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Why was society so much better in the 80s?
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pity reply
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>>69936177
Fuck you these threads are comfy
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>>69936177
D U B S
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>>69936108

http://playithub.com/watch/VAmzV6aqvMs/1989-jericho-high-school-video-yearbook.html

try to get through that without losing it. kikes at jewtube took the vid down on their site, this is the only other link i could find of the 1989 jericho high school yearbook video.

life was better then

we need to go back
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>>69936266
>>69936177
THIS IS A GET THREAD

PRAISE KEK
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It fucking wasn't, stop posting this shit

The 1980s were the peak of the crack epidemic not to mention huge cities were overflowing with homicides and unemployment
That video is nothing more than a 7/11 near Disneyland and since video cameras were a rarity they felt excited to be recorded

Only thing I miss is the smoking indoors
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> people talking in a 7 11 at night time wow what an amazing society

Can this meme fucking die already
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>Almost zero internet
>No mass migration of muslims
>No globlisation in 6th gear
>why was everything better?
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>>69936108
If wasn't you mental midget faggot

Your threads are retarded
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>>69936610
>Only thing I miss is the smoking indoors

I get nostalgic over being asked if I want to sit in the smoking section or the non-smoking section.

And arcades.
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dont do this to me
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>>69936108
Cocaine
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>>69936610
>>69937418

>Only thing I miss is the smoking indoors
>And arcades.
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>when you were born in 1997 yet your relatives forced all things 1990's down your throat and gave you a childhood worth being nostalgic over

I'm really grateful for that.
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>>69936108

Why do you think this is so ideal? What's wrong with you?
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>>69936108
I'm not one of those wrong generation fags
but
Damn, the 80's seems just so, so cozy
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>>69938275
looks so fucking American i love it
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>>69937894
1996 here
iktf
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a e s t h i c

What about the hair and shitty-collared polo shirt is so immediately pleasant?
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>>69936108
Because the '80's was a society in which capitalism was encouraged. You could get a job relatively easier than today, and if you did it well, you could live comfortably. College degrees were respected rather than a baseline. And people were proud to be a fucking American.
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>>69938474
Back when Sonic wasn't autistic
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>>69936108
feminists were dead
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>>69936108
Went through the channel saw that they made a new video at the same 7/11

let's see if the sequel is as good as the original, lads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE&feature=youtu.be
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>>69938579
Isn't capitalism encouraged today in America?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE
They returned
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>>69936108
Because there was no internet back then.
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>>69937894
This is roughly my feel except for the 80s, born in '88 and my childhood home was full of debris and hand-me-downs from that decade well into the new millenium.
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People were always on the go back then. No one would've wished to stay home and look at a screen, arcades were big, though, malls were always packed, dance clubs, comedy clubs.. heck, every celeb wannabe had a workout video. It was a different world.
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>>69938814
>Because there was no internet back then.
Do you know why people don't like you? It's because of stupid shit like this.
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84
we need an adult here, who is oldest
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>>69938702
The new one just made me sad, people are so reserved in that one...
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Cameras were more of a novelty.
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>>69938796
Camera man is as autistic today as he was in the 80's
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>>69938999
Barely* any internet back then.
Usually only for bssnsses, not alot of preteens and things around back then,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfgf9HatIHI
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>>69938999
Haha, hardly anyone had a computer. I used to go to OTASCO and write DOS screensavers, but they were too expensive. At school we had a 'puter that used cassettes
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>>69936108

1985 here. i never thought about it, and perhaps it was because i was a kid and didn't notice it, but i do feel people were happier back then

course i was an armybrat too. but remembering people on post back then, and going back to that same post 20 years later serving myself, huge difference in attitude
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>>69939127
they really are. I was surprised to see how friendly they were with everyone in the last video.
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>>69939095

'82 here, IDGAF
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>>69936108
>people think ALL of these guys were high
>people were just so NOT fucking crushed by reality that they seem high to modern people
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>>69938999
>implying internet was in every home in the 1980's
It wasn't even common in the 90's either dummy
He's right, The internet made a planet of lazy fuckers who forgot the art of interaction face to face.
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>>69939489
>not being '88 master race
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>>69936108

No internet. MTV played music. Patriotism caused the political class to see the people as an asset to be invested in. Ditto for manufacturing. A middle class.
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>>69939596
Class of '86, here. You are correct, sir.
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>>69936108
Prescription drugs
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>>69938702
wew the loli daughter at the end
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>>69936108
It wasn't.
At all.
Fucking "grass is always greener" delusional faggots.
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>>69938999

my father paid 3000 dollars for a computer in 1991 with similar specs to this one. i remember my parents getting into an argument about it because he bought it instead of her a new car
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>>69939700
class of 86, holy shit you probably have a real job too, that's fucked
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>>69939802
Retired, actually.
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>>69936108
>7-11 near Disney World
>NEAR DISNEY WORLD

You think people on vacation in a nice area don't act like this today- especially on video?

