We're live. We're live. Hi everyone and welcome to the NERD I'm very good. Thank you.
I'm very good. Thank you for joining us. Finally, finally, after being part of the community for a minute, shall we say, and we pre-wand David this time. We didn't scare him.
So David, give us your NERD credentials. Where would you like me to start? My brain is still in the 90s. So all 90s movies, TV shows, toys, games, yeah, at all.
Still turning to my brain. So still living in the 90s. You have not moved on yet. So if you're part of the community or if you listen or watching us and you don't know much about tune or Dave or Tony or whatever you would like to be called as Sammy called them, and the mistress is always right.
You can find them on Instagram and on TikTok, it's turnies. He gives his honest opinions on movies. He's got his own little jingles as well. I like his one about the trash.
Can you sing it for us now? Is it trash? Is it something on straight up? I can't remember it.
I can't remember it. I can't remember it. I can't remember it. It's only something in Northern words.
I always have a pleasure to have a NERD Jesus, our games master. Before we went live tonight, he's been showing off all these gadgets and little toys. He's going to be showing us throughout this episode. I've got the hold of 90s.
Jake is the 90s. So yeah, before we get to this game, when we thought we'd do this episode, this was supposed to happen last week. But Tony decided he was like, oh, I'm not going to yet. So next week, I'm going to go to Wales and go to his first ever comic con.
Did you enjoy that? You first ever won? It was. Yeah, it was a man.
I took my son who's 50. We met at David here who is on the snake's vice and my son just absolutely doesn't. So yeah, it was amazing. Pretty cool.
So how does your son know Snake? Have you made him play like the PS one 98 game? Oh, he's back. He's just been really stealthily stealthy.
He's been all stealthy, Steve. I'm not the stick. Only pauses. Don't go.
Don't touch the button. Don't cross the strings. I would always say. And say, I do want to do the lovely disclaimer for us.
Yes. So everything is in our opinions alone. If you would like to discuss anything from today's episode of Ali's come and join us on the Facebook page. You can join the early of not discord or the comment section where we have an open discussion.
But what we want to have is anyone coming for us and telling us our opinions are wrong because we can all agree to disagree in fandom. So let's give it fun. Can we kind and give a toxic behavior out of no, it isn't very well said that's something. So yes, we decided to do the nostalgic 90s because we do have members of the nerd community that rightly or wrongly keep banging on saying the 90s was the greatest.
Now I'm not going to get into a tip or that same, how wrongly or how rightly or but we thought we've done a lot of it. We've done a celebration of the eighties and we've not really touched on the 90s too much. So we thought we'd go for the nostalgia, not just talking about 90s, maybe 90s TV shows, 90 games, like everything. We're going to go about everything.
What the 90s meant for us because we do have like a quite wide range of the engines here. So you've got the old in me. We've got the young in Jake and we've got the middle of the ground in David and Sammy. So I thought it'd be nice.
So yes, the 90s for us would probably be different. So I'm going to go with the youngest member of the team. The lovely, the youthful Jake. We know how excited but we even had a debate live on stage 90s versus 80s movies.
Why do you love the 90s so much? Why does the 90s mean so much to you? Okay. Well, I have a theory that everybody has this like perfect time period when they're about like seven years old.
When I was about seven, it was like 95. So it was like peak 90s. We had like everything like power ranges and like Disney admitted to like giant comeback and stuff like that. But I think it's it literally is just to me.
It almost feels like the last time we had sort of like real stuff, like practical effects, like real instruments and pop songs, like, you know, weird, we had singers who weren't like supermodels. But that's probably just like like the start like maximum nostalgia taking over, but it almost does feel like like this was the last time people were trying stuff and then by the 2000s. They were like, everything CGI now we're fine. We're just going to go with it.
So this was to me. I think I've described the 90s as well as the birth of the blockbuster. I know we've had some of the bloppers before because people obviously Jaws was the first original bloppers and that was in the 70s. Yeah.
