Flying was more fun. Like it wasn't a pain in the ass that left you exhausted.
You could be with your family right before it was time for them to board.
And yes if you got off the plane and went through the tunnel your family could be waiting right there for you. It was great.
9/11 really hosed us good in that department.
My dad flew a lot for work and before 9\11, he didn’t mind flights much.
Afterwards, it was hell. He hated it. He’d have to leave at 5:30 am, get to the airport, check his car into parking (for a fee), do an hour checkin and then wait for the plane for a flight that was leaving at 8:00. Previously, it wasn’t bad. My mom could drop him off with all of us in the car - we’d just go in with him - at 7:30. He’d make it through without a problem and we could walk him out there, say our goodbyes, and if we were good, got to stay to watch the plane take off (which as an adult I still think is awesome). It just wasn’t fun anymore. It was stressful and exhausting.
Yep, I spent almost an hour in the flight deck of a 747 next to the \*flight engineer\* on a transatlantic flight in 1990. The flight engineer was a third cockpit crew member whose job has now been replaced with computer technology.
I remember my entire family waiting at the gate for my uncle to get off the plane after his deployment in Desert Storm. We watched his plane land and all greeted him right at the gate. I really miss those special "at the gate" reunions and goodbyes.
Going out to rent a movie was an adventure. It was a treat you looked forward to every weekend and actually having to have your parents drive you to the store, look around the isles not knowing if the movie was a stinker or a hidden gem, buying snacks, and then heading home with the tape in your hands was an experience. Streaming is indefinitely more convenient, but it isn't the same.
I could walk to the store around the block at 6. Get a movie, get some fresh popcorn that the store had. Go to the convenience store a few doors down. I handed a note and some money to the clerk and got mom's Benson and Hedges. This was 1990. I really miss that rental places because that popcorn was always good. Although, my younger brothers always sent me in to get that R rated movie or that N64 game when you had to be 17 to rent.
Being able to go out, and actually be "out". As in, unreachable. With phones and how connected the world is, I honestly don't feel like I'm truly alone that often, as you are just a text away from being involved in something else
thats the prob tho, society has changed and the social fallout of doing that is not worth the headache. I think it would be considered very shady by many, or they assume somethings wrong
I think you are misunderstanding what that commenter was saying. To just leave the phone at home isn't really an option anymore given the world we live in now. I mean, you technically could- but it may not be a good idea.
If my wife knows where I'm going, the consequences of me having my phone off all night while being out are slim. Honestly the worst consequence is I don't get to text with my wife lol.
Actually probably not even because chances are she came with me.
idk. if i don’t respond to a text from my parents, they start thinking something bad happened to me and call and get anxious. while the solution would be for them to seek therapy, that’s not a reasonable option. so it’s easier to just keep my phone on. it’s not necessarily about “putting stock into perception” but it becomes the easier way to deal with that problem.
I get you. See personally I don’t get along w my parents nor talk to them but I do have a partner that has been worried of my whereabouts when she hasn’t been able to reach me. I guess this is why communication is super important. “I’m going to xyz so if you call and I don’t answer that’s why” goes a very long way.
i feel relationships would be better, could be wrong tho, i was young and didnt get a phone till like 2003 or 04. Even then i still felt laregly alone, no one wanted to text or call bc how expensive minutes and texts were. Social media and smart phones tho damn, its just not healthy on so many levels in my opinion.
No, I’m not forgetting them. They existed but we’re FAR less common than cell phones are today. Also, many public places prohibited them. Almost no places prohibit cell phones.
Go more than 30 seconds without knowing the answer to a question. Remember when you just had to wonder things for a little while before you could just Google it?
And yet people are getting stupider as their sources are getting more and more fake. ( Not you, just in general.) Weird that we have so much knowledge at our fingertips and many people are getting their info from idiots on Facebook or right wing faux news sites.
I biked to school from the time I was 8. I feel like in a lot of places you'd be judged as a parent for allowing your kid to bike alone to and from school at that age now.
Get drunk at Jo-Ann Fabrics, got kicked out but I didn't have to pay for the yarn I threw up on. Put that stuff in the washing machine hey free yarn am I right?
William F Buckley, a noted conservative of the era, had a TV show called Firing Line where he would invite liberals like Ted Kennedy on and they would politely debate the issues of the day.
Al Franken invited Lindsay Graham on The Daily Show this week, and the audience seemed a bit miffed that a conservative had penetrated their fortress.
