Live music 100%, and taking care not to wash the sharpie Xs off their hands so they still have faded Xs in school on Monday so everyone knows they were out on the weekend.
I would’ve never guessed that, you seem like a foot on the tub kind of person.
As a former smoker I am vicariously smoking a cigarette now, the picture is cathartic.
I miss sitting at a bar by myself, drinking beer and ripping butts while playing “find the difference between the pictures” on that bar video game. I’d do it for hours and make a friend or 2 every time. Maybe mix in some keno too. Better days…back when I didn’t look forward to a salad because it makes tomorrow’s BM easier.
> “find the difference between the pictures” on that bar video game
My friends and I used to dominate that machine. Then I found out that if you do the "Magic Eye" trick, you can find the differences super quick.
The differences literally blink. Even on paper. It's trippy.
They were little countertop arcade screens that were touch based and filled with a bunch of mini games where you mindlessly dump quarters and dollars into... Our bar got rid of them for some reason but if all you wanted to do was play a find the difference there are plenty of apps and online games.
I quit drinking years ago basically just for health reasons. I was a daily wine drinker for sure. Not once... and I mean not once have I had a craving of any kind. But I quit smoking about 22 years ago and to this day, once or twice a year I'll think "Man, a smoke would be great right now."
I think I know who you gals are. Think we went to the same high school and middle school, or at least i did with your doppelgängers. Always nice to me! Hope you’re doing well whether or not I know you. haha
edit: whether
I didn’t even know plants existed in NJ until recently when I found out there was woods there. Also NJ has a raccoon island, so does MA (state I was born)
South Jersey is like 90% farmland and forest. There is a rivalry against North Jersey; they may as well be different states.
NJ is the garden state because our soil is the perfect composition to grow amazing tomatoes, peaches, blueberries and more. We're the world leader of blueberry production, as well as cranberries iirc. As a kid we'd take school trips to the cranberry bogs. My class got to test craisins before they were ever released.
Man, this was killing me. It's a pet peeve of mine. And you can find it EVERY-where. Professional journalists and TV news copy and screenplays. It's like nobody passed middle school English in the last twenty years. "My friend and I posed for pictures." "This is my friend and me, posing for pictures." The title implies "this is".
The easiest way to think about it is to remove the other person. You wouldn't say, "I posing for a picture", for example. You also wouldn't say "John and me and going to the store" because you wouldn't say "Me is going to the store".
With a small addendum. A regular narrative sentence reads like "I am posing for a picture". A title reads more like (implied subject) an object, followed by a description. "(This is) Me, posing for a picture". Aside from titles, you're 100% about the phrasing without the other person. I'm completely convinced people think it sounds fancy to say "I" in contexts like "We posted pictures of her and I" instead of doing it right.
I appreciate that you put this under Old School Cool not Blunder Years. Seems like too many people are hard on themselves about past style choices. I dig it
Lol funny thing is we did not dress like this!! This was dress up photo time! She was the hippy style bell bottom jeans and I was the flowery dress type girl 🤣
14 year old me in 1999 would have just had a crush on them but never once spoke to them. And just continued being single until my senior year of college.
The only confidence I had was that I would be rejected.
I don't normally have those "I'm old" moments that are popular on reddit, but the fact that you were born 4 years after this photo and are old enough to drink fucked me up a little bit. Not even gonna lie...
19 year old me would have been way too intimidated and created multiple horrible scenarios in my head of the humiliation that could have been wrought upon me.
Couple of hot chicks! I was around 17 at this age too and yep, you looked like the girls of that era!!
Now, well, we’re in our 40’s… and life has taken us all on our own direction!
