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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:20:43 AM EDT
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Whenever I think of the 80s, I associate it with nasty, toxic smelling plastic.  |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:26:17 AM EDT
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...Someone once told me, "most people's taste in music is defined by what was playing on the radio the first time they got laid."... 
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:31:40 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:39:15 AM EDT
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Terrible New Wave, bushes, and torpedo titties. 80’s were very lame.
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:42:23 AM EDT
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For someone like me, who started his service during the Carter Administration and ended it during the Reagan Administration, the contrast was like night and day. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:43:46 AM EDT
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Add some blue Redline V-bars and a blue fluted (straight) seat post, and this was my bike, except my Skyways were black and I had blue gumwalls. Took me years to earn enough to deck it out.
Man...we rode bikes everywhere back then. I never see kids on bikes anymore. 
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:45:54 AM EDT
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the 80's were awesome .. but the clothes and hair styles.. meh. 
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:46:49 AM EDT
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I think Columbine started the "no more fun" period. Right after that our school started to lock all the exerior doors, we had to sign in and out at one entrance, couldn't just come and go anymore. Things shifted from casual to "What are you doing and why are you doing it?" if you were trying to have some fun. We were still able to at least sign out and go outside unattended or wander the halls a bit with equipment from the video lab. After 9/11 it rapidly ramped up into being watched full time. Being rural it wasn't as bad, but the shift in those few years was very noticeable, especially for those of us that were almost done, we had seen the changes first hand at school and the attitudes associated with that change. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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born in 82. I think shit was going pretty good, till fucking 9/11. that damaged us far deeper as a nation then we chose to admit.. it started the giving up of freedom for security at a very increased rate. before 9/11 pretty much everyone was happy, campy funny movies were still being produced.. after that, everything got dark, movies got dark and gritty, tv got dark and gritty. The fact we couldn't just go out and "beat them" the way we won WWII set the stage for the malaise that is the millennial generation... Things shifted from casual to "What are you doing and why are you doing it?" if you were trying to have some fun. We were still able to at least sign out and go outside unattended or wander the halls a bit with equipment from the video lab. After 9/11 it rapidly ramped up into being watched full time. Being rural it wasn't as bad, but the shift in those few years was very noticeable, especially for those of us that were almost done, we had seen the changes first hand at school and the attitudes associated with that change. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:49:06 AM EDT
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I lost my virginity in 1984 so yeah....amazing decade. 
The main down side of the 80s is that the cars really sucked. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:55:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryIf you've never driven one, then you wouldn't understand. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:56:44 AM EDT
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OP, I agree with you. Overall, the 80s were the best decade of my life. Sure there were ups and downs, but overall it was a net positive for me. I look at the 80s as the Indian Summer of the USA. I don't think we've had another decade as good since then, and with the current leftist love of socialism, i'm not sure we ever will.
I was born in 1971, and I remember a lot of growing up in the 70s. I started watching the news and reading the newspaper and talking politics with my Dad after an update on the Iranian Hostage Crisis interrupted my Scooby Doo cartoon one Saturday morning. I remember the national malaise and depression we had, and I remember how Reagan made things better. If nothing else, Ronald Reagan made us feel good again and gave us hope that the best times were NOT behind us. I remember the pride and patriotism when we beat the Soviet Union in Hockey in 1980. To this day, I still get a little emotional when I watch video footage taken after the game! TV and movies were better back in the 80s as well. The 90s were the time I stopped watching a lot of TV and stopped going to the movies as often. I never cared for Seinfeld and Friends. I was and still am, an A-Team man! Nuclear War was a concern for me in the early 80s, with The Day After and other movies. But as I got older, I stopped worrying about that. These days, i'm really concerned about our future. I'm more concerned about our future and our rights and freedoms than I was ever concerned about nuclear war. Back in the 80s, I knew that no matter how bad things were, they would get better. Now, i'm not so sure. As far as i'm concerned, the 90s were the start of the suck we have all had to embrace. The current level of toxic partisanship that we have in politics really started when Slick Willy was President. That's when the democrats started going further left, and the wacko special interest fringe groups started gaining power. Until then, my local House representative was a conservative, pro 2A Democrat! Throw in gun control, crappy music, grunge, Waco, tax increases, etc, etc. I don't have a lot of warm fuzzy memories of the 90s. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:56:59 AM EDT
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The main down side of the 80s is that the cars really sucked. Back then, I had a Holley 4-barrel, turbo muffled dual exhaust, an Edelbrock intake and a chrome air cleaner. Slotted mags too big for the back end that now had to be supported by Gabriel air shocks, and thought I was a God. A Clarion cassette player (couldn't afford auto-reverse) and some used Pioneer speakers in the door AND on the package try...the boxy kind that sit on top? Yeah. Damn...I miss that car. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 11:57:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Janet Gardner of Vixen was the hottest lady of the '80's. That blond hair, that look... 
