Name the one thing from the 1970s you hate the most!

[Deja Q]

Roller skating



Your turn! :D

[scoey1953]

1. Nehru Shirts ..think I had one...

But I never ever had the guts to wear it.

[WCGreen]

3. Nehru Shirts and Jackets were from the 60's....

See the Beatles in India....

[scoey1953]

10. hmmm... But I remember getting one in High School..and that

Was the early Seventies.. You maybe right...But I never wore that sucker outside.

[WCGreen]

16. Well it lasted into the erly 78's...

But even the Monkees wore Nehru styled clothing....

[ThomCat]

9. I love those shirts.

I think have a few. :)

[Floogeldy]

2. I don't think roller skating is a 70's thing, per se.

Roller skates came out in the 50's. ;)

You are saying this because you roller skated in the 70's.

You see, there are things associated with decades, and things associated with your . . . Never mind. ;)

[hfojvt]

43. wiki says it dates back to 1884

if not earlier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_skating

[Omphaloskepsis]

4. My Sister... n/t..

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

23. Dang I was going to post the same thing

about my sister! LOL

[bedazzled]

5. disco! arrgh!

hard times for music fans when i was in high school in 1976...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. Leisure suits

Yes, I had one, so shut up.

Also, disco. It followed me back to the states from England, and I apologize. Profusely and endlessly.

[LibDemAlways]

7. polyester pantsuits and disco music

[johnnie]

8. 1976 was a drag

Red White and Blue pants, shoes, cups, fire hydrants, hair, cars, toothpaste, glasses, shirts, teeth, grass, houses the list goes on and on.

Not that I was anti-American, it is just that every fucking thing was the same colors.

[ThomCat]

11. Polyester clothing.

And all the other man-made fabrics too. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to make clothing out of petroleum and plastics?
:wtf:

Oops: This was supposed to be at the bottom of the thread, not hanging off your post. Sorry.

[johnnie]

12. Whatever

Riding my coatails..just like everyone else. B-)


:P

[Pool Hall Ace]

33. Gad, yes. Celanese Fortrel and other uncomfortable

faux fabrics. No matter how clean and deodorized I was, I would start to stink after about five minutes.

And speaking of stink, Barry Manilow's music is another thing I don't miss about the 70s.

[bedazzled]

14. they wanted us to paint stars & stripes on top of our grad caps

thank heavens saner heads prevailed

[WCGreen]

17. I Spent the Bicentenial 4th on Kelly's Island....

Camping in the quarries with about fifty friends....

The highlight was stealing a keg from one of the bars and rolling it all the way back into the quarry and pounding out the cork and drinking flat warm beer until we were all rolling on the ground drunk....

[kiraboo]

13. My youngest sister!

Not really. She's a sweetheart.

[Nicole]

15. Disco n/t

[Mz Pip]

18. My first husband

God, whatever was I thinking?

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Bok_Tukalo]

19. I love roller skating

Lots of single moms

[Jade Fox]

20. The cloths!!

I still am amazed that decade's vile polyester duds were successfully re-done in expensive fabrics and sold to, well, idiots-with-bad-taste is as kind as I can be.

[TahitiNut]

21. PTSD

[Gold Metal Flake]

22. The ascent of the proto-neocons in the Ford admin...

...following the purges of what passed for "moderate" repukes from the Nixon admin.

That really bums me out.



On edit: Also, Marjo Gortner. And that "you can call me Ray" guy.

[Tabasco_Dave]

24. The 1978 Chrysler Cordoba

My dad gave me it when i turned 16, that car was the biggest lemon, it broke down every month and it only had 100,000 miles on it but at least i had a car. I'm just grateful i didn't get the old 1972 vega. :puke:

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. I'd take a Vega

Yank out the 140, the four-speed (those weren't bad, though — made by Opel) and the rear end, stiffen the frame and suspension a bit and squeeze a mild 350 in there with a TH-350 tranny. :thumbsup:

[Guy Fawkes]

25. How about Nixon?

"Why change dicks in the middle of a screw? Vote for Nixon in '72!"

[libnnc]

26. Tab cola

[Orsino]

27. My virginity.

Good riddance.

[Deja Q]

28. I was born in the 1970s.

A lot of people hated that too. :rofl:

[hfojvt]

42. I hate that you took my punchline

Now I cannot ask - weren't YOU born in the seventies?