The 90s kind of coined the phrase and that's when like say the 10 Paul movies came out like Independence Day for a storm story story. And I think Batman 89 kicked that off in the merchandise department kind of because I before that there was obviously toys and stuff like loads of transforms and turtles but I think like Batman was like, oh, you're going to have all these toys and even I remember Batman 89 toys like they were still coming out in the 90s. And we didn't have like, let me go like forever and we're just like they kept ramping it up every time. And then I'll be able to spend the next one.
I'll be able to spend the next one. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
I was giving jokes. I think people in this podcast knows my feelings on Batman 89. Yeah. So I will agree with torn equity.
Sorry. I'll blame Sammy for that one. But yeah, my joke is backfired a little bit. And we have Batman Returns is one of my favorites and I think it leans into the comic book style so much as well, especially being like the Eddies like fan fellow comics that was coming out of the time.
So, so Tony, what about you? What do you love or why do you love being still in the 90s as you put it earlier? Yeah. Well, we are because it's like, I started the 90s as an eight year old and I ended up in the year old.
Like the such a spectrum of things I enjoyed. I enjoyed like all the kids films and programs early 90s and then as the late 90s came about with like five club and metrics and stuff like just getting into the 90s. Like it just covers all the bases basically from being a kid to then being like a young adult. You know what I mean?
I just love it. I think going back to like, I know Jeff's dying to show the things like the merchandise or even the toys. I know it's pugs. The toys side kind of exploded in the 90s because I know the Eddies had some fun toys but was more, they never quite looked what they were supposed to be.
The more than wasn't quite right or how the tape, the 90s was the year where things started to take shape, things started to look the way they were meant to look. And like things like the total figures like the careers that people went for toys as well. Like I remember when the total figures were released, you could not get total figures in stores. You had a go and try and find them and just the hunt.
And I think the biggest thing about every Friday to try and find Michelangelo. Never saw one of my entire life. And the biggest ones was the Toy Story, like the Christmas for Toy Story, like what in Buzzy? Buzzy?
Buzzy? Like to try and get them with his party. It was like, hey, what's next? He was the most impressive, I think, because he had like the wings and like the little arm thing.
And I think that he and all these helmets, like he was, I remember that Christmas. I never wanted to, I never wanted to. I never wanted to. My dad's got the Slinky Dog.
Nice. He wanted Buzz because whoever else was getting Buzzy. My dad has that. He loves Toy Story.
It's like the only one bit of like, because my dad totally gets my collect inside. He absolutely loves it. But that's the only one thing he has himself because my mom's a minimalist. She has a back post.
He has a slinky dog. And that's it. That's cute. It would be a cute couple.
Toy Story was freaking insane when it came out. Because I don't remember the being, I don't remember seeing a lot of hype for it or anything. It's obviously like a new, it's not like a remake of anything well. No, it's all brand new.
It's a little bit of a rip off. It was a very old thing. But it just came out. And everyone was like, yeah, it's good now.
And it just like took off. But like the action was amazing. Like yeah, that kind of fault Toy Story Story at all. Like I said, with animation side, like I think the cost of animation at the time, like when they made a movie, like Disney being the powerhouse, they used to bring out a movie once, maybe three or two years or something like that, because it took them that long to make.
And so as soon as the computer generation side of it came in, it was like what we can do this in half the time. And that's when it started planning. It was like, because of Toy Story Story, they got the ballroom scene in the face, which has done computer effects as well. Yes.
Yes. To try and animate the camera swinging around things is ridiculously complicated. I just would take decades. And it's something that you don't even think about when you're watching it.
You don't even think about all the hard work. Because we just before this, Disney is literally just a background in cell upon cell. So it is just a case of how long it took for it to be made. But then when you see Beauty and the Beast, it's like it's still got that element of cell upon cell because you still have same backdrops, but it was changed so quickly.
Because if you notice in all the Disney films, you have the same backdrop. Very long period of time. Go on, watch. It's a question about that, though, as well.
To be a bit pro-taconistic and they talk about it a bit. With that, do you think that they kind of lost a bit of the magic when it comes to the artistry to what we got with Disney? Yeah. I think it looks kind of crappy now because it's like a lot of just a red line flying around.
But I think as a kid, you don't really notice either. I think it's more for the adult nerds to be like, look at how cool this animation is. Because people complain about it. People complain about Disney doing things like live action.
