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I grew up in Australia in the 90’s
   
Just for Fun - Totally Random

• You watched the ABC more than any other station. Those days are long gone.
• You made worms by squeezing your Vegemite or peanut butter crackers together.
• The best parties always had fairy bread.
• The Waugh twins. Go! Aussie! Go!
• The Spice Girls and the rise of Girl Power!
• Super League almost ruining rugby league in Australia.
• Getting the Easter Show guide from the paper and circling all the show bags you wanted.
• You thought everyone in America carried a gun and you never wanted to go there because you were were scared you'd get shot.
• Blinky Bill, Spot and Gumby.
• You always used to see that dried out, white dog poo on the footpath. You never see that anymore.
• SuperTed, Widget The World Watcher and Samurai Pizza Cats.
• Going to the Easter Show with a big group of friends from school once you were old enough to go without Mum and Dad.
• Doing research for school projects by going to the library or looking up an encyclopaedia rather than using the internet.
• Brian Henderson and Richard Morecroft reading the news.
• Paul Keating was some guy that ran the country and John Howard became the only PM you really ever knew because you were too young to care before that.
• Banana Man, Bangers and Mash and The Raggy Dolls.
• Game Boy.
• Waking up early everyday to watch Agro’s Cartoon Connection or Cheez TV.
• Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
• Everyone got the Coke bag at the Easter Show and it was only $10.
• Buying those 6 packs of Coco Pops, Fruit Loops, Frosties, Rice Bubbles, Nutri-Grain and Corn Flakes so you could have a different one each day and then opening the packets really carefully and removing the cereal so you'd have a mini wardrobe afterwards. You also most probably just let your parents eat the Corn Flakes.
• Trying to make the Rainbow Road shortcut on Mario Kart 64.
• Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Lift Off (that show with the dirty, blind doll named EC).
• Playing GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 and arguing over whether Oddjob was allowed to be used in multiplayer.
• The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Super International Cricket on the SNES.
• Arguing over which was better – Nintendo 64 or PlayStation.
• Don’t push me, push a push pop!
• Nobody made not jokes... NOT!!
• Bathurst stopped being Holden vs. Ford and all those European cars came in until they came to their senses.
• Who shot Mr Burns?
• Watching Captain Planet and then driving your parents mad by always singing the song.
• That's so funny, I forgot to laugh.
• WWE was WWF and they actually had cool wrestlers like The Rock, Mankind and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
• Playing Gran Turismo and MGS on PlayStation.
• Roller coasters at Wonderland, Sydney.
• You decorated your room with glow-in-the-dark stickers.
• SBS didn’t have any ads. Not that you ever watched it anyway, except maybe for softcore porn.
• You played marbles and could name all the different types like blue moon, oily, candy, red wine, galaxy and red devil. You never played anyone for your god marble.
• Feeling sad when your Tamagotchi died.
• Singing a ram sam sam, a ram sam sam, guli guli guli guli guli, ram sam sam, a rafi, a rafi, guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam.
• Seeing a small rack of DVDs in the video store and wondering if anyone ever rented them.
• Dolly the sheep.
• Getting up early to watch the Rage Top 50.
• Friends when they were all actually just friends. Why didn't Phoebe and Joey get together?
• Sonic the Hedgehog.
• Watching The Simpsons back when it was funny, every night on Channel 10.
• Power Rangers becoming cooler than the Ninja Turtles, even though the Turtles will always be cooler.
• Watching South Park for the first time and being really excited by all the swearing.
• Watching Hercules and then being disappointed when Xena Warrior Princess replaced it. Nobody was cooler than Herc.
• Blowing on the Nintendo cartridge before putting it in the console to make sure it worked properly.
• Smell the cheese.
• Vulcan, Tower, Flame... Australian Gladiators.
• Playing Mortal Kombat and trying to do a fatality but just ending up punching accidentally.
• Pokemon! Gotta catch ‘em all!
• Watching Hey Dad! and then seeing little Arthur McArthur go on to star in that famous Sorbent ad.
• Full Frontal, not Comedy Inc.
• Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem.
• Downloading music from Napster.
• Chatting with your buddies on ICQ.
• Going to see Titanic.
• And the winner is… Sydney.
• Mighty Max and Polly Pocket. Max and Polly always got lost because they were so bloody small.
• Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
• Waiting for Tony “Plugger” Lockett to break that record.
• Australia didn’t always win the cricket.
• The Socceroos couldn’t qualify for the World Cup.
• John Eales captained the Wallabies and we won the World Cup.
