What do you miss the most about the 80's?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

The freedom actually. In the 80s you weren't tethered to a cell phone. People, your job, friends, couldn't just find you at all hours of the day, and you didn't know everything about everybody. You had actual privacy back then. You weren't worried someone was going to Google Maps your house and show up at your doorstep or search your license plate for your home address. You had things everyone didn't know about you because you or someone else posted a picture of you or what you ate for dinner or what festival you were at. You don't realize how freeing that was.

Even as a kid, like the movies portrayed, you could legit have a rager of a house party and no one would find out or your parents didn't know were you were half the time which was kind of awesome. Now, the government is working on literally microchipping us---I don't mean that in a conspiratorial way, literally they want us to volunteer as employees or patients to be microchipped so it will be easier to enter a building or find out our medical information.

Siri137 · Accepted Answer

The mall? As in, shopping mall (centre)? We still have those. I go to the mall quite often. There's this cafe there that makes the BEST Belgian mocha on the planet! :)

GuyAnswersGirls123 · Accepted Answer

Music in that list along with video games, movies, old school arcades, roller skating rinks with pizza playing the Jets:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/d1PTuMQUu4g

The vert skating scene back then (I was a skater and vert skating really reached its peak in the 80s, starting to dominate street skating and there were amazing skate parks all over the place).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6p8fXhWBMlU

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

The music, no question.

The TV wasn't really all that great, I don't care that much about clothes, and I was never a huge fan of malls, but the MUSIC was spectacular. Musicians still needed to be genuinely talented to be successful - there was no AutoTune, no ProTools, just people who could write, play, and sing. And the results were varied, as always, but when it was good, it was GLORIOUS.

D_Bone_Steak · Answer

Oh shit the 80's... Unfortunately or fortunately for me... I was being raised by parents from the 10's. I remember Reagan shot and a bunch of shit happening because of the television. But what I got exposed to outside the television... I don't think I really grew up until I was an adult and already did a few years in the military. Sorry can't help really with the question simply because I don't feel qualified. I didn't get culturally adapted outside of the 1800's well into my late teens just because of my living situation. I had to fight like hell just to get my Nintendo and that was about as far as it went for a long time. I knew more about horses than the shit you kids knew about at school.

strateguy632 · Answer

the 80s! i miss when they panicked reagan was raising national debt to a whopping THREE TRILLION and other people were blaming carter.

lol

i was a kid.

now biden grew an additional trillion, that is a milion of millions in just a few months. 33.1 t to 34 t. see my recent mytake a few months ago.

Miristheiss · Answer

No cell phones, social media, things seemed a bit more innocent, not the same terrorist threats, mass shootings, music videos, fun colors, malls, going to the movies, renting movies, jam boxes, mixed tapes, women didn't have tattoos and piercings.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Just about everything! The music, the videos, the movies, finally getting into a band, recording our first album, getting my cherry popped, the great people I met in college... about the only part of it I didn't like was the three break-ups, losing my best friend to a misunderstanding, losing a few hundred dollars worth of my gear and rap ruining music.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

In the 1980's, Republicans and Democrats had disagreements without waging warfare on each other.

Simslover92 · Answer

Even though I wasn't born yet, definitely the music.

WhiteSteve · Answer

Probably being a child, haha. But if we’re strictly going pop culture type stuff, I’d say the movies. GREAT movies in the 80s, especially those geared towards kids and teenagers.

tfan1 · Answer

You forgot one more option - All of the above. And that’s my answer.

Peter_Penetrator · Answer

Only part of the 80’s l miss is before 1984. After that crack cocaine swept the nation. After that too many people no longer valued human life.

joehypo1 · Answer

I mostly just miss 1986 so much seemed to happen that year for me any way

jamesgoldman · Answer

Of those the music but honestly the opulence of the era. yellow gold and the whole suited vibe films of the era depict

Nikki1989 · Answer

The first half of the 80s had some good music, but everything sucked after that.

bolverk · Answer

The 80's music mostly, I've the Discpgraphy of most 80's artists with certain exceptions - like Madonna for instance, And some of the TV.

Iron_Man · Answer

my family of course I was free and the dominance, of the University of Miami hurricanes winning so many national championships

douride2 · Answer

I was still very young in the 80s but the music.

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

I kept everything from the 80s that I liked.

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Great vote choices! I went with TV shows since they showed all of the above in commercial form.

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

I wasn't born in that era but I remembered what it was like before the internet was mainstream.

litty736 · Answer

Wish I were alive to witness that era. Seems awesome with the music, visuals and stuff

californianjoe · Answer

I was 40 years old in the 80's and everything was better then

butterly248 · Answer

Wasn't alive but you're music rocked 🎵

AnusNdaPainus · Answer

80s coke was unmatched in quality 🙃

laly520 · Answer

the music

Anonymous · Answer

Not being alive was great 😂 Life really sucks.

legalboxers · Answer

Music and the Mall

nawtee_me · Answer

Nothing, good riddance….

AngryCarl · Answer

Economic prosperity.

wiltingrosepetal · Answer

Not existing

NathanDavis · Answer

all of it...

HouseMoat · Answer

MTV!

Gabriel-Chicanito · Answer

The Babes!

riverrat3 · Answer

None of the above

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