re: Were the 80s the best time to be a kid in American history?

I, too, watched Stranger Things this holiday weekend.

We had a big gas explosion in my little town around 1986. It was loud and it woke me up out of a dead sleep. I rolled out of my bed sure the Russians were making there move. I grabbed my Rambo knife and checked to make sure my fishing line inside was good but lucky my mom came in and told me what happened.
That damn cold war

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Kentucky fried movie

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The girl with the big ole fun bags in the shower when she gets pressed against the glass. You don't forget shite like that as a kid

For me, the 60’s. I was driving the family car at 12; could have a Dixie in the quarter after Scout meeting. We wrote the outline for the sexual revolution, much to the chagrin of the parents. No cell phones to track you down & no gps to know you were not being truthful.

I paid $ 300 for my first car; a ‘57 MGA. Drove it for 20+ years & sold for 5K. I could fix it myself, once I learned about carburetors. Everything was cash or hand written check.

Public schools were great & catholic schools affordable; there were very few private. I could go on & on. Just great memories now, but so thankful that I grew up in that time.

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Red Shoe Diaries on Showtime was far more reliable

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We didn't have Showtime or Cinemax. It was whatever we could get on HBO, the bra section of the Sears catalog, or:



"that was definitely a tit. Or maybe an elbow"

80’s kicked arse. I began the 80’s in 2nd grade and ended them in the 12th, so I essentially grew up in the 80’s. The music kicked arse. Sports were great. It was the last great decade for MLB where kids actually watched the games(NBC GOTW with Garigiola and Scully) and if/when you got cable you could watch a game everyday with the Cubs and Braves. If you had a satellite(1984 for us) you had a magazine that told you which satellite(G5, F4, etc) each team’s feed was on. It was also the last great decade of actual little league rec baseball before the damed travel league parents ruined that. I could go on and on for days about the 80’s.

When that screen would stay steady for a fraction of a second and you got a full definite nude female body and could confirm :kermitfroglotiongif:

Born in ‘81, so I got to experience a little of everything.

Late 80s just riding the bike outside til nighttime, going to the baseball card shop a few blocks away, playing in the street. Maybe an hour of Nintendo per day.

Pretty much the same in the early 90s, played little league, found ways to get ahold of playboys. Didn’t really like Penthouse and hustler because I was shocked to see the inside of a vagina.

Mid to late 90s where video games got really good, AOL chatrooms to meet girls and download internet porn. MP3 downloads were amazing.

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Good 10 second

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LUCKY. The spank bank would have been filled for a month after that stare down.