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re: Was the best time ever to be a kid in the 80’s?
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:15 am to SquatchDawg
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:15 am to SquatchDawg
yes
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Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:37 am to SquatchDawg
Yes
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:39 am to Zappas Stache
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Every geezer since time immemorial thinks when they grew up was the best. Kids today, in 40 years will be starting shitty threads lime this.
Completely disagree. Most old people knew what hard times really were and appreciated the advances in the standard of living.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:44 am to TutHillTiger
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It was fun, no draft, no war, no aids, no kids with guns everywhere, etc
I was 15 when I got my license and the first thing my daddy did was buy me a .22. It stayed under my driver’s seat in the school parking lot from 88-91. A ton of the guys had guns in their trucks. but we had a moral compass and never even thought of using it to shoot someone outside of self defense, target practice, and hunting.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 3:39 am to LSUAngelHere1
Every truck in our parking lot had a gun rack with a 12 gauge in it.
Back then the Lions Club Park in town used the teenage party spot with the local high school garage band playing and kegs of Busch Light. The cops would show up around 2 am and shut down the music and kill the kegs but no arrests at all.
808bass and I grew up in the same town and he would attest that that town and that time to grow up in was unbeatable.
Back then the Lions Club Park in town used the teenage party spot with the local high school garage band playing and kegs of Busch Light. The cops would show up around 2 am and shut down the music and kill the kegs but no arrests at all.
808bass and I grew up in the same town and he would attest that that town and that time to grow up in was unbeatable.
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 3:50 am
Posted on 6/27/21 at 3:52 am to Tall Tiger
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child of the 70s and then been a young adult in the 80s.
This was me. Dont forget the saturday morning cartoons
Posted on 6/27/21 at 4:54 am to rsbd
quote:I think a longer transition lines up well with the OJ saga (from the Bronco chase until they read the criminal verdict.) Black people were primed after the Rodney King ordeal and white people were pissed off when all the black people were celebrating as if they had won the OJ prize.
Through about 95, then boom straight to shite
That said, if you want a specific event then you're looking at the Cobain death or the '92 election. The first four obvious reasons and the second because it opened the door to NAFTA, getting ripped off by China, providing a rallying point manifested in Waco, OKC, and not prioritizing the assassination of OBL.
For the younger Gen X crowd our world changed instantly on 9/11 before we were able to enjoy life. Instead we were low man on the totem poll at our jobs. We did grow up after Vietnam and were the first generation where middle class homes could have things like computers, video games, and microwaves. ...And not to be forgotten, scrambled late night channels or if you wanted to see everything we had Skinemax.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 5:31 am to Reservoir dawg
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I'd say 1955-1965 would have been best.
That's pretty much my time frame, just a few years later to be more accurate-----say, 59-69. Born in 52 and grew up with real people for friends, not anonymous user names on the internet kids interact with for the past 20 years.
You know, people you dealt with on a personal level, ate at their houses, knew their parents, got pissed off with and fought, only to shake hands and be friends again.
Simpler times for sure with our "Social Media" being yelling down the block to see if so and so could come out to play, and actually doing so outdoors face to face and not sitting at a desk getting a start on carpel tunnel syndrome beating on keyboards.
The world of a kid was infinitely safer back then. I'd be sent out the door on school mornings with money to walk 4 blocks away to catch a Public Service Bus to get to school-----and I'm talking 3rd grade on. How many 3rd graders do you see doing that in todays world????
Disputes in school were settled with fists, usually after school when on the way home in some empty lot. Unlike what's going on for the past few decades where malcontents come to school with assault rifles and kill their fellow students and teachers because they were slighted in some way----real or imagined.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 5:41 am to gumbo2176
I was born in 1960 so all my teens were in the 70's and all my 20s were in the 80's. It was awesome!!!
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:06 am to Lsupimp
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Really anytime between the 50’s through the mid 90s were ideal.
60's were a pretty good time to be a kid. We spent all our time outside playing with our friends. We had a big lot so our yard was the softball field for the neighborhood. TV going to color was pretty cool.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:27 am to SquatchDawg
I agree. 80s was the golden age for action figures. Star Wars, GI Joe, Masters of the Universe, Transformers, TMNT. Kids had it made.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:34 am to SquatchDawg
Born in 78. Man, the 80s were great, especially pop music and movies. INXS, Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, etc. Spielberg and Lucas flicks, Mel Brooks, I can go on and on. None of that politically correct bullshite, just straight up Americana. As others have said, looney tunes on the weekends. Also I remember Kung Fu and Morgus Presents. Pop music and movies of the 2000's was and is absolutely garbage in comparison. My dad worked for NASA so the 80s were great for that, with the Challenger disaster being a huge exception. The fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall and the rise of American exceptionalism was something to behold.
And yeah, no social media, so to me it seemed family, friends, and neighbors were more sociable back then, more face-to-face. Seems to me the more we've become connected by technology the less we've become connected, or less face-to-face interaction.
And yeah, no social media, so to me it seemed family, friends, and neighbors were more sociable back then, more face-to-face. Seems to me the more we've become connected by technology the less we've become connected, or less face-to-face interaction.
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 6:36 am
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:35 am to SquatchDawg
I think it’s as simple as the 90s was the last decade before widespread internet and social media. Social media changed society forever. The world felt a lot bigger back then.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:43 am to SquatchDawg
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Was the best time ever to be a kid in the 80’s?
The correct answer is yes, yes it was.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:51 am to Saint Alfonzo
Born in 70 and being a teenager in the 80’s was so great. We had the best sitcom’s as well. I am lucky to have been a kid in that decade. Was fricking amazing
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:51 am to SquatchDawg
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Other than that, Saturday morning cartoons was a big deal. Looney Tunes, justice league, Spiderman etc. If you missed cartoons on Saturday morning you were shite out of luck until next Saturday because all we had were three networks and a couple of random stations on UHS.
Don’t forget Friday nights. Start with the Incredible Hulk followed by the Dukes Of Hazzard. Then it was time to move over so Mom could watch Dallas.
On Saturday morning, I would wake up to catch Captain Kangaroo and put my football “tugs” on first thing. Watch cartoons until about 1030, then head to the playground. Game was from noon-2pm. After that, stay in my tugs until around 5 because the kiddos would basically be in and out of the house between watching college football and playing football outside. People would either start showing up at the house at 5ish, or we’d go to someone else’s house to get ready for the LSU game. Sunday’s were fun too, but they basically morphed into a school night around 6p unless there was something going on.
Holidays were EPIC in the ‘80’s! Movie theaters, malls, arcades, Kay-Bee toy stores, seemingly endless Christmas specials on TV. The simple anticipation for Christmas, holiday gatherings, and just holiday spirit that you could actually feel. Kids don’t have that today. Today, it’s instant gratification, no patience, and no appreciation. For me, those times pretty much carried over until around ‘96. After that...very average.
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 6:55 am
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:55 am to Zappas Stache
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I don't argue any era is better than the other. I argue whatever era you grew up, given that everything is new and life is simple, for most, that you will consider that the best time to grow up.
I get a kick out of the eternal contrarian types like this. When you call them out they argue that they would never argue. GTFO and let us reminisce ETA born 12/72
Posted on 6/27/21 at 7:00 am to SquatchDawg
No, the 80s were the best time to be between 20 and 30.
What a party. You kids missed it.
What a party. You kids missed it.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 7:01 am to TutHillTiger
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no kids with guns everywhere
I would argue that more kids had guns then than now. Difference being we respected them and shot squirrels or turtles instead of other people.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 7:05 am to SquatchDawg
As a kid the 70s sound better to me but the 80s as a teenager would have been wild
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