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post 1656189763 02-14-2022, 03:34 PM
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High School in the 1980s

-Everyone happy and smiling
-No fat people
-No purple haired freaks
-No feminists
-No wokeness
-No trannies
-No heads buried in phones
-The boys actually making stuff in shop class and working on cars
-Good old classic Americana

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Originally Posted By SuperHercules⏩
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It's amazing how the intro for 16 Candles always made me nostalgic for an era I never experienced.



Had people who grew up then tell me how it was essentially like that.
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
It's amazing how the intro for 16 Candles always made me nostalgic for an era I never experienced.



Had people who grew up them tell me how it was pretty much like that.
I was too young in the 80s for high school but still makes me nostalgic

The 90s were kind of similar though so maybe that's why
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Originally Posted By DJKhaled⏩
I was too young in the 80s for high school but still makes me nostalgic

The 90s were kind of similar though so maybe that's why
Yeah 90's school was the last time I really enjoyed school culture. The early 00's wasn't too bad, but by the time I was in high school everyone had cell phones and it was already the beginning of the end.
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
Yeah 90's school was the last time I really enjoyed school culture. The early 00's wasn't too bad, but by the time I was in high school everyone had cell phones and it was already the beginning of the end.
I graduated near the mid 00's....it was still pretty good then. I remember when I graduated it was when MySpace just came out, there were phones but people weren't glued and addicted to them. No smartphones and closest thing was Blackberry's. Started getting bad after 2008 and then by 2012 it was over.
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Originally Posted By DJKhaled⏩
I graduated near the mid 00's....it was still pretty good then. I remember when I graduated it was when MySpace just came out, there were phones but people weren't glued to them. No smartphones and closest thing was Blackberry's. Started getting bad after 2008 and then by 2012 it was over.
Yeah same here, graduated around 06, it's crazy how quickly the world was changing back then. As soon as I got out of high school and went to college ******** and smartphones became a popular thing, then we had the 08 crash and Obama got elected. The world I entered as a young adult was completely different from the world I grew up in.

I think it hit people our age especially hard, having lived through all the changes as we were still growing.
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Originally Posted By MyLastSerenade⏩
Detention on Saturdays was crazy. I would mess with the bulls and get the horns.
I remember getting these but they called it Saturday School from 8-noon and you had to sit on the school steps til they opened the doors @ 8am.

Nowadays there'd be a fukcing riot because brb "muh bby has to sit alone"
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A friend of mine is still a legend, did a burnout in an autoshop bay with the instructors Corvette in 1993.

We all ate chit for that for a month straight but nobody ratted.
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Originally Posted By DJKhaled⏩
-Everyone happy and smiling
-No fat people
-No purple haired freaks
-No feminists
-No wokeness
-No trannies
-No heads buried in phones
-The boys actually making stuff in shop class and working on cars
-Good old classic Americana

Can confirm high school in the 80's was the goat. Also that song is one of the goats!
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Except for not having phones, many of those things are not true.

At least when I went to high school in the 80s.
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Originally Posted By CaroKannDefence⏩
Except for not having phones, many of those things are not true.

At least when I went to high school in the 80s.
I don't remember any purple haired fat feminists from high school.
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Originally Posted By DJKhaled⏩
-Everyone happy and smiling -In general, sure. There were your typical depressed kids of course. Then there was the one week when 3 of my friends committed suicide. One shot himself because he couldn't handle all the drugs he was taking. His GF hung herself a few days later. Then one of her friends accidentally OD'd on pills because she was destroyed from what happened to the other two. So, that week kinda sucked bad.

-No fat people -There were but not as many and not as fat as you see today

-No purple haired freaks - There were. They were the Alt/Skater/Punk/Druggie group mostly. Listened to garage punk rock or alt stuff like The Smiths, The Cure dressed in all black, etc.

-No feminists -Pretty much

-No wokeness -Again, pretty much

-No trannies -Not full on but the androgynous look was a thing back then, too. Guys wearing skirts and makeup and sh!t. Girls with shaved heads.

-No heads buried in phones -Nope. Closest thing was passing notes between classes and stuff

-The boys actually making stuff in shop class and working on cars -Can confirm. Favorite classes were Drafting and Machine Shop. I'd also help with the Auto shop guys that were building cars. I'd fabricate some parts for their builds. Mainly for this damn Porsche 914 that we put a Chevy V8 in.

-Good old classic Americana - Yep.
Probably the biggest thing during that time was that all the different groups of kids got along. Jocks, thugs, nerds, freaks, band geeks, etc. Yeah, sure there was the occasional fist fight after school behind the church but no one was getting stabbed or shot.
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Originally Posted By engj⏩
A friend of mine is still a legend, did a burnout in an autoshop bay with the instructors Corvette in 1993.

We all ate chit for that for a month straight but nobody ratted.
Had something like this in wood shop man.. table saw fukery before the shop instructor was there..

No one said chit, he even tried to get us to write it on a little piece of paper and all turn it in.

Someone wrote “Jesus Christ”, someone else “blow me”

Hahahah, we all got detention for two weeks after school, but fuk it.

