SamBally
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IF you lived through the 90s you risked your life on a daily basis without even realising it. Here’s what you miraculously survived:
Smoking indoors
Giving drunk people lighters and allowing them to hold tubes of smouldering paper seems insane, yet that’s what having a fag in a pub was like. And we all lived to tell the tale, apart from a few hundred thousand who died from smoking-related illnesses.
Not having a bottle of water with you constantly.
People used to go the entire day without drinking any water at all. The only reason you’d even think about taking a bottle of water out with you was if the car radiator needed topping up.
Drinking dirt-cheap, sugary alcopops.
Before everyone’s body was a temple, we used to neck gallons of cheap, sugary piss like Reef, Hooch, and MD2020 without giving a passing thought to what it was doing to our insides.
Taking shitloads of Pro Plus.
You popped Pro Plus like they were vitamins, never got any sleep and were so knackered that the only solution was to take even more Pro Plus.
Going out all weekend without a mobile phone.
You’d go out on a Friday and return in time for tea on Sunday night, and your parents didn’t have a clue where you were or have any way to contact you. Young people today will never know such joy.
Driving without a SatNav.
You’d give your friend a map they couldn’t read and arrive at every destination two hours late, having had a massive argument on the way.
Not knowing your step count.
You had no idea how many steps you were taking on a daily basis. How did people cope without constantly worrying that spending all day sitting down was shaving years off their lives?
Buying something without reading a review.
You’d go into a shop and buy an item without reading 700 reviews first. If it was sh**, you took it back to the shop, which is actually a lot more convenient than trying to post something back to Amazon.
Enjoying cheap white bread.
You could enjoy the pleasure of eating bread made from gluten and plastic without chastising yourself for not spending a fiver on a loaf of ancient grains sourdough made by your local artisanal baker.
Being blissfully unaware of your fruit and veg intake.
You’d eat an apple when your mum told you to and some carrots and peas at Sunday dinner. Aside from that, the only other vegetables you ate were potatoes, and you didn’t even know that they didn’t count.
Smoking indoors
Giving drunk people lighters and allowing them to hold tubes of smouldering paper seems insane, yet that’s what having a fag in a pub was like. And we all lived to tell the tale, apart from a few hundred thousand who died from smoking-related illnesses.
Not having a bottle of water with you constantly.
People used to go the entire day without drinking any water at all. The only reason you’d even think about taking a bottle of water out with you was if the car radiator needed topping up.
Drinking dirt-cheap, sugary alcopops.
Before everyone’s body was a temple, we used to neck gallons of cheap, sugary piss like Reef, Hooch, and MD2020 without giving a passing thought to what it was doing to our insides.
Taking shitloads of Pro Plus.
You popped Pro Plus like they were vitamins, never got any sleep and were so knackered that the only solution was to take even more Pro Plus.
Going out all weekend without a mobile phone.
You’d go out on a Friday and return in time for tea on Sunday night, and your parents didn’t have a clue where you were or have any way to contact you. Young people today will never know such joy.
Driving without a SatNav.
You’d give your friend a map they couldn’t read and arrive at every destination two hours late, having had a massive argument on the way.
Not knowing your step count.
You had no idea how many steps you were taking on a daily basis. How did people cope without constantly worrying that spending all day sitting down was shaving years off their lives?
Buying something without reading a review.
You’d go into a shop and buy an item without reading 700 reviews first. If it was sh**, you took it back to the shop, which is actually a lot more convenient than trying to post something back to Amazon.
Enjoying cheap white bread.
You could enjoy the pleasure of eating bread made from gluten and plastic without chastising yourself for not spending a fiver on a loaf of ancient grains sourdough made by your local artisanal baker.
Being blissfully unaware of your fruit and veg intake.
You’d eat an apple when your mum told you to and some carrots and peas at Sunday dinner. Aside from that, the only other vegetables you ate were potatoes, and you didn’t even know that they didn’t count.