• Ray Martin hosted A Current Affair.
• Zoopa Doopa ice blocks were only 20c and if you couldn’t afford it, you asked the canteen lady to cut it in half so you could split it with a friend.
• Listening to boy bands like Human Nature and girl bands like Girlfriend.
• Barbie, not Bratz.
• Happy Meals were only $2.95 and the toys were simple but actually good.
• Person 1: Who farted!?
• Person 2: Whoever smelt it, dealt it!
• Person 1: Whoever made the rhyme, commited the crime!
• Brad Fittler was the best in the world.
• Thorpe won lots of gold medals and wasn’t so gay.
• Opposite day.
• We all loved Pat Rafter and almost cried when he lost to Goran Ivanisevic because our Pat deserved that title more than anyone. Definitely more than Hewitt ever did.
• Playing tackle Bull Rush at lunchtime and having tackling banned. You had to resort to grab 1-2-3 or tip. Same goes for footy.
• Giving a friend a backage in the canteen line. If it was your best friend, you gave them a frontage.
• Pogs and Looney Tunes Tazos.
• Nobody won Wimbledon unless their name was Pete Sampras.
• You ate Smarties instead of M&M’s.
• You tried Dr. Pepper and hated it.
• Service stations didn’t need space for 4 digits on their petrol prices signs.
• Girl germs! Boy germs!
• Goosebumps.
• You had to actually call your friends rather than send them an SMS.
• Hubba Bubba.
• Wearing a Chicago Bulls T-shirt or cap. Wearing the cap backwards.
• Arguing over who got to be Warnie in backyard cricket. Six and out!
• Paul Jennings’ Gizmo books.
• Matchbox cars.
• The feeling of wonder you got, the first time you were able to see the image in one of those Magic Eye 3D pictures.
• The Secret World of Alex Mack.
• Talk to the hand!
• Johnson and Friends, Noddy and Humphrey B. Bear.
• You wished you had enough Lego to build those amazing cities they displayed in the brochures.
• Collecting Yowie toys. Aussie wildlife was way cooler than any stupid Kinder Surprise toy.
• Playing truth or dare with your secret crush.
• Mark Taylor equalling Don Bradman's record.
• Slap bracelets.
• Jurassic Park and those toy dinosaurs where you could pull a piece of the skin out to see its insides.
• Roger Ramjet, he’s our man, hero of our nation.
• We had paper money.
• Good on ya Mum! Tip Top’s the one!
• You could buy more than enough food from the school canteen for only $2.
• Begging your parents to go to McDonald’s for dinner.
• Rocko’s Modern Life, Rugrats and Hey Arnold!
• Noni, Monica and that bald guy named George on Play School.
• Going to World 4 Kids to look at all the toys.
• Watching The Lion King and feeling Simba’s pain when Mufasa died. Disney just doesn’t make them like that anymore.
• Soft serve cones were only 30c and they never tried to up-sell a Flake because they didn’t have it.
• Wanting a Brain or Silver Bullet during the yo-yo craze.
• Nesquik without the Nes.
• Troll Dolls.
• The Kids' Works at Pizza Hut with unlimited drink refills. You made an ice cream mountain covered in choc chips and marshmallows and could never finish it.
• Thomas the Tank Engine and TUGS.
• Ba-na-na-na-na! Ba-na-na-na-na! Make those bodies sing!
• You had to get your photos developed.
• Your family didn’t own a 4WD unless it was a real one like a Land Cruiser or Patrol. Range Rovers were tough and nobody thought BMW would make a 4WD, let alone Porsche.
• Street Sharks and Biker Mice From Mars
• Competing with your friends to see who could eat the most sour Warheads in one go.
• The Channel 9 logo had dots next to it and the Channel 7 logo wasn’t a folded piece of paper.
• No Hat, no play.
• Dr. Dreadful Food Labs. Kids these days wouldn't be allowed that because its not healthy enough. We didn't give a shit about our health in the 90's.
• High five! Up high, down low, too slow!
• Watching Round the Twist and getting pissed off that the actors kept on changing. You still loved it though.
• Cheating in Heads Down, Thumbs Up.
• Watching that game show called Vidiot. Game shows didn't have to be educational back then, like That's Academic... that show sucks.
• Collecting basketball cards, whether you followed basketball or not.
• You always wished your parents had bought you a bigger Super Soaker for Christmas. Christmas is hot in Australia... the more water, the better.
• Collecting hundreds of tickets from Timezone just so you could trade them for some crappy prize that you could have bought from Woolies for ten bucks.
• Healthy Harold day was the best because you got to miss class to sit in a tiny caravan and listen to a talking giraffe.
• Playing handball with Ace, King, Queen and Dunce and making up stupid rules as you went along.
• Skipping ropes and Jump Rope for Heart Day.
• A*mazing.
• The Ferals. Rattus, Modigliana, Derryn and Mixy were cool until they started that five minute piece of crap, Feral TV.
• Hypercolour T-shirts.
• Who Dares! Who Dares! Who Dares Wins!
• Having your very own Dollarmites account and getting really excited when you earned a tiny bit of interest.

Growing up in Australia in the 90’s was rad.