Some of them are still crossovers from the 80s ones I reckon. MOST of them apply to me. I think anyone from the UK in their early to mid 20s will get 'em:



How you know you experienced the 90's:

1) 10p Mr Frosty Ice Pops on long summer days!

2) Gordon the Gopher! Edd the duck!!

3) You could do or tried to do the Prodigy step. 'You're no good 4 me...'

4) You owned or longed for an Adidas three stripe tracksuit

5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain", "What is love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" and 'How Bizarre, How Bizarre"

6) Girls thought Blue Mascara was cool!

7) Girls actually fancied Garry Barlow more than Robbie Williams

8) The Racoons! ( Cyril Sneer, nuff said)

9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max, and wore them to death (probably theblack ones with the pink tick)

10) Mr Motivator (What ever happened to him?)

11) Running on the spot dancing! (or 'The ESCALATOR!!' )

12) You wore leggings/cycling /bermuda shorts , with long t-shirts

13) You owned a Bennetton, NafNaf, sweater shop jumper or waistcoat

14) Girls owned scrunchies in an array of colours and tacky headbands withtheir names written on in thick glitter

16) You bought Smash Hits for the song lyrics and the immense amount of stickers that you would stick everywhere!

17) You had a pen pal

18) You could only watch the Simpson's on sky

19) On a Saturday afternoon you watched Catchphrase, Gladiators, Generation, Noel's House Party and then Casualty

20) You taped the Pepsi Chartshow on radio one and tired in vain to pause the tape before the annoying guy (Dr Fox) talked and ruined the whole thing.

21) Cans of Coke were 25p

22) 10p Space Raiders Crisps (aint they still 10p??)

23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have

24) Sharkie & George were the crimebusters of the sea

25) Puffa jackets

26) You used the line "it's a free country" every day

27) The Sky Sports Blimp!

28) Impulse body spray for girls

29) Hooch Alcoholic Lemonade (where's it gone?!)

30) 'Don't forget your toothbrush', 'TFI' and Big Breakfast with Chris Evans

31) You had at least one troll

32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Night. You also tried to scat like Scatman John! Bi bat ba ba da bo...

33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie & Sharni got together!

34) You watched Byker Grove 'ha ha ha whatcha laughin at!' (the theme song ending), used to say "Why-eye Spoogy" and saw PJ get shot in the eye with a paintball!

35) PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec! Dodgy Pop Not Dodgy Presenting!

36) Shellsuits & bumbags!

37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210

38) Home and Away was a prime time ITV programme watched by millions

39) You owned a Spice Girls album

40) Fruit salads and black jacks!

41) Strike it lucky on a sunday night with Michael Barrymore when he was straight & married

42) Chain letters

43) You had fake ID

44) You remember Todd Landers in Neighbours

45) You religiously watched Saved by the Bell on a Saturday morning!

46) You more than likely lost/nearly lost a wobbly tooth on a wham bar!!

47) CK one (probably the fake one from the market)

48) Going Live, then Live and Kicking was the place to be on a Saturday Morning - you know you remember the number 081 811 8181

49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air

50) You collected Premier League Stickers and did swoops at playtime

51) Girls wore crappy lipstick such as - coffee shimmer, heather shimmer and birthday suit!

52) You wore kickers and wallaby's with the tags hanging from them

53) You thought saying - "I know you are, you said you are but what am I" to every cuss that that came your way!

54) "love got the world in motion" with the John Barnes Rap "So catch me if yer can, cos I'm an England man (with a dodgy barbados accent)"

55) when you used to run away from some thing and shout 'leg iiiiitt'

56) Don't push me, push a push pop!!

57) The Red car and the Blue car had a race (you know the rest!)

Pasting a further reply from someone:

1.) Oasis v Blur rivalry. The school yard was like Northern Ireland, anyone could ask at any point which band you supported and an incorrect answer was likely to result in beatings. Sadly my ‘they both have some merit’ answer resulted in twice the beatings, and not none as I had originally hoped

2.) The Mary Whitehouse experience. You could barely draw breath before someone would say – you see that, bilious lump of phlegm over there – that’s your mum that is. That’s your mum’s swimming pool – look there she is, swimming in the excrement. Etc. And ‘Milky Milky’.

3.) Similarly… “I waaannt a broooowwnnn baby Waayynneeeee” and the embarrassingly accurate bit about how you’re a complete nightmare at home but when you go to a mates house you’re overly nice to their parents “thank you Mrs Patterson” etc. and of course “You don’t want to do it like that you want to do it like this!”

4.) Norman Lamont. I wrote and performed a song about him in class – yet oddly still the beatings came. I remember it being especially hard to find a rhyme for “wreaked the economy”. But I found one.

5.) Spitting Image. Why won’t they bring it back, WHY??

6.) Bands/”culture” from “Mad-chester”. Thank god we got over that and the north of England is back to being rubbish in the public psyche.

