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Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 12:14:55 AM  
I was getting a haircut awhile back and my stylist was chatting with one of the other stylists, and "Play That Funky Music White Boy" came on the radio.

My stylist said, "Hey, who is that? They're ripping off that Vanilla Ice song!"

I said, "Wild Cherry. They aren't ripping off Vanilla Ice, he ripped them off."

They boggled at me.

I said, "Wild Cherry--in 1976, okay? Lead singer Bob Parisi, ginger dude with a huge ginger afro."

They boggled at me.

I said, "Hence the name Wild Cherry?"

I gave up and was sipping my soda when the other stylist said, "The '70s were SO cool!"

I did a real-life spit take. "No," I choked, "the '70s were not that cool. There's a little bit of music and things that were cool; that's what people remember. Not you two, of course."

They mercifully did not ask me to elaborate.
 
jbc [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 12:19:55 AM  
Tattletales>Match Game
 
Dare to keep slugs off kids [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 12:20:45 AM  
The weed has definitely improved!
 
Wanebo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 12:20:58 AM  
Thai sticks.
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 12:21:12 AM  
Riding in a car with a cigarette smoker who insisted upon keeping the windows rolled up was a thing.
 
Benevolent Misanthrope [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 12:25:48 AM  
Some people (my father, for instance) cut the seatbelts out of the car.  They were an annoyance.
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 12:34:20 AM  
I graduated from high school

/And they said it couldn't be done...
 
Therion [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 12:35:23 AM  
No one actually wore those "ha-ha!" goofy fashion things.

Well, except for leisure suits. They did happen.
 
sithon
2023-02-04 12:35:32 AM  
Banana seats on your bike were boss. Lawn darts were fun to throw at pumpkins. Parachute army guys flew farther if you used a slingshot.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 12:36:20 AM  
White label generic 'beer'

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amongst other things.
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sithon
2023-02-04 12:36:32 AM  

Therion: No one actually wore those "ha-ha!" goofy fashion things.

Well, except for leisure suits. They did happen.


I distinctly remember my sisters wearing strped bell botoms
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 12:38:48 AM  

MaudlinMutantMollusk: I graduated from high school

/And they said it couldn't be done...


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Congratulations, Mr. Santos.
 
felching pen [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 12:44:25 AM  
The toilet paper shortage. Followed by the (contrived) sugar shortage.
Hamburgers at 19 cents.
Speed limit 75 mph, no seat belts, enameled steel dashboard inches from your face.
 
Therion [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 12:49:19 AM  

sithon: Therion: No one actually wore those "ha-ha!" goofy fashion things.

Well, except for leisure suits. They did happen.

I distinctly remember my sisters wearing strped bell botoms


Yeah, but a little difference in hem and collar flare is nothing, andyour sisters looked GOOD in them.

I'm talking about crocheted men's body suits, chest wigs, and action pants.  Folks laughed about those ads then the same way as now.
 
hebrides [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 12:58:23 AM  

optikeye: amongst other things.


"Grape flavored drink" looks pretty terrifying in all caps.

I remember the eighties a lot better than the seventies, but here are a few I can think of:

Riding backwards in the trunk of a station wagon -- in an actual seat with a seatbelt. Not the best idea for a kid who, like me, had terrible motion sickness.

Those little triangular windows next to the main car windows -- and they opened.

Gas costing 39 cents a gallon (some of you probably remember cheaper, but that's the number that's stayed with me).

The original Star Wars being in theaters for over a year; my brother and I saw it at least seven times.

Leonard Nimoy, seemingly every week, introducing another thing calculated to give little kids nightmares on In Search Of...
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 1:02:40 AM  

fragMasterFlash: Riding in a car with a cigarette smoker who insisted upon keeping the windows rolled up was a thing.


