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re: I miss the 1980s
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:04 am to redstick13
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:04 am to redstick13
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I remember having nuclear attack drills in elementary school so it was a real thing.
I was in elementary school in the 70s and never had nuke drills.
We saw the "duck and cover" videos from the 50s, but that was it.
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Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:05 am to lz2112
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but I felt like an adult
Because of the free range aspect, kids matured faster than they do today.
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:06 am to BK Lounge
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(luckily he spared me)..
maybe he thought you were ugly...JK
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:13 am to fallguy_1978
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At this rate in ten years this website will be nothing but 65 year olds
I'll only be 55
I'll be 66.
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:16 am to pochejp
Remember the 60s man. Remember the 70s man. Peace Love Dope! The 80s were the yuppie years, consumerism ran rampant... frick all that!
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:16 am to Rouge
I know that but it was great as the default
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:17 am to BK Lounge
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Not sure how old you are, but i promise you that the Cold War was a very real thing.. it was all over the news, and there was also a hugely publicized Movie of the Week[tm]- back when MOTW’s were a big deal- called The Day After, which portrayed the after effects of nuclear fallout on middle America.. i think that the legendary acting icon Steve Guttenburg was in it … So yeah, maybe my parents could have doen a better job shielding me from certain news and tv shows- but you’d have to be a nitwit, or a taco short of a combination plate, to not know that the threat of nuclear obliteration was very, very real .
Sure it was a real thing. I mentioned in a previous post some of my fondest memories are from summer 83, and some of those memories are of me and my friends talking about how, at 17, there was a good chance we wouldn't live past 20, that the world would be engulfed in a nuclear firestorm by then. We didn't care. There wasn't anything we could do about it. What we could control was having a good time, and in that we succeeded.
The movie "Red Dawn" caused us to make stoned plans to make sure if the SHTF we'd meet up at certain spots to form an underground, and there were other absurd fantasies, but that's what made being young then so great. We didn't freak out about stuff. We took what life threw at us and made the best of it.
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:24 am to Rouge
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People in the 50s said that they missed the 20s and 30s and that the 50s were awful.
I don't believe anyone ever said the missed the 1930s.
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:25 am to RedRifle
60's and 70's were where it was really happening.
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:26 am to Sun God
In 10 years some like me will be long dead and buried.
Those between 1905 and 1945 had to deal with
Financial Panics
World War I
Spanish Flu
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
World War II
1945 to 1965 had prosperity but less freedom
1965 to 1975 had prosperity and freedom
1975 to present has seen an erosion of both as we let fewer folks control all of us while "victims" have replaced "survivors" and "me" has replaced "we". Sadly we work less towards solutions and more on blaming somebody else.
(just the view of an old guy who has lived through most all of this)
Those between 1905 and 1945 had to deal with
Financial Panics
World War I
Spanish Flu
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
World War II
1945 to 1965 had prosperity but less freedom
1965 to 1975 had prosperity and freedom
1975 to present has seen an erosion of both as we let fewer folks control all of us while "victims" have replaced "survivors" and "me" has replaced "we". Sadly we work less towards solutions and more on blaming somebody else.
(just the view of an old guy who has lived through most all of this)
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:27 am to RedRifle
The 80s were the shite. Everything was awesome.
We need an EMP to set us back.
We need an EMP to set us back.
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:41 am to terriblegreen
Anyone remember max headroom?
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:42 am to terriblegreen
It was ok. I am much happier now.
Zigfields on manhatten, Club West Galleria, and of course the meat market in slidell called “ Diago’s “
Zigfields on manhatten, Club West Galleria, and of course the meat market in slidell called “ Diago’s “
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:49 am to terriblegreen
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The 80s were the shite. Everything was awesome.
Accept for the failed war on drugs, oilfield busts in 82 and 87, and the shitty ecomony of the early 80s.
This post was edited on 6/11/23 at 10:50 am
Posted on 6/11/23 at 10:50 am to shel311
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Parents in the 80s I'm sure lamented how shitty it was compared to their day back in the 50s.
They didn't, though. Never heard anything about the 50s from my parents, my friend's parents, my parent's friends, or any other random adult during that period.
This post was edited on 6/11/23 at 10:55 am
Posted on 6/11/23 at 11:56 am to RedRifle
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I miss the 1980s
Me too.
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I miss the 90s
I miss them even more.
This post was edited on 6/11/23 at 11:58 am
Posted on 6/11/23 at 12:00 pm to redstick13
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I remember having nuclear attack drills in elementary school so it was a real thing.
In the 80’s?
Posted on 6/11/23 at 12:01 pm to Kafka
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Not me
Lynchings, homophobia, constantly being misgendered and called by my dead name...
No, today is America's golden age
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Kafka
Good lord, you're insufferable
Posted on 6/11/23 at 12:02 pm to WestCoastAg
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thank fricking christ i grew up in the 2000s
I would imagine that lots of trannies feel this way.
Posted on 6/11/23 at 12:06 pm to Byrdybyrd05
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I miss the 90s
I was a teenager right in the heart of the 90's. ('94-'00) . I was in high school from '95-'99.
It was a great time to be alive. Everything was simpler.
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