God I miss the '80's! https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/329/MI0001329571.jpg?partner=allrovi.com |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:01:12 PM EDT
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Hughes amendment passed in 86. The Dodd Amendment brought in the milsurps starting in the late '80s . . . |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:03:29 PM EDT
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born in 82. I think shit was going pretty good, till fucking 9/11. that damaged us far deeper as a nation then we chose to admit.. it started the giving up of freedom for security at a very increased rate. before 9/11 pretty much everyone was happy, campy funny movies were still being produced.. after that, everything got dark, movies got dark and gritty, tv got dark and gritty. The fact we couldn't just go out and "beat them" the way we won WWII set the stage for the malaise that is the millennial generation... |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:06:04 PM EDT
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There were a handful of us fighting in Central America, but most of the US didn't pay any attention. But, it was a great decade. Aviator I remember the Democrats and media making a big thing out of the fact some US advisor(s) were filmed with rifle in hand. The left wanted them restricted to sidearms. Remember Ed Asner? |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:06:51 PM EDT
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That makes me wish for an 80's themed game that's a hybrid of Stalker, good Fallout, and Rage. You'd be cruising the wasteland in an IROC-Z for gals in high-waist jeans, and blasting away mutants with a HK94. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:07:31 PM EDT
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Add some blue Redline V-bars and a blue fluted (straight) seat post, and this was my bike, except my Skyways were black and I had blue gumwalls. Took me years to earn enough to deck it out. Man...we rode bikes everywhere back then. I never see kids on bikes anymore. https://bmxmuseum.com/image/aarons_ebay_460_blowup.jpg
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:10:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well...Yes, and no. High school kids drove 60's musclecars, because those were just old cars, way back in the day before Barrett-Jackson. Back then, I had a Holley 4-barrel, turbo muffled dual exhaust, an Edelbrock intake and a chrome air cleaner. Slotted mags too big for the back end that now had to be supported by Gabriel air shocks, and thought I was a God. A Clarion cassette player (couldn't afford auto-reverse) and some used Pioneer speakers in the door AND on the package try...the boxy kind that sit on top? Yeah. Damn...I miss that car. I can't recall anyone in the early '80s with an '80s car. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:10:31 PM EDT
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Millennial checking in...I liked the 80s too
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:14:30 PM EDT
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Yup, I was there when MTV made it's debut...First song was Dire Straits "Money For Nothing". And if you couldn't pull chics in the 80's it was because you were gay. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:14:55 PM EDT
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I had a Blue Max just like this one. I gave it to my nephew years later. He trashed it or traded it for drugs. Worth a fortune now.
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Add some blue Redline V-bars and a blue fluted (straight) seat post, and this was my bike, except my Skyways were black and I had blue gumwalls. Took me years to earn enough to deck it out. Man...we rode bikes everywhere back then. I never see kids on bikes anymore. https://bmxmuseum.com/image/aarons_ebay_460_blowup.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/zQ6kyoX.jpg https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Old-School-Bmx-Mongoose-Blue-Max-Frame-Fork-Mongoose-stamped-Headset/153372435710?hash=item23b5b5a4fe:g:JRQAAOSwnQ1cVl5O:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:15:08 PM EDT
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It just happens that when I was in first grade it was 1981, second grade 1982, etc...
