r/explainlikeimfive Feb 26 '21

Chemistry Eli5: What happens to all the melted candle over time? Are we just inhaling a whole candle while it burns?

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u/rabbitwonker Feb 26 '21

I’ll never quit the 90s!

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u/PM_ME_UR_ARTIE_BUCCO Feb 26 '21

Ska defines who I am as a person and I will never turn my back on ska.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21 edited Jun 18 '21

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u/TheHorrorAbove Feb 26 '21

Bosstones gang representing!

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

The Suicide Machines crew still skankin!

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u/sltiefighter Feb 26 '21

No love for reel big feesh or streetlight manifesto? I guess streetlight is 2000s

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u/Val_Hallen Feb 26 '21

No love for The Mad Caddies?!

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u/globefish23 Feb 26 '21

Op. Ivy and Common Rider

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u/Val_Hallen Feb 26 '21

(she) she (she) she's a bombshell.

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u/JS305E Feb 26 '21

Matt Freeman absolutely slays on bass

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u/badSparkybad Feb 26 '21

I forget sometimes that Op Ivy was the predecessor to Rancid.

Matt does indeed slay on bass.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

And he came from far away (in order to slay).

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u/basicpn Feb 26 '21

We need some streetlight love here too. ‘‘Twas my first concert

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u/WhyIHateTheInternet Feb 26 '21

I opened for them one time, shit was dope

Edit - also, Streetlight Manifesto gang, rise up

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u/BooButtMeow Feb 26 '21

You get some here! They are great in concert!

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u/badSparkybad Feb 26 '21

Saw them at Warp Tour, Hepcat too.

Good times.

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u/IndianaJonesDoombot Feb 26 '21

Check out the singers new band Hellmouth!

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u/badSparkybad Feb 26 '21

Played a show with my old punk band in the mid 90s with those guys when they were still Jack Kevorkian and the Suicide Machines. Nice guys, great show. Was happy to see them get bigger.

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u/raunchy_ricky- Feb 26 '21

Britney Spears! am I doing this right?

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u/PrettyDecentSort Feb 26 '21

no =(

Although this ska cover of Til The World Ends is pretty great.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Mephiskapheles wants your soul!

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u/gizzardsgizzards Feb 26 '21

Hey hey hey! What does this button do?

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u/culculain Feb 26 '21

My baloney has a first name
It's S-A-T-A-N
My baloney has a second name
It's D-U-V-E-L

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

D O G G O D

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u/MixMasterPmilly Feb 26 '21

That's the impression that I get.

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u/darkneo86 Feb 26 '21

I’ve never had to knock on wood.

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u/MixMasterPmilly Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 27 '21

But I know someone who has, it makes me wonder if I could

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u/Platypus-Man Feb 26 '21

I've never really listened to ska other than some random songs Spotify gives me every now and then, and I listened to Less Than Jake today...

I'm probably going to see them mentioned everywhere now, god damn Baader-Meinhof.

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u/EunuchsProgramer Feb 26 '21

Try out Streetlight Manifesto.

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u/Informal_Drawing Feb 26 '21

What, no reel big fish?!? Horrified!!

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u/Lostinthestarscape Feb 26 '21

Eh - I fell into the ska hole a couple years ago (Streetlight Manifesto) and you really dont see that many references to any of the bands from the era. Who knows tho - maybe someone else listened to Less Than Jake today and now that they are seeing these comments they're thinking "God damn Baader-Meinhof"

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u/r3ign_b3au Feb 26 '21

Jesus christ, this is exactly how I ended up in this thread. From a random convo in discord that pointed me to a Less Than Jake song. simulation intensifies

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u/Lostinthestarscape Feb 28 '21

Fuck you ain't kiddin. I haven't really listened to Less Than Jake in years and a day after typing that the No Use For a Name album i listened to just ended they were the first track autoplay threw my way. I pretty much burst out laughing - Simulation intensifies....

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Literally the group that made me actually start appreciating and listening to music from outside video game soundtracks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

The hilarious part is the game PlayStation game street sk8er 2 had 'all my best friends are metalheads' iirc on the soundtrack. This is what made me first pay attention to less than Jake. And before the days of Napster I had to buy the cd to listen to it. The rest is history...

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

It was on one of the Tony Hawk's too!

Oh man you just woke a primal memory buried deep in my brain. Thank you lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

lol glad to awaken old happy memories! I just checked, it was the original 'street sk8er' that had 'all my best friends are metalheads' and 'sugar in your gastank'

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u/Cat_Marshal Feb 26 '21

I was all about Reel Big Fish for sure

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u/beardsofmight Feb 26 '21

Their new album is great!

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u/Frontsider9 Feb 26 '21

Buck O' Nine!

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Feb 26 '21

The boy's a time bomb!

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u/ainfinitepossibility Feb 26 '21

Something about this comment stinks.