OMG
I forgot all about that. My friends' mom used to do that in the station wagon. I hated it so much. Gag. She was a shiatty person come to think of it.
 
common sense is an oxymoron [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 1:02:51 AM  
Early catalytic converters. They reeked of sulfur and got so hot that parking on dry grass was discouraged due to the fire hazard.
 
lowlandr [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 1:03:45 AM  
I was in my teens/20s a rock band. We did all the things. I liked it.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 1:04:26 AM  

hebrides: The original Star Wars being in theaters for over a year; my brother and I saw it at least seven times.


YUP. I think we saw it about 10 times.

hebrides: Leonard Nimoy, seemingly every week, introducing another thing calculated to give little kids nightmares on In Search Of...


I liked that show, and others like it later. But I was afraid of ghosts for like 20 years.
 
Sarah Jessica Farker [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 1:07:20 AM  

make me some tea: hebrides: The original Star Wars being in theaters for over a year; my brother and I saw it at least seven times.

YUP. I think we saw it about 10 times.


The 12th and 13th time I saw the original Star Wars in 1977, my friend and I just went to the ladies room and then went back into the auditorium. It had been playing for several months at the time.

I remember the gas shortage and how you were only supposed to buy gas on even numbered days if your license plate ended in an even number, odd numbered days for plates ending in an odd. And even at that, there were lines.
 
propasaurus [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 1:09:19 AM  

Therion: No one actually wore those "ha-ha!" goofy fashion things.

Well, except for leisure suits. They did happen.


I had some cool af leisure suits. Qiana shirts. And yes, platform shoes.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 1:09:36 AM  

Sarah Jessica Farker: make me some tea: hebrides: The original Star Wars being in theaters for over a year; my brother and I saw it at least seven times.

YUP. I think we saw it about 10 times.

The 12th and 13th time I saw the original Star Wars in 1977, my friend and I just went to the ladies room and then went back into the auditorium. It had been playing for several months at the time.

I remember the gas shortage and how you were only supposed to buy gas on even numbered days if your license plate ended in an even number, odd numbered days for plates ending in an odd. And even at that, there were lines.


I was a bit too young to remember that specifically with the gas shortage. But I remember Star Wars vividly, and the theater we saw it. And my first pepperoni pizza at Shakey's which was next door to the theater. I was like 3yo.
 
Sub Human [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 1:15:16 AM  

sithon: Therion: No one actually wore those "ha-ha!" goofy fashion things.

Well, except for leisure suits. They did happen.

I distinctly remember my sisters wearing strped bell botoms


Guys wore platforms. Kids went out on bikes all day without telling mom and dad where they were, no one cared until it got dark. Schlitz used to taste good. Vent windows in the car kept you cool-ish. Sometimes you weren't allowed to buy a whole tank of gas. Our schools in Miami weren't air-conditioned so we kept the windows and doors open to catch the breeze.

You were allowed to stay over and watch the movie a second time, sometimes we'd come late and stay over to see the beginning of a movie. Film strips were a thing and usually had a record that you played along with that narrated the images and told you when to advance the film.
 
west.la.lawyer [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 1:22:02 AM  
Hot fudge sundays in a little yellow plastic bowl at Sav-on Drug Store where the fudge had a slightly tangy taste

Public school bussing for desegregation of L.A. Unified

Sitting in the seats in the back of a Subaru Brat

Head shops in the back of record stores (the plus in music plus)

Mom and pop shops for pretty much everything
 
ImmutableTenderloin [BareFark]
2023-02-04 1:29:06 AM  
Remember the 70s existing as a ominous energy state, stretched across a vast expanse, with a ever growing desire to interact with time and matter.
 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 1:43:49 AM  

Wanebo: Thai sticks.


I was just thinking earlier today if those were still a thing these days, back in the day when they came around it was like dessert with a cherry on top.
 
Maybe you should drive [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 1:44:40 AM  
I was born in the mid-70's, so I remember the 80's and 90's far better.

But I have a weird hobby of looking through old local newspapers from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

I get a kick out of folks who lament about how safe the world was back then, and how dangerous it is today.  It's crazy how much weird shiat happened back then that people seem to have forgotten about.

