Nostalgia for the 80s and 90s
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Besides the last tolerable Pop Culture, in music and Movies, etc., the 80s was great because I got to see the Remnant of Texas Ethnic Culture of Predominant German and Czech (Food, Dance Halls) influence as well as the Old Folks who still had the Native Brogue coming off their tongue and were generally somewhat insulated from Modernity. The small towns that still had some economic viability, but were obviously in a downfall...
We had Heaven of sorts with all that interesting Indo-European mixture, German, Czech, Polish, Sweede, Italian Enclaves. Good stuff...and yes we had some Hispanics too...before the Orchestrated Weaponized Invasion the last 50 years... and those folks were Generally Assimilated...
Now we have the Developer Affliction of building suburbia (3 inch Apart housing Developments, Chipolte, houses, Starbucks, houses, rinse repeat), and bringing in Soulless Urban folk from all over...looking for the Next Thang....Sorrry to tell them but the so called Coolness of Austin happened over 40 years ago... No real Sustainable Economic plan of a town....Just i got mines and I'm getting rich and buying a ranch 200 miles away...and something about Downtown Reviltalization and bringing lots of people in from all over and overseas!
Amazing!!
We had Heaven of sorts with all that interesting Indo-European mixture, German, Czech, Polish, Sweede, Italian Enclaves. Good stuff...and yes we had some Hispanics too...before the Orchestrated Weaponized Invasion the last 50 years... and those folks were Generally Assimilated...
Now we have the Developer Affliction of building suburbia (3 inch Apart housing Developments, Chipolte, houses, Starbucks, houses, rinse repeat), and bringing in Soulless Urban folk from all over...looking for the Next Thang....Sorrry to tell them but the so called Coolness of Austin happened over 40 years ago... No real Sustainable Economic plan of a town....Just i got mines and I'm getting rich and buying a ranch 200 miles away...and something about Downtown Reviltalization and bringing lots of people in from all over and overseas!
Amazing!!
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Bottom line Suburbia is where Ethnic Europeans go-to die as a Bland White Guy.... I believe EMJ pointed this out...sad to see this destruction of our Nation...But there are some hold outs and hopefully they can re-emerge one day.
I often feel nostalgic for that era. Maybe because I know what happened, whereas now I don't know if there will be WWIII, nuclear destruction, even more tyrannical gov't, worse pandemics where they really try to kill you and your family, or total economic collapse. However, I would only want to go back if I were able to retain everything I know now, because when I was a kid in the 90s (graduated '02) I was immensely bored most of the time. I lived in a rural area so I couldn't see friends much. I spent most of my time playing with toys, video games, and watching TV at prescribed hours. Left to my own devices due to your typical boomer-parent neglect, I roamed our farmland alone (had no duties because we had horses, no crops or other animals to tend), explored the woods, played army, etc. As much as one can complain of kids these days never having to deal with boredom, I'm not sure exactly how bad that is. My fight with boredom ended up making highly addicted to games. Having to be creative to deal with boredom didn't give me any additional abilities as an adult to cope with adult responsibilities. Nowadays I'd want to go back in order to get away from the noise. What I miss the most was the solid belief that the future was only going to get better and better. I even remember thinking I was going to have it a lot better than my parents (didn't pan out). 9/11 is when the optimism died and it was buried in 2008. It has yet to be resurrected.
Perhaps this is something our generation can give to the next, or they can do their next, but things must change in terms of the global systems before this can be even remotely guaranteed. I would rather live and give my life towards bringing about that change, than follow in the boomersteps of kicking the proverbial can down the road, there's not much street left in that regard.
I heard about the picture being torn up back after it happened, but never heard about Pesci doing this. I'm sure it was put off as just the kind of shtick he does in the roles he's known for, but it seemed like it was real for him to be offended.
This is hilarious and so representative of the 90s era vs now.
I think before the advent and commodification of the internet, human days were filled with a zest and optimism about life. There was God in everyday things to be found.
Now human days are filled with fear and cynicism/frustration about life. There is Satan in everyday things.
Robert Zemekis, who made Forest Gump, made the Back to the Future movies, not Spielberg. Spielberg did the Indiana Jones films and ET.
Archeology professors will someday use that video to demonstrate the white supremacy hairstyle known as a "mullet"
I liked the 90s hits CD's. I remember as a boy that was a big thing - the yearly CD that came out with like the top 50 songs of that year. I'm blue dabadee, Tiesto, Gigi D'agostino. Man I loved the trance of the 90s! While playing Red Alert. Those were the timez my friend 
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I used to think the nostalgia for the 80s was a tired trend or cliche. As a teen in the 90s, I wanted to distance myself from that era. It all seemed so outdated and lame. The 90s, the 2000s...that was the future. That was "now." The 80s just had big hair and bad fashion.
But now I look back and see it differently. What an incredible time to be alive it must have been for those lucky Boomers to be in their 30s in the 80s. I can't really put it into words. I'd trade all the 4K TVs and high speed internet in the world to be able to go back in time and be a 32 year old man in 1983.
That world is never coming back, though. The Boomers were born at the right time. The ones that weren't killed in Vietnam had everything handed to them. They had it all. And Gen X got just a little taste before it was all taken away.
But now I look back and see it differently. What an incredible time to be alive it must have been for those lucky Boomers to be in their 30s in the 80s. I can't really put it into words. I'd trade all the 4K TVs and high speed internet in the world to be able to go back in time and be a 32 year old man in 1983.
That world is never coming back, though. The Boomers were born at the right time. The ones that weren't killed in Vietnam had everything handed to them. They had it all. And Gen X got just a little taste before it was all taken away.
That's a blast from the past, with the hair styles, the clothes, the cars. A lot of those high schoolers had late model cars. Must be a rich area.
I've definitely noticed that 80s and early 90s fashion has come back in a big way.
I saw a guy in the shop recently who had a permed mullet and moustache combo. He looked like an Argentinian football player from 1989.
Seems like since Stranger Things became popular everyone is mad on 80s stuff
I saw a guy in the shop recently who had a permed mullet and moustache combo. He looked like an Argentinian football player from 1989.
Seems like since Stranger Things became popular everyone is mad on 80s stuff
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The word"true" in the song wouldn't play over the speakers.
Oh, the irony !
It truly was the end of the 1980s
Some speech coaches later tried to teach them to sing their own song, but failed
Here's where the confessed everything to world's press and gave back the grammy they won.
It was a savage press conference where the reporters chewed them out viciously.
Here's the people who actually sung all the Milli Vanilli songs in the studio, among which are Charles Shaw, John Davis, Brad Howell, Jodie Rocco and Linda Rocco
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