The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: Eighties Party!

[Actingup]

Real friends, flesh-and-blood friends, friends who pour me wine.

We’re real - it’s just that we pour our own wine.

Unless for our sister, of course, who has just turned 18 and is feeling down…

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

SciFi folks are lost in space.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I really wish doctors would believe me when I say "that pain med doesn't work for me". I'll spare the gory details but the last few days have not been pleasant.

Expecting to be okay eventually, but in the meantime I'm tired and crabby.

 

[StillStunned]

Sorry to hear that!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Sorry to hear that!

I remind myself that this would have sucked much worse fifty years ago and that at least I've learned some new things to horrify people with.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Naw, everyone needs a break now and again.

 

[StillStunned]

I remind myself that this would have sucked much worse fifty years ago and that at least I've learned some new things to horrify people with.

But fifty years ago we at least had the eighties to look forward to.

 

[Bramblethorn]

But fifty years ago we at least had the eighties to look forward to.

The eighties had some fine moments, but they also made this (originally released in 1977) a hit:

 

[old_prof]

Personally, the 80's were great. My favorite decade. Culturally, it sucked.

 

[MillieDynamite]

The decade of greed. Hum, wasn't Trump jus' gettin' started in the 80s?

Personally, the 80's were great. My favorite decade. Culturally, it sucked.

 

[StillStunned]

The music, the fashion, the rise of fantasy as a genre, the cheesy movies, the trend of tanned babes wearing pastel-coloured lipstick...

 

[StillStunned]

In sad news relating to the 80s and its music: I just read that Chris Rea has died.

 

[old_prof]

The music,

Every decade of my life has had some good music. I went to a lot of concerts (not as many as during the 70's though), but in retrospect, not much creativity. As least it was a bounce back from disco.

the fashion

Isn't the decade of the designer jeans? Or am I misremembering? I don't remember much else notable in design. I have much stronger associations with the 60's (mod) 70's (leisure suits) and the 90's (grunge -- also known as the way I have dressed since the 60's)

the rise of fantasy as a genre

Or from another perspective, the decline of fantasy as a genre into crappy epic fantasy.

the cheesy movies,

Like music, every decade has good movies. Almost all the 80's movies were cheesy, although I enjoyed many of them. The late 60's/early 70s's and the mid nineties had better movies the any stretch of the 80's.

the trend of tanned babes wearing pastel-coloured lipstick

I think of tanned babes as more a 70's things. I don't remember the lipstick, but that wouldn't have been my thing. I'm more into the classic hippy woman with long brown hair.

 

[TheLobster]

My only nostalgia for the 80s comes from playing GTA: Vice City, so from my point of view it was a decade of dizzying colors, Hawaiian shirts, cassette recorders, and rampant crime.

 

[Writer61]

I never got invited to those sort of parties.

 

[HyunnaPark]

It takes two to make a thing go right
It takes two to make it outta sight
Hit it!

 

[ColtonWrites]

Star Trek TNG came out in the 80s. Best decade.

 

[old_prof]

Star Trek TNG came out in the 80s. Best decade.

Certainly one of the bright spots of the decade

 

[MrPixel]

Best decade.

Says you. Worst decade.

WARNING - Bad stuff follows.

'80s parties? I see no mention of cocaine, the root of my divorce.

My ex got sucked into the Hollywood drugs-and-sex crowd. Coke for the high (and libido enhancement), quaaludes to come down to be relaxed enough to take all comers. After hiding her double life for years, she actually invited me to such a party. I was still clueless, and when she was semi-comatose from the quaalude I knew she had taken, I gathered her up (despite protest) and escorted her home. It didn't dawn on me until after we parted ways that the 7 or 8 men gathered in the bedroom were anticipating the train she was about to pull.

A girlfriend of hers later clued me in that she was cycling through boyfriends who'd soon kick her loose after realizing how much of their paycheck was going up her nose. It was only after she was draining our accounts with weekly checks made out to "cash" did I get a notion not all was right; she was having to pay for her own high.

The rest of the decade for me was spending about as much money for therapy to rid my head of the demons she left. It was a rough time.

I now return you to your regularly-scheduled gallimaufry.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I was made in 1989, so yes, I'm living proof of how great things created in the 80s really are!

 

[Bamagan]

It won't be long before the people who reminisce about the 80s will be octogenarians themselves.

 

[ColtonWrites]

Says you. Worst decade.

WARNING - Bad stuff follows.

'80s parties? I see no mention of cocaine, the root of my divorce.

My ex got sucked into the Hollywood drugs-and-sex crowd. Coke for the high (and libido enhancement), quaaludes to come down to be relaxed enough to take all comers. After hiding her double life for years, she actually invited me to such a party. I was still clueless, and when she was semi-comatose from the quaalude I knew she had taken, I gathered her up (despite protest) and escorted her home. It didn't dawn on me until after we parted ways that the 7 or 8 men gathered in the bedroom were anticipating the train she was about to pull.

A girlfriend of hers later clued me in that she was cycling through boyfriends who'd soon kick her loose after realizing how much of their paycheck was going up her nose. It was only after she was draining our accounts with weekly checks made out to "cash" did I get a notion not all was right; she was having to pay for her own high.

The rest of the decade for me was spending about as much money for therapy to rid my head of the demons she left. It was a rough time.

I now return you to your regularly-scheduled gallimaufry.

Yeah unfortunately there is no decade where the hard-partiers come out okay.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I was made in 1989, so yes, I'm living proof of how great things created in the 80s really are!

I was also created in the 80s!

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I was also created in the 80s!

I was very 'creative' in the eighties and am so glad there was no social media to track my activities...

 

[NuclearFairy]

The wildest party I went to in the 80s, was an ice cream, pizza party in kindergarten, which was how my parents found out that I was still at least mildly lactose intolerant.

Fun party from my fuzzy memories, and I didn't have any accidents at school.