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In the 80s, there was no worse fear than getting home and going to your front door and your phone starts ringing. You frantically fumble for your keys, knowing that if you don't get to the phone before it stops ringing, you will NEVER know who it was.
DavidAWA unless they call back😒
Or if you had an answering machine.
Unless..... however he is right.
what would it matter if it was important and a needed call they would call back anyways.
DavidAWA In the 80s the biggest fears where AIDS and nuclear power stations that might be exploding.
The 80s had young Arnold, young Harrison Ford, young Stallone, young Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Michael Jackson was black, Star Wars movies were good, Ronald Reagan was in the White House defeating the Soviet Union, no TSA at the airports, and people weren't staring at cell phones all day like zombies. Kids played in streets and parks until dark and no one freaked out over it. There was no internet crowd shaming. Heavy Metal hair bands ruled the Earth, mullets were everywhere. The 80s were the best.
And a speeding ticket was $35 bucks and didn't go on your record!
epa316, great post. Lived those days also-the best!
Security cameras, everywhere
Not to mention the 1950's revival going on....
And they made millenials
I was born in the 50's. Learned and used computers in the 70's. Saw society fall apart in the 2000's. It really didn't take all that long. RIP Humans.
Mr51Caveman if society fell apart in the 2000s wouldn’t that make most of the people making major decisions in government around your age?
To be fair, I think Mr51Caveman is saying that the 80s/90s were the pinnacle of our culture/society and that it has been in decline ever since. And honestly I agree with him. Prior to the 50s until the beginning of the 2000s in America, there had never been a period of more freedom, economic prosperity and technological advancement. For a brief window in time, the Cold War was over, capitalism had won, Civil Rights had won, wages/employment were great, and technology was booming and increasingly affordable. We didn't have a care in the world.
Then the dot-com bubble burst. Then 9/11 happened. Then the War on Terror. A generation raised on pure unadulterated optimism was sent off to war. For the first time, we realized that the blind optimism instilled in us by our parents could no longer be justified. Then the housing bubble burst and the recession began. Unemployment skyrocketed and wages stagnated. We may not be in our death throes quite yet as a culture, but we are absolutely 100% on the decline.
I'm not sure what you're getting at i, rob. I fear that the development of true AI (as with most technology) will only quicken the pace of our inevitable destruction. Because the more technology we have, the more we depend on it, the fewer skills we will possess, the less freedom/autonomy/privacy/independence we actually have, and the less fulfilled we will feel about our lives.
Yup, agreed. We will eventually collapse and nobody will know how to do anything anymore. This is kind of a weird thing to suggest, but if you haven't read the manifesto written by Ted Kaczynski (the infamous Unabomber), it's actually quite good. Of course his methods were absolutely nuts and there's no excuse for going around bombing people, but he hits the nail on the head when he talks about how technology has enslaved mankind and how we are all weaker as a result. I think the essay was called "Industrial Society and It's Future".
Wait till driverless cars come out then you see lazy
Personally I enjoyed actually _talking_ to people back in the 80s. Back then, when a phone rang, we picked it up and said, "Hello." It quite often led to something interesting. And we had to focus on the conversation and not distract ourselves by wandering around, because the phone was attached to the wall by something called a cord.
lol did you ever trip on the long phone cord or wrap it around yourself or dance with it or wave it in the air? I did all these things
Heck I remember the first cordless phones from back in the day. You could actually hear your neighbors telephone conversations back then If they were on their phones at the same time as you.
Wait what..........i still do all that!
No caller ID.
Calling a girl in the 80's, that whole process:
- Wait for your parents not to be home, or bring the phone to your room
- Mentally prepare, hope her dad doesn't pick up
- Call. Dad picks up phone, be intimidated by his existence
- Ask if girl is there, talk.
Brother picks up phone, man that was even worst.
Aww damn, brothers always knew what was up, and they made sure you knew that they knew >.>
I can remember being summoned to my girlfriends brothers work (small town grocery store) to basically interview for the position and being told in no uncertain terms that kissing and first base was it or I would get smashed and no alcohol or drugs or I would get smashed - Once I "stole" second and was sweating bullets for a few days-lol
"bring the phone to your room" ...lol, remember sometimes people would have an extra long cord from the wall to the phone, and they'd take the phone all over the house?
