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.

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

And of course every girl they swipe immediately says yes?

I think one of the down sides of the apps is it makes it too weird to flirt with strangers anymore.

And for whatever reason, it seems teenagers/twenty somethings are having less sex than people used to.

It's not even close. Good friend of ours daughter showing me her nails for prom. When I asked her who the lucky guy was she says she is going solo. Dad replies and so our her friends and all their guy friends, it's really weird.

Another friend about talked to her daughter in her late teens needing to date at some point. She told her to just go on a milkshake date to start out. One hour into it she gets a text from her daughter asking her if she needed her to come home. Recognizing it as a call for help she called her daughter and told her to come home. Apparently King Stud had cornered her in the car and was going on about his feelings endlessly. There are very attractive teenage girls BTW, WTF? I could do these stories endlessly.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

There are very attractive teenage girls BTW, WTF? .

Bet you wish you had a van with no windows, huh?

[POND_OF_RED]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

And of course every girl they swipe immediately says yes?

I think one of the down sides of the apps is it makes it too weird to flirt with strangers anymore.

And for whatever reason, it seems teenagers/twenty somethings are having less sex than people used to.

I just went to a music festival last weekend and can tell you not many people are struggling as much as you think. They have dating apps for literally every kink and fetish. Did every girl say yes in the 70’s and 80’s? Absolutely not. It’s always been a numbers game. That’s why swiping seems much easier than cruising by in some old car and cat calling out the window thinking that it’s some sort of turn on to women. News flash:no woman ever really gave a shit about your car.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Funny thing about those days.

Even after the Saturday night keg parties and sneaking into the house at 0200 to burn a Tony’s pizza to ashes in the oven:

My mom, bless her heart, would force me awake and I’d have go to the early mass. ( had to account for the indulgences of the weekend.)

[WilliamTheIrish]

Apparently King Stud had cornered her in the car and was going on about his feelings endlessly.

I’m not sure I understand this part. His feelings? For her? Or his feelings for life?

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

I’m not sure I understand this part. His feelings? For her? Or his feelings for life?

It's just his way of saying that men are more sensitive now.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

It's just his way of saying that men are more sensitive now.

Ahh. Got it.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

A few random memories from my childhood, which was mostly in the 1970s.

1. My first phone number (family phone) used letters and numbers. It was something like SU5-1549.

2. My parents' pickup had only AM radio as the sound system.

3. Flat tires were not unusual. Tire technology in the modern world must have arisen from a UFO crash.

4. I walked alone to school and back in second grade, and was a latchkey kid by third grade.

5. Car bumpers were apparently designed to maim pedestrians. They were really hard and metal.

6. My first foray into the computer age was a red LED watch that you lit up by pushing a button. It was pretty awesome. I got it in maybe the 8th grade.

7. The first computer I ever saw was an Apple that my school's calculus teacher acquired for class. We had a little afterschool computer club where we learned to program it.

8. My first video game was an offbrand Pong game, but soon after that Space Invaders came available in the local Godfather's Pizza. I invested significant effort into mastering it.

9. My earliest memories of television were Three reruns and the Red Skelton Show. Then I discovered cartoons.

10. I remember going to see Dolly Parton in concert as a young child, when she was a local second banana to Porter Wagoner. It was at some relatively small theater in Joplin.

significant effort and money... I can't believe how many quarters I pumped into excitebike at my Godfathers and Alladin's Castle, the mall arcade...

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Funny thing about those days.

Even after the Saturday night keg parties and sneaking into the house at 0200 to burn a Tony’s pizza to ashes in the oven:

My mom, bless her heart, would force me awake and I’d have go to the early mass. ( had to account for the indulgences of the weekend.)

mass/church

cleaning out the cow pens
Walking beans
Shelling corn from the crib


Good times. Every kid should have to go through it.

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by ghak99

Makes sense. They're the only generation to have a taste of the old school freedom and live through the transition while still in their developmental stage.

Here, the older millennials are the ones who saw the gun racks disappear from the parking lots and the mental health issues begin to explode in school. Cell phone cameras hadn't quite ruined the craziness and freedom of youth. Then 9/11 showed them similar old school to new school changes within society prior to becoming actual adults. It's easy to see why they'd love to flip the freedom switch back to just before those sweeping changes occurred.

This is me. I was born in 81 so I’ve experienced both sides almost equally.


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[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

mass/church

cleaning out the cow pens
Walking beans
Shelling corn from the crib


Good times. Every kid should have to go through it.

walked beans and de-tasseled...

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

walked beans and de-tasseled...

two of the worst jobs on the farm

To this day, I cannot stand wet socks.

Did you ever de-tassel hungover?

[AdolfOliverBush]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

walked beans and de-tasseled...

That's either something you did with slutty girls, or they are terrible tasks on a farm.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

two of the worst jobs on the farm

To this day, I cannot stand wet socks.

Did you ever de-tassel hungover?

yep, and it was horrible. You were freezing cold in the morning and hot as hell in the afternoon. It was fun to take the pulled tassel and whip it on the bottom of your shoe and it would shoot a core out that could bruise your fellow detasslers. Some of those wait at the end of the row core wars were epic.

[R Clark]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

I had the Davy Crokett coon skin cap and that rifle too. That cork ball would hurt like a mother ****er. Talk about putting an eye out. Different times.

My grandson was Davy Crockett for Halloween couple yrs ago , coonskin cap , long rifle , and fringe jacket. It brought back the memories of my youth. He watches old JW movies and Audie Murphy movies .hell I’d bet he’s the only kid in his class that knows who that is. Times have changed for sure .