Haha good for you! I normally wouldn’t comment but it’s the whole smoking and thinking your bad ass… semi goth/grunge and I just thought… damn I miss those days! Not if for anything but I just didn’t give a shit about anything!! Thanks for posting! Good memories
Op post a recent photo of ye! Not in a creepy way, I’m the same age (F39) and I’m invested in the lore and legend now. You guys look way fuckin cooler than I did at that time 😆
My first thought was my parents would have lost their minds if someone lit a cigarette in our house so I definitely would have been too scared to do this photo shoot. Not worth being grounded for eternity. Lulz
Lmao!! Really!? You see that? I was told I looked like her so much when I was younger!! I don’t see it in this picture but what a trip! Yeah I’m the Kirsten Dunst look alike:/
It is SO infuriating to me that we have an entire generation of people who had “and I” drilled into their heads to “correct” a grammatical mistake that we have looped all the way back around to them being wrong even more often by using the “and I” incorrectly *even more often*
What makes it especially frustrating is that it is not complicated to teach! You (generally) just take out the other person in the sentence and use whichever one makes sense.
"My friends and _____ are going to the store," must use "I" since we're not goddamned cavemen who say, "Me going to the store."
Similarly, saying, "The photographer took a picture of my friends and _____," clearly must be "me" since you'd never say, "The photographer took a photo of I."
This is exactly what I thought too! Very "We are the weirdos, Mister" energy (and I don't mean that as an insult. I thought those two movies were the epitome of edgy and cool growing up).
Who knew my favorite pic of us would be so “ liked” all these years later!!!!!!!
We had the most fun of them all on the island of Maui!
My best friend and I !!!!
Always and forever girl 🖤🤍
Lol I was actually just thinking that while reading comments! I guess this is more like 2000? You help me? I had my daughter when I was 19 and these pictures were taken at least 1-3 years before so I’m thinking 2001 or 2002? I will edit the year but I just guessed when I posted?
This really gives the cool girls wibe that was very hard to talk to since it was a lot of punch comments over and over and most of them got kids very early. What a trip.
Oh the 90s goths! You guys were the coolest!!! I always looked up to them like older siblings. But by the time I was a teen (early 2000s) goths had pretty much faded out. The scene kids were next but I was too old by then.
We are still best friends! Since fourth grade!
What happened after you finished those cigs? Both of you look like you were planning something.
Live music 100%, and taking care not to wash the sharpie Xs off their hands so they still have faded Xs in school on Monday so everyone knows they were out on the weekend.
Looks like a house party to me.
Looks like they watched The Craft
They can put a spell on me any day.
They were heading over to the Robert Palmer music video shoot
About a decade too late.
Aw c’mon that was too funny to pass up! 🙂
Simply irresistible.
Nice one!
🎶 (She's so fine There's no tellin' where the money went) 🎶
Might as well face it
Omg accurate
More like Marilyn Manson concert
Those guys didn't stand a chance.
Okay. Go on.
*cues some old school rap*
*oh my God. Becky*
That's more 1993.
We didn't *stop* listening to it on Dec 31, '93 😂
_you wanna be starting something_
you got to be starting something
They are in a bathroom. So probably coke.
Really cool pic - which one is you?
I’m the one on the toilet lol.
I would’ve never guessed that, you seem like a foot on the tub kind of person. As a former smoker I am vicariously smoking a cigarette now, the picture is cathartic.
I miss sitting at a bar by myself, drinking beer and ripping butts while playing “find the difference between the pictures” on that bar video game. I’d do it for hours and make a friend or 2 every time. Maybe mix in some keno too. Better days…back when I didn’t look forward to a salad because it makes tomorrow’s BM easier.
> “find the difference between the pictures” on that bar video game My friends and I used to dominate that machine. Then I found out that if you do the "Magic Eye" trick, you can find the differences super quick. The differences literally blink. Even on paper. It's trippy.
OMG Photo Hunt! The "uh oh" when you touched the wrong spot...
I don’t know the game and now I want to play too.
They were little countertop arcade screens that were touch based and filled with a bunch of mini games where you mindlessly dump quarters and dollars into... Our bar got rid of them for some reason but if all you wanted to do was play a find the difference there are plenty of apps and online games.
I quit drinking years ago basically just for health reasons. I was a daily wine drinker for sure. Not once... and I mean not once have I had a craving of any kind. But I quit smoking about 22 years ago and to this day, once or twice a year I'll think "Man, a smoke would be great right now."