So much truth. Class of 92.
I miss renting cassette tapes from blockbuster. Be kind, rewind
Millenials did this too. I was born in 87. A millennial is actually anyone born in 1981 and 1996.
Just means they came of age or turned adult in the early 2000s.
@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 I heard it was to 94.
true
Troy
And don't leave it on the dashboard of your car in the summer. Melted and twisted.
On a serious note, I'm sure a lot of people miss the days of going to the video shop. I know I do
Yeah, I miss that. And record stores. A high school friend of mine and his family owned a video store back in the day. Then Blockbuster hit town and drove all the little shops out of business. Then the internet drove Blockbuster out of business. Now what?
Yes i do!! Good times
Deciding what to watch on Netflix from your sofa and then stopping it if it's rubbish really doesn't live up to the experience of walking or driving to the video rental, carefully choosing what to watch, then sitting and watching it throughout no matter how bad it was because you'd paid to rent it and there was little else to watch anyway. You were sort of stuck with your choice. The number of movies I now love because I stuck with them rather than turning them off after a boring first 20 minutes makes me wish I wasn't so fast to judge now. But Netflix allows that arrogance.
Being born in the late 70's, I have always been nostalgic to the 80's.
As the time goes by, I believed that such a nostalgia would wean; quite the opposite, it grow fonder.
Whilst I have embraced the cyber wonders of the new millennium, I yearn for the old days, where human interaction, be it in social/professional environment, developed its pace naturally compared with today's hyped-up lifestyle.
I was also born in the late 70s and it seems like we have similar experiences and outlook on life. The older I get, the more I love the 80s.😊
Kevin Bacon has a history lesson for millennials about the struggle of life in the '80s: on.mash.to/1itBHXc
Only missing the "get off my lawn" instruction.
KevinBacon, you're a ledge. You, and your Missus, too.
... and he got nuked! LOL
LOL!!!
So funny! Very clever.
Yup, Kevin is right. I remember going to Blockbuster all the time. Nothing but mushroom clouds everywhere. Damn Commies.
rdskn4eva 😂😂😂😂
1983 are Millennials. We definitely remember Blockbuster WTF
"damn commies" lmfao
Was extremely close to happening
I want to tell Millennials about something called, "be kind and rewind!" When you were done with a movie, you couldn't just eject the movie like you do on a DVD/Blu-ray. You had to rewind the film and wait until the VCR was finished. Some machines took forever.
The first "walkman" cassette player had only 3 buttons. Play. Stop. and Fast-Foward. Yo had to FLIP the tape over to "rewind" the side you wanted. Thats crazy shit right there folks.
Slinkbomb It was extremely labor intensive, that's for sure
Jeff and Ghost of Reagan Oh come on, you mean you didnt buy the WHS tape re-winder machines? LOL Member, so you could save wear and tear on your VHS machine by simply ejecting the tape, then popping it into the rewinder.
I think another reason for the re-winder was that you could start watching the next movie instead of have to wait for it to finish to put the next one in. My friend's machine was super slow at re-winding. I was working at Radio Shack, part time while in college, when DVD's started to hit the market. My colleagues would call over to Best Buy and ask if they had DVD re-winders.
Jeff totally! Yeah, if you were going to watch movies back to back, yeah I forgot that - watch one while rewinding the other. And I forgot about BestBuy - I worked there for a small stint and I remember we had like 3 of them we would have to check in the movies, make sure they were rewound before putting them back up on the shelves. It would be very common to hear "Call the Naperville store, ask them if we can have one of their rewinders. We are down to one"
Being a kid in 80s was the best. I miss those years
Not to mention we had to "pirate" our fav songs from the radio & play them on our Walkmans!
Yes! We waited around until the song came on the radio and recorded it on cassette tape.
I remember being impressed when Sony came out with really small Walkmans.
domjal --- I remember doing that!
Cassettes? not even cd's?
