Any '80s fans here?

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South Park is really the only thing I like from the late '90s, and that's at least partially because that show makes fun of some of the dumb things that were going on at that time.

I can't stand hardcore punk and really do miss Reagan.

Mike

Yes.

I love the 90s much more, peaceful decade for the US with lots of great entertainment.

see...you got it backwards. reagan was the source of all evil and hardcore punk was the fresh new music bringing purity and truth.


/when i say hardcore punk, i mean like black flag....not that metalcore garbage that's around today

Yes, I love 80s music and movies. I would have loved to grow up during the 80s. The 90s were good though too.

I grew up in the 1980's myself. I'm fan of 80's music, TV and even styles. I can't believe that the 1980's were a while ago. Time goes really fast.

I liked the 90's to some extent but for me the 80's were better.

Thank god I was too young to really know the 80s. I watch old movies that I haven't seen in years, and then I am glad i didn't remember a thing. I still enjoy watching films and some music from the decade. The fashion I can leave off the list though.

The "ME" decade, wasn't fun if there wasn't a lot of money in the table. I don't know which was the better decade for the rich people, the 80s, or this decade.

I was born in 1991, and I like most music and TV sitcoms from it, like Blackadder and The Young Ones.

All things from the 80s are supposedly coming back, films from there are gonna be remade, toys like the Rubik's Cube have been brought back out, and even clothes from the 80s are coming back.

I honestly couldn't care, as I'm such a satirical person, if I choose to go into the comedy business, I'll just parody all this 80s re-hype.

The "retro 80's" is naturally nothing like the real 80's. The real 80's sucked, more or less.

I sincerely hope the person who said he missed Reagan was joking. But in case he wasn't:

Thanks to the Reagan admin, thousands of American citizens suffering with AIDS were ignored while the governement, civic leaders and the medical community were dangerously slow to even so much as acknowledge that AIDS was a national problem and not just a problem among those "fa***ts." So thanks to Reagan's "if we just ignore it, maybe it'll go away" attitude, we had a decade of paranoia, bigotry, misinformation and non-action about AIDS.

The Reagan admin also created a widing prosperity gap between the middle class and the upper class by handing so much control to big business, which is still going on today. According to economists, a middle class family in America today should be making an household income of over $150,000. Yet despite all the spin by conservative pundits and journalists who paint a prettier ecomonic picture, most middle class families are lucky if they manage $90,000 (with two income earners in the household). Meanwhile, America has never had so many billionaires in its history. So if you're just starting out in life, and find it's damn hard to make a decent living even with a college education and a suppsedly good job, thank Reagan.

Another thing we have to thank Reagan for - the intel problems between the FBI and CIA that culminated in neither agency being well informed prior to 9/11. You have Bush Sr. to thank for that too. You see, Reagan's peak hypocrisy was that, during his great "War on Drugs" in the 80's, his admin with former CIA cheif Bush's urging allowed the CIA to wristslap the FBI from getting involved whenever CIA "assets" (foreign person that the CIA worked with) brought drugs like cocaine and heroin into the country. As result of all the free rein "dumping" of drugs unto our streets, we had a crack epidemic while urban gang violence came to an all time peak. The Reagan admin, and later Bush admin, treated the gang problem like it was some local issue completely unrelated to their own corrupt federal workings, and most Americans still think that today.

Here's the legacy of all that: the by teh end of teh 80's and throughout the 90's, the time when our "War on Drugs"-indoctrinated youth was coming of age, we saw the highest rate of illegal drugs use among this nation's youth in history, with heroin in particular. Makes sense - thanks to this "War on Drugs" these kids were very aware of drugs, and thanks to the CIA, drugs were readily available on our streets. So that was a complete failure, and if you, like me, lost people you cared about to cocaine, heroin or other drugs during the late 80's or 90's, be sure to thank Reagan for that.

Also the extremely poor relationship between the FBI and CIA left by Reagan and Bush Sr. continued despite what was done during Clinton's time, and so critical pre-9/11 intel never got shared and lot of critical intel was de-prioritized because it simply didn't get to the right people This intel "blind spot" enabled the next Bush admin to blithy ignore the warnings of the Clinton admin about the dangers of bin Laden's group on more or less political reasons. So when we ask why didn't we have a contigency plan in place for attacks on 9/11 like we did when Clinton was in office, thank not just W and the CIA, but also Reagan and Bush Sr.

Sorry, but while you may not like hardcore punk, at least those punkers didn't royally screw this country's citizenry over like Reagan did.

Besides, Flipper rules, OK?

I was a child in the 70's and 80's. I still listen to the music and like the tv shows and movie, but I would not want to go back to the intolerance in society back then. The governments in Canada and the US sucked, gays were beaten on a regular basis ( and the AIDS epidemic WAS ignored), and people with AS would have been institutionalized, as many of them were because no one knew what was going on with them. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer and the homeless rates soared! But at least we still have the music!

I love 80's music and some films.

I have even bought a few 80s records recently, as the only other music that i own now is more recent stuff.

I loved the 80's, i was born in '78 and the first t.v and music i experienced was 80's....


On t.v i especially loved knight rider, the a team, magnum, airwolf, the fall guy, hill street blues, cagney and lacey.....


Music, guns n roses, motley crue, aerosmith, some madonna, michael jackson, bon jovi, bruce springsteen.....


I could go on...

I love the 80's movies -- Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, Better Off Dead, Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Top Gun, etc.

I also still love hearing 80's music -- Every Rose Has It's Thorn, I Love Rock 'N Roll, Livin' On A Prayer, Total Eclipse Of The Heart, Walk This Way, You Give Love A Bad Name, Purple Rain; and, yes, all of Michael Jackson's songs, plus many more...

This is an 80's fashion that's back this season -- leggings, especially the lace-trimmed ones. Funny, though, I don't remember anyone really wearing this style at school. We saw more of it on videos -- not so much in real life, at least not at my school.

Of course, flats (flat shoes) are the biggest 80's trend right now. I wore nothing but flats in high school. Mine didn't have bows on them, though.