It's a cliche, but it does seem like those were more simple times

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May 29, 2020
7:10:59am

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It's a cliche, but it does seem like those were more simple times

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I miss the 80’s and 90’s.

idacoug

5/29/20 7:05am

It's a cliche, but it does seem like those were more simple times

TNT

5/29/20 7:10am

It sure does feel that way. Sports, politics, music, etc.

idacoug

5/29/20 7:29am

I ain’t missing them at all

Misteak

5/29/20 7:20am

You are probably 20, right?

idacoug

5/29/20 7:31am

Nah, I was just quoting a song from that period. I actually loved those decades.

Misteak

5/29/20 7:32am

It was a message he was sending out, like a telegraph to your soul.

d-coug

5/29/20 7:34am

RE: You are probably 20, right?

5/29/20 8:11am

Since you been gone

Chester Copperpot

5/29/20 7:33am

away.

carcoug

5/29/20 7:47am

Your friends are saying something different.

5/29/20 7:57am

Ugh, millennials....

Taullis

5/29/20 8:02am

I was trying to go along with the lyrics. No matter what my friends say part.

5/29/20 1:57pm

I'd go back to the period of peace & prosperity between Korea and the Cold War

Michael McQuain

5/29/20 7:35am

Cold War started before the Korean War...so...

gretsch

5/29/20 11:29am

Me too, but I wonder how different my perspective would be if I was an adult then instead of kid/teen.

Jimo Dashen

5/29/20 7:39am

Amen to that. No social media alone made the world a better place.

UNLVcougar

5/29/20 7:45am

And no reality TV shows. And BYU was good at football.

crack

5/29/20 7:49am

I don't think there was ever a better time to grow up than the 90s.

vagabonder

5/29/20 7:57am

I disagree on the civil rights part. There really hasn't been any substantive

UNLVcougar

5/29/20 8:02am

The LGBT community and minority groups around the world disagree.

vagabonder

5/29/20 8:06am

I assumed the conversation was limited to the United States. There haven't

UNLVcougar

5/29/20 8:17am

Cultural changes for sure.

5/29/20 8:26am

Same could be said of the 80s, so growing up in both the 80s and 90s was an excellent double whammy of awesomeness.

BlueBlood94

5/29/20 9:01am

Must not have paid much attention to the epidemics, race wars, and

gretsch

5/29/20 11:32am

I'm a historian and history teacher, so yes, I pay attention to everything that happens in a decade, and am also smart

BlueBlood94

5/29/20 12:33pm

Maybe you can help me understand why the 70s and 2000's were worse

gretsch

5/29/20 1:14pm

The 70s saw a significant decline in American prestige, both abroad and at home, due to the end of fighting in Vietnam,

BlueBlood94

5/29/20 1:59pm

I forget that all that ended the second the clock ticked to 1980

gretsch

5/29/20 2:24pm

Oh, my bad. I didn't realize this was a conversation requiring me to turn my brain off and abandon reason. I do better

BlueBlood94

5/29/20 5:11pm

Oh so you are saying the spirit of the 80s and 90s was better...

gretsch

5/29/20 6:37pm

Went downhill in 85

claw

5/29/20 8:32am

Charles Krauthammer used to talk about 1982-2007 as 25 years of peace and

run26

5/29/20 9:33am

Other than 911, you have kinda got to agree with him.

idacoug

5/29/20 1:26pm

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