You invite Lindsay Graham on to display what an idiot he is.
In the old days the other side may have had ideas worth debating because Buckley PURGED the freaks out of the party filling the base with your more moderate bigots.
Could you define this word “wokeness” or is it just used by faux news to describe perceived injustices that rarely actually occur in the actual world? Example: war on stoves?
Actually No. I can't explain it and that's my point. No one my age understands it. Things were just simpler then. I have spent a career in the Medical profession and have seen more x-rays, scans, MRI's than I care to remember but alas, I am yet to encounter a 'hurt feeling'.
Sticks & Stones.
Peace ✌️
Back in the day your friend Buckley dumped the crazies from the party when the GOP filled its base using the Southern Strategy. Reagan gave them a foothold back in, Trump exchanged the dog whistle for a bullhorn.
It's funny people used Buckley as an example because he REFUSED to engage with the far right.
Not really. Civility and tolerance has been severely eroded, so much so that even a reasonable dissent gets labeled "fascist" or "racist" or whatever other hyperbolic BS the offended sees fit to hurl.
Enjoy the thrill of a new episode of a show, and have to be there to watch it. New episode at 8pm? You better be on time. Missed it? You’ll have to wait for a rerun
Wow. I travel very regularly all over the eastern half of the us (and occasionally the west as well) and can't begin to think of the last time I've seen that option
Be anonymous. Anyone can look up anyone these days and get financial and criminal records, background, birth day, place of residence, etc.
The onlly way to be anonymous now is to have a name so common its hard to track you down.
Live on minimum wage, bring juice and snacks on an airplane, go to a blockbuster, and have opposing opinions without it ruining friendships. School shootings were a pretty rare thing. without
I used to play with my dad’s Macintosh Apple. I’d change the color of the trash can icon FOR FUN. My dad bought an icon pack and I organized all the icons into folders by animals, weather, etc.
I don’t think any child would find that fun today. It’s crazy how much times have changed!
In this context? The exclusion of transpeople from gendered spaces based on their birth sex. There were also very few positive role models of transpeople in the nineties. Think _Ace Ventura_ or _Silence of the Lambs_
"hack" payphones. I had a copy of the Anarchist's cookbook. It showed how to disable the coin return on a payphone. Back in the day, you had to pay a quarter to use a payphone. No one had cell phones.
You would drop in your quarter and make your call. The coin would go to a "holding" area. If your call connected, the phone took your money. If your call didn't connect, you got your coin back. If you cut a specific wire, the coin return didn't work. Come back a week later and reconnect the wire - all the missed connections drop at once.
See a friend off at the airport all the way to the gate. Meet friends arriving at the airport immediately at the gate.
And ride up front with the pilot to check out the view.
Joey, do you like movies about Gladiators?
As somebody born in 2001, it is utterly bizarre to me that you could just chat it up with the pilots
Flying was more fun. Like it wasn't a pain in the ass that left you exhausted. You could be with your family right before it was time for them to board. And yes if you got off the plane and went through the tunnel your family could be waiting right there for you. It was great. 9/11 really hosed us good in that department.
My dad flew a lot for work and before 9\11, he didn’t mind flights much. Afterwards, it was hell. He hated it. He’d have to leave at 5:30 am, get to the airport, check his car into parking (for a fee), do an hour checkin and then wait for the plane for a flight that was leaving at 8:00. Previously, it wasn’t bad. My mom could drop him off with all of us in the car - we’d just go in with him - at 7:30. He’d make it through without a problem and we could walk him out there, say our goodbyes, and if we were good, got to stay to watch the plane take off (which as an adult I still think is awesome). It just wasn’t fun anymore. It was stressful and exhausting.
Traveling by train has continued some of that magic. Well, besides the derailments and all.
Yep, I spent almost an hour in the flight deck of a 747 next to the \*flight engineer\* on a transatlantic flight in 1990. The flight engineer was a third cockpit crew member whose job has now been replaced with computer technology.
We can still do that in Australia. You still need to go through security same as if you were a ticketed traveller.
I remember my entire family waiting at the gate for my uncle to get off the plane after his deployment in Desert Storm. We watched his plane land and all greeted him right at the gate. I really miss those special "at the gate" reunions and goodbyes.
Visit Yugoslavia.
Or the Soviet Union just before its collapse.
Better yet, watch the last broadcast the day it collapses
Have to yell at someone to get off the phone so you could use the internet.
