What was the best decade to grow up in?

The Pontiac

Jesus, I'd have loved to grown up in the 60's. Just after watching a few early Pink Floyd (Syd Barret era) videos on youtube there, and all the psychedelic weird stuff going on and it was all so new. I'm gutted I missed Woodstock too..

No question for me anyway, the 60's would be my choice. The sexual revolution, the first man on the moon, the rise of feminism, the drugs, the music, summer of love etc..

I enjoyed the 90's too btw, but the 60's must have been the greatest surely.

Hope no one gets all political and says they were drafted to Vietnam and it wasn't all the great a decade. Probably wasn't for them either.

mikom

<Ollie> wrote: »

No question for me anyway, the 60's would be my choice. The sexual revolution, the first man on the moon, the rise of feminism, the drugs, the music, summer of love etc..

60's Ireland.
Aha ha ha ha ha....

OutlawPete

80's, all other decades were up their own ar*e.

In the 80's we had the craic.

Dudess

The 60s - and yeah, not in Ireland - would have been brilliant to have been an adult in.

In my opinion, the 80s was the best decade to be a kid (not just because I was one at the time - I was only a very young kid, kinda wish I'd been an adolescent/early teen then).

The Pontiac

mikom wrote: »

60's Ireland.
Aha ha ha ha ha....

The Beatles came here in 63, so I'm sure it wasn't all that repressed. I've a feeling I could be wrong though. Ireland in the 60's?

OutlawPete

<Ollie> wrote: »

The Beatles came here in 63, so I'm sure it wasn't all that repressed. I've a feeling I could be wrong though. Ireland in the 60's?

They were asked when they were going to get men's haircuts though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bStVvt8Pwd8

mikom

<Ollie> wrote: »

The Beatles came here in 63, so I'm sure it wasn't all that repressed. I've a feeling I could be wrong though. Ireland in the 60's?

One blackbird does not make a summer..... sorry.

amacachi

Would've liked to have been born around 1977, grow up with good metal, then in my early 20s discover Drum and Bass and what goes with it.
Also being able to buy a house for a fiver.

InKonspikuou2

1830's Ethiopia.

rednik

The 70s were the best, watching Thin Lizzy when they were here on tour every so often.

The Pontiac

I always thought the 80's was a bit of a depressing decade with mass unemployment, emigration etc.. I loved the 90's, and always see it as the decade where I did my growing up, in the sense of experiencing things for the first time (won't go into it). The 90's had the rave/dance scene, which I wouldn't put on par with the 60's psychedelic movement but it was a very exciting decade. It's the only decade that holds any real significance for me anyway.

fuelinjection

1980/1990's.
Slow sets.
Whatever happened to asking a girl to dance to a cheezy tune ....

But the best decade is this one ... the one we haven't been to yet. Getting all misty eyed or saying that Irish people in the 1960's did not have sex is bull****. Humans have had fun for thousands of years - you are the not the first people to go against your parents and have sex with some weirdo.

SugarHigh

OutlawPete wrote: »

80's, all other decades were up their own ar*e.

In the 80's we had the craic.

What about yuppies?

SugarHigh

I think people have a distorted view of what past decades were like because of how they view them through pop culture.

The current decade is easily the best for everybody.

fuelinjection

SugarHigh wrote: »

I think people have a distorted view of what past decades were like because of how they view them through pop culture.

The current decade is easily the best for everybody.

The current decade has no soul. Music is ****, TV is beyond **** - so I don't watch it anymore.
Kids are fat and lazy. And life has become harder now as people try and outdo their neighbours with the lastest thing to buy. Shallow. If there was any good music from it I would accept it but it is so dull. Bring on the 2010-2019 years, may we recover some hope and reason.

