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Would you go back to the 70s or 80s?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Rubber Ducky, Nov 30, 2020.

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Would you go back?

  1. Yes, I would

    15 vote(s)
    71.4%
  2. No, I would not

    3 vote(s)
    14.3%
  3. I buy a DMC Delorean and call myself Marty McFly

    3 vote(s)
    14.3%
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  1. Rubber Ducky

    Rubber Ducky Trusted.Member

    Some 40 years ago nudity wasn't a big deal like it is now. Sexual morale was completely different in ways that could get me banned within 5 minutes after posting. Nudist magazines (front covers posted in the pictures section) were freely available. Other magazines too, and even 8mm film. The Taboo movies were on TV. The pill was just invented, and something like HIV or Corona wasn't here yet.

    On the other hand, the phone was a thing with a dial and it was attached to the wall. The internet as we know it had to be invented yet, the same goes for a computer with a color screen.
     
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  2. gabboguy

    gabboguy Trusted Member

    [edit] in the 80s the 'moral majority' and family values bullshit was in full swing...if we're talking just about pornography consumption, I'd prefer the late 90s, when the internet was still kind of in its wild west phase, even though there was far less content it seemed you could find more unique stuff, and like you said, it wouldn't be taken down after 5 minutes, and when you did a search for something you didn't have to wade through hundreds of nearly identical tube sites
     
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  3. Star_of_sea

    Star_of_sea Collector of ephemeral moments.

    I don't know how you would live 40 years ago, but I'm sure you won't live in a time like that, in a world as old as that, without computers or the internet, without being able to have that window open to the world that is the internet, where you can see all the sex you want from the comfort of your home to the interior of museums that would otherwise be off-limits or access libraries so far away that thanks to the internet you can enjoy the relaxation of your sofa. But the worst of all this situation when returning to that time, would be the lack of mobile phone, I do not understand how you could live like that. If you met your friends for dinner at a pizzeria and then decided on a hamburger restaurant and someone was late, how would you let them know? If you wanted to listen to music, but you selected the songs yourself and you were not forced to select the radio station or wait for hours in case they played your favourite song, what was the method? If you wanted to play for a moment of boredom and you were in the street, how did you do it? If you wanted to show a dress or shoes to a friend and talk about clothes, you could only go to a shop? If you wanted to buy a lovely gift for a special person online, it would be impossible? If you needed or wanted a specific PPP where you had to look for it? If you had a puncture on a lonely road, what did you call a tow truck to change your tyre? I can't imagine what it would be like to live in a world without a mobile phone, without receiving messages from WhatsApp, without being able to carry the internet with you at all times, that uncertainty until you return home not knowing who has called you or what message they wanted you to receive, I can't imagine what it must be like to have a phone anchored to the wall as the only means of communication with friends and family. How could people live in such conditions? :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
     
  4. whitecoffee1

    whitecoffee1 Moderator Staff Member

    The reason why you would miss some of the things you mentioned is because you KNOW about them. Imagine you never heard of cellphones or the internet.

    Would a (for example) undiscovered human tribe missing televison? Of course not, because they don't know such things exists.

    We didn't have those things. When we were not at home, you couldn't call us. When we would meet with a group of people somewhere we didn't change plans before everyone was there. When someone didn't show up for whatever reason, we would ask them on another time.

    When you would show something you would like to buy, you would either show them the object in the store or the store's front window, or you would show them the object in a magazine or a brochure.

    Some people would have a casette-tape in the music-player. Whenever a song you liked would start play you would go and press the Record-Button. This often resulted in having a song on cassette with some traffic jam report mixed in.

    We didn't live in condoms ;) The word you are looking for is "conditions"
     
  5. Star_of_sea

    Star_of_sea Collector of ephemeral moments.

    Yes, I noticed it when I uploaded it. I imagine that no person could live in a place like that, too small and oily, many falls from sliding on that surface, besides it would be very lonely, only "one" would fit inside. :D:D:D:D:D:D:DI'm sorry. It is already rectified. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
     
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  6. whitecoffee1

    whitecoffee1 Moderator Staff Member

    Future generations will have other new things and you would say about them:

    "Back in my days ... we didn't have those"

    ;)
     
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  7. china99uk

    china99uk Trusted.Member

    I would go back in a heartbeat - if I could take the knowledge and experiences I have gained over the last 40 years..;)
     
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  8. RobbiePied

    RobbiePied Account Deleted

    I would go back and fuck my mother.
     
