Hey Sup Forums, how it was to live in the 80's?

Hey Sup Forums, how it was to live in the 80's?

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I was born in 1986, so I can vaguely remember the end of the 80s

VCRs, NES, rotary telephones...

It was truly a simpler time.

Complete dog shit. Ugly fashion, corny music / movies, high school house parties were fun though. We basically made our own entertainment.

The 80's was awesome.
There was no AIds and everyone fucked like bunnies. Even all my beat freidns got laid semi regularly.
Most young people went out every single night. I mean like 365 days a year.
There was great music and each week there was something new and great.
You could eat like a king for $100 a month.
Rent on a 2 bedroom was about $300 a month.
Travel was easy. No one searched you.
First time I got searched was going into East Germany in 1987.

You had LOTS and LOTS of money from simple jobs.
The Mall was the center of life.
1000's of young people in every mall..

I wish I could go back to 1986-1987 and stay there forever

>Most young people went out every single night. I mean like 365 days a year.
sounds horrifying.

synthetizer and electronic drums

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Pretty much we will never experience real happiness. I don't know why I continue to live to be honest, just my survival programming I guess.

pretty awesome. Star wars was still fresh and new, disco was finally gone, michael jackson was still black and not pedo. TV's only showed low-fi thumbnails though, and fapping to internet porn required a printer and a box of paper.

these are the people raising kids now tho. no wonder our kids are fukced

We had hustler and Playboy though
also Elvira and Brooke Shields

The 80s was the best decade.

The 80s had the best music of all decades, by far. MTV was perfect back then -- it played nothing but music videos.

College was very affordable then. My parents could easily pay the small amount for my undergraduate years. Then I worked my way through graduate school, no problem.

Born in 1976

The 80s was a e s t h e t i c

How am I supposed to know I was born in the 97

Oh man. Good times.

My dad works for Nintendo.

it was, in a word, AWESOME!

I lived near Barksdale Air Force Base, a big bomber base. They would run scramble drills and the entire fleet of 800+ B52's would launch and darken the sky. Then they'd come back in formation and spend the next 3 hours landing, they'd come in 1000ft above my house.

Everybody knew that this meant that if the balloon ever went up we would not be around to worry about fallout. We had the nuclear bomb drills every month, duck and cover and kiss your ass goodbye.

White suburbs were a thing. There was exactly one black kid in my elementary school.

>The Mall was the center of life.
>1000's of young people in every mall..
I miss this in particular. I mean, I remember malls in general being more interesting, with more interesting shit to do, stores to visit, and generally nice interior decor. usually lots of water fountains and plants and shit.

now they are bare, dull, and full of women's clothing stores almost exclusively. the only saving grace at all is the food courts, and even then you see more chains and less small shops

I miss mall culture god damn.

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This beauty came out in 1987.....the world was never the same.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Elect Trump and we'll live them again.

Oh, wow, the director's cut of Full Metal Jacket.

Oh... fuck you. And fuck anyone you ever met.

Born in 1986 here.

Got to experience the 90s as a kid, and the tail end of mall culture dying.

Niggers ruined malls.

British and yuros made better music than muricans IMO.

Aha
Tears for Fears
Echo and The Bunnymen
New Order
The Bolshoi
just to name a few

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I used to live next door to the bass keyboard player from Depeche Mode. I still have a nice pair of Cutler & Gross sunglasses that he misplaced.

A fucking trillion times better than it is now. And don't listen to morons who weren't born yet that there was a rabid nuke scare. There wasn't. Nobody talked about that shit except in movies.

Retard detected.

eh, not entirely. online shopping and general economic and cultural decline ruined malls.

there was no need to go to a mall to get something, and some things you can ONLY get online, and theres less money to buy with anyway, and people aren't as super happy as they were either so they dont bother going because why bother. theres nothing interesting anymore.

At least where I live.

Shit's sad yo.

In the 80s you could walk into a public recreation center and watch women in leotards in aerobics classes. PE uniforms looked like Hooters outfits and were required attire for a required class.

Today, aerobics-like classes in public recreation centers are additional fees and not a leotard in sight. How did we fuck this up? What did we do?

At least leggings are becoming ubiquitous recently. LET'S NOT FUCK IT UP THIS TIME!

