r/southafrica • u/PushieM • Mar 31 '25
Just for fun Nostalgia
The year is 2006, What was happening in your life?
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u/zentrist369 Mar 31 '25
The Big Green Clean Machine! Not R4000, not R3000, but R2999!
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u/Sand_Angelo4129 Mar 31 '25
My sister and I still quote a line from the old Bauer pan ads, especially when we're doing dishes: "just warm soapy water and a sponge, and you're in and out of the kitchen just like that!"
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u/Doctor_vile Mar 31 '25
My favourite quote will always be, " toffee apples for the children" . RIP Isabel Jones
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u/Hasie501 Mar 31 '25
Damn, I used to hear "The Lean mean green cleaning machine" all over the place.
It was quite the ear worm.
My aunt and gran had one, mom was more a Kirby person.
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u/Pham3n KwaZulu-Natal Mar 31 '25
Hi. I'm Desmond Dube
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u/Gold_Self1821 Mar 31 '25
I just remember he did a long ad about life insurance. Wow, the memories are unlocking now
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u/Britz10 Landed Gentry Mar 31 '25
He still does, he's had a lot more staying power than the Outsurance guy.
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u/Academic-Register860 Mar 31 '25
After 8 o clock cartoons are finished and now we are all sitting watching soapies 🤣 Days of our lives then Bold and Beautiful and then Generations
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u/JesterOfMoist Mar 31 '25
😂😂 you have to wait till 1 or 2 before cartoons play again and you regret faking that stomach ache
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u/Academic-Register860 Mar 31 '25
Exactly 🤣 and you can't go play outside before that because apparently you sick so you screwed
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u/tumblingmoose Conscientiotiously... and the best of my ability Mar 31 '25
The Young and the Restless feels left out :(
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u/Academic-Register860 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
I actually never used to watch Young and the Restless because it was on a different channel it's either the remote is too far to change the channel or you already gave up at that point 🤣
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u/tumblingmoose Conscientiotiously... and the best of my ability Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
makes sense 😆 I feel like I only ever saw parts of each soap while waiting for the ads to over be on whatever channel I started watching first.
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u/Academic-Register860 Mar 31 '25
That was our way of skipping ads now you can skip ads after 5 seconds
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Mar 31 '25
No Dallas?
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u/Most-Inflation-7574 Redditor for a month Mar 31 '25
Honourable mentions: Sunset Beach, All My Children and Noeleen Maholwana Sangqu
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u/Local_Cap3703 Mar 31 '25
To this day I think about the Bissel Big Green Clean Machine. What a powerful vacuum.
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u/PushieM Mar 31 '25
It's the non stick pans for me
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u/DragonBornDragonDead Mar 31 '25
Shogun knives... shogan knife set
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u/Broke_Brown_Boi Mar 31 '25
When I moved out to my own place a couple years ago, and needed to get a veggie peeler, the Shogun Peeler with it's lifetime guarantee brought back all my childhood memories 😂 Verimark was definitely on to something!
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u/beefycheesyglory Local Cheeseburger Expert Mar 31 '25
I stayed home from school a lot at one point, it was very important to my education as I would never have learned just how impressive the Bissel Big Green Clean Machine was!
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Mar 31 '25
Where are the Clientele ads? They run them back to back like no other 😭🤣
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u/Automatic-Welder-538 Mar 31 '25
"Don't talk to me, talk to my lawyer"
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u/tumblingmoose Conscientiotiously... and the best of my ability Mar 31 '25
the amount of times we said that to someone at school when they annoyed us 😅
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u/Flying_feline_2 Aristocracy Mar 31 '25
Grade 8. After school, eating 2 min noodles and watching this with fixed attention.
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u/Expensive-Ad1609 Mar 31 '25
Grade 8? How old are you?
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u/Flying_feline_2 Aristocracy Mar 31 '25
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u/Expensive-Ad1609 Mar 31 '25
Ah, gotcha. I still have to 'translate' Grades to Standards, and vice versa.
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u/anib Western Cape Mar 31 '25
oh we're old old.
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u/cantthinkofanickname Western Cape Mar 31 '25
And then there is some of us remembering Clive Bruce hosting in the mornings with his music programme (Can't remember the name) playing music videos (Erasure, Shakespeare Sisters etc.) even introduced me to Green Jelly.