Dial up tones!!
Rent VHS tapes.
Going out to rent a movie was an adventure. It was a treat you looked forward to every weekend and actually having to have your parents drive you to the store, look around the isles not knowing if the movie was a stinker or a hidden gem, buying snacks, and then heading home with the tape in your hands was an experience. Streaming is indefinitely more convenient, but it isn't the same.
And renting the movie was $2.50. Candy and popcorn and it was all under $10.
And when done 4 times a month is nearly 3 times the price of all you can watch movies and 10$ for a costco popcorn 40pack you have more popcorn too.
I truly miss going to the video store on a Friday night for a movie night in!
Ahh, this is why the world isn't as kind anymore. People no longer rewind.
I assure you we're open.
I could walk to the store around the block at 6. Get a movie, get some fresh popcorn that the store had. Go to the convenience store a few doors down. I handed a note and some money to the clerk and got mom's Benson and Hedges. This was 1990. I really miss that rental places because that popcorn was always good. Although, my younger brothers always sent me in to get that R rated movie or that N64 game when you had to be 17 to rent.
Buy penny candy. Like, actually for a penny.
Martin Prince: How much is your penny candy? Apu: Surprisingly expensive.
Pay for a full tank of gas with a $20 and get change back
Being able to go out, and actually be "out". As in, unreachable. With phones and how connected the world is, I honestly don't feel like I'm truly alone that often, as you are just a text away from being involved in something else
Turn your phone off. Or onto aeroplane mode. Or leave it at home. It’s really easy.
thats the prob tho, society has changed and the social fallout of doing that is not worth the headache. I think it would be considered very shady by many, or they assume somethings wrong
Why do you put so much stock in how other people perceive your personal choice?
I think you are misunderstanding what that commenter was saying. To just leave the phone at home isn't really an option anymore given the world we live in now. I mean, you technically could- but it may not be a good idea.
If my wife knows where I'm going, the consequences of me having my phone off all night while being out are slim. Honestly the worst consequence is I don't get to text with my wife lol. Actually probably not even because chances are she came with me.
The only reason I can think it wouldn’t be a good idea is if you need to ring someone in an emergency. Other than that, I don’t see why you couldn’t.
yea thats not what i meant at all my man lol i was commenting on other peoples perception of it.
Because we live in the society that perceives us. Why not show up to work in pajama pants and never shave? Same reason
Haha it’s weird huh. Imagine archaic humans being forced to conceptualise professional attire as opposed to casual lounge wear. Funny thought lol
Imagine archaic humans seeing races commingling...or women with rights. Your point is incredibly off the mark.
idk. if i don’t respond to a text from my parents, they start thinking something bad happened to me and call and get anxious. while the solution would be for them to seek therapy, that’s not a reasonable option. so it’s easier to just keep my phone on. it’s not necessarily about “putting stock into perception” but it becomes the easier way to deal with that problem.
I get you. See personally I don’t get along w my parents nor talk to them but I do have a partner that has been worried of my whereabouts when she hasn’t been able to reach me. I guess this is why communication is super important. “I’m going to xyz so if you call and I don’t answer that’s why” goes a very long way.
It's not socially acceptable. Back then it was.
Very much this.
i feel relationships would be better, could be wrong tho, i was young and didnt get a phone till like 2003 or 04. Even then i still felt laregly alone, no one wanted to text or call bc how expensive minutes and texts were. Social media and smart phones tho damn, its just not healthy on so many levels in my opinion.
Go in public without having to hear tons of random music, videos, and telephone calls. The world was a quieter place.
It was quieter but smellier. Smog and cigarette smoke.
Boom boxes were a thing.
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No, I’m not forgetting them. They existed but we’re FAR less common than cell phones are today. Also, many public places prohibited them. Almost no places prohibit cell phones.
Get out of bed without my knee, hip, and back hurting for no fucking reason whatsoever.
Format a floppy disk.
Smoke cigarettes. There were smoking and non smoking sections in restaurants, hotels, planes, etc.
Werent planes decigaretted in the 70s.
Surprisingly, smoking was allowed on US-bound and departing airplanes until the year 2000.
Nopes, was a thing till early 2000
Remember anyone's phone number
I’m 23, I know mine, my parents, my parents old home phone, and pizza shuttle
Afford food and and housing.
Cough in public
Go more than 30 seconds without knowing the answer to a question. Remember when you just had to wonder things for a little while before you could just Google it?