Helix

mid 80s to mid 90s

before that celtic tiger rubbish got into full swing and everyone turned into materialistic dickheads

SugarHigh

fuelinjection wrote: »

The current decade has no soul. Music is ****, TV is beyond **** - so I don't watch it anymore.
Kids are fat and lazy. And life has become harder now as people try and outdo their neighbours with the lastest thing to buy. Shallow. If there was any good music from it I would accept it but it is so dull. Bring on the 2010-2019 years, may we recover some hope and reason.

There is nothing stopping you from listening to old music.

"Kids are fat and lazy"

Not all kids and the average health of these kids is still higher.


"And life has become harder now as people try and outdo their neighbours "

When was this not the case?

"If there was any good music" Oh come one there has been some great music the past 10 years their just doesn't seem to have been any dominating music scenes like the past decades had.


You seem to have a lot of nostalgia for a time when I don't think you were even alive.

SugarHigh

Helix wrote: »

mid 80s to mid 90s

before that celtic tiger rubbish got into full swing and everyone turned into materialistic dickheads

Are you including yourself?:D

I think you're giving people of the past way too much credit. They were still materialistic they just didn't have the money to back it up.

Helix

SugarHigh wrote: »

Are you including yourself?:D

I think you're giving people of the past way too much credit. They were still materialistic they just didn't have the money to back it up.

not including myself no

look at the location

fuelinjection

SugarHigh wrote: »

Their is nothing stopping you from listening to old music.

I do but I enjoy some modern bands I have to say - I went to Oxegen in 2007 and 2009 and avoided the Lady Gaga stuff. Had a ball.

SugarHigh wrote: »

Not all kids and the average health of these kids is still higher.

errrr no ... we all ran around or cycled to our mates for about 12 hours a day ... anyone born in the last 20 years would have a heart attack trying to keep up.

SugarHigh wrote: »

You seem to have a lot of nostalgia for a time when I don't think you were even alive.

I was alive then and I am alive now. Trust me !

SugarHigh

fuelinjection wrote: »

errrr no ... we all ran around or cycled to our mates for about 12 hours a day ... anyone born in the last 20 years would have a heart attack trying to keep up.

Life expectancy is increasing so people are healthier.

Weight is only one factor when it comes to health.

fuelinjection

SugarHigh wrote: »

Life expectancy is increasing so people are healthier.
Weight is only one factor when it comes to health.

Weight is only one factor, sugar and saturated fat intake which in normal everyday foods is incredible nowadays.
Red bull, coffee, and the products sold for kids school lunches.
How many people on here like peas and cabbage and mashed potatoes. And Spars and Centra and Subways... I don't blame people, food in is your face 24 hours a day now. But the sugar thing will lead to diabetes and death. Skinny does not mean healthy.

SugarHigh

I still think people are healthier these day's and much more knowledgeable about proper nutrition.

Even if everyone else eats crap why would that make you prefer to live in a past decade when you can just eat healthier in this one?

Nobody is forced to eat crap food.

fuelinjection

SugarHigh wrote: »

I still think people are healthier these day's and much more knowledgeable about proper nutrition.
Nobody is forced to eat crap food.

I agree with ya 100% !!!!

Just saying theres a lot more temptations these days than when I was a kid, so maybe I should be more forgiving as I never had American sized fridges at home always full of snacks.
Having said that I was well fed but we burned up about 10 million calories a day !

cyberwolf77

amacachi wrote: »

Would've liked to have been born around 1977, grow up with good metal, then in my early 20s discover Drum and Bass and what goes with it.
Also being able to buy a house for a fiver.

1977 was a great year to be born....

fuelinjection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQYyKzyDaE

alwaysadub

I loved growing up in the 80s/early 90s. Cartoons were pure class.
An empty coke can or a stick of chalk provided hours of entertainment.
There was no such thing as sitting in all day watching tv or on the computer.
People weren't getting murdered every two minutes..
Them were the days

gonnaplayrugby

2000's-think broadband tho has made things worse. i liked when i wasnt so aware.

stovelid

The <decade that I grew up in> was the best. No contest.

cyberwolf77

stovelid wrote: »

The <decade that I grew up in> was the best. No contest.