My wife is 7 years older than me, born in the late 60s. I stumbled on a story about a home invasion robbery that led to a murder just five doors down from her when she was 10 years old.  She had absolutely no memory of it.  Neither did her brother or sisters.  That incident would have definitely been a regional story today, if not a national story.  But she and her older siblings had absolutely no memory of it even though it was a literal stone's throw from the house they grew up in.  We idealize our pasts.
 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 1:52:08 AM  
Dingo boots. Also in the 70s we went outside to play (until supper time), build forts in the woods and play spin the bottle with the babes.
/ bicycles with banana seats, big horned handle bars and decks of cards for the spokes were also pretty hip
 
bloobeary [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 2:05:09 AM  
There were three TV channels and PBS, and tv used to go off the air at night, for test patterns and BEEEEEEEEEEP.

Cartoons were for saturday morning.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 2:10:54 AM  
It was still called color television
 
fifthofzen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 2:13:38 AM  
That Beneficial *beep beep* was not, in fact, good for more.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 2:18:49 AM  
Paul Lynde Hollywood Squares
Youtube fSkRsciX-gI
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 2:33:18 AM  

Maybe you should drive: I was born in the mid-70's, so I remember the 80's and 90's far better.

But I have a weird hobby of looking through old local newspapers from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

I get a kick out of folks who lament about how safe the world was back then, and how dangerous it is today.  It's crazy how much weird shiat happened back then that people seem to have forgotten about.

My wife is 7 years older than me, born in the late 60s. I stumbled on a story about a home invasion robbery that led to a murder just five doors down from her when she was 10 years old.  She had absolutely no memory of it.  Neither did her brother or sisters.  That incident would have definitely been a regional story today, if not a national story.  But she and her older siblings had absolutely no memory of it even though it was a literal stone's throw from the house they grew up in.  We idealize our pasts.


Yep, we hear about things a lot more than back then because communication is so much easier and media so much more of a presence in our daily lives. My view is that the present day world has plenty of warts, but is overall a safer place now than it was decades ago.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 2:33:57 AM  

bloobeary: There were three TV channels and PBS, and tv used to go off the air at night, for test patterns and BEEEEEEEEEEP.

Cartoons were for saturday morning.


Yep that was lame. Was so glad to get cable TV.
 
bikkurikun
2023-02-04 2:37:10 AM  
Brown colors everywhere. The 70s were extremely brown.
 
NotCodger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 2:52:00 AM  

Therion: No one actually wore those "ha-ha!" goofy fashion things.

Well, except for leisure suits. They did happen.


You forgot to mention that leisure suits came in light powder blue among other nightmare-inducing colors.
 
Maybe you should drive [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 2:52:18 AM  

make me some tea: Maybe you should drive: I was born in the mid-70's, so I remember the 80's and 90's far better.

But I have a weird hobby of looking through old local newspapers from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

I get a kick out of folks who lament about how safe the world was back then, and how dangerous it is today.  It's crazy how much weird shiat happened back then that people seem to have forgotten about.

My wife is 7 years older than me, born in the late 60s. I stumbled on a story about a home invasion robbery that led to a murder just five doors down from her when she was 10 years old.  She had absolutely no memory of it.  Neither did her brother or sisters.  That incident would have definitely been a regional story today, if not a national story.  But she and her older siblings had absolutely no memory of it even though it was a literal stone's throw from the house they grew up in.  We idealize our pasts.

Yep, we hear about things a lot more than back then because communication is so much easier and media so much more of a presence in our daily lives. My view is that the present day world has plenty of warts, but is overall a safer place now than it was decades ago.


Exactly.  I do agree that the world is a worse place today in some ways.  I think we are more divided, especially politically.  I think people are less polite.  I think it's more complicated.  Life was definitely simpler in the 70s.

But I'd rather be spending my middle-age today than in 1975.  There's no doubt the world is safer today than it was 50 years ago.  That's not even an opinion, the numbers hold up and show it to be a fact.
 
