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Why does the 1970s get painted as such a bad decade?
BBC ^ | 4/16/12 | BBC

Posted on 02/05/2024 3:40:25 PM PST by DallasBiff

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To: Darksheare
I got laughed at when I pointed out that there were people nostalgic for the 70’s.

I loved them. High school, college, fell in love, married, first baby. Special to me.

But the 80s really rocked.

81 posted on 02/05/2024 5:13:05 PM PST by truthkeeper
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To: FLT-bird

Yup. That’s how we rolled and we liked it that way.


82 posted on 02/05/2024 5:13:05 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: hardspunned

“ Getting drafted and killed kinda sucked.”

Communist mantra.


83 posted on 02/05/2024 5:13:35 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: truthkeeper

Sadly, what the nostalgia people I’m referring to are nostalgic for is the idiocy that wS Carter’s policies.


84 posted on 02/05/2024 5:15:09 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Responsibility2nd
I was 7 years old when The Brady Bunch debuted on TV. The Partridge Family came along a year later. So I was one of those who remember watching both shows back-to-back on Friday nights as a kid. Not re-runs but when the episodes were brand new.

The "jump the shark" moment with The Brady Bunch for me was when Mike's boss sent him to Hawaii on a business trip to "check on a building he designed" or whatnot and invited him to take the entire family on company expense, including the maid, Alice! They ended up being on the island for several weeks (to check on a building) which took up much of the fourth season.

I mean, c'mon. Even as a young child, I knew that it simply wasn't feasible for a man, working as a mere architect, to take his entire family and a maid on a multi-week business trip to paradise and then be allowed to put it all on his expense report. Besides, did the man (Mike) even work one hour out there? It seemed the whole time he was wrapped up in beach fun and the usual Brady Bunch hijinks.

Anyhow, since I was a kid during most of the 1970s, I was not directly affected by Jimmy Carter, stagflation, gas lines, the Watergate farce, and leisure suits in fern bars, etc. I did suffer through disco, however, as I was becoming a teenager.

It was a fun time to grow up. We weren't tethered by smartphones, hovered over by helicopter parents, or subjected in school to sexual perversions like transgenderism or homosexuality. We rode our bicycles all over town (sans helmets) and got into plenty of mischief without hardly ever getting caught.

85 posted on 02/05/2024 5:15:53 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: DallasBiff

Because Ronald Reagan hadn’t been elected yet.


86 posted on 02/05/2024 5:17:35 PM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Night Hides Not

I grew up in a blue-collar suburb of St. Louis. None of that would have happened to you there. I had classmates who got ROTC scholarships, got accepted at all of the service academies or, if college wasn’t what they wanted, enlisted. Some of them made a career of it. We honored the young men, living and dead, who came back from Vietnam. The area was labor union Democrat but, outside of that, patriotic and pretty conservative.


87 posted on 02/05/2024 5:27:00 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: ifinnegan

So, getting drafted and getting killed is OK unless you’re a communist? Yeah, I can absolutely believe that’s your position. Par for your course.


88 posted on 02/05/2024 5:28:09 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: DallasBiff

Best decade of my life...the music and the women.


89 posted on 02/05/2024 5:28:42 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I think if I could be that young again I’d have fun in almost any decade!


90 posted on 02/05/2024 5:32:21 PM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: DallasBiff

Well the 2020 is making the 70’s look not so bad afterall.


91 posted on 02/05/2024 5:33:21 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Darksheare

In most respects, we Americans were freer in the 1970s than we are today. The Federal Leviathan was a tiny fraction of its current size, scope, power, and cost. We were not (yet) overrun with lawyers, and “political correctness” was the subject of “Soviet Russia” jokes ... not daily obnoxiousness here in America. We weren’t having “diversity” shove down our throats, and we know how to laugh. The people throwing poo at the 1970s are jealous.


92 posted on 02/05/2024 5:34:15 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SamAdams76

“ . I did suffer through disco, however, as I was becoming a teenager.”

Life is funny. I completely hated disco at the time of its popularity and even drove around with a “disco sucks” sticker on the back bumper for a year plus. You might not have liked it but you still heard plenty of it.

Fast forward 40 years and I got to the point of liking it because it puts me back into a better time when girls and mudding occupied most of my off time.


93 posted on 02/05/2024 5:36:01 PM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: ansel12
Cultural decades don’t follow a calendar.

And so-called "generations" don't all think alike.

94 posted on 02/05/2024 5:37:23 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: digger48

The blessed Tube Top and Halter Top.


95 posted on 02/05/2024 5:37:38 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: DallasBiff

This “Historian” is a prime example of “pop history”. It the same theory behind clickbait. They purpose absurd nonsensical theories simply to generate media attention.


96 posted on 02/05/2024 5:39:55 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: Darksheare

I enjoyed the 70$

Except for that Jimmy Carter and gas ⛽⛽⛽ shortage thing


97 posted on 02/05/2024 5:40:29 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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I enjoyed the 70s

Okay, autocorrect...


98 posted on 02/05/2024 5:43:04 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: DallasBiff

NHL hockey was in a number of respects better.


99 posted on 02/05/2024 5:44:18 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: DallasBiff

“1970s...the worst press”

Who even thinks this crap up? People have WAY too much time on their hands.


100 posted on 02/05/2024 5:46:23 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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