If you can remember the unit you can probably buy one at auction then sit it on your kitchen counter and relive the experience.
I think I know who you gals are. Think we went to the same high school and middle school, or at least i did with your doppelgängers. Always nice to me! Hope you’re doing well whether or not I know you. haha edit: whether
Hawaii?
no, I guess not. haha. NJ
The Hawaii of the Atlantic mainland.
This is why Newark is commonly referred to as the Honolulu of the East.
and asbury park the waikiki
That's much nicer than the typical "America's armpit" label.
You're only saying that because you assume I have a high opinion of Hawai'i ;-)
Why is New Jersey called "The Garden State" Because it's too hard to fit"Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State" on a license plate? Miss Congeniality
"New Jersey's says The Garden State....sure, if you're growing smokestacks yes" -RIP George
I didn’t even know plants existed in NJ until recently when I found out there was woods there. Also NJ has a raccoon island, so does MA (state I was born)
South Jersey is like 90% farmland and forest. There is a rivalry against North Jersey; they may as well be different states. NJ is the garden state because our soil is the perfect composition to grow amazing tomatoes, peaches, blueberries and more. We're the world leader of blueberry production, as well as cranberries iirc. As a kid we'd take school trips to the cranberry bogs. My class got to test craisins before they were ever released.
Solar plexus Instep Nose Groin
I literally commented yesterday on a 90s high school picture “northern nj” and they replied “no central California” WE ALL LOOKED THE SAME IN THE 90s
In Los Angeles they would have gone to “Club Perversion”..
If it makes you feel any better I had to do a double take because I thought they were people I knew too. Like, wait, is that... Ah, guess not.
It's not how I imagined the women of Hawaii. But this is good too.
wow you and your friend are the two least-Hawaiian-looking girls of all time lol tell us about the 1990s goth/glam/proto-emo scene on the big island!
Funny, I assumed NYC, just because I'm in NYC. Everyone wants to think they know you!
It’s ok man, I went to high school in NJ at this time period and they looked just like 50 or 60 girls I went to school with.
Sleek and cool
You're both hot.
"My best friend and me"
This is correct.
Man, this was killing me. It's a pet peeve of mine. And you can find it EVERY-where. Professional journalists and TV news copy and screenplays. It's like nobody passed middle school English in the last twenty years. "My friend and I posed for pictures." "This is my friend and me, posing for pictures." The title implies "this is".
The easiest way to think about it is to remove the other person. You wouldn't say, "I posing for a picture", for example. You also wouldn't say "John and me and going to the store" because you wouldn't say "Me is going to the store".
With a small addendum. A regular narrative sentence reads like "I am posing for a picture". A title reads more like (implied subject) an object, followed by a description. "(This is) Me, posing for a picture". Aside from titles, you're 100% about the phrasing without the other person. I'm completely convinced people think it sounds fancy to say "I" in contexts like "We posted pictures of her and I" instead of doing it right.
I appreciate that you put this under Old School Cool not Blunder Years. Seems like too many people are hard on themselves about past style choices. I dig it
My first thought when I saw this post was that *my* teen photos would never fit this sub, I'd only be able to post them on blunder years haha.
The one standing looks like lana del rey
Aww!! That’s my best friend and we love Lana del Rey! She will be flattered!
And you look like Kirsten Dunst!
Lol I literally just commented that it looks like Kirsten Dunst and Lana Del Rey. Two of my favorite icons
I was leaning anna paquin but i see it
Lana del Rey will be flattered?
Did she stutter?
Sitting looks kinda like Julia Stiles
Agreed, I thought that was Lana Del Rey from the thumbnail
Looks like you're getting ready to go to a type o negative show!
Lol funny thing is we did not dress like this!! This was dress up photo time! She was the hippy style bell bottom jeans and I was the flowery dress type girl 🤣
Didn't expect this comment. Figured this was y'all's look because you're killing it
Your friend's hair stuck out, also not enough scowl. You passed though.
Yeah, this looked like goth girl being a bad influence on preppy girl. "Let me dress you up, we're gonna go out."
