The old Geezers 70's and 80's Megathread

[BIG_DADDY]

The Suzzane Somers thread got me thinking about a conversation I was having with one of my friends about how awesome it was to be alive in the 70s and 80s. You try telling younger generations about it but it’s impossible. For starters testosterone levels were WAY, WAY higher back then. There were very few girly men like we have so many of today. Much higher levels of T and no cell phones had a huge impact on your social/sex life. Everybody was fing everybody and it was awesome. Nobody was up in your business. Everyone knew what they were and what bathroom to use. Fat people were few and far between. Teenage years were amazing. Cruising every Friday night with people bringing out all their bad rides and the girls all sexied up. Kegers every friggen weekend. The music was so much better too. Still remember going to Van Halen’s first tour. It didn’t cost anything to see those bands back then. As a young adult the party for me just continued as I went into health clubs. Once again everybody was doing everybody. The parties after we closed the club, just wow. When I moved to the bay area from Florida it just continued. I remember when the Exotic Erotic ball was a company function and we took 10 limos to the city filled with teenage girls in their sexiest lingerie. Can you imagine that happening today? Sadly that way of life ended with Anita Hill and the invention of the smart phone amongst other things. I will be forever grateful to god for being able to grow up during that time. I feel so bad for the kids coming up today, there’s just no comparison.

So what do you say old geezers, give me a walk down memory lane.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush

I think the #1 advantage of growing up in the 70s and 80s was being the last generation to go through our entire childhoods with no internet. I think social media ****s a lot of kids up.

This - I graduated Grade School, HS and College all in the 80's ('81,'85 & '89)

I'd also say that I'd probably be a complete wastoid living in a trailer park had social media/internet been in existence.

[AdolfOliverBush]

Originally Posted by Womble

If we reversed the clock and banned social media, our young adults might have turned out perfectly normal like Adolf here.

Tell that to a 15 year old with green hair who's on Zoloft and doesn't know what gender they're going to feel like each day until they flip a coin like Harvey Dent.

[TLO]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

You needed your own thread to make sweeping statements about sections of people you don’t like?

I’ll remember that when your RIP thread shows up.

What about his Happy Birthday thread?

[ghak99]

I feel sorry for many of today's kids.

They'll never know what the higher levels of freedom felt like.

[FlaChief58]

I love the things we have now to make our lives easier, but it's a double edged sword in that it's made us lazier, and more antisocial. I do long for the simpler life back then on occasion, but those days are long gone so onward we go.

[WilliamTheIrish]

I do agree that the the obesity rate was much lower in that decade. Once companies discovered HFCS, the population got bigger.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

And it was beautiful. We have got to do something about the testosterone rates falling and our estrogen rates rising as a country. This really is a big thing. You don't have to search hard to find it. Start with you're not the man your father was in Forbes. There is tons of scientific information out on there on it. Communication skills have gone to shit too.

Interesting... I quickly read the article, but the thought seems to partly stem from fewer physically demanding jobs?

That part makes sense and I certainly wish schools were far better at teaching strength training techniques as you got into high school and not just powerlifting classes that were basically reserved for football players.

I half assed that stuff for years as the kid who could eat anything and never gain weight.

[WilliamTheIrish]

It wasn’t all great. War seemed to be an ever present thing for most of my childhood. Taking my brothers back to the train station after leave was tough on the fam. And the extended fam. Feel fortunate that draft conscription was killed just before my time.

Looking back, I have had about 15 years of my life where the USA was not directly involved in a war.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

we took 10 limos to the city filled with teenage girls in their sexiest lingerie.

We just going to gloss over this?

[WilliamTheIrish]

70’s Warner Brothers cartoon on Saturday morning were must see TV. Violent and hilarious. And sometimes worse.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Saving the money for your own stereo. And putting it together to listen to listen to vinyl. Taking a hit of Thai stick and listening to Pink Floyd.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

70’s Warner Brothers cartoon on Saturday morning were must see TV. Violent and hilarious. And sometimes worse.

Hong Kong Fui, Speed Buggy, Land of the Lost and Fat Albert...

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

Hong Kong Fui, Speed Buggy, Land of the Lost and Fat Albert...

And sometimes they were better. Those were all very good.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

And sometimes they were better. Those were all very good.

We loved them all... Saturday mornings were the only time cartoons were on unless you caught Rock and Bullwinkle before church on Sunday morning.

[Womble]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

We just going to gloss over this?

I was under the impression that implying someone is a paedo is a bannable offense. Even if they say something that's quite obviously a bit noncey.