I'm lucky that I had iPod when i was young and click away downloading ur favourite song from online. today we stream
Maybe my stupidity let me to 50s rock n roll. I guess I should switch to millennial pop culture right? yeah right
I grew up in the Eighties. I learned how to type with a typewriter. I looked up information in an encyclopedia or at the library. Computers were called desktop computers because they actually took up the entire desktop. I learned how to use a computer using DOS and the only two colors were green light on a black screen.
i was born in 83.. but i got to watch and be a part of pc technology growing... it was amazing and i wouldnt trade it for anything... i was taught about the card catalog in school and ordered books from magazines... i suppose i will never know what a teenager went through in the 80's but i didnt have a cellphone til 2007
Yep, you had your choice between green and orange on your monitor. The memory on the hard drive was less than what we have on our phones now. lol
formerevolutionist I was born in 1964, The first computer I used in school was a mainframe in another building clear across town, and you had to use a dial up modem and it had no screen or keyboard, we had to use punch cards!
formerevolutionist really my dad in the 80's got the Amiga 1000 and that was colour, not all computers were Green or Orange on a black screen
Douglasville Darling the Amiga computers nor the Apple computers were like that
The clothes the hair, the music and the Cars. Muscle Cars, not the group the Cars. I bloody loved the 80's. 1984 was the Greatest time in the World, as a teen watching the Birth of MTV and Video games was awesome. Hitting the Movie Theaters every weekend saw one great classic after another all year long.. MAN, I wish I could do it all again. Nothing differently just relish ever day a little more. I don't think music was ever as diverse or had more different soloist and groups in the Top100 charts than in the 1980's especially the mid 80's, Music was a feast for the ears with one great hit after another on the radio.
You made my nostalgia explode :'(
Yes yes yes. I graduated hs in 84 best decade ever!
@Silver Chariot Ready Player One is very 80's nostalgic. The creator of the game in the story filled said game and the clues to his secret were all 80's galore! Songs, movie references, everything. If you get the audiobook, it was read by Will Wheaton, an 80's kid and total pop culture geek! LOL
MTV began broadcasting at 12:01 am on August 1, 1981.
i had a GREAT time in the 80's!
I was in high school in the 80’s, I miss those days.
80's and 90's are the best decades ever.
Back when we actually had to talk to people with our mouths - it was a simpler time.
back when you had to insult some1 to their face, the risk of a fist fight
Talking to someone like actual talking?
No tnx. I prefer texting with emojis
@Millennials Pop Culture yw 👍😀😜😎🤠
It was real
@@millennialpopculture669 Me too :v
Born in 83 I HATE smart phones and what Social Media has done to society in general.
Jay McD So get the fuck off CZcams you ignorant hypocrite
@@ggallintedtalk Yo calm down lol
Isay Hi go fuck irself
Born in '85. Ditto.
I was born in 1991 and I don't own a smartphone only a 2007 era Nokia cell phone. the 00s was the best decade ever. MySpace was better than Instagram
Born in 1974, I know all about the 80's, I lived it.
& 90s
Leathurkatt: Eeek! I was born ten years earlier! Are you telling me I 'lived' the 70's. LOL!
1978 here man right behind you damn the 80 were great to me !
1971, Not a day goes by when I don't miss the era.
'76 er here ......
I miss the 80's
dinobravo23 Massive strikes, possible nuclear war & pretty shitty music... no thanks.
b zanon Nice try, but I remember all of the eighties. The vast majority of music was shit - thankfully some of the worst of it is largely forgotten. But all that synth-laden rubbish, Stock, Aitken & Waterman manufactured pop was rubbish. Unfortunately, some dreadful 80s artists are still on the go like Madonna and Elton John (yes, he's seventies but he's been stuck in the same rut for at least thirty years).
By the way, stop using "retarded" as an insult, it is a medical term, and you show yourself up by using it. I'm considerably better read and educated than you probably are.
b zanon The Clash, Fleetwood Mac, Bowie etc started out in the seventies. The first two had their best material behind them. As for Foreigner, you must be joking - corporate AOR shite.
ps You really don't know what "retarded" means do you?
they all were very active in the 80's,you're full of crap..
what about the funk disco and motown?
how old are you?
b zanon Dance music moved on from disco pretty early in the eighties. Unless you were American but they're slow on the uptake.
Out somewhere and want to call home?
Where is a public phone and 10 cents??
"hey, can I bum a dime for a phone call?...thanks."
Hack the phone. Remove the microphone cap and touch the 2 screws together with something metallic. Make a free call
What sort of loser would break the law for 10 cents?
It was 25 cents here in Canada
You could buy a small bag of chip for 25 cents.