Leave your basements. Leave your ghettos. Fucking christ, man.
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>>69936108
lived through my 20's in the 80's turned 20 in '83.

I think it may have been because the Grateful Dead were still touring and playing reasonably decently .. they had a huge influence on youth..

that or the M.A.D. Nuke doctrine was in full bloom and we all knew we could all be wiped out at any time.
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>>69936108
Sign of the Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOKJfQpbsL0
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85er here.

Its amazing looking at people these days who grew up in a time without internet and cell phones.

Society was so much better without this technology.

When all the normies started using the internet around 2006-2008 the world went to shit.

You will notice the SJW crap went into overdrive the minute every idiot with a cell phone had the ability to use the internet.
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>>69938702
3:30
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>>69936108
These people are all likely on vacation since its near Disneyland so they're in a great mood to start out with. Plus, people played themselves up in front of cameras back then because seeing one in your face was rare. This literally proves nothing, so stop posting the same thread every day.

Enjoy your (you).
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>>69938702
This is why perky people need to be the alphas of society
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>>69939945
Remember Hands Across America?
Yeah, I did it.
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Man, there's a lot of old people here
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Why were serial killers most prolific in the 70s and 80s?
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>>69940251
There weren't cameras everywhere, for one.
Opportunistsc sociopaths operate differently now.
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>>69940475
How so?
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>>69940251
because they were promoted by the media to kids
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>>69939986
Yeah ofc, before people with retarded views was called retarded and changed, now they just go online find more retarded people and stay retarded.

Thats why there are cultural differences between website i.e Reddit, Tumblr, 4chan.
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>>69940157
>Hands Across America
remember it vaguely but did not do it.

I did go up onto MT. Shasta during the Harmonic Convergence

http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/har/
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>>69940532
Mass killers these days seem to want instant gratification in the spotlight.
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>>69938702
>that kids fedora
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>>69940587
I miss dead cereals
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>>69936108
Lmao the 80's was a big step in the race to a degenerate world. The crack epidemic turning niggers into hyperniggers, the party culture, guys trying to look like women. Everything has been downhill since the 40's and the 80's is no exception
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>>69940653
Far out, man. Have a Garcia on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=671AgW9xSiA
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>>69940165
old people...we invented this internet shit faggot
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>>69938999

its SMTP faggot

and no, hardly anybody was on the internet.

even people that were big into BBS's, were mostly logging in to BBS's that were on fidonet. pirated software and ansi art were distributed via modem and long distance calls by couriers.

i got on a dialup unix shell account in 1992. it was primitive as fuck, the best thing to do was usenet and muds and even irc didn't pick up until later in the 90s. by 1998 there were actually hot chicks on irc. got laid a bunch. it was a golden era of massive change.
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his daughter is just so qt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpTbENeY0vY
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>>69941061
Muchas Garcias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCYyx1vrG3s
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>>69936108
That video just made me sad. I was born in the 80s but I don't remember much. I was 6 in 1990 and I can still remember the "vibe" the 80s had. It was fucking great.

>you'll never experience that happiness again.
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Now I know why the suburban life is so popular in America
this commercial makes it seem appealing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHy72_rw8k
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>>69941336
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFwpljz3bcI
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>>69941336
he even makes modern life seem cozy

look at this all american family easter. fucking warms my heart, man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMwsbPTOwcY&index=1&list=PL085409F970278528
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by mennen
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>>69939945

80s house music and late 80s rave culture man.

And all the other awesome music trends of the 80s. There were so many.
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>>69936108
People then could still have hope for the future.
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>>69936108
I miss the 80's and early 90's. Maybe it was just the optimism of youth but life seemed enjoyable and waking up was something to look forward to because anything could happen.

Now the first thing I think of when I wake up is why couldn't I have died in my sleep
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>>69938474

Feels. 1994 feels for me.
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>>69941980

As in I played sonic in 94.
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>>69936108

Because that was back when we had
something called middle class, but what do i
know, sanders wants to make a strong middle
class again but fuck it what do i know right?