  9. Rubber Ducky

    Rubber Ducky Trusted.Member

    First of all, like @whitecoffee1 said : back in the day you didn't know. You were unreachable whilst on the road so you made the appointment with friends, and you made sure to be on time. Or you used a public phonebooth. They were everywhere. The cassette player was there, and mid eighties the CD entered our life. That was an exciting moment! Texting however, was still a decade in the waiting. In a bar, we used to have jukeboxes and you could always ask for a song. And we had MTV! If you had to wait, you didn't coccoon in yourself with your screen and your music, you started talking to people. If you wanted to shop at home with your friends, all the big outlets sent their catalogs by mail. If you wanted a gift you just had to go out and shop for it. No Ali Express yet. Streets were filled with all kinds of stores. Not only shoes, clothing and a McDonalds. The car breakdown was not a problem. Back in the day we had a phonebooth every km on every highway. You pressed the button (after a walk), talked to the operator. They knew exactly where you were, and the rescue services were on their way. One more thing, cars were actualy fixable since no difficult stuff like computers and sensors.

    And you can look at it, shake your head and think it is impossible. But it wasn't. I grew up in it, and here I am. With a smartphone in my pocket. ;)

    On the other hand, we now have something called social pressure :eek: which has it's own effects. Everybody pretends to have "the perfect life", and strives to get it all day long. It is demanded to be social. Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter etc etc etc. It's even a job! Influencer, Vlogger, Youtuber. Your phone (friends) is/are always beeping for attention :confused:. It's so bad we have a rule when dining/drinking with friends. All phones need to be stacked on top of eachother in the middle of the table. The first one picking up their phone is the one who pays the bill :D.
     
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  10. cuzluster

    cuzluster Trusted.Member

    yes i'd love to go back to the mid to late 80s
     
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  11. Star_of_sea

    Star_of_sea Collector of ephemeral moments.

    Yes, Whitecoffee1 and Rubber Ducky, I know all about this way of life from the past, either from references from people who have lived in that era and from information on the internet and it is very true that people adapt to their era and their way of living in it, but I have cast my vote against it because in this era we have a much higher quality of life than in the predecessor. In Spain many people miss those years because my country ended a dictatorship in 1975 and was replaced by the current democracy and in the 1980s "la movida" appeared, that is, an explosion of freedom of expression in literature, relationships, fashion and, very especially, music. People were hungry for freedom, literally, and it was a real, impressive explosion of breaking with the whole past and starting a new era and a change in attitudes, thoughts and way of life that was radically different. I imagine that if I had lived through that era I would be happy in it because of what Whitecoffee1 has said, that is, because of my total and absolute ignorance of the existence of it. But even with those conditions, I like my time better, you have access to a lot more information, in a more comfortable way and, above all, much more quickly.

    I recognise that not everything is perfect nowadays, I recognise that we live too much with technology and there are really absurd cases, such as saying that we live in the age of communication and you see a group of friends gathered together and all with their mobile phones and not relating to the person next to you, but also thanks to technological advances we can communicate with a medium like the present. With my friends we haven't reached that point of leaving the phone on the table (I think it's a simply great tactic), but we have understood that if we meet it is to relate, to talk to each other and not to constantly check the mobile phone, so we have reached an agreement that is to try, I emphasise the word, to try to look at the phone as little as possible, but it is also very true that if you hear the beep of a WhatsApp you are anxious to know who has sent it and what that message says. We really live in an era of communications, but always with people who are not present. Mum also told me that I live more by my phone than by the air I breathe. As far as social networks are concerned, I don't have an account, because I haven't yet understood that a person who lives in Russia or Madagascar or in Argentina because of the reason has to have access to my personal information and what interest that person may have in knowing about my life and my photographs. Personally I think that social networks are just a way for many people to stop being alone in the world, fooling themselves with a sense of companionship that doesn't really exist. From my life people will know the sections that I want them to know.