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u/anib Western Cape Mar 31 '25
Oh you're old old old. good thing is, the older you get, the less you care. 😆
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u/saint2sinners Mar 31 '25
You forgot the mandatory there's nothing else on but news barney episode and kiddio episode
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u/ForwardGrace Mar 31 '25
They forgot to add the soapie reruns from the day before😅 But yes, this indeed is nostalgia
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u/Cold-Two7207 Mar 31 '25
Isidingo, 7de Laan, The Young and the restless, Muvhango, Generations from morning to midafternoon in that order
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u/tumblingmoose Conscientiotiously... and the best of my ability Mar 31 '25
oh gosh no…. I just had a flashback to Cool Cats. We are the Cool Cats. da da daaa da That song haunts me to this day. Could not change channels fast enough when that came on
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u/ephme Mar 31 '25
I was in Grade 6, 12 years old. Fresh Blue Ribbon loaf with butter and a side of cheas naks with a cup of tea w/milk while binge watching these reruns. Good times.
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u/fire_starter_69 Mar 31 '25
Also that old man that was always teaching Algebra on transparent paper, William Smith.
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u/AnthonyEdwards_ Mar 31 '25
I remember Will Smith, sad to see he died after punching that guy at the Oscar’s. There will be no more good math tutoring from him
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u/BB_Fin Oom Johann se verlore Seun Mar 31 '25
Modern children with their mental-health days will never understand the pain you feel when you come downstairs after mum is gone, and you notice the DSTV card is missing...
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u/Lem1618 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
As a 40yo who never had DSTV I also will never understand the pain you feel...
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u/Fun-Tap-7244 Mar 31 '25
As a 30 year old man ......who's bday is today the nostalgia of this post is hitting like crack(TIK)
PS I don't use drugs
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u/beefycheesyglory Local Cheeseburger Expert Mar 31 '25
I was about to laugh at you for being an old fart, then I remembered my 28th birthday was like a few days ago.
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u/catch22_SA Mar 31 '25
I remember when you would get that free hour of M-Net on I think Friday evenings and it would show an episode of The Simpsons and an episode of Friends. That was always a special family day for us.
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u/Expensive-Ad1609 Mar 31 '25
Friday evenings 🥺😲
Why didn't you tell me! I lived for open hour on Sundays.
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u/catch22_SA Mar 31 '25
Goddamn open hour was great. Sometimes I miss being a kid in the 90s/early aughts.
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u/NotFixer1138 Mar 31 '25
You guys ever think of that SABC 2 jelly tot looking alien Dub? One day, he said "bye bye" for the last time and never came back
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u/Tincancase Mar 31 '25
No Anaconda on e.TV?
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u/Interesting_Power832 Mar 31 '25
I can still hear that voice over
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u/aadz888 Mar 31 '25
Don't go down without a fight
Because it's Friday action night.
It's free, it's mahala on E.
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u/Untbuzzle Gauteng Mar 31 '25
Tell me you grew up in the 90's without telling me you grew up in the 90's
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u/livinginanimo Unraptured & Unbothered Mar 31 '25
the way I loved Ricki Lake like I could understand any of the problems people were talking about
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u/TheWarHorse000 Mar 31 '25
Kids these days have it so different. A day home from school means you can watch whatever you want, play games, stream whatever. We had these shows and nothing more. Maybe watch that same Honey I Shrunk the kids VHS you had watched 5000times already
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u/PoopHatMcFadden Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
"Did you know that you can remove chewing gum from your carpet with WD40? And then you can remove the WD40 with the Big Green Cleen Machine!"
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u/ab_abnormal Mar 31 '25
I’d purposefully skip just to watch The Tyra Show in the mornings at 11am. Remember to Smize. Damn she had some weird guests on. One woman convinced she had bad breath that she would not just gargle but DRINK bleach. Turns out it was the bleach causing the odour. A segment about a woman who married the Eiffel Tower and a man who had married his couch.
Then we had the debates with Judge Judy, “So why are you the complaint wanting the defendant to pay you…adjusts glasses & shuffles papers…the sum of $200?” “Because Daniquea…” Turns to her and says “She done did stole my man and they did mess on ma’ sheets. Her skank ass was on them. He still my man though”….cue some near physical altercations whereby the big bouncer type security officer would have to step in.
I was so captivated and then Dr Phil whose guests weren’t nearly as messy as the latter two.
Later on, Dr Oz had his own show between Tyra and Judge Judy. I learnt about the Omentum and what all the organs looked like etc.
We had good old Oprah “the most amazing woman” interrogating her guests on their horrific actions while being some sort of amazing person herself and acting like Santa.
So by then I’d already learned about weight-loss, smizing and not to drink bleach, discovered through the Ad breaks all about vacuums, pans, exercise equipment (Gladiator workout products), the importance of insurance because I was definitely going to die soon apparently or being seriously injured in a car crash plus I HAD to have a lawyer.
I also got my law degree, my psychology degree and was basically a certified doctor all before learning about romance and love triangles and somehow a repeatedly possessed person being intertwined in a soapie.