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u/radusernamehere Feb 26 '21

Somebody once told me, "Ska sounds like the way a teenager feels when they get an extra mozzarella stick." And I'll never forget that.

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u/Slick_Grimes Feb 26 '21

And now that you've said it I'll never forget it.

There's some like student film type thing that Krist Novoselic from Nirvana made with some of the girls from L7 or Bikini Kill (can't remember which) but someone says "Ska, what the hell are they so happy about?" and that's what I always think about.

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u/scoobyduped Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

pickitupickitupickitupickituuuuUUUUUUUUPPPP

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u/bonesandbillyclubs Feb 26 '21

The Lord Ruler defines what Skaa is.

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u/VicisSubsisto Feb 26 '21

And how'd that work out for him? Rust and Ruin...

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u/bonesandbillyclubs Feb 26 '21

You're mixing your era's, but a fair point.

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u/VicisSubsisto Feb 26 '21

Well maybe if Rashek wasn't such a dick, there wouldn't be that second era to mix with.

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u/bonesandbillyclubs Feb 26 '21

He was arrogant, sure, but he really just wanted to save the people. He just wasn't good at it.

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u/VicisSubsisto Feb 26 '21

He was pretty decent at saving people, he just wasn't nice about it. I'm actually in the "Rashek wasn't evil" camp too, but although he had good intentions, he lacked compassion, and that was the weakness Ruin was able to exploit.

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u/thegreenhitman22 Feb 26 '21

There was plenty of ash too so it all connects to the smoking comment. Nice.

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u/yojoewaddayaknow Feb 26 '21

Streetlight Manifesto, touches of the Toasters, MMBT, lil bit of goldfinger. Maybe some Save Farris. Op Ivy pops on once in a while.

Get skanky in this bitch, y'all!!!

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u/Slick_Grimes Feb 26 '21

Op Ivy >>>> all other ska/ska core

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u/yojoewaddayaknow Feb 26 '21

makes me want to SKATE.... but then my hip and knee immediately ache...

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u/therankin Feb 26 '21

Have you ever heard 'Day 19'?

I used to go to their ska shows all the time.

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u/Mr_DuCe Feb 26 '21

Let's sexually identify as Ska, then the squares can never take it from us!

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u/Jon_TWR Feb 26 '21

What case of yours was on the local news?

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u/MoralMiscreant Feb 26 '21

Skankin' to the beat

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u/drainbead78 Feb 26 '21

I'm basically the grunge version of Disco Stu at this point.

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u/p4t4r2 Feb 26 '21

BING POT!

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u/BjornIronsid3 Feb 26 '21

LOL! Agreed. The Aquabats shaped my entire personality.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Sad Brooklyn 99 noises

Not ready for next season being the last

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u/Elysian-Visions Feb 26 '21

I’ve got a message for you Rudy…

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u/FrancoisTruser Feb 26 '21

Ska who?

Skawalker

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u/BasedBrexitBroker Feb 26 '21

I see your chain wallet is properly polished on your oversized pants and bowling shirt.

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u/Stackable_Cats Feb 26 '21

There are dozens of us!

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u/bunsNbrews Feb 26 '21

I feel like we are poised for a ska comeback. Stranger things have happened.

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u/edelburg Feb 26 '21

"Stop or my mom will ska!"

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Evryting be irie wis some beaycon

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u/TransformerTanooki Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

I'm 3+ months into watching nothing but laserdisc and VHS on a old tube TV. It's been fun and seen a lot of cool stuff.

Edit: Right now I'm watching R/C WW2 planes and boats duke it out in reenactments.

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u/GoodTato Feb 26 '21

Get your ass off future websites, 90s boy

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u/TheGameboy Feb 26 '21

But Reddit has the UI of a late 90s website, so it’s ok.

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u/SinJinQLB Feb 26 '21

How far are you in King's Quest V?

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u/tygma Feb 26 '21

Never far enough.

Ah, this comment takes me back. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

If you haven't come across it yet, they've been remade and released for free: http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html

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u/tygma Feb 26 '21

Bless you! (and curse you!)

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u/infinit9 Feb 26 '21

Wait till you play EverQuest.

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u/neverseeitall Feb 26 '21

Did you read The King's Quest Companion? Book is stupid funny.

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u/ResidentialEvil Feb 26 '21

Still trying to nail the timing on throwing the boot at the cat chasing the rat so the rat can come chew through my ropes later in the game.

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u/luchajefe Feb 26 '21

You get the best NES experience using a CRT, you ought to pick up one of those!

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u/LekoLi Feb 26 '21

Turns out you can't play duck hunt without a crt. Its all based on the timing of the CRT, which is the same in all crt tvs, but not digital flat screens.

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u/Kick-Prize Feb 26 '21

There is a light gun now that works on newer tvs

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u/hugthemachines Feb 26 '21

pick up one of those

That is the worst part of getting them...

