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Offline Coolio

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80s Culture
« on: December 06, 2023, 06:59:55 am »
For some reason I have the Magnum P.I. theme song stuck in my head. Which brings us to 80s culture. I was a kid in the 80s. Ronald Reagan, Nintendo, VHS movie rentals, dual cassette players, Walkmans, Michael Jackson, Top Gun, etc. 

What do you remember about the 80s (for those old enough to recall the decade)

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Re: 80s Culture
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2023, 07:15:49 am »
LSD at Dr Qs for $4 a hit. Nothing else.


Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2023, 07:17:59 am »
Well I wasn't a kid, I was already working.

I do hear younger people talking about '80s nostalgia and it actually fascinates me because I simultaneously think it's a bit ridiculous and yet feel it in my heart when I hear these things.

For me, nostalgia comes from a time when your dad had to adjust the antenna on the TV, never your mom.  When getting a phone call from far away was an event and the whole family would gather near the phone on the wall while your mom held the receiver and you all spoke to Grandma.

It's visiting people who had wood stoves since forever, it's a social organization that was as rigid as it was secure. Women in the home, milkmen, pipe smoking tweed wearing academics on black and white television talking about important things.

In terms of Hegel, we gave that structure of the world and an antithesis of emancipated women, whiteness ridiculed, gender roles trashed , Capitalism unleashed so that we had more than ever by the 80s but the poor became untouchables.

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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2023, 01:39:41 am »
I was born in the 1980s, but I wasn't really old enough to remember much of the 1980s.

I love the Stranger Things show on Netflix, which makes the 1980s seem like a magical time.  I like seeing the teenage characters in the show living in a time before everything was online and cellphone and internet. I think it reminds me of my own teenage years.  The internet was still very much a novelty when I was in my teens, and certainly had not become the all-encompassing pervasive force that it is for kids today.

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Re: 80s Culture
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2023, 08:20:56 am »
Yes, this is why I feel kinship with the parents in my hood who are only 40...

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Offline Spike The Hike Shady

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Re: 80s Culture
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2023, 11:52:30 am »
For some reason I have the Magnum P.I. theme song stuck in my head.
I'm actually into season 5 of the original Magnum P.I. right now.  What a show!!!!  Higgins is my favourite character.  I figured for sure he (John Hillerman) was British, but I couldn't believe it when I found out he was from Texas.

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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2023, 12:33:07 pm »
Personally it was a great decade for me.
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