Life The old Geezers 70's and 80's Megathread - Page 17

BIG_DADDY · 10-16-2023, 11:12 AM

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.

tmax63 · 10-17-2023, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by J Diddy

Just to be clear: are you pro or anti stick and hoop toys?

But did anyone else besides me actually have one of those?

**Bearcat** · 10-17-2023, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Spott

If I would have internet porn as a teenager, I wouldn’t have never left the house and a forearm bigger than Popeye’s.

Chief Pagan · 10-17-2023, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

2. 25% of all wrecks are caused by cell phones which we didn't have back then. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that driving while texting is six times more dangerous than driving drunk.

3. Rape is at an all-time high now. Not just any rape either. This isn't someone 21 with somebody 16. It's meth and babies now. Another swing and a miss.

10. Suicide is higher now than ever before, another swing and a miss.

Drunk driving is way down from the 70s and 80s but distracted driving is a huge problem.

Rape statistics are a hard one because most rapes are not reported.

Hard to know if there is really more sexual assault or just more awareness.

Suicide has crept up but I'm not sure it's dramatically higher.

Not sure meth babies is any more of a thing than crack babies of yesteryear.

Fentanyl is a big deal. I certainly wouldn't be so casual with things like I was back in the day. That is one way kids today have it worse.

IowaHawkeyeChief · 10-17-2023, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by The Franchise

Movie reference or not.....we all know you weren't happy with it because he didn't bring up fat or trans people being nonexistent.

they existed, just at a much smaller percentage.

**srvy** · 10-17-2023, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by BWillie

Just so weird to me. I grew up in WESTERN IOWA. Hick central. Nobody had any gun racks in their vehicle. Very few even had trucks. Maybe one or two had gun racks I guess but perhaps the Fast and the Furious changed that. Alot of rice burners as they call it. I used to have a 98 Honda Prelude in high school. Got me laid many a times.

Maybe they had them in the trunk and you wouldn't have known. I was a sophomore in HS NKCSD in 1973 it was the oil embargo and gas lines here. I had bought my Dad's old 68 I believe Galaxy 500 after my VW was rear-ended and totaled. We could always get gas in Riverside even when rationing was all over the country. My buddies and I would bring our shotguns in trunks and head after school to the farmland we had permission to hunt. We would blast abundant Quail walking fence lines and ditches. When squirrel and rabbit were in season it was .22 rifles. Also, school started at 5 am and we were out by 11:30 am because it was supposed to save fuel or something.

IowaHawkeyeChief · 10-17-2023, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Loneiguana

Boys today will never know having to call a girls house and talk to her parents first.

I regret that as a dad nowadays.

so true.

**srvy** · 10-17-2023, 05:40 PM

Trucks weren't popular in the 70s kids wanted muscle cars or dune and rail buggies. Oh and freaking hippie vans.

WilliamTheIrish · 10-17-2023, 05:42 PM

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. Also, school started at 5 am and we were out by 11:30 am because it was supposed to save fuel or something.

Totally forgot about that during the embargo. It didn’t happen in my district but I remember it was implemented in some surrounding rural districts.

**srvy** · 10-17-2023, 06:03 PM

This was the color of the Fastback 500 with 302 V-8 no fancy Keystone or Cragar wheels but a badass Kmart external 8 track tape deck. Also a massive bench backseat.

**mlyonsd** · 10-17-2023, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

so true.

Not totally true. I was in Florida visiting my daughter and family and my granddaughter that was a SR in HS had a date that came by to pick her up.

She came out to the patio saying she was leaving and my SIL said not until he came in to meet me. She gave a little bit of an eye roll but he soon appeared. Had a nice conversation but my SIL grilled them pretty good about where they were going and doing. When they left he asked me what I thought and I just raised my arms and said I'm out, this is your problem. But I also told him he was doing a fine job raising girls.

IowaHawkeyeChief · 10-17-2023, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mlyonsd

Not totally true. I was in Florida visiting my daughter and family and my granddaughter that was a SR in HS had a date that came by to pick her up.

She came out to the patio saying she was leaving and my SIL said not until he came in to meet me. She gave a little bit of an eye roll but he soon appeared. Had a nice conversation but my SIL grilled them pretty good about where they were going and doing. When they left he asked me what I thought and I just raised my arms and said I'm out, this is your problem. But I also told him he was doing a fine job raising girls.

I did that with my Daughter when she was in HS. However, with cell phones they can talk whenever they like, in our day (lol) they had to call the landline and most parents always aske who was calling and sometimes they would ask what your purpose was for the call.

tredadda · 10-17-2023, 06:55 PM

I actually remember school starting after Labor Day and ending right before Memorial Day. Not sure if that’s a thing in any states anymore as it sure isn’t that way in Colorado.

WilliamTheIrish · 10-17-2023, 07:05 PM

There was a Jerry Lewis theater in the mall near where we lived. Double feature Saturdays and all that.

Saw Kelly’s Heroes with all that star studded cast (Donald Sutherland - my god he was incredible as Oddball)

and

Skyjacked Charleton Heston with James Brolin (prior fame as Marcus Welby MD’s assistant physician Dr Kiley) and Rosie Grier. (LA Rams Defensive tackle).

I later would work in that theater. Cleaning it on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a few bucks. (And the money that patrons dropped on the floor.

displacedinMN · 10-17-2023, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by tredadda

I actually remember school starting after Labor Day and ending right before Memorial Day. Not sure if that’s a thing in any states anymore as it sure isn’t that way in Colorado.

not many.

**ShortRoundChief** · 10-17-2023, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by tredadda

I actually remember school starting after Labor Day and ending right before Memorial Day. Not sure if that’s a thing in any states anymore as it sure isn’t that way in Colorado.

Not here anymore.

That's the way I remember it as a kid.

10-16-2023, 11:12 AM
BIG_DADDY THE RED MENACE Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Texas Casino cash: $2568410	The old Geezers 70's and 80's Megathread 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.
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tredadda Three-Pat Join Date: May 2011 Location: Colorado Springs Casino cash: $-1754947	I actually remember school starting after Labor Day and ending right before Memorial Day. Not sure if that’s a thing in any states anymore as it sure isn’t that way in Colorado.
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10-17-2023, 07:05 PM	#253
WilliamTheIrish Champion Golfer Of The Year Join Date: Aug 2001 Casino cash: $2650607	There was a Jerry Lewis theater in the mall near where we lived. Double feature Saturdays and all that. Saw Kelly’s Heroes with all that star studded cast (Donald Sutherland - my god he was incredible as Oddball) and Skyjacked Charleton Heston with James Brolin (prior fame as Marcus Welby MD’s assistant physician Dr Kiley) and Rosie Grier. (LA Rams Defensive tackle). I later would work in that theater. Cleaning it on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a few bucks. (And the money that patrons dropped on the floor.
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