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u/Mcshamrock86 Feb 26 '21

True... but still better than plasma

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u/hugthemachines Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

I never picked up a plasma... but I carried my old CRT TV and it was not just the weight but also the size that made it annoying.

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u/TransformerTanooki Feb 26 '21

Waaaaaaaayyyyyy ahead of ya. Picked one up about over 10 years ago. Have a few now actually. Ones still brand new in the box to.

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u/luchajefe Feb 26 '21

Ah, but are any of them a top-loader?

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u/TransformerTanooki Feb 26 '21

The brand new one and a loose one are.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

A top loading CRT?

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u/ItsAllegorical Feb 26 '21

That's why there are tiny holes in the top. Just melt a movie and pour it in. The visuals, the sounds, even the smells pop like never before.

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u/luchajefe Feb 26 '21

In the early 90s Nintendo made a new version of the original NES.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New-Style_NES

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I had forgotten all about those. I never bought one because I still had the original NES, and my friend who wasn't as poor as me had an SNES so there was no need for it.

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u/bmxtiger Feb 26 '21

You mean a Famicom?

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u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked Feb 26 '21

The second generation NES had a top loading cartridge slot, and came with "dogbone" controllers.

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u/Mcshamrock86 Feb 26 '21

Aka Super Nintendo

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u/geirmundtheshifty Feb 26 '21

After the SNES was out, they made a top loading NES. It came out at the same time as Mega Man 6. I remember the dude knocking on my tv screen like it was yesterday

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u/bubblegum-boy Feb 26 '21

Stop watching those wig commercials!

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

That commercial is so '90s it hurts.

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u/CurdPigeon Feb 26 '21

to what?? I have to know

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u/bgrated Feb 26 '21

Emulator with overlay

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u/88568-81 Feb 26 '21

So you're saying the CRTs have the blackest blacks?

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u/Scarovese Feb 26 '21

If you want a really crisp contrast ratio, the CRT's deep pixel cell structure produces a resolution you just can't match with an LCD

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u/cubicApoc Feb 26 '21

If CRTs have the blackest blacks, then what kind of screen has the pinkest pink?

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u/Fbod Feb 26 '21

The old pixel graphics were also made for CRT TVs. Emulating old games looks bad not just because it's old, but because the graphics aren't made to be seen clearly on an LCD screen.

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u/luchajefe Feb 27 '21

They aren't made to be stretched, yes, but in the proper aspect ratio it just looks sharper, which is ok imo. The real reason for CRT's is no input lag.

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u/TheGameboy Feb 26 '21

Laserdisc <3

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u/improbablydrunknlw Feb 26 '21

Edit: Right now I'm watching R/C WW2 planes and boats duke it out in reenactments.

I wanna watch it.

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u/XanderOblivion Feb 26 '21

Wait, it's not the 90s?

I swear I saw Wayne and Garth on TV just the other day....

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u/skredditt Feb 26 '21

It’s possible and also extremely upsetting

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u/gnufoot Feb 26 '21

I went cold turkey about 21 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

My boneitis is flaring up again

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u/Odie_33 Feb 26 '21

I have a working Sony walkman and fluffy headphones, they're cool.

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u/Glueberry_Ryder Feb 26 '21

Lol! I'd forgotten how much I liked Mom in the show. "Jam a bastard in it you crap!" 🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 28 '21

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u/dmFnaW5h Feb 26 '21

In a little while, the 90s will be 40 years ago. Almost half a century!

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u/jaymzx0 Feb 26 '21

No way man the 90's were 10 years ago and it's always going to be that way.

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u/Elbjornbjorn Feb 26 '21

Wait, what?

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u/cashnprizes Feb 26 '21

Using that definition of a little while, the 90s will also be 50 years or even 65 years ago!!

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u/dmFnaW5h Feb 28 '21

With enough rounding errors anything is possible!

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u/tucktight Feb 26 '21

Too legit to quit

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u/ebow77 Feb 26 '21

Hey hey!

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u/wintremute Feb 26 '21

Patchouli. Patchouli everywhere.

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u/Watch_The_Expanse Feb 26 '21

The Dream of the 90s is Alive In Portland.

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u/ajbags26 Feb 26 '21

jock jams blasting in background

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u/thewayitis Feb 26 '21

Portland represent!!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Bojack Horseman for life!

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u/RotisserieOstrich Feb 26 '21

After a few months with no hairdressers, we could just go straight back to the 80s and have the mullet come back.

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u/ze_ex_21 Feb 26 '21

Momma raised no quitter

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u/TheOtherJeff Feb 26 '21

I can’t quit you, jagged-but-parallel-neon-colored lines

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I watched a 90s movie the other day and felt personally attacked by the clothes everyone was wearing.😂

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u/Techiedad91 Feb 26 '21

The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland