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1980's kids: this is your thread....
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1980's kids: this is your thread....
Hey y'all, any of yous guys who grew up during the 80s, stand up! You '70's cats, I hope you don't mind me stealing this idea, but for a decade I remember more.


From 1980-89 I was 4-14ish years of age.  I remember denim jackets, hair mousse, Nu Shooz, Christa McAuliffe, Molly Ringwald, Kate & Allie, Frugal Gourmet, Ghostbusters, Tiananmen Square, Gorbachev, Challenger, The Berlin Wall, etc.

What were your most vivid memories, good or bad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAWr6U_NKBA You Can't Do That on TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7S537b7saE 3-2-1 Contact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEffN4LbKHc A test of the Emergency Broadcast System from 1983 on KTLA TV in Los Angeles (creepy!)
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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#2
RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
Twisted Sister.
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#3
RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
I was born in 84 so have vague recollections of the 80s.

Love much of the music, though.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#4
RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
Purple Kush.

Though I can't say I remember it.  #shorttermmemoryloss
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#5
RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
That would be me. Born in '81, grew up with Tom and Jerry, Loony Toons, Captain Planet, The Nintendo Entertainment System, Batman Animated series, and such. Eighties and Nineties was my generation. We didn't have high speed internet or laptops. We didn't have pocket cellphones that acted as cameras and had internet. I'm not sure my parent's vehicle even had seatbelts back then. Forget police pulling you over for not wearing one. There was no stress about second-hand smoke. Some of my older neighbors still had rotary phones. There was no flat screen TV or monitor. Certainly no DVR. You had a VCR. You recorded an hour or two on a tape, not a disk, and there were people alive who didn't even know how to work that.

Am I missing anything?
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
Challenger.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
There were also the arcades in malls.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
VCR?  My parents rocked a Beta for most of the '80's.

I was born in '79, so my experiences consisted of things like Transformers, He-man, the Commodore 64, but most of all the NES.  Since I was young, my musical experiences were limited to what was pushed on the radio, which was mostly garbage.  One of my favorite songs was this...



Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
As far as music goes, I only listened to it in the car. Of course my parents were in control of the station, so I listened to 60s and 70s music. eventually I got a radio of my own, and listened to 80s and 90s music. Then of course there was the classical background music that played while I watched various cartoons. I've heard a wide range of music, inclusing the devil's music known as rock n roll.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: 1980's kids: this is your thread....
My mother listened to lots of rock and roll. I, OTOH, liked smooth jazz, which is what my peers' parents liked. Acoustic Alchemy, Ray Lynch, Checkfield, Yellowjackets, etc. I was an odd one.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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