[E-Mail]90s Kid

[pig]

I got sent this in an email, apologies to those who have it already!

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A BRITISH 90s KID IF...

YOU CAN SING THE RAP TO "THE FRESH PRINCE OF BELL AIR"

YOU'VE WORN LEGGINGS AND FELT COOL.

YOU USED TO LOVE PLAYING WITH YOUR "PUPPY IN MY POCKETS"

YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY WORTH GETTING UP ON A SATURDAY MORNING TO WATCH LIVE & KICKING OR SM:TV.

YOU HAD A HUGE FRINGE AT SOME POINT IN YOUR CHILDHOOD.

YOU REMEMBER READING AND WATCHING "GOOSEBUMPS"

YOU TOOK PLASTIC CARTOON LUNCH BOXES TO SCHOOL.

YOU KNOW THE WORDS FROM THE SHAKEY JAKE MILKSHAKE ADVERTS

YOU REMEMBER THE CRAZE OF YO-YOS AND TAMAGOTCHI'S

YOU STILL GET THE URGE TO SAY "NOT" AFTER EVERY SENTENCE. NOT.

YOU KNEW THAT KIMBERLY, THE PINK RANGER, AND TOMMY, THE GREEN RANGER WERE MEANT TO BE.

YOU COLLECTED POKEMON CARDS.

YOU PLAYED AND/OR COLLECTED POGS.

YOU HAD A WEIRD ALIEN THAT LIVED IN GOOEY STUFF IN A PLASTIC 'POD' AND THOUGHT IF YOU STUCK 2 BACK TO BACK THEY WOULD HAVE A BABY!

YOU WATCHED THE ORIGINAL POSTMAN PAT, FIREMAN SAM AND NINJA TURTLES.

YIKES PENCILS WERE THE BEST!-WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?

YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE NEW BEANIE BABIES WERE ALWAYS SOLD OUT

YOU GOT YOUR MUM TO BUY 'BN' BISCUITS

YOU USED TO WEAR THOSE STICK ON EARRINGS, NOT ONLY ON YOUR EARS BUT AT THE CORNERS OF YOUR EYES.

YOU KNOW THE MACERENA BY HEART.

"TALK TO THE HAND" ENOUGH SAID.

YOU REMEMBER THE TIME BEFORE LITERACY AND NUMERACY HOUR EXISTED.

YOU THOUGHT BRAIN FROM "PINKEY AND THE BRAIN" WOULD FINALLY TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

YOU REMEMBER BUM BAGS.

YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ON FUN HOUSE

YOU COLLECTED TAZOS.

2 WORDS, SPICE GIRLS.

YOU WORE DISNEY PLASTIC RUCKSACKS- no wait people stil do.


some of those are obviously aimed at girls, but quite scarily I identify with a fair few.

[Cannon_Fodder]

Originally Posted by pig

I got sent this in an email, apologies to those who have it already!

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A BRITISH 90s KID IF...

YOU CAN SING THE RAP TO "THE FRESH PRINCE OF BELL AIR"
yes
YOU'VE WORN LEGGINGS AND FELT COOL.
no
YOU USED TO LOVE PLAYING WITH YOUR "PUPPY IN MY POCKETS"
what
YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY WORTH GETTING UP ON A SATURDAY MORNING TO WATCH LIVE & KICKING OR SM:TV.
not really
YOU HAD A HUGE FRINGE AT SOME POINT IN YOUR CHILDHOOD.
sadly yes
YOU REMEMBER READING AND WATCHING "GOOSEBUMPS"
no
YOU TOOK PLASTIC CARTOON LUNCH BOXES TO SCHOOL.
yes
YOU KNOW THE WORDS FROM THE SHAKEY JAKE MILKSHAKE ADVERTS
no
YOU REMEMBER THE CRAZE OF YO-YOS AND TAMAGOTCHI'S
yes i want one now
YOU STILL GET THE URGE TO SAY "NOT" AFTER EVERY SENTENCE. NOT.
no
YOU KNEW THAT KIMBERLY, THE PINK RANGER, AND TOMMY, THE GREEN RANGER WERE MEANT TO BE.
i didnt know that, i just watch it and thought it was cool
YOU COLLECTED POKEMON CARDS.
....... yes
YOU PLAYED AND/OR COLLECTED POGS.
yes
YOU HAD A WEIRD ALIEN THAT LIVED IN GOOEY STUFF IN A PLASTIC 'POD' AND THOUGHT IF YOU STUCK 2 BACK TO BACK THEY WOULD HAVE A BABY!
yes
YOU WATCHED THE ORIGINAL POSTMAN PAT, FIREMAN SAM AND NINJA TURTLES.
god yes.
YIKES PENCILS WERE THE BEST!-WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?
no
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE NEW BEANIE BABIES WERE ALWAYS SOLD OUT
no
YOU GOT YOUR MUM TO BUY 'BN' BISCUITS
no
YOU USED TO WEAR THOSE STICK ON EARRINGS, NOT ONLY ON YOUR EARS BUT AT THE CORNERS OF YOUR EYES.
no
YOU KNOW THE MACERENA BY HEART.
vaguely
"TALK TO THE HAND" ENOUGH SAID.
no
YOU REMEMBER THE TIME BEFORE LITERACY AND NUMERACY HOUR EXISTED.
no
YOU THOUGHT BRAIN FROM "PINKEY AND THE BRAIN" WOULD FINALLY TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
yes
YOU REMEMBER BUM BAGS.
erm kinda
YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ON FUN HOUSE
YES
YOU COLLECTED TAZOS.
no
2 WORDS, SPICE GIRLS.
......
YOU WORE DISNEY PLASTIC RUCKSACKS- no wait people stil do.
no