When you go back in, there's a magic to movies like Oliver and Company. That's all the great, most detective. The rescuers and stuff like that. Same by saying.
And then movies like we probably would have gotten more of, like, who friend Roger Rabbit? That kind of like said that time of vibe. But when they say it, it's like, Toy Story came out. It was like, this is a new toy.
This is a new toy. This is a new toy. It's a new toy. It's a new toy.
It's a new toy. It's a new toy. It's a new toy. It's a new toy.
It's a new thing. Let's say, if you look at Toy Story 1 compared to Toy Story 4, how different and complex. The effects are muted. And now, not saying this right or wrong, or we have similar type of conversations with AI.
Because CGI back then was the big technology that was dating away from real artists and stuff. So using computers to do the things. But now it's, we're just basically not even having someone sitting in front of a computer doing all the digital inside. You're just basically some of the keyboard.
So it's evolution, but you're losing that kind of magic as well. It's on side of things. Yeah. It's all lazy.
Sorry. Yeah. And like, I suppose you'll always get people who are keeping the old ways alive. But then it's like how much money to the end of getting, like, you know, someone could be a great, like, you know, cartoonist.
But if they're not being paid, they have to just go and get any job. And it's like, you know, we could be losing out on the greats. I'm sure there was a lot of people in Disney at the time, wasn't that who hated Pixar for being like, yeah, because they basically took over effectively because Disney movies look like Pixar movies now. Yeah.
I went to, in Florida, the hard is studio that showed you like what it wouldn't be like to work on a Disney movie. And it's just, oh, it was, it was magical, but it looked like, it looked like a hard work. But what if you go and take South Park, which is another 19th thing? Big thing.
Yeah. This, I feel like, and I could be wrong because the last series I watched of South Park was all about Trump and Hillary Clinton. And I'm just there for the funnies. I'm not really, I know it's a bit more shinier and brighter, but I still feel, I still feel the use of the stadium elements as they did from the first series.
Yeah, it's the same techniques. They've just got better at what they're doing. It's the same with the Simpsons. The Simpsons is still drawn to the degree compared to just like the people working on the get better, the techniques back up and get better at the single.
And that's a lot of some grommet in there as well, going to be still useful. Yeah, yeah. I'm not a fan of Wallace and Graham. Yes, you are.
I just have one for a long time. That's the same. Lee's like, I hate Wallace and Graham. Never seen it.
But Lee loves puns and cheese. So I'm like, he just hasn't seen it. That doesn't make sense. Yeah, he would love that show.
It's my dad loves claymation. My dad's an artist and he was so fascinated by claymation. Yeah. Moth was.
Oh, yeah. Just the idea that Moth could move across the screen, blew his mind. So when it came to the like, yes, he was so fascinated by that artistry that we had to untrap door. Yeah.
Oh, I love trap door. That's the thing. Even in the 90s, we were still getting a lot of TV show run over from the 80s and stuff like that. So I'm glad we got to see it because I didn't have our back cartoon channels while at a goal these days.
You know, like, I don't know if there's any old stuff on there. My dad's son does watch a lot of Tom and Jerry and, but at the moment, we're really trying to drill Disney into him. So we're trying to get to go to Disney. You will, Disney kids.
Yeah. Watch a lot of things. It's all good. My best friend's favorite movie at Disney is Robin Hood.
So she's like, you will like it. You will like it. He loves the rest of the cast. But the one, the films that they don't even talk about Disney parks at all.
No, no, no. I was like, my other friend had just been to Disney and I was like, oh, my God, son's like really into the aristocha show. Well, there's no other. Should be because the wrist of his based in Paris.
Exactly. You do get some merch of like the girl cat. I can't. Did anybody go to Disney World in the 90s?
I went to. I went to 95 to Florida and some of the Russell studios as well. I went to, I started going to Florida when I was 15. So it was 1990, 1998, 1998, 1998, that's not going to Florida.
I went to Euro Disney as it was called. The summer it opened. Oh, wow. So we think happened like when I went to Florida because it was like the culmination of like all of the 90s things at the same time.
