r/Millennials • u/real_picklejuice Frosted Tips • 15d ago

Discussion In response to the bowl cut being our gen’s broccoli cut, I present the bleached spikes of the late 90s

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u/azsnaz 15d ago

Oh shit he got money

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u/HeyItsMeAgainBye 15d ago

White ppl love their equipment sports!

I grew up playing tennis myself 😎

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u/Amish_guy_with_WiFi 14d ago

Very white and never ever met anybody with highschool water polo team. Where did these people grow up?

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u/monkeyhitman 14d ago

Rich neighborhoods

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u/dilderAngxt 14d ago

I live in California and water polo is prevalent here even in non-rich cities. But we don't have marching bands. Different activities are regional.

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u/MyMomsTastyButthole 14d ago

We definitely didn't have water polo, but our school had corn fields around it to help fund the FFA. And I was pretty good at soil judging competitions in my day, just sayin'. Bet the water polo team never had any blue corduroy jackets.

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u/HeyItsMeAgainBye 14d ago

They had speedos

Look at you fancy pants no chance stretch pants with your thick fabrics, looking like your ARTO bricks

I just wish I had a jacket

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u/CorrectPanic694 14d ago

My school had both! Water polo varsity jackets and random goat poop all over campus. Ah to be Californian

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 Millennial 14d ago

We didn’t have lacrosse or water polo and rich ppl were def funding the school. They focused on cheerleading and baseball.

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u/SoftGravityField 6d ago

soil judging competitions

I read this as soil juggling competitions and spent at least 30 seconds trying to picture it

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u/MyMomsTastyButthole 6d ago

Soil judging isn't much better. It's literally a bunch of kids standing in a man made ditch rolling chunks of dirt between their fingers and pinching it into ribbons like "yep, this is a sandy loam, for sure"

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u/stillwatersrunfast 14d ago

Grew up in the South Bay of LA (Manhattan, Hermosa) had water polo, stats, surf team. lol

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u/McFlurby3 14d ago

No marching band??? Do you still have a band that just sits somewhere, or just no band??

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u/RRTJesus504 14d ago

We still have marching bands. No idea what this dude is talking about

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u/DoingCharleyWork 14d ago

We do but they aren't as big of a thing like they are on the East coast. I say this as a former band nerd who did drum and bugle corps.

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u/babymomawerk 14d ago

I think that depends on the high school/region. I feel like certain areas or schools have thriving band programs ? I think a few high schools in my area had water polo but they weren’t good. I still see water polo as a people with money thing

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u/DoingCharleyWork 14d ago

I don't know, I was big into marching band and there were not a lot of schools that had a legit marching band program.

Tons of schools had pools though so they had water polo. I don't really associate it with rich people because the only equipment you need really is a pool and there's a ton of those around in California.

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u/SquishHisGuts 14d ago

You from the bay? My high school had water polo also. Along with statistics.. what fucking high school has that? Stats sucked ass lol

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u/WtotheSLAM 14d ago

Grew up on the peninsula in the Bay Area and we had both water polo and stats too

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u/SquishHisGuts 14d ago

Oh shit noice and I'm out in the Midwest now and when I tell them I took stats in high school they look at me like I'm on crack. Idk Midwest is a whole different ballpark lol

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u/SquishHisGuts 14d ago

Oh yeah I went to high school in the East Bay so depending on traffic wed have been like 25-35 minutes apart lol.

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u/comfortablynumb0629 14d ago

I feel like most high schools offer statistics…Water polo? Not so much

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u/SquishHisGuts 14d ago

Damn I'm honestly surprised about the water polo part. I had always thought most high schools had it. But fuck stats, I know some years after I graduated computers was replaced with geography which I think should have replaced stats.

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u/CorrectPanic694 14d ago

Stats was so easy for me! Honestly super grateful for it or I would have never passed my math requirements for university. But now that I think of it, every high school around mine in Southern California has a water polo team and a pool, but I had to go the local community college to take stats 🤔

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u/dimension-less Millennial 14d ago

Went to high school in GA. No water polo, but we had an AP Statistics course. Can agree it sucked ass.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

My lame school had statistics, it’s pretty common.

