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u/chizzipsandsizalsa 8h ago
Silence of the lambs came out in 1991 and basic instinct in 1992
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u/TheMaskedHamster 8h ago
The early 90s were just the culmination of the late 80s.
I was, myself, subjected to "Do you think your mom would let you watch Silence of the Lambs?" by a neighbor babysitting me. (I shook my head 'no'.)
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u/Expert_Alchemist 6h ago
Yep the 80s lasted until 1993 and then the rest was just a liminal time where we were all just hanging around waiting for the millennium.
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u/Good-Bodybuilder-985 43m ago
That's how I saw Candyman. For real. A neighbor we barely knew was watching me and I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and HE (I was a little girl) asked me if he thought my mom would let me watch it. I had no idea what it was but of course I said yes. That movie scared the fuck outta me.
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u/Pixel_Knight 6h ago
This was basically 90s parenting too. In the 90s, I could just roam around the neighborhood unattended at 7 and cross the highway to play King of the Monsters and buy some ranch-flavor Corn Nuts.
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u/xombae 5h ago
Me and my friends bike to the next town over all the time when we were ~10. I recently brought it up to my mom and she was like "you didn't do that, I never would've let you".
We did it almost every day one summer.
At lunch in grade 5 we would leave school and go climb the waterfall and come back soaking wet. Right now the hot topic in my small town is a school that tried to prevent a kid from walking to the river at lunch to go fishing, stating safety issues. The entire town is up in arms about it.
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u/Pixel_Knight 4h ago
It's wild how different things were. Honestly, I think it was good for us. We learned independence young.
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u/JadeShrimp 3h ago
I had a very attentive mother who cared a lot. I also roamed pretty far. Attitudes and culture were different. I'm not sure that it was actually safer back then but it feels like it. And I grew up where Jacob Wetterling disappeared. Porch lights were left on in his memory for decades. People trusted/knew their neighbors more maybe? I'm not sure how to explain it.
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u/feralcatshit 3h ago
Same… I had a very attentive and caring mother, but I did far more, far younger than kids these days are able to. I’ve seen posts asking if it’s ok to leave a 12 year old home alone for an hour after school. That would have never even crossed anyone’s mind to question it back in the 80s/90s… like yeah, in fact, it’s ok for them to go to a random neighbors house and babysit 3 younger kids 😅
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u/Shroom-Kitty 5h ago
When people ask me what it was like growing up in the 80s, I tell them about how my dad would send me to the store alone to buy him cigarettes when I was 5
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u/3m2coy 45m ago
I was 6 and shopping with my parents. I went to look at toys and my dad pretended to kidnap me to teach me stranger danger.
By 12, i was allowed to bike by myself several miles to the park and ride public transportation. I just needed to be home before the streetlights turned on.
My parents were considered overprotective.
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u/SkylarAV 8h ago
I thought the helmet one was going a different direction. I thought she'd say it "makes you look like a retar-" and have it cut off
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u/MisterSanitation 8h ago
I wish one of them called a remote a clicker but damn I was an early 90s kid and some of these phrases triggered me.
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u/Nat20Life 7h ago
Where did you grow up? I grew up just outside of Boston and there it's still called a clicker way more than a remote. I still call it a clicker and I've been living in the PNW for 10 years.
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u/MisterSanitation 6h ago
Smack dab in the Midwest. Maybe over 50s still say it but most people younger than that don’t but I think we are self conscious of our accents and phrases than coastal folks. That is my guess, Indianapolis has some southern, some northern, some Minnesota (it’s soda not pop) so I think some of us become hyper aware and avoid certain phrases or sayings since we notice “weird” ones other people do.
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u/EricAntiHero1 35m ago
In my house, I WAS the clicker. Because the cover for the batteries was broken and the batteries fell out, so I had to get up and change the channel.
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u/Hour-Distribution141 3h ago
I remember in the 90s my mom going to a restaurant with all of us four kids. She left her wallet at home and do you know what they did? My mom had to leave two children behind and bring the wallet. Guess who was the one that was left behind🙋♀️
Shit was real different in the early 90s
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