Traumatized 80s Kids

[Terry]

Ed Sheeran is no Taylor Swift although he did do a duet with her.

It really IS Taylor's world now.

[Kristy]

Ed Sheeran is no Taylor Swift although he did do a duet with her.

[Seshmeister]

Regan, AIDS, Lionel Richie having hit records.

Yeah, you may want to rethink that.

Compared to Trump/Biden, COVID and Ed Sheeran?

[Mushroom]

I feel sorry for you youngsters... Different times... I grew up on:

Bonanza
McHale's Navy
Hawaii 5-O
Green Hornet
The Monkees
Gilligans Island
Wagon Train
Batman
Bennie Hill
Dragnet
The Big Valley
Adam12
Leave It to Beaver
Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Hogans Heros
The Munsters
Rawhide
Mission Impossible
The Untouchables
Laugh In
Maverick
The Adams Family
The Fugitive
Wild Wild West
Gunsmoke

That’s some old shit I watched as reruns when it was old in the 70’s!

[ZahZoo]

I feel sorry for you youngsters... Different times... I grew up on:

Bonanza
McHale's Navy
Hawaii 5-O
Green Hornet
The Monkees
Gilligans Island
Wagon Train
Batman
Bennie Hill
Dragnet
The Big Valley
Adam12
Leave It to Beaver
Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Hogans Heros
The Munsters
Rawhide
Mission Impossible
The Untouchables
Laugh In
Maverick
The Adams Family
The Fugitive
Wild Wild West
Gunsmoke

[Nitro Express]

I wore Ray Bans and wore a Swatch in the 80’s. Ha! Ha! I’m proud to say I never owned a Members Only jacket.

[Nitro Express]

I didn’t watch any of that shit. I watched Magnum PI after tennis practice and I would crash of the couch and watch pro wrestling on the Super Station after skiing all Saturday.

[Terry]

Regan, AIDS, Lionel Richie having hit records.

Yeah, you may want to rethink that.

I was an 80's kid, but those examples you provided above are a reminder that hardly everything in the 1980's was worth nostalgizing (is that even a word) over.

A partial list of things I had no use for in the 1980's (and even less use for now):

Alf
Miami Vice
The Cosby Show
Family Ties
Michael J. Fox
Both of the Batemans
Debbie Gibson
Oliver North
Warrant
Winger
Bon Jovi
Acid wash jeans
Gary Coleman
Webster


But I had fun in the 80's.

[Mushroom]

Kristy you are looking at only the negatives

what about…
- VH at their greatest
- Saturday morning cartoons
- smaller population
- cable TV and stealing cable service
- MTV !
- too young to join the military and get sent off to CIA missions to overthrow governments
- Girls not too skinny, not too fat
- bell bottom jeans
- good country music
- mullets
- snowboarding did not exist
- doorbell ditch without getting chased by maniacs with assault rifles
- cars you could actually work on because they were all mechanical

I could go on but you just can’t relate

[Kristy]

80s ! What a time to be a teenager ! Latchkey kids, freedom to walk home 5 miles from school. Video game arcades…

Regan, AIDS, Lionel Richie having hit records.

Yeah, you may want to rethink that.

[Mushroom]

80s ! What a time to be a teenager ! Latchkey kids, freedom to walk home 5 miles from school. Video game arcades…

90s ! What a time to grow and be merry, probably the last great decade for the U.S. I think the boomers would agree. And Kristy was too young to be aware of the greatness, just fortunate enough to carry around Polly Pocket stuffed with Trolls and watch My So Called Life

by the way. I admit I watched my sol called life. And then one day it disappeared. I was like “who the hell is that cute girl? What happened?” Claire Danes. I lost track of her until Homeland debuted

[Kristy]

but...but...but...Alex P. Republican Keaton was on drugs in the 80s.

Your lame Boomer generation sucks.

I was a 90s kid.

My So-Called Life is where its at. We gave up drugs for some serious over acting and needless drama

Tears me up every time.

[ZahZoo]

Are you an 80's kid, Kristy..?

Imagine the trauma of 60's kids... their parents took them or dropped them off at a Monkees concert in 1967 and learned of the Jimi Hendrix Experience was the opening act... BTW we all turned out just fine... with a mild case of manic depression... Scuse me while I kiss the sky... LOL

[Kristy]

Here's my fav: Who remembers Jordan, like Trump can't read?

[Kristy]

Who isn't traumatized this days? But what a fucked-up decade.