MAGA right? right /pol/?
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>>69936108
There was no Internet or social media and video games were still shitty enough that kids played outside and socialized.
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>>69938702
I've eatten at that one many a time after work. Seven Eleven is still fun.
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>>69940532

Well cameras are everywhere so best bet is to avoid land entirely when dumping bodies. A boat and living close to the ocean is needed now to dispose of gutterscum prostitutes. They have to be shit-tier poor as fuck addicts that spend all their money on drugs so one knows they don't have a phone with GPS on them. These fucking whores are wising up on that shit, networking with eachother, being tracked by someone or other.

Thinking of making an app for them but then no more funsies.
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>>69937418
I was thinking about this game today and thinking about how much simpler times were.
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>>69941377
Still groovin'. Brings back 'hazy' memories ;^)
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>>69942293
I'm curious. What about melting the body via some form of acid?
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OP, because minority culture had not yet taken hold.
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>>69936399
>http://playithub.com/watch/VAmzV6aqvMs/1989-jericho-high-school-video-yearbook.html

>you will never have a qt 80s counter-culture gf to listen to post-rock and no wave with

W H Y L I V E
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>>69943076
Then you have a big drum of acid-y hooker-soup to dispose of.
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>>69941760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY
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>>69936108

Trust.

Society depends on trust.

With the identity politics and gender hostility and racial mongrelization and Jews and Mudslimes, that trust in society is gone.
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>>69943273
I see.
It seems like serial killers these days have been more quite or cautious.
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>>69938474

1996 was the best year of my life. 1986 here.
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>>69936108
because its been long enough for people to forget about the stuff that sucked, and put the rose-colored glasses on
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>>69943283
These lead Black female singers are awesome. They are pretty, have great voices, these songs are great tunes and are still remembered, and danced to, 30+ years later. Who, in 30 years, will remember a Beyonce tune? A Nicki M. tune?

Music was SO great in the 80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTcAU8NwMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOKJfQpbsL0
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>>69936108
It was the hight of American nationalism imo, pop culture was all about American superiority and culture, you guys had a big silent enemy to rally against without really having to experience the realities of boots on the ground and the fact that you could all blow up any minute just gave you a reason to live large while you still could
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>>69943578
>forget about the stuff that sucked
>implying there are thing that DONT suck nowadays

What sucked back in the 80s then?

>inb4
Irrelevant shit
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>you will never have black/white race relations like this again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzslynRhwg
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>>69936399
>this school is near where I live
>I've heard stories about how much better Long Island was in the 80's
>it's a shit hole now
>tfw I missed out

>>69943556
1996 was the best year of my life too :(
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>>69943867
Belinda for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M
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>>69944713
>Belinda for me

Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGEyBeoBGM
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>>69936108
>tfw I never got to experience the glory of the 1980's
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6veRtF05oo
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I can't point to one singular thing that made everything horrible, but 24/7 news channels played a major part by creating a lot of paranoia and pushing more areas of life to become politicized. That's when the major liberal brainwashing started coming in force in the 90's. I go back and watch some older programming and it's shocking to see how in your face some of it was. Political correctness was still treated as a joke and no one ate up the gay agenda until the late 90's though.

I remember playgrounds being made of steel and wood and if you got hurt playing on it, you toughened up and dealt with it, then went back to playing. If someone did something you didn't like, you weren't "triggered", you took it in stride. Everything became injurious and traumatic in the public mind.

>>69943556
'84 here. 1995 and 96 were the happiest for me as well.

Things weren't perfect back then. Infrastructure and technology has come a long way since then. Culturally though, we were a world of much stronger people with a sense of romance to life still instead of the crushing gray cynicism that affects even the kids (who don't get to be kids anymore) of today.
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It's also weird to think how much different peoples world view was back then.
No Columbine, school shooting were unheard of. No 9/11. No refugees
I'm not saying things were completely peaceful, this was during the cold war. And you still heard about tragedies in the news, but not nearly as frequently.
To people back then, the world must have seemed like a genuinely safer place.

But I'm only 20, I don't remember the world before 9/11 so I wouldn't know,
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>>69945531

Captain Planet is my favorite example of it. The only one to ever defeat him was Hitler!
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>>69942094
exactly

OP, we were not social media zombies.
Life was great.

