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Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55 |
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Another vote for shitty cars. My god did the car companies and their workers not give a shit about anything.
Small wonder the Japanese came in and succeeded in that environment. |
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Swanson TV dinners.
The fucking peas or corn were always mixed in to the cobbler. Wtf? |
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High interest rates, 55 speed limit on the highway, crappy TV, no internet, disco.
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That about covers it. Only thing I can add is Quaaludes and waterskiing.
Terrible combination. |
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IB Pretty much everything? 70's sucked I've heard, there was some cool shit in the 80's.
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The cars were unreliable pieces of shit, and the clothing had too much cheap polyester.
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That was only at Kmart around here. Western Auto was the place to go. I miss those times. I'd go back in a heartbeat. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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I remember food being generally terrible, save for a small handful of family recipes passed down.
Food-wise, we really do live in an amazing time. Not only is the variety of fresh ingredients available mind blowing by comparison (some of them would have been considered exotic even 20 years ago), but people who actually have an interest in cooking have a wealth of knowledge available, that used to be more or less the exclusive domain of professional chefs (or at least people who went to culinary school). Average people have really upped their game since then. With exceptions for classics like "The Joy of Cooking", many of the popular cookbooks in the 70s and 80s are shockingly terrible by modern standards. |
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If I turn the dial just right and hold it, I think I can make out a pair of titties. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Sharpness. That was the key. If you adjusted the sharpness down to zero it would all meld together somehow. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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On the other hand, going into a smoke-free bowling alley these days is just weird to me. It's unnatural, somehow. And I don't really mind non-smoking restaurants as a rule, but man...a greasy spoon in some podunk town just off a state route needs a light haze tickling your nostrils as you sip your coffee, waiting for the waitress with the curlers in her hair to bring you your Denver omelette. That's just science. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Smoking everywhere...airplanes, restaurants, movie theaters... And I don't really mind non-smoking restaurants as a rule, but man...a greasy spoon in some podunk town just off a state route needs a light haze tickling your nostrils as you sip your coffee, waiting for the waitress with the curlers in her hair to bring you your Denver omelette. That's just science. Attached File |
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I still had to sign the book at Western Auto. Had to sign the fucking log book at K Mart, Gibson's, everywhere. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Double knit polyester, the “energy crisis”, global cooling, threat of nuclear annihilation.
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Beige
Beige Tornado car, beige carpet, beige drapes, beige clothing.... |
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I remember food being generally terrible, save for a small handful of family recipes passed down. Food-wise, we really do live in an amazing time. Not only is the variety of fresh ingredients available mind blowing by comparison (some of them would have been considered exotic even 20 years ago), but people who actually have an interest in cooking have a wealth of knowledge available, that used to be more or less the exclusive domain of professional chefs (or at least people who went to culinary school). Average people have really upped their game since then. With exceptions for classics like "The Joy of Cooking", many of the popular cookbooks in the 70s and 80s are shockingly terrible by modern standards. View Quote |
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Jimmy Carter
Gas crisis Iranian hostage crisis 1980's clothes New Wave music Disco music Rap music 1980's cars (except for the Mustang GT & Buick Grand National) Plastic afro pick with the black power fist on top (every brother in my neighborhood had one sticking out the top of his head) |
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I still had to sign the book at Western Auto. Had to sign the fucking log book at K Mart, Gibson's, everywhere. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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I'll bet some of the ladies of Arf might mention their hair. My wife says it was a major PITA to prep that big 80s hair every day.
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A lot of it was driven by inflation making people move to cheaper cuts. I remember having to bash the crap out of meat for my mom to make dinner with a tenderizing hammer. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People did some really stupid shit in the kitchen. But the average person seemingly had no idea how to do this. And it's hard to blame them, because information wasn't as widely shared and available, as it is now. (My mom did it too ) |
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May have been a Texas thing. Kmart was the only place here that did that. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Having to sign a book to buy ammo. Western Auto was the place to go. I miss those times. I'd go back in a heartbeat. |
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See, there's that technique thing again. You can make cheap cuts taste absolutely delicious and tender, without bashing them with a hammer. But the average person seemingly had no idea how to do this. And it's hard to blame them, because information wasn't as widely shared and available, as it is now. (My mom did it too ) View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People did some really stupid shit in the kitchen. But the average person seemingly had no idea how to do this. And it's hard to blame them, because information wasn't as widely shared and available, as it is now. (My mom did it too ) |
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Car bras. WTF was up with that? View Quote I'm going to have the front of my Mustang repainted in the next 30 days or so (rock chips), and then it's going to get a 3M film applied. |
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See, there's that technique thing again. You can make cheap cuts taste absolutely delicious and tender, without bashing them with a hammer. But the average person seemingly had no idea how to do this. And it's hard to blame them, because information wasn't as widely shared and available, as it is now. (My mom did it too ) View Quote |
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Yep, we had the little silver hammer with all the pyramids on the end. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People did some really stupid shit in the kitchen. But the average person seemingly had no idea how to do this. And it's hard to blame them, because information wasn't as widely shared and available, as it is now. (My mom did it too ) |
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Bringing guns to school for Gun Club.
We're even in the yearbook with guns. |
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Mom managed to feed two growing boys and a picky-eating husband on a college professor's income throughout the 70s and 80s. We ate a lot of tuna, chicken, and occasionally beef. We never ate out unless it was someone's birthday or another special occasion, but we were never hungry. Her cooking style was VERY southern-French and Middle Eastern, with a healthy dose of upper-Midwest casseroles and noodle dishes. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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See, there's that technique thing again. You can make cheap cuts taste absolutely delicious and tender, without bashing them with a hammer. But the average person seemingly had no idea how to do this. And it's hard to blame them, because information wasn't as widely shared and available, as it is now. (My mom did it too ) |
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