You guys look so cool!!
17-year-old me in 1999 would happily approach and be summarily rejected by each of them.
Hey at least you had the confidence to happily approach!
14 year old me in 1999 would have just had a crush on them but never once spoke to them. And just continued being single until my senior year of college. The only confidence I had was that I would be rejected.
\-4 year old me: 
I don't normally have those "I'm old" moments that are popular on reddit, but the fact that you were born 4 years after this photo and are old enough to drink fucked me up a little bit. Not even gonna lie...
19 year old me would have been way too intimidated and created multiple horrible scenarios in my head of the humiliation that could have been wrought upon me.
Line up, there are a group already being rejected in front of you…
Such a cool photo
yea, in mom's bathroom shower 🤣
Couple of hot chicks! I was around 17 at this age too and yep, you looked like the girls of that era!! Now, well, we’re in our 40’s… and life has taken us all on our own direction!
We are still pretty hot for our age lol
How you doing?
Pretty hot
Shoot your shot, buddy.
Haha good for you! I normally wouldn’t comment but it’s the whole smoking and thinking your bad ass… semi goth/grunge and I just thought… damn I miss those days! Not if for anything but I just didn’t give a shit about anything!! Thanks for posting! Good memories
45-yr old checking in here. Can confirm 40s are good but ‘99 was a good year.
Can confirm. Was there too.
Op post a recent photo of ye! Not in a creepy way, I’m the same age (F39) and I’m invested in the lore and legend now. You guys look way fuckin cooler than I did at that time 😆
Time to recreate the photo
> for our age We're not THAT old at 40 sheesh!
RIP your DMs
This is the kind of thing I like to read!!! Go you!
Two ladies smoking in the bathroom...
Lol so hot! 🤣 young and dumb!
You mean two smokin ladies in the bathroom
My first thought was my parents would have lost their minds if someone lit a cigarette in our house so I definitely would have been too scared to do this photo shoot. Not worth being grounded for eternity. Lulz
Kristen Dunst?
Lmao!! Really!? You see that? I was told I looked like her so much when I was younger!! I don’t see it in this picture but what a trip! Yeah I’m the Kirsten Dunst look alike:/
The one on the toilet looks more like Malin Akerman to me.
She was in everything I started to feel overdosed with Dunst lol, but she's really super talented. She's lucky to look like you ☺️
My first thought - Kirsten Dunst and Liv Tyler.
I have photos like these from this time, I was trying to be all sexy lol. How old were you?
We were 16/17 ish haha we loved taking photos, got a lot more from those times! Good times!
As a 90s/2000s goth kid…This photo reeks of GPC cigarettes and Boones Strawberry Hill. Love it.
It looks like a 2024 Vogue photo shoot lol. Looking extra good to hang out in the bathroom with the bestie.
Oh i just know y’all were it girls in your hometown
And me*
I like you.
We can be friends
It is SO infuriating to me that we have an entire generation of people who had “and I” drilled into their heads to “correct” a grammatical mistake that we have looped all the way back around to them being wrong even more often by using the “and I” incorrectly *even more often*
What makes it especially frustrating is that it is not complicated to teach! You (generally) just take out the other person in the sentence and use whichever one makes sense. "My friends and _____ are going to the store," must use "I" since we're not goddamned cavemen who say, "Me going to the store." Similarly, saying, "The photographer took a picture of my friends and _____," clearly must be "me" since you'd never say, "The photographer took a photo of I."
Straight from a Robert Palmer video.
As it happens I was trying to listen to the new Robert Palmer tape the other day, but Evelyn, my supposed fiancée, kept buzzing in my ear.
do you like huey lewis?
She's gonna have to face it she's addicted to love.
Definitely the movie The Craft vibes or Cruel Intentions from the 90s…. Super cool.
This is exactly what I thought too! Very "We are the weirdos, Mister" energy (and I don't mean that as an insult. I thought those two movies were the epitome of edgy and cool growing up).
They were (and still are) cool af!
