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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 29, 2020 22:10:41 GMT -5
The “new normal” sounds terrifying, this coming from someone who is mostly a hermit and misanthropist. People weren’t meant to be stuck in front of a screen all day, people need some human interaction even if it’s just the clerk at 7-11 or a bartender. Back in the day there wasn’t 24-7 news driving people nuts, it was the local news in the morning, noon and evening and CNN if you had cable, unless something big happened.
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Post by Tim on May 29, 2020 23:23:10 GMT -5
Hence my desire to be the in 80's.
Four networks and nothing but. Never thought I'd miss that.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 30, 2020 10:02:19 GMT -5
We only had seven channels here, including PBS which is public television. Only in the mornings and afternoons had cartoons, the rest of the time the stations had old sitcom reruns or talk shows or game shows which didn't interest us as kids. So on school holidays the last thing we wanted to do was watch TV, we'd go outside to play or go to the park. Unfortunately, with all the channels, streaming services and OnDemand kids can watch cartoons 24-7 if they want and with the lockdown, that might be the only option for a lot of kids
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Post by nimue on May 30, 2020 10:43:36 GMT -5
Tough question, very tough... I was born in the mid-90's, so maybe early 2000's??? I have fond memories of the music I listened to at the time: the Macarena, (I know it came out in the 90's), No Doubt, Gwen Stefani... I also really really miss all the cartoons I used to watch as a kid (the Smurfs, Scooby Doo, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, among many others....) I would also still have all the good Goth music, movies and literature that came out in the 80's and 90's...
I also want to say the 80's, because I love the music and movies of that decade, and because of my hair (it's frizzy, wild and curly, so I feel like I would fit right in), but I wasn't born in the 80's so...
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 30, 2020 10:58:01 GMT -5
I actually knew how to do the Macarena, in fact the first time I got drunk at my aunt’s wedding I did the Macarena at the reception after accidentally drinking pink champagne with strawberries😜 I loved No Doubt and I like Gwen Stefani’s solo work, No Doubt turned me on to ska music. That was when MTV showed videos by rock groups and I discovered a lot of bands that way, the last time MTV had rock videos was back in the early 2000s with All Things Rock.
I’d actually set up my VCR to record it since it was at midnight and I’d watch it in the early morning while getting ready for work. That was great since the hosts were Joel and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte and they’d play all sorts of cool alternative bands and their favorite punk bands, plus they would be hosting the show in odd places like malls or rock clubs and in one episode, a laundromat. Unfortunately I can’t find clips of All Things Rock on YouTube, after it went off the air I stopped watching MTV.
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Post by Tim on May 30, 2020 11:26:14 GMT -5
Another good thing about the 80's. MTV actually meant Music Television
No rubbish like Jersey Shore and such.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 30, 2020 11:30:13 GMT -5
Another good thing about the 80's. MTV actually meant Music Television
No rubbish like Jersey Shore and such.
MTV stopped showing videos in the early 2000s except for certain shows or late at night, I actually taped MTV from 3 to 5 in the morning on VHS since they’d play rock videos, this was before YouTube. And Jersey Shore sucked so bad, like I need another reason for my state too look bad. The douchebags on the show made Italians from NJ look awful, that show was embarrassing🤬
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Post by Tim on May 30, 2020 18:40:12 GMT -5
And yet people kept tuning in. Probably the same morons that keep the KarTRASHians on the air.
God, get me back to the 80's NOW!
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Post by Katie on May 30, 2020 20:43:36 GMT -5
Another good thing about the 80's. MTV actually meant Music Television
No rubbish like Jersey Shore and such.
MTV stopped showing videos in the early 2000s except for certain shows or late at night, I actually taped MTV from 3 to 5 in the morning on VHS since they’d play rock videos, this was before YouTube. And Jersey Shore sucked so bad, like I need another reason for my state too look bad. The douchebags on the show made Italians from NJ look awful, that show was embarrassing🤬 Yeah, it all started with the Osbournes, they were the first reality television family in 2001 or 2002, and that kickstarted the Simple Life with Paris and Nicole and then the horrors of the KarTRashians and so on. *sigh* But, Jersey Shore might be the worse one.
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Post by Katie on May 30, 2020 20:44:35 GMT -5
I'll go with 80s, since I grew up in this decade, but I have a soft spot for the 90s. I picked 90s, because we did have good shows, and VHS and early internet, so I'll get to have my message boards and tapes of shows.
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Post by Tim on May 30, 2020 23:25:34 GMT -5
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on May 31, 2020 8:06:52 GMT -5
Same here, I hated that show. I tried watching it and I was upset because the stupid girls were complaining about everything and most likely embarrassed the farm family they were living with. I hated how the show made the country people look like idiots and living on a farm and doing chores being portrayed as disgusting, it makes people from the blue states look like assholes and look down on country people. I took it personally because I have cousins in rural Florida who are country folks, they are not stupid hicks. And both sides of my family were farmers in Cuba, I grew up hearing stories of my relatives doing stuff like feeding animals, cutting sugarcane with machetes and slaughtering livestock for food, with details included. So making fun of farm people offends me because my family actually did farm work and it was all necessary, not gross. Imagine if these silly girls had to wring a chicken's neck to eat a chicken dinner or actually participate in slaughtering and butchering a hog, they would run screaming in terror but my grandparents' did exactly that.
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Post by Tim on May 31, 2020 12:12:07 GMT -5
Like that parody video of the KarTRASHian creatures on a farm. Totally clueless.
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Post by Trinity on May 31, 2020 21:16:01 GMT -5
The 90s for me or maybe about 1994-2004 (Since I was born in 1989, so the 80s would be before my time really), Anything pre-social media is honestly, but the decade had good music, movies, and shows.
But, at least in the 90s/early 00s, I have all the good cartoons (older ones I grew up seeing like Scooby Doo, Flinstones and others like Simpsons, Rugrats) and I get Xena, Buffy, X-Files, Charmed and many shows I grew up loving.
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Post by Tim on May 31, 2020 23:55:09 GMT -5
Got a lot of young whippersnappers here
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