You are 10yo with a choice hack the phone and get a chip or be "good".
So YOU are a loser who would break the law for 25 cents. Bottom feeder.
I WAS BORN IN 1991 BUT I STILL NOW A LOT FROM THE 80S BECAUSE I GROW UP WIITH BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM THE 80S
Right on bud, the 80's were great , wish it was 1985 again.
Haha, the parachute pants part. My dad would not buy me a pair... at the time I was pissed, but now I'm thankful.
I could relate, even as I was born in 1991. I remember the advent of Saturday morning cartoons, video stores, buying music at a music store, and every phone call being an unpredictable event. Now we have internet "stars" that the average person hasn't even heard of, and people disenchanted by widespread internet access and whatnot that it's not a special thing anymore.
Ya couldn't even skateboard to a blockbusta without gettin' nuked. (tears)
I didn't have cable growing up. I remember having to turn the antenna so that a channel would come in. I remember looking at the tv while the other person turned the antenna on the roof, and then screaming out the window "It's Clear!!!" when the picture was good, which had to be done after a bad windstorm sometimes. Some channels would come in only on cloudy days. Clear day forget about it.
I was rich growing up, so we didn't have that problem. Completely joking. But my parents ( my dad's a gemini...) Would go through phases. Sometimes, we'd have all kinds of channels (w/ blocks on some, that I'd crack), satellite, a combo, or not, or basic cable,. But if you switched through those channels, I'm pretty sure the movie channels would come in fractions at a time frame. Like as a idk how to explain it. Just to get ppl to jump on the package. But I never really knew when they'd come on. But if you could catch it, it was free, sometimes. I accidently walked in on my dad watching porn before 🤮. The code was 6969🤮🤮🤮
I lost at "You couldn't even skateboard to Blockbuster without getting nuked" XD
You had to be there man
skip darius No lie on the cost of VHS tapes, I had to pay that after renting Robocop and then left it on top of my car leaving a friends house and had to buy it.
I lost it at that point. laughed my ass off
Holy cow man, not returning a video was like $100, back then, which is what, about $1000 today? You're much better off just never going back to that video store ever again.
Haha funny because that's sort of the same threat America in 2017 today we still face that same issue except instead of it being from Russia, it's from North Korea now lol
I remember the 1st time Trolls came out... As well as Smurfs, Snorks, He Man, G.I.Joe, Transformers, HBO, Stickers, my awesome 386 machine running at 16mhz... and so so much more!!! I am AWARE!!! (Of the 80s!)
2005 Trollz were the best
I guess it is kinda off topic but does anybody know a good place to watch new movies online?
@Kenzo Misael i would suggest Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
@Leighton Sonny yea, have been watching on Flixzone for years myself :)
@Leighton Sonny Thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service =) I appreciate it!!
Obviously, those 644 voting this down are millennials. AND YOU JUST PROVED KEVIN BACON RIGHT!
joseph lepage it doesn't make a difference tight jeans still killed their sperm count
I disliked because he's generalizing a group he knows literally nothing about.
themurph2000 - Kevin Bacon for prez... we'll take him for PM here in Canada.
Mr. Cuttystabby
You get that it's satire, right? You get that it's virtually (the word you should've used) impossible to know "literally" nothing about a subject, particularly one as subjective as this one, do you not?;)
We Gen X'ers have the ability to adapt overcome and invent as were Millennial s have a hard time using a manual can opener or change a tire. I fear the day the idiots rise to power.
OH GOD i forgot about the phone call lol , remember before cell phones , if they didn't answer the home phone that was it , you just didn't talk to that person until you saw them next , could be a day , a week ,or never again , and no one knew any different
You kids don't know how easy you have it, with your "World Wide Intertubes" and "Laugh-Out-Loud Cats" and whatnot. In MAH day telephones were attached! To the walls! With wires! IN. YOUR. HOUSE. And the only thing you could do was TALK on them! TO PEOPLE!
But in some ways we had it better. Mad Magazine was actually funny then. Not like now, oh no.
Josh Luther "by doing activates" what the hell is an "activate"? Activities?
Caleb Johnston We didn't have grammar nazi's back then either.
+Caleb Johnston Yes, we did, they were called teachers.
i love this
Thank you, Kevin Bacon, for teaching us the true meaning of the 80's!