Like the power range was always wild. So I was looking for them. So obviously looking for Game Boy games, you know, like Nintendo was like kicking off. Also, I was there when Who Shot Mr.
Burns was going on. Oh, wow. And had all the TV specials that were like, you know, when the hat because it was the part one was end of a season and then part two was going to be the first of the next one. And people were like, taking bets on Who Shot was the first.
It was like the peak of Simpsons, me and you're as well. I know it's didn't end in the 90s, but I was there the final episode of friends. And we watched it in city walks on a big screen with a lot of people. That's really cool.
I think I went to Nickelodeon Studios and saw them film in some like, I'll be chilling. I can't remember. I mean, Nickelodeon Studios, I can even picture where it is like the entrance of Universal. You've got the Nickelodeon series and how about Barra?
But it had me standing in it with like, yeah, it's like, it gets in like, and Simby and stuff. It was all orange. It was all orange. Just a little bit of the audio in the wild in the 90s.
Yeah, that's what I was going to talk about. I think because you mentioned before with old cartoons or like, in the 80s and stuff, you were kind of brought up on Saturday morning TV shows. You see like, like kick out and stuff. Black homes were on before school.
But then the 90s, this is where everything went into overdrive. We got like Sky came out and like, you got other channels like Nickelodeon, Blue or Disney Channel Blue or trouble TV. Like where the stock given like, not just like normal cartoons. They were getting sick.
It was like throughout the day, like Cartman Network used to have like, standard cartoons. Then it was like Cartman, you haven't seen. Then it was leading on to the late ones was like the one mead where you got Deks's lab, Powerpuff Girls and things. And then Nickelodeon kind of brought out like the adult side of it like, running, and he came out.
What was the thing about the dog called again? Courage? That was Cartman Network. But yeah, that was a bit late.
That was modern life as well. Oh my God, I love Rocko's. That was weird as hell. But then like just blew all these different cartoons that were off the walls.
Like probably concept like our real monsters, I fucking loved. Like it was just complete weird concepts. It's a bit like monsters, Inc. really.
Another one explained a lot. But then you got the teenage shows like from Nickelodeon like as Sammy mentioned before like Coris's modern life. Coris's not explained at all. No, Coris explains it all.
Sorry, not Rocko. No, Coris explains it all. Was it the weirdest life of Alex Mac or the secret world of Alex Mac? Yes.
But then you've also got outside of Nickelodeon, you had Pugwall. That was an Australian one wasn't it? That was really a start. But then you also had...
No, I just know the end with him and his guitar. It was round the chest, mate. It was round the chest, mate. Have you had that?
That's that. I feel like that's happening. Are you going round the chest? Oh my god, sorry.
I've got a list of TV's, dinosaurs. The tribe, Sabrina, Teenage Witch, Boy Me Too Well, Batman, The Animated Series, the greatest X-Men. It was a treasure in his mind. Fantastic Four.
Doug. Doug was weird. I kind of liked Doug, but it was a bit of a weird show. Did any of you used to watch Madeline?
No. But the girl who lived in Paris. No, they're like a French father in the store. Oh, hey.
I love that. Oh, I'm just looking at... Oh my god. Sammy can't blow past them all though.
We can get conversations out of these. Sorry, I'm just all excited. There's not much being in Hell. Yes.
You're in a much killing man. You're in Hell, sorry, I'm so old. I'm not in Hell. I'm not doing something.
Are they doing something like now? Once on something like life. Yeah, Keenan's on SNL. He's like the longest run in cast member of Saturday Night Live.
Oh, really? He's funny. He's Steve Harvey is hilarious. I don't think he's still got it because he did a few things.
Didn't do a good burger sequence. The movie. He can still go. But yeah, Keenan's in chaos.
That was insane because I don't think people took it very seriously. If you go back and watch it, the comedy is excellent. Everyone's firing on all cylinders, all the family members, the weird shop guy and everything. I'm still happy to just come here as well.
I'll go there. Yeah. But still some of the lines from that show still go through my head, the stupid jokes. I wish you could re-watch it easily.
This was also the era of Teen TV. There's so many acting lists off like Sister Sister. Obviously Sabrina. You know why I like Sister Sister?