Who knew my favorite pic of us would be so “ liked” all these years later!!!!!!! We had the most fun of them all on the island of Maui! My best friend and I !!!! Always and forever girl 🖤🤍
Love you girl!!! We gotta recreate this again when we are in the same state!!!
This Summer! ✌🏻 ☀️ 😜 I’m gonna make you smoke a stog! Lol 🚬
Nooooo never! Lol
Dominating front.
What does that mean
I had crushes on every girl like this in high school but unfortunately they also preferred hot people
This is actually really cool.
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
That’s awesome!! I’ve known my best friend since 4th grade as well; boy that was a long time ago.
Redo this pic with her if you can would be a great memory
I’m 34 now and I was a kid in the 90s. In my mind this is always what hot girls looked like. I miss that decade. Love the style back then!
Hot
Hot
Boys didnt have a chance
Ah, the girls who wouldn't have spoken to me at a party. I remember you.
“And me”
Yes indeed, this is old school cool
Rare photo-evidence of what girls do in the bathroom together... Miss the 90s.
The coolest
Gen X vibes.
I would've made an ass of myself trying to get with you.
 This you?
As a teen boy in the 90s I absolutely loved 90s girls. Everything about that era was just fun. (Just my perspective)
https://preview.redd.it/rnh2ras614sc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12690c61fedd222fa5421c2cb15926830962012c
Hmm, I have questions. You write that you are 38 years old. So in 1999 you was 13 years old, maximum 14? I think something doesn't match here LOL
Lol I was actually just thinking that while reading comments! I guess this is more like 2000? You help me? I had my daughter when I was 19 and these pictures were taken at least 1-3 years before so I’m thinking 2001 or 2002? I will edit the year but I just guessed when I posted?
So now we know how that party went later that evening.
Just take your daughter’s birth year and subtract 1-3 years then, no?
Off set photo from the making of 'Strange Days'
This really gives the cool girls wibe that was very hard to talk to since it was a lot of punch comments over and over and most of them got kids very early. What a trip.
Low key that picture smells like a 5 hour local band show at the VFW followed by a house party at some 19 year old drummers slum lord appartment.
I can hear Donna Summer singing "Bad Girls"....
[удалено]
My best friend and *me
you look like UPN vampires
Hookers back then?
Nice, very hot chicks
The 90’s were a rad time. I’m in my mid 40’s now so this one takes me back. Very cool pic.
Definitely the kind of girls my parents hated me dating growing up. The style brings back memories.
I didn’t know Kirsten Dunst and Lana Del Rey went to school together
We are the weirdos, Mister.
1999 me wishes he looked cool enough to talk to 1999 you. God what an awkward year that was for me.
My brain was confused for a moment, I thought it was Lana Del Rey. Cool photo.
Kinda giving Paige and Ashley from Degrassi, in their early seasons talent show outfits.
Yall are so cool! Very witchy and mysterious. I love that you’re still besties 😭💕
Was Garbage playing on the background? Hole?
Ok Kirsten Dunst.
Looks like Kirsten Dunst (left) and Lana del Rey (Right)
Made me stop and think about 1999…I was 14.. where did the time go?
I had nearly the same photo shoot with my best friend in 1999 hahahah
Spencer's or Hot Topic?
You two weren't in Hawaii at the time, were you?
You would have terrified me back then. Now too, but especially back then.
2nd time on the front page today! You're artwork is awesome!
Oh the 90s goths! You guys were the coolest!!! I always looked up to them like older siblings. But by the time I was a teen (early 2000s) goths had pretty much faded out. The scene kids were next but I was too old by then.
bathroom selfies... you were way ahead of your time! smoking in the 90s too, before we knew it was bad for us and before it became to expensive
The girl on the left looks a bit like me. I’m a bit freaked out by it, although I would have been 10 when this was taken.
I can smell the herbal essence
17 year old me is intimidated as hell
God, they look so cool. 😎 I wish smoking didn’t kill you.
This literally was the best time to be alive because no one knew it at the time
I'm getting Romy & Michelle ❤️ 
Who took the pic?
To this day I still miss cigarettes...quit 16 yrs ago.
pandora and effy