Trump will be to Obama what Reagan was to Carter. A new era of prosperity is about to dawn. I predict 2023 is going to feel like 1987.

>and not a leotard in sight.
well to be fair, they just became normal attire. everywhere you go, leggings are a thing. back in the 80's and 90's, youd be a slut to wear spandex leggings

>And don't listen to morons who weren't born yet that there was a rabid nuke scare. There wasn't.

Oh dear, I think someone needs to check their age. I had routes planned that would get me home within 4 minutes from anywhere in town. Unfortunately, I went to school 20 minutes away, so if the Russkies were so ill-mannered as to launch a nuclear strike during the school day, I was fucked.

I can only hope.

White sneakers, mullets and denim vests.
Also meatless dinners 4 times a week and a Snickers bar once a year for christmas.

Literally nobody ever talked about this. I don't even remember it on the news. Maybe it was different in Pakistan.

Hey

1982 here. The 90's was the same up to around '98, when the Internet was gaining momentum. A huge chunk of my childhood was spent at the mall, or the arcade inside the mall.

im tempted to get a mullet, not a shaved sides one, but a more subtle "shorter on the sides" one.

when did mullets become associated with redneck?

hell, when did muscle cars and mullets become that? how the fuck did that happen?

Of course (assuming you're actually old enough) you wouldn't remember the level of fear. The target of any Russian strike would have been America's advanced positions - i.e. Western Europe. You could afford to get fat on burgers and make out with Mary Sue at the drive in, safe in the knowledge that Pershing II would only cause casualties in Europe.

It's not redneck as much as its a "how could any sane man think that's a good hair style?" type of thing. You either have a horrible fashion etiquette, or just make bad choices in life.

Man I miss arcades. It's no wonder everyone's so fat now.

There were less car accidents because there were no cell phones (or not for average people). People today are literally retarded about their phones.

Groups of friends had closer bonds because they talked instead of sitting at a table and texting each other, and went on amazing adventures together doing real life things that made them friends ever since.

People rode bicycles, used skates, skateboards, scooters, and played outside. You never see kids out anymore hardly.

Video games were magical. There were still shitty games but you still wanted to play all of them at some point. Not like today where video games are relatively drab and full of gimmicks and easy mode.

Computers were a window into a new world. Call up a BBS and talk to people you might have never met. Play text-based games together. Share files, or even games you made yourself. Come up with stories together. It was a genuine community, where shitposting was usually at a minimum because you didn't want someone to possibly find out who you were and kick your ass in real life (which there were always stories of that happening to stupid people).

It's not rose-tinted glasses shit either, life in the 80s was genuinely better. Not every other kid was a fucking fatass or autistic.

Being born in the 90s is truly a pain. Missed the Good Old Days when shit wasen't fucked i mean living under Cold war seems better than today

Speak for yourself, fatty. I can eat whatever I want.

Man I could go on and on, too. BBS meet-ups, ham radio meet-ups (which still exist), computer club meet-ups. It was a fucking nerd paradise. These people were your life-line into new information. You craved it. You wanted to learn everything from everyone you could find, and they wanted what you knew just the same.

Think to yourself for a moment: how many times have you been sitting on your computer and been bored? BORED. WHEN YOU HAVE THE INTERNET. Think about that. It's fucking crazy, man.

It was just another time. Had good shit and bad shit. But even as a disgusting nerd I was forced to leave the house and go talk to people because there was only slowass dialup and BBSs, so once in a a while even I'd find someone willing to fuck me. Tech has made it too easy to stay home. That's probably a bad thing as much as it is good.

> tfw I grew up like that despite being born in 94

I love my town

I wish I could experience 80's corporate culture. Seems like a golden age of capitalism from the stories I've heard.

>companies had personal doctors on staff that would see employees that felt bad like a school nurse would
>people could save up their PTO and turn it in for hard cash
>companies held black tie events in ballrooms and served filet mignon and fine wine
>general job security
>if you were laid off you could immediately find work at another company

Implying the cold war actually ended when the USSR collapsed. Kek

Dressing up got real popular for a while in the 80s but you have to see it partly as a reaction to the 70s. Suddenly everyone realized they had all been dressing like shit for years and it felt good to look decent for once.

