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re: Were the 80s the best time to be a kid in American history?
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:31 pm to Jimbeaux
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:31 pm to Jimbeaux
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Those poles were notorious for broken arms. The pipe diameter was small enough to wrap your fingers over the top, but too big to get a good grip!
My sister broke her collar bone in the 80s because she was sitting on the arm rest in the back seat and fell out of a moving vehicle. Luckily we were still in the neighborhood. Seat belts weren't really a priority at the time
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Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:32 pm to fallguy_1978
Yep I agree there was bullying but you handled it like men. After school next to the cafeteria at 315 it was on like Donkey Kong. My first fight ever I got my arse whooped by someone who had older brothers. You see you were blind to this back then. Funny thing is we were and still are life long friends I was even in his wedding. One final thing if you were a dork in school you knew it.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:32 pm to SEClint
quote:Yep. We'd have to sneak into older brothers' rooms, rifle through garbage when it looked like someone had put out boxes filled with magazines, or find the occasional stash tossed out in the woods for some reason. That was the grail and it happened twice for my friends and me.
you didnt truly know the struggle of the porn drought of the 1980s and 90s for young dudes.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:34 pm to fallguy_1978
And riding in the back off of a truck doing 60 mph was no big thing except when the driver slammed on the brakes.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:34 pm to TDcline
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I don’t see America ever getting back to how great things seemed to be in the 80s based on movies/TV if there’s any accuracy to them at all. I was born in 87, so I didn’t get to experience it. Must’ve been nice.
I think your childhood is what you make of it. I was born in '79 and some of my childhood was good, some of it not so good.
I'm not going to credit or blame that on the era.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:35 pm to fallguy_1978
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I had this discussion on vacation last week. They had plenty of them where we were. Where did they all go? Mosquito control kill them all?
Dang, that sucks. Lightning bugs have been prolific in my area this year.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:35 pm to Goldrush25
I thought you were a lot younger
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:36 pm to TDcline
No
If you were 18 between 1965 and 1975 you had a youth in the greatest age in America for youth.
Cheap gas meant real travel freedom
Cheap or free grass meant lots of happy time
Cheap arse with the advent of the pill pre AIDS was good times for all
If you were 18 between 1965 and 1975 you had a youth in the greatest age in America for youth.
Cheap gas meant real travel freedom
Cheap or free grass meant lots of happy time
Cheap arse with the advent of the pill pre AIDS was good times for all
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:36 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
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Yep I agree there was bullying but you handled it like men. After school next to the cafeteria at 315 it was on like Donkey Kong
There was a thread on here awhile back asking if you'd ever been in a fight. I was amazed at how many people hadn't. shite I got it fist fights with my best friend growing up
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:37 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:Reminds me of riding our bikes behind the mosquito truck and none of the adults seemed to think it was a bad idea.
Mosquito control kill them all?
We were free to do pretty much anything we wanted back then.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:38 pm to fallguy_1978
Trashy
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:39 pm to fallguy_1978
It was kinda like stand your ground before it became a law. I just remember watching that clock in the classroom and thinking wtf were you thinking but I never backed down.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:40 pm to BigOrangeBri
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Dang, that sucks. Lightning bugs have been prolific in my area this year.
I'll see one occasionally but they are pretty much gone around here. When I was a kid we'd catch dozens of them in jars in an hour. I think the mosquito spraying has killed them.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:40 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:Me too. I remember one because I knew my friend tried to steal my Atari Ms. Pacman. Hands were thrown. We were friends again two days later.
I was amazed at how many people hadn't. shite I got it fist fights with my best friend growing up
This post was edited on 7/7/19 at 3:41 pm
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:41 pm to WestCoastAg
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Trashy
I'm a solid 7
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:41 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
quote:born in 69. I was pretty sure every loud boom heard was Barksdale being obliterated.
We never knew when the Russians would come parachuting in dammit. WOLVERINE
But other than that things are grrreat
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:41 pm to genro
quote:These kids don't know the struggle of rubbing one out to geriatric swingers on Real Sex.
HBO after Mom and Dad went to bed
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:43 pm to SEClint
I bought a "BUD" Big ugly Dish in 88. There was a Porno channel on one of the satellites. As it switched channels, it would cross the porno channel where a couple would be humping away. Thirty minutes later when it scanned back across the same couple would still be humping. I'm sure the boys got a distorted idea of Sex.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:43 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Post WWII to early 60s. No debate.
America's greatest generation just after the war ran this country from the grocery store to the post office.
Biggest tell tale sign is today's post office. Back then, all the WWII and Korean vets ran it. If hours were from 8 to 5 they were there from 4 to 6 and beyond. Look at what you have today.
Left your keys in your car, your windows and doors open, everyone took care of everyone else's kids in the neighborhood. You screwed up, you got your arse beat by any adult and your parents never intervened because they knew you had it coming.
Be home when the street lights come on was about the only thing you had to worry about.
America's greatest generation just after the war ran this country from the grocery store to the post office.
Biggest tell tale sign is today's post office. Back then, all the WWII and Korean vets ran it. If hours were from 8 to 5 they were there from 4 to 6 and beyond. Look at what you have today.
Left your keys in your car, your windows and doors open, everyone took care of everyone else's kids in the neighborhood. You screwed up, you got your arse beat by any adult and your parents never intervened because they knew you had it coming.
Be home when the street lights come on was about the only thing you had to worry about.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 3:44 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:
These kids don't know the struggle of rubbing one out to geriatric swingers on Real Sex.
The Sears catalog was worse. Victoria Secret mags were like hardcore porn when they came out.
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