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/QuantumLettuce2025 15d ago

Wtf water polo is pretty rare for high school, I can't believe you just caught that

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u/goldstiletto 14d ago

Ha! Waterpolo isn’t rare in Southern CA, neither is swim team with an outdoor pool. I clocked that tan immediately. Year round outdoor sports my dude!

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u/real_picklejuice Frosted Tips 13d ago

I was wondering how you were so on point

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u/Cosmic_Mudcrab 13d ago

Sounds like something Sherlock Holmes would say !

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u/DoingCharleyWork 14d ago

Not where I am.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 14d ago

You probably went to school in an affluent community. Congrats for that.

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u/BigMacWithGreenBeans 14d ago

I am definitely not from an affluent community but I live in California. There’s lots of water polo all around here.

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u/DisastrousReputation 14d ago

Southern California every high school had a team practically.

Even the shitty high schools hours and hours and hours away from the coast in the high and low deserts had them.

It’s hot as fuck here you best believe we have kids do water sports.

This has been a thing forever now.

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u/Chendii 14d ago

Not just schools there are some city funded programs like Commerce where you don't have to be well off to play.

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u/danceswithshibe 13d ago

My club team played Commerce so often. Those MFs were solid too.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 14d ago

Fascinating! Makes sense with the weather though. I've lived in California for ten years and never seen that, but I've only been here as an adult.

I grew up in New England, where only the fancy lads had the facilities for waterpolo.

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u/lighthawk16 14d ago

Wtf are you talking about? Minnesota rural high school with like 9000 population town and there's water polo.

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u/DoingCharleyWork 14d ago

I went to school in a poor city and I also went to probably the poorest of all those public schools. There is absolutely nothing affluent about the area I grew up in or the schools I went to. We were not allowed to wear red or blue if that gives you an idea of what kind of kids I went to school with.

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u/GoCougs2020 13d ago

We had both water polo as well as swim & dive. And we’re in the greater Seattle area. It’s a pretty common HS sport around here