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No matter what we do or how we feel about it, time keeps marching forward. And while reminiscing about the past can be a double-edged sword, providing both melancholy and comfort, the Facebook group '80s & 90s Kids Everywhere!' invites people to do just that.
Though this online community is quite young (it was created in January 2019), 1.1 million people have already joined it, sharing everything that they remember from the two decades.
So whether you want a strong dose of nostalgia or simply to learn what the good old days were all about, we invite you to check out these handpicked posts we gathered from the group.
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago
All those books he read, despite being blind...
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Nicky Shrimps 2 years ago
LeVar Burton! There's a park in his hometown of Sacramento, California named after him. Great guy.
Martinna Jaap 2 years ago
I always thought he had to have that weird visor over his eye in order to see irl. Lol
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Momo Skarsgård 2 years ago
Yes!!! One of the shows that helped me learn English, watched it tons.
Janet Sparrow 2 years ago
Kunta Kinte. Great role, great actor, loved him in Reading Rainbow. Thank you LaVar Burtton!
Mochi 2 years ago
I used to watch this show with my parents when I was little too!
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Didn't recognize him without the air filter on his head. Yes, I remember Roots, too.
Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
LaVar Burton shaped so much of my childhood! I am so grateful to him. Almost as beloved as Mr. Rogers to me.
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Linus Bourque 2 years ago
It's interesting. I just read an article (NY Times or Washington Post) about how kids today aren't given enough of a chance to be children, to explore and play however they want to. And (surprise surprise) this is having an impact on mental health (anxiety).
Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago (edited)
I read a while ago that there's a park in NY where it's pretty wild - fallen tree trunks, rocks and a stream, empty oil barrels, etc - and kids can just go wild and do what they like. Parents have to sign a disclaimer (of course) but at the time of publication, aside from scratches, bumps and bruises, nothing serious happened to them and they had the time of their lives, while learning some good physical skills like swinging from ropes, climbing, making stuff, etc.
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Went Nick knocking, ran away from the crazy man with a rifle who was sick of kids knocking and hiding. Teased a snake in the paddock. Went bike riding up a steep builder dirt pile, didn't make it, rolled backwards into a pile of prickles, scraped raw over half my body. Had a "family" picnic on a roundabout with bunch of neighbourhood kids, got beeped and cursed by every 2nd car. Came home at dusk...what did you do outside all day?...not much, rode my bike and played cricket in Linda's backyard. Oh that's nice dear, time for dinner.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I grew up in the country so you can add guns and fire to the list. We did a lot of stupid stuff back then. One of my little brother's friends tried to climb a grain elevator, slipped, fell and broke both arms and both legs. Like I said we were really stupid.
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Spocks's Mom 2 years ago (edited)
I've done all of this as a kid except for jumping over garage roofs.
unfilteredCigarette73 2 years ago
I basically lived on our garage roof at that age lol
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Multa Nocte 2 years ago
And all crowded around an uncovered well in the woods where there was a couch floating.
Deeelite 2 years ago
I was allowed outside for 30 mins at a time before I had to rush home and "check in" yes, it was the 80s
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 years ago
oh, i'm so sorry to hear that! our parents had absolutely no idea where were were from the time we left the house after eating lunch until we got back by the time the street lights came on. good times...
Load More Replies...For some Americans, the 1960s and 1970s had been a troubling time that undermined their confidence in fellow citizens and in government. So in the 1980s, a new conservatism arose in social, economic, and political life, which can be identified through the policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The decade is often remembered for its materialism and consumerism and it also saw the rise of the "yuppie," an explosion of blockbuster movies and the emergence of cable networks like CNN and MTV, which introduced the music video and launched the careers of many iconic artists.
However, there were great challenges, too. The AIDS crisis would go on to kill more than 700,000 people in the United States alone.
#3
AreYouGoingToEatThatPickle? 2 years ago
I have a HUGE scar on my knee from flying off of one of these over 30 years ago. Good times!
ShellsBells 2 years ago
I went to a day care for a day with a "children's" version of this...it just had seats on it and we had to pump seats up and down to go fast, then faster. I slipped, got my leg caught, and ripped open the back of my thigh. I wanted to go back the next day. I still have a scar.
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Barbara Cassidy 2 years ago
My Dad would spin this so fast that I'm really surprised he didn't kill one of us
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Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
In fairness, somebody's aunt Linda is still sharing those half-baked "facts"...she just has a wider audience with the Internet.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
The internet is very efficient at spready both true and false information very fast. Flat Earth? Ivermectin? 5G? There are more Flat Earth advocates now than EVER in history. In whatever century BC the Greeks measured the size of the GLOBE Earth, there were less people on Earth period, than there are flerfs now. The high end for the population of the planet in 275 BC was around 150 million. The number of people who believe the Earth is flat is harder to nail down but appears to be somewhere between 5% and 10% worldwide. The low end of that estimate is around 200 million people believe the Earth is flat. It's freaking crazy.