some of those are obviously aimed at girls, but quite scarily I identify with a fair few.

[furball]

I identify with most of those


FUN HOUSE!!!!!!

[JammyJim]

WHOLE LOTTA FUN
PRIZES TO BE WON!
its a real whacky show where ANYTHING can go!




incidently the fun house dude and the 'twins' came to aberystwyth in my first year of uni. I didnt go along to the show but flatmates did. He is a dirty bastard and they are complete whores.

[roadrunner_0]

Originally Posted by pig

I got sent this in an email, apologies to those who have it already!

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A BRITISH 90s KID IF...

YOU CAN SING THE RAP TO "THE FRESH PRINCE OF BELL AIR"
its spelt 'bel' and worryingly i can, although i would say it was more 80's tbh
YOU'VE WORN LEGGINGS AND FELT COOL.
nope, never, you great puff
YOU USED TO LOVE PLAYING WITH YOUR "PUPPY IN MY POCKETS"
say what now?
YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY WORTH GETTING UP ON A SATURDAY MORNING TO WATCH LIVE & KICKING OR SM:TV.
nope, there again i am a lazy bastard, and going live was better than them both
YOU HAD A HUGE FRINGE AT SOME POINT IN YOUR CHILDHOOD.
nope, but i did have bad hair
YOU REMEMBER READING AND WATCHING "GOOSEBUMPS"
by the time goosebumps was released i was reading LotR and ppl like david gemmell
YOU TOOK PLASTIC CARTOON LUNCH BOXES TO SCHOOL.
nope, school dinners ftw
YOU KNOW THE WORDS FROM THE SHAKEY JAKE MILKSHAKE ADVERTS
i repeat, say what now?
YOU REMEMBER THE CRAZE OF YO-YOS AND TAMAGOTCHI'S
remember with disdain yeah
YOU STILL GET THE URGE TO SAY "NOT" AFTER EVERY SENTENCE. NOT.
nope
YOU KNEW THAT KIMBERLY, THE PINK RANGER, AND TOMMY, THE GREEN RANGER WERE MEANT TO BE.
the power rangers were shit
YOU COLLECTED POKEMON CARDS.
nope
YOU PLAYED AND/OR COLLECTED POGS.
seen them, never collected them
YOU HAD A WEIRD ALIEN THAT LIVED IN GOOEY STUFF IN A PLASTIC 'POD' AND THOUGHT IF YOU STUCK 2 BACK TO BACK THEY WOULD HAVE A BABY!
why, why were these even a hit?
YOU WATCHED THE ORIGINAL POSTMAN PAT, FIREMAN SAM AND NINJA TURTLES.
again, 80's
YIKES PENCILS WERE THE BEST!-WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?
funnily enough they are still used the world over so not sure what this one is about
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE NEW BEANIE BABIES WERE ALWAYS SOLD OUT
nope
YOU GOT YOUR MUM TO BUY 'BN' BISCUITS
what?
YOU USED TO WEAR THOSE STICK ON EARRINGS, NOT ONLY ON YOUR EARS BUT AT THE CORNERS OF YOUR EYES.
im male, and not incredibly camp, so no
YOU KNOW THE MACERENA BY HEART.
worryingly i can remember seeing it, but not doing it, as i was of an age where dancing was 'uncool' but not yet old enough to drink and not care that it was.
"TALK TO THE HAND" ENOUGH SAID.
god i hate that
YOU REMEMBER THE TIME BEFORE LITERACY AND NUMERACY HOUR EXISTED.
yup
YOU THOUGHT BRAIN FROM "PINKEY AND THE BRAIN" WOULD FINALLY TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
nope
YOU REMEMBER BUM BAGS.
yup
YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ON FUN HOUSE
everyone <3 fun house
YOU COLLECTED TAZOS.
nope
2 WORDS, SPICE GIRLS.
two words '****ing shit'
YOU WORE DISNEY PLASTIC RUCKSACKS- no wait people stil do.
nope

