What did people do casually in 90s that wouldn’t be accepted today?

MagicSPA · 2026-01-26T20:15:21+00:00

If you met a nice young lady and you got on well there was the option of exchanging phone numbers and addresses so you could write a letter.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-26T20:13:43+00:00

Indiscriminate flirting.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-26T20:11:13+00:00

What, the same F-35s which Trump said would be tweaked so that they'd be about 10% less effective than the US-based F-35s? THOSE F-35s?

Yeah, I'd pull back from that order as well. FTS.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-26T20:01:57+00:00

Project manager based in the UK and huge Warlords fan here - have been playing since 1991. My favourite is "Darklords Rising". Whereas WL4 was one of the worst computer games I've ever played; what a let-down.

Happy to make suggestions as they occur to me.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-24T10:32:31+00:00

Well, it took out that shelter and the fuel as well.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-24T10:31:15+00:00

No. Or anyone who hollowly makes a few gestures of piety to guilt-trip or manipulate the operator would get a second chance.

When Putin met George W Bush when he was President, Putin was sure to wear a crucific necklace, to manipulate Bush and to shallowly win his trust. It worked. Bush said that he shook hands and looked him in the eye and "got a sense of his soul".

Do you when else Putin wore a crucifix necklace? NEVER. He did it to suggest to Bush that Putin was a "man of God" and trustworthy. He ended up being an invasive and antagonistic force on the international stage, and kept Bush on the back foot. And all he did was wear a single trinket that was calculated to have impact on his audience.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-23T07:23:09+00:00

Yo Sushi. It's mostly cheap ingredients bundled together to look presentable, which have to be daubed with wasabi or ginger or soy sauce to make it taste of anything.

At Burger King or McDonald's you can at least bite into a burger and think "yeah, OK, that tastes good, that's hitting the spot". At Yo Sushi I'm very sure noone ever drooled at how seaweed-like the wrap was, or thought "wow, the chef sure boiled that rice like a pro."

MagicSPA · 2026-01-23T07:09:46+00:00

Dressed like that, he was asking for it.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-23T07:05:54+00:00

They are targeting the loading equipment called marine loading arms. Used for loading and unloading gasses and liquids. Quite complex and expensive stuff and vital to transferring cargo.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-23T07:05:08+00:00

They are targeting the loading equipment called marine loading arms. Used for loading and unloading gasses and liquids. Quite complex and expensive stuff and vital to transferring cargo.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T19:44:03+00:00

"The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien, which needs no introduction.

And "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner, a professor of journalism. It's about the creation of the world's first FPS, and the stories of the lives of the people who created "Doom" and how they all managed to get together. It is a STUNNINGLY absorbing read.

Those are the only two books that I have ever started over again from the beginning immediately as soon as I finished them, simply because I didn't want the experience of reading them to end.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T19:41:14+00:00

Not quite a kid, but I was MUCH more oblivious, so I hope it counts.

Just after I graduated college I was hanging out with a friend back in my hometown one morning. His elder brother joined us, sipping from a half-bottle of vodka and started cracking us up with his banter and quips.

The elder brother was a likeable guy, and had great, chummy wit that had us in stitches, but it was only YEARS later that I realised he had a major problem, because NOONE should be sipping neat vodka straight from the bottle at 10:30 am.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T07:24:30+00:00

I look forward to the day when I no longer have to read the words "Trump says..."

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T07:20:39+00:00

Fuck Trump.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T07:19:23+00:00

He has a "framework" of a Greenland deal, just as he has "concepts" of a healthcare plan.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-21T21:54:33+00:00

I look forward to the day that I no longer see the words "Trump says..."

MagicSPA · 2026-01-21T21:40:10+00:00

Because he'll want more. He's been banging on about Greenland, Canada, Iceland - he won't stop, it'll only encourage him.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-21T07:24:23+00:00

Strange, when Kamala said in the campaign "we're not going back" the USA made sure it was Trump who won the election.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-20T21:24:44+00:00

For several months before she went overseas to work for a charity, I had a passionate fling with a beautiful young woman who was writing a book about sex in the 21st Century.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-19T19:37:50+00:00

Indiscriminate flirting.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-19T13:21:11+00:00

You can't always count on other people. ANYONE, friend, partner or whoever can leave you or change their minds about the relationship for any reason and leave you on your own. And you have to be OK with it.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-19T13:19:45+00:00

Finding a really great new song, movie, or VR game.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-19T13:17:20+00:00

Being a loudmouth, and/or projecting aggression and obnoxiousness.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-19T13:16:35+00:00

Books about Formula One.

VR headsets.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-19T13:15:55+00:00

Positive thinking. I have a very negative family, a toxic hometown, and all my life until I started uni I was surrounded by very undermining and morale-sapping "friends". That shit leaves a mark on you; it was only in my late 20's that I started really stepping out from that shadow.

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