Although I was just a kid, and kids are dumb and naïve, the 80's did seem like a much more optimistic and fun time compared to what we've got now. So many cool shows too. Well, cool at that time anyway. Recently watched a couple episodes of Buck Rogers and 80's Battlestar Galactica. Very corny and don't hold up that well today, but at least they weren't SJW-fests. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:19:04 PM EDT
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1960s: The decade started out good enough, and the economy continued to grow, but then there was also rioting, social upheaval, a growing crime rate, and political assassinations. The Viet Nam war, and domestic opposition to it, defined the decade. Our president through most of the decade was corrupt Uncle Cornpone, who was then replaced by Tricky Dick. It was during this decade that people started thinking there was something wrong with America. Some people like to say their was more political violence then, but back then you had more real things driving it. Much of the protests were about Vietnam, and once the draft went away that mostly died out. The hard core commies tried to turn to insurgency, but the smart ones settled down for the long haul in the universities, leading to the division we have today. The current political division is toxic because it is driven by deep differences in world view, such that the left is inventing new fake reasons for division. In the '60s and early '70s the division was driven by real stuff, not nonsense in people's heads. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:21:30 PM EDT
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The 80s were fabulous, I mean I was mostly drunk and got married 3 times so I must have had a good time.
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:22:34 PM EDT
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It just happens that when I was in first grade it was 1981, second grade 1982, etc... Although I was just a kid, and kids are dumb and naïve, the 80's did seem like a much more optimistic and fun time compared to what we've got now. So many cool shows too. Well, cool at that time anyway. Recently watched a couple episodes of Buck Rogers and 80's Battlestar Galactica. Very corny and don't hold up that well today, but at least they weren't SJW-fests. The first hint I had was 1976, however. Prior to 1976 I thought patriotism was dead. In '76 I found out otherwise. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:23:41 PM EDT
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The 1980s started off with a bang, when a bunch of young 20-something college hockey players from places like Duluth and south Boston defeated the greatest hockey team in world history in the Olympics. It turned out to be a psychological shot in the arm to the whole country. Then in November 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected president. Cheery, optimistic, funny, and completely unassuming, Reagan was a breath of fresh air from the dour puritan Carter, the bumbling Ford, the shadowy Nixon, and the arrogant LBJ. He inspired confidence in the country, especially after the assassination attempt. Reagan believed in America and in Americans, and Americans in turn believed in him. The economy still hadn't quite recovered from the 1970s, and there was a bad recession in 1982, but starting in 1983 the US economy exploded. Jobs were suddenly plentiful again, and thanks to Reagan's tax cuts, people had a lot of disposable income for the first time in a long time. Gas prices, which had been high for over a decade, fell to levels not seen since the 1960s. And the economy kept expanding, even when the stock market took a tumble in 1987. People had confidence again in the free market system. The US military, which had been underfunded and suffered from poor leadership and morale, was rebuilt from the ground up. They received new weapons, higher pay, and a greater respect from the American people. For someone like me, who started his service during the Carter Administration and ended it during the Reagan Administration, the contrast was like night and day. The military became respectable again. Then there was MTV. It may seem trivial, but that channel defined the music of the entire decade. For the first time you could watch your music as well as listen to it, and as a result the images of those videos are indelibly etched on the hippocampi of an entire generation of young folks. Plus the songs were catchy, upbeat, and the videos were full of sexy women. Speaking of women, the 1980s was full of beautiful, fit women, few of which had any sorts of tattoos. And unlike the women of today, they actually liked men and wanted to be with them. Dating during the '80s was a great adventure. But sadly, it was not to last....(to be continued) 
Pretty sure I liked guys then just like I do now. C/O 1989 |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:24:05 PM EDT
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The 90s was the last great decade, but it wasn’t the greatest. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Sorry. The 90s gave us Jurassic park. /Thread. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:28:52 PM EDT
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As a kid who became a teen in the early 80’s I’m very interested in this thread |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:30:54 PM EDT
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You forgot the best part of the 80s, Group B
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:31:48 PM EDT
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It was a simpler time.