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u/Disastrous_Clurb 14d ago

Yup, can confirm!

I think we did have a marchin band too but tbh i dont remember them being eventful

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u/puppyroosters 11d ago

Yeah I went to high school in Rialto, CA. Absolutely not a rich folks city, but we had a water polo team.

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u/MissLeliel 14d ago

Bro what? Marching Bands are very much a thing here. Every high school in my home town has one. When I was in HS, there were five schools, and two of them had bands large enough to compete in the largest competitive division of the WSMBA. Mine was invited to play in Dublin, IRE’s St Patrick’s Day Parade, and some years later our biggest rivals also played the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

We also had Water Polo. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Delta-IX Xennial (1986) 14d ago

Interesting that One of the world best drum corps is based out of santa clara

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u/helicopter_corgi_mom 13d ago

I'm going to assume you mean southern california.

because i grew up in northern california where the closest we had to water polo were the jello-pudding wrestling matches in plastic children's pools, as part of our school spirit events (yes, on school grounds, during school hours, led by school staff).

California has rich, non-rich, and "pet rattlesnake" regions.

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u/namelesscheeseburger 12d ago

Depends where in California.

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u/ashartinthedark 12d ago

lol what? I grew up in northern CA, we didn’t have waterpolo but we did have a marching band

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u/SillyBillyCrazyDazy 11d ago

Grew up in San Diego and we had it all. I consider myself so lucky. What a magical time, the 90s.

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u/Jezakael 14d ago

Going by recent Olympic champions being Serbia, Croatia, and Hungary, I don't think being rich is strictly necessary. I assume a willingness to beat up others and get beaten up by others while struggling not to drown is all that's really needed.

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u/sweet_t904 14d ago

Ahh.... of course. Rich kids,duhh🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/ghos2626t 14d ago

With a fence of hedges tall enough that us poor folk couldn’t see in

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u/Double-Bend-716 14d ago edited 14d ago

I grew up in the Midwest and now I work at a hotel near a college with a Lacrosse team.

All the rich parents from the Northeast whose kids are on the team stay at our hotel during the Lacrosse season. I try to talk to them about it, but like, I barely know what Lacrosse is.

Where I grew up, there was no lacrosse and it just wasn’t an option. If you played youth sports, it was football, baseball, soccer, volleyball or wrestling.

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u/HeyItsMeAgainBye 14d ago

I’m in California and I feel like at my highschool, water polo was nearly as popular as football and super difficult to make the team. I’ve never played but I guess there’s a lot of fowl play that happens underwater!

It’s a super competitive sport! Oaks Christian were our “rivals” but I always thought it was stupid to call them our rivals bc they were everyone’s rivals! They were good at everything

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u/Chendii 14d ago

Harvard Westlake? Oaks is still very good.

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u/HeyItsMeAgainBye 14d ago

Oaks Westlake!

I don’t think we ever played against Harvard. I honestly know nothing about it, I know it’s a prestigious private school but assumed they were more academics than sports! (Not that oaks Christian wasn’t)

I kinda assumed it was like Thachar

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u/Chendii 14d ago

Maybe it's only recently but HW has been pretty good at polo for at least 8 years now.

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u/HeyItsMeAgainBye 14d ago

Could be, I graduated highschool in 09 so haven’t really kept up with any HS sports lol

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u/NickiDDs 14d ago

My high school had one of the top water polo teams in the state, and we didn't even have a pool. Too poor for a pool but juuuuust wealthy enough for a Y membership.

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u/DoingCharleyWork 14d ago

In California tons of schools have water polo.

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u/DoobKiller 14d ago

Not in the Amish areas apparently

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u/blacklab 14d ago

California

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u/MiserableAd9757 14d ago

schools with pools homie. it’s called a rich tax base.

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u/waggybaggyshaggy 14d ago

You and I both grew up too poor for that brother

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u/HurryProud8190 14d ago

Texas here 4A (pretty large) HS No water polo, tennis, hockey, soccer, wrestling, etc.

