your favorite 80's things

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I was born well after the 80s, so I'm getting a kick out of some of the nostalgia goggles here. It's kind of like the people who are nostalgic about the "Leave it to Beaver" image of the 50s. You know, the "Oh, these here kids these days with their internets and skateboards and marihuanas! Back in my day we worked hard and weren't sluts and didn't smoke the reefers and everything was swell!"
Hell, back in the 50s people were nostalgic about the "gay 90s", and how great things were back in the 1800s. So I just find it funny that people are getting so nostalgic about the 80s, while ignoring all the bad shit that happened, like AIDS, the crack epidemic, very limited Internet, the Moral Majority types were really powerful, the cities weren't safe. Hell, my family went up to NYC a couple of summers ago and my dad commented that when he went to New York back in the 80s it was filled with homeless people, criminals, trash. The areas we walked through wouldn't have been safe 30 years ago.
Of course, in 30 years I'll probably be complaining about how things were so much better in the 90s-early 00s, before we had all these here uppity teen whippersnappers with their hover boards and robots.
 
hm yeah dijo:
you know, the "no database at our fingertips allowed for urban legends to develop and fluorish" thing. that's what made my 90's childhood so fun. we kinda live in the era of "nuh uh". urban legends are great for developing our childhood imaginations.
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oh, ok. i didnt get the relation to video games is all, but yes....imagination is dead. we used to have to pretend sticks were swords, trees were dinosaurs, our fort was kinda good....nowadays, its all done vicariously and picture perfect through games.
 
Randall Fragg dijo:
I was born well after the 80s, so I'm getting a kick out of some of the nostalgia goggles here. It's kind of like the people who are nostalgic about the "Leave it to Beaver" image of the 50s. You know, the "Oh, these here kids these days with their internets and skateboards and marihuanas! Back in my day we worked hard and weren't sluts and didn't smoke the reefers and everything was swell!"
Hell, back in the 50s people were nostalgic about the "gay 90s", and how great things were back in the 1800s. So I just find it funny that people are getting so nostalgic about the 80s, while ignoring all the bad shit that happened, like AIDS, the crack epidemic, very limited Internet, the Moral Majority types were really powerful, the cities weren't safe. Hell, my family went up to NYC a couple of summers ago and my dad commented that when he went to New York back in the 80s it was filled with homeless people, criminals, trash. The areas we walked through wouldn't have been safe 30 years ago.
Of course, in 30 years I'll probably be complaining about how things were so much better in the 90s-early 00s, before we had all these here uppity teen whippersnappers with their hover boards and robots.
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i was a kid in noweheresville, usa. aids, crack, crime, and cities werent on my radar. i am specifically aware of those issues having existed at the time, it even crossed my mind. however, they werent part of my experience. im not trying to say they were perfect, but they were certainly entirely different.

also, it wasnt that internet was limited, it didnt fucking exist to us. i definitely wouldnt put that in a list with aids and crack about bad shit. lol.
 
I was born in '82. The '80s had some of the coolest shit for a kid.

First, there were these guys:

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Toys that turned from one thing to another. Construction vehicles that not only turned into robots, but formed a bigger robot. Robots that shot smaller robots out of their chests and robots that turned into guns and robots that turned into dinosaurs.

Then there was this:

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Dinosaurs with laser beams attached to their skulls and piloted by sharkmen. I mean, look at that shit. LOOK AT IT.

Oh, then there's this dick right here:

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A used car salesman who loses his patience for things and turns into a terrorist. It's like "what if Hitler was even more pathetic," only with more lasers and more Americans kicking ass. Pictured for posterity: Cobra Commander kicking a puppy, because he's that big a dick.

And then this thing! It elevated childhood from awesome to balls-out incredible!

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- Girls with perms.
- Glittery makeup being prominent.
- No internet to distract humanity.
- Reagan being President.
- Everything being peaceful, except for the ongoing Cold War, and of course, the terrible drug trade.

But still, I'm just convinced the 1980s were when society was the most perfect it could be. Looking at this ad, can you see why I'd say that?

 
Ghostbusters
WWF
The Smiths
To Live And Die In LA
Blue Velvet
Predator

More shit I can't recall atm
 
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