Another guy's sound like a really weird guy. Because Lea's laundry is hilarious. I don't know how much he missed though. The dad was out of it.
So I was on a test with it. I was like, oh yeah, it's Pennywise going to come and get these kids. Oh my god. There might be a hidden reference in there because they would do stuff like that every now and then.
I was like, then you also had California Dreams, Teen Angel, Cobra Kai, saved by the bell. I think I was too young for these though. I didn't want to watch like this. This is my time.
I didn't want to watch all the kids do stuff. Anyone that's watching after the end of the episode, I've changed the theme tune for the podcast to play a song. So if everyone to kind of enjoy that at the end, not lost, we're not here at everyone. That's a little surprise for you.
I'm going to play the new class. I'm going to get to my college. I think this is where my love of American culture, American school type thing. You want to show us like saved by the bell and then characters like Zach Morris was the other one.
And Slater. And it's great. It's great. We'll talk about just in Diamond.
We'll move on there. Hey, hey, there's a really good documentary if you want. It's about, you know, the dark side of the rain? It's a dark side comedy and there is one on a ski.
Why don't you call him a ski. Just in Diamond and it's really sad. It is really sad. So what if you want to better understand enough and go watch it.
Yeah, just remember that episode with the drugs as well. Oh my god. I'm so excited. Yeah, she gets addicted to like brain pills.
It's sweet. It wasn't. It wasn't. It was caffeine.
I don't know. I don't know. Stuff is sweet. I think that's what I was talking about.
Yeah. That was our version of Happy Days. That was our version of Happy Days. That was our version of Happy Days.
Oh my god. Yes, it was. Just saying all the drugs kids. I'll talk to you.
Lord's is right. You're quite your boyfriend. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
I'm so excited. Seeing that all this time as well. We had like British TV as well. We had a bike a groove.
That was big maggies. Yeah, he talked about that last week. It was the trauma. It was the trauma.
It was the trauma. But it's the end of it. Because I've seen them do react into that scene. It's when he just walks off his wall.
He can't see. He can't see. He can't see. This is where the transition works so well with 90's TV because it went from these programs and they said California Dreams, say it by the bell.
We had a. Didn't have a Grinch Hill revival as well. Grinch Hill. Yeah.
Did not have a sausage anymore. Did it? I preferred the children. See?
children war I said that on the trauma episode because I was like, does anyone used to watch children's war and everyone was blank and went no, no, I didn't know I didn't know it was sick with them kids man, they were in there all the time. Yeah, they got to play on like computers and stuff so I'm not surprised, I would have been in the middle. They didn't want to be in the middle. I'm so glad someone else saw children's wars.
As I was saying, we had the transition then from these teeny, very young teeny episodes to the more adult ones I came out because then we got the birth of Buffy the Van Myers there, charmed came out at that time. Part of your five? Part of your five? And what was that one with?
Oh, I know what you're going to say. Yes, this like? No, this was it was it was it? My soul called life that was happening with Jared Leto.
Before we started at Cult. I forget Dawson's Creek, Dawson's Creek needs to be in there. Oh my god, we revelation of monsters episode that I know so much about Dawson's Creek. I could stop my own fan club.
I didn't really, I used to love Dawson's Creek. Oh, it was so good. It was the best Joey Awesome. Dawson was such a pedantic little horrible prick.
He was horrible. So who should Joey have sent it up with? P.S.E. It wasn't.
It's not I didn't see a thing. No, I didn't see a thing. I didn't like P.S.E. I thought he was about it.
Oh, I'm sorry. No, he wasn't. P.S.E. was the best for us.
He was the best. He was the better person for us. Dawson was so far up. He's fucking moving me and asked that he just didn't really look because all he wanted to be with him.
I'm going to be the director. Dawson, you're not. You're really not. Just stop.
And no, sorry. I'm apparently very strong feeling about Dawson's Creek. Obviously the right era of Dawson's Creek was the guy who's the guy wrote screaming stuff. Yeah, it's good.
Honestly, Dawson's Creek is very much watchable now. You could actually go and watch it now. To a certain degree. I think that's what a certain level you think are.