I beg to differ.

edvedfan

Born in 1989, so have to say the nineties. Any decade with pogs is a win!

Oh oh oh and the original gameboy with donkey kong land, pacman and tetris

i think pokemon was just about the end of the 1990's too.

Flashback to the parents dressing me in dungarees and mickey mouse jumpers....not cool

1840's Ireland

dolliemix

Growing up in the 80s was the best in a nostalgic way. We had a sense of awe about American culture. My mum used to have to go to America for work and it was a big deal when you were six. I used to collect note paper and rubbers, and swap them with my friends and when mum used to come back from the States she would bring back these amazing things that, no way could you get in Ireland. I was the envy of everyone. She used to get stuff for my brothers and my Dad too that you couldn't get in Ireland. I also remember my mum knew some Americans from her job who told her who shot JR before it was aired in Ireland. For real, people genuinely wouldn't know, until it was aired on RTE, eight weeks or so after America.

AARRRRGH

The 80's.
Then you can laugh at the 90's, 00's generation who think this recession is realy bad and is the end of the world. No point telling them its not though, because they think they know everything. Just laugh.

andala

I was born in 1978 in communist Poland. I was too young to understand why the system was bad. I thought spending 3 days in a queue to buy a colour tv was fun, really appreciated having Cuban oranges and chocolate for Christmas only or going to compulsory scout meetings. The crime rate was low, there was nothing on the two channels on tv so we'd spend all our free time outside, dozens of kids from neighbouring concrete blocks of flats had constant wars with other estates. I loved being driven in Syrena 105 without children car seats and going on 3 week camps in the summer, sponsored by the factory my folks worked in.

I'm glad I wasn't born earlier as I'd have been more aware of politics and would have known how much I was missing. I remember my first trip abroad, to Germany in the '90s, I was shocked to see chocolate breakfast cereal. Till now, they're kind of a sign of freedom for me .

I wouldn't like to be born later, in the '90s. Too many gadgets, too much information and too easy access to things we could only guess existed back in the '80s. For us, cassette recorders were all we needed. And it was fun to go to friends' houses to record the songs they parents had...

DingosAteMyBaby

The 90's, most definitely. We had THE best kids TV shows (saved by the bell, sabrina, rugrats, hey arnold, POKEMON etc). We were the last generation to grow up without being handed a mobile phone as we exited the womb. We experienced a "proper" childhood that people keep harping on about where e frolicked about outside instead of playing computers games all day. We also had the added benefit of growing up on the cusp of a technological revolution which allow us to work even the most complicated of mobile phones with ease, and do magical things with computers without evr having to have made the effort to properly learn how to work them! Suck THAT 80's kids :P

galwayrush

Way better not to really grow up.:)

BluesBerry

The 80's
My childhood was brilliant we didnt have much and I believe my life was better because of it

These days children are very materialistic wanting toys consoles all the time, they dont know how to play I have yet to see the kids in my neighbour hood playing street games, instead it is like a toy shop with kids coming out showing off there latest gadget new toy:mad:

An old washing line used as a skipping rope, a bit of chalk to draw hopscotch and a pair of boot skates, a game of chasing and a jar to catch bee's and I was as happy as a pig in ........


Oh **** now Im starting to sound like my mother.............and feel very old

mp22

the sixties were ok,being a teenager in the seventies was c**p!

cyberwolf77

BluesBerry wrote: »

The 80's
My childhood was brilliant we didnt have much and I believe my life was better because of it

These days children are very materialistic wanting toys consoles all the time, they dont know how to play I have yet to see the kids in my neighbour hood playing street games, instead it is like a toy shop with kids coming out showing off there latest gadget new toy:mad:

An old washing line used as a skipping rope, a bit of chalk to draw hopscotch and a pair of boot skates, a game of chasing and a jar to catch bee's and I was as happy as a pig in ........