[Crazy Dave]

29. "Charlie's Angels"

It gets my vote as the dumbest TV crime show period. You could even take "Barney Miller" more seriously than "Charlie's Angels".

[gollygee]

30. Artificial fabrics

don't breathe and feel icky

[otherlander]

31. Nixon

[HughBeaumont]

32. Anita Bryant

Moving to Vermilion Ohio in 1978. I was fine where I was, thanks. Never adjusted to that shitty cow-town-on-the-lake. Even their stoners were dickheads. Every time I have to go back there, I take eight showers to cleanse the stench off. It looks like a dilapidated flea market now.

[Javaman]

34. the entire decade, except for punk rock. :) nt

[Hissyspit]

35. Khmer Rouge slaugher of a million people

[ghostsofgiants]

80. Yeah, that about tops the list of shitty events of the 70s.

[NMMNG]

36. School from 1974-1979

My school peers made my life a living hell. x(

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. Did we go to different schools together?

:hug:

[NMMNG]

40. In every school

there are jagoffs who take delight in torturing people for one reason or another. Bullies will exist until people stop creating them and/or work to stop them.



:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. Dog-ass cars

Loaded with pollution control junk that cut horsepower in half and shortened engine life.

As if that wasn't bad enough, '70s cars were fugly. Crash bumpers. :puke:

[dysfunctional press]

54. my parent's 72 charger se 4 speed 4bbl...

would tend to disagree.

it was the car i learned to Drive in.

[Oeditpus Rex]

70. When I think of '70s cars

I include '70-'72 with the '60s cars, as '72 was the last year of the true muscle car.

[me b zola]

41. 2 things:

Polyester & the fact that the 70's gave wayt to the eighties---I HATED THE EIGHTIES.

[In_The_Wind]

44. Finding out that my husband was cheating on me.

[Cannikin]

46. I'm so sorry. I know how you must have felt. Theres not much worse

[In_The_Wind]

49. I was so young, innocent and in-love.

I was looking forward to 2 or 3 children, a station wagon and a home with one man for the rest of my life. :cry:

[Cannikin]

45. Dashikis

[hyphenate]

47. Corporate greed, love canal

Watergate, Vietnam, Iran Hostages, disco, polyester, Tupperware, Laverne and Shirley, Jim Jones and Guyana.

[Vidar]

48. Plaid pants, but I only had one pair.

[BlackVelvet04]

50. The fact I got a divorce

that I shouldn't have gotten. It took many years to undo that mistake.

[ronnykmarshall]

51. 6th grade

Let's just say, I really related to the movie "Carrie".

[alcibiades_mystery]

52. Reunitee on Ice

:-)

[dysfunctional press]

53. my formative teen years.

life in hell.

[kedrys]

55. The fact that the s.o. keeps bringing the 70s up as the "good old days"

translation: I could smoke dope on the street and not get deported to Gitmo.

For my part, I actually *miss* Nixon these days. Pathetic, ennit?

[meow2u3]

56. The AMC Pacer

It was such an awful-looking excuse for a car! It looked as if it were a bubble on wheels. Of course, my dad bought--and ruined--one when he was alive.

[blondeatlast]

57. Hey! That was my first car--I had the luxury model.

I'm not kidding, either.

[Onlooker]

60. I loved that car ...

... but the doors weighed a ton. I got a Gremlin (which was cheaper), which had seats so thin they were even uncomfortable for an 18 year old.

[auntAgonist]

63. My Pacer was one of the

most comfortable cars I ever had! Virtually NO blind spots anywhere. Looked like a fishbowl but I LOVED it. My ex hated it and when the water pump went on it he kept 'promising' to fix it, he never did and eventually he had it towed to a junkyard. grrr.

aA
I'd buy a pacer again!


:hi:

[u4ic]

79. Ford Pintos

:nuke:

[blondeatlast]

58. Avocado Green and Harvest Gold as colors for kitchen appliances. Ugh. nt

[Onlooker]

59. The 'me' generation

And now they've all grown up and many of them are Republicans.

[DBoon]

65. people who read "Looking Out for Number One"

the start of the republican revolution

[Arkham House]

61. The modern movie industry

The period from roughly 1967-77 was the true Golden Age of the American movie...we had many masterpieces, just off the top of my head--"Bonnie and Clyde", "Five Easy Pieces", "Nashville", "Chinatown", "The Godfather", "Taxi Driver", "Midnight Cowboy"... Adult films, great movies that challenged us and examined our country critically--and, incidentally, were very popular... Then came Spielberg-Lucas-"Star Wars"-Friday openings...and the whole panoply of modern Hollywood. And movies, by and large, turned into junk made for 15 year olds. (Nothing against 15 year olds--hi there, Ava and Writing is my Religion...just making a point...) I love "Star Wars", myself...but Hollywood changed then, and The Suits became openly hostile to grown-up films, and a great moment in America's cultural history ended. Of course, good films still get made. But they're very much the exception...