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NoCleverName 2 years ago
My parents had the full set of Encyclopedia Britannica. If we asked and they didn't know we were told "I dunno, why doncha go lookitup." I found it annoying at the time but in retrospect we were far from wealthy growing up and have that set of books was a pretty big deal and pretty awesome of them
Calum Sanderson 2 years ago
People still carry misinformation, holding it in higher stead now than they did back then. So things haven't gotten "better" with the Internet I can assure you
WIERD QUEEN RAYSUN<3 2 years ago
im 14 and the 80's and 90's seemed really fun and daring from my grandma. i want it to come back.
Cara G 2 years ago
It really was a magical time to be a kid and my memories are incredibly vivid so allow me to do a little free association here. When Thriller was released, you couldn't turn on a radio or TV without hearing/seeing Michael Jackson and his mirrored sunglasses, one sparkly glove image was on the cover of every magazine at the checkout when you went food shopping with your parents. We collectively lost our minds when he debuted the Moonwalk on the Motown 25th Anniversary Special. I got to see Goonies, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, and Home Alone in the theater. I don't think there is an accurate way to describe the feeling of hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit on the radio for the first time. Or You Oughta Know. Or Hypnotize. Or Wannabe. The specific cultural moment when the 80s officially became the 90s is a song called Groove Is In the Heart. Fashion began to merge with other types of media and the Supermodels were EVERYWHERE. If we didn't go to Blockbuster on Friday night then we watched TGIF
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OnlyMyOpinion 2 years ago
Kids get a lot of wrong answers if the Internet now. They believe that misinformation and share it far and wide.
sweetrottenpeaches 2 years ago
Not like today's youngsters know everything even with the knowledge of enternet :D Tiktok and Instagram is not the place of knowledge.
Michael None 2 years ago
Aunt Linda is still giving out that misinformation only now she has 20000 followers.
The 1980s, especially in New York but also in cities all over the world from Cologne to Tokyo, was a period of media excess and frenzied stock market speculation, typified by aggressive large-scale paintings that sold for lots of money.
(But in 1991, the art market crashed, closing galleries right and left. Prices fell by more than 50% for many contemporary artists, and average art prices didn't recover to their pre-crash height until 2003.)
#5
majandess 2 years ago
Right?! When we were on vacation, my son dealt with commercials for the first time (he was 9ish), and he commented on how annoying they were, and how many of them were for drugs. We both prefer the Netflix way.
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Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
Not to mention that there weren't 8 minutes of commercials per 30 minutes of show. Half-hour shows used to be 26 minutes with just 4 minutes of ads.
#1 Candevil Fan 2 years ago
its called pluto tv, thr land of 1990 and the only channel that they still show I Love Lucy on
Lynette Hannan (Lyn) 2 years ago
So many infants hated ads because that was when they went to bed.
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Terry Tobias 2 years ago
This is absolutely what it was like. If we were lucky it was a friend with a pool in the summer.
Kaa 2 years ago
I'd never dare to toss my bike like that, Dad would have grounded me for treating an expensive item like that
Printerman 2 years ago
The Huffy bikes were like Tonka trucks, though. Indestructible.
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Keeker Dee 1 year ago
I was lucky enough to be the be the one with a pool, but i didnt want to bring my friends over and have all of us under moms eyes
MacintoshID 2 years ago
Nowadays HOAs will write you up for having a pile of bikes sitting in a yard on a beautiful sunny summer day. Sad where things have gone.
Debra Newell 2 years ago
Notice how nobody had to lock up their bikes back then? And they were all still laying their upon our return!
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El Cucuy 2 years ago
I saw some last Halloween. They stopped coloring the ends red. Now they're just a plain white stick.
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Tracy Wallick 2 years ago
Back when I did WWII reenactments, since I don't smoke, I'd carry packs of these around in my pockets. People loved the little extra detail.
IamMe 2 years ago
My brother and I used to get the gum ones, that you could blow "smoke" out of. We'd puff on them, while playing Cheech and Chong. We were pretty limited on choices of what to watch, back then. Saturday morning cartoons, and our parents VHS collection. Dad's favorites were Cheech and Chong, and Mel Brooks. Mom liked dramas. So we opted for Dad's.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Don't disparage a point of view you can't spell.
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The 1990s are often remembered as a decade of relative peace and prosperity. The Soviet Union fell, ending the decades-long Cold War, and the rise of the internet brought a radical new era of communication, business, and entertainment.
However, many forget, that the decade was not without violence and tragedy, including the Bosnian genocide, the Rodney King beating, and subsequent L.A. Riots, and the bombing of the World Trade Center. The Columbine High School shooting marked a solemn chapter in gun violence, and the devastatingly deadly Oklahoma City bombing by a domestic terrorist followed lethal standoffs between federal agents and armed civilians at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas.
