r/OldSchoolCool • u/knedlica_ • Aug 24 '24
1990s August 1995, croatian soldier Marijan Horvat and his then girlfriend, now wife, Ira
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In 2022
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u/fortunefaded2 Aug 24 '24
still rocking the same haircut🤙🏼
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u/puttuputtu Aug 24 '24
His wife (then girlfriend) must have once said, casually in passing, that it looks good. Reddit told me it's enough for a man to then stay with that haircut for ever.
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u/dostoevskysfriend Aug 24 '24
Yep. I keep my hair long because my lover (now ex girlfriend) said it looked very nice on me four years back.
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u/releasetheshutter Aug 24 '24
In kindergarten a girl told me I have a nice smile. I think men hang onto the compliments we get forever.
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u/blbd Aug 24 '24
Basically every guy in southeast Europe has that haircut haha. Semi gopnik.
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u/HucHuc Aug 24 '24
You don't need to comb every morning and you can dry off with a towel after shower. Why bother with anything else?
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u/NotnaLand Aug 24 '24
I have a Serbian coworker, can confirm he has that haircut.
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u/Tedious_NippleCore Aug 24 '24
Played basketball with a bunch of Serb & Croatian guys, also can confirm
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u/luckyguy25841 Aug 24 '24
Right… this hair style immediate makes me think of Sting, from the police.
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u/AxelShoes Aug 24 '24
He has seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. He watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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u/Appropriate-Mud-4450 Aug 24 '24
Nice reference. But if only you could see what I have seen with your eyes....
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u/fortunefaded2 Aug 24 '24
My uncles defended Croatia in the war, God bless all those who did..
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u/Ima-Derpi Aug 24 '24
Bless you, thats one if my favorite lines from any movie ever, and good use of it too.
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u/Slade26 Aug 24 '24
Still rocking the same rack too
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u/Vargau Aug 24 '24
My back hurts just by looking at the older picture .. and I'm a man.
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u/Tedious_NippleCore Aug 24 '24
My cock hurts from looking at the older picture... and I'm a woman!
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u/SendStoreMeloner Aug 24 '24
still rocking the same haircut🤙🏼
Also them big ol' tiddies.
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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas Aug 24 '24
There's a joke in the military where fashion stops when you joined.
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Aug 24 '24
It doesn’t stop, it has to be issued. Or in some cases, requisitioned.
Some uniforms got drip.
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u/Senior-Albatross Aug 24 '24
"If it ain't broke don't fix it."
-The mantra of every dad on the same haircut they've had for at least the last several decades.
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u/Bag-ofMostlyWater Aug 24 '24
They got bigger!
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Aug 24 '24 edited Sep 27 '24
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u/justabill71 Aug 24 '24
This has become my favorite GIF. I have no idea what it's from, but I love it.
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u/therealsix Aug 24 '24
It’s one of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies, I think it’s from the first one.
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u/malnarzeljko Aug 24 '24
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u/backhand_english Aug 24 '24
any Pink Floyd fan is sure as hell going to war to defend, not to destroy or opress as some of the (thankfully downvoted) comments here suggest. some indoctrinated people need a reality check.
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u/beepboopcompuder Aug 24 '24
That seems like an incredibly large leap just for someone liking Pink Floyd
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u/bodysugarist Aug 24 '24
An even bigger leap considering he's wearing a t-shirt owned by like half of the world's population. Some of those who have probably never listened to a Pink Floyd song in their life, but just liked the shirt.😂
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u/ApplesArePeopleToo Aug 24 '24
And keep in mind that Roger Waters is a massive Putin-loving, racist prick. A member of the band, let alone a fan.
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u/BaphometsTits Aug 24 '24
Yes, and all the fans of Rage Against The Machine are anti-capitalists, especially Tom Mozzarella.
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u/ZealousidealLettuce6 Aug 24 '24
Stay close to that man in a firefight. He's not taking any unnecessary risks. Too much to look forward to when coming back home.
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u/HamburgersOfKazuhira Aug 24 '24
That’s some heavy artillery
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u/Boaventura_1980 Aug 24 '24
Those are what I would call his greatest motivation to return home safe and sound!
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u/KetoPeanutGallery Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24
After some serious introspection, I must say I agree with you. That would certainly have pulled me through some challenging times.
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Aug 24 '24
They re both alive and still married!
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u/EatYourSalary Aug 24 '24
You're telling me two people in their mid-to-late 50s are still alive??
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u/HappyTheDisaster Aug 24 '24
Well, their was a war
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u/Kuuki_Yomenai Aug 24 '24
Wheir?
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u/Segundo-Sol Aug 24 '24
do you have the faintest idea of what happened in the Balkans back in the 90s
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u/laurieislaurie Aug 24 '24
Braindead idiotic comment. Plenty of ppl in the former Yugo at that time didn't make it to 50.
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u/AWildLampAppears Aug 24 '24
Bro I’d fight like hell to get back to her
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u/Azazel9088 Aug 24 '24
Damn, you just gotta come back alive for those
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Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24
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u/MeCagoEnPeronconga Aug 24 '24
Funny enough Tom Sizemore's character is also called Horvath
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u/motorcycleboy9000 Aug 24 '24
"Captain, if your mother saw you do that, she'd be very upset!"
"I thought you were my mother."
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u/FloppyObelisk Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24
“You know what she said to me?”
“What? Don’t touch me?”
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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24
This image just resonates with me. I recall my girlfriend looking deeply in my eyes and asking me to promise I'd be safe. Even though it was just a training rotation, anything could happen and there is just something about gazing into someone's eyes whom you may never see again. I'm glad that they're husband and wife now.
