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re: Were the 80s the best time to be a kid in American history?
Posted on 7/7/19 at 5:56 pm to Salmon
Posted on 7/7/19 at 5:56 pm to Salmon
quote:
Pregnancy, drug overdoses... almost every bad statistic you can come up with.
Now you’re just grasping. You’re not saying drug overdose rates were worse in the 80s than today, right?
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Posted on 7/7/19 at 5:58 pm to Scoop
quote:
That’s what everybody did in our mid teens. We walked down the road looking for Hustlers or Penthouses in the ditch and dad had an old Playboy stash
We had a garbage bag full that we stashed in a log in the woods..
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:20 pm to Salmon
quote:The 90s were the peak of violent crime and as I said earlier, you did have to lock your doors during the 1980s, but it was still a GREAT time for people who made relatively good choices.
The 80s and 90s were all time highs for violence, crime, drugs, teen pregnancy, etc.
They were not great. People were, and still are apparently, ignorant.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:26 pm to Darth_Vader
You're shutting him down at every turn, but, it wasn't as peaceful as some made it out to be earlier in this thread. Safer times were likely during the late 1940s and 50s. That's not to say those were better times than the 80s. I figure they closely approximate each other.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:26 pm to Salmon
quote:
The 80s and 90s were all time highs for violence, crime, drugs, teen pregnancy, etc.
Don’t you dare come in here and shite all over our feel-good nostalgia. It was great!
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:31 pm to Darth_Vader
Yes. I said drug overdoses. And apparently I was wrong.
Although, again, I wish you would post links to these graphs.
My point still stands though. The 80s/90s were not great as a whole.
People just have fond memories of their childhood. I’m sure kids in the Depression era had fond memories of their childhood too.
Although, again, I wish you would post links to these graphs.
My point still stands though. The 80s/90s were not great as a whole.
People just have fond memories of their childhood. I’m sure kids in the Depression era had fond memories of their childhood too.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:36 pm to Salmon
quote:
My point still stands though. The 80s/90s were not great as a whole.
You mean your opinion. Which, and I know this may come as a shock to someone as smug as yourself, doesn’t equal fact. It’s your opinion the 80s were not great as a whole. However, as this thread clearly illustrates, for the overwhelming majority of people who were kids during that time, they have a far different opinion on the matter.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:38 pm to Salmon
quote:bullshite. What was the problem? As I said, city crime was high, but those from families who made reasonable choices didn't have to deal with it. I experienced a few incidents(kids chasing me for my bike and a purse snatching with my mom) but I grew up in New Orleans and it was still relatively benign.
The 80s/90s were not great as a whole.
The fact is, the 1980s were so great that we crushed our only true rival and that now allows us to bitch amongst ourselves about gender, safe spaces and the unreal number of comforts afforded the lowest of class.
This post was edited on 7/7/19 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:49 pm to Salmon
Right now in America is the best time and place to live in the history of the universe
This post was edited on 7/7/19 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:50 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:
posted by Darth_Vader
quote:oh, this is rich
know this may come as a shock to someone as smug as yourself,
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:50 pm to Jake88
Crime. Crime was a serious issue. Crime continually rose all of the 80s and peaked in the early 90s. And it seems pretty dishonest to just dismiss it as “city problems” when we are discussing this on a societal level, not individual level.
I realize people lived in small bubbles and were ignorant of the crime around them for that most part, but that doesn’t negate just how bad the crime truly was.
Imagine if we had the OT back then and how many threads we would have about how the world was going to shite from all the crime. It would be constant.
I realize people lived in small bubbles and were ignorant of the crime around them for that most part, but that doesn’t negate just how bad the crime truly was.
Imagine if we had the OT back then and how many threads we would have about how the world was going to shite from all the crime. It would be constant.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:52 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:52 pm to Darth_Vader
Most people have fond memories of their childhood
I had a great time as a kid in the 80s
My anecdotal experiences mean nothing though, and neither do anyone else’s.
