But FF, of all the awesome 90s stuff you could choose. You go with Friends? You're having a larf mate … if i’m on any streaming service and Friends comes up it is definitely FF or swipe … and I was forced to watch some recently and it has not aged well. Although I didn't watch before so may always have been dire.
This Substack arcticle of yurs has taken me awhile to respond because the 90s for me was hard. I went throught a lot of shit. After I was raped I shaved my head and hated men and the world they created. If they came near men I wanted to bite off their dicks. I am absolutely feral. I may laugh at those girls who shaved their heads and said no sex untill 2028 after Trump won. However, I know very well that I could be one of those women if I was still young. That is why I am grateful that my trauma and youth was in the 80s and 90s and not now. Coming here to the UK help me appreciate the things that I do have and let go of the past as it was weighing me down and making it a drag. Mandela said something in the 90s when he was freed from jail. "Today I walk out a free man but if I hold hate in my heart I will remain a prisoner." That stuck to me. My hatred for men held me prisoner and I was the only one who could set me free.
I told Konstantin on his Substack about one of my father’s dreams I had. I asked, " Why do I have so many questions and none of the right answers?!"
He told me in the dream that I knew all the right answers, I just need to start asking the right questions. In a Tarot book told me to give accurate readings you must ask the right questions. I learnt the Tarot to learn how to ask the right questions. In doing that I discovered that it is not about the right or wrong answers or questions. It is having the right attitude.
Your mate has the right attitude.
Fuck the people who call you far-right or Nazi. Fuck Andrew Tate and his Imane Khelif dick. His bullshit is obviously compensating for something.
I think the reason you get so riled up about pussy penis is that you are similar to me in knowing if you were a youngster now you would be taken in by Andrew. Hoping he will make that awkward boy go away like the beer did for you. I know I would be one of those shaved head birds having a meltdown on Social media, as a youngster. We know fulling well why they are such idiots. But it gives me hope when I think how I overcome beings such an idiot. Not that I am saying I am no longer an idiot, just less of one. They have to learn the hard, like we did.
Yes, the 90s was a better time to be fucked up but I think dwelling on that will cause more resentment and misery than do any good. Pining for the past is just as incarcerating as lamenting the past.
If Austin Texas is like the UK is for me then I hope you have the experience I had of letting go of the past. I would not be where I am today if time did not move on and that I didn't eventually moved on with it.
Besides if we were still in the 90s and there was no social media then there would be no Triggernometry nor would I be here writing to you, the most amazing man on the planet. Love you😘👌
And all that without even mentioning the great music! Also colour blindness was something we aspired to rather than were shamed for, people weren't permanently offended about something and jokes about just about anything (or anyone) were still legal. Who knew when we were living through them that the 90s would turn out to be the pinnacle of Western culture...
The 90s were great for me, too, Francis. I had a great job in a museum/gallery in London, I had a studio in Portman Square, I was selling paintings, exhibiting in the National Gallery, the V&A, the Tate Gallery. There was money around and a culture that appreciated art.
Excellent piece of writing. Don’t know what your subject was but your teaching credentials are showing 😁 And I know how much you enjoy reminding us that you used to be a bona fide school teacher 😂. I am thinking of a paid sub but am already supporting Konstantin (mostly because he was at boarding school with one of my friends!) and it’s easy to get carried away with lots of subscriptions - some that in the cold light of day, makes me question my own sanity 👀 I mean who needs to follow a Cat pretending to speak ‘human’ albeit very badly 😂😂😂
The 90s was when IT jobs started being outsourced to India, and the Buy-to-Let mortgage arrived, which allowed landlords to "invest" in property with money they didn't have, putting a rocket under the housing market. It was also when Labour managed to trick everybody into thinking that they weren't wretched class war socialists anymore. So I don't remember it particularly fondly myself.
Francis, your article reads like a love letter to the lost art of human connection—back when we argued at dinner tables instead of in comment sections. It reminded me of my rant about Family Ties, the ‘80s sitcom that dared to balance Reaganomics with liberal guilt without needing a hashtag.
I somewhat disagree. You can do all those a things today but now their is just so much “information static” that we are inundated with that it makes life less fun. Too much knowledge can be a bad thing. Life was a little more naive back in the 90s, and that is a good thing. Also music today SUCKS compared to the 1990s for sure.
I was a little girl in the 90s but even I remember how much better things were. In fact, I made the decision last year to do my best acting like I live in the 90s while enjoying the best of modern technology. It's been one of the best decisions I've ever made.
I have to say, when it comes to culture and freedom of expression the 90s was a great time (along with the 80s), films, tv and music was amazing. Also most people challenged ideas by having vigorous debates and entertainment was not overly politicised unless that was what you were after. Technology may be light years ahead these days but we certainly have more of an atmosphere of fear and pessimism.
90ties we're best for me too, and half of that was in a civil war...
Best TV, best music, everyone fucking smoked and fucked.
But FF, of all the awesome 90s stuff you could choose. You go with Friends? You're having a larf mate … if i’m on any streaming service and Friends comes up it is definitely FF or swipe … and I was forced to watch some recently and it has not aged well. Although I didn't watch before so may always have been dire.
