Best decade to grow up in: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s?

no-one grew up in all five.

those are terrible captions.

I always kinda wished I grew up in the '70s, but then I also wished I grew up in a city and with a family that wasn't Mormon. Who knows. It's funny about the decade you grew up in because you (I) don't really remember it, like my childhood zeitgeist was the usual learning math & reading, pretty insulated from the 'Greed' decade.

Which decade do you 'grow up in' - 1-10 or 11-20?

i can't remember the 80s that well. my primary school just got demolished, so seeing that happen kind of brought back some memories. i think it's laughable, from the pov of the 00s, to call the 80s the 'greed decade', like we've somehow turned things around.

but when you're growing up -- i mean 1-10 here -- you're not going to be conscious of that kind of thing simply because you don't have much sense of change or difference -- you accept most of what you're presented with as the norm, until you grow up and get pumped with crazy ideas lol.

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80s "the 'Greed decade', reflecting the economic and social climate

you hear this all the time and it's bullshit, there are more millionaires now than ever. the best time for yuppies making shitloads of money was probably in the late 90s. reagan and thatcher deregulated stock markets in the mid-80s, but that was only the beginning.

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i suppose it was a relative novelty then tho, to be fair.

hey, i'm hearing a lot of negativity TOGWHIAQI...I don't think you'd be a 60s groove.

1 - 11 is probably just a change of TV scenery, maybe it's more around 13 - 20 that are your key development years.

I'm surprised how bullshit wikipedia's decade descriptions are even in expanded format.

uhhh... i can tell you one thing

its NOT the 90s

I challenge anyone other than Bob Six to unpack that acronym.

i think it's the 90s.

the 60s were great for about 50,000 people tops, all of whom have now produced autobiographies, otherwise forget about it.

ok - what sparked this poll was this comment (admittedly more about music) left on a blog:

"honestly fuzzy..to hear/see the stones doing jumpin jack flash ...the mary quant look rocking for the girls,and unlike the 70's, to be completely UNPRIMED for pop culture at all was just a devastating rush.....everything and everyone was breaking new ground.the 70's were really the sixties 'part two'...up on till 76 that is,but by then the world had become accustomed to the whole palaver...i know 73 was a great year...it was the year bowie would race infront of t.rex....but there was a load of paper lace and kenny..the bubblegum count was too high....also most of those sixties records have aged better."

well that's total shit.

really, the idea that there was no pop culture before the 60s... kind of staggering.

I know, it is a truly hilarious idea. Everyone at ~13 it's the classic 'whoa pop culture devastating rush' no matter wtf it is, you know, and then I suppose because Whoa The Beatles and Drugs and Colors and things, like the '60s spawned it. But everyone feels it yo!

I except your challenge
TOGWHIAQI
That one guy that hit it and quit it.

I never know what to call That one guy that hit it and quit it but I think TOGWHIAQI might just work for me.

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Because it does sound like some kind of native American "The Mighty Togwhee-a-quay"

Buh! Colour me dense. To be honest, I call him NRQ and be done with it.

enriquit works. i might rename myself that but gay-ass nu-ilx won't let me.

quitney too.

well that's total shit.

well, I can't argue with a closed mind (lol) - so i'll quote another irritating comment from the same blog:

its a funny thing when you try and square up the person you've become in 2007 against the kid you once were in 1975.the change is so drastic you really have to track the footsteps closely to join all the dots.

i can never decide if times were better or worse than now,but its the aging process itself that seems to be giving some sort of clue.
in so many ways we have much more today..we're wiser too...
but don't you just feel so disarmed and vulnerable and fucking mortal?!
everywhere i turn i see myself and friends making more and more appointments at the doctors...parents getting precariously old..you get a greater sense of time and realize time is a bigger currency than money or even love[?!]1975 was good...but i don't want decades to pass before i can appreciate 2007 ..these are golden years too.

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NRQ is good too!

1979 was crap.

Every year I look back on in my life: it's hard not to conclude they were all uniquely crap.

i've got a closed mind for not thinking the 60s were an unimaginable and unprecedented era of splendour for all who lived through them, because, obviously, it's a minority view that really needs defending from the huge cultural consensus that's out to attack 60s pop culture.

You can relax NRQ,no dig intended - I just enjoy quoting that line. It's from the film 'Trash' in a ludicrous scene where's there's an argument about the rights to sign up for social benefit.

The 90's, if only because of the sheer blissful naive optimism that America had Won and computers were the future and the UN was going to fix everything and nothing bad would ever happen again. At least that's how it felt in hindsight.

i vote 80's Skot.

90s

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The 90's, if only because of the sheer blissful naive optimism that America had Won and computers were the future and the UN was going to fix everything and nothing bad would ever happen again. At least that's how it felt in hindsight.

yeah I felt this way too, only I didn't know there was a Cold War until I was like eight, and I didn't know there was a UN. I just thought that we weren't going to have any more wars.

The nineties, but that was the only decade I grew up in, so it's hard to compare. I still think early-to-mid-nineties was the best era for dance and electronic music and rap, though I might be looking through nostalgia-tinted glasses. The nineties were also a time when a lot of things that hadn't been a huge issue in Finland before became really politicized, like animal rights, globalization and the multinationals, anarchism, street parties, squatting, etc. Since I was an activist going to all the demonstrations and stuff, it was quite an exciting time to be young and conscious.

