care in the world.

I think of some of the stupid s*** I got up to travelling and it horrifies me now. My Gran kept all my letters that I sent to here when I lived overseas dating back to the early 90s. They're fascinating to read now, mostly old school Aerogrammes, I had a lot of the SlientAlarm's about me in my early 20s.

 

[Gough]

I find it amusing watching the cricket now and hearing how smug some of the commentators are when England are on top.

Well all remember how rubbish England were when you were in charge, Nasser.

Nasser sowed the seeds of that 2005 team, credit where it's due.

 

[Del191229]

Followed by Eat Carpet

Ah yes, majestic times.

Also, trying to stay awake to watch more of Rage, knowing that as soon as you went to sleep they'd start playing good stuff.

 

[Del191229]

I think of some of the stupid s*** I got up to travelling and it horrifies me now. My Gran kept all my letters that I sent to here when I lived overseas dating back to the early 90s. They're fascinating to read now, mostly old school Aerogrammes, I had a lot of the SlientAlarm's about me in my early 20s.

I think we all did.

 

[Scotland]

Nasser sowed the seeds of that 2005 team, credit where it's due.

Still painful. I'd get rid of all of them and just let Bumble call the game by himself.

 

[Del191229]

Also, travelling in the 90s.

When people went travelling it was basically like they'd died. Maybe you'd get letters or postcards from really close friends, but yiou certainly didn't get a daily curated update of where they were and what they'd done that day.

Then when people came back it was equally as sudden.

"Oh, so and so is back from England, he's brought his Pommy wooz as well".