When they start spitting them up and the call kind of moved. Yeah, and you bring Andy into it and her brother, who had the guy from Final Destination, can't abide. And when they're not missing that, don't get as wrong. I was devastated when Joey and Dawson didn't work out.
But then I didn't realize P.S.E. was a thing until he was sorry. I really could go off on a Dawson's Creek tension to you. That's what we're here for.
Get all the trauma and get all the conversation. It's interesting. I think every sort of team show we've talked about just there all had like, we're going to college now and we're going to mess everything up and change the actors and things. Yeah.
Does anyone actually enjoy when that happens? Because I hated when Buffy went to college and stuff like that. And then it was like, oh, Riley showed up. And I'm like, oh, this is shit.
And the course character went back to all the classic guys. But Sabrina did it too. And she goes to college and leaves Harvey. And she does Harvey?
Yeah. And there's like a horrible new guy. But then they eventually just bring Harvey back. But then she left Valerie like a nerdy friend and got a new friend.
And I'm just like, what's going on? Oh, honestly, Sabrina still gets caught in my house, especially between me and my mom. And it's Salem, the cat. It's the one he's dressed up as a mafia boss.
And he's like, I'd like to introduce you to Don. Tootie-fruity. And Don. He's dumb, dumb.
Yeah. Because he was always playing cards and shit. Like, you know, like smoking cigars like on dual gambling. Don't one of my favorite lines is the dumb.
Do dumb, dumb. Sorry. Sabrina was good. Sabrina made me envious of American fashion.
Yeah. Because for girls, like, bear in mind, I have been a Tom Boy, my entire life dresses. And that just, like, it's weird if you saw it in a picture with a dress. And look, I look so uncomfortable.
But when these programs started to come out, fashion was like, oh shit, this is like, you can mix the element of Tom Boy and girly together. Like a look at it. Spice girls, yeah. I got 100% like it was a huge, like, changing point.
But then we only had Tommy Girl. And like, there's not a great deal that you could get out of Tommy Girl, even though I probably warned every fucking thing that was in there. But yeah, it was the fashion for, I don't know, if you guys can relate it. But especially the question for females was very envious when you're looking at the likes of Sabrina.
And you're like, oh, look at that. The men had the vest with the shirt with the flames on and stuff. So we could do it. The guys, we had Easter.
That was close to the North stage when that's our technology. That was so, that was full of compark. I do remember, like, obviously I am, I am fashionable. But I do remember being envious of like, you know, the guys who could pull off the grunge look and stuff.
And I had the flannel and stuff like that was very big in the 90s. Um, freaking Raven from the ECW. Oh yeah. But if we talk about fashion, like, being from the North East, like all of a sudden.
Jory jeans. Jory jeans was the big thing back in the day where you had everyone, had a gourd, you have Jory jeans, I've got a t-shirt or jeans. I've got a pair of the eclipse jeans that everyone used to go. This was before the most Asian kids.
And it's like, where the actual answer was in the bottom. Oh, that's a shame. You know what else I got? I got into the 90s fears.
And it's probably the most stupid thing in the world. I thought it was hilarious. Is the heat sensitive jumpers? Oh, the gourd t-shirts.
You've got them. I had a t-shirt where if you put your hand on, it would give you, like, the heat princess. But what didn't tell you when you got to hop on your own piece and stuff, it showed off your ass way past it as well. I had the t-shirts.
I had at least two of them. One of my favorite memories of t-shirts was me, Bart Simpson, one. I love the post- Simpson's. Do you have the band one that said down the top?
No, I didn't. I can picture it on my head. It was like a baseball tee, so it was blue sleeves and a blue collar and just bought on the front. And I always remember when my sister came out of the hospital, because my sister was in the hospital when she was little, because she had been in the credits, which is another 90s disease that kind of like came out of nowhere and then everyone seemed to get it.
I think I said, I said, then, Jake, this has been known for a while. It was, it wasn't quite, it wasn't known at all, especially when Michaela had it. I remember when she came out of the hospital and she was given a lot of toys. I'm loving you, I'm not.
I'm not thinking of something about damn you, nearly dying in the theatre. I know, couldn't even think of the bigger picture. I was like, she got toys. Like, not back there.