Maybe you should drive [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 3:12:26 AM  
At the risk of beating a dead horse too much, I live in a neighborhood that is considered the best neighborhood in town (in a city of more than 200,000 people).

Back in the 70's there was a robbery that occurred in a store in a complex 1/2 mile from here.  A teenage girl working there was murdered in the robbery.  The killers were found and convicted.

When we bought our house in 2006, the girl's parents still lived two doors down from us, that's how I found out about it.  They warned us to be careful of the neighborhood because to them, that incident I'm sure felt like yesterday.  But nobody in the neighborhood was around when that happened, and had no idea it had occurred.  They were more worried about the current problems of the occasional car burglary or the occasional vandalism, and would lament about how dangerous the neighborhood is and how much safer it used to be.  All the while unaware that a family was still living with the murder of their daughter back in the 70's.
 
Uranus [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 3:22:02 AM  
We laugh at your mountain bikes, protective gear, and that you have all your teeth...

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Uranus [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 3:22:57 AM  
and Skylab is falling!! Everybody PANIC!!
 
offacue [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 3:23:56 AM  
Smoking a quick cigarette between high school classes.

Smoking a quick joint between high school classes.

Mexican $35 an ounce

Columbian $40-$45 an ounce

Thai Sticks $20 each

Qualludes

Hash oil

$1.99 six packs of Bud cans for the ride home from work

Get home at 4AM go to work at 8AM
 
scott4long
2023-02-04 3:26:15 AM  
I was only 5 by the time the 70's stopped being the 70's, but there are still a few things I remember.

Big Wheel with the skid brake.  Loooooved that thing.

Jump rope was a thing for all of the girls, but if you were a boy who was smart and had some game, you learned how to jump rope too so you could hang out with the girls.

The Chevy El Camino.  Was it a car?  Was it a truck?  It was the 70's version of the mullet.  Enough said.

Bead curtains and hand-made macrame wall hangings for the post-hippie-chick interior decor.

Everything was yellow, orange, and/or brown.  Everything.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-02-04 3:31:42 AM  
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common sense is an oxymoron [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 3:33:43 AM  

NotCodger: Therion: No one actually wore those "ha-ha!" goofy fashion things.

Well, except for leisure suits. They did happen.

You forgot to mention that leisure suits came in light powder blue among other nightmare-inducing colors.


I had one. Powder blue brushed denim. At least it wasn't polyester.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-02-04 3:36:44 AM  

Sub Human: Kids went out on bikes all day without telling mom and dad where they were, no one cared until it got dark.


Boards of Canada - Everything You Do is a Balloon
Youtube dQEmaj9C6ko
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-04 3:48:41 AM  

Maybe you should drive: At the risk of beating a dead horse too much, I live in a neighborhood that is considered the best neighborhood in town (in a city of more than 200,000 people).

Back in the 70's there was a robbery that occurred in a store in a complex 1/2 mile from here.  A teenage girl working there was murdered in the robbery.  The killers were found and convicted.

When we bought our house in 2006, the girl's parents still lived two doors down from us, that's how I found out about it.  They warned us to be careful of the neighborhood because to them, that incident I'm sure felt like yesterday.  But nobody in the neighborhood was around when that happened, and had no idea it had occurred.  They were more worried about the current problems of the occasional car burglary or the occasional vandalism, and would lament about how dangerous the neighborhood is and how much safer it used to be.  All the while unaware that a family was still living with the murder of their daughter back in the 70's.


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LewDux [OhFark]
2023-02-04 3:48:58 AM  

LewDux: Sub Human: Kids went out on bikes all day without telling mom and dad where they were, no one cared until it got dark.

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Bat For Lashes: What's A Girl To Do - Video Dailymotion
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2023-02-04 3:59:32 AM  

Maybe you should drive: Life was definitely simpler in the 70s.


When life was simpler
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Uranus [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 4:14:52 AM  
and beef f*cking stroganoff.
 
Boudyro [TotalFark]
2023-02-04 4:24:06 AM  

bikkurikun: Brown colors everywhere. The 70s were extremely brown.


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