I had a great time as a kid in the 80s
My anecdotal experiences mean nothing though, and neither do anyone else’s.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:54 pm to Jake88
Get off the school bus and hop on our dirt bikes and ride wherever we wanted until dark everyday. Now all neighborhoods and stores. We had one of the first satellite systems, huge disk in yard, you could hold 2 or 3 buttons at once on the remote and get japanese porn, finally figured out to put toothpicks in buttons. Dad had a station wagon, always smelled like shiners, early 80's, good times.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:54 pm to Salmon
quote:It was just "city problems", it's dishonest to paint it as anything else. Darth showed you the graph. Rural crime is unchanged over the years. Suburban crime was low as well.
Crime. Crime was a serious issue. Crime continually rose all of the 80s and peaked in the early 90s. And it seems pretty dishonest to just dismiss it as “city problems” when we are discussing this on a societal level, not individual level.
quote:I wasn't in one of those bubbles, as I said, and it was still relatively nice and not what you paint it to be. It was a most excellent decade.
I realize people lived in small bubbles and were ignorant of the crime around them for that most part, but that doesn’t negate just how bad the crime truly was.
This post was edited on 7/7/19 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:58 pm to MTG325
quote:Dude, you were a rich kid. Probably had Intellivision or....Coleco vision on a Curtis Mathis TV while I was fricking around with Atari Combat on a black and white 17 inch Sanyo.
. We had one of the first satellite systems, huge disk in yard, you could hold 2 or 3 buttons at once on the remote and get japanese porn, finally figured out to put toothpicks in buttons.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 6:59 pm to TDcline
No, but you got to experience the core 90s, one of the 2 main periods of Millennial kid culture (the other being the 1998-2004 Y2K period).
You had:
-90s Nickelodeon
-Disney Afternoon
-Disney Renaissance movies
-FOX Kids
-SNES vs. Genesis
-DOS and Amiga games (Doom, Lemmings, Turrican, etc.)
-4th and earlier 5th generation gaming
-TMNT, Power Rangers and Pogs
I had:
-Powerhouse Cartoon Network
-Toon Disney pre-Jetix
-Pre-movie SpongeBob
-Pokemon, Powerpuff Girls, Dragon Ball Z, and Yu-Gi-Oh
-Kids WB (Turner/Time Warner DOMINATED this era)
-Tamagotchis and Furbies
-Humongous Entertainment games
-PopCap when they still had a diverse library
-Later 5th and 6th generation gaming
-Web 1.0
The 90s and early-mid 2000s was truly the best time to be a kid. It all came to a crashing half in 2006 when the 7th generation of gaming, Hannah Montana, and Ben 10 ruined everything. At least YouTube was golden during the late 2000s.
You had:
-90s Nickelodeon
-Disney Afternoon
-Disney Renaissance movies
-FOX Kids
-SNES vs. Genesis
-DOS and Amiga games (Doom, Lemmings, Turrican, etc.)
-4th and earlier 5th generation gaming
-TMNT, Power Rangers and Pogs
I had:
-Powerhouse Cartoon Network
-Toon Disney pre-Jetix
-Pre-movie SpongeBob
-Pokemon, Powerpuff Girls, Dragon Ball Z, and Yu-Gi-Oh
-Kids WB (Turner/Time Warner DOMINATED this era)
-Tamagotchis and Furbies
-Humongous Entertainment games
-PopCap when they still had a diverse library
-Later 5th and 6th generation gaming
-Web 1.0
The 90s and early-mid 2000s was truly the best time to be a kid. It all came to a crashing half in 2006 when the 7th generation of gaming, Hannah Montana, and Ben 10 ruined everything. At least YouTube was golden during the late 2000s.
Posted on 7/7/19 at 7:02 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:That depends. Healthcare, entertainment, automobiles, sure. Active kids pursuing all manner of activities, which is what this thread is about, not so much.
Right now in America is the best time and place to live in the history of the universe
Posted on 7/7/19 at 7:03 pm to karmew32
quote:
You had:
-90s Nickelodeon
-Disney Afternoon
-Disney Renaissance movies
-FOX Kids
-SNES vs. Genesis
-DOS and Amiga games (Doom, Lemmings, Turrican, etc.)
-4th and earlier 5th generation gaming
-TMNT, Power Rangers and Pogs
Ok, Madden '92 where the ambulance would run over the injured player sometimes and the crowd would go "aww aww" was pretty cool.
This post was edited on 7/7/19 at 7:05 pm
Posted on 7/7/19 at 7:05 pm to TDcline
Yep
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