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Thread: Would You Live in the 1950s Instead of Today If You Could?

post 1517969581 08-30-2017, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted By caj⏩
Not the 1950s - Korean War and later Vietnam.

But according to my Dad, the 80s were amazing. Reagan is President and the country was just developing early game tech knowledge. Renting videos for your VCR, early days of cable TV. People still talked to each other face to face.
1980s were great.

Except for AIDS. That was frightening -- until you got old enough to realize that only certain segments of the population really had to worry about it.
Deuteronomy 28:35
post 1517969691 08-30-2017, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted By caj⏩
Not the 1950s - Korean War and later Vietnam.

But according to my Dad, the 80s were amazing. Reagan is President and the country was just developing early game tech knowledge. Renting videos for your VCR, early days of cable TV. People still talked to each other face to face.
This. repped.

1950s - B&W TV costing a year's salary, driving a clunker that breaks down every 3 months, no entertainment other than beating wife/kids. Wife tells you anything other than missionary is a sin against god. Having to call your boss sir and be his dog. 90% of people left high school to be farmers and tradies struggling to make ends meet. Shops sells fuk all other than basic necessities. **** priests molesting you through childhood, and church is the rule of law.

1980s - Lots of cheap entertainment, lots of good quality products, massive upward mobility. People were being educated free/low cost college, lots of career progression, sexual liberation, discos, sloots everywhere. Ability to travel round the world cheaply, cheap houses, cheap land, GOAT everything. 90s had GOAT games, sega genesis and SNES. Peak of the bodybuilding, arnie craze, most asthetic look. GOAT movies, alien, terminator. Imagine if you were the first one to see alien in the cinema. hnnnnnng. Lots of new tech, walkman, discman, insane fridges and washers. Rise of new and exciting entertainment, boybands, girlbands, rap, classics like sienfeild.

2018 - Only good thing is internet and games, and even that is highly debatable. Everything else is chit, chit jobs, high student loans, chit finance, expensive and chit everything. BB if filled with youtube fake natties, pregnant mass monsters, or 0 discipline "powerlifters" shoving burgers into their faces. 1 bed drugden costs 1.5million plus your kidneys, soul and your firstborn.
post 1517969711 08-30-2017, 09:47 PM
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As a Black guy? Nope.
post 1517969741 08-30-2017, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted By Hesher⏩
1980s were great.

Except for AIDS. That was frightening -- until you got old enough to realize that only certain segments of the population really had to worry about it.
Just say gay people
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post 1517969811 08-30-2017, 09:48 PM
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No thx jeff ,
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, That being said , If I could travel with the knowledge I have now , then sure . But being born in like the 1940's hell no
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post 1517969921 08-30-2017, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted By SirFapsAIot⏩
minimal worship of sex, money, drugs
in other words, no fun?
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post 1517969931 08-30-2017, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted By LugosiNineOne⏩
Just say gay people
Oh, it wasn't just gay folks. Basically, it was junkies, gays and Haitians that were the first groups that started showing up with the disease.

At one point, people raised the specter of mosquitos being able to spread it. Glad that wasn't true.
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post 1517971411 08-30-2017, 10:08 PM
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80-90's were the goat
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post 1517972231 08-30-2017, 10:19 PM
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No cause I'm not white
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post 1517972441 08-30-2017, 10:22 PM
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No because my sport didn't exist back then.
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post 1517972501 08-30-2017, 10:23 PM
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post 1517972651 08-30-2017, 10:25 PM
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No. Because there was no misc back then
post 1517973861 08-30-2017, 10:42 PM
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No for so many reasons. Me being a woman actually is the least of the worries, although still pretty bad.
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post 1517974071 08-30-2017, 10:45 PM
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Double edge sword. I love technology but at the same time it's distorted/ruined human interaction.
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post 1517974721 08-30-2017, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted By CommonPheasant⏩
fuking lol

repped
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post 1517975001 08-30-2017, 10:57 PM
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I would, but only if I "forget" about modern life, like I wouldn't be able to go back to 1950's if I knew internet and all that shiet existed and I won't get to use it, plus I actually am accustomed to the music of present days so going back would be to hard to change my tastes for that and everything else we have these days.

But if I got the choice right now just to start fresh with no recollection of anything in the 50's I'd give it a go lol
post 1517976001 08-30-2017, 11:13 PM
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Honestly I think that 99% of you would be betting to come back after a day in 1950.

You wake up on a mattress that has less quality than the average dog bed today.
You'll either be cold or hot, because most houses didn't have A/C and central heat was quite a luxury.
Go into the shower, just a basic shower head that sprays unevenly, soap barely washes and hard to wash off, you still stink after the shower.
You shave with crap shaving crème, razor that cuts your face if you aren't careful.
Get in your car and better start it just right or you'll flood it. Start it and almost die in the fumes. Drivability and handling is crap compared to todays cars.
Get to work and your job is probably more physical, white or blue collar.
If you are a non-smoker, you aren't going to like it. Everyone smokes, everywhere with no consideration of others.
Racism, sexism, and other things, you'll see things that will make even your rather racist/sexist's stomach's turn. Say something and you'll be accused of being a commie which is pretty much a ****phile in those days. In parts of the South, get caught being even friendly to a black person and you'll be accused of being a commie and might end up getting beaten or dead.
Through the day you'll just notice all the things that you take for granted today, that haven't been invented yet.
post 1517976631 08-30-2017, 11:23 PM
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see sig. no thnx jeff.

But the 90's with my current age yes please.
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post 1517977521 08-30-2017, 11:40 PM
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How were brownies treated back then?
post 1517978201 08-30-2017, 11:54 PM
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1950s America with 2017 technology
post 1517978931 08-31-2017, 12:10 AM
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im black so time traveling backwards would be dumb as ****
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post 1517979251 08-31-2017, 12:23 AM
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Nah gyms with decent equipment were probably a lot harder to come by and they probably didn't have bidet attachments for toilets back then, so I'd be weak af and have a dirty Angus all the time. No thx Jeff.
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post 1517979391 08-31-2017, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted By sammywatkins⏩
Hell no.

No porn
No bodybuilding
No bodybuilding.com
No roller coasters
Sh*tty movies
Sh*tty music
Racism
Ostracized if I don't go to church
Ostracized and looked at badly cause I wanna smash lightskin bitches
Everyone around you smoking cigarettes
Having to grow up with entitled baby boomers
Girls can't snapchat you videos of them fingering themselves
Gay clothes
Only took 21 posts for someone to cry about recism.
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post 1517979621 08-31-2017, 12:35 AM
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No thanks, would've experienced war if I was my age in the 1950s overhere.
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It's a lot easier to get rich from nothing today compared to 1950s given you have a good head on your shoulders. 1950s was a lot better in every way except for the lack of technology but I'm ethnic so I'll pass
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Fuk yeah I would, who wouldn't?

Come up with idea of Google, Amazon, Netflix, or other billion dollar ideas srs

Be part of history and take advantage of cheaper education
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I'm black. So, that answer is always going to automatically equal no.
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Originally Posted By Kabamaro⏩
How were brownies treated back then?
chewy and moist


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Nah. The furthest I'd go back are the 80s and even then, I wouldn't do it. I like being a 90s kid because I got to enjoy my school years during the simpler pre-internet times, and enjoyed the early and good years of ******** as well as the release of the iPhone in college, but I'm still young enough to enjoy any crazy future tech.
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I think I'd give it a shot.


I would much prefer late '70s and '80s though.
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