This: youtu.be/GHhD4PD75zY

what bothers me is that dressing nice, itself, has been memed into cuckness for gay shit like this

That's true, nobody really talked about it. We didn't need to talk about it. We lived it, the monthly bomb drills in class from elementary school all the way through high school, the weekly civil defense air raid drills, the reminders from your teachers and parents to stay away from the windows, close your eyes and keep your face smashed into the ground and never look around, because the flash would blind you. The threat was simply there, looming over everything. But there was a big-assed bomber base, an army base, and two army ammunition plants within an hour drive of my house. Maybe it was different elsewhere.

Niggers ruined the mall where I live.

It used to be filled with all kinds of good stores and this was in late 90's early 2000's, dad said it was better in the 80's.

However, my town soon became majority blacks and we lost the bookstore, Old Navy, Subway, Dick's Sporting Goods, F.Y.E, and tons of other stores. There's an entire wing of the mall completely shut down and cut off from the rest of it because there are at least twelve decent sized store rooms that are barren and empty.

Now all that's left in the mall is JcPenny's and a shitty little Cinema. We're losing Sears now, and any other store is literally a hat store, shoe store, or 'urban outfitter' type store.

A white couple bought it recently and kept it from going bankrupt and they're trying very hard to revamp and revitalize it, but I don't think it'll do anything in the long run.

You don't have to wear tight faggoty suits to dress nice.

I was born in 1990 but I would love to have the same amount of quality cocaine floating around now as there was in the 80s.

>Puts down one dollar bill
>Gets change

THE ABSOLUTE INSANITY

Pretty fucking cool.

88 my brother!

Coincidentally 88 was the year I graduated from High School so I can tell you what it was like.

Imagine having 100% of the attention of everyone you would speak to. All the hot chicks would talk with you instead of talking to the top of their head while their face was in their phone.

You were not chained to your phone or e-mail. You would go out with friends and come back later and there were no "WHERE WERE YOU" messages waiting for you.

Everyone had a job. I worked at McDonald's from age 14 till I was 18 and went off to college.

There were almost no fat people. In my high school (almost 4,000 people in my high school) there was 1 male and 2 females that were obese. Those 3 people had obvious thyroid problems and such.

There were lots of happy people. There was not this negative dour feel to everything. Men and women got along very well.

The movies were fun and were not shoving this PC garbage down your throat. Just look at things like Conan the Barbarian (made in 1982). Even the musicians (both male and female) had talent instead of being chosen for their looks.

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Even pretty boy bands like Duran Duran, Billy Idol, RATT, Prince, Michael Jackson, etc had such incredible musicians and talent around them. It isn't that you don't have that today - you do - but most bands today were chosen for their looks NOT talent. With autotune and other things you can create your perfect band.

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awesome, we were still pretty poor
but awesome

I was just a little user at the time. But movies, cartoons, music, mood non degeneracy. Hardly a paki or shitskin. Could have become a great nation, becoming a 3rd world country now, starvation will hit again... collapsing.. they get killed or flee and we rebuild with gained knowledge... pols and their families executed

We have a pictures of my dad eating one of those fancy steak dinners on a plane! With real circular plates and metal forks!

>Even the musicians (both male and female) had talent instead of being chosen for their looks.

but madonna doe

1976 here. It was great. You knew there could be a nuclear war at anytime, but it wasn't anything you worried about.

Arcades, great cartoons and cheesy but great movies. You went outside to ride bikes with your friends. As much as I love the Internet, it did fuck a lot of things up.

Also, college was so much cheaper, and you knew if you got a four year degree, you were set for life.

I was born in 1976 and spent my childhood years in a farm town 60 miles west of Chicago that was so small it didn't have a mall. Thanks to TV and movies, malls were magical, mythical places to me; I really wanted to go to one, but the nearest one, the Cherry Valley mall, was something like a forty minute drive away (too far for my dad to ever be bothered to take me even once.) I would guess that the first time I ever set foot in a mall was around 1988. Same goes for Toys r Us.
But the upside of that is that as kids, we played outside all day, every day. We rode our bikes hard, and we rode them -everywhere-. Helmetless. Without adults supervising us every moment. We built secret hidden forts on land that hadn't been built over. In like 1983, ALL the girls had sticker albums. "Oily" stickers were as valuable as gold, my dudes, but any kind of sticker went into those books, even the ones off fruit. Jelly bracelets, jelly shoes. Then, a little later, Reebok and LA Gear, Swatch watches, and tightrolling/pegging your jeans. The hair was awful - I hated it even then - but the music was great and usually very upbeat, and the future was so bright you just had to wear shades. As for the cold war: I remember feeling very sorry for Russians and people in Iron Curtain countries that they had to live under communism, but we never did any drills. The adults in my life clearly no longer thought of Russia/nuclear war as an active threat. The only drills we did were fire drills and tornado drills.
In those years, all space shuttle launches were still televised, and were still treated like they were a big deal. It was typical for your teacher to have the shuttle launch on, instead of your class doing the usual subject. I was in jr high when the Challenger blew up. I was carrying something to the school's office, when a teacher I didn't know waved me into their classroom. I stared in shock at what was playing on the tv at the front of their class (the explosion, on loop.)