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:32:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:34:43 PM EDT
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Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 Fucked up MGs but unleashed a glorious tidal wave of milsurp guns and ammo. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:37:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:37:56 PM EDT
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Comedy was funny & didn’t lecture you on SJW https://dallasnews.imgix.net/1513376471-fixedhopefully.jpg?auto=format%2Cenhance&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&q=40&or=0&fp-x=0.493&fp-y=0.498&w=412&h=549 
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:41:04 PM EDT
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You forgot to mention the most horrifying thing about the 70s. The fashion. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/176088/399107fce8f5607524c96a6ac7aca227--high-fashion-men-fashion_jpg-844984.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/176088/images_jpg-844985.JPG |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:41:15 PM EDT
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Awesome music and movies, booming economy, Reagan unleashed F14s against Libyan fighters (Top Gun shit), and the decade was just fun god damn it.
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:43:27 PM EDT
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Okay, I see the inaccurate info in your post has been corrected a few times by others already, since MTV's first video to air was actually the Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star, but I am still curious how you think Dire Straits came up with a song that had Sting singing the refrain "I want my MTV" if the channel had not even aired yet and no one knew what "MTV" was gonna be like... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yup, I was there when MTV made it's debut...First song was Dire Straits "Money For Nothing". And if you couldn't pull chics in the 80's it was because you were gay. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:45:26 PM EDT
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Yup, I was there when MTV made it's debut...First song was Dire Straits "Money For Nothing". And if you couldn't pull chics in the 80's it was because you were gay. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:46:49 PM EDT
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Yup, I was there when MTV made it's debut...First song was Dire Straits "Money For Nothing". And if you couldn't pull chics in the 80's it was because you were gay. 
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:48:38 PM EDT
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I'm going to tell you why you're wrong. Fox body and 3rd Gen camaros. Feel that whopping 200 whorespower as the wind combs that mullet back pinning those goofy aviators to your nose. In an impressive 0-60 in 10 minutes.
Hughes amendment passed in 86.
Cocaine everywhere. Shoulder pads in business suits. For men and women. What. The. Actual. Fuck. We're ya'll anticipating full contact game near the water cooler hopped up on coke? Rock bands dressing in drag.
Hairspray. Could you fuckers live without it? 
Nothing good came from the 80s except the following. 3 wheelers. Honda 250Rs Yamaha Banshee Suzuki LT500 Yamaha blaster Suzuki LT250 82-87 body style Chevy C10s. Everything else. Shit. "Pop music" synthesizers is today's mumble rap
If the 80s were so great... how come nobody bought lightning links, drop in auto sears, full auto lowers like they were going out of style?! |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:50:28 PM EDT
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Life before PC was best life.
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:52:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/14/2019 12:55:06 PM EDT
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free love no aids |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 1:01:42 PM EDT
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Wow. All that hate is gonna burn you up, kid. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 1:02:00 PM EDT
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I was BMX-age during the 80's so I fully understand the awesomeness.
That said, I fully believe that Trump's 20's are going to put the 80's to shame. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 1:04:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mixed bag. Fucked up MGs but unleashed a glorious tidal wave of milsurp guns and ammo. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 1:05:50 PM EDT
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There were a handful of us fighting in Central America, but most of the US didn't pay any attention. But, it was a great decade. Aviator Quote HistoryQuoted:
There were a handful of us fighting in Central America, but most of the US didn't pay any attention. But, it was a great decade. Aviator Quoted:
That makes me wish for an 80's themed game |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 1:06:27 PM EDT
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Because nobody gave a shit about military style weapons until the Assault Weapons Ban in the mid 90's. It wasn't a part of the mainstream consciousness until you banned it. |
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Posted: 2/14/2019 1:15:17 PM EDT
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80's kid but came of age in the 90's so I am a bit biased, but the *early* 90's were the best in my opinion.
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