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I have learned way too much about the 80s and what went on then.... (Original Post) Kajun Gal Oct 2018 OP
especially private prep schools... handmade34 Oct 2018 #1
+1000 smirkymonkey Oct 2018 #15
And the hairstyles. Kaleva Oct 2018 #2
Really! Kajun Gal Oct 2018 #3
I was in high school as well as college in the 80s. SCRUBDASHRUB Oct 2018 #10
The 80s were the evil twin of the 70s. n/t Yavin4 Oct 2018 #4
We were all about peace and love! Kajun Gal Oct 2018 #5
The 80s were all about money and power Yavin4 Oct 2018 #6
That's why I refuse to identify myself with the 80s ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #7
i LOVED the padded shoulders!!! samnsara Oct 2018 #8
They are coming back in style! Like the skinny jeans and flats (shoes). Kajun Gal Oct 2018 #9
I remember this was a best seller BumRushDaShow Oct 2018 #11
The sons and daughters of Yuppie America... hexola Oct 2018 #12
The 80's was all about excess. Texasgal Oct 2018 #13
I grew up in the 80's and I don't remember any of that stuff fescuerescue Oct 2018 #14
Ironically, "The Al Franken Decade" Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2018 #16
bwah hah UTUSN Oct 2018 #17
...not such a good picture of Yale either.... Sancho Oct 2018 #18
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
15. +1000
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:42 PM
Oct 2018

Thank you! Definitely worth reading. What a nightmare! Like fraternities, I am beginning to think that all-boys schools should be outlawed. They are hotbeds of misogyny and violence.

SCRUBDASHRUB

(7,252 posts)
10. I was in high school as well as college in the 80s.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:25 PM
Oct 2018

I didn't drink at all in high school, and went to some parties in college but thankfully, it wasn't anything like what's being described here.

Of course I might have been the exception.

I went to Public Schools, both in high school and college.

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
6. The 80s were all about money and power
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:16 PM
Oct 2018

The origin of massive income inequality that we are still living with today.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
7. That's why I refuse to identify myself with the 80s
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:16 PM
Oct 2018

Even though I came of age in them. Blech! I was born in the 70s, and I clearly remember them. That's good enough for me!

BumRushDaShow

(129,376 posts)
11. I remember this was a best seller
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:33 PM
Oct 2018


which segued into this -



But then these guys showed up on the scene and blew everything away!



vimeo.com/33935936

 

hexola

(4,835 posts)
12. The sons and daughters of Yuppie America...
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:34 PM
Oct 2018

Remember that word - Yuppie...?

Kav's parents = Yuppies

Texasgal

(17,047 posts)
13. The 80's was all about excess.
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:39 PM
Oct 2018

I graduated high school in 1986. I remember my friends and my friends parents as having way more money than they did in the 70's... including mine.

Everything centered around wealth and privilege. Looking back it seems so silly and wasteful.

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
14. I grew up in the 80's and I don't remember any of that stuff
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:39 PM
Oct 2018

But I was kinda sheltered.

I do remember quarters though and how hysteric everyone was about pot (now weed)

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