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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Also The Cool Dad in '23 Starter Pack. Right? Right guys? I'm still cool right? The Discman still works!

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Buddy, you better believe it. I could do jumping jacks and Avril Lavigne's Skater Boi will still be coming through these headphones loud and clear so long as I don't knock the cable loose from the aux port.

[–] Dorgel@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol wut? In 96 you'd be listening to return of the mack. In skaterboi era you'd had a studded belt and a trucker hat

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My clothing style stopped updating in 96. My music tastes stopped updating in the mid 2000's alt rock era.

[–] 7of9@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, so you're a Nickel back fan. Got it.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is my deepest shame that Nickelback was one of about 6 cds I owned in middle school. I listened to it so much that I began to hate it. "Photograph" is now like an ice pick to my ear drums. So while I did eventually get to the righteous place of not being able to stand their music, I did so in the least acceptable way possible. I'm so sorry for my vile sins.

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

We still think you're hot because you were hot in 1996.

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[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That hairstyle! I remember many boybands just like Backstreet Boys and many celebrities having that hairstyle. Wallet chains never really go out of style, I have a bigger and longer one than the one in that picture.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

At least it was really hard to lose your wallet

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

What ever happened to Airwalks?

[–] LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ye gods, the Surge. I can still taste it.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Still sold in Norway, just called Urge there.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have no idea who's making it, but I still come across random pallets of the stuff in Walmart and the like about twice a year. Always either 12-pack cans or 6-count bottles. Never individual bottles.

Every time I'm tempted to buy some, just to see if this random store in Alabama is offloading product from 2006.

[–] Sho@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

If ur in the U.S. some burger kings have it on tap.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's getting cold outside, don't forget your Starter jacket!

I can hear the swooshing

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Starter jacket? This is a finisher jacket!

[–] swab148@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

Replace that album with Less Than Jake's "Anthem" and you're basically me (not that I don't love Rage, I just like ska more)

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Cool S is timeless.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuuuuuu... That's me at that time 😐

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I saw a kid with frosted tip. So I pointed him out to a friend and quietly snickered. Then we saw two more, and now I feel old.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The teenage mullet craze the last couple years has driven me crazy. Dont know if that's just a thing around here in the Midwest or not, but it's as ugly and stupid looking now as it was in the 80s. And all the jock teenagers are wearing crocs with tall black socks and matching solid color sweatpants and sweatshirts looking like homeless power rangers. My foster son also wears Ugg slippers like 70% of the time even though he owns like 9 pairs of shoes. Sometimes he steals my house slippers to wear to school too. I don't get it. A couple months ago he looked at some perfectly normal looking plaid button up shirt that I would totally wear and said with disdain "that looks like something you would wear". I gave him the old, "listen here, you little shit...". I think I'm officially too old for modern "fashion".

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I have that yomega at home in my yoyo drawer.

Chicks dig yoyos or that's what I tell myself when I take them out.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any who don't aren't worth your time.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

I'll always remember being mid 20s and the look this girl gave me when I showed up looking like a hip hop punk with a yoyo spinning on dundas and university in Toronto. Needless to say we didn't have another date lol

[–] jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is EXACTLY when I learned I was gay.

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What, when you looked at that meme?

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Twilight Town resident starter pack.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Those shoes are to small to fit a TT resident. Same pattern, but you gotta get that toe cap about 10 times bigger.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

96' I was 12 and yes. This was like 80% of the kids in school. Also, I feel called out.

To a first grader like me? Super cool.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Forget the Fireball, Brain all the way!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How'd we get yo-yo and swing revivals, while prog stayed stone dead?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I stand at the ready. Just waiting for the order to go out.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

How many forces do we have?

Yes.

Hell yeah Arch Linux sneakers

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not American and never heard of these yomega but I definitely had a couple of these bad boys:

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder, did y'all go through a yo-yo craze around the same time?

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think so, was definitely around 96-98 for me.

That sounds right to me

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

All this tells me is I need to either buy or create CDs and find a vintage CD player/headphones. I'm totally down!

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