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What was The Best Decade?

Started by Noodle Lizard, December 27, 2021, 07:34:34 PM

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Video Game Fan 2000

Going from late adolescence to adulthood in a world with readily available internet but no social media makes me feel like I won one of history's lotteries.

Dr Rock

Quote from: Video Game Fan 2000 on December 28, 2021, 07:29:44 PMGoing from late adolescence to adulthood in a world with readily available FREE PORN but no social media makes me feel like I won one of history's lotteries.

shoulders

Quote from: bgmnts on December 28, 2021, 05:02:03 PMTrue. But doesnt this apply to every decade before it and it is sliiiiiightly better by a few degrees?


Are you really saying this about human history or just modern history*

*would still argue that's not true

jamiefairlie

It's a comparison of social systems really, cradle to grave centrally planned social democracy vs Thatcherism consumer free for all.

The latter peaked in the 70s when we had record levels of income fairness in the UK and people still largely had jobs for life. From the 80s on we've had ever increasing levels of average affluence but massive divergence between top and bottom and a brutal lack of social safety net.

Studies have consistently shown that lower differences in income of top vs bottom correlates with higher average wellbeing, so I'll go with the 70s, which does align with my own recollections.

bgmnts

Quote from: shoulders on December 28, 2021, 08:25:09 PMAre you really saying this about human history or just modern history*

*would still argue that's not true

All history? Things get ever so slightly better every time judging by those metrics don't they?

I dont think quality of life peaked at any point.

Custard

I know it sounds a bit daft and soppy, but being alive at a time when all the Beatles were means something to me too. Though I only had a year of treading the same planet as Lennon

Being alive for the introduction of the internet feels like a pretty big thing too

And Eldorado

dr beat

Quote from: TrenterPercenter on December 28, 2021, 04:13:54 PMAgree with your stuff in the 90s.  It was alright but it was the rebirth of lad and then later the ladettes which to my mind always looked like a very white privileged middle class rebellion against nothing (fuck you mum and dad for this financially secure future you've given me!!).  I went to school with a load of trusties that suddenly started talking like "dey is from da streets yeh", dressing themselves boho and trying to get themselves arrested for smoking weed; whilst actual kids from the estate were wearing (admittably knock-off) premium brands and trying to dress themselves up so they didn't look poor.

It's pretty mad when you think about it.

I agree or at least hear with much of what you say, but this was not necessarily new - the phenomenon of the 'Saturday night suit' in working class Manchester vs the trad jazzers in London. There is a tradition of the working class dressing up when at leisure...only for the 'upper echelons' to nick the look when it suited them?

Also 1970s - Teds v punks?

Late 70s/early 80s - Ska kids v new romantics?


TrenterPercenter

Quote from: dr beat on December 28, 2021, 09:07:58 PMI agree or at least hear with much of what you say, but this was not necessarily new

This is perhaps a bit different though as this is less about appropriating styles of working class (which is common throughout history) but more the appropriation of poverty.  This probably comes about due to fall of Thatcherism and resultant increased income inequality within the working class (and most importantly increase in asset values - which essentially makes the trustfunders).  This led to lots of well off young people pretending that they weren't, until they got sick of it, the 2000s came in, and it was good to be rich and not give a fuck again.

Pulp wrote a song about it.

canadagoose

For me, personally, the '10s were the best, but they were dominated by shitty conservative politics. It's just that I'd managed to stand on my own two feet for once, found my first long-term boyfriend, moved in with him, and wasn't completely precarious. In general, I'd probably have had the best time in the '90s, if I hadn't been between 1 and 10 years old at the time. The '90s is just my childhood and I'll always remember it as such (with fondness, mostly, with a good few faults - my hometown didn't fare well during the period, but I still mucked about like any kid would within it). I find it hard to compare it to 2006 onwards, when I was on my own and responsible for myself.

I reckon I don't realise how good I had it in 2009-10, before the Tories took power. I remember hating the shit out of Nick Clegg and buying that Kunt and the Gang single the year after because of Nick Clegg's antics. Oh, the good old days. I mean they weren't really but everything's rose-tinted in retrospect, in't it.

Ian Drunken Smurf

1981-1992. Just ask Simple Minds and Jim Kerr.


The Dog

Feel like there were more decades in the old days.

Buelligan

Quote from: Jasha on December 28, 2021, 01:22:29 PMTake off your rose tinted specs and you'll realise the 90's were really quite shit

Yep.  After they smashed the miners, they turned their malevolent eye onto travellers. Freedom to exist outside the system controlled by them or to push back against it, was dismantled, step by relentless step.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_Order_Act_1994

Custard

Yeah, but there were Super Soakers and Sunny Delight mate

Sherringford Hovis

1640s.

The first coffeehouses opened in Europe, global temperatures begin to decline as part of 'the Little Ice Age', awesome nominative determinist Nehemiah Grew (plant physiologist) was born, Rembrandt churned out his best daubs, Christmas was banned and we got to kill a King.

Best decade eva

Midas

born in '96. the wilderness years.

so depending whom you ask i might be a millennials or a generation zzzzzz (😂😂😂)

s, possibly closer to

 and we're shit
fucking shit-cunts

SHIT

there's a good bit in reaper Man bout mayflies.

beanheadmcginty

Had my first wank in the 90s. So it's definitely the 90s.

chveik


Zetetic





Прокляты и забыты (1997), reminded me of this thread.