Parachute pants! MUAhahahahahaha
Awesome.I wear my safety-pin induced ankle scars with 80s pride.
Man, I love this guy. MTV, 80s hairbands, glam-rock, death metal...and let's not forget, the birth of Rap. What a great time to be alive!
The 80s were waaaay better than now, at least there was common sense.
Yeah. Schools taught you that hiding under desks would save you from a nuclear blast. So much common sense.
i'm a millenial that still owns his blockbuster card. take that kevin bacon!
I was born in the 90's and grew up in a 3rd world country... Basically the 80's.
lmaoo
Lol
Grew up in Greece in the 90s. All my pictures as a kid look like publicity stills from the set of Family Ties.
gold comment
we don't need people like you in the comment section
"you couldnt even skateboard to a blockbuster without getting nuked. My friend tommy went out and never came back, you know why? Nuked." I about lost my shit. for real. funniest shit ive heard in months. thank you for this. #kbacon4life
YOU PEOPLE WILL NEVER KNOW THE COMFORT OF PARACHUTE PANTS
I LOVED the 80's. In fact, I feel so sorry for kids nowadays. Man, in the 80's, if I walked down the street, and bumped into a black or a muslim, I said excuse me, they said no problem, hey Im Tyrell, hey Im tellurye, wanna go to a party later? - and we would friggin be friends for life! We didnt give a shit about race, religion - we all were livin in the moment.
Nowadays, I walk down the street, bump into a black or muslim, I apologize, my apology is NOT accepted, I bumped into them on purpose because Im racist, my ass is on CNN or TMZ every 30 minutes "racist white guy claims black / muslims cant walk on sidewalks", and Spike Lee is tweeting my home address so folks can come beat my ass LOL.
Oh, and I DIED when he said Sbarro's.... That was the hot spot at the food court, and you ROCKED if you could take a girl there. You sat in the open and EVERYBODY saw you together on a date. That was "scoring" back in those days.
Seriously? your post made me cry because it is so true. I had friends from Iran and Israel and we all hung together.
A great time for music as well. While I am a gen z, I appreciated music from before my time not because it was popular or "fire" (as retards say) but because I actually enjoyed it. It's also sad that hip hop went from social issues in America to,"hey, I just smoked a joint!" What the fuck are we going to do as a society.
so true about how over sensitive everyone is nowadays about everything. Insecure generation messed up with plenty and technology
Exactly!!! I was a white chick with junk in the trunk before it was cool....I caught nothing but hell for it, but the black dudes all wanted to take me out. I married and we had biracial children. Back then I was called an "N-Word" lover, and now I am a racist. I always got along with everyone and so do my kids now.....wtf has happened to the world? I would go back in a heartbeat so I could go back to the drive-in movies, the bowling alley, play mini golf, have keggers in the park. We did it all and it was a blast!!!
@@toots810usa6 LOL, wait they call you racist? I guess you cant do the ole "Im not racist, my husband is black" right cause thats like the "I have black friends" LOL!!! You cant win, girl.
Kevin is soooo right! The 80's were the absolute best!
Facts
Go 80's!!! Best music ever
Except for '70s music. :)
The Bee Gees give me a clear insight through their music alone. Voices of the 70s and 80s which I can listen to while growing up in the 00s.
I REALLY miss my parachute pants and Members Only jacket.
You can still wear them lmao no one is stopping you. It's 2016, gay marriage is legal and there are more genders than Pokemon, you can wear whatever the fuck you want xD
a.k.a flight pants
I wanted parachute pants SO BAD
And the other day I saw some pants in Wal-Mart that look just like parachute pants. They are bringing the 80s back little by little.
Took your advice, Googled "white pages," don't understand why using whitepages.com was so hard in the 80s
Joke, everyone, don't panic :)
Unqualified Gamers People are naive.
I'm watching this on an Atari 800XL
+chemistryguy : I still have mine, but the old tube TV that I used as the display died.
+Texman All you need is about 500 adapters to match it to HDMI input.
Pssss... I'm watching this on my 80's typewriter.. darn it just ran out of the ribbon... lol
Keyboard still works on my ZX81
@Stug < I'm glad it ain't sticky ;)
if its not on social media they havent got a clue..
everyone but me gotta learn thats bullshit.
