Best decade to be a kid/teen?
I think the 50s, 60s and 80s were good times. The culture seemed to celebrate being young.
shareI was born at the end of the '80's.For me,the best years were '97 - '06.
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I was a teenager from the late '00s to the early '10s, but I would've loved to have been a teenager/young adult in the 80s. I especially would've loved to have been around a time when Rock and Metal were popular here
shareThe '80s tho i admit im biased
My first BMX bike, air rifle, discovering 'Metal (Maiden, Priest, Sabbath...) video arcades in every town, drive-in theaters still existed, fireworks were not heavily regulated and corner stores didnt ID for beers...
First car ('67 Mustang Coupe;) and first girlfriends...
Oh man the mid to late '80s were fine times!
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I remember watching 'My Best Friends Wedding' recently and realising it was the end of an era. The internet was just coming in, most didn't have cell phones and it was pre 9/11. How different the world would be 10 years later. There was a period of "the good times" before Bush got in.
As for my early days of the internet, it was message boards, news sites and penpals. I recently shut down my facebook and I've noticed I'm hanging out here more and actually going to newsites again instead of just a newsfeed on facebook where I inevitably get drawn into others comments. It sucks you in a bit too much so every now and then I deactivate.
God I loved the 90s, even though I was already an adult then and it wasn't when I grew up.
Even though the internet was up and happening for a lot of people, there were still plenty who didn't yet even own a computer, and yes certainly cell phones didn't dominate yet either. So, for me, it was still the last decade when most people still had mostly "real" interaction in real time and real life. It was the end of an era.
Definitely the 80's.Just an awesome and fun decade for movie nerds like me.So many classics.
shareThe 80s were like a pop culture explosion. Great movies. Great music. Nintendo and Sega redefining the video game industry. Good times.
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Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, Night of the Comet...'80s was so great for horrors...
"80s was so great for horrors"
An amazing decade for Horror especially.It was the rise of the slasher film.The decade that gave birth to such iconic horror characters like Voorhies,Krueger,Chucky,Pinhead and Ash Williams to name a few.
Post of the week my friend!!!
I love a lot of the '70s horrors but by the '80s there was way more gore, sex and humor in my fave genre...legendary stuff
'Thrill me...' haha
"'Thrill me..."
I've referenced this in passing to family and friends before.they didn't know what the heck I was talking about.Apparently I'm the only one in my circle whose ever seen Night of the creeps.
I say that a lot at work to blank stares lol
Also, anytime somebody says 'mostly...' I follow with a muttered 'mostly...'
Nobody gets me either:/
I was born in the 50's so I'll say 50/60's.
shareThe 50s is pretty cool. I mean, people have just came out of a world war and to realize that there won't be another world war for more than 60 years is an amazing feeling.
shareIt really did not feel that way. The 1960's and 1970's geopolitically were very tense at times highlighted by the Cuban Missile Crisis during the early 1960's and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) talks during the 1970's which made the average person aware of just how much nuclear material was out in the form of a bomb. Take the concern that people have over the little fat guy in North Korea fooling around with nukes and multiply that by 10. There were people back in those days that claimed to have addiction problems because they felt there may not be a tomorrow.
shareThat wasn't how it was at all, there was no certainly or feeling that there won't be another war for 60 years, in fact as Biff says, things got very tense not long after that.
shareI blame the education system for opinions such as that. My understanding is that the Cold War is barely mentioned anymore in public school and World War 2 maybe gets 10 minutes classroom time. If the things I read online are correct much time is wasted turning impressionable young minds into communist stooges.
shareIf those things are barely mentioned these days, that's a shame and a huge gap.
shareI was born in the early 1950's, was a 1950's child, and a 1960's teenager. As far as the 1960's are concerned, especially the mid to late 1960's, that particular decade was a mixed bag, for me. On the one hand, those were very exuberant times, with great music, and many wonderful movies. Lots of good stuff happened, much of it necessary, but there was a lot of bad stuff that happened, as well.
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