She said, yeah. She got a Bart Simpson, but it was a full-on plush Bart Simpson. Somebody had a hard head, push body, hard arms, and hard. Yes, and you had a drawstring at the back.
She absolutely loved it. Yeah, absolutely loved that Bart Simpson's he shed. I remember it so well. Did any of you guys get in trouble at school for wearing a t-shirt or taking a toy in?
I feel like that kind of thing's gone away at these days. I didn't use a t-shirt. It was, I don't have a power set on it. It was a bad power set.
It was a season, but I think so. Oh, okay. Let's talk about that powder. That was pretty cool.
Political sittles. I didn't, oh, sorry. I was saying, I didn't like taking my stuff. You know, on the last year's term, you were allowed to take a toy in.
I didn't like taking my toys in because I didn't want it. I didn't want to share them with anyone. I am a very possessive person, as I have found out in my adult life. I can't share things.
If my mum wants to lend one of my books, I will just go and buy her the book as opposed to lending her. I kind of, I'll talk about the books. I give out Reddit if I might as well be dead. So we can just guess.
No, no, no, no. Yeah, I was just being like, does anyone want to play with my Captain Planet action? I don't know. Actually, I'll, I mean, get reviewed one of the episodes and it wasn't, it wasn't working.
Did you enjoy it? It wasn't working. I'd have it saying it was actually, it wasn't as bad as I remember. But some of the cartoons, like some of them didn't work.
But only thing I got remember, I got remember from the top of that school, because it was a close-up war, is because I cut my hair too short. So it would be at school. That was a special until the 2000s, but you were ahead of your time, Paul. Yeah.
Because like, I have time whether we're racist, that's because Britpop, I just said, if it was, Oh, go on to Boogatats. Yeah, we had the Oasis and Blur, you have a Blur or Oasis, but it's not the bucket pattern. Have some dignity. I remember rings were barred at our school as well.
And everyone used to, there was this one ring in particular that every girl had, and it was a gold ring with a heart on it. It was like, I think it was an Argos special or something. But yeah, every girl had this gold, and we were not allowed to wear rings in primary school. So some of you are the only female in this section here.
I know we've got females in the chat, and I'd be able to help you here. What was with women, like things that Lassus did at school, like in the 90s, that mid fucking nor sense to me now. Then more sense to me now. Like scrunches.
Why was scrunches such a big fucking thing? Milk bottle fringes. Why was that everything? I can't answer that.
I never, I never, ever, owned a pair of tracksuit bottoms. That already does press stood ones. I never owned anything like that. They were in the, because it was your warden, like you just bought the youth club, and they all cool with your press.
It was a big lunge and then your pants were fine. Yeah, people just tried pulling off you. From 50, my gothias starts between 14 and 15. So I never did the whole bottle for it.
But I do remember, what was the first, scrunches? The scrunches, is neon scrunches. Thank you, Kelly. And scrunches helps your hair, because when you tie your hair up, and you let it down, you'll always have a kink.
I'll end up, because it doesn't, scrunches don't create a kink in your hair, whereas a hair bottle, a tight hair bottle, will rip it. So if I can't tie my hair up and then put it down and it'll look like this, it would have kinks in it. Well, the scrunchie doesn't necessarily do that. But I also remember, if you want to go with what Lassus used to wear, dummies, rave dummies.
Dummies and picker tags. Picker tags, yeah. You collected picker tags. I used, well, I was a brass fan, so I used to have gross tops.
Yeah, gross tops on my d, on my dog Martens, because my dad used to work on a pope, so he'd always bring his fresh ones in, so I could put them on the front of my dog Martens. And it's the style of the set. It was, it was, I think what were the cool brands back in the day? You had kickers, the lassi.
The sweater shop. Sorry, I think that's a good northern thing. Um, what was that? Jockers, it was a master.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, um, I think that was a big one. I mean, if anyone had like, rework pumps or anything, any kind of any special trainers. I have pump trainers and when Mike, I'm asked for the air bubbles out for the first time.