/thread
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>>69936108
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>>69945531
Plastic playgrounds aren't a bad thing. Growing up in the '80s, I had three friends who died on playgrounds. Two on a jungle gym and one on a metal slide....it was so hot, his skin came off like a glove.
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>>69945762
Your assessment is perfect.
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We hadn't been born.
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>>69942055
Sonic was shit in Yurop, brah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW13TVNwfeU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRpXGGS8DQ
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>>69946163
Holy shit. That sounds traumatizing.
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this is now an /anemoia/ thread
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>>69936108
Positivity.

That's why the 80's is so fondly remembered. But then you had bill clinton and the democrats come in and shit on everything good about the 80's. The 90's were the exact opposite of the 80's they were a decade of political correctness and low self esteem. Fuck Nirvana too.
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>>69943232
iktf
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>>69946163
I demand pics NOW
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>you will never see the Falcon gang dance fight again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbsUsXVyKBw
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>>69946544
>implying the early 90's wasn't an expansion pack for the 80's
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80s a shit
Music was shit
Movies were shit
Cartoons were shit
Fashion was shit
President was shit
80s revival retro fags are shit
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>>69946544
>tfw you will never drive a beautiful classic car at night with your wife, son, and daughter
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>>69946749
Oh yeah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsaA903oxvc
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>>69946937
>Aliens
>shit

>The Terminator
>shit

>Numerous classic coming of age films
>shit

>Indiana Jones
>shit

>The Shining
>shit

>Scarface
>shit

The rest is pretty subjective, but you can't deny the 80's had plenty of good films.
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who remembers Owen Hart dying?
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>>69947077

Yup, just as I thought... the poor Falcons were defeated.
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>>69937894
Are you fucking kidding me?
I was born in 1975 - the 1980s were my playground.
Now shut the fuck up, I'm going to watch an episode of the A Team.
And yes, I'm speaking the truth on all of that.
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>>69946544

I know that feel.
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>>69936108
No smartphones
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>tfw born in 1994
>love stuff from the late 90's
>love stuff from early 00's
>not sure what "xx's kid" I am

Feels confusing man
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>>69946163
I grew up in the 80s. No one I knew died in a playground.
You sound a little like one of those cunts that pretend they were in 'nam.
Fuck off.
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>>69947191
>Goonies
>sixteen candles
>warriors
>breakfast club
>he man
>karaoke tier music and instrumentals up the ass in the 80s
80s were cringe, neon, and gay
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>>69947495
And no world wide web. The internet was just being used by top notch nerds.
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>>69947365
fugg i was really young but i remember that shit. the blue blazer
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>>69946937

Die Hard.
Predator.
Blade Runner.
First Blood.
Robocop.
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How many of you on here actually try to strike up conversations with random people?
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>>69947543
Sounds like you stayed indoors in the '80s as well as the present. Don't you dare disrespect the memories of playground victims.
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>>69946937

>Music was shit
Post-punk, hardcore, hip-hop, punk, no wave, synth pop, ska, all blossomed in the 80's.

>Movies were shit
That's debatable, a lot of my fav movies are from the 80's

>Cartoons were shit
Cartoons are for children, who cares?

>Fashion was shit
the fashion was a e s t h e t i c
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This thread makes me sad.
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>>69947522
You're just another nostalgia burdened millennial like the rest of us.
Welcome
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>>69947918
>80s hip hop
>good
>synth
>good

>a lot of my favorite movies
Selective memory. 80s was filled to the brim with cringe. Granted I love predator and Indiana Jones. Just overall waaaaaaay to much cringe for one decade. That's why it had to die
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>>69948158
I chuckled then felt a little sad.
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>>69946163
plastic slides enabler detected. What didn't you try to fry an egg before taking a slide for safety measures? you're parents were shit
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>>69947191
"To Live And Die In LA" - great movie, great acting, great title track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf4x36XKhsM
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>>69937894
>1997

Get out undera-

Oh...

....Oh

I'm gonna go lie down now.
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One afternoon I was sitting on a bench on the old Pacific Garden Mall in Santa Cruz,CA when a friend approached telling me a Film was being shot at the Boardwalk and they were looking for extras. I declined making the walk down to the beach for no good reason.. probably just lazy/stoned.

tfw I could have been in pic related
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>>69936108
>meet people in 1980's
>nobody recording anything
>nobody blabbing about how retarded you are on fb and looking you up to show their friends how retarded you actually are
>nobody secretly snapchatting every mild social transgression you make for a laugh
>nobody recording you having a good time
>no isolated community of friends to promote trust and free expression in social situations