Asking a girl out was pretty hard in the 80's as well as in the 90's. We needed to look straight in her eye, and had the courage to ask her out. It was up to her to either say yes or no.
Concerning social media we only had magazines, newspapers, the radio, and every once in a while a TV channel directed to the youth came up eventually. Additionally, if someone wished to stand up from the crowd; they needed to take pictures of themselves and posted on the school bulletin board as well as all parties and rock concerts we used to organize.
In other words, if we wanted something; we had to earn it. There was nothing taken for granted.
Kevin Bacon IS the 80's.....he is the definition,poster child,face,fragrance of the 80's
One of my favorite history lessons ever. #80smovies #kevinbacon #mashable
Kevin Bacon, the 80's and good times. Yes, I remember it well.
Logan Cracraft "there was NO hashtagging"
And there's no good grammar in the 2010s.
RonJohn63
Right, when English was English, not some ghetto messed up language that you can't even comprehend anymore.
at the series "the following"
One of my all time favorite CZcams videos.
Kids born in the 80s are grouped with kids born in the 90s. Totally different life experiences.
No, they don't. I have nothing in common with 90s kids, so please don't generalize, especially when you are not born in the 80s. Speak for your own age group. I can totally relate to what Kevin beacon is preaching as I vividly remember my upbringing and from an early age. I fall into the Xennial generation, which I understand but still feel closer to the xers.
Agreed. I was born in 81 and aesthetically love the 90s. But definitely an 80s baby
I was born in 1980. I remember being able to play outside without parental supervision. I remember when a book was your video game. I remember when Oregon Trail was THE game to play on the computer. I remember rotary phones, cassette tapes, VCR's, technicolor tvs were expensive and heavy. I remember crazy hair, fashion, and music. But, the best thing about the 80s, that I miss, was the lack of entitlement. My dad raised me to believe that if you want something you go out and get it, you don't sit at home and whine to mommy and daddy, you get a job and get it yourself. Did I have the best of everything growing up, no, but my needs were taken care of. Kids were raised to respect their elders, not walk all over them.
Let me tell you about a little thing called the cold war... they had nukes pointed at us for 20 years. You couldn't even skateboard to a blockbuster without getting nuked. My friend Tommy went out to rent a copy of Gremlins and never came back... you know why? nuked! At least that's what my parents told me.
^^ Best bit
80s still to this day has the respect of the topic being discussed and music playing in sporting events, commercials, and so in. Still lives.
You couldn't skateboard to a Blockbuster without getting nuked.
Oddly enough, I distinctly recall lecturing my millennial kids on the importance of Kevin Bacon a few years back...
LOL, I'm Bacon's age - if you can't understand the 80's, OMG would you be lost on the explanation of what the late-70's were like!!! They've even banned the MOVIES from that era! The 80's were like, like, the '70's-LITE!
One idea - think on this one - THEY BANNED Starsky and Hutch from TV because of 'depicting excessive VIOLENCE', when in reality, it was as true-to-life of what cops actually did at the time, as the 'semi-documentary COPS' showed you in the late '90's).
Try explaining the FIFTIES! Or the SIxties.... I grew up before computers. That makes everything so different. We had PRIVACY! We could think and listen to silence if we wanted. Walk to school alone. Drink water from the outdoor tap and SURVIVE!.... very funny Kevin.
I was just going to do a post about growing up in the 70s but there didn't seem any point after reading your post Barbara Lee.
Junah Moreau: the 60's was pure cancer. The 60's is what turned half a generation into multiculturalists and social justice warriors.
The entitled millenials of today are the children of the doped up hippies from the 60's, spewing hatred towards "white america" and voting democrat.
Unchecked Capitalism is what built this country, at least, at the start. The idea that Capitalism will ruin itself is silly. A monopoly will only exist as long as the monopoly holder is providing quality goods or services at reasonable prices. If there becomes a void, the free market will fill it. As soon as a government bureaucracy begins to regulate a good or service, it becomes ruined.
Social Justice is a farce. Individual justice is what we should strive for. We had it, once. If we strive for individual justice, then society becomes more just. And if society is just, well, social justice is achieved. However, you cannot take from one portion of society, and give those proceeds to another portion, without violating the individual rights of some people. That is not justice, social or otherwise.
