Anonymous wrote:My obsession with rainbows started in the 70s-80s. I had rainbow everything, including these sheets. I still have the pillow case.

I also believe in unicorns

Happy summer, everyone. Beam me up, Scottie. Kirk out.

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My obsession with rainbows started in the 70s-80s. I had rainbow everything, including these sheets. I still have the pillow case.

I also believe in unicorns

Happy summer, everyone. Beam me up, Scottie. Kirk out.

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Pegging your jeans. Went especially well with the multiple pairs of socks that you wore with your Keds with the friendship pins on them.

Acid-wash jeans. I had pink-acid-washed jeans with the zippers at the ankles. I begged my mom to buy them for me, and I thought they were awesome.

Electric blue mascara. Went well with the banana clips and batwing sleeves.

Baby Jessica in the well.

The Dark Crystal and The Last Unicorn. Scary.

"We are the world, we are the children..."

Using the card catalog in the library to find stuff.

Listening to records on your little record player and reading along in your story book.

Anonymous wrote:I guess by definition I'm a Gen Xer--born in late 1978--but I don't really remember most of the stuff that's been mentioned. Or I remember, but it's fuzzy. And this is despite having an older sib. I think I'm a little stuck btwn Gen X and Millennials (although I don't feel like a Millennial either).

I was born in 1976, and this stuff is cracking me up! I totally remember this stuff!

Growing up in DC with the air raid siren testing every other Wednesday at 11:00, ya, we had the fear.

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Anonymous wrote:Living with the threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction. Remember "The Day After" movie?

This is why i just laugh at all the ninnies who fret about terrorism. Ya'll don't know real fear.

I honestly thought I was going to die someday in a nuclear disaster. I know I'm not alone in this.

me too.

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Anonymous wrote:Living with the threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction. Remember "The Day After" movie?

This is why i just laugh at all the ninnies who fret about terrorism. Ya'll don't know real fear.

I honestly thought I was going to die someday in a nuclear disaster. I know I'm not alone in this.

I live in a town that was a former NORAD site. It is amazing how such threat shaped our society back then.

Anonymous wrote:Living with the threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction. Remember "The Day After" movie?

This is why i just laugh at all the ninnies who fret about terrorism. Ya'll don't know real fear.

I honestly thought I was going to die someday in a nuclear disaster. I know I'm not alone in this.

Living with the threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction. Remember "The Day After" movie?

This is why i just laugh at all the ninnies who fret about terrorism. Ya'll don't know real fear.

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Anonymous wrote:The ironic part of the 80s was having a Hollywood cowboy as a President. American politics amaze me.

Hollywood manufactures reality.

And don't forget about Thatcher. What a doozie.

Thatcherism completely dismantled unions across the UK, especially in Scotland. Cities such as Glasgow are still suffering the effects. Places along Clydebank are complete ghost towns.

I picked up this album in 88 before it became poplar with Shrek. These Scottish twins are fun.

What do you do https://youtu.be/dXs7JYw4BP4

Sunshine on Leith https://youtu.be/ZmELS03_4So

And in that gif, Newman was 52! Amazing.