We have destroyed the concept of a unified tribe and created a society where everyone is expected to conform to the rules of all tribes simultaneously. The result is an extremely uniform (read: boring) but well defined culture of what is an acceptable means of speaking, behaving, and otherwise enjoying yourself in public within all corners of the 1st world. The following communities can exempt themselves

>small towns
>the heavily impoverished
>invisible/unimportant college fraternities
>gay clubs (straight women cannot dominate the sex game and enforce social standards here as they do elsewhere)
>true alphas (do whatever they like and still get away with it because of astounding charisma/good looks/massive dick/money/etc.)
>eccentrics (like above but instead generally immune to social combat/peer pressure/sexual influence)

If you want to see what the 80's was like, throw a party, take cell phones at the door, force people to wear something odd or even slightly ridiculous, only invite friends in large groups (work friends, old school friends, etc. Not lone wolves).. Invest in a budget to make sure people get drunk and enforce the rules with a passion typically reserved for professional referees. Get a couple of games going that break the ice (not beer pong) and most importantly of all, do not open music to the public. Have a DJ, forbid anything made past your junior year of high school and let the night fly. I've arranged 3 of these to date and they've all been pretty goddamn decent desu.
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>>69947191
>Terminator
>shit

Now you've done it.
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>>69949547
Wow. What a loss for you. Great film and amazing soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9tGjc5_NCs
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>>69949557
I like it
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>>69946254

We didn't know that the music was slowed at the time, also it's exaggerated on that video just a tad, you could still sprint.

It was making my teeth itch that he isn't in that video.
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>>69949531

I know that feel.
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>>69949557
>>nobody recording anything
especially this and the following
>nobody blabbing about how retarded you are on fb and looking you up to show their friends how retarded you actually are
>nobody secretly snapchatting every mild social transgression you make for a laugh
>nobody recording you having a good time
are the reason why I always hold a hand in my face when I'm sitting or facing a camera. The anon facepalm. I just want a simple ride into town on train or subway , camera teams are filming inside or outside... you walk around the city, idiots filming or making a photo of some stupid ad where you stand next to. what's wrong with these people?
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>>69936108
I miss the days of white Canada, pre Islamic invasion, pre chink invasion, pre 9/11, everyone was much more optimistic and friendly. That being said, we still had crime and drugs to worry about.
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>>69940532
YOU JUST KNOW
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>>69950921
>3d doritos
Of all these things I remember fondly, 3d doritos will always fuck my mouth>>69950921
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>beaners started immigrating en masse after immigration laws changed in the 1960's
>LBJ great society welfare started in the 1960's transforming relatively civilized and passive black population into pavement apes
>1980's are less that 1 full generation into this process
>2010's are Two FULL generations into this process (three for niggers because they reproduced much sooner than 20-25 year intervals)

thats why OP
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>>69936399
Jesus Christ this feels like something you would go see in a theater. Surreal.
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>>69950921

I used to know this girl with learning disabilities who couldnt move on from vhs tapes to DVDsfor whatever reason. found it odd but now I feel weird as I get older because I'm finding a fondness for them too. That ker-klunk sound as you slid it in, the box art that was always so much better than what you see today.

Pic related, the one I think everybody owned.
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>>69938474
Master System > Mega Drive
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>>69951844
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9bKxRQfvs8

enjoy the next 48 minutes
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>>69941637
high energy
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>>69949557
>nobody secretly snapchatting every mild social transgression you make for a laugh
fucking this
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>>69936108

GenXfag here: people acted way different in front of a videocamera then, like they had to "present" to it, so they put a brighter face forward. The guy who made the video dismissed that angle and said lots of people had them at Disney World, which might have been the truth because back then it was a major vacation, but those people would be taping their kids, not going around interviewing people like this guy. (Notice how the girl in front of the frozen foods starts posing, and the couple introduces themselves and says their names.) I used to be one of those guys who'd walk around with one and people would put on a show all the time (or try to act cool like the guy with the cigarette or be like "don't tape me").
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>>69936108
no internet to exploit all the shit happening in the world
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When will the EMP happen?

When will the solar flare happen?

After the main electrical grid is back things would be perfect. Since literally every cellphone would be broke people would have to use landlines to communicate again. Internet usage would be back to govt/business only for a while. Manufacturing would surge back because without planes and global communication international trade would slow down.

It would be a harder life don't get me wrong, but people not being ruled by technology, even for a short period, would make it worth it
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>>69939095

'74 reporting, way too late as usual.
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>>69941637
Oh my gosh that kid is adorable
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>>69937119
>no internet
FUCKING NORMALFAG
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>>69936108

that's sobering. I remember how friendly we were with our neighbors when I was growing up. No one trusts one another now, we all assume the worst because of how ugly the world has become.