some of those are obviously aimed at girls, but quite scarily I identify with a fair few.

[pig]

ive no idea it was an email forwarded to me ;-/

btw anyone remember those trainers with lights in them they were

[milo]

i thought i was going to be the most original one by talking about the fun house twins

instead ill say fun house race cars with twins in them, naked


i never wore leggings

what kind of lunchboxes do they take now??

random stuff of my own

the first castle wolfenstien caused you to ejaculate
you remember 286s, 386s, 486s, then some dickhead brought out a pentium
the first gulf was was cool and you were so prowar 'cause of all the bad ass tech
you watched a 90yr old roger mila take on england
you know what a gamegear is, everyone loved and was incredibly jealous of the kid that got one. Then we all laughted in his face when it went down.

you've tasted tabclear.

[pig]

why dont they bring back fun house, theres so much shite on kids tv these days

[pig]

I was thinking we have 60s, 70s, 80s bars/clubs surely its time for a 90s club?

[furball]

Most student nights still play a shed-load of cheesy 90s stuff anyway. Not that I'm complaining. We'll probably have 90s clubs popping up in 5-10 years I think.

[milo]

what was the 90s look?

[pig]

popper trousers!!! remember them?

[Razgriz]

ah the memories.

Those light up trainers were called LA X or LA *something* if i remember correctly.

[pig]

I had a pair of those addidas trousers ;/ they were the rage and also kappa zip up jacket thingies, did anyone else have one of those? Its not a coat, its like a jumper thing but has a zip and naked ladies down the arms. Also puma kings, now they were football boots oh I could go on and on!

[MrL_JaKiri]

CAPSLOCK is essential!

[Dante Hicks]

Originally Posted by milo

the first gulf was was cool and you were so prowar 'cause of all the bad ass tech

You were a rubbish kid,

Anyway, from the original list I can certainly identify with a fair few, although a few are after my time.

I remember the 'Fresh Prince' theme being played in a night club last year. I knew every word and the people I was with were vaguely disgusted / worried.

[Dante Hicks]

Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue

Presumably said people were Jewish teenagers, in which case we can safely discard their opinion.

No, they were poseur metallers.

And I'd imagine Fresh Prince was a Jewish financed show anyway.

[JonnyBGood]

No alliance so dangerous as that of the blacks and the jews am i rite dante?

[Dante Hicks]

Originally Posted by JonnyBGood

No alliance so dangerous as that of the blacks and the jews am i rite dante?

I don't blame the jews though. After that whole Germany thing they probably don't trust us anymore.

[milo]

Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

You were a rubbish kid,

we used to pretend to be different fighter aircraft, we had a massive row over the name F111, was it f1-1-1 f1-11 f11-1 ftripple1? once i was homing in on my friends b52 when the ginger kid on the playground switched into 'the last starfighter mode' went utterly insane and shot us all down quite violently.

Did you really know enough about politics to be anti anything back then? except gays


in addition you were a cool 90s kid if

you watched saved by the bell early on sat mornings
you watched that weird graphic cartoon where its set inside someones body (early early sun morning)
you'd watch channel 4 late on the weekends incase their was any female nudity (kids really are spoiled by the internet, lo budda of suburbia)
you watched basic instinct and paused it at the leg spreading scene, then turned the colour and contrast up

[Cannon_Fodder]

Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

I don't blame the jews though. After that whole Germany thing they probably don't trust us anymore.

Who's us?

[IncubusGod]

****ing children...*



*ment in an insulting way to "90's kids" and not in a 'Dace' way.

[Dante Hicks]

Originally Posted by sniborp

Who's us?

White gentiles.

[Kurashima]

I only qualify on 5 of those items.

I guess im an 80's kid at heart.

[Nodrog]

Needs more bill and ted, monster in my pockets, troll dolls, turtles, hulk hogan, whigfield, and boglins.

