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Also wasn't the crime rate like double what it is now?

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It was dirty.

...and fun.

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Amazing the young soy boys are scared of a woman's pubic hair.  After the big boogaloo, when survival will b more important than crotch shaving, us boomers will be up to our necks in hairy snatch while the soy boys run away to fap to some kiddy porn.

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I turned 18 in 1974.

The '70s sucked.

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Yeah, the tent cities and shit are so much cleaner.

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It perplexes me, this fear of women with pubic hair. I think I'm the only person out of my group of friends that prefers a woman not shave all her pubes off. They've all told me they don't care if it was Emilia Clarke, if she took her panties off and had pubic hair they would nope out of there. Very odd.

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We have cleaner water, air, and less trash overall.

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Everyone wasn't morbidly obese so at least there was that.

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I got alot of pussy in the 70s , now the pussy I get is close to 70

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Cars from 1970:

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I doubt it was Baltimore or New Orleans

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I'd say 70 had some great cars.
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The best of almost EVERY music genre was in the 70s.

Best Punk

Best Metal

Best Rap

Best Rock



(Best Jazz was 1957-1962)

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The '70s were in black & white. All the brown looking pics you see are early attempts at colorization. The massive consumption psychedelic of drugs allowed people to enjoy color in real time.

Consequently, early colors were too bright due to the use of phosphates during the '80s. Tons and tons of cocaine were necessary to tone them down so people could look at them with the naked eye.

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It was a good time to be a kid and spend the 80's as a teenager.

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We have cleaner water, air, and less trash overall.

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Polyester is the most horrible choice for clothing.  EVER!  

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I'm struggling to think of a car made from 1974 to 1984 that wasn't a complete pile of shit.  The early 80s absolutely own bad cars too.

Pretty much everyone thinks the era when they started getting laid was pretty good.

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I will take a 1970 Chevelle, please.

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I lived through it.

The horror... the horror... The Bee-Gees...

The 1980s was proof that God loves us.

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Oh come on now, lighting the rivers on fire was a lot of fun.

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The 70s had some of the best music ever.  You're just ignoring it by focusing on disco.  Disco was pop for the 70s and pop always sucks.  
The 70s also had some of the coolest muscle cars ever.  You're also ignoring them.
But yes, the fashions sucked.

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I had a 68 GTO 550hp rear wheels, worked for bar bands, hunted LNAS, Dix and McGuire. lived in the Jersey shore, had ride and die friends, zepplin, the who, the doors
the best time and place to grow up, saw things that many never will, it was amazing

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The thing that this thread reveals is how much 1984 is a prophecy. There are people that actually think we are in the best times.

We have a president with dementia who apparently poops his pants and there is little to no outage in the media, it's forbidden in fact.

We give drivers licenses and voting right to illegal aliens who, unlike citizens, are not required to have insurance on their vehicles. This is all normal and accepted in these "better" times.

CRT is taught in schools. Not much else is taught. People don't even know how many stars are on the flag or how many states there are.

I guess people forgot how awesome California was. There was muscle beach and silicone valley. Now there are illegals and poop. And rolling blackouts. And fires destroying trees hundreds of years old because managing forests is politically incorrect.

We had industry in the country. There was a textile mill or some other industry in every small southern town. Now there are methbillies.  

The fiasco in Afghanistan makes the Carter bugaboo a non issue. There's not room or time to list it all but again, it's accepted, it's treated as normal, and the only people that have suffered any consequences are the ones that spoke out. The ones that caused it are still raking in the dough.

Diversity. We didn't have it, not by today's definition. It wasn't even in the language. Our neighbors had the same values we did. We knew our neighbors. Kids played in the streets together. They rode bikes all over hells half acre. After watching cartoons of course. They have been deemed politically incorrect and removed.

There weren't food stamps there was commodity food. You got staples and had to cook  it yourself.

Teens had jobs. We all had jobs. We had checking accounts and learned to manage our money because when we graduated HS we moved out. It didn't matter that it was a shitty apartment or house because we were on our own. It was ok to be poor for a few years because we knew we had a future.

And this is another important distinction: there were good poor people and bad poor people. It was possible to be poor, yet live in a safe neighborhood. Being poor wasn't an excuse to be a criminal.

Speaking of criminals, they were locked up. There was a thing called vagrancy laws which is why there weren't tent cities.

I notice that all the posters claiming today is the apex and the 70's and 80's were bad can't really give any reasons besides ugly furniture and cars, as if that's the only thing that matters.

Of all the many things that piss me off the revisionist past pisses me off the most. It's a movement straight out of 1984 because if we can't remember what and how things were better, we accept the current shit show we live in now as normal and we don't do anything to change it.

It's also why I laugh at the preppers and people that think we are going to rise up with our gUnZ and take the country back. The time for that came and went. Our guns are toys we fondle while we fantasize on our couch watching red dawn reruns. Whatever is happening isn't something that can be fought with guns and we've already lost the ability to recognize that and we are too lazy to get involved, that's why we are in the shape we are now.

No, things weren't perfect, they never are. But they were a hell of a lot better than the nightmare we live today.

Oh, and your stupid open floor plan house looks stupid. It looks like one big room with wasted space of a high ceiling. Someday people are going to laugh and throw up a few walls.

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I don’t know man. I spent all of my time in the 70s either sleeping, babbling incoherently, or shitting my pants without a care in the world.

I was born in 79.

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Can’t believe no one has brought up the most awesome thing for a boy wits a daisy BB gun. Steel beverage cans. You could spend an entire day shooting those and only dent and knock them over. It was awesome.