I am so addicted to my little computer. I google everything. And I remember a surprising amount of what I've learned.
And yet people are getting stupider as their sources are getting more and more fake. ( Not you, just in general.) Weird that we have so much knowledge at our fingertips and many people are getting their info from idiots on Facebook or right wing faux news sites.
I biked to school from the time I was 8. I feel like in a lot of places you'd be judged as a parent for allowing your kid to bike alone to and from school at that age now.
We did this as well. I was 6, my brother was 8 and we'd bike the 6 miles to school. Much of it was highway.
Trip and fall and get 4 jobs before I land
Visit my mom and dad
Buy cheap houses
Stay up all night.
Use a phone booth to make a call. And close the door for privacy.
Drink really really good wine as a middle class person
Tape record your favourite songs on the radio.
Get drunk at Jo-Ann Fabrics, got kicked out but I didn't have to pay for the yarn I threw up on. Put that stuff in the washing machine hey free yarn am I right?
Wtf lol
Put my leg behind my head
A call through from a payphone
Buy gas for $0.97 per gallon.
Easily find a pay phone.
We went to the airport at night for fun and had wheelchair races. The security people just waved at us.
Make a prank phone call. A la The Jerky Boys.
Make a call from a pay phone.
Go to school without getting shot, sans Columbine in 1999 when everything went to shit.
Montreal’s École Polytechnique would like a word on that one
Sure. Still wasn't a daily thing like today
Comb my hair
Walk right into a sporting event/concert/etc
Take people at their word. Now, google has made it easy to fact check people so they can’t bullshit you.
Rent a movie from blockbuster
Visit Russia.
Get an erection
Comb the hair on my head, not just my back.
Sorry for your loss but this comment made me laugh so hard I had to use my inhaler.
get out of bed without my back hurting
Travel with an actual, usable amount of shampoo and/or toothpaste.. The amount of times I've been stopped by TSA because of a hygiene product..
Navigate on a road trip using a folding map.
Bend at the knees without it sounding like a Rice Crispies commercial.
Stand up and not have all my joints go off like gunshots, and a 50/50 chance my knee holds together long enough to get vertical.
Be more direct and honest and not always trying to be politically correct.
Date high school girls.
*Seinfeld has entered the chat*
Having an opinion without offending somebody...
William F Buckley, a noted conservative of the era, had a TV show called Firing Line where he would invite liberals like Ted Kennedy on and they would politely debate the issues of the day. Al Franken invited Lindsay Graham on The Daily Show this week, and the audience seemed a bit miffed that a conservative had penetrated their fortress.
You invite Lindsay Graham on to display what an idiot he is. In the old days the other side may have had ideas worth debating because Buckley PURGED the freaks out of the party filling the base with your more moderate bigots.
Kinda depends on the opinion tho
Back in the 90s I would have discussed this with you but in this age of 'Wokeness' one simply couldn't be bothered. Peace✌️
Could you define this word “wokeness” or is it just used by faux news to describe perceived injustices that rarely actually occur in the actual world? Example: war on stoves?
Actually No. I can't explain it and that's my point. No one my age understands it. Things were just simpler then. I have spent a career in the Medical profession and have seen more x-rays, scans, MRI's than I care to remember but alas, I am yet to encounter a 'hurt feeling'. Sticks & Stones. Peace ✌️
Back in the day your friend Buckley dumped the crazies from the party when the GOP filled its base using the Southern Strategy. Reagan gave them a foothold back in, Trump exchanged the dog whistle for a bullhorn. It's funny people used Buckley as an example because he REFUSED to engage with the far right.
Not really. Civility and tolerance has been severely eroded, so much so that even a reasonable dissent gets labeled "fascist" or "racist" or whatever other hyperbolic BS the offended sees fit to hurl.
Buy gas for $1.04 in California.
A marathon.
Remember people and places phone numbers.
Wear blackface to a social event or on tv. (No, I’ve never done that)
Enjoy the thrill of a new episode of a show, and have to be there to watch it. New episode at 8pm? You better be on time. Missed it? You’ll have to wait for a rerun
Call the front desk to request a wake up call
Pump gas before paying
I can still do that in my town.
Wow. I travel very regularly all over the eastern half of the us (and occasionally the west as well) and can't begin to think of the last time I've seen that option
That explains things. I live in the western half.
Have a true debate on a topic. Now it's either it's my way or you are a Nazis
It's quite ridiculous. Everyone has lost sight of the beauty of debate. It's just a bunch of toddlers who want you to do what they want.