Makes me proud to be a 90s HS kid.
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The thing is back then there wasn't propaganda, smart phones and social media diving everyone. Everyone could get along. Most people weren't obese. You could meet people of all kinds of sub cultures. There was freedom of speech.

Idk what happened. It seems like the 80s and 90s culture doesn't exist at all anymore.
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Originally Posted By DJKhaled⏩
-Everyone happy and smiling
-No fat people
-No purple haired freaks
-No feminists
-No wokeness
-No trannies
-No heads buried in phones
-The boys actually making stuff in shop class and working on cars
-Good old classic Americana

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Originally Posted By eod8989⏩
The thing is back then there wasn't propaganda, smart phones and social media diving everyone. Everyone could get along. Most people weren't obese. You could meet people of all kinds of sub cultures. There was freedom of speech.

Idk what happened. It seems like the 80s and 90s culture doesn't exist at all anymore.
I wouldn’t say everyone got along.. motherfukers still had beef constantly, but it was in your face kinda beef.
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Originally Posted By eod8989⏩
The thing is back then there wasn't propaganda, smart phones and social media diving everyone. Everyone could get along. Most people weren't obese. You could meet people of all kinds of sub cultures. There was freedom of speech.

Idk what happened. It seems like the 80s and 90s culture doesn't exist at all anymore.
You hit a big point, sub-cultures existed before social media, but now everyone is basically trying to echo the same popular opinions. The loss of music being a big influential part of youth culture also has a lot to do with it. I remember how back in the 90's and even 00's music was a big part of our cultural identity. Now everyone just listens to the same generic crap or doesn't give a phuck.
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feminism and wokeness was the biggest pitfall

feminism is a good thing for 10% of women, a bad thing for 90% of women.

Before feminism there were far less suicides, far less depression, far less broken families

people starting getting very very very very particular with what was "acceptable" to the point most things human nature are now "unacceptable" in the eyes of femnists/woke people.

Before families worked together to achieve lifes goals. Men knew work wasnt the be all end all and that the family was. For some reason women got it in their heads that the life outside of the family was the be all end all and the family meant nothing, so divorce started to rise, women started to revolt against all masculinity, and woke mobs started demonizing classical nuclear family traits.

It started in colleges, then TV and the MSM, and now everywhere.
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High school in the 90’s was better
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Originally Posted By Jestbrah⏩
feminism and wokeness was the biggest pitfall

feminism is a good thing for 10% of women, a bad thing for 90% of women.

Before feminism there were far less suicides, far less depression, far less broken families

people starting getting very very very very particular with what was "acceptable" to the point most things human nature are now "unacceptable" in the eyes of femnists/woke people.

Before families worked together to achieve lifes goals. Men knew work wasnt the be all end all and that the family was. For some reason women got it in their heads that the life outside of the family was the be all end all and the family meant nothing, so divorce started to rise, women started to revolt against all masculinity, and woke mobs started demonizing classical nuclear family traits.

It started in colleges, then TV and the MSM, and now everywhere.
Whats ironic, is that foids whine about "objectification" but they objectify themselves via onlyfans, porn, instagram, ******** photos etc.
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Originally Posted By OT2000⏩
High school in the 90’s was better
Just going to say high school from 89-93 was pretty fuking awesome. Rap was starting on the front end, Grunge on the back end, and we still got to see 70's and 80's bands like Rush, The Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, The rolling stones and on and on

I saw 90 concerts my junior and senior year of high school (19 of the dead shows, you go the best party favors at their concerts) it was like $15 - $25 to see a concert back then.
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Originally Posted By Jestbrah⏩
feminism and wokeness was the biggest pitfall

feminism is a good thing for 10% of women, a bad thing for 90% of women.

Before feminism there were far less suicides, far less depression, far less broken families

people starting getting very very very very particular with what was "acceptable" to the point most things human nature are now "unacceptable" in the eyes of femnists/woke people.

Before families worked together to achieve lifes goals. Men knew work wasnt the be all end all and that the family was. For some reason women got it in their heads that the life outside of the family was the be all end all and the family meant nothing, so divorce started to rise, women started to revolt against all masculinity, and woke mobs started demonizing classical nuclear family traits.

It started in colleges, then TV and the MSM, and now everywhere.
The only people who can realistically do better than a nuclear family are taking advantage of world class markets. Fewer than 10% do this.
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
You hit a big point, sub-cultures existed before social media, but now everyone is basically trying to echo the same popular opinions. The loss of music being a big influential part of youth culture also has a lot to do with it. I remember how back in the 90's and even 00's music was a big part of our cultural identity. Now everyone just listens to the same generic crap or doesn't give a phuck.
It wasn't even that long ago that Rap, Country, Rock and metal were all popular and being played on MTV. They've subverted everything though to have be similar. Like people growing up nowadays have no idea what Metallica or even Nickelback sound like lol

All they know is the same rap sound and the same woke stuff these corporations are pushing out. The 90's to mid 2000's had fukin everything.
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