And what the hell is up with knocking the wealthy? I love wealthy people. Wealthy people buy goods and services. When they are confident in their wealth, they buy goods and services that they don't need. That means people who are not wealthy are able to go to work to provide those goods and services. Then, they make some money, and they buy stuff, too. I used to get all my playing money from side work that I did for wealthy people. That gave me an excuse to hang out with them, and harvest pearls of wisdom from them.
In recap: Capitalism is a good thing. It breeds competition, which then brings about a rise in quality and a decline in pricing. Socialism is evil in any form. It's all theft. It removes any incentive to be productive, Why work and have your profits stolen from you, when you can NOT work, and receive monies stolen from those who do work. And wealthy people are good to have around. They stimulate the economy buy spending their wealth, but only if they are confident in their wealth.
No caller ID in the 80s. You had to answer the phone and hope its someone u wanted to talk to. We also paid for long distance calls. Also malls were the hot spots.
70's & 80's kids were tough. Imagine they survived without the internet and celphones.
They were real back then unlike kids now so fake and always on their phones 24/7 glued
We would be outside all day, especially in the summer, and our parents would have no clue where we were or what we were up to, and they accepted it, hahah - it was the kind of freedom we took for granted back then.
Kevin is so superb in this short comedy. What a fabulous career, and enviable notoriety.
This is what is known as a "joke"
It is to bring about humor, or possible momentary happiness. It's not "serious"
I understand this can be a hard term, but not everything is serious, sometimes people say things for the purpose of trying to get someone to laugh.
Just give Up. Don't even try. This is a battle you cannot win. These humorless, soulless motherfuckers are everywhere, and they will have the last...well, not laugh, but you know know what I mean.
TastycakesLol thank you captain obvious.
Captain obvious over here.lol
+TastycakesLol net is full of manic depressives, you get used to it :)
A joke yet oh so true. These babies have no idea how good they got it and have no appreciation for how it got there
I was born in 1984. Lol 😂 I miss the 80s. I am trying to remember more.
There would be mayhem in the streets if all cell phones stopped working.
Hahaha... I still remember when my elementary school was teaching us to go under our desks in case of a nuclear drop. Some interesting times those were... :P
I was told to stop drop and roll by my mom... That was her solution for everything, RIP...
She was a Doberman!
I was the runt of her litter... :'(
I mainly remember Kevin Bacon as Valentine McKee from Tremors. Awesome movie, great acting, realistic effects.
"I can't believe we said no to free beer!" and "I've got a goddamn plan!"
60's and 70's was AWESOME growing up !!
80's and 90's are my two favorite decades
Kinda miss the 80s. Nukes and New Coke. Not sure which one was worse.
New Coke. And Clear Pepsi. Just, no.
+Sarah Metsa
Ninja Gaiden.
Max Headroom
New Coke, no doubt. One threatens the end of the earth, the other was the end of the earth.
Thats when it switched back and became "Coca-Cola Classic".
Also, we didn't have makeup tutorials we could just pull up on our phones. We had to experiment with that stuff. And if you happened to look like Hello Kitty chewed the Hulk up and spit it on your face, you didn't have time to wash it off before the school bus came around the corner. You had to brave the entire day and hope to God you just started a new trend. Otherwise, you were eating with the uncool crowd at lunch.
This comment made me laugh too hard
The 80's were a good time-- but I was there and also remember there was a lot of pressure to be "perfect"-- to have the right clothes, the right look, the right hair, the right body type. The right moves. Its was a very unforgiving time for a young person who didn't measure up in certain areas.
Now its true that you find that in every decade, but it ebbs and flows. And in the 80's it was especially strong.
To be honest thats where society started to go downhill.This generation is the evolution of that negativity.
Too Superficial.
B P & very selfish
@@B..P.. Am i hearing a millennial complaining
It was much simpler then but now you have to look too perfect like the best photo fitlers and everything being high class
I love knowing I grew up in the 80s!
I'm 47. I do know the comfort of parachute pants. Unfortunately.
Remember Zubas? I'm proud to say I refused to wear them when they were a fad.
ditto.
Are they talking about mc hammer pants or what
1971 a.k.a flight pants with all the pockets
Pfft, after 1985? I was born in 1988 and I understand as well as anyone before me. I didn't start using the computer hardcore until after high school. I miss the early 90s when LEGOs were all you needed to entertain yourself.