    There is also another facet that is not merely the inventions and the way of life and that is the memories. People tend to idealize the past, the mind is focused only on the positive aspects and tries to put aside and forget everything negative of the past for which any past time was much more my beautiful, perfect and ideal than the present. But, in my opinion, all times have their negative aspects and their positive aspects.

    I think that the most important difference between that time and this one is that in that time there are not many options that exist today which makes a very important qualitative difference. However, between the future and the present there will be the same thing because of the great number of advances and inventions that have already been made and the way forward will be to increase the speed of communications, the capacity of different devices, safety on the roads and especially artificial intelligence to help people in everything. For all these reasons I think that the difference between the past and the present is the inventions that have been produced and between the present and the future, it will be a matter of developing these inventions, but starting from what already exists. It is like a society where there is no fire and then they discover fire, once this event has occurred, it is just a matter of developing fire and looking for different applications, but fire cannot be rediscovered.
     
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  12. whitecoffee1

    whitecoffee1 Moderator Staff Member

    A sad example:

    Last year we sat in a restaurant. At the table next to us were 4 girls. All of them just looked and typed at their cellphone.

    They haven't spoken a single word to each other.
     
  13. tamika smith

    tamika smith Trusted Member

    I would go back and invest in MSFT and AAPL, LOL.
     
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  14. Dane

    Dane Account Deleted

    I miss the morality of ethics that the 80's still had left over from the 50s-70s. I'm not talking about sexual things, but the
    fact one could accidentally leave their keys in the ignition and the car would still be there when you returned. People respected
    others and other's possessions a lot more but that in part, was because people acted more respectfully then. Nowadays, people demand respect when they've never did anything to deserve or earn respect. Respect of property is almost totally missing now.

    The family has been decimated by this "every-man-for-himself" attitude. Family members helped each other, now they just
    talk to others how their sister or brother (or whoever) is a so-and-so not deserving of help. Family love, imho, is at an all
    time low.

    It did start in the 80's though. Colleges were well into indoctrinating students to the ideas of Marxism and how evil the USA is.
    But they injected and pushed the "What's in it for Me" mantra to their ideology.
    The direct result of that is why a Pseudo-Marxist has been elected as president.

    Though the number of those giving their time to help others is at a good high point now, it wasn't so during the 90s and
    2000-2010. The need and ability for people to help in soup-kitchens and the like had become a major struggle.
    That was all a result of the 'me-generation' of the 80s.

    But saying all that, I would go back in a heartbeat as that was time when I was more carefree and was concerned
    with having fun, which I had. 70s and 80s were a lot of good clean fun for me and my friends. I have a lot of good
    memories to reflect on. Going back, I would get the opportunity to have even more great memories!
     
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  15. Dane

    Dane Account Deleted

    Don't forget WAL-MART! It was $0.25 in 1981. now it's $152
     
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  16. Xr4ti

    Xr4ti Sister lover

    What I loved about the 80’s was watching my sister exercising to a workout tape wearing her workout leotard working up a sweat.
    Yummy
     
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  17. butterfly

    butterfly Trusted.Member

    i would go back to the 70's .i heard they were fun and relaxed times.i would love to see the 70'[s bands when they were in their prime and watch movies like jaws on the big screen
     
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  18. Dane

    Dane Account Deleted

    Good Gravy! I almost forgot watching my sister in a tee shirt and panties copying Jack Lelane on tv!
    What a great view of pantied pussy shots!
     
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  19. Rubber Ducky

    Rubber Ducky Trusted.Member

    @Star_of_sea : you nailed it. Even though I am a few 1000 kms away from you, same thing over here. Generation Snowflake we call it.

    Anyway, I guess you are still reluctant to leave the internet behind for the eighties? :rolleyes:
     
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  20. Star_of_sea

    Star_of_sea Collector of ephemeral moments.

    I could never live without the internet, a computer and especially my mobile phone with all that goes with it. It is not technology that is important, but technology that enables communication.
     
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