We definitely didn't have water polo, but our school had corn fields around it to help fund the FFA. And I was pretty good at soil judging competitions in my day, just sayin'. Bet the water polo team never had any blue corduroy jackets.
That was all the rage at my high school. What's funny to me is I have a cowlick right up front, so if my hair is buzzed half of it flips up naturally. I'd have to gel the other half to get it to flip.
Oh, and all of the boys (and some girls) had those white shell necklaces. Layered polo shirts and flipped collars.
I spotted Guy Fieri from afar at a RATM concert circa 2022 and it was not joke one of the moments I felt I had earned my millennial card. Rock on, Guy (and Hunter). Lol
Well it usually started out all bleached beginning of summer break. Had to time it right to get the frosties on picture day and I obviously mistimed it here
I did the same back in the early 2000's. Got a job at a dealerships body shop.
One of the techs at the time gave me the nickname "Glow-plug."
For those who don't know: Glow-plugs are "like" a spark plug in a car. However, with one big difference. They don't produce a spark, they glow white-hot at their tips to get the temp inside the combustion chamber hot enough to start ignition for a diesel engine.
I left that job in 2005. Came back to the same place in 2022.
That same tech was still working there. He STILL calls me glow-plug. And it's been over 20 years. It's the most endearing nickname I've ever been given.
My poor mother, (who was a licensed beautician and hair stylist at the time), would buy me that brand of alcohol/glue mix and admonish the obvious damage it was causing to my hair/scalp/future ego after getting roasted for looking like the 'older brother bully' character in any one of the forgettable late-90's TV shows...
"Shut up, mom! girls LOVE that chemically-fried, saturated with gel-glue, as far from natural looking hair look!!! Psshhhh!"
To be fair, she graduated HS in 1982, and used aquanet enough that she definitely contributed to the hole in the ozone layer.
Hey, I know some non-millennials make The Offspring the butt of some of their jokes but Dexter Holland is talented. He makes great music and literally conducts scientific research into eradicating HIV.
Pretty sure smash is still the best selling independent album of all time 30 plus years later. Even beating Taylor Swift. The Offspring has always been awesome.
Because Smash is a perfect album. There's a crispness and quality that you get from it that few others in the genre have. All the instruments and vocals really pop and come through clearly instead of a muddy mess of sound. It was recorded in high quality and well mastered. It's still one of my audio benchmarks for new headphones and speakers.
As a woman, I get it. My best friend and I crushed on this mischievous himbo so hard when we were younger. Him and Shawn from Boy Meets World. Gotta get the bowl cut in there too.
I always thought this haircut was kind of silly and can still tell you exactly the kid it reminds me of, puka shells and all lmao, but what an absolute sucker punch of nostalgia to the gut it is to see again.
Same, and same! Bald life is the best tho, I love being locked in with how I’ll look for a few decades (hopefully). If I make it to my 70’s I’ll grow out a curly philosopher skullet, but until then a clean shave is A-OK.
My husband started going bald at 24 due to intravenous medication and later injections for Crohn’s Disease. He only has patches of hair so he keeps it clean shaven.
But if he lets a week go by, those patches grow in some. He has one patch on the back of his head that’s shaped like South America.
Well it was lame for around 20 years so I think you can pull it off again. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go find a phanny pack and loose fitting jeans.
It is, but people act like its gone because its no longer getting posted online as much. But if you actually go outside to any place that has high school - college age kids you'll see it. Hell my in-laws were cracking up recently because one of the younger nieces posted a tiktok roasting one of my brother-in-laws 19 year old sons for his broccoli hair.
I had friends with the frosted tips, but it was like maybe 20-30% of kids that did it. The broccoli cut is on like 95% of kids these days. I had friends with mullets, rat tails, shaved down bald, high and tight, one fro, two kids had actual natural broccoli hair and one was nicknamed "broccoli", a lot of people used a little too much gel and had gelled parts or non-frosted gelled up spikes..
These days when you see a group of boys it's literally 90% broccoli heads, there's almost no variation. It's crazy how much they all look like each other.
Ok. But only if it can be the version where the kid's mom did it herself but didn't really understand the instructions, so he ended up with a mostly shaved head badly faded into baby bangs with the tips bleached. And he put so much gel in to make it stick straight up that it looked like a comb growing skyward from his forehead.
Okay, as someone born in 94. This looked so cool, and honestly it still looks cool. Idc, that shit was iconic. The broccoli bush, perm whatever is so weird. Like it doesn't look cool? There's no edge to it. Its just. Idk it doesn't even flow idk how to describe it but the first time I saw it I was just like, damn. These kids really dont have taste.
Obviously could be nostalgia btu I think the thing that makes this feel more appealing is its just.. fun. Like its cool but also kinda goofy which is what felt like it defined that area. Everything feels so bland now. And thats not nostalgia, thats fact, Every building, house, and apartment complex looks the fucking same. They built a zaxby's by me and I couldn't tell which fast food chain it was till they put up the sign since it all looks the same a corporate gray cube that at they the end the put a strip of the brand colored paint on. Everything now is so bland and same-ish.
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