how things were in the 80s

[SandEagle]

i'm a 70s kid stuck in the 80s. i've been thinking lately about how we did things better and differently back then. here are some of those things that would cause outrage today. feel free to list your own. those born after 1998 need not apply.

-playing cops and robbers without the orange tip
-riding bikes without worrying about pedos
-no airbags in cars
-kids sat in front without seat belts
-no gluten allergies to worry about
-or peanut allergies
-drawing pictures of guns
-smoking cigarettes openly in restaurants, offices, and anywhere. didn't matter if kids were inhaling 2nd hand smoke
-no HFCS

*sigh* i'm reminiscing again. can the japanese hurry up and build a time machine already?

 

[brianmanahan]

most of the things in your list sucked though

 

[SandEagle]

most of the things in your list sucked though

you were born in 1999 i am guessing

 

[DaTT]

Going outside to play

 

[brianmanahan]

you were born in 1999 i am guessing

sorry charlie, early 80s

amc eagles were sweet though

 

[Captante]

most of the things in your list sucked though

you were born in 1999 i am guessing

I was born in 1964 and brianmanahan is correct.

Going outside to play

What is this "outside" of which you speak?

 

[QueBert]

I remember riding in the bed of a pick up truck was not only legal but nobody seemed to have any safety concerns about it. I mean a truck speeding down the freeway with children in the bed? What could possibly go wrong. Maybe it was illegal and I just don't remember. But I know I rode like that countless times and no cops ever did anything.

With all the dangerous shit back then that apparently wasn't a known danger yet. It's a wonder that nobody I knew died.

 

[glenn1]

Good part: Rap didn't exist yet. Or at least only Blondie was doing it.

Bad part: We got subjected to truly craptacular synthpop like Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark and Spandau Ballet.

 

[Carson Dyle]

most of the things in your list sucked though

This.

Everybody smoked. I remember Mom and Dad trying to save a few bucks and trying to roll their own. They had a little machine that I used to make them cigarettes. I was a little ten-year-old cigarette factory. Dad quit in 1977, but Mom never did. I distinctly remember at my grandmother's funeral, my Dad talking about it with my aunts and uncles, most of whom still smoked. My aunt, my mother's sister, died of lung cancer. She was the first of that generation to pass. Then my Mom and two other aunts, my Dad's two sisters, died of breast and lung cancer. Oddly, in my family, most of the men outlive the women.

My cousin died in a car accident in 1979. Before air bags and before pretty much everyone wore seat belts.

A good friend had a severe brain injury riding a bike without a helmet. He was never the same again.

In the 60s and 70s people didn't talk about pedophiles. They were certainly around, though. I'd be genuinely amazed if their numbers have increased at all in that time span.

The difference is that everyone today is afraid. Afraid of accidents, afraid of their food, afraid of disease, afraid of terrorists, afraid of the government, afraid of corporations, afraid of criminals, afraid of the police. We've become a country of whining pussies, afraid of our own fucking shadows.

 

[IronWing]

I remember riding in the bed of a pick up truck was not only legal but nobody seemed to have any safety concerns about it. I mean a truck speeding down the freeway with children in the bed? What could possibly go wrong. Maybe it was illegal and I just don't remember. But I know I rode like that countless times and no cops ever did anything.

With all the dangerous shit back then that apparently wasn't a known danger yet. It's a wonder that nobody I knew died.

It's still legal for children to ride in the bed of a pickup in Arizona. If the child is inside the truck then seat belt/child seat laws apply. If in the bed, anything goes.

 

[Paratus]

We used to have water gun wars in the 80's with these:

We even took them to school. Yet they were only confiscated, and no one was arrested, tazed or shot.

It was a different time.

 

[IronWing]

I grew up mostly in the seventies. My parents wouldn't buy toy guns. If we used our allowance to buy toy guns they didn't object but they wouldn't buy them. We kids always wore seat belts, my parents always wore seat belts. We've already covered the smoking thing in other threads (smokers were, are, and likely always will be assholes).

 

[squarecut1]

People actually talked to each other then. You know through their voice. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Internet forums. How strange does it sound now.