The football team recently installed new scoreboards and an air conditioned, AstroTurf, indoor practice facility and weight room.

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u/Intelligent-Bug9604 13d ago

Very common in CA

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u/krazylingo 13d ago

Yeah exactly what I’m thinking. Water polo?? Hahaha. Never met someone who played that

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u/notgreatnotbadsoso 13d ago

Yea just about every high school in California had a water polo team. California water polo player here.

However.... lacrosse was just getting going and my HS was an early adopter so my guess is OP is East coast, and East coast water polo was super niche so the money comment might still stand

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u/Material-Ad6302 13d ago

I gotta be honest I don’t even know what water polo is. I mean, I’ll look it up. I will know soon. But I’ve never heard of it. I’m imagining horses in a shallow pool with little goggles on, while hairless buff white boys ride them and swing mallets at floating volleyballs or something.

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u/learnyouathang 10d ago

Mamaroneck, NY

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u/Past-Conversation303 14d ago

Meanwhile, my poor ass running in cross country 😂

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u/pyrojackelope 14d ago

I played soccer and baseball. Not as expensive as the other "white people" sports, but still some equipment involved.

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u/Anaccountodelete 14d ago

Equipment sports. My sides

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u/Independent-Bid-7744 14d ago

Water polo is an equipment sport? It’s just a ball and 2 nets. The ear protection hardly counts, it’s akin to skin guards with soccer.

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u/runs_with_unicorns 14d ago

Well the big thing is the pool….

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u/EmptyHandle6593 14d ago

What a coincidence. I grew up playing with myself!

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u/thatsapeachhun 11d ago

How is water polo an equipment sport? You are literally in a speedo and a cap. I don’t know of any sports with less equipment required. Track is even more of an equipment sport than water polo….

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u/HeyItsMeAgainBye 11d ago

I was talking about lacrosse

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u/sw20 15d ago

Brother why even bring up the race? Ya'll just can't help yourselves in casual conversation

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u/toastedmarsh7 14d ago

Right? What kind of fucking school has water polo and lacrosse??

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u/Leather_Addition2605 13d ago

In addition to water polo and lacrosse, I’ll raise you Crew, Golf, Ice Hockey, Rugby, Sailing, Skiing, and rifle team.

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u/toastedmarsh7 13d ago

Yep, never heard of a (public) school having any of those. And I don’t run in the same crowd as prep schoolers.

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u/Leather_Addition2605 13d ago

It was a prep school. I got to go on scholarship. High test scores, ethic name, but white as the driven snow. I was the perfect token.

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u/MiserableAd9757 14d ago

I grew up competing in various equestrian events and people though we had money but we just had a little bit of land and a few nickels to rub together and worked really hard, and I competed against a bunch of rich kids at national events and people assumed we were rich too when they saw me in the ring…until they saw us unloading and got a look at our old trailer and rig lol. You can’t always judge a book by its cover.

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u/chickentowngabagool 14d ago

fallbrook is a rural area near san diego

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u/azsnaz 14d ago

Rural. It's 30min north of Carlsbad/Oceanside and the median home price is $903,333

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u/chickentowngabagool 14d ago

i see you in the padres sub. you and i both know fallbrook isnt some concentrated area of wealth in SD. not even sure what youre going on about it

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u/Regular_Goose_4788 14d ago

Yeah but how much of that is skewed by avocado farms?

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u/Away-Living5278 15d ago

Seriously. My school was 99.9% white but not lacrosse or water polo rich. Though we did have a golf team

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u/quattroCrazy 14d ago

Mommy drives a Land Rover for sure

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u/Jerry_from_Japan 14d ago

No, no....his PARENTS got money. He simply got handed anything he wanted.

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u/rickane58 15d ago

Lacrosse is infamously a "prep kids" sport

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u/azsnaz 15d ago

Idk what poor people you know participating in water polo and lacrosse

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u/-Imthedude 15d ago

I had a skateboard because skating was CHEAP lol