re: I miss the 1980s

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Well, there is politics on that cover the OP posted.

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I don’t think New York magazine would even give that sort of headline anymore. It will either incendiary or overt praise for whomever they’re discussing.

I saw a headline the other day from USA Today after DeSantis that read “DeSantis wants to turn America into Florida, here’s why that’s bad.” What the frick kind of journalist quality is that horseshite from a national paper?

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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)

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My Great-Grandmother who was born in 1897 and died in 1985(as I was turning 13) was a walking history book. She remembered the following very well:
-Sinking of the Titanic
-Women not having, then gaining the right to vote(she was 23)
-Prohibition
-WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War
-The Great Depression
-Civil Rights and Protest Movements
-She remembered these Presidents(Teddy Roosevelt(she said barely as Pres more him running in 1912, Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan)
-She saw a two Presidents(Harding and FDR die in office), one assassinated(JFK), one resign(Nixon), and another shot but survive(Reagan)
-She also remembered many family members(mostly uncles) who fought in the Civil War
I used to pick her brain all the time as a youngster who loved history

86 - 90. SLU

Going to class with camo, knife on hip, deer in back of truck, no one ever gave a second look.

December in the high 20’s

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BR was whiter in the 80's.

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MODS

I did not post this

I didn't not claim or imply that BR was nicer when it was whiter

I did not insinuate BR was a more pleasant place to live when it was less *****

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. Even though CNN started in 1980 most people got their fill of politics from their local paper and an hour of news in the evening (30 min local/30 min national) and there is only so much bile you can raise in someone in a 30 minute overview of the news.

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Got my arse chewed often for disrupting the weather or sports reports.

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Be honest- who went out and bought a Rambo knife ?

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I didnt have a Rambo knife, but i did have a ‘switchblade comb’ lol.. i think i picked it up either at the French Market in NOLA, or at that army surplus shop in Laplace, cant remember which- but it loooked like a switchblade knife, and when you pressed the silver button, a comb flicked out so that i could comb the hair on my 10 yr old head.. true story, one time i took that switchblade comb to the 6th grade CYO dance, and i wore my parachute pants, my Hall & Oates concert muscle shirt (i had no muscles yet) and had my hair in a pompadour like Corey Feldman in The Goonies…. You couldnt tell me NUTHIN’………..

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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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159 members still don’t know the Kafka schtick?

Nobody gave a shite about political parties back then, what mattered is who was hosting the next keg party, who had some good weed abs what girls were putting out. Life was good