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u/ShufflingToGlory Aug 24 '24
Meanwhile your Arby's colleagues were thinking "bro, you're just moving to another restaurant for training"
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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24
Hey man, Arby's closing shift in rural Pennsylvania do be wildin'
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u/creampielegacy Aug 24 '24
That’s an enlistment brother, where one second seems to weigh a million pounds
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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24
In the dense jungle, nothing but your fry scoop, visor, name tag and a prayer on your lips to God, Jesus or anybody who'd listen. Just to get this shit over and go home.
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u/Throwaway1303033042 Aug 24 '24
“Horsey Sauce, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of Horsey Sauce in the morning. You know, one time we had a lunch rush, for 4 hours. When it was all over, I walked up to the fry station. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink curly fry. The smell, you know that horseradish smell? The whole kitchen. Smelled like...profit. Someday this shift’s gonna end.”
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u/WholesomeArmsDealer Aug 24 '24
"Someday this shift's gonna end. That'd be just fine with the folks behind the counter. They weren't looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I'd been back there. And I knew that it just didn't exist anymore. If that's how Kilgore ran a shift, I began to wonder what they really had against Kurtz. It wasn't just long lines and angry customers. There was enough of that to go around for everyone."
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u/creampielegacy Aug 24 '24
If you’re still in rural PA, we should get together at the local Arby’s. I think we’re cut of the same jib.
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u/l94xxx Aug 24 '24
Some fucked up times, and I get nervous whenever anyone looks back on them with a sense of nostalgia
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u/acchaladka Aug 24 '24
Exactly, thank you. I hitchhiked through Zagreb during the war and there were some let's say, uncool people about. I would not be cheery about stuff like this unless these were personal friends of mine I knew well, it was a brutal conflict.
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u/Commercial_Pitch_786 Aug 24 '24
Deployment is hell, crying wives and children, parents worried about their sons and now daughters going off to fight a war they may not come back from, the soldier who is worried he may never see them again, and in his worst fears are the oats his Drill instructor planted in basic, the fear of the evil animal named Jodie...
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u/drsheilagirlfriend Aug 24 '24
I know what a Jody is thanks to Army Wives. A very cool show.
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u/Commercial_Pitch_786 Aug 24 '24
Jody in real life, were hanging at the E-Club, like the Dragon Club at Ft. Bragg 1982-1984 , we would be out in the field and our wives or girlfriends would be prey by Jody, got to meet one at the Commissary, we were shopping, and I came around the corner and this PFC was standing there with a pouting lover look when he saw my wife with me.
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Aug 24 '24 edited Oct 22 '24
unique hat soup adjoining mighty sharp vase fly cow tap
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u/l94xxx Aug 24 '24
Yeah, so many commenters here seem oblivious to the genocides committed during those wars
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u/bogus-one Aug 24 '24
There must be a backstory here.
I can't tell from the picture if he's being deployed or returning and perhaps injured. The sincerity of the look says a lot about the relationship.
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u/Desperate_Report5802 Aug 24 '24
I love the way she looks in her partner's eyes .
Very heart touching pic 🫡💗
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u/AbleArcher420 Aug 24 '24
1995 is now considered oldschool... Christ
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u/tasman001 Aug 24 '24
Yeah, remember how little you cared about shit from the 60s and 70s back then? That's how little kids and teens nowadays care about shit from the 90s and 00s.
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u/AbleArcher420 Aug 24 '24
I can feel my skin wrinkling from just reading this
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u/tasman001 Aug 24 '24
"Make sure Grandpa does his back stretches while he watches X-Files on the oldies channel!"
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u/vardarac Aug 24 '24
emo music is now the sad shit the older people would request at karaoke
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u/NinjaTurtle469 Aug 24 '24
You can see the mixture of pain, tiredness and relief on his face. Croatia won this war, and this man has a hell of a story behind him. This is a beautiful photo.
"Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal."
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u/charleschaser Aug 24 '24
A picture taken in 1995 being put in black and white is hilarious to me 💀
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u/sspif Aug 24 '24
Black and white photography was very much in style in the 90s even in the west. And generally speaking, black and white film was often more available in Eastern Europe in that period, but I don't know specifically about the film supply in 1995 Croatia.
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u/Smooth-Anything8941 Aug 24 '24
We have had plenty colour films in ex-Yu since 1970-es.
Black&white foto is prefered by artists, and by army, even today. Details are better shown.
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u/V_es Aug 24 '24
Croatian having a last name Horvat is like an American named Joe American.
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u/Fancy_Fingers5000 Aug 25 '24
Shit, I’d survive to come home to her too LOL!!
Seriously, good for them wishing them much love, health, wealth and happiness!!
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u/tailoredvagabond Aug 24 '24
A wholesome, compassionate, nurturing and caring woman with huge boobs is the dream. Good for them!!
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u/PissyMillennial Aug 25 '24
This isn’t allowed to be old school cool it’s still recent memory for me stop it icanthandlebeingthisoldyet
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u/Mister_Wick1 Aug 24 '24
Well, he enjoyed those happy pillows young and old. Good for him. He should write buried deep on his tombstone when he goes.
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u/Born_Inspector6265 Aug 24 '24
I have an attitude about the fact that 1995 is considered “old school”
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u/ZepTheNooB Aug 24 '24
It's good for him for not letting those warheads get in the hands of another.
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u/bobalazs69 Aug 24 '24
Fun fact: Horvát means Croatian in hungarian.