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Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
It was excruciating listening to kids read out loud!! Most of the kids didn't understand how punctuation worked, etc so it was a mess. And Instead of teaching kids the correct way to read, the teacher just let the kids stumble through and force us to suffer the embarrassment along with them.
unfilteredCigarette73 2 years ago (edited)
I couldn't stand listening to the other kids read i would usually block it out and read the entire thing myself so I could understand, then if I was called I could read my spot and go back to learning
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Cat Chat 2 years ago
It might be because many schools stopped the reading in front of the class in order to stop the kids with learning/reading disabilities from being embarrassed or picked on.
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Crescent 3 2 years ago
I’d count because I was reading ahead, then jump back to read the paragraph when it was my turn. I hated reading this way because some kids read so slowly it was torture to sit and listen to it.
BlueBlazer999 2 years ago
This never stopped. I literally did this in English three weeks ago.
CanadianaKa 2 years ago
We do the same at seders at every age... (Seder- Passover dinner celebration in which we read from the Haggadah.)
Ashley Conover 2 years ago
Same! I did this as an adult when a job would require the class in training to read stuff.
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
I always cringed how slow most classmates read loud and was reading ahead. Not to practise reading, but I just couldn't wait to know what happened next. Until my teacher forbid me to do that, upon which those lessons were extremely boring to me
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Xavior TheLycan 1 year ago
It is at first then I noticed the head is just the dad's kid playing horsey
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#10
Keeker Dee 1 year ago
That part i love. I dreamed i could carry it all on one device when i was a teen, but thought it would be 100 more years....
Paddling Panda 2 years ago
Only three things missing from this photo: library card, a dictionary, and the entire set of Britannica World Encyclopedias. ;)
#11
Found In A Dustbin. 2 years ago
Or if you can sleepover at your friends house today.....
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Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Nope, we weren't allowed to phone them at work unless it was an emergency. I remember phoning my mum because I didn't know dad's work no when his dad died.
Tammy Leung 2 years ago
I called my mom and asked if I could go to the mall with my cousin, my mom said no. Her boss, the receptionist and everyone else all told her to let me go in the background.
Isabella 2 years ago
Even now, after so many years, I remember the phone numbers from my father 's office and my mother's office!
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
So true. I still remember our phone numbers from five different homes we lived in while my siblings and I were growing up.
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Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
In my childhood, we had no phone - we were no poor, but phones were not for ordinary people. Some friends had phones from the ancient precommunist era, i.e. before II.W.W. New phones were too rare,
Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 2 years ago
also called every grocery store in town, to ask her to buy you cereal.....
Janet Graham 2 years ago
I was the Mom of that era! It go so I wrote everything down and put the oldest in charge!@
While conjuring fond fuzzy feelings from our past makes us feel good, there's a lot more going on.
"Consuming nostalgic media of all types gives us a way of thinking about who we are, and helps us make sense of our purpose in life," said Krystine Batcho, a psychology professor at LeMoyne College and longtime nostalgia researcher.
"Familiar media from our past brings us emotional comfort, but it also meets a cognitive need: it encourages the belief that things will get better because they’ve been good before," Batcho added.
#12
Abel 2 years ago
Those were the worst. To call anybody you need time and patience. "'Mark nine tukutukutuku mark five..."
Bols 2 years ago
And the number for Medical Emergencies in my country was 999, who thought it would be a good idea!
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Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 years ago
right???!!! you can't even hang up on anybody satisfactorily these days. nothing beat slamming that phone down, knowing it forced them to jerk the receiver away from their ear on the other end. LOL
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Marlena Jones 2 years ago
And hanging up on someone was SO Much more satisfying when you could SLAM the receiver down.
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
That phone looks more like it's from the 60's-70's, but it's true that's how you blocked someone. You just had to put the receiver in a drawer or under a cushion so you didn't have to hear the awful 'you left the phone off the hook' noise it made!
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Caller ID works even better today. (But I'm waiting for them to offer Caller IQ.)
frederick clause 2 years ago
The pain of getting the last digit wrong and having to start over.
#13
Liam Hay 2 years ago
Should probably get rid of the computer on the back porch that this is giving trauma flashbacks to.
Jeff Diamond 2 years ago
Are you kidding? It's almost half finished with the download! Don't get rid of it yet.
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Cjo 2 years ago (edited)
Awe, that's just "Microsoft time". Where the predicted download time can shift from 1 second to 39 years and then back down to 10 second in a 30 second period of time. That is provided that the person hasn't already been waiting for about 39 years for the almost 50% of the download. :-) Let's see, at 4.61 KB/Sec that file will only take 10.85 hours to download. :-)
James016 2 years ago
Then your mum would want to make a phone call and would cut your internet off and break the download.
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And the anticipation when the blue rectangles got to the very end, praying that nothing would interfere with it finishing successfully.
