00s nostalgia #3

[Brightlycolouredbowels]

At least it's not Naked Attraction, I suppose.

And i think I've said this before, but your username is hilarious

Thanks, way back on a snark site we used to take the piss out of a blogger who had an enormous following and terrible spelling. They were trying to flog ‘brightly coloured bowls’ but made a typo and I was born.

I got through a load of episodes of Supersize vs Superskinny yesterday - had it in the background whilst I was reading. I wonder where all those super size and skinniers are now. It’s amazing how much tv has changed. Part of the programme is the woman who presents Naked Attraction trying different diet aids for a week and seeing if she looses weight, she’s done the baby food diet(remember that?!) the apple cider vinegar, hypnosis and herbal diet pills. Then Gillian McKeith rears her vile head on a crusade to ‘ban big bums’ finding groups of women around the country who will strip to their underwear, have their bums measured on tv and then go on a 4 week exercise fad (1 programme it was a surfing machine, another it was a machine that replicates sitting on a horse) before being remeasured all whilst being called things like ‘Welsh wobblers’ and ‘tubby teesiders’ by the voiceover. Meanwhile creepy Dr Christian lords over everyone. You’d never get away with it now!

Naturally I am still watching it!

 

[taytay512]

I absolutely loved magazines growing up. Crazy to think this has all been replaced by TikTok. As a kid I loved Girl Talk, Dig it, and Animals and you. Then as I got older it was all about Top of the Pops and Smash Hits (using the lyrics to sing the songs as the music videos played on The Hits and TMF like I was in a church ). Shout, Sneak, Sugar and Bliss. The headlines on Sugar and Bliss were soo raunchy at the time and I swear I got a LOT of my sex education from that. It was about Year 6 when girls in my class started reading Sugar and it seemed just so mature I asked my Dad if he could buy me a copy, and I remember him looking at the cover and being like uh....NO.

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

Good times

That reminds me, I had a massive crush on Gareth Gates in 2002, how embarrassing I was heartbroken when I found out he was going out with Hayley Evetts and slept with Katie Price

Since this is an anonymous site. I’ll admit to crying when he didn’t win Pop Idol. I hated Will Young for months.

 

[ilovetrashtv]

The JCB song

I sing this to my partner all the time and he thinks I’ve made it up!!! I’m Luke, I’m 5 and my dad’s Bruce Lee. Drives me round in his JCB.

 

[Millennial Pink]

I often think of Embarrassing Bodies. There's an episode where a lady has some bum issue or other, then it turns out she has anal warts because she's been indulging in some bum fun. Oh how I laughed.

On the diet shows thing, I remember Louise Redknapp (as was) doing a show on size 0, she went on an extreme diet to try to slim down to that size. At least that show highlighted how stupid the whole thing was.

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

Saw this on Tik Tok recently. The haircut on the boy who was Enrique Iglesias on Stars In Their Eyes Kids

 

[AdsB]

I know shopping at New Look pops up in here. When did it get so expensive? Went shopping with a female friend and it’s give Next prices in a shop that looks like Poundland.

 

[Reality_tv_lover]

Watching TOTP from 2002 so good.
I can't believe Darius is dead he was gorgeous and Colourblind is a great song

 

[Lauurz]

Just looking at the this photo made my heart sink. I spent hours on here and now realise how old I am
"ASL?"
"37/F/UK"

 

[hehehe]

I used to work at La Senza in the early 00s and they had these pink scented beads which we sprinkled into the bag with the purchase and also sold them in pouches as drawer scents. When I was on opening shifts, it was nice coming in and having this scent filling the store.

 

[taytay512]

Today, I'm reflecting on the Crazy Frog. Mad how this one animation just blew up everywhere. How do you explain to the kids of today that this 30 second animation, that you had to pay to download so you could have it on your phone would rock the whole world? I had the CD single and pyjamas

I've just checked his Youtube and he's still pulling quite the audience. Good on him!

 

[Restless Native]

I liked smart and also art attack. Did anyone attempt to make anything from art attack? The art they used to show from a Birds Eye view was always so creative.

Remember people thought Neil Buchanan was Banksy

 

[emm]

I still wear Impulse LOL.
The "Be Surprised" one in the purple can is my favourite.


I remember when Britney Spears Fantasy came out.
and Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker.

I rmember magazines coming with "free gifts" of beauty and hair products, usually Cowshed or Percy & Reed brands.

Remember the spice girls impulse? Clearing out stuff at my parents a while back I found my old can of it, still could smell it!

 

[justonemorepage]

I loooooved sweet valley high. I was so jealous of the twins and how absolutely gorgeous they were.

 

[emm]

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Remember all the websites with the codes you could enter to make a ringtone, always took forever

 

[Reality_tv_lover]

I showed my 6 year old the Crazy Frog music video for the first time and he laughed the whole way through it

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

I feel like you can tell someones age by who they remember from Blue Peter.
Mine are Konnie, Simon, Matt, Liz, Zoe and Gethin

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

 

[Reality_tv_lover]

Remember the myth if you drank too much of it your skin turned orange?

It's filed away with the if you rub the aliens together and put them in the fridge they would have a baby

 

[GlitterFluff]

OMG YES the logos!!!! I completely forgot those were a thing!

Being the epitome of cool with a 'No Fear' or 'Nike' logo on your phone screen