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Posted: 3/8/2020 8:56:08 AM EDT
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Worrying about the Ruskies dropping the bomb on my head.
The smell of the old highway rest areas that had pipes sticking out of the floors to relieve yourself in instead of urinals and terlits. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:05:13 AM EDT
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Inflation and hairy beavers
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:15:21 AM EDT
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I don’t miss card catalogs or microfiche. I am a touch nostalgic for printed books and encyclopedias.
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:18:04 AM EDT
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Big collars. Put check in mail and wait. Underpowered vehicles. Concealed carry not legal. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:23:54 AM EDT
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6-8 weeks from everywhere. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Big collars. Put check in mail and wait. Underpowered vehicles. Concealed carry not legal. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 11:43:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: At the same time, it must have been nice to get a $15,000 return 12 months later on your $100K CD..... or, $75,000 return on your $500K worth of CDs!! |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:27:09 PM EDT
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I don't remember enough to know.
 
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:36:44 PM EDT
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Smoking everywhere.
You couldn't get away from it. Can't enjoy a meal while inhaling smoke. Never understood people who actually smoked while eating, unless they were training for a wife who's cooking sucked. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:37:40 PM EDT
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The beatings |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:39:44 PM EDT
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I think I had that one on tape....... |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:40:28 PM EDT
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Homework. Everything else was Great.
Eta smoking on planes sucked |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:42:32 PM EDT
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The rise of urban music.
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:43:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryREPORTED!
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:47:00 PM EDT
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Cars without air conditioning.
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:47:49 PM EDT
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KC and the Sunshine band
Hurricane Agnes V8 engines with 175 HP As to the hairy bush, I didn't know any better and I loved it~ |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:47:51 PM EDT
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Smoking everywhere. You couldn't get away from it. Can't enjoy a meal while inhaling smoke. Never understood people who actually smoked while eating, unless they were training for a wife who's cooking sucked. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:48:44 PM EDT
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Smoking everywhere. You couldn't get away from it. Can't enjoy a meal while inhaling smoke. Never understood people who actually smoked while eating, unless they were training for a wife who's cooking sucked. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:49:40 PM EDT
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Bell bottom pants, leisure suits, men's stupid, thick, bushy hair styles, and disco.
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:52:52 PM EDT
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https://assets.change.org/photos/1/rv/ls/yxRVlsQZyKbPPfl-1600x900-noPad.jpg?1522397336 I wish I had saved all of my speeding tickets so I would know how many I actually got. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:54:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The folks were smokers until they quit in their early 60s, so everything we owned smelled of smoke, including Little Brother and I. LB and I both started sneaking cigarettes in our early teens, though he quickly gave them up. I quit sixteen months ago, and wish I could have back all of the money I spent on tobacco over the last 35 years or so. You could lick your finger and write your name on the walls of our house. I would get my ass beat for opening my bedroom window for "wasting ac"....... Same in the car. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:54:40 PM EDT
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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. Truly a amazing the options available now. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:58:08 PM EDT
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carburated engines
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:58:26 PM EDT
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Peppermint schnapps. And fondue...kill the guy who invented fondue... |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:58:59 PM EDT
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Peppermint schnapps. And fondue...kill the guy who invented fondue... |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:01:47 PM EDT
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I love fondue. Wife is sad they closed our local one. Didn't care for the entrees, but a couple pots of cheese and chocolate was nice treat. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:02:22 PM EDT
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Bias ply tires.
Looking for a phone booth to make a call. Vinyl records. Crappy televisions. Sunday store closings. Cars driving down the street laying out smoke screens. Nuns on mopeds. The Fuller Brush man. Hippies. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:18:24 PM EDT
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I was strung out for most of the 70s&80s and I don’t miss that.
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:25:14 PM EDT
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Having to drive to a larger town if you wanted decent pizza. All we had back then was Pizza Hut, which in retrospect used to be MUCH better than it is now.