#1 Candevil Fan 2 years ago
dad was downloading the mobile game extension for his computer snd it went from 40 yrs to 5 secs to 6 hrs to 3 mins in 30 secs
#14
Elsker 2 years ago
Yeah, but i feel as if the quality of her clothes isn't what it used to eb
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Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Mattel should have sold replacement packs of nothing but Barbie shoes. They’d have made a fortune
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Liam Hay 2 years ago
We literally played Oregon Trail in school in the 00s. Since they used it in like one class for like a day out of the year, the website version wouldn't be blocked on school computers and we'd play it whenever we got the chance.
nbfresh 2 years ago
i'm mad about the way that people use "literally" so severely incorrectly.
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MezzoPiano 2 years ago
The secret was to rest often. I feel there might be a parallel to real life here, but I spend too much time at work to figure out what it is.
Rinso the Red 2 years ago
I always prioritized ammo over food, in the belief that I could hunt enough along the way... never did make it that I recall
Elizabeth Brown 2 years ago
I played this one, am severely disappointed I did not die of disyntary. Also I won? I feel like I messed something up somehow
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Either you played it right or you were just a lucky kitten.
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Nostalgia is also one way we cope with things like social isolation, disconnectedness, and loneliness. This may sound counterintuitive since it typically involves private reflection on our personal history, but nostalgic memories remind us of our relationships with other people.
Batcho believes nostalgic recollections can encourage us to seek out social and emotional support because they frequently feature important people from our past.
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2WheelTravlr 2 years ago
Strangely enough, Aqua Net had two different versions in the US, the one sold on the East Coast had more propellant, thus created more aggressive combustion in our potato guns. We were on the west coast, but one of our buddies commuted to New York every few weeks and would bring back a bunch of cans of the stuff. Yep, carryon luggage full of a highly flammable aerosol. This was a thing pre-9-11.
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CheshirePhrogg 2 years ago (edited)
As someone once said 80s hair looked at 60s hair and said hold my beer
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Rosemary Booth 2 years ago
I had this phone! It would light up when the phone rang.
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I kinda wish we'd bring back transparent electronics, I think they're neat
Jesha 2 years ago
Man I watched the Babysitters Club show (it's good ok) and they picked up one of these for their landline phone 'off of etsy' and said 'it's vintage' and god damn okay TV show just come for me in my own house like that.
BradGfromDaBoo 2 years ago
loved mine I could turn volume off and it would still light up blue so I could get calls all late without moms knowing, made it alot easier to sneak out
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
Some of my best 80's memories are from Friday night at the roller rink. We'd prank call cute boys from our class on the payphone.
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago (edited)
Oh man, the flashbacks of couples skate when the guys would go to one side and the girls to the other, then the guys would be told to go ask a girl to hold hands and skate alongside them for a song or two…the anxiety of trying to find someone who looked like they might be willing to go with you was through the roof!!!
Rosemary Booth 2 years ago
What about "Private eyes *clap clap* they're watching you..." Lol. I had my first kiss sitting on one of those round, carpeted, mushroom-shaped benches. It was magical.
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My local skating rink played "Bohemian Rhapsody" like twice every hour
Wietse Pot 2 years ago
Did this again recently (ice rink) and it was still a wild night. Mostly because almost nobody could actually skate anymore.
#19
Howl's sleeping castle 2 years ago
I could do it faster than my friends and thought it was a real talent
the quickening 2 years ago
In fact, it was way easier with this kind of typing. You could literally write entire messages without looking. Small touch screen keyboards absolutely suck.
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
I was better at texting that way. Even better was the phone that I had with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. That was the bomb!
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Kyle Nunley 2 years ago
This is when you can safely text and drive. You would remember the keys and how many you needed to press for a message.
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
It’s because I owned several phones like this before getting a smartphone that I have become a very fast texter (one who sends texts?).
Jon Stewart 2 years ago
Remember they used to charge 15 cents per text? (Kids, that's y text spelling is so condensed. Go over character limit and it was 30 cents. )
Much of nostalgia makes us recall periods from our childhood. Batcho said a big reason for this is that during that period, we were loved simply for who we were.
Maybe that's why online communities such as '80s & 90s Kids Everywhere!' are so popular. Who doesn't like to remember when everything was so simple and seemed fine?
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Cjo 2 years ago
I certainly never made it without biting it. But the owl had the right number. :-)
featherytoad 2 years ago
They are still running this commercial. One of my favorite commercials as a kid was the Hamm's Beer commercials
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Hammmmsss the beer refreshing, Hammmmmmssssssss.
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Rosemary Booth 2 years ago
Aww! My first cat was a tortoiseshell. She came to me already name Tootsie by her prior owner. She was such a sweet girl. RIP Tootsie!
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#21
Kevin Ber 2 years ago
Do you know what a 386 or a 486 is, but maybe a meme of a dark screen with a green or brown underscore in the top left would explain 80s computing better, that or a boot disk.
Stewart Nagle 2 years ago
Why is XP, a product released in 2001, in a post about 80s and 90s nostalgia?