[DBoon]

62. '70s corporate rock

Boston, Journey, Kansas.

Anyone remember Robin Trower?

and while Peter Frampton had a certain amount of talent, "Frampton Comes Alive" had to be the most hyped album of that decade.

[DBoon]

64. stagflation, gas lines, skyrocketing prices

I had just moved out on my own when the price of ground beef went from 49 cents/lb to $1.39/lb in a matter of months. Ground beef dropped off my shopping list.

When I started college, I could rent a nice room for $80/month. 4 years later, the same room was over $200/month. Needless to say my income had not gone up proportionally.

and as luck had it, the first gas crises came when I got my drivers license. The second came when I got my first car. Double bummer.

[Silver Swan]

66. The 1970's are just a blur to me

I really don't recall much from about 1973 to 1983. I know I wore ugly clothes, I really don't remember the music.

During that period, I somehow managed to give birth to two daughters.

But all in all, the period is blank.

I think I was depressed.

[Crazy Dave]

67. Guys with perms

[leftofthedial]

68. my ex-marriage

[PassingFair]

69. Here are a couple hundred things to scare you from the 70's

http://www.aperfectworld.org/page_fifteen.htm
Warning: This is a VERY funny website....
Just to get you started:

[Arugula Latte]

71. Shag carpeting.

:scared:

[NewWaveChick1981]

72. There are just too damn many....but I gotta go with hubcap medallions!

:puke: They are just one half-step above leisure suits. I also hate unwashed, nasty hair (long hair is fine----just KEEP IT CLEAN!!!!), which was apparently common among musicians and others. :puke: There are just too many more awful things about the 1970s that I can't list them all or my head will explode....:yoiks:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

73. The shag carpeting entry reminded me of.....

cottage cheese ceilings! :scared:

[long_green]

74. Can't think of a thing

I loved the 70's. Democratic Congress, Nixon resigning in disgrace, Reagan hadn't been elected yet.
Negatives? There was no Internet, I was too young to get in real trouble.
Overall? I think comparing the 1970's to today is a pretty good argument for a disintegrating society. If we had kept on the path we were on, without the 25 year detour into Reagan's cloud cuckoo land, we would be a vastly superior society.

My apologies, but I can't participate in this thread because as far as I am concerned we let the seventies down. YAY SEVENTIES! I wish we coud get them back.

[NewWaveChick1981]

75. Politically, things were much better in the 70s than they are now...

...but fashion? :rofl:

[long_green]

76. Ten years from now what are wearing will look ridiculous

The whole point of the fashion industry is to make us desire change.
Sure we all looked silly then, we are silly beings. At least back then we were being ourselves.
The politics were better, the music was better, the movies were better, we had Walter Cronkite then, we're getting Katie Couric now.
Wait! I thought of something. Food is better now. We have many more options. In the 70's I had yet to eat sushi, Indian, Middle Eastern, Thai, Vietnamese food. Pizza was exotic. Fine dining was stuck in a rut as was the ethnic food available to us then (Italian-red sauces only, Mexican-TexMex, Chinese-only Cantonese need apply). There, now I'm playing by the rules of the thread.;) Thanks for keeping me honest, NWC.

[Arugula Latte]

77. Yep. Exactly. The food in this country has improved greatly in 30 years.

In the 70s, my mom fixed lots of casserole-y things that had Campbell's cream of mushroom soup as a base.

Today, between the organic produce, the incredible variety of products available, the ethnic fare, farmers' markets, the information available on-line and on Food Network, etc. ... YUM. :9

[acmavm]

78. Monday, May 4, 1970...

The Kent State shootings, also known as May 4 or the Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The shooting killed four students and wounded nine others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[u4ic]

81. The colours

esp the pairings...mud brown and turquoise...
avocado and gold or orange...

:puke:

I should also add CB radios - I can't get the damn number out of my head. 25+ years later, and I still remember the damn XM number - but don't ask me where I put my keys...:wtf:

[leeroysphitz]

82. My childhood.

seriously.