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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 8, 2020 10:58:32 GMT -5
Yeah, there was all in: show, comedy, singer. I liked it and still watch some parts from time to time.
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Post by Tim on Feb 8, 2020 13:07:03 GMT -5
That's another reason the 80's are my favourite decade.
It saw the end of the division of Europe that had existed since 1945.
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 10, 2020 8:08:59 GMT -5
Oh yeah, some turbulent years for me at least.
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Post by Tim on Feb 10, 2020 12:21:44 GMT -5
I imagine it would have been. You were right in the middle of it.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Feb 11, 2020 2:50:45 GMT -5
One thing I think I can say, this last decade the 10s was probably my least favourite decade ever. I can look at the 90s with a big smile, and even going into the 00s, or at least the early parts.
Go into the 10s, and the very least the last five years, nope.
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 11, 2020 5:44:54 GMT -5
Yeah, had a discussion with a friend on Sunday whether "North & South" was before "Dirty Dancing" for Patrick Swayze. And I was right, yet in the GDR it was shown both at the same time. Or closely. It was interesting to see that.
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Post by Tim on Feb 11, 2020 13:22:03 GMT -5
Dirty Dancing was the first time I'd heard of Patrick Swayze myself.
My cousin had such a crush on him at the time!
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Feb 11, 2020 13:59:50 GMT -5
Dirty Dancing was also when I first heard of Patrick Swayze and knew him most from as well as Ghost obviously.
There were some good films in the 80's early '90s.
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Post by Tim on Feb 11, 2020 18:08:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I saw Ghost too.
Excellent movie, IMO.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Apr 6, 2020 15:03:48 GMT -5
It's obvious that the COVID-19 pandemic will have significant economic, social, and political impacts. Could it end up going down as the event that ended the cultural 2010s? As some of you may already know, cultural decades often don't end on January 1st of the ---0th year. It usually takes at least a year or two for the previous decade's culture to get "cycled out" in favor of a new one, with a major event usually sparking the shift. For example, what most of us think of as "the 1950s" didn't end until 1963-1964 with the JFK assassination, passage of the Civil Rights Act, and Gulf of Tonkin incident. The quiet conformity and endless optimism that had defined the early postwar era was completely shattered, and the seeds were sown for the rise of the New Left and the Counterculture. Similarly, what most of us think of as "the 1990s" didn't truly end until a certain day in September 2001. The attacks swiftly ended the " end of history" narrative that had defined the immediate post-Cold War years and took the US (and much of the rest of the world) into a new era of increased government surveillance, endless imperial wars, and economic decline. Other events that have been cited as "decade-ending" are Watergate and the energy crisis (for the 60s), Thatcher/Reagan's elections and the AIDS crisis (for the 70s), and the fall of the Soviet Union (for the 80s).
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Post by Tim on Apr 6, 2020 17:02:04 GMT -5
Social distancing might stick around. Things like hand shaking and hugging are now taboo, and that might continue to be the norm.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Apr 6, 2020 18:38:28 GMT -5
Politically, I see two endings to the COVID crisis. The good ending is that America (and the rest of the West) starts seeing the value in having a strong safety net, and ideas once dismissed as "communist" like universal healthcare, universal basic income, and a wealth tax become standard fixtures. A coalition of progressives and centrists/moderates take over US politics, with Biden winning the election, the Senate flipping Blue, and the teabagger/alt-right/fascist extremists being driven to the fringes. Orange Hitler and his lapdogs go to jail, Faux News goes bankrupt, and the already gravely ill Rush Limbaugh dies and takes the entire Hate Radio industry with him. The bad ending is that Orange Hitler wins re-election/suspends elections and takes over as a dictator, setting off a chain reaction of fascist dictatorships throughout the rest of the world. Economies collapse, human rights grind down into nil, and WWIII breaks out, leaving millions dead and much of the world in rubble. What pandemic, war, and genocide didn't kill, unabated runaway global warming will.
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Post by Trinity on Apr 6, 2020 20:23:52 GMT -5
Here's hoping it is only good from here on out.
But, I do see our social interactions changing. Handshaking and Hugging might just not be common now. Although I do think, it will just further increase social media, with social distancing, people will interact more online than ever before.
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Post by Tim on Apr 7, 2020 0:06:54 GMT -5
Politically, I see two endings to the COVID crisis. The good ending is that America (and the rest of the West) starts seeing the value in having a strong safety net, and ideas once dismissed as "communist" like universal healthcare, universal basic income, and a wealth tax become standard fixtures. A coalition of progressives and centrists/moderates take over US politics, with Biden winning the election, the Senate flipping Blue, and the teabagger/alt-right/fascist extremists being driven to the fringes. Orange Hitler and his lapdogs go to jail, Faux News goes bankrupt, and the already gravely ill Rush Limbaugh dies and takes the entire Hate Radio industry with him. The bad ending is that Orange Hitler wins re-election/suspends elections and takes over as a dictator, setting off a chain reaction of fascist dictatorships throughout the rest of the world. Economies collapse, human rights grind down into nil, and WWIII breaks out, leaving millions dead and much of the world in rubble. What pandemic, war, and genocide didn't kill, unabated runaway global warming will.
I hope the first one happens. A lot of Americans would benefit from Universal Health Care, IMO.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Apr 7, 2020 2:55:49 GMT -5
Yeah with most countries in lockdown social media has certainly increased within people using that to communicate with relatives or doing jobs now virtually.
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