Tristan J 2 years ago
Because today's youth cannot distinguish between any time before they were born
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iseefractals 2 years ago
I am DOS 2.1 old, it launched within days of my birth, two years before the release of Windows 1.0. By the time dos 3.3 came out in 1987, i was already computer savvy enough to use that ancient text prompt to launch cutting edge games like Dig-dug, centipede and Tank wars! What's in that picture....is windows XP, an OS that launched in 2001....but completely end support until NINE YEARS AGO, in 2014.
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Kevin Ber 2 years ago
Don't forget the baseball cards with the clothes pin and the BMX pegs on the back wheels to allow for the second or third rider. I mean I've never seen any kid ride on another's handlebars for years.
Karen Grace 2 years ago
In the 50's and 60's we got our parents bad when they'd invite friends over for cards and there were several missing. Plus the clothespins to hold them on. Unless your parents were fundies, then you didn't have cards in the house cuz they were a tool of the devil.
#23
Nikole 2 years ago
“The First Purge” and “The Forever Purge” have their merits
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Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Most violent saw movie ever. Do you remember the gruesome, horrifying, geneva convention breaking things that little boy did to those men, and that was for a KIDS movie.
#24
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
Peggy Bundy rocked! Felt sorry for her having to put up with loser Al...
VonBlade 2 years ago
I just hear the Bride of Dracula from Williams Monster Bash pinball table.
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lakitha tolbert 2 years ago
Peggy Bundy had two modes: Walking while talking and Sitting while talking, and she did more sitting than walking
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Gimme that Cash 2 years ago
I remember trying to eat them. My mother stopped me real quick.
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Liam Hay 2 years ago
So, did the creator of this meme think that the trees all died off or that kids stopped messing around with everything they can get their hands on?
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
The latter. Read the comment from "guild wars" above.
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PlusUltraNova (She/They) 2 years ago
Helicopter leaves! I'm a teen and I love these things. Honestly, I think people of all ages love these
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
I loved grabbing a huge handful of these and throwing them into the air.
LittleWombat 2 years ago
I loved playing with them and planted one that is now, 40+ years later, the tallest tree at my home ❤❤❤
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago (edited)
not just 80's, 90's and early 2000's... heck, I still love to throw these up in the air and watch them fly down x3
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me 2 years ago
What are you talking about? It makes it infinitely better!
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SuperChicken 2 years ago
Don't forget Bugles on each finger that will fit.
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MezzoPiano 2 years ago
My seven year old does this on the regular. She usually sweet talks me into doing it with her.
Karen Grace 2 years ago
I did, my friends did, my son and his wife did, my grandkids did, and recently my great grandson did. I think it's a right of passage or something.
DetongLhamo 2 years ago
I’m Gen X and we did this with our kids until they were early 20s. Mostly tent forts. They’d spend half the day in there.
MacintoshID 2 years ago
Lack of furniture meant we used sheets and a couple of dining room chairs as out forts. Favorite thing to do when it was too cold (anything below -5F for my Mother) outside to play in the snow.
Janet Graham 2 years ago
We (my sisters) would make forts to keep our baby brother in and not keep bothering us. It rarely worked.
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Cory Holliday 2 years ago
When I text, lol means this is a joke, Lolol means I thought that was funny, and it takes up to Lololol for me to be actually laughing out loud
#1 Candevil Fan 2 years ago
no i dont, one of my dad's friends i text and i have to put lol after half the things i put bc theres no tone of voice in text
GlassHalfWay 2 years ago
I have never used "lol". I think it's annoying. Especially when an "lol" gets upvoted exponentially. I've always texted "haha". I once texted "lol" to my husband and he replied "are you ok?!" Hahaha
Dianellian 2 years ago
I used to think it meant Lots Of Love as it was usually at the end of a sentence.
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iBlank 2 years ago
I was a freshman in college when Goldeneye came out (Mario Kart also)... those were the golden years for sure!
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
I did this for my 30th birthday. Had my friends fly in to spend the weekend with me reliving our childhood because I was now “old.” Laughed until I peed myself, ate way too much DiGiorno stuffed crust pizza, stayed up way too late trying to tell ghost stories, and played Goldeneye for like 9 hours. I’m gonna do it again when/if I make it to 60.
#1 Candevil Fan 2 years ago
now its "You have four boxes of Little Caesars, Sea of Stars is on the Switch and there's a Coca-Cola on the table, you're laying on the couch covered by a quilt and you're off the next three days so you have enough time to beat SoS"
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
I just bought a copy of Goldeneye for the N64, can't wait to get completely destroyed by my siblings in DK mode.
Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
dude THIS! best memories , best friends , best games, best everything ! I loved after school ~
#30
SadieCat17 (she/her) 2 years ago
Though they do texture better than they look
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They came out of a gumball machine in the dentist's office. You got a token that worked the machine after your check up. :)
Janet Bergstrom 2 years ago
"Kid from the 90's???!!! And here I thought I was old at 59! Feels like I should be dead by now!!!
