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re: Everyone always talks about how good the 90's were. What was bad about the 90's?
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:18 pm to lsu777
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:18 pm to lsu777
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crime rate was pretty damn bad...LA was gang central and NYC was still be strangled by the mob.
This board's demos make the 80s and 90s a halcyon era, but they forget what the media at the time was screaming about society.
There was real fear going into the late 80s-early 90s that this crime increase was never going down. This led to a modern (for the era) dystopian projection all across media. Judge Dredd (first regular release in 1990), Demolition Man, Robocop/2, etc.
You also saw it in the media doing contemporary life. New Jack City, Menace, Boyz in the Hood, and hell, even movies like Judgment Night, etc.
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Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:20 pm to Chastains
70s and 80s were better than 90s.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:31 pm to Chastains
I enjoyed the ‘90s.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:34 pm to SlowFlowPro
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This board's demos make the 80s and 90s a halcyon era, but they forget what the media at the time was screaming about society.
There was real fear going into the late 80s-early 90s that this crime increase was never going down. This led to a modern (for the era) dystopian projection all across media. Judge Dredd (first regular release in 1990), Demolition Man, Robocop/2, etc.
You also saw it in the media doing contemporary life. New Jack City, Menace, Boyz in the Hood, and hell, even movies like Judgment Night, etc.
yep in reality the 80s/90s were the most violent eras of modern society. the drug wars in the late 80s to early 90s were nuts.
it always cracks me up when people comment on crime stories, especially kidnappings or molestation and act like its a new things. or parents our age who act like they cant let their kid out their sight because its too dangerous.
the revisionist history is laughable
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:38 pm to Chastains
Riots and domestic terrorism
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:42 pm to deeprig9
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90's is also when all the Zero Tolerance shite started. You hear stories from the 70s and 80s about kids having shotguns in their truck at school, pocket knives weren't a problem, and even in the very early 90's smoking was still allowed in high school (outdoors) and the smoking age (in GA) was 16. The 90's is when all that ended.
Thanks Columbine.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:47 pm to waiting4saturday
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Thanks Columbine.
No, Columbine came after all the Zero Tolerance stuff. Columbine wasn't until 99. I was suspended for cigarettes (in my car, not on my person) in 95, and for a Swiss army knife (locked inside my coat inside my locked locker) in 96. And we had an armed guard, Officer Bob. Years before Columbine.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:53 pm to lsu777
And outside of the post-Covid spike, you have to go back even further, into the early 70s to mid-60s to get back to the same levels of violence.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:56 pm to deeprig9
The 90s also saw the beginning of the mass weaponizing of the federal government against the citizenry under the Slick Administration. The IRA was used to go after Bill and Hillary's opponents. Slick sold out the country to the Chinese (White House sleepovers, anyone?). The politicizing of the military began under the Clintons .
People think the Kenyan was the beginning of a lot of this. Nope. It started under the Lip Biter in Chief. It just metastasized under Barry.
People think the Kenyan was the beginning of a lot of this. Nope. It started under the Lip Biter in Chief. It just metastasized under Barry.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 3:59 pm to Chastains
Oilfield was rough
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:02 pm to Chastains
Tech bubble burst. The housing bubble was inflating thanks to Clinton, which would burst some years later (Big Short).
Rodney King (horrible) bit gave way to OJs acquittal (also horrible).
But…some of the best music of my life. I hope it becomes appreciated again.
Rodney King (horrible) bit gave way to OJs acquittal (also horrible).
But…some of the best music of my life. I hope it becomes appreciated again.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:07 pm to The Boat
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gov desire to spread shitty people across town
Vote distribution.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:09 pm to Chastains
The worst part about the 90’s was the grunge movement and girls not bathing as much.
It was similar to the 70’s and hippie girls not bathing as much.
The 80’s was the perfect time. Hot girls, willing to hook up, but they bathed and wore hot underwear. And bush.
It was similar to the 70’s and hippie girls not bathing as much.
The 80’s was the perfect time. Hot girls, willing to hook up, but they bathed and wore hot underwear. And bush.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:11 pm to SECdragonmaster
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It was similar to the 70’s and hippie girls not bathing as much.
maybe a bit of that in the 60s, definitely never saw that in the 70s
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:13 pm to Chastains
Early 90s were the last of the free spirits, the wanderers...
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:14 pm to Chastains
Graphic design was awful. Lots of teal.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:14 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Hey Roger,
I hope you have been well. He is correct too. The 70s and early 80s were the time of free range kids.
I hope you have been well. He is correct too. The 70s and early 80s were the time of free range kids.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:28 pm to deeprig9
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Because the LAPD beat the everloving dogshit out of Rodney King. All the LAPD had to do was not do that.
Fun fact: The location where King was beaten was very close to the biker bar used as a filming location in the Terminator 2. Filming was actually taking place the night King was beat.
Posted on 3/13/25 at 4:30 pm to 777Tiger
Never smelled patchouli until the 90s. Girls bathed in the 70s.
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