Tag: 80s
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You Have 30 Seconds
I have a love hate relationship with advertisements. I grew up in the 80s. I usually got about 10 minutes of show time for a minute and a half of ads. I know what I can do for a minute and a half while I’m ignoring ads playing. Today’s ads are very often voluntary in…
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Turning the Car Around
I sometimes joke that Gen X should turn everyone’s internet off for a week and make the world survive like we are in the 80s again. I remember being in the backseat of my parents car and going somewhere we really wanted to go. If we acted up my parents would threaten to turn the…
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Total Nuclear Annihilation
I was a teenager in the 80s. It was the Cold War and the Arms Race. We were sold on the fear that the human race was half an hour from extinction. The nuclear warheads were aimed directly at me and Ronald Reagan was the only one that could stop them. Kids these days are…
Latter Day Sinner 