Society became more accepting, but many people's sensibilities haven't changed. The only people that benefited from the slacking of standards and condemnation of morality are the dredges of society, who got looked down on in better times. What the fuck happened to standards
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Marxism was still a dirty word.
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>>69952063
shanks
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>>69936108
Their parents had raised them fine, but they rised their children into full progressive liberal shit mode. More degeneracy on the media and so on and so on, we are approaching interesting times.
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>>69936108
>Why was society so much better in the 80s?

culture will continue degrading and getting more and more shit and uninspired until there's another war, it's that simple, people become more and more shit until there's conflict that prunes the shit out again
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>>69953487
I dislike homosexuality and really only tolerate it.

I hate trannies, SJW's, and anything else in that nature and I don't even entertain it in casual conversation. I wish I had a community of people to hang out with or do things with. Everyone at work is so isolated and pretty much never do anything outside of work unless its mandated. As an adult I've never done anything with neighbors. I want to have an active social life, and to actually form connections with people. Honestly I feel bad for people who done have good relationships with their family/extended family. If I didn't have my family I'd be a sociopath.
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>>69936108
everyone seemed so much more chill and laid back back then, less stress
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>>69947411
checked & keked
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>>69954206
>If I didn't have my family I'd be a sociopath.

are you me?
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>>69936108
because you are too young to know better
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>>69937654
I'm living in China where both smoking indoors and arcades are happening. Actually some of the most fun I have had here is going to the arcade with friends
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50s was better both economically and culturally
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>>69938723
Based off the amount of Sanders supporters there are, not enough.
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>>69938723
the difference hes missing is that nationalism is dead. capitalism without nationalism means screw my country if it'll make me rich.

the greatest generation being in the twilight of their power mightve had something to do with morals and nationalism still being a live in the 80's. then boomers started to take over
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>>69950921
Same, familie'. I miss the days of waiting for the Eatons catalouge to arrive and plan out what Christmas presents I wanted my parents to order
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>>69954572
this is what I imagine America would look like if there were no ghettos or projects
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>>69936108
The world sucks now, but what it so ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND HEARTRENCHING about this?

I get it to an extant.
>WOW no niggers or indians loitering and menacing at a conviencence store at 2 in the morning.
>White people weren't corrupted by rap and niggerdom yet.

Big fucking deal.
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>>69936108
Reagan.
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>>69936108
It wasn't, this video isn't representative. You're only seeing it because this guy made hundreds of these random VHS tapes, put them on youtube, and this one went viral for the random good fortune of having decent ad-lib and good chemistry with everyone.
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>>69936399
>fucking 9/11, shitskins, big brother and paranoid PC culture ruined life
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>>69939764

>Monitor and Mouse not included
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>>69937119
almost trips, slap my nips
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>>69942067
>sanders wants to make a strong middle class

top kek

>sanders wants to legalize all the illegals
>continue the h1b program
>let in more refugees
>the weakest on immigration
>says "we need to build bridges not borders"

How the fuck are you going to create more american jobs when you essentially open gates for foreigners and go after the rich?
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>>69954572
Its rue
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I love these fucking threads so god damn much
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>>69948240
>synth
>bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nC5TBv3sfU
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>>69941637
>that comment
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>>69945531
Ah, a fellow geriatric nigger bedfellow! I was born in 1983 and I am currently, and have been for quite some time, a fisheries scientist.

If I were to sit inside on gaychan and jack off on social media all day, it would be a very gay life. I think the simple remedy for a lot of our modern gayness is simple, although............maybe blue pilled?

>go outside

I spend literally half of my year on a boat, up a river, or otherwise involved in working with natural resources. It grounds you and really lets you enjoy the simple things in life, for me at least. Also...........

>I run crews of up to 5 people at one time and out of a pool of about 30 people, most of which are ~20

I get to incessantly mock people on deck and in the river with simple bull shitting around, best one ever was none other than

>the mail buoy

had one kid, 21, hang on for about 15 minute (an eternity) to a buoy 35 miles offshore and tell him it was the mail buoy and that he could send letters in it, on approach I had everyone draft letters to their relatives/wife/whatever and had them give them to the kid, we strapped him into a big life vest and had him glove up and man handle the buoy at the side of the boat with mail in tow, he sat there for 15 minutes trying to open the buoy (there are no openings on these) until I felt sorry for him and got on the deck speaker

>Hey faggot!!!!!!!!!!! There's no such thing as a fucking mail buoy!!!!!!!!!!! Open the fucking letters!!!!!!