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:31:46 PM EDT
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Having to drive to a larger town if you wanted decent pizza. All we had back then was Pizza Hut, which in retrospect used to be MUCH better than it is now. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:34:39 PM EDT
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I miss the crushed ice in the red cups. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:34:49 PM EDT
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Melting Pot ftw. Wife is sad they closed our local one. Didn't care for the entrees, but a couple pots of cheese and chocolate was nice treat. Get the oil entree, deep fried meats and cheese appetizer, chocolate dessert. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:43:47 PM EDT
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Swanson TV dinners. The fucking peas or corn were always mixed in to the cobbler. Wtf? 
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:45:23 PM EDT
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There was ALWAYS that one little pea or corn kernel... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Swanson TV dinners. The fucking peas or corn were always mixed in to the cobbler. Wtf? 
Mrs. Paul's seafood TV dinners. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:46:44 PM EDT
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Smoking everywhere...airplanes, restaurants, movie theaters...
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:48:04 PM EDT
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The fried chicken one...
Mrs. Paul's seafood TV dinners. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Swanson TV dinners. The fucking peas or corn were always mixed in to the cobbler. Wtf?
Mrs. Paul's seafood TV dinners. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:54:02 PM EDT
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Needing to go to an FFL to order ammo out of Shotgun News.
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Posted: 3/8/2020 1:57:50 PM EDT
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Keeping the food angle intact...
Trying to cook full meals like chicken, etc in the new-fangled microwave ovens. Mom was so excited to get her first one back in '78 or so. First thing she did was try to cook a whole chicken in it. Worst chicken I have ever had. Also, RIP mom. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 2:24:08 PM EDT
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rotary phones
floor model TVs with dials having about 3 channels new coke constant background fear of nuclear war no free internet porn the rest of it I kinda miss |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 2:26:41 PM EDT
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The cars, horrible under powered turds. The 1980 CA Corvette had a 180 hp "High Output" 305 cid V-8. 17+ seconds in the quarter
Remember when getting a car to hold together for 100,000 miles was a big milestone? Interest rates, I remember being excited about refinancing a car loan with Navy Federal and dropping it from 18% to 14%. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:04:49 PM EDT
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People smoking in their offices and cubicles. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Smoking everywhere...airplanes, restaurants, movie theaters... |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:43:06 PM EDT
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70s:
Polyester suits Tough skin pants Just NBC and CBS on the tv. Sideburns and porn staches 80s: Big hairy beavers. On girls and in Playboy. Under powered vehicles. Lack of good pizza of 80 miles. Black Lable beer. My bad haircut. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:47:04 PM EDT
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Smoking everywhere. You couldn't get away from it. Can't enjoy a meal while inhaling smoke. Never understood people who actually smoked while eating, unless they were training for a wife who's cooking sucked. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:50:04 PM EDT
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Stagflation & price controls
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:51:16 PM EDT
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70s: Polyester suits Tough skin pants Just NBC and CBS on the tv. Sideburns and porn staches 80s: Big hairy beavers. On girls and in Playboy. Under powered vehicles. Lack of good pizza of 80 miles. Black Lable beer. My bad haircut. Lourdes Ann Kananimanu - Estores. Hawaiian. Holy. Shit. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 9:56:43 PM EDT
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Just because we waited in a gas line didn't mean we got more than five gallons.
Streaking. It was always guys. In general, it seemed that everybody let everybody else do their own thing. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 10:13:31 PM EDT
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We need to bring those back. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The beatings |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 10:17:09 PM EDT
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Wearing diapers. I started the 70s wearing diapers....
and not the disposable kind either. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 10:19:57 PM EDT
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The world could use a morale booster... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The beatings |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 10:21:14 PM EDT
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big hairy vaginas Because at the time, I never once complained about vagina. I really found it to be perfect. |
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Posted: 3/8/2020 10:22:48 PM EDT
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Having to come inside when the streetlights came on and having to go to bed at 9pm.
Math class. |
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