[JonnyBGood]

When I wake up in the mornin',
And the 'larm gives out a warnin',
I don't think I'll ever make it on time,
By the time I grab my books,
And I give myself a look,
I'm at the corner just in time to see the bus fly by!
It's all right 'cuz I'm .......
If the teacher pops a test,
I know I'm in a mess,
And my dog ate all my homework last night,
Ridin' low in my chair,
She won't know that I'm there,
If I can hand it in tomorrow, it'll be all right!
It's all right 'cuz I'm ..........


Fill in the blanks to become an authentic 90s guy.

[furball]

Saved by the bell damnit!!!!!!

Originally Posted by milo

we used to pretend to be different fighter aircraft, we had a massive row over the name F111, was it f1-1-1 f1-11 f11-1 ftripple1? once i was homing in on my friends b52 when the ginger kid on the playground switched into 'the last starfighter mode' went utterly insane and shot us all down quite violently.

What a bastard. We'd have given him a kicking for that, especially since he was ginger.

[coffee-]

Originally Posted by pig

ive no idea it was an email forwarded to me ;-/

btw anyone remember those trainers with lights in them they were

LA GEAR FTW!

[coffee-]

This also works very well for "YOU'RE A CANADIAN KID IF..."

Originally Posted by pig

I got sent this in an email, apologies to those who have it already!

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A CANADIAN 90s KID IF...

YOU CAN SING THE RAP TO "THE FRESH PRINCE OF BELL AIR"
YOU HAD A HUGE FRINGE AT SOME POINT IN YOUR CHILDHOOD.
YOU REMEMBER READING AND WATCHING "GOOSEBUMPS"
YOU TOOK PLASTIC CARTOON LUNCH BOXES TO SCHOOL.
YOU REMEMBER THE CRAZE OF YO-YOS AND TAMAGOTCHI'S
YOU STILL GET THE URGE TO SAY "NOT" AFTER EVERY SENTENCE. NOT.
YOU KNEW THAT KIMBERLY, THE PINK RANGER, AND TOMMY, THE GREEN RANGER WERE MEANT TO BE.
YOU COLLECTED POKEMON CARDS. (no but everyone else did)
YOU PLAYED AND/OR COLLECTED POGS. (no but everyone else did)
YOU WATCHED THE ORIGINAL POSTMAN PAT, FIREMAN SAM AND NINJA TURTLES.
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE NEW BEANIE BABIES WERE ALWAYS SOLD OUT
YOU KNOW THE MACERENA BY HEART.
"TALK TO THE HAND" ENOUGH SAID.
YOU THOUGHT BRAIN FROM "PINKEY AND THE BRAIN" WOULD FINALLY TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
2 WORDS, SPICE GIRLS.

[roadrunner_0]

tabclear was vile

monsters in my pocket were ace though

[JammyJim]

Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

You were a rubbish kid,

Anyway, from the original list I can certainly identify with a fair few, although a few are after my time.

I remember the 'Fresh Prince' theme being played in a night club last year. I knew every word and the people I was with were vaguely disgusted / worried.

Now this is a story all about how my life got twisted upside down and id like to take a minute just sitting right there and ill tell you how i became the prince of a town called bel-air

(doo doo doo dooo dooo...do do do doood oo)

IIIIIIIIIIIIIN west philadelphia born and raised,
on a playground is where ive spent most of my days,
chillin out maxin, relaxin all cool and shootin some b-ball outside of the school
when a couple of guys who were upto no good started makin trouble in my neighbourhood

got in one little fight and my mum got scared and said "you're moving with your aunty and uncle in bel-air'

I whilsted for a cab and when it came near the license plate said 'fresh' and had dice in the mirror...if anything i could say that this cab was rare but i thought now forget it..go home to bel air!

(more funkyness)

I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and i yelled to the cabby 'go home smell you later', looked at my kingdom i was finally there...to sit on my throne as the prince of bel air


dooo dooo doo dooood ooo
dooo do ood oood oooo


best show ever

[Demon Dave]

Originally Posted by JammyJim

I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and i yelled to the cabby 'go home smell you later', looked at my kingdom i was finally there...to sit on my throne as the prince of bel air

I think you'll find it was "Yo homes smell ya later"

[TheBerk]

Why does noone else remember the verse about his flight? It fit into the song just before the cab bit, if only I could remember how it went.

[Yahwe]

I begged and pleaded with her the other day
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
She gave me a kissin’ and she gave me my ticket
I put my walkman on and said I might aswell kick it

First class, yo this is bad,
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass
Is this what the people of bel-air livin’ like,
Hmm this might be alright!

