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yardwork

(61,541 posts) Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:42 PM Mar 2019

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I miss the 90s

I've missed the 70s for years and now I realize that I miss the 90s too.

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I miss the 90s (Original Post) yardwork Mar 2019 OP

You have a problem with the 80s? True Dough Mar 2019 #1

I got a lot of problems with the 80s! yardwork Mar 2019 #2

I had a really rough time in the 80s 2naSalit Mar 2019 #3

I was drunk for much of the 80's... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #4

I endured a series of 2naSalit Mar 2019 #5

How many are you up to now? True Dough Mar 2019 #8

2...Basically, I decided I wasn't good marriage material... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #9

Maybe premature to arrive at that decision True Dough Mar 2019 #11

Or maybe I'm a quick study... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #12

They gave us Reagan and AIDS. Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2019 #6

Sorry to hear True Dough Mar 2019 #7

People had fun in the 1970s. The 80s were awful. Yavin4 Mar 2019 #10

Oh God, me TOO! Aristus Mar 2019 #13

Well said. Sigh. yardwork Mar 2019 #14

True Dough

(17,258 posts)

1. You have a problem with the 80s?

Reply to yardwork (Original post)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:43 PM

Mar 2019

Quite the stunning omission, yardwork!

yardwork

(61,541 posts)

2. I got a lot of problems with the 80s!

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:44 PM

Mar 2019

You got a problem with that?!

2naSalit

(86,393 posts)

3. I had a really rough time in the 80s

Reply to yardwork (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 10:46 PM

Mar 2019

I don't miss that period one bit!

Wounded Bear

(58,606 posts)

4. I was drunk for much of the 80's...

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 11:06 PM

Mar 2019

and met and married my 2d ex-wife.

2naSalit

(86,393 posts)

5. I endured a series of

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 11:10 PM

Mar 2019

personal tragedies that altered the rest of my life in not so pleasant ways.

True Dough

(17,258 posts)

8. How many are you up to now?

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:07 AM

Mar 2019

Ex-wives?

Wounded Bear

(58,606 posts)

9. 2...Basically, I decided I wasn't good marriage material...

Reply to True Dough (Reply #8)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 10:45 AM

Mar 2019

True Dough

(17,258 posts)

11. Maybe premature to arrive at that decision

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #9)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 11:30 AM

Mar 2019

When you reach Larry King status then you should reconsider?

Wounded Bear

(58,606 posts)

12. Or maybe I'm a quick study...

Reply to True Dough (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 11:37 AM

Mar 2019

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)

6. They gave us Reagan and AIDS.

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 11:21 PM

Mar 2019

Fuck that decade.

True Dough

(17,258 posts)

7. Sorry to hear

Reply to Dr Hobbitstein (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 5, 2019, 11:49 PM

Mar 2019

about your diagnosis, Dr Hobbitstein!

Yavin4

(35,423 posts)

10. People had fun in the 1970s. The 80s were awful.

Reply to yardwork (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 10:57 AM

Mar 2019

Just awful. That decade gave us Trump.

Aristus

(66,300 posts)

13. Oh God, me TOO!

Reply to yardwork (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 11:39 AM

Mar 2019

It's a time that seems nearly idyllic compared to what we have now.

Sure, the repukes were perfecting their ugly strategies for national dominance, and harrying Bill Clinton, who, for all his flaws, was a good President. But there still wasn't this day-to-day political nightmare we have now.

The music scene exploded with some of the best popular music since the 1960's.

We seemed to be settling in to a comfortable, forward-looking post-Cold War existence.

And so much more.

It's like a dream now.

Since Bush 2000 and 9/11, we are an uglier, angrier, less optimistic, less kind, less hospitable nation.

I don't know if we'll ever recover.

yardwork

(61,541 posts)

14. Well said. Sigh.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #13)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 11:48 AM

Mar 2019

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