🤣🤣
Nostalgia is another vice
Excellent read.
This Substack arcticle of yurs has taken me awhile to respond because the 90s for me was hard. I went throught a lot of shit. After I was raped I shaved my head and hated men and the world they created. If they came near men I wanted to bite off their dicks. I am absolutely feral. I may laugh at those girls who shaved their heads and said no sex untill 2028 after Trump won. However, I know very well that I could be one of those women if I was still young. That is why I am grateful that my trauma and youth was in the 80s and 90s and not now. Coming here to the UK help me appreciate the things that I do have and let go of the past as it was weighing me down and making it a drag. Mandela said something in the 90s when he was freed from jail. "Today I walk out a free man but if I hold hate in my heart I will remain a prisoner." That stuck to me. My hatred for men held me prisoner and I was the only one who could set me free.
I told Konstantin on his Substack about one of my father’s dreams I had. I asked, " Why do I have so many questions and none of the right answers?!"
He told me in the dream that I knew all the right answers, I just need to start asking the right questions. In a Tarot book told me to give accurate readings you must ask the right questions. I learnt the Tarot to learn how to ask the right questions. In doing that I discovered that it is not about the right or wrong answers or questions. It is having the right attitude.
Your mate has the right attitude.
Fuck the people who call you far-right or Nazi. Fuck Andrew Tate and his Imane Khelif dick. His bullshit is obviously compensating for something.
I think the reason you get so riled up about pussy penis is that you are similar to me in knowing if you were a youngster now you would be taken in by Andrew. Hoping he will make that awkward boy go away like the beer did for you. I know I would be one of those shaved head birds having a meltdown on Social media, as a youngster. We know fulling well why they are such idiots. But it gives me hope when I think how I overcome beings such an idiot. Not that I am saying I am no longer an idiot, just less of one. They have to learn the hard, like we did.
Yes, the 90s was a better time to be fucked up but I think dwelling on that will cause more resentment and misery than do any good. Pining for the past is just as incarcerating as lamenting the past.
If Austin Texas is like the UK is for me then I hope you have the experience I had of letting go of the past. I would not be where I am today if time did not move on and that I didn't eventually moved on with it.
Besides if we were still in the 90s and there was no social media then there would be no Triggernometry nor would I be here writing to you, the most amazing man on the planet. Love you😘👌
And all that without even mentioning the great music! Also colour blindness was something we aspired to rather than were shamed for, people weren't permanently offended about something and jokes about just about anything (or anyone) were still legal. Who knew when we were living through them that the 90s would turn out to be the pinnacle of Western culture...
I'm so glad that I grew up without the internet!
Long live Brit Pop!
The 90s were great for me, too, Francis. I had a great job in a museum/gallery in London, I had a studio in Portman Square, I was selling paintings, exhibiting in the National Gallery, the V&A, the Tate Gallery. There was money around and a culture that appreciated art.
Excellent piece of writing. Don’t know what your subject was but your teaching credentials are showing 😁 And I know how much you enjoy reminding us that you used to be a bona fide school teacher 😂. I am thinking of a paid sub but am already supporting Konstantin (mostly because he was at boarding school with one of my friends!) and it’s easy to get carried away with lots of subscriptions - some that in the cold light of day, makes me question my own sanity 👀 I mean who needs to follow a Cat pretending to speak ‘human’ albeit very badly 😂😂😂
The 90s was when IT jobs started being outsourced to India, and the Buy-to-Let mortgage arrived, which allowed landlords to "invest" in property with money they didn't have, putting a rocket under the housing market. It was also when Labour managed to trick everybody into thinking that they weren't wretched class war socialists anymore. So I don't remember it particularly fondly myself.
Francis, your article reads like a love letter to the lost art of human connection—back when we argued at dinner tables instead of in comment sections. It reminded me of my rant about Family Ties, the ‘80s sitcom that dared to balance Reaganomics with liberal guilt without needing a hashtag.
https://open.substack.com/pub/countmetalmind/p/family-ties-and-the-lost-art-of-nuance?r=4pl8kw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
There's a reason the matrix modelled the matrix on the 90s
The peak of human civilization.
It has NOTHING to do with that's when it was filmed! It was sent back in time for us to view in the correct context.
I somewhat disagree. You can do all those a things today but now their is just so much “information static” that we are inundated with that it makes life less fun. Too much knowledge can be a bad thing. Life was a little more naive back in the 90s, and that is a good thing. Also music today SUCKS compared to the 1990s for sure.
As someone born in 2001 I feel like my first 12 or so years were somewhat analogue for the most part.
Yea things really got bad in the late 2000s.
I was a little girl in the 90s but even I remember how much better things were. In fact, I made the decision last year to do my best acting like I live in the 90s while enjoying the best of modern technology. It's been one of the best decisions I've ever made.
I have to say, when it comes to culture and freedom of expression the 90s was a great time (along with the 80s), films, tv and music was amazing. Also most people challenged ideas by having vigorous debates and entertainment was not overly politicised unless that was what you were after. Technology may be light years ahead these days but we certainly have more of an atmosphere of fear and pessimism.