Faith Arnold 2 years ago
Me too Janet! I was born in the 50’s and feel like I’m expected to be invisible now. But I refuse to contribute to that thinking!
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Lindy Mac 2 years ago
I'm American and have no idea what they are and nobody in these comments are helping one bit.
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Summer S 2 years ago
Does anyone remember KaZaA? I see a lot of Napster and LimeWire on these lists, but never KaZaA
Stephanie A Mutti 2 years ago
I so miss being able to make a mixed tape for friends and write the liner notes. That's how you really showed your love
Board Pan, duh. 2 years ago (edited)
What about Napster. My first downloads: Sandstorm and Kerpal lol anyone else???
#32
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
"I pity the fool that doesn't like Mr. T cereal!"
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Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
Was it large Marge that scared you? It was one of my favorite movies. Admittedly it probably still is one of my favorite movies. 🤫
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The only actor whose career was ruined by a movie he wasn't even in.
TheNewJenBrady 2 years ago
I can still quote this entire movie. We used to pause the VCR at the moment Large Marge's face goes bonkers and her eyes pop out so we could truly appreciate the horror of it. Thought that was the funniest thing ever lol...also, always remember that there's no basement in the Alamo
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 years ago
i was a whole a*s adult in '85, and this was - and is still - one of my favorite movies. lol
Christine M Quigley 2 years ago (edited)
One of my favorite movies!! My kids and I had to watch it whenever it was on. RIP, Paul Reubens.
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Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
They are still around and still weirdly cravable.
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Gimme that Cash 2 years ago
The real question is, why does OP know what chalk and aquarium mix tastes like
Stephanie A Mutti 2 years ago
I always wanted my mom to get us these when I was little but now as an adult, when we gave them to our daughter and I tried one,,, BLERRRGGHHH!!!! Thanks mom for leaving that desire unfulfilled.
MadameMalfoy 2 years ago
ugh i remember my dad saying we needed to take these bc he had them when he was little. sir do you remember how they tasted?!
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Sian Edwards 2 years ago
I had one of these some time around 1989/90. Fluorescent pink and yellow.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
These are like 20 years old, and they are a great invention because the kids think they are making you louder, but they actually redirect the noise up toward the user, making them softer to the adults around!!!!!
Pillowarmidiloroku 2 years ago
oml I forgot about these it was like a spring vibrating sound we had like 3 of these and I'm gen z
Glitterati 2 years ago
I nearly spat my tea at this one. I broke a plate on my brother’s head once. I was a horrible sister
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majandess 2 years ago
Yep. My son still has them, and got an extra one the other day because school was out early and not everyone grabbed a lunch before leaving. He handed it to me and said, "I thought you might like some nostalgia."
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MezzoPiano 2 years ago
OMG, no! This monstrosity is the reason I thought I didn't like pizza until I was like twelve.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
what the h is that? where is the pool of yellow grease in the middle?
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corey sevenker 2 years ago
Only because people weren't trying to have the latest smartphone for everymember of the family, best laptop, tablet, HD + TV in every room, every streaming services, high-speed internet, multiple cars, game systems, and every other ''necessity''.
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Trish 2 years ago
I couldn't wait to grow up and do all of the things. Well, I got here, and all of the things got way more expensive.
Roxy Zena 2 years ago
Alexis Rose said "Why is being an adult so expensive? Like, I'm not even having a good time."
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Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
Yes, but not on 90s salaries - although, in comparison, they went much further.
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Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
When I first came to Spain, for 200 pesetas (about 1.20€ now), you could get a dinner of a nice cold beer and a delicious fried hame & cheese sandwich and maybe even have a little change. You wouldn't even get half the beer for that now 😭
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Eevi 2 years ago
No one is walking around dabbing anymore. Expect me and my friends, and we are in our thirties and lame.
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3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 2 years ago
Drinks just tasted better in the Little Mermaid Cup 🤷🏻♀️
Cat Chat 2 years ago
In the 90s when Lion King came out, for us it was all about getting the Burger King Lion King cups. I took my sister on a week long road trip vacation so we were able to snag the entire set by the time we got home. It wasn't planned, but after two meals and finding out each area received different cups each week the challenge was on.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago (edited)
My grandmother had those cups x3 though I think she had a wind in the willows one
Princeofdarkness 2 years ago
Still have my pocahontas racoon cup never used still in the box. Mcdonalds collectible
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Kevin Ber 2 years ago
I remember when they still had leaded gasoline at the pumps. But I still feel the pain on the back of my hand when those license plates would slap it when you tried unscrewing the gas cap from the back of your car.
El Cucuy 2 years ago
Also back when you had the choice of Self-Serv or Full-Serv.
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Strahd Ivarius 2 years ago
For the yougsters, the prices are not in US dollars, but in US cents
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
At that price taxes didn't change prices much from state to state, so I doubt that any place had prices that low after the first Arab oil embargo. That would probably make this '72 or early '73.