There are some conflicting theories on when the millennial's generation began, with dates ranging from 1981 to 1989. Personally, I think it largely comes down to your local subculture and the environment you were raised. I'm 1986 and I share very few traits with millennial's at all- I best identify with people from the so-called 'Generation X' and tend to associate with people 5-10 years older than me. Some of the people I went to school with, however, are the opposite- they are very much part of the millennial generation, despite birth years from 1986-1987. So, it can vary.
Personally, I was more into books and K'nex though. ;)
Twosocks42
I had books and K'nex, too. Those were a lot of fun. I just preferred LEGOs because you could do so much more with them. Especially if you knew how many I have.
Hey fuck tard JJ you don't know what the military is like and that of what you posted in Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side Of Heaven you are fucking wrong you are wrong the veterans that are everywhere they fight because that is sometimes the only choice they have left and you are a fucking tard man you will never understand what war is or being a veteran is like unless you are in war or a veteran. fuck you. and have a great day
nash dierman
Lol, you're the moron who's leaving me messages on other videos. You got trolled so hard! Problem?
jjaapp18 no one cares
😂love Kevin Bacon! Born 1978 brother I feel ya. Word.
I’m glad I was born in the 80’s that was the best childhood ever.
The 80's called and they want their store back - Radio Shack.
We still a have a radio shack in Gatlinburg tn.
"You couldn't even skateboard to a Blockbuster without getting nuked."
LMAOOOOO!!!
I wish i could go back before the internet...
Best decade and best generation!!
I was born in 1973 right in the middle of Gen X the 80's where amazing times great music you could understand not like the stuff now lots more freedom independence no need for self gratification on mobile phones most people in the 80's where go getters not frightened of what people thought off them strong resilient by the way ZX Spectrum awesome computer
Love it! It was the decade for those of us who were lucky enough to experience our coming of age! God bless the 80s
The 80s was the best decade... The pop culture was phenomenal.. Loose footloose...
I was born in 1980 and definitely an 80s child. It was the best decade to be a kid.
And the cartoons. Saturday mornings actually meant something. There are a few good ones still out there, but they keep getting canceled, while the dumb ones survive.
Amen.
what made saturday morning cartoons so special was that saturday morning was really the only time you could get them. Before Nickelodean (sp?)
rdc197810
A great point.
I still don't use a cell phone to talk to my friends.
I meet them face to face to hang out.
Me too
Those kinda things are for girls.
This kind of awareness is important. Thank you Kevin Bacon.
I remember the terror of waking up Monday morning and forgetting over the weekend to buy gel, hairspray, and mousse and having to resort to shaving creme and Elmer's glue to style the hair.
I had a friend who broke his neck break dancing. He tried to do the head spin. He neck muscles were too weak. Sad. It could've happened to any of us.
You people will never know the frustration a person feels when their finger slips out of a rotary dial phone dial and you have to start over. Count yourselves lucky. the "good old days", weren't always that good.
Mike Latta Dude! So true, and it was always on a phone number just chock-full of eights, nines, and zeros. Lol
kind of like the old box tv's with the UHF Dial turning that dial one to may had to start all over again and oh those Needle Nose plyers every one had to have those setting on top of the Tv set because damnit you always lost the UHF Dial and everyone who had one of those large Box Tv's also had a smaller one setting on top of it because eventually the big one stop working
I have no friends here in my neighbourhood. Life was so colourful back then ,all the time we were outside either playing or riding bikes or dancing. Times changed so much and life has become so dull and gray.
best decade ever! 80s raised guy, missing coolness, best songs, easy people!!
*"You couldn't even skateboard to a Blockbuster Video without getting nuked."*
My favorite app was Super Mario Bros on the OG Nintendo. And I almost got nuked too. The 80's were a crazy time!
I was born in 1992 and my family was working class. So I grew up with a lot of second-hand stuff from the late 80s and 90s. We had dial-up internet until 2005. And then we got a DSL connection but only in one computer in the entire house
Excellent presentation! I'm forwarding this video to my son!
The 80s were the best in every way.
"you couldn't even skateboard to a blockbuster"
I’d go back to that era in a blink if possible
I was born in the 50s and remember going down the road with a coin to make a phone call like everybody else. We had a radio but no T V.