OK so TV and music isn't as good today as it was in the 90s. What else from the 90s was better that didn't involve TV or the radio?

When you look at the bigger picture things are overall better today. We have made great strides in science and technology. People are living long, crime is down and people are overall nicer. Yes they really are. Abuse of power isn't tolerated like it used to be, race relations are better, safety standards have improved. Even the very poor today have most of the things people had in the 90s (cable TV, DVD, microwave, A/C). You can get most of these things next to nothing second hand.

My town endured a massive flood in '94, so that's not a 90s moment I'm proud of.

Sorry to hear that

And get this:

This flood destroyed the elementary school I loved going to, and I was forced to go to another one.

Worse than the closing of Sandy Hooks after the shooting

I don't know about that.

What I mean is, I don't know if it was worse than the closing of Sandy Hook Elementary after the shootings.

Sounded like it to me

I guess it was. At least those kids have a school. The one around here was taken away.

You're wrong about crime. Crime was at its peak in the early 90s and has been trending down ever since.


More people are living in poverty today, but like I said their standards of living are higher today.

Unemployment has been high, but its getting better.

2012 is a new high for mass shootings, but this article shows they are nothing new.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/17/graph-of-the-day-perhaps-mass-shootings-arent-becoming-more-common/

As for weather 1997 and 1998 were one of the worst El Nino's on record. There were several bad weather events that caused a lot of damage.

As for happiness, money doesn't buy it. In fact many people become snooty and uppity when they have money and everything is going well. Tragedy tends to brings people down a notch and makes them rethink themselves. A good example is these two kids that used to bully me in my neighborhood (early 90s). Their older friend was murdered for his stereo system one day after school. The next night they came knocking at my door wanting to be friends. I could tell they were upset and they probably felt guilty about the way they had been treating me.

I liked the 90s too and yes there were things that made them better than today. Yes the 00s were not that great, but overall things are better today in 2013. You may disagree which is fine, but there are facts that you can't ignore.

Here's one more. Motor vehicle deaths


And infant mortality rate

Violence and crime may have been way up in the early 90s but the important thing is they all started to decline in the mid to late 90s, but let's just agree to disagree. Life was great in the 90s and early to mid 00s, but as far as pop culture goes I don't think it'll ever reach the greatness of the 90s ever again unfortunately. Even the commercials now are so bland and boring compared to the ones from the 90s and early 00s.

Of course, things like Columbine and Oklahoma City Bombing and tradgedies like that happened, but honestly I was just a teeny bopper and then teenager at that point and as an adult I realize now that for me particularly, not counting the major sucky events like the above that happened, life was pretty darn good for me other than being overweight. Normally if anything sucked back then it was due to bullying, which was due to being overweight at a time when there weren't as many overweight kids so you stuck out like a sore thumb.

Oh, I for sure watched that movie a few times back then and still and enjoy it. I have to say though, while it was lighthearted fun watching, when the movie was over the reality of the situation was, was that I wasn't a fat kid in a movie, I was a fat kid in real life and kids sucked LOL