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Whats Your Favorite Decade

I enjoyed the 90s the most as a kid. I remember going to clubs like the masquarade in Atlanta during under 21 bubble night, late night philosophy sessions at denny's where certain substances may have been imbibed making those conversations quite silly, all the bands, road trips for no reason, multi-day role playing game or warhammer fantasy sessions, sleeping through school, so many good movies, discovering the new internet, etc.

However, my favorite time is right now. I know so much more and have so many reasons for genuine optimism and while I loved doing kid things as a kid, I have no reason to go back.
 
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The 1990s. I was 11/12 at the start of the decade and 21/22 when it ended, so pretty formative. The music and films were great, the fashion not so much. The last decade before everyone had a cellphone and the internet. The last decade that had a definite identity. The Noughties were a lot of fun (I was in my 20s living in NYC) but I’d struggle to really describe the decade. I don’t even know what to call the dull decade of 2010-2019.
 
tacomancer said:
I enjoyed the 90s the most as a kid. I remember going to clubs like the masquarade in Atlanta during under 21 bubble night, late night philosophy sessions at denny's where certain substances may have been imbibed making those conversations quite silly, all the bands, road trips for no reason, multi-day role playing game or warhammer fantasy sessions, sleeping through school, so many good movies, discovering the new internet, etc.

However, my favorite time is right now. I know so much more and have so many reasons for genuine optimism and while I loved doing kid things as a kid, I have no reason to go back.
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I also think now is the time. While I was young, I suffered from poverty in a relative sense, familial for the most part, mother had a career and step-father wavered between indifferent and hostile. I remember when I was five in a driveway down the street with some friends and got run-over by a neighbor's station-wagon backing-out the driveway. It was terrifying, being rolled under a car until the engine was above me whereupon I could see an end, the rolling would end, but it wasn't to be. The driver noticed my agitated friends and went forward subjecting me to further rolling and left me crumpled.

My sacroiliac was broken and spent a few days in hospital where I was further humiliated while trying to relieve myself without a nurse's assistance in a bedpan unsuccessfully.

Today is much better.
 
BitterPill said:
I also think now is the time. While I was young, I suffered from poverty in a relative sense, familial for the most part, mother had a career and step-father wavered between indifferent and hostile. I remember when I was five in a driveway down the street with some friends and got run-over by a neighbor's station-wagon backing-out the driveway. It was terrifying, being rolled under a car until the engine was above me whereupon I could see an end, the rolling would end, but it wasn't to be. The driver noticed my agitated friends and went forward subjecting me to further rolling and left me crumpled.

My sacroiliac was broken and spent a few days in hospital where I was further humiliated while trying to relieve myself without a nurse's assistance in a bedpan unsuccessfully.

Today is much better.
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I was lucky as a kid back then and had bones that just wouldn't break no matter how much abuse I subjected them too (and I have plenty of scars from roughhousing, falls out of trees,etc).

I also have to agree with @Decypher, the last 20 years have been kind of a blur of sameness and kind of a blend of a lot of decades at once.
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
Hippies and Yuppies were different. Yuppies were more like your "I wish I had been a Hippie but my parents made me go to college and become a doctor" crowd.
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While I am undoubtedly ignorant, which I am, you don't need to explain the difference between yuppie and hippie to me since I know they are both vile, horrible lib-progs who come from different ages but are otherwise simpatico.

MAGA.
 
BitterPill said:
While I am undoubtedly ignorant, which I am, you don't need to explain the difference between yuppie and hippie to me since I know they are both vile, horrible lib-progs who come from different ages but are otherwise simpatico.

MAGA.
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NOW, you are trying TOO hard.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Liberal’s theme song - 1971

“Tax the rich, feed the poor, ‘til there are no rich no more. I’d love to change the world, but I don’t know what to do - so I’ll leave it up to you.”

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Commie bastards!

Someone should alert Grandpappy:



MAGA.
 
BitterPill said:
While I am undoubtedly ignorant, which I am, you don't need to explain the difference between yuppie and hippie to me since I know they are both vile, horrible lib-progs who come from different ages but are otherwise simpatico.

MAGA.
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Hippies and yuppies were very different.

In the 1970s, America saw the rise of two very different types of people – hippies and yuppies. Hippies embraced free love and peace. But yuppies were ambitious career-oriented citizens who chased money and success.

In less than a decade, hippie culture was crushed by the powerful wave of ambition that characterized yuppie culture.

Yuppies replaced flower power with power suits, flip flops with polished loafers, and positive vibes with heartless cutthroat capitalism.

It’s almost like they thought they were too cool for bell bottoms…but in all seriousness, the fall of the hippie movement marked an exciting yet scary economic boom that would come to define America in future decades.
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Hippies to Yuppies. What Happened? – Roosevelt Island, New York...

They championed peace, love, and free thinking. But somewhere along the way, something happened. The hippies turned into yuppies...
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Songs from when I was a kid. I was equal opportunity punk, goth, and rivethead. I also owned several pairs of giant pants and boots with bits of metal attached to them.
 
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Decypher said:
The 1990s. I was 11/12 at the start of the decade and 21/22 when it ended, so pretty formative. The music and films were great, the fashion not so much. The last decade before everyone had a cellphone and the internet. The last decade that had a definite identity. The Noughties were a lot of fun (I was in my 20s living in NYC) but I’d struggle to really describe the decade. I don’t even know what to call the dull decade of 2010-2019.
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I was terrified when I realized I'd be 37 in 2000. For you it must have been easier.

Show us a tune or two, please.

MAGA.
 
1. When I was teenager here in Los Angeles -- the 1950s.

2. There was no drug scourge. The most wild thing that most teenagers did was to smoke cigarettes, which were openly advertised on TV.

3. Nobody even talked about crime. You could go downtown without any fear of being robbed or beaten up or murdered. (If I took an occasional night college class, I would walk to my car without the slightest concern.)

4. There was no Internet, so L.A. still had 4 or 5 daily newspapers.

5. And, of course, it was my favorite decade because I was young. (Now I am 86.)
 
BitterPill said:
I was terrified when I realized I'd be 37 in 2000. For you it must have been easier.

Show us a tune or two, please.

MAGA.
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Which band epitomises the 1990s I wonder. We had Grunge, Hip-Hop and Britpop. Then all the dance music. I remember when Kurt Cobain died and Tupac and Biggie. Oasis and Blur’s battle of the bands. I went to my first festival in 1997 at Glastonbury. One of the headliners was Radiohead. Their album OK Computer might be considered the best of the 1990s. Or maybe In Utero by Nirvana. Or 36 Chambers by the Wu-Tang Clan.





 
TheParser said:
1. When I was teenager here in Los Angeles -- the 1950s.

2. There was no drug scourge. The most wild thing that most teenagers did was to smoke cigarettes, which were openly advertised on TV.

3. Nobody even talked about crime. You could go downtown without any fear of being robbed or beaten up or murdered. (If I took an occasional night college class, I would walk to my car without the slightest concern.)

4. There was no Internet, so L.A. still had 4 or 5 daily newspapers.

5. And, of course, it was my favorite decade because I was young. (Now I am 86.)
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I cordially invite you, Mr. Parser, to the Cinco de Mayo festivity for members of DP and their friends that Bullseye and I have planned at the San Diego Brewery Co. come noon:

DP SoCal Get Together

On Friday the fifth of May at 12 noon a meeting is scheduled at the San Diego Brewery. I will be there, and @Bullseye has promised to attend. I am looking forward to the festivities and hope others will join us.
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Please come.

MAGA.
 
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