Everyones letters said shit like "look at this fucking idiot trying to open a buoy" "you fuckin retard"

Ahhhhhhhhh the ocean.
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>>69955112
>yes goys there was nothing better about society back then, you would not like it, this is a false image made by random chance
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>>69943556
I felt my best was 1995. I was born 1987.
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>>69936108


TF. No creepy, fat or ugly people. What happened?
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>>69936399

why does shit like this seem so SURREAL? its almost creepy at how different it was compared today, and it wasnt even that long ago. What the fuck happened? I get an oddly surreal, depressed feelings watching videos from the late 80s/early 90s
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>>69955554
hydrogenated corn syrup, refined sugar, and a corrupt FDA.
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>>69955131
Racial diversity increases distrust of others
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>>69955899
dubs of truth
I've watched my town fall to the brown horde. It's a shithole now.
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>>69955752
The past is a different place, old recordings of times long-gone are like their ghosts.
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>>69951844


>>69955752
Who knows, maybe the dimensional shift theory is correct afterall. It really does feel like something is completely out of phase between then and now even on a physical level.
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>>69950921
>that phone
I wish someone would make a good bluetooth version of this which connects to your smartphone with a little screen for caller ID

it can't be that fucking hard

they're super convenient for a desk
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>>69955770
>>69956248


Just checked, people are indeed getting uglier.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/digby/writing/6235541-are-americans-getting-uglier
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>>69956248
I think it's just the natural J curve of technology and how much more aware we are of ourselves and others around us.

Juxtapose that with simply getting older, it's all logical. life gets gayer and harder after like 25, not to say that it's not still a blast or can't be but when I was in college

>i'll go to class, yeah maybe
>ahh gym time
>eat some sushi and shit
>have some sex
>repeat
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>>69956432
They make stuff kinda like that. It's a classic phone that connects to an audio jack. I still have my home phone, my family and older friends call regularly on it.
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>>69956627
haven't seen any products that work adequately and are updated/supported etc.

seems like they're all garbage or just gimmicky chinese junk which is only half functional
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In the 80's we had heavyweight boxing matches that were openly promoted as race wars
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>>69936108
R E A G A N
E
A
G
A
N

REAGAN
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>>69956248

Fuck those old vending machines. Chips get stuck on the top of the ring. Gotta beat the shit outta the flimsy thing to get it down
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NONE of you are ready for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwfUF72BY4
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>>69956704
You could always buy a landline plan. They aren't very expensive.
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>tfw you will never make out in you 1980s Camaro with you high school crush while listening to ''current'' music hits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlHz0wF0Ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYx8IHJ9dWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMjH1nR0ds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-2i2SR_OsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvmB1j1uVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=470HnRobKLc

why do the decades keep getting shittier and shittier ? (90s were great though)
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>>69956982
yeah and then have an extra phone number and an extra bill for no real reason

and these phone companies are jewy as fuck, even if it's not much it's definitely a headache and more than it needs to be
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>>69956978
>opening shot of a gook
My nostalgia trip was over before it even started.
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>>69956248

I don't understand it. The world just feels completely, utterly different, in every way, from when I was a kid.

Does everyone feel like this when they get older?
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>>69956996
>80s Camaro
>80s music
My dad and uncle share two Camaros. One a 1970 from their youth and the other a 1981 inherited from a deceased high school friend. We still have a lot of cassette tapes, but no gf for me.

For the 90s or 00s kids here, I present this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA
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>this movie
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>>69936399
>people allowed to smoke on campus
it's better now desu
it's safer now
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>>69957521
>have REAL flashbacks
>jesus christ what have we become
>gun slides in my mouth
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>>69957540
yes, instead of cigarettes between classes, you need to worry if the gender confused boy is going to pull out a semi-automatic and kill everyone in your racial studies class
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I saw this in Eugene,Or in 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb0SrH4u2rY
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>>69957310
>The world just feels completely, utterly different, in every way,
The darkness is taking over. There is a lot more evil, a lot more hopelessness, a lot more hate, and a lot more insanity that is being portrayed as "normal." And these dark forces control everything, especially the media, which is constantly bombarding us with things to fear and messages that we suck.
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>>69936108
I think nowadays it is very difficult to be a big fish in a small pond and be happy with what you have.
Within moments you can be exposed to people better than you in every aspect. I think that mindfucks us pretty hard