Back in the 80s you could get a basic job and you could still buy an ok house and have a life on it.
People used to go out almost every night and have fun. There would be live music a plenty, many of the huge famous bands came from this time. It was really easy to set up and band and tour pubs.
Then proto SJWs fucked it up. No one was allowed to smoke in pubs anymore, and new rules were mad so it was harder to play in pubs. Different rules for how many band members, different rules if you had to plug three things into the electric and on it went.

Now no one goes out, they just stay at home staring at a screen.. like me.

80s was not perfect, but for a young person there was opportunity a plenty. And if you fucked up and got stuck working in a supermarket you could still live.

That mall is dead, my friend. One of our malls struggled on with barely two large stories and a few small ones for years, but it was always a ghost town. Eventually one of the big ones closed, and that's when they started partitioning it off.

The entire complex was razed. It's a strip mall now.

Gay. Everything was gay but everyone from the 80s is trying to pretend it was awesome.

This is basically every decade though.

Here is a PSA from 1989 that hints at the awesomeness of the '80s:

youtu.be/ebN17xoJbLg

MTV actually played music videos.

Kids nowadays probably don't know what MTV stands for.

youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs

This, everything was so dreary back then. It's also when neoliberalism arose and began the destruction of western civilization.

You know that today is shit when even the commercials were better in the 80s.

That's because you're 12.

We had fire drills but we never had bomb drills as far as I can remember. If we did it wasn't frequent enough to remember.

Where the hell did you people live? On military bases? None of this shit ever happened in my town. The only things we worried about were Saturday morning cartoons and what toy we wanted.

You guys don't have weekly air raid siren tests? Seriously? How do they know that their sirens work if there's a tornado or an emergency?

Every single Saturday here.

I've lived in Hawaii for ten years now, and they test run the tsunami warning sirens at noon-ish on the first working day of each month. Probably freaks the tourists out.

We have those here still, but nobody ever took them seriously except during tornadoes.

Don't remind me of what airline travel used to be like.

I remember as a kid flying on PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) or Delta (when traveling to Europe). Often we could go up to where the pilots were and see the cockpit. They would give us coloring books and little wings.

The food was awesome. It was a great time to be alive.

Look at these vintage airline stewardess pics.
aviationexplorer.com/Vintage_Stewardess_Pictures.html

RIP Malls

It's sad. We'll never know the feel of a noisy dark arcade again.

I have no idea what's happening here

My dads a pilot, hes old. He misses the hot flight attendants; they call the current ones "air hags"

Not politics

If only JFK had one of those...

>They would give us coloring books and little wings.
Ouch, this fucking hurt. Everyone was so much more relaxed and friendly back then. Now everything's a lawsuit, everyone is treated like a worker drone cradle to grave and nobody has any humor.

Born in 86 as well. Remember the 90s more. I got a NES when I was a kid though.

It was the birth of the home internet age. NEETs and hikkikomori were few in number, but now they could leave messages for each other on primitive computer networks that charged $2.50/minute in phone bills.

By the end of the 80's, guys were sharing porn via Usenet "binaries."

The nearby mall to where I live was a hotspot in the 90s. Movie theater, ice skating rink, good food court, huge sporting store.

Now its half a Walmart and the rest is just redeveloped commercial store fronts.

>was in jr high when the Challenger blew up.
Freshman in College here. Was sitting in the dorm's break room watching the launch on TV, waiting for my laundry to finish drying when it blew up. Years later I was driving up TX Hwy 59 early one morning and out my left window saw Discovery start glowing like the sun arcing across the sky, before blowing up right in front of me. Drove through the debris as it rained down for miles around.

