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I was born a decade too late and would have LOVED to experience this era of culture. The OP will not be pleased to know I do my part to keep the 70s alive. Farrah Fawcett hair, disco music, and hideous kitchen & home decor (Tupperware, mushrooms, macrame, etc.)
I have an older friend who also "hates" any memorabilia from the 70s because that time was a difficult period of her life. Negative association.
I never understood this aversion everyone has to popcorn ceilings. I have them and they don't bother me. I don't spend time looking at the ceiling really.
I had popcorn ceilings in my previous apartment. I had no problem with them until it was time to paint them what pain in the neck that was.
EDIT: I watched this really dumb old movie the other night about a woman who gave birth to a baby with large teeth and everyone called it monster. Anyway it was from the 70's she had on this old robe and I forgot there use to be the carpeted kitchen floors. OMG I remember those ugly floors with orange and brown colors. Of course their was also the 60's wall paper with the big outlined yellow and orange flowers to really make it awful looking.
I was born a decade too late and would have LOVED to experience this era of culture. The OP will not be pleased to know I do my part to keep the 70s alive. Farrah Fawcett hair, disco music, and hideous kitchen & home decor (Tupperware, mushrooms, macrame, etc.)
I have an older friend who also "hates" any memorabilia from the 70s because that time was a difficult period of her life. Negative association.
I LOVE a lot of things from the 1970s, too. I don't think that I tend to like what most people seem to live. I am fine with being the freak, and I fly my flag high.
I can think of a fantastic disco song "Disco Inferno"
I say "HATE" with no spiritual significance just that I really dislike this color, trend, fad that so many love - but I "hate" it.
Its a persons PERSONAL EXPERIENCE during that era- how they were influenced or impacted by it.
If it makes YOU sick , then it probably was your perspective at the time or a current re-evaluation as an adult
Verses where you in mindset at that time.
I absolutely Loved as a kid going sledding down a hill. It was a blast!
If asked today if I would enjoy it or even promote it to a younger generation- I probably would not.
As an older/wiser adult the safety vs injury, and the pure distain for snow have changed my opinion of it.
Then vs Now-
PS- Loved 1970's fashion, Disliked the riots and floods my family experienced,,, Flip a coin.
Don't know about this orange thing.....but then again, there is UT.
REALLY? "Disco Sucks" is about a riot? There was a riot? First I've heard of it. When I heard Men saying "Disco Sucks", I thought it was just an observation of not liking the music or maybe that kind of life or maybe the guys associated with it. They said, back then, that was why they never saw the movie "Night Hawks" because from the scenes (which I never saw), they thought it was a disco murder mystery.
There was a riot??????
Rather reminds me of the "S&tC" joke where some guest star is cutting down Samantha by saying how they both stood in line for "Studio 54" only when she did, it was actually a club. When I heard that joke, I didn't get it because I only knew it as a club and my Mother told me that there had been a movie......which I had at that time, never heard of.
As it is, I am not much into the Disco hits.....except for "More, More, More" by Andrea True. I fell in love with it when it came out, I have Samantha Fox doing it, and I often refer to it this very day........although now, it is about the amount of cash I spend.
On other little things such as whether Samantha Fox is disco or not and yes I know Andrea True was an early porno starlet (seen 2 of her flicks), well, C'est la vie.
But in any event, one thing about often singing "More, More, More", it is to remember that once I was young.
As far as wishing Wesley out of an airlock, I rather contribute this to MST3K, which I never watch, where we have learned that it is okay to sit and directly mock what is on the screen. Okay if one is alone but if with others, please be polite company.
As to the sitcoms, have WKRP, Partridge Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, That Girl, I Dream of Jeannie, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, The Odd Couple, The Addams Family and others in the library....BUT not the others before mentioned in this thread. Two reasons why. First, they are more funny to me than what passes for entertainment today. Secondly, I am forever trying to remember what it was to feel as when I was a child.
As to Star Wars, watch the first 3 often, the prequels only once, and have never bothered with the sequels. Prefer, much prefer, the original 3 to any remakes. Essentially, two things. First, some movies have it and some don't. Secondly, back again to remembering that time. I remember when Star Wars first came out and there was all that mystery to that universe, where it was quite free to dream. But now, it's all be explained and it is no longer fun.
In a similar note to Star Trek. Watched it up to Voyager but when Enterprise came along, they really messed with the history and stories I knew and I dropped it like a lead potato. I stopped watching there.....and always ever after.
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Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat
I never thought much about any of those things, still don't. My spouse is obsessed with every "Star Trek" episode ever made, not to mention (say it quietly) "Star Trek: The Next Generation". My preference would have been for Wesley Crusher to be tossed out of an airlock.
Well, to each their own.
I remember watching a Space:1999, "End of Eternity" when my Brothers came in and my younger Brother started laughing and tearing up, cutting down the show, and my older Brother joined him. To my younger Brother, his "defence" was that he couldn't take any sci fi show seriously where the villain is in bell bottoms.
Later on, I tore into my older Brother with, "I expect better of you! He's like that, a jerk, but I expect you not to ruin someone's joy just because you think it is funny!".
One may not like this or that, but keep it to yourself for is a joyful memory to someone.
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Wait, can you say that again, slowly? You . . . NEVER . . . saw . . . a . . . Star . . . Wars . . . movie? Ever? Not even once? Not even the original one? Wow. I never knew such people actually existed in real life.
As far as nostalgia that I don't share in goes, fondness for the 1960s tops my list. It was before my time, but from what I know about it, I could never understand why some people (cough Baby Boomers cough) idolized it so much. To me, there were a lot of things about the Sixties that were quite a bit less than praiseworthy. I supposed that could be said about any era, but it seemed much more pronounced in terms of the Sixties. Maybe it was because, for a time, Sixties nostalgia was all the rage. And I truly did get sick of it.
I had popcorn ceilings in my previous apartment. I had no problem with them until it was time to paint them what pain in the neck that was.
EDIT: I watched this really dumb old movie the other night about a woman who gave birth to a baby with large teeth and everyone called it monster. Anyway it was from the 70's she had on this old robe and I forgot there use to be the carpeted kitchen floors. OMG I remember those ugly floors with orange and brown colors. Of course their was also the 60's wall paper with the big outlined yellow and orange flowers to really make it awful looking.
We had wallpaper like that in one of the bathrooms! Huge flowers, orange and yellow and brown. Forgot about that until I read this post.
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