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Post by "The Rated XXX Superstar" Jed on Mar 30, 2010 15:52:25 GMT -5
The '80s were just plain fun.
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Post by Throwback on Mar 30, 2010 17:22:24 GMT -5
The 80s had AIDS and s***. Everybody's got AIDS and s***
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2010 17:38:28 GMT -5
I remember for one birthday being given 10 dollars (WOW!!!) to go spend at the arcade to celebrate my birthday. I felt it was the coolest way to spend my birthday. $10 was either: -40 plays in the arcade (Kangaroo, Zookeeper, POLE POSITION!!!), -40 packs of baseball cards (In 1983, my friend found a Wade Boggs rookie card lying around and played darts with it. What a genius he turned out to be...) -2 LJN WWF wrestlers (tag team sets were $13.99 for some reason), -4 Nintendo video game rentals (I know we rented one game so many times it would have been cheaper just to buy it), or, -10 movie rentals from the video store/grocery store/wherever you rented movies. (I'm serious: when VCRs were widespread, it seemed like everybody had rentals. Video stores, supermarkets, Walgreens. But back then, new movies cost like $50 minimum.) Go anywhere with the Ms. Pac-Man arcade game and there was always "THAT GUY" who was so good at it he drew a crowd.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Mar 30, 2010 21:41:10 GMT -5
Yeah guys, the thing about AIDS in the 1980s wasn't about gays. If it was just a simple STD outbreak, that would be easy enough. It was about blood transfusions. They weren't screened, which meant anyone who had one and their entire families were at risk for the disease for an entire decade. That's the horror where the paranoia came from. Now that's largely contained, and AIDS has diminished to a major STD. Generally, unprotected sex and drug use are risks you choose to take, blood transfusions, or trips to the dentist, not so much.
Also, The Fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest thing ever. I mean, you haven't lived until you watched the fall of an evil empire on CNN. The only thing missing was an oracle.
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Post by mattperiolat on Mar 31, 2010 16:45:23 GMT -5
Yeah guys, the thing about AIDS in the 1980s wasn't about gays. If it was just a simple STD outbreak, that would be easy enough. It was about blood transfusions. They weren't screened, which meant anyone who had one and their entire families were at risk for the disease for an entire decade. That's the horror where the paranoia came from. Now that's largely contained, and AIDS has diminished to a major STD. Generally, unprotected sex and drug use are risks you choose to take, blood transfusions, or trips to the dentist, not so much. Also, The Fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest thing ever. I mean, you haven't lived until you watched the fall of an evil empire on CNN. The only thing missing was an oracle. On the latter, I still say the fall of the Berlin Wall was bigger since it just came out of left field. I mean, I remember coming home from school and hearing the border had been opened and was in shock. I was waiting for soldiers to come out with rifles when they started chipping away at the Wall. Surreal is a kind word for it. The fall of Soviet Russia was more of a slow decline that you got a sense was happening, where this was just... a lightning bolt. As for the AIDS crisis, it can be summed up for me by two names: Rock Hudson and Ryan White. Hudson hid the fact he was gay pretty well and it was his shocking virtual deathbed confession that he was gay AND dying of AIDS that finally put a famous face to the disease and finally seemed to wake people as to its nature. Ryan White on the other hand was a two edged sword - he showed that it wasn't just gay people who could get it, but ANYONE given the wrong circumstances and it also showed what a stigma the disease had developed, to the shame of an entire town.
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