Topic: 80s Retro
started by: Ozymandias
80s retro is coming into style. This means? The same type of people who would've/did call me a dork in '97 for liking Transformers and Ghostbusters (while they were wearing 70s retro, of course) are now "fondly recalling" all that time they supposedly spent watching it. Ravers who NEVER FUCKING OWNED AN ATARI SYSTEM, and NEVER LIKED MARIO are now wearing their hip, trendy Atari shirts to their hip, trendy raves, where they listen to the hip, trendy Mario ravers remix (LOL!!!, like, rilly.)
Thought I was a geek a couple years ago for liking something, but now that it's trendy, they like it? I AM SHOOTINGS YUO NOW SO PLESSSE DIE!!!!
Sorry. Sometimes I've just gotta vent. (Sometimes meaning, of course, most of the time.)
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But where is Gamera?
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Originally posted by Ozymandias:
Fuck! Great. This is perfect... 80s retro is coming into style.
Bah! 80's Retro is *soooo* 90s. C'mon, get with the program... 
Look at said old photo's from the 80's, notice the clothing and hairstyle...sure the TV shows were glorious..transformers, both voltrons, family ties... but look at what you wore!!! omg!
Now you know why I vow to kill any who bring back the 80's at least the 70's was sorta at the tail-end of the hippy movement. But there is nothing on this Earth that can excuse us from the fashion atrocities of the 80's.
regards, reman
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People ask me to fix their computer. I do in 5 seconds.
They say "You think your good don't you".
I say "I know I'm good". People always ask stupid questions.
Come to think of it, this would explain a lot about kids today...
oh dear god im old!
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Nuke em' till they glow and shoot em’ in the dark and let the computer sort em' out.
Then wait for a mutation…
See also: NWOBHM, Exodus, Slayer, Metallica, Maiden, Saxon, Voivod, Priest, Megadeth, And glam shit like Jovi, Cinderella, Poison, Crue, ad nauseum. (And i DO mean nauseum! )
GACK, all that crappy hair, makeup, and bandanas tied around knees. Just watch (once-was-)'hip' movies like Breakdance, Weird Science and you'll remember why we lie about our age.
Remember, the American eighties are different to the rest of the world too. We didn't have the obsession with rock groups like chicago, boston, supertramp, queensryche, etc. The rest of the world had all the New Wave - post punk - synth crap as our staple diet.
Haha, now that I think of it, can you say '80s american cars' without pissing yourself laffing?
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You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The
trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
No 80s = None of the better Bill Murray movies. And also no Oingo Boingo. And the very thought just makes me sad.
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But where is Gamera?
- Wham/George Michael
- Boy George
- A-HA
- Pseudo Echo
- Tina Turner
- Tiffany
- Glenn Mederos(sp?, fuck who cares)
- Rick Astley
- other pointless shit
and all these other flouro wearing-guitar keyboarding-electronic drumming-crappy lyric groups which unfortunately throughout the 90's were rehashed into something worse...
However the 80's were glorious for the television shows, especiall cartoons...
- Diff'rent Strokes "What you talkin about Willis?"
- Astro-Boy
- Star Blazers
- The Goodies
- Battle of the Planets
- Voltron
- Ulysses
- Knight Rider
- A-Team
- Webster
- Inspector Gadget
- Bananaman
- need i go on....
regards, reman
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People ask me to fix their computer. I do in 5 seconds.
They say "You think your good don't you".
I say "I know I'm good". People always ask stupid questions.
[This message has been edited by reman (edited August 10, 2000).]
Anyways, it's like I said in the sex forum: I wish life were like an 80s movie, because EVERYONE got laid in those. Even Anthony Michael Hall.
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But where is Gamera?
all the tv shows you listed...
...are from the late 70s.
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Nuke em' till they glow and shoot em’ in the dark and let the computer sort em' out.
Then wait for a mutation…
I was likely concieved to either the tunes of ABBA or the Bee Gees.... now that's positively frightening. 
-FFox
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"A christian, an anarchist-slash-prostitute, figures out the true meaning of freedom. Not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart."
-NOFX
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But where is Gamera?
-Tony
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< w00t >.
Oh, and about MTV, yeah, it does bite the big one, that's why you watch a good music video station *cough* MuchMusic? or sometimes MTV2 isn't that bad.
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They have cats in the future?
somewhere, i still have my atari, the original "pong"... my first "computer"..that little texas instruments computer.
back when there were synthesizers and madonna didn't have that faux british accent.. when saturday morning had cartoons on all the channels (we only got 6 channels) and it wasn't 4 hours of news.
then i look out there today. the raver kid who's wearing the atari t-shirt has never actually seen an atari, and doesn't remember coleco-vision. the dude who quotes 'hackers' constantly has never seen 'war games' and doesn't know who 'johnny 5' is. dawson's creek can rip off the breakfast club, because the crowd that watches it is too young to remember molly ringwald, judd nelson, and that emilio estevez used to be in decent movies (before those duck ones).
i miss the 80s... but i sure as hell didn't want them to come back /this/ way.
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kuru
'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa
'hey laser brain... your momma was a snowblower'
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kuru
'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa
Just thought I'd pass it along.
And about hackers, I look at it as entertainment. They showed that the FBI has a distorted view of hackers, and the movie itself showed the distorted view that Hollywood has. I still watch it when I need a laugh. Or I just read cr0's bastardization.
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A good programmer is someone who looks both ways on a one-way street
quote:
Originally posted by kai:
honestly kuru how many f'n dead posts did you bring back
A lot. But go easy on the guy. He's new here and might not know about the 'don't bring old forums back to the top imperative'.
kuru: for some reason a lot of posters don't like old threads getting revived. I'm not sure why, but they don't. So unless you want to get yelled at, avoid posting to old threads.
i guess no one's been paying attention.. because at least five times i've said i'm a CHICK. but i'll take it as a compliment that you thought i was male.
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kuru
'if your children ever found out how lame you are, they'd kill you in your sleep.' -frank zappa