Summer, 1998. Where sweets were sold as sour syrups in a squeeze tube and had flavors like Radical Blue Razz.
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Radical Blue Razz
Which also happened to be my stripper name.
I was fired pretty quickly from "Dudes! Dudes! Dudes!"
It's not supposed to be blue, the guests were getting concerned
That's what Vicarious Vince, the manager of Dudes! Dudes! Dudes! said, but I still say he just couldn't handle my Razzmatazz.
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♪ Kiss me beneath the milky twilight ♪ then.
It's a baby bottle pop!
Back when Pokémon was still in black and white
Dark green and light green
And you had to hold it juuuust right to get the ambient light to illuminate the screen because they weren't backlit.
And spamming the A button DID make the Pokeball capture at a higher rate
I hate to tell you, but actually you had to spam the B button.
I thought it was A+down
Red and blue ;)
Thanks for posting the reference, it was new to me.
You're very welcome!
makes mocking gestures at ExLisper 😁
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I'm team "let the youth have their fun" but also 1998 was peak lunchables.
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i mean.... to be fair......... when i visited my hometown in poland in 1998....... it really still looked very much like 1980 was still looming around the corner... it wasnt the 18th hundred but i loved it for its gritty "you want sweets? how about a nice refreshing glass of last summers compote from gramps allotment?". silly nostalgia of course but yeah...
What I remember most from 1998 were commercials for flavored sugar water where kids turned into metallic early-CGI goop and rocketed through the air toward a woman carrying a tray of pouches so they could get there faster to consume.
Capri Sun
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Having moved to Czechia in the '90s from the US, there was a pretty huge difference back then, especially in the countryside.
40 years of corrupt authoritarian government does that.
I was going to acid techno raves and getting completely mullered, and seeing some cracking sets at Ozzfest UK.
Ozzfest UK in '98 was my first gig with bands anyone had heard of. Hell of a way to start.
My first Ozzfest was 2001. I was 13 years old. It was a lot of fun. I was there for SoaD, but left liking so many more bands.
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I mean we still make marmelades and compots and such here.
Yeah I make all my own jams, and fruit spreads. More expensive than the walmart brand, but like half the cost of the brands that come anywhere close to the quality.
I mean we use pur own fruit so they are quite cheap. You only really need to buy sugar then
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Yeah, I make jams most years, pickles regularly, and at my old house we had an extremely productive orange tree, so I made a lot of marmalade. My current house has a lemon tree, but it needs to be seen by an arborist. Then I’ll probably get into making lemon curd.
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This is exactly how Boomers talk about the 1950s.
You can still cook things in 2026.
Big if true
I summer 2026, at least in Europe, a lot of people try to stay away from heat sources as much as they can though 🥵
Take a hot plate outside. Cook your jam under a tree like they did in 1998
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Most of my childhood was in the early 2010s but for me it was like I was living in the 90s because I was always at my grandparent's. They had all sorts of retro tech I played with as a kid. I burned CDs, I listened to cassettes and I had no internet, ever. My first exposure to a PC was with a mid 80s PC clone running Windows 1.0. So it's probably something like this
What a difference in time perception we have, it's wild, cause the early 2010's was full on PS3 and late-early YouTube era for me. I think everyone I knew around me already was pretty connected to the internet. But yeah 10 years before that, I could see your grandparents' situation being commonplace. Glad you had that time to discover all this awesome technology !
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Can I put a bird on it?
I mean my mother made preserves and canned things, and was good at baking, and that was in the '80s. But there were also grocery stores with cookies. Because it was the 1980s lol
It's the late 1900's
Also 1998: Olestra
My mom was upset when they stopped making Olestra chips. She would eat them instead of taking laxatives to make herself poop.
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maybe some parts of the former Soviet Union
Ah, the Gay 90s!
My mother still makes jams and preserves, and I may follow in her footsteps, cause the trees in my yard will likely outlive her.
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