Yes. Yeah. Like them, Jordan's were like air, Jordan's were like, not really a thing over here, but in it, on like American shows, you'd see them a lot like being like, like, the actual thing, everyone once. Kelly is just listening off things and the like, put a fire clips, but it's that's not what, because I know what she means.
Everyone is interested in a hand and put a a fire clip in it. And it's the, Hannah Skara. Who thought that was a creepy idea that wrecked your hair. They really did use the record hair.
And I've had black hair since I was, oh gosh, actually, I was a bit older. I was eating when I first gave me hair black. And so I put out like mostly brown hair. It doesn't work with Hannah Skara.
So front of school, Dias and stuff like that as well. What things from your school was banned because of things that happens? Because one of the things that was banned from our school was Dolly Beat. You know what I mean?
Someone got it in the eye and give them a bon eyes or we went to the same school. So I remember that like that, that rumor going around. The lot of that happened there was a look at Lombardy. It actually hit him in the eye.
And if it weren't for his book, special look at Lombardy, he'd drop his eyes. One of his eye points that way. Because we're like, oh. Because we're like, oh.
Oh. Oh. I've got a couple of stories about like one for getting troll for a t-shirt, which was when I wore my American badass t-shirt. Oh, no take out the school.
But that was like the 2000s. I humbly spent got a yo-yo took off me. Like that happened. I was in a yo-yo, like when school had finished and the teacher was like, until you're out the classroom and still counts.
And I was like, you'll have to send your parents in to get it. My mum was like, I don't think I'll be going in school to get the yo-yo. I got it back on the last year. Was it under the scratch?
All the cold ones. Oh, I don't know. We're a bit of cheap one. I think we yo-yo.
I didn't have a yo-yo. I didn't have a yo-yo. I was constantly the wet one. Wasn't it?
Hogs got banding my school because boys were feeding them off of the kids and stuff. Yeah. I guess it was got all the pogs still. It's me and the bully.
I went to Hoang's. I was like, I went to Hoang's. I was doing it for him. I was like, I was just getting a banding every single day.
I am part of a band thing from primary school. So if you can remember, like a picture of a this is going to be an operation YouTube. No, no, no. So you used to get like these jelly bands, like these jelly bracelets that had like glitter and it was like, it was in the air.
Yes, they had as many on them as possible. You had what was called the shag band, which was just the plastic, just the pure single one, but this had like glitter in it. And you could kind of pop it open and close it. And I've got dead to try and get the actual stuff out of the bracelet.
So I got my teeth and went like that and pulled it and the whole thing just went. Just went in my eyes. And just went straight. Just like I was lined with glitter.
So I had to be, I had to be frustrated at hospitals and they had to be frustrated at hospitals. Then I had to go straight to the eye hospital because I had to have like, my eyes pulled back and air blown into them and have drops and everything put in my eyes. I saw glitter for about a week. Like clockwork orange.
So I was picturing. I don't remember, I don't remember being part of a direct thing that got banned, but Pokemon cards definitely got totally banned outright after like a few weeks. Because kids used to do crazy stuff, they'd be like, scramble and like throw like hundreds of cards in the air and then everyone would be like, like scratching around on the floor. Like in moving.
So Pokemon cards have been caused in chaos since the 90s. Yeah, does anyone remember, I can't remember the name of them. They were like, they were like, pogs with a metal was about this big. And you would have like a weird, flappy hand like you would hit them with like a plastic.
I feel like I do, but it's the hand I can remember not the metal things. Yeah, because we obviously used to hit each other with that tiny hand as well. Like, like, like, we used to get the whole dog stuff, British Bulldogs, because I got pushed against the wall and it's much in open. So, you were the one.
I'm a fan of the people who got into the ball. I got them bracelets, but I also got a parka clothes down as well. You were like a dog story. Yeah, yeah.
But it's all weird because wherever I live is like a, wearing up now is the street's agaroban. Like I'm literally two minutes away from the house. I was born in the house. Yeah, it is literally and it is a block.
It's a circle. But in the middle of that circle is this bit of land, like this concrete bit of land. And it used to, it's behind my grandmother's house. And it's used to have one of those trench, like, you know, the banana slides, the metal banana slides.