What do you get most nostalgic about? (select up to three answers)
Total Voters: 87
Loading ...Posted in 1980s, 1990s, School Life on Mar 20th, 2008
I only went to school for a few years in the 1980s and 1990s, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t just me who had to sing at least one song while they were at school!
Here I’m not talking about school songs - only posh schools have them, sometimes in latin, and never in tune - […]
Posted in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Australia & New Zealand, Food & Drink, School Life, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Nov 26th, 2007
They always used to serve arctic roll for school dinners. I don’t know whether arctic roll was especially cheap for some reason, or whether someone just liked making it but I always enjoyed it and could never work out how it was made. Everyone always tried for seconds and thirds when arctic roll was involved.
Posted in 1990s, Fashion, School Life, UK & Ireland on Nov 13th, 2007
The most important skill that any 90’s girl could master was not her cooking, cleaning or housewifery -no, it was the number of scrunchies she could fit into her hair. No cheating though, they had to be large colourful velvet contraptions -preferably with a hairband on top to keep back that massive 90’s fringe. For […]
Posted in 1990s, Fashion, Rest of World, School Life, UK & Ireland, Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2007
Blue mascara and other brightly coloured eye mascara was de rigeur in the early nineties. My friend was ahead of everyone with her bright orange eye makeup, whereas I lagged behind with blue eye-liner and blue mascara. Teamed with small plastic stick-on diamante “jewels”, these beauty tips could make the hottest teeny-bopper in town.
It really […]
Posted in 1990s, Fashion, School Life, UK & Ireland on Nov 3rd, 2007
I bought some red spray-on hair mascara when I was about ten years old. My next-door neighbour and I sprayed a smily face on my little brother’s head and proceeded to spray what we thought were very alluring, Geri Halliwell-style red streaks in our hair.
The dye duly came off on our pillows that very night.
The […]
Posted in 1990s, Australia & New Zealand, Rest of World, School Life, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Nov 1st, 2007
Supersoakers were a revolution in water gun technology. No more running back to the tap to fill up your pissy little revolver, oh no. Strap ten litres of water to your body and blast your siblings away all day long.
I have a particularly vivid memory of a balmy summer afternoon near Bolton Abbey, visiting family […]
Posted in 1990s, Children's T.V., School Life, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland on Oct 23rd, 2007
In 1993, Blue Peter did a feature on the Thunderbird’s Tracey Island because many kids at the time had the Thunderbirds toys including Thunderbirds 1,2,3,4 and 5. So Blue Peter showed us how to make our own Thunderbirds HQ using the traditional toilet roll, washing up liquid bottle and papier mache. Due to the requirement […]
Posted in 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Fashion, Rest of World, School Life, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Oct 5th, 2007
Shag bands came in the form of jelly bracelets or nylon strips in varying colours. They were the must-have accessory of any 90’s child. They were cheap, they formed a currency in the playground and you could fit around 50 on one arm if you tried. Everyone wore them at school. Those daring enough would […]
Posted in 1990s, Music, School Life, UK & Ireland on Oct 4th, 2007
Da Da Dum Da Dee Da Da Dum… More people knew the words to this than for the Macarena and the dance was very similar. A tried and trusted favourite for DJs nervous about filling the dance floor of the local civic hall. Here’s the dance as performed by a couple of yokes .
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Posted in 1990s, Music, Rest of World, School Life, UK & Ireland on Oct 1st, 2007
This rather provocative hit of the nineties was accompanied by a dance routine that swept the underage discos of the nation -in a similar way to that of Saturday Night by Whigfield and The Macarena by Los Del Rio. Something was quite wrong about the age-groups involved in this thrusting dance but nevertheless it was […]
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Products, School Life, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland on Sep 11th, 2007
The game time forgot, Top Trumps was great playground entertainment - there were so many different types of Top Trumps to get.
The basic idea of Top Trumps is to collect all of the cards by “trumping” your opponents card. You take the next card out, and try to guess which of the statistics will be […]
Posted in 1980s, 1990s, Children's T.V., School Life, UK & Ireland on Sep 11th, 2007
Some of the greatest programs you ever watched as a kid were those educational productions on BBC 2 that were broken up with spelling lessons about “the magic E” drawn by a magic pen. One such program was Geordie Racer.
The actors on Geordie Racer hammed up their Geordie accents to the max, as the “gan […]
Posted in 1990s, 2000s, Computers, School Life, Toys & Games on Aug 8th, 2007
Everyone remembers learning geometry, angles and degrees with one of these little fellas. The height of new technology, the teachers used to have to ask for help programming these futuristic floor robots. Along with MS-DOS and coding your own computer, Roamers remind me of basic computing days before the internet. It used to be a great […]
Posted in 1980s, 1990s, Advertising, School Life, Sport on Jul 6th, 2007
An item of big time nostalgic value: that milk advert.
“Milk, yeurgh!”
Advertising milk to children must be the stuff of nightmares for any marketer, but somehow those who produced this classic early 90s TV ad hit the mark so well that they entered an entire generation’s psyche.
The Advert on Video
Posted in 1990s, Fashion, Products, School Life, UK & Ireland on Jul 2nd, 2007
No, not the down-market drugs, but the stripper style buttoned up tracksuit bottoms that adorned many a wardrobe in the 1990’s. Sporty Spice acted as ambassador for this ground-breaking attire which saw parents throughout the country forking out for Adidas trackies or worse, skimping on the poppers and buying the socially inferior “Abidas” or “Addidas” […]
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