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Boy the way Van Halen played
Songs that made your mom afraid
Dudes like us we had it made
Those were the days
And you knew what to wear theeeeennnnnnn
Sears was out Polo was in
Mister we could use a man like Ronald Reagan agaaaaiiinnn
Didn’t need no deep state
Very few were overweight
Gee our old Caprice ran great
Those were the daaaaaaayyyyyysssssss!
Human civilization peaked 1975 to 1985. We were lucky to be coming of age then. The only part of that song that you couldn't use for the 80s: "Goils was goils and men was men..." We had already passed peak androgyny by then.
But wasn't it amazing how many of our mother's were very religious back then. They really did believe our music was from satan. The Church Lady on SNL was real.
Very good! I always wanted to fully update that song for the current 40 year gap (2020s vs 1980s) but couldn't come up with all the lines. We share Ronald Reagan but I was using Def Leppard for 80's music.
But wasn't it amazing how many of our mother's were very religious back then. They really did believe our music was from satan. The Church Lady on SNL was real.
And Dungeons and Dragon's made kids climb up skyscrappers and leap off!
I am so glad I grew up before the cacophony of toxic social media dug its roots in.
Our parents had no problem with Van or Def or Joan. But I am gonna be that Church lady when it comes to Social Media!!!
We Gen Xers have graduated to “you kids get off my lawn”. As a generation we have the strongest case for getting grumpy with the youth than any generation ever has. These
kids have degraded our country like no other generation ever has.
Our generation on the other hand NEVER had a youth rebellion, we did not try to change the world and we loved America. We worked hard even though we had it pretty tough job wise, especially in our young years. We were punished hard by the Great Recession, some were ruined by that event yet we still kept working hard. We have scraped and crawled for every thing we have. Yes we look down on those youths with their hands stuck out. No life ain’t fair but the big bad world owes you nothing. We have no respect for the thin skinned nature of todays kids. No one has a right to not be offended. I’m not saying we were perfect but we at least put effort into doing things right. Clearly our greatest failure was properly raising the next generation. Everyone saw that failure in the riots a few years ago. We are now watching more of that same failure on our campuses.
Our generation is probably going to really be into the 55 plus communities. Our only defense against the damage they are doing to our country is going to be to isolate ourselves from it.
Unfortunately, at the time, I didn't realize just how great the era was (I would put it from 1970 through about 1987 or so). I consider myself lucky to have grown up and lived through those years. Nothing is perfect... but it was a whole lot closer then than now.
I hated the 80’s in the 80’s. And in the 90’s. By the 2000’s I kinda didn’t care either way, because I didn’t like the 2000’s either.
But now? Lol I’d give my left nut to go back in time to the 80’s.
I might give up both nuts to go back to the 70’s.
The Clintons took a dump, & Obama flushed the bowl.
We’ve been in the sewer ever since.
The oldest X'ers could vote for Reagan's second term, but not his first term.
The Late-Cohort Boomers voted in both elections. That time was clearly the Late-Cohort Boomer's time.
The X'ers were more of the Clinton era. Clinton and Grunge. Yech.
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