>>69956996
lovely tits
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>>69957709
at least it's a faster death than lung cancer
i was born feb 1998
every year people came to our elementary school to show us lung plaque and shit
fucking nasty
fuck the reaganized 80s
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>>69955296
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nC5TBv3sfU
That is a great video.
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People were happy for just being alive then. We didn't need chemical stimulation to justify not killing ourselves. People were generally happy to see each new day. Society has become grim, joyless, functional, obsessed with gadgets because people have no inherent joy anymore and need to acquire stimulation out of themselves
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>>69956515
I'm sure that people on the whole are uglier. They are certainly fatter. But freakishness and abnormality is far more common. Also mental illness
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>>69956536
25 year olds were happier
5 year olds were happier

Everyone was happier
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>>69956996

The synth revival is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY
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>Why was society so much better in the 80s?

Elderfag here, I grew up in the 80's. Specifically, I was 14 in 1980 and 24 in 1990.

The 80's were not as great as you guys think they were.

You guys only hear the good music from the 80's. But in the actual 80's, we had to listen to it all. Most of it was horrendous - new wave keyboards routed through infant technology over songs performed by talentless hacks with awesome hair.

The fashion was lame. Even then we knew it was lame. I remember the first time I wore parachute pants, I was with my friends, who were all wearing their faddy, faggy shit, and I said, "Guys, we seriously look gay." They agreed. But it got us laid.

We didn't have cellphones, computers, digital music, or a thousand channels of TV.

There were some good things too. We were a lot more free in the 80's than kids are today. Cops weren't such assholes back then. Americans weren't at each others' throats over the smokescreen called "politics."

Every decade gets a nostalgic glow about it eventually. This one will get the same treatment - about 20-30 years from now.

But trust me, guys, the 80's were just another decade, featuring a LOT of lameness mixed in with the good stuff that survived to be seen by your generation.
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>>69957521
"Daddy would have bought us Uzi's"
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>>69957921
Fly for your Life is even better imo, give it a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZJMfjYobD0
thread-related nostalgia
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>>69937654
There's a bar in Santa Cruz that has been suing the government for years to be allowed to let people smoke inside. They do it anyway, they just have an understanding with the cops. The 1007, I think it's called.
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>>69949557
ugh... c-can I get an invite? :/
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>>69956996
This music reflects happiness to be alive. But that 80s generation was sold lies, the early 90s was a cruel time to be looking for work. In the 90s, the 80s came to look like a sham, a false hope and the joy of the 80s was never recaptured at any other time
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>>69936108
>Why was society so much better in the 80s?

It wasn't. These people are weak faggots and on their channel you can see they raised some weak ass faggot kids too.

Don't venerate this shit.
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Born in '70...y'all niggas don't know how comfy it was.

http://youtu.be/EU-IBF8nwSY
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>>69936399
man the 80s kicked ass
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We are too self-aware these days, and I feel it's the internet that plays a big part in this; it 'feeds' a lot of your curiosities that one might otherwise have experienced by going outside.
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>>69944510
seriously tho man, long island doesnt suck, youre making it out to be worse than it is. People are still pretty chill
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>>69943556
88 here. When Desert Storm happened, I climbed out of my crib and broke my arm.

My parents didn't know I was seriously hurt, they took me into their bed and only in the morning did they realize my arm was severely broken.

To this day, I can't straighten it all the way out, but it's a lot stronger than the other arm. I've never understood why. I think I was supposed to be left-handed, but because I spent so long in a cast, I learned to use my right. My handwriting is terrible, and I lead with my right when I box, like a southpaw.

I remember Pirates of Dark Water, and Dark Sun, and Exosquad. I remember my father's cubical where he took me to work at Tandem, and how great all of his coworkers were.

I remember when America was an idea that people loved, instead of hated.

They haven't just taken this from me. They've taken it from my children. They've stolen it from us. They must pay.
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>>69936108
because for the most part racism was extinguished in the late 80s and all of the 90s. The kike media was pretty upset and has been race baiting ever since.
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>>69954639
>capitalism without nationalism means screw my country if it'll make me rich.

This. It was capitalism, but with national interests above all else.
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>>69957933

People have become narcissistic, hedonistic and shallow emotional children.

I love the innocence of the people there. Youth has to deal with tons of shit nowadays.

Srsly. If you had asked in the 80' for a safe space, tried to argue that gender is a social construction. Even the most liberal people would have laughed at you.
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