Can confirm the rest. Was almost never inside as a kid, roamed for miles around on my bike from about 4yo onward.

Was born in '67 in the South, so in elementary school in the early 70's integration was still a new thing, things could get a bit tense. By High School nobody cared. Drinking age in my state was still 18.

Cars were completely neutered - the Porsche 911 made a whopping 185 horsepower, the Corvette made I think 150hp. Speed limit was 55, you younger kids have no earthly idea how badly that sucked. Even the cops hated it. When the 55 limit was lifted the local cops set up a tent on the side of the highway and threw a party for anybody that wanted to pull over and join them.

In college (late 80's) lots of kids had rifles in the dorm so they could go deer hunting on the weekends. Concealed carry wasn't yet a thing, but my state had unlicensed open carry. Women could unofficially conceal carry in their purses, technically it was illegal but cops didn't care.

First job was in late 80's, for Thanksgiving the company gave men a bottle of bourbon and the women a nice turkey.

Yes I remember those wings. I have some from Pan American, Eastern Airlines, Braniff airlines, Delta etc. All kids went up and talked to the pilots.

I miss actual restaurants in the malls. Not just fast food stand but full buffets. Denny's.. Saturday nights at Dennys after the clubs let out at 2 or 3 am. Smoking everywhere.. That was nice. I smoked at my high-school IN class. Had an ashtray on my desk. Had to have a permission slip from the parents.Young ones will hate that cause their all sensitive and shit.
Smoking in your hospital bed with the doctor lol
Smoking on the plane. I can't remember one time in the 80's when anyone ever said anything about being annoyed by smoke. I never saw it once.

The world was definitely different

I was born in 82 so I remember a little. Music was god tier. More white people. TV and games was god tier. I think societies where there is less technology and forms of entertainment breed happier people. Back then when the TV played an Indiana Jones or star wars of Superman movie marathon all week it was a fucking event everyone talked about. I'm dead serious. Now if you try to put an old movie on prime time TV your Jew overlords will fire you but again, TV has a lot of competition now I get it.

Bad hair, bad clothes, bad music
It was pretty rad

I worked with a guy that was a manager for Delta worked for Delta from late 50s to early 90s. He said it went from dream job to misery once the sexual harassment lawsuits started poping up.

>When the 55 limit was lifted the local cops set up a tent on the side of the highway and threw a party for anybody that wanted to pull over and join them.
haha, that is awesome.

Remember kneeling on the back seat of your parents' car to stare out the back window? It was an hour drive to my grandparents' place, and my brother and I would usually spend most of the drive like that.
These days, that would get that car pulled over so fast.

>Where the hell did you people live? On military bases?
Not on a base, but pretty much surrounded by them - Barksdale AFB (B-52's, acres of nukes in underground depots), Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant (bombs iirc), Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant (artillery shells iirc), and Fort Polk (army).

1975 here

>bad music

You weren't alive in the 80s, were you?

There was some shit, sure, but we haven't had music as iconic to society ever since.

I feel unless humanity starts exploring again we are going to stagnate are kill ourselves. The 80's and onwards were the beginning of the end when technology and stats of living got absurdly high. We need to be in danger again but not from each other but the stars

Oldfag here. The 80's were fucking awesome. The music was killer, the vidya games were actually fun ass things to play, men were still allowed to be men and women didn't pretend to be men (and didn't mind when you complimented them on how good they looked) Gays didn't try to shove their perversion down your throat, and we had a president that fucking wasn't afraid of the left. Downsides were the fashion sucked, porn was playboy (or God forbid you actually went into the back of a newsstand to get an adult magazine), you had to deal with VCR's and honestly fucking a chick with that much product in her hair was kind of gross, but on the other hand, with all the makeup and mascara women wore back then, getting mind blowing head always made their faces look like melting paint. Graduated HS in 89, and still those bitches were the best pussy I ever had.

I enjoyed it. Of course, I had the limited perspective of a child. It was an optimistic era.

On long trips I used to sleep on the ledge behind the rear seat, under the rear window. 55mph limit meant all trips were long. No air bags back then, seatbelts weren't particularly needed either because of the speed limit. But driving anywhere was like watching paint dry.