Are the 80s overrated?

[Scurrybt]

I mean the decade’s movies and songs were outstanding, but was this time period THAT good?

[Faster With Feeling]

Opprinnelig skrevet av DarkCrystalMethod:

The Space Shuttle was used frequently and for GOOD science in the 80's.
In the 90's the experiments weren't covered in nearly any detail on the news

then Obama stuffed it in a museum so it couldn't be used ever again.

No it had just reached the end of its useful life.... The Challenger disaster in 1986 put the final nail into the whole shuttle program among other factors including cost.

[Scurrybt]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Jester on Mushrooms:

My favourite parts were the aliens and flying snakes.

Me too

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Perhaps probably maybe? I never heard my parents and sisters praise it. :/

[L1qu1dator]

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Opprinnelig skrevet av DarkCrystalMethod:

Stop! Drop! and Roll was super effective.

That was for when you was on fire not a nuclear war. If the bomb dropped you have to duck and cover.

Well if the bomb would drop close enough, you'd be on fire.

Opprinnelig skrevet av Candyy ♡:

And how exactly would the world be better without internet? :candywhat:

Actually the internet made more good things than bad... just like ALL things, they have their disadvantages... but in this case they are not mostly negative (otherwise it would not still be here in the first place), so you are overreacting here....

And how do you know ppl did not do the pronoun thing you are talking in the past? With no internet back then you could not know it... Also that the ppl "talking about their pronouns" are a VERY small minority nowadays, like... most just do not care so you are ALSO overreacting here too...

But how is that last thing supposed to be a BIG problem?

It would be better since social media are a disaster.

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Opprinnelig skrevet av L1qu1dator:

Ah, the good ol' 80's when we were really close to a nuclear war.

Is this supposed to be something good?

No, it's a sarcasm. :P

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Opprinnelig skrevet av L1qu1dator:

Ah, the good ol' 80's when we were really close to a nuclear war.

Like now?

Opprinnelig skrevet av Neurotic Panda:

closer now to that reality then ever before.
(...)

Eh, don't tell me you believe in Pooptin's empty threats?

[VAC BAN SECURE]

As you do live in America, I'll assume you mean 1980's American media. I can't really think of a Hollywood production from that era that I really liked. My very piece of media from the 80's wasn't even written by an American writer. The difference now is that we're making even worse imitations of those pieces of media

[Devsman]

Opprinnelig skrevet av RATTLED's Place:

As you do live in America, I'll assume you mean 1980's American media. I can't really think of a Hollywood production from that era that I really liked. My very piece of media from the 80's wasn't even written by an American writer. The difference now is that we're making even worse imitations of those pieces of media

There were a lot of good 80's movies, tbh. My favorite is a tossup between Back to the Future and The Karate Kid

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Opprinnelig skrevet av SAINROK:

The time of the Porsche 959, Lamborghini Contach, Audi Quattro, Mercedes 190e, Golf mk1 gti, Sierra cosworth, Buick GNX, untold many beautiful visions made metallic flesh

Im going to add a couple more to this list, as 80s cars truly were something.
Lancia 037, a Rear Wheel Drive car that literally beat the Audi Quattro, a 4-Wheel Drive car with stupid amounts of traction, in the 1985 World Rally (Or something like that), and it's italian.
And the Ford Cortina.
Where do we even begin.
It might not have been very big in the united states but over in britain the Cortina was an absolute legend, at one point it was almost every car in britain (including all variants)
There are countless more I wont bother naming, people can easily find out more if they really wanted to.

[Faster With Feeling]

A few bits of American media I liked from the 80s

Ferris Beuler's Day Off
Class - Making it out with an older woman
The Breakfast Club
Fast Times At Ridgemont High

[Scurrybt]

Opprinnelig skrevet av John: First Of His Name:

A few bits of American media I liked from the 80s

Ferris Beuler's Day Off
Class - Making it out with an older woman
The Breakfast Club
Fast Times At Ridgemont High

The Breakfast Club was such a fun movie!

[swillfly]

Depends who you ask.

Peeple that weren't around in the 80's (or real younguns) can't say because they have no direct empirical knowledge.

Ding-wads that rock to GnR gave me gas back then & they still give me gas.

[Devsman]

Opprinnelig skrevet av swillfly:

Depends who you ask.

Peeple that weren't around in the 80's (or real younguns) can't say because they have no direct empirical knowledge.

Ding-wads that rock to GnR gave me gas back then & they still give me gas.

I like a couple of GnR songs but my favorites of the decade are Queen and Billy Joel.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Anyone born in the 90s was raised to live like it was the 80s...

Of course that future no longer exists.

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Opprinnelig skrevet av emcarlsen:

The 80s had some good music, but tIt was an era of conformity, homophobia and thinly veiled white supremacy, all glossed over with a thick layer of coppertone and a ridiculous surfeit of silly right wing propaganda films. (like Top Gun, Rambo,Missing in Action etc)

Rambo isn't right wing propaganda.

Rambo 1 focused on the treatment of veterans in the United States and Rambo 2 focused on the POW/MIA issue.

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Opprinnelig skrevet av emcarlsen:

The 80s had some good music, but tIt was an era of conformity, homophobia and thinly veiled white supremacy, all glossed over with a thick layer of coppertone and a ridiculous surfeit of silly right wing propaganda films. (like Top Gun, Rambo,Missing in Action etc)

Rambo isn't right wing propaganda.

Rambo 1 focused on the treatment of veterans in the United States and Rambo 2 focused on the POW/MIA issue.

Exactly.

[friend robocat]

dun diss the rambo films they are great fun and informative