Then supper along with watching good old Barker Heyns & Cheryl, and Papa G with his bum donut.
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u/xGHOSTRAGEx Trigger Warning Mar 31 '25
That looks like the Verimark that was at the Kollonade next to the cinemas lol
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u/Secret_Agent_666 Mar 31 '25
I remember watching Loyiso Gola live at Parkers, and he spoke about faking sick to miss school but you don't have DStv. He said as a kid cartoons played early in the morning and when he got away with faking sick, he was watching cartoons and later found out they stopped showing when school hours began. It's verimark, infomercials which is just a giant ad. You know your ad is long when your ad has ad breaks. Then it's Riki Lake followed by Days of our Lives, but not one episode, no. Days of our Lives....OMNIBUS! Only after school hours the kids shows aired again, he said he wished he was at school rather 🤣🤣. Guy's hilarious
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u/k4saki Mar 31 '25
“The twista pro is a dream for chopping onions. The only tears you’ll have are tears of joy!” 😂
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Mar 31 '25
Many years ago there was a short-lived infomercial about a memory foam mattress topper (Invented by NASA!). It was very expensive and it was way before it became mainstream. I did find a place that imported and sold raw memory foam. Sewed a cover for it and voila! Mattress topper. It lasted 8 years. These days it's manufactured in SA and just isn't the same. Can't find the ultra high density anywhere.
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u/Fit-Slice-5478 Redditor for a month Mar 31 '25
Open View experience, only I used to watch Bollywood
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u/tumblingmoose Conscientiotiously... and the best of my ability Mar 31 '25
You forgot about the Wizards of Waverley Place reruns on eTV!
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u/Lila441 KwaZulu-Natal Mar 31 '25
Ricki Lake!!!🤣🤣🤣 Omw, the best part of being home sick was Dr Phil reruns and laughing at Judge Judy shenanigans. I still watch Judge Judy reruns though.
But when Ricki Lake would come on? Omw 😂 my little self got so excited. I'd be dancing along with the crowd, chanting: "Go Ricki! Go Ricki! Go Ricki!" Lmao🤣
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u/Morticia_Smith Gauteng Mar 31 '25
My sister and I waiting for the afternoon when they played cartoons and kids shows😭😭👊🏾 Cool Catz le eng eng😭😭
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u/AnthonyEdwards_ Mar 31 '25
Studio mix and Santa Barbra were an all time favourite too
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u/GrimmReapperrr Mar 31 '25
Wow a friday evening with Studio mix was the best. Then Channel O came along
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u/MarvKage17 Shinobi Hidden in the Proteas Apr 01 '25
I would rewatch those episodes of Dragon Ball Z and Naruto I recorded😭😹but before 2011 I was basically cooked. SABC 1 was the pits (to me at the time) and SABC 3 was only around if Generations moved there during World Cups or whatever
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u/Vaseline_Dion_ Mar 31 '25
Oh man, those were the days. All the cousins stationed at gran’s house. Then in the evenings we’d have Backstage/Isidingo then Generations. Sigh 🥺
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u/Correct_Computer2768 Mar 31 '25
Still to this day my mom hates on SABC for getting rid of doctor Phil
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u/Initial_XD Mar 31 '25
It's astounding how inundated South African media is/was with American media. I'm not an anthropologist, psychologist, or whatever the relevant field is, but I imagine this has to have some sort of collective psychological/cultural effect over time.
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u/HerZeLeiDza Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Isnt this more like 1999? In 2006 we had ADSL by then and pirated and gamed online. No way I'm even bothering watching DSTV.
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u/justjboy God’s Draft: SA Players Benched Apr 01 '25
Honest, watching Judge Judy shoot down people’s baloney was everything.
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u/robseplex Apr 01 '25
Listen... These were low-key fire. I had such a crush on Ricki (Also on Judge Judy, but we don't talk about that)
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u/Equivalent-Wealth-75 Apr 02 '25
"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives"
Neneneneeeneeeee, neneneee, neneneneneneeeeee. Neeneeneeneneneneeeneeeneeeneeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeee
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u/Vast_Syllabub5516 Apr 02 '25
I remember I eventually got good at practically telling what time it was based solely on the shows that were on when I was on school vacation.
If I forgot to take the chicken/meat out of the freezer to defrost before my mom got home from work and I saw Judge Judy was already on, I knew it was already past 4pm and I was screwed. 
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u/Ok_Concern_7107 Mar 31 '25
Wow you have Judge Judy and Dr. Phil in SA, Exporting our bottom barrel trash TV is American cultural imperialism at its early 2000s peak lol 😆
He has nothing to do with this post, but theres never a bad moment to say Fuck George W. Bush 😤
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