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
When I first started driving I remember a price of 22¢ a gallon, but then, this was during the "gas war" years. They also gave away things like glasses, dishware, etc. to entice patrons to continue coming.
Rinso the Red 2 years ago
I can remember when all the gas stations had to change their signs because they only had 2 digits
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
29.9 cents in the early 70s. Everybody had a gas guzzler and nobody cared. A polite young man would come out and pump your gas and clean the windows, would even check the oil if you asked him to.
Liam Hay 2 years ago
Was going to say. I'm not an expert, but this seems a little pre-80s to me.
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WIERD QUEEN RAYSUN<3 2 years ago
i had to go the hospital because i broke one open and drank it. i was fine i think
nbfresh 2 years ago
i did the same thing at my friend's house in 1982. my friend will still bring it up whenever possible, especially after some drinks. they had to call poison control, apparently. i didn't get sick though
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Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 2 years ago
It's not a bottle. It has an inner tube inside so the liquid is only goes around the edge when it is upright. Thus, a small amount of liquid is enough to fill the small gap between inner tube and outer layer to look like it's half full. When you turn it upside down, that small amount of liquid goes to the cavity which actually have bigger volume not obstructed by the inner tube, thus that same amount of liquid can fit mostly inside the pink area.
Leah M 2 years ago
Everyone chewed the top of these! I was with my friend in the community pool when this bottle was being used as you would a beach ball. It caught my forehead and ripped down to my nose. This plastic is stronger and more dangerous than the S they put in wolverine. I have the scar to prove it. Haha
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JammaCoast2Coast 2 years ago
1. Bevis & Butthead, 2. Married with Children/The Bundys, 3. Roseanne/The Connors, 4. The Simpsons, 5. Full House/The Tanners, 6. Fresh Prince of Bel Air/The Banks
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Admit it: your favorite show was Cosby. You just didn't know what he did.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
I only know one of them, and even then that's only because Will Smith is laying on it.
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SlightlyTarnished 2 years ago
Had a black and white TV, alpha-numeric telephone number, and the bus was 20 cents with free transfers.
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
I'm "I watch TV on one clear local channel and other snowstorms of various viciousness on the other two or three by manouvering rabbit years creatively" years old...
SuperChicken 2 years ago
Yep, so we can watch movies that are avail on one of the other.
Load More Replies... Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I watched Rugrats when it first came out with my son when he was in elementary school.
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Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago
This is still a thing in Super Mario Maker 2, be warned, it still haunts you.
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Julie Blaylock 2 years ago
My husband was a runner and picked up empty packs by the dozen! We had so much stuff and neither of us ever smoked!
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Don't forget all of the Camel cigs gear. and if you want to go farther back, Sir Walter Raleigh coupons.
GlassHalfWay 2 years ago
My dad had shirts, lighters, bags, blankets, etc. Probably every Marlboro product ever. At least a 2 pk a day smoker.
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You Can Call Me Alcoholic 2 years ago
Wait, he wasn’t wearing a kilt?!? I thought he was Scottish! (Never saw the show)
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Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Why? We already knew it. Your mum would have hammered it into your head over the past several years.
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Terry Tobias 2 years ago
Hated dodgball. It was so anxiety-producing waiting for one of the sadists on the other team to annihilate you.
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Liam Hay 2 years ago
Why did it feel easier for me to write one word all the way down rather than write the sentence across?
Kelly Scott 2 years ago
Because it was easier. Lots faster too. Ask me how I know. LOL
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago
I once had to do this but it said "I will not flip off my classmates" after I got caught giving the finger to someone. :)
WIERD QUEEN RAYSUN<3 2 years ago
OMG NO THE TRAMA!!! im 14 and my grandma would do this to me. record of number of senteneces you ask? 1,000. yeah. but now i have very good handwriting and write in italics. trama man, trama
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Liam Hay 2 years ago
Show ran until 2004, was syndicated and had a sequel series running until 2008.
Liam Hay 2 years ago
The one on the right is a fictional Barbie-esque doll. Don't know the left dude.
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Howl's sleeping castle 2 years ago
I once dropped it from second floor. Went, collected all the pieces, put them together and it started working again
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
I got my first mobile phone in 2002, a Nokia... Coincidentally I'm going full circle and am investing in a rugged Nokia later this month...
Stygtand 2 years ago
I once dropped my nokia from the second floor. They had to patch the a hole in the concrete.
SCP 4666 2 years ago
When the mining equipment is broken they use a Nokia
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Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Nah, my mum made excellent cakes back in the 70's. She once made me a fort, square sponge base, then chocolate fingers for the wooden walls and the internal buildings, then scattered my cowboys around it.
Paddling Panda 2 years ago
My two siblings and I were all born in the same week (different years), so our mum made six cakes each year when we were younger: one for each of the family birthday meals and one for each of the birthday parties with friends. And yes, her birthday is nine months before ours.