7.) Getting confused whether “Vanilla Ice” or “Ice T” was the cool one. It was supposed to be Ice T, but actually they were both suspect. Snoop Dogg/Warren G Regulators – that’s where it was at.

8.) Gadgets - the internet, Pagers (!!), Mobile phones, The Sega Megadrive and the Sonic v Mario rivalry (see beatings, above). Digital watches with thermometers and an over abundance of functions. Shoes with lights in. Amigas. Reebok pumps. And everyone wanted a ridiculous AIWA hi-fi with a 3 CD changer that broke instantly and a graphic equaliser complex enough to run NASA.

9.) ‘Gone pete tong’ becoming common parlance. And not in an ironic sense.

10.) And finally… laddism. It all started when you could get Clarks shoes with compasses in the sole. Never mind that it’s very hard to read something from the bottom of your foot whilst walking, or that knowing the direction of polar north didn’t help you find the French Block. Emboldened with a new sense of masculinity we then had the Wonderbra and Eva Hertzegova, not to mention FHM, Loaded etc when they were still full of amusing stories about Greek men being caught in compromising positions with poultry and not just a poor excuse for soft porn. Brinking an improbable amount of Lager and being in a punch up was in. The unfortunate after effects of Laddism can still be witnessed – see Shaun Ryder.

Most of them apply to me too!! Lol, thats funny. Ah those were the days. Going Live (i totally remember that number, and the tune!), Smash Hits, OH! and all those silly sweets too The Raccoons rocked, and I still want to live in Beverly hills 90210 And I had 2 pairs of Nike Air Max I miss being able to wear trackies in the street

But I am proud to say I never ever knew the dances to Macarena or Saturday night. I had taste even then




PS Ellie? Robert Downey Jr??

susannah said:

x 100!

Ellie said:

I thought it was him. hot hot HAWT!!!!!

Anyway, as you were!

Ellie said:

I'm from Belgium, born in 1981. There are certainly some statements that ring a bell, but many of them don't. Here it comes...

How you know you experienced the 90's:



3) You could do or tried to do the Prodigy step. 'You're no good 4 me...'





5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain", "What is love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" and 'How Bizarre, How Bizarre"

I hated those tunes back in the day, but I get all nostaligic when I hear them now.

6) Girls thought Blue Mascara was cool!

Some of them did, but I didn't.

7) Girls actually fancied Garry Barlow more than Robbie Williams.

I didn't like Take That at all, but Gary Barlow was the ugliest of all. I preferred the naked chest of Mark Owen in one of those clips. Robbie got sexy after he left the group.

9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max, and wore them to death (probably theblack ones with the pink tick)

Those were shoes worn by 'Johnny's and Marina's', those people who listened to house-music. Again... I didn't. I wore lumberjack-clothes, or black stretch jeans, and cried my heart out when Kurt killed himself.

12) You wore leggings/cycling /bermuda shorts , with long t-shirts

In the eighties I did.

13) You owned a Bennetton, NafNaf, sweater shop jumper or waistcoat

No I didn't. Way too expensive.

17) You had a pen pal.

Two of them: a girl in Malaysia and one in Nepal.


23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have.

Yes indeed

28) Impulse body spray for girls

??? CK One was what everyone wore.

32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Night. You also tried to scat like Scatman John! Bi bat ba ba da bo...



33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie & Sharni got together!

I hated that show. I loved 'the Wonderyears'.

37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210

See previous question. This one is not true.


39) You owned a Spice Girls album

My sister, born in 1987 did. For God's sake, I was born in 1981.

44) You remember Todd Landers in Neighbours



47) CK one (probably the fake one from the market)

Aha, just what I said.

49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Never understood what was so funny about this show either. But many people watched it.

52) You wore kickers and wallaby's with the tags hanging from them.

I wore Doc Martin's and combats.

Yesterday I got all nostalgic after watching the clip of 'I got five on it' by Da Luniz on a music channel.

I can proudly say i did never conform to fashion and refused to wear a shell suite like all the others.

everything else is spot on

I drank so much Hooch at a frinds party that i had alcohol poisoning and needed medical treatment it was just like drinking lemonade.

Nichola said:

I remember Bacardi Breezer

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even worse then hooch was a cheap drink called 20/20 that was loopy juice

Nichola said:

you can still get that! bad stuff...

Eww, I hated all those Alcopops. They made them so sweet to hide the taste of alcohol. Gross. Cider was my drink as a kid

What happened to bright green/yello/red kappa tees?

Ellie said:

Nah, I didnt get into cider til I was 18 Even now, 3 pints and Im gone

susannah said:

i would drink anything i could get my hands on lol

Nichola said:

thats my girl!!

susannah said:

Did anyone go through that turpentine phase?

KebabKing said:

never touched turps but saw people hanging around the bus station drinking it,, but did try ethanol

Nichola said:

OK, this is kinna' ghetto - does anyone remember Champale?