What do you NOT miss about the 70's / 80's? - Page 6

General » General Discussion

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - What do you NOT miss about the 70's / 80's? (Page 6 of 6)

Posted: 3/9/2020 10:04:52 AM EDT

[#1]

Jimmy Carter

Posted: 3/9/2020 10:10:04 AM EDT

[#2]

Quote History

Quoted:
Jimmy Carter

View Quote

Thread-winner right there.

Thanks for nothing, Jimmy.

And finally: “Give is your criminals; your insane asylum patients; your criminally-insane!” (Mariel Boatlift):

Dumb-ass Carter couldn’t do anything right.

Posted: 3/9/2020 10:13:42 AM EDT

[#3]

Corduroy and bell bottom pants. Even worse was corduroy bell bottoms. I hated them as a kid when my mom had me wear them.

Posted: 3/9/2020 10:15:12 AM EDT

[#4]

Big ol' bush!

Posted: 3/9/2020 10:15:32 AM EDT

[#5]

I don't miss:

When your favorite movie came on one day and you missed seeing it (And arranging your whole day around watching it) listed in the T.V. Guide. Back then it was, "Tough shit kid, see you next year when we run it again".

Posted: 3/9/2020 10:26:09 AM EDT

[#6]

Quote History

Quoted:
I can't imagine road tripping here in Texas with a 55mph limit. It leaves me wondering how hard it was really enforced. There are some looooooonely stretches of road out here.

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
The inability of an average citizen to legally carry a pistol.
No microwave ovens in the 70s - they existed but not as consumer products.
Driving back and forth between Michigan and Colorado in a tin can Ford pickup.
National 55 MPH speed limit.

I can't imagine road tripping here in Texas with a 55mph limit. It leaves me wondering how hard it was really enforced. There are some looooooonely stretches of road out here.

The 55mph speed limit sucked ass. My dad did not speed at all and trips from Austin to Lubbock to visit the grandparents took all damn day to get there.

Posted: 3/9/2020 10:34:21 AM EDT

[#7]

Quote History

Quoted:

Nixon did that.

View Quote

Really?

I seem to remember it happening in the late 70s in response to the energy crisis.
His famous "put on a sweater" remark.

I thought we had 70mph limits when I was a little kid.

Hmmm...

ETA, well I'll be damned.

Posted: 3/9/2020 10:37:05 AM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 3/9/2020 1:25:47 PM EDT

[#9]

So he was Chelsea Clinton dad.

Posted: 3/9/2020 1:29:14 PM EDT

[#10]

Ya'll must live in cities. I haven't seen any of these changes in decades.

Posted: 3/9/2020 1:30:20 PM EDT

[#11]

Smoking on planes. -that got really tedious on transpacific flights!

Posted: 3/9/2020 1:36:59 PM EDT

[#12]

Quote History

Quoted:
My grandparents were in no way opposed to coke, but to save money they bought Shasta.

Fucking Shasta.

That was some weak attempt at coke.

View Quote

My dad was a cheap ass, but he prohibited having Shasta in the house. It has stannous chloride as a preservative, and he didn't want us drinking tin salts.

Posted: 3/9/2020 11:16:46 PM EDT

[#13]

In spite of all the hard times I'd live it all again.

Posted: 3/9/2020 11:24:19 PM EDT

[#14]

Attached File

Posted: 3/9/2020 11:25:24 PM EDT

[#15]

Quote History

Quoted:
Disco.

View Quote

Posted: 3/9/2020 11:52:22 PM EDT

[#16]

Music, fashion (both suck) last of the hippies

Posted: 3/10/2020 12:02:03 AM EDT

[#17]

Quote History

Quoted:
The 55mph speed limit sucked ass. My dad did not speed at all and trips from Austin to Lubbock to visit the grandparents took all damn day to get there.

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
The inability of an average citizen to legally carry a pistol.
No microwave ovens in the 70s - they existed but not as consumer products.
Driving back and forth between Michigan and Colorado in a tin can Ford pickup.
National 55 MPH speed limit.

I can't imagine road tripping here in Texas with a 55mph limit. It leaves me wondering how hard it was really enforced. There are some looooooonely stretches of road out here.

The 55mph speed limit sucked ass. My dad did not speed at all and trips from Austin to Lubbock to visit the grandparents took all damn day to get there.

Twice a year I drove from SD to Rio Grande Valley and back. AM radio sucks in TX. I did get pulled for speeding by a DPS. I forgot how fast, but it wasn't even 70.

Posted: 3/10/2020 12:15:03 AM EDT

[#18]

Quote History

Quoted:
Twice a year I drove from SD to Rio Grande Valley and back. AM radio sucks in TX. I did get pulled for speeding by a DPS. I forgot how fast, but it wasn't even 70.

View Quote View All Quotes

View All Quotes

Quote History

Quoted:

Quoted:
The inability of an average citizen to legally carry a pistol.
No microwave ovens in the 70s - they existed but not as consumer products.
Driving back and forth between Michigan and Colorado in a tin can Ford pickup.
National 55 MPH speed limit.

I can't imagine road tripping here in Texas with a 55mph limit. It leaves me wondering how hard it was really enforced. There are some looooooonely stretches of road out here.

The 55mph speed limit sucked ass. My dad did not speed at all and trips from Austin to Lubbock to visit the grandparents took all damn day to get there.

Twice a year I drove from SD to Rio Grande Valley and back. AM radio sucks in TX. I did get pulled for speeding by a DPS. I forgot how fast, but it wasn't even 70.

I got a ticket for going 65 on a hwy that now has a posted speed limit of 75. Now, going 65 is truly driving at a dangerous speed.

Recently, I’ve passed cops going close to 85 and they never even bothered because they’re after much bigger fish.

Posted: 3/10/2020 12:23:32 AM EDT

[#19]

Quote History

Quoted:

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/19799/lude_jpg-1309382.JPG

View Quote

I actually do miss those.

Very weird how it just vanished overnight.

Posted: 3/10/2020 12:46:39 AM EDT

[#20]

Have a hard time thinking of what I don't miss.

I do miss
the cars, cheap easy to fix and keep/get running. Used car were cheap and there was a variety that is no longer there.

I never saw or was exposed to most of the crap that's being mentioned, thank you small town America.
The rest of the stuff I can take of leave makes little to no difference to me.

Only thing I can think of was I don't miss the lack of variety in beer, everything was the same pretty much, Miller, pabst, old style, olympia, coors, strohs, red white and blue, michelob, special export etc etc not much difference.