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re: Best decade to grow up in ?
Posted on 8/8/21 at 12:12 am to TheFourHorsemen
Posted on 8/8/21 at 12:12 am to TheFourHorsemen
80’s
No cameras everywhere.
2-parent households still actually raised their kids
Enough TV for entertainment but not enough to keep you inside all the time
No internet/no cell phones. People actually had to trust each other’s word.
Chicks didn’t have nasty arse tattoos all over their body
You could make poor decisions, learn from them, and not be punished for the rest of your life like now.
Far less racial tension than today. Not even close
No cameras everywhere.
2-parent households still actually raised their kids
Enough TV for entertainment but not enough to keep you inside all the time
No internet/no cell phones. People actually had to trust each other’s word.
Chicks didn’t have nasty arse tattoos all over their body
You could make poor decisions, learn from them, and not be punished for the rest of your life like now.
Far less racial tension than today. Not even close
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Posted on 8/8/21 at 12:14 am to TheFourHorsemen
1980s to about 1994
More than a decade, but deal with it
More than a decade, but deal with it
This post was edited on 8/8/21 at 12:15 am
Posted on 8/8/21 at 12:34 am to TheTideMustRoll
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80's and it is not particularly close.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 1:53 am to TheFourHorsemen
Early 80s birth is legit. Growing up in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s got to experience, learn and appreciate major societal changes.
Not to mention LSU sports become a complete powerhouse.
Not to mention LSU sports become a complete powerhouse.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 3:29 am to ATW
I'll say the 70's, cars, music, girls, drugs that didn't kill you or turn into an addict, and most people had a live and let live attitude. And the swamp wasn't in high gear in DC yet.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 4:11 am to CrimsonPlanet
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drugs that didn't kill you or turn into an addict
Pretty sure heroin and cocaine did that then too.
That said, I think being a teenager in the 70's would have been the peak. The 80's was my childhood and it was good but not compared to earlier. Everything was already selling out to more government and corporate greed at that point.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 5:29 am to EarlyCuyler3
70s to mid 80s.
Purely for the music. No time frame will ever pump out that kind of music.
Ever
Purely for the music. No time frame will ever pump out that kind of music.
Ever
Posted on 8/8/21 at 6:40 am to TheFourHorsemen
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I say 80's
You would be correct.
Was 11 at the beginning of the 80s and 21 when they ended.
The absolute sweet spot.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:37 am to TheFourHorsemen
50's. House was always open. Keys left in car and truck ignition switch. Free time after school; just be home for supper. Building forts in the woods. Making bows, arrows and rubber band guns. Taking my Red Ryder BB gun to the woods. Fishing every Sunday with my Daddy. Playing tricks on my younger brother. Knowing that if I got a whipping at school I would get twice that at home. Settling problems with fists, not guns. Loving pets and being responsible for them. Being on the football and basketball teams. Establishing friendships that last a lifetime. Beer, fast cars, smoking and chasing girls. Knowing you had to have your date back at her home on time or answer to her Daddy. Knowing everybody in town watched what you did and any misbehavior would probably be reported before you got back home. Simpler times!
This post was edited on 8/8/21 at 7:39 am
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:14 am to ricketsd
The 1950s (and early 60s) was probably the best "decade". I was an older teenager during the mid to late 1990s, so I am biased but I truly believe it was the next best decade. However, I do understand people who think that the 1990s were basically just a commercialized version of the 1980s...
This post was edited on 8/8/21 at 8:18 am
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:20 am to LanierSpots
Spot on Lanier!
Posted on 8/8/21 at 9:35 am to TheFourHorsemen
You talk about the 80s then link a concert video from 1990
Posted on 8/8/21 at 9:38 am to TheFourHorsemen
All I can say is growing up in the 2010's or 20's would be some arse.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 9:41 am to BigTastey
Hard to comment on the older decades.. didn't live through it but I'm sure the elderly will pick theirs. But for me, by far it was the 80's. You can look to music at the time to understand why.
80's - Music was 'fun', all music was, Rap, Rock, Metal people just wanted to have fun. Freedom, I was never home before dark and was outside all day long. No cell phones meant you didn't have somebody constantly nagging you, complete freedom to chose what you wanted to do as long as you got home by dark.
90's - Music - the decade of depression. Music turned into sadness with the Seattle scene. All the fun bands went away, bands like Metallica sold out and turned into some boring Rock band. You had Nirvana and all the 'Grunge Rock' come into play and kids just wanted to sit around and feel sorry for themselves. Odd time though considering the .com boom was going on. We saw our personal freedoms leave us with cell phones becoming more popular.. this is where helicotper parenting started.
20 - .com bust, kids thought the 90's was depressing but it was really for show, the 20's were really depressing with the market going to crap and people losing their homes. Music basically died with the internet coming into full power. Napsater vs Metallica etc. Music industry never really recovered. The age of the millennials was just getting started in school...
10's - Millennials.. end of thread.
80's - Music was 'fun', all music was, Rap, Rock, Metal people just wanted to have fun. Freedom, I was never home before dark and was outside all day long. No cell phones meant you didn't have somebody constantly nagging you, complete freedom to chose what you wanted to do as long as you got home by dark.
90's - Music - the decade of depression. Music turned into sadness with the Seattle scene. All the fun bands went away, bands like Metallica sold out and turned into some boring Rock band. You had Nirvana and all the 'Grunge Rock' come into play and kids just wanted to sit around and feel sorry for themselves. Odd time though considering the .com boom was going on. We saw our personal freedoms leave us with cell phones becoming more popular.. this is where helicotper parenting started.
20 - .com bust, kids thought the 90's was depressing but it was really for show, the 20's were really depressing with the market going to crap and people losing their homes. Music basically died with the internet coming into full power. Napsater vs Metallica etc. Music industry never really recovered. The age of the millennials was just getting started in school...
10's - Millennials.. end of thread.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 9:52 am to TheFourHorsemen
Born in the early 60s, so had teen and pre-teen years in the 70s, graduated HS in 1980 and freshman year at LSU started Fall of 1980. Being a kid in the late 60s and teen n the 70s was great. LSU in the early 80s with legal age being 18 and the great music was the tits!
Posted on 8/8/21 at 10:04 am to Herman Frisco
quote:stinking hippies
60’s. You should have been there.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 10:07 am to CrimsonPlanet
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I'll say the 70's, cars, music, girls, drugs that didn't kill you or turn into an addict, and most people had a live and let live attitude. And the swamp wasn't in high gear in DC yet.
Bingo.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 10:24 am to Razorback Reverend
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80's.... fast cars, that actually looked the part.
gee fellow. The cars produced in the 80s were anemic as hell
Posted on 8/8/21 at 10:31 am to BLG
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gee fellow. The cars produced in the 80s were anemic as hell
This.
The 80s was the worst decade for American cars of all time. Several American legendary lines of cars were destroyed in the name of "economical" to compete with the Japanese.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 12:23 pm to TheFourHorsemen
80's for sure. Lots of good easy to find weed and coke was plentiful
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