Who knows what it would be like in 30 years...

 

[phucheneh]

-riding bikes without worrying about pedos

Most of your stuff is at least marginally dumb, but this one is just annoying as shit. I'm so damned sick of people talking about how, oh noes, it's not safe for the children now! Nothing like back in the good old days!

...actually, it's pretty much the same, if not safer now. Perhaps that was more your point, but you worded it as if it were an actual concern.

But when people in their 40-60's or so bring that shit up (people who were raising kids 20+ years ago), and you refute their statements about how back in 'the good old days' there was no such thing as child molesters/abductors/murderers, mass killings, ect, you get a big 'NUH-UH, IT WAS TOTALLY SAFE BACK THEN, AND NOW THE WORLD IS SICK, JUST SICK I TELL YOU.'

Ugh.

 

[Paratus]

We also had awesome shows like
GI Joe
Transformers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Star Trek
Star Wars

Video games were big
Computer games were big.

It was a different time.

:whiste:

 

[Printer Bandit]

when i want a taste of the 90's

http://nickreboot.com

 

[Iron Woode]

How things were in the 70's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjg39XRkjVc

:awe:

 

[Rakehellion]

most of the things in your list sucked though

Exactly.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

the music was awesome

 

[Insomniator]

i'm a 70s kid stuck in the 80s. i've been thinking lately about how we did things better and differently back then. here are some of those things that would cause outrage today. feel free to list your own. those born after 1998 need not apply.

-playing cops and robbers without the orange tip
-riding bikes without worrying about pedos
-no airbags in cars
-kids sat in front without seat belts
-no gluten allergies to worry about
-or peanut allergies
-drawing pictures of guns
-smoking cigarettes openly in restaurants, offices, and anywhere. didn't matter if kids were inhaling 2nd hand smoke
-no HFCS

*sigh* i'm reminiscing again. can the japanese hurry up and build a time machine already?

Thats the best you can come up with? Sounds like I didn't miss much. I think this is a troll thread actually, you are really complaining about air bags and children not getting 2nd hand smoke...

 

[John Connor]

Cartoons, cartoons CARTOONS!

The shit that they have now is utter CRAP!

Ghostbusters, G.I Joe, Thundercats. Then Nickelodeon was awesome! David The Gnome, Little Bits, Eureeka's castle, You can't Say That on Television, Rocko's modern life. God I sure miss those times. Fuck Pikachu.

Internet wasn't really popular as it is today so you either watched TV, played outside or board games. Don't forget Atari. I had the first Nintendo and played Mario all night and into the day. Now I play it on my freaking computer! Actually most of all of them. Mario, 1,2 and 3, Mario World and Mario All Stars.

Schools weren't PC and toy guns weren't tabu. I was a gun fanatic. I had all kinds; MP3's M60's, AK-47's uzi's, 1911's. M16's and even a freaking Gatling gun. I even made a cannon out of a long cardboard tube and two bicycle wheels. I had military camouflage, a beret and a gas mask. Those were good times. And when it came time to come in I would watch MacGyver and Quantum Leap while I ate dinner. Before that it was A-Team, Knight Rider, Miami Vice and Air Wolf. Now it's reality TV shit. Full House and Home Improvement were wholesome. I could go on and on. Damn those were good times. I love 80's music too!

 

[John Connor]

And this movie made the 80's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Jo8QoOTQ4

:awe:

 

[John Connor]

A freaking RPG! That is the one thing I never had and ever since I watched Rambo I always wanted that and the rocket Launcher in Commando. http://www.kids-army.com/grenade-launcher-rpg-black-mini/

Anyone remember SpyTech toys? I had damn near all of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S940VlRoqJU

 

[mauiblue]

I graduated in 1980 and life was good then. Smoked a lot of weed then. Had my fun and met my wife in 1985. I could walk in a gun shop and purchase a firearm without any problems or bullshit permits. The music was okay and I had a slew of cassette tapes I'd play in my car stereo. Cigarette prices was cheap and you could still smoke practically every where. Seat belt use was optional.

 

[Mai72]

Did anyone read my thread?

Its funny.