(i believe it is 'forgotten' because it was added after series 3.. though i might be wrong)

[Blastoderm]

I remember getting one of those too.

Other variations were "you are Arab", "you are black", "you are 80s kid", etc.

[Dead_Meat]

Originally Posted by milo

you remember 286s, 386s, 486s, then some dickhead brought out a pentium

Pentium was the 586 dude.

[ReligFree]

Originally Posted by pig

some of those are obviously aimed at girls, but quite scarily I identify with a fair few.

Identify with way more than a few there, quite worrying really. But Kimberley and Tommy were so meant to be. Although was always a fan of jason (red ranger) and kimberly together.

Ooo and talking about 90's culture. Watched the Transformer's movie Monday night, fking brilliant.

[Dante Hicks]

Originally Posted by Yahwe

(i believe it is 'forgotten' because it was added after series 3.. though i might be wrong)

I think it's the other way round : it was only shown in the early seasons. I remember catching the pilot and it was in that.

edit : Wiki confirms it. Although apparently it was on the first few episodes.

[Superpig #1]

I remember most of that stuff!!!!
I used to get up to watch Live and Kicking, SMTV and later on Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow. Shame on me and my sad life.

I never did the Tamagotchi stuff, that fad was over in about 2 weeks, i just saw it all as a waste of time, money and effort. But all the other fads i did...Pokemon cards...pogs...tazo's...them wierd alien things....

Ah memories, pos rep for you pig, youve made my day.

[milo]

Originally Posted by Dead_Meat

Pentium was the 586 dude.

Really? I NEVER KNEW THAT DM.

You're going to be one of those annoying fathers to your lovely daughter aren't you? she'll be more intelligent than you by age 5 and all you'll be left with is telling her 'multiplication is repeated addition, did you know that? did you?'

[Dead_Meat]

Apparently it's going to cost us around $200,000 to bring this child up.

I reckon I'll have earned the right to wear her down by embarassing her in front of her friends or telling her meaningless crap like that multiplication thing.
What's more, by age three she'll have had it drummed into her that bringing Daddy beer from the fridge is a surefire way into his good books and, quite possibly, the way to a higher plane of existence.

If I can't have a bit of fun with my $200,000, life just wouldn't be fair, would it?

[G.K Zhukov]

I remember I used to make fliers for an antiracist organisation I was in, with PageMaker 5.0 at a 486sx 25MHz pc and a white/black scanner.

It was insanly slow.

[Dead_Meat]

I remember tapping BASIC programs into my ZX81 and after an hour or so, when I'd finished and it didn't work, talking to it pleasantly, saying that it was a 'useless ****ing piece of ****ing shit. Why don't you just go **** yourself, you shitty, SHITTY, SHITTY ****ing ****'

then working through and finding the syntax errors, correcting them and typing 'RUN' again in the vain hope it would work, to be confronted by another syntax error in a line I knew so well was absolutely perfect.

I'd have another conversation with the thing, something like 'what do you want me to do? I don;t understand, I typed it all in, it's all working, I just want it to work, can't you see that? WHy won;t you work? Why? I hate you, go **** yourself'

then switching the thing off and ripping the magazine/printout up and going and crying somewhere.

I swear the magazine printers got it wrong, just for shits and giggles. I'll probably die young because of them.

I do pretty much the same thing these days with PCs, just with less crying, more swearing and more violence, now I can afford to smash the uncooperative little f*cks.

[Nofutcha]

Originally Posted by ReligFree

Identify with way more than a few there, quite worrying really. But Kimberley and Tommy were so meant to be. Although was always a fan of jason (red ranger) and kimberly together.

Ooo and talking about 90's culture. Watched the Transformer's movie Monday night, fking brilliant.

Green Ranger was so never gonna give her any play... green ranger lived by his own rules man, and had no time for no pink girls, sure he might have led her on and maybe hit it once or twice, but then he was outta there, fo sho.


Meanwhile... how much is everyone just dying for this crap 80's revival to die a horrible death because the clothes and music weren't cool then, and aren't cool again.

I think however, while the 90's revival is iminent, its gunna be interesting to see how it goes. My pick is the return of Weezer-esque geek rock and all the dissillussioned teens will become fans of kurt cobain again and Starter clothing will have a massive revival. *clutches Starter hat* 'soon my precious, you will be ironic and i can wear you with no shame'

(i have been awake for like 24 hours when posting this so forgive any parts that make no sense)