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i set that picture as my desktop and then all my folders got lost under lance's couch.

Can somebody gif an 80s tv program into the tv screen above?

I grew up mostly in the 80s I suppose, with a bit of early 90s. I was 5 in 1980 and 15 in 1990, but 1990-93 I did a lot of growing up as well. I've always thought that my particular peer group seems unique because we have a distinct memory of the time before cell phones, VCRs, home computers etc, but were young enough to grow up with that stuff. For example, people who are just a few years younger than me simply do not remember a time before the internet, before IM, before everyone having cell phones, while people older than me processed those changes as an adult, if that makes sense.

I hear what you're saying. I started college with a typewriter that was considered newfangled cuz it had a little display so you could type out a line and correct it before it was printed on the paper. Nobody needs to know how to make footnotes on a typewriter anymore. When I finished college I was writing my thesis at the computer lab in the library. Of course, nobody had a personal computer. Came of age on the cusp, so to speak. I'm not officially counted as a boomer, but my older siblings are.

I'M SO MAD AT OLD PEOPLE FOR HOARDING ALL THE MONEY

so I'll take the 60s so I can become what I detest

I remember how cool it was when we got the VCR, because we were almost the last among my friends' families to get it. We were kinda poor, but my dad actually won some money in the lotto in the 80s, and after that we got a VCR, a microwave and a dishwasher.

Also I would like to have as much lead time as possible before computers and jesus freaks take over the world thanks

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I went from 7 to 17 in the 1970s. Personal circumstances were shitty but it wasn't the decade's fault. I enjoyed the pop culture, and it was an interesting decade to become aware politically.

I think Tombot is the only person I know so mad as I am at the old people hoarding all the money, getting mad GI Bill and great grants, and then sneering down at us like we ain't done nothing. HELLO YOU FUCKS.

It's a tough call. I got laid more in the 80s, but I had a lot more games of Army in the 70s.

I vote we kill all baby boomers.

Me too. All except my mom-in-law and maybe the Woz bcz he's so goofy.

I went from 12 to 22 in the 70s. at times I wished it was the 60s but in retrospect a good time to grow up.

i am also pretty mad at old people

I was around for all of the 70s and 80s and both were pretty fucking horrible times to be black and poor in Britain. The obvious answer is the Noughties because however bad it is now, it was much, much worse back in the day.

no-one grew up in all five.

those are terrible captions.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 28 October 2007 18:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I did! Still growing!

(metaphorically, natch!)

80-83 in vancouver was pretty much the 70s anyway so i feel like i got a good 8 years out of that decade
i saw none of that mad 80s money. i think it was an ok time. my mom got a pager in '87 and that was big stuff. she laments sometimes now that she never scrimped for a new computer for me then (lol coleco hand-me-down lol electric typewriter with screen) and i'm like srsly mom it would've probably destroyed me in my socializing zone
the early 90s were pretty good and busy in many senses of the terms

can you actually pinpoint the time when you stopped growing up? i'm not sure i can. prob around age 24. i guess now we are 'evolving' or 'growing' or 'learning lessons'? when is it that bones are finished growing? 32? i choose then/now

some might insist that the earlier generations got laid.... we got aids.

but thinking about it... even tho i didn't have a ton of partners, i had friends who did.

evidence?
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good point.

im going to say '70s because taht 70s show looked like fun

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I kind of think I grew up in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I mean, I remember growing up in the 70s, but I was still only 16 when 90s came along. So maybe that puts me in a privileged judging position. I'll say 00s.

i think the 00s would suck -- carpet bombed with medication, tested the shit out of, "social networking", etc. defining children's literature is a book that (some) adults read, etc. in a way maybe the post-boomer generation (late 70s-) has retained so much childishness it makes it harder for kids to be kids.

the 90's 'cause we had mortal kombat

A lot probably depends on if you're a single child or have older siblings. Although I grew up in the 80s, there was a heavy 70s influence in the house from my sisters and brothers.

Although thinking about it, I'm the only one with the serious work ethic (the rest having virtually retired early, or dabbling in part-time work)...so maybe it didn't rub off on me as much as I thought.

Going from 7 to 17 in the 90s, the only things I remember were mopey Gen Xers (now starring as Aging Hipsters), using the expression "hey, it's the 90s" to justify everything, and the rise of the INTERNETS. I only cared about the internet because instead of watching HBO movies listed as having "adult situations" to see boobs, I could download porn. kinds I would have never imagined ever existing.

I guess I grew up in the 80s. I have no recollection of the Cold War at all - something my husband was very scared of and he claims so did a lot of others. Thankfully I never watched much telly and I was pretty naive about it all. (My parents still laught at me for asking:"Mommy, what does it mean when you say you're nervous?") Looking back I think it was a blissful time for me - aside from summer freak out panic attacks during the night cause I didn't have anything better to do. But all in all does it matter what decade I grew up in? Not much. I mean, shit, I live in some town that looks like it's stuck in the Middle Ages.

Once I'd worked out what the Cold War meant - some time around 1976, when I was six or seven - I then started getting recurring nightmares about everybody dying. until the Berlin Wall came down I was absolutely convinced that myself and the entire population of the planet (or a large fraction thereof) would be incinerated in a nuclear fireball before my 30th birthday.

The Cold War sucked