Load More Replies... Gimme that Cash 2 years ago
The 3 flavour ice cream would be left with just strawberry after parties unless there were more people than ice cream.
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
Never was a fan of the strawberry, and that stripe of ice cream was always the largest.
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sturmwesen 2 years ago (edited)
I hate Fürst Pückler icecream. I tastes like colored water wirh a splash of milk.
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
My mother baked our birthday cakes and we ate chips and drank juice mixed in a jug...
ShellsBells 2 years ago
Back in my day, all you needed was McDonald's. They provided the food, fun, and memories.
Jennifer Crompton 2 years ago
Oh man, I remember that the rich kids got McDonald's birthday parties and you were so lucky to get an invite!!!
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DetongLhamo 2 years ago
We found one at a school fete and the only bit that worked was the blessed HORN. We took the battery out and our son got SO much joy from this.
Sally Smith 2 years ago (edited)
Demon Driver!! Wow, that's a blast from the past. Edit: Spelling
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SuperChicken 2 years ago
Trapper Keepers, rock! I think it still does - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapper_Keeper . I used to like the geometric/neon designs.
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Beck 2 years ago
I remember hearing trapper keepers were banned around 2000 where I live. No idea why
Beck 2 years ago
And we always wrapped our books in paper bags and drew on them.
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Gimme that Cash 2 years ago (edited)
They were banned in my primary and secondary school. I will never know the reason.
Cain Hargreaves 2 years ago
I knew runners and basketball players who did this. They all said it kept their feet comfortable.
Marie BellaDonna 2 years ago
OMG I have SPD, and having my sock wrinkles under my foot like that drives me CRAZY lol!! I couldn't do that. So I just pushed the tops down, instead.
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Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
MySpace is where I first learned about how to code a webpage. Getting the cool background music, effects, altering the Top 8 list to be longer or shorter, adding quizzes…all that fun stuff.
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Heidi Menzel 2 years ago
I literally have a 100+ of those freaking things sitting in my spare bedroom closet from my grandmother. Made the mistake of telling her when I was in my teens and they were all the rage I wanted her collection when she died. And then she willed them to me. Yay.
Hydro Keychain 2 years ago
My mother has a bin of these. She actually yelled at my 8 year old grand daughter for bending a tag. My Mom is not right.
MakeupMama68 2 years ago
My mom left me dozens of these and some are actually worth money since they are first series and she sprung for the tag protectors lol 😂
Kelly Scott 2 years ago
I had a clerk at a crafts store once tell me about the time they got a random shipment of about 20 Princess Di bears. They stacked them on the shelf and two minutes later they had people fighting to get them. The clerk said he'll never know how all those people found out about them so fast.
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Beck 2 years ago
My child is literally at Walmart right now buying a case of mountain dew for me. Ok 3 cases
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LittleWombat 2 years ago (edited)
🎵 I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? Be a Pepper, drink Dr. Pepper 🎵 🎶
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unfilteredCigarette73 2 years ago
I broke the machine in a half hour but the cat sure loved those little hard plastic basketballs on our wood floor
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Cjo 2 years ago (edited)
It stands for Age/Sex/Location. And hoping the person's back is because they believe really old people always have problems with their backs.
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Cjo 2 years ago
Way past my time as a kid. Even the rich kids didn't have these, because the DVD hadn't been invented yet, let alone a portable one.
Celia McReynolds Tinsley 2 years ago
When I was younger I had a few choices. Outside in the front yard. Outside in the back yard. Outside in the fields around the house.
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WIERD QUEEN RAYSUN<3 2 years ago
OMG i have this and i watched steel leather jackets on it. is that the title?
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iseefractals 2 years ago
Almost every lottery winner ever would beg to differ. If you were a screw up before, having 10 mil just means you're a screw up with money, which means you'll likely lose that money rather quickly. Taking the money is absolving yourself of all responsibility for your life. Money might make things easier in the short term, but it doesn't fix the things that truly make you unhappy.
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iBlank 2 years ago
and buy some stock in Microsoft and Amazon while you're there ;)
Load More Replies... Liam Hay 2 years ago
Gonna round out the list with one not even pretending to have anything to do with the 80s/90s?
iBlank 2 years ago
i guess if your childhood was in the 80s/90s than that is likely where your past mistakes began, but even then it's a stretch
Load More Replies... Kyle Nunley 2 years ago
Blue door. I'd be a billionaire by buying Bitcoin when it first came out like I wanted to, but was talked out of it.
Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
Blue. I’ve got some lingering trauma I would like to undo. Plus, since it seems that I would have present knowledge but be back in the past, I’d totally play the stock market and warn people about 9/11.
Trish 2 years ago
10,000,000 in hand. Who's to say making other choices would have ended any better?
GlassHalfWay 2 years ago
That's absolutely true. Making a different choice could make the future worse
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