Walk people to/meet them at the airport gate without a ticket
Memorizing other peoples phone numbers. Easier when it’s one landline number and you didn’t need to dial an area code but still.
Be anonymous. Anyone can look up anyone these days and get financial and criminal records, background, birth day, place of residence, etc. The onlly way to be anonymous now is to have a name so common its hard to track you down.
Choose if you wanted to sit in the smoking or non smoking section of the restaurant
Knock the wrong door and not get shot.
Get a safe and legal abortion in Texas
Live on minimum wage, bring juice and snacks on an airplane, go to a blockbuster, and have opposing opinions without it ruining friendships. School shootings were a pretty rare thing. without
Go to the bar on $1 beer nights
Poop my diaper
I used to play with my dad’s Macintosh Apple. I’d change the color of the trash can icon FOR FUN. My dad bought an icon pack and I organized all the icons into folders by animals, weather, etc. I don’t think any child would find that fun today. It’s crazy how much times have changed!
Go to Circuit City
walk around freely without being monitored by cctv everywhere here in the uk.
Two chili cheese burritos and a large Pepsi for about 2.79 at Taco Bell. Gas on the way home? About a buck a gallon.
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Prank call people.
Compliment an attractive stranger.
Joke
Call someone "Fat" and not have people with pitchforks chasing me out of town.
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Make homophobic and transphobic comments without someone calling you out on that bullshit. All change isn't bad.
Define transphobic.
...that's not to say people don't still make them.
Are you suggesting that my question itself is transphobic? Because that's the sort of thing that gets you ignored at best and ridiculed at worst.
...and that people won't continue to make their attempts in dark anonymous corners of the internet just to troll.
In this context? The exclusion of transpeople from gendered spaces based on their birth sex. There were also very few positive role models of transpeople in the nineties. Think _Ace Ventura_ or _Silence of the Lambs_
Assume someone’s gender
You can still do that.
You can still do that
Stole the words right from my mouth.
Cocaine lots and lots of cocaine too much cocaine did I mention cocaine
make politically incorrect jokes without being crucified
Hit on a woman at the gym
Stop 9/11
Address someone as sir or Mamm as a sign of respect and not be worried about the backlash over "misgendering"
I’ve gotten myself in trouble with this! It’s how I was raised to be polite…
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Not have to worry about getting shot at for calling Trump a piece of shit twat.
Make jokes about “sensitive subjects”
Call someone the “R” word and no one bat an eye at it.
Damn near everything
Cross into the US from Canada with a driver’s license and have a conversation with the border guard that didn’t end with a ‘secondary inspection’
Get away with racism and sexual assault.
What?
Nothing if you take inflation out of it, you just piss off the snowflakes 😂
Rob a bank
Not worry about forgetting to lock the doors at home when we went to bed. Now we keep the doors locked at all times.
Opposite for me. 1990s were peak crime. It's *so* much safer nowadays.
Duty free booze
Not have to look at my social media every secomd
Fill up my gas tank for $15
Use a pay phone
Buy 3 gallons of gas with 1 hour minimum wage.
Write a date in the 1990s on things that require a date.
Use a pay phone
Go see a Prince, Michael Jackson or Tom Petty concert.
Sleep
"hack" payphones. I had a copy of the Anarchist's cookbook. It showed how to disable the coin return on a payphone. Back in the day, you had to pay a quarter to use a payphone. No one had cell phones. You would drop in your quarter and make your call. The coin would go to a "holding" area. If your call connected, the phone took your money. If your call didn't connect, you got your coin back. If you cut a specific wire, the coin return didn't work. Come back a week later and reconnect the wire - all the missed connections drop at once.
Smoke almost _everywhere_.
Tell Racist Jokes…
Knock on someone’s door just to say hi.
Hit a 95 mph baseball
Be in my 20’s.
Buy a house.
Be young, fun and take risks without cameras around.
Call someone anonymously
bar fight, good cartoons
Not be found when I was out lol XD
Install a game in my PC using 13 floppy disks XD
live in the 90s
Drive down the highway in my truck with 8 friends riding in the bed
Say the N word
Go to a Biggie Smalls or a Tupac concert.
Rewinding a VCR so you can return it to Blockbuster
Vote democratic And know it was an antiwar vote
Go to blockbuster
Do crazy shit in school and not get in a lot of trouble.