Oh **** now Im starting to sound like my mother.............and feel very old

You and me both.

tempura

AARRRRGH wrote: »

The 80's.
Then you can laugh at the 90's, 00's generation who think this recession is realy bad and is the end of the world. No point telling them its not though, because they think they know everything. Just laugh.

+ 1 .

Also in the 80's you could go out on a tenner and still have a good night. I challenge anyone to do that now ! You also had places like Bartley Dunnes where you could get a good pint of snakebite for 2 quid. And then the 90's hit and some jumped up developer though it would be a great idea to tear down a Dublin landmark and erect Break for the ****ing border, honest to god, it makes me want to weep !

YFlyer

<Ollie> wrote: »

Jesus, I'd have loved to grown up in the 60's. Just after watching a few early Pink Floyd (Syd Barret era) videos on youtube there, and all the psychedelic weird stuff going on and it was all so new. I'm gutted I missed Woodstock too..

No question for me anyway, the 60's would be my choice. The sexual revolution, the first man on the moon, the rise of feminism, the drugs, the music, summer of love etc..

I enjoyed the 90's too btw, but the 60's must have been the greatest surely.

Hope no one gets all political and says they were drafted to Vietnam and it wasn't all the great a decade. Probably wasn't for them either.

If you remembered the 60s you weren't there.

Sephiroth_dude

The 90's most definitely.

Mike 1972

<Ollie> wrote: »

Jesus, I'd have loved to grown up in the 60's. Just after watching a few early Pink Floyd (Syd Barret era) videos on youtube there, and all the psychedelic weird stuff going on and it was all so new. I'm gutted I missed Woodstock too.

So did 99.9999999 % of people who grew up in the sixties.

Contrary to all the rose tinted media hype the overwhelming majority of young people didnt spend the sixties in a hazy decade-long drug-fuelled orgy of bottom-bashing fornication. For most people (particularly in Ireland) it was a time of hardship, poverty, opression, backwardness and showbands.

achtungbarry

1950s America.

I assume it would be just like living in an episode of Happy Days all the time.

The Pontiac

Mike 1972 wrote: »

So did 99.9999999 % of people who grew up in the sixties.

Sorry, but I wasn't been entirely serious on the Woodstock thing.

Contrary to all the rose tinted media hype the overwhelming majority of young people didnt spend the sixties in a hazy decade-long drug-fuelled orgy of bottom-bashing fornication. For most people (particularly in Ireland) things were pretty crap.

I'd imagine a lot of people did though.

The 80's seem to be the decade of choice here. I still think it was a nothing but a depressing decade. Not for myself personally, and I'm not saying I endured hardship myself. But it was for many young people, where immigration was the only option. Obviously coming from, say, a nice middle-class family that could afford the exorbitant college fees at the time to allow their loved ones to get an education, things would be different. But christ, what a depressing decade it was for a lot of people.

Agricola

When you say "growing up", Id class that as "being a teenager in" - so in that case Id have to say the 90's. It was the first decade where real prosperity came about, there was more money around, the internet and home computing took off, there was a real feeling of optimism. When we were in school / college it seemed a certainty that you could do whatever and go whereever you wanted when you finished.
Pity it didnt last.

ddef

I'd say 70's and 80's belfast woulda been the craic. can only imagine the laughs i wouldve had pissing off the brits.

coldwood92

The 90s

Dudess

AARRRRGH wrote: »

The 80's.
Then you can laugh at the 90's, 00's generation who think this recession is realy bad and is the end of the world. No point telling them its not though, because they think they know everything. Just laugh.

It's not as if people who were kids in the 80s knew real hardship either though.

blond45

OutlawPete wrote: »

80's, all other decades were up their own ar*e.

In the 80's we had the craic.

yep im with you there, the music was brilliant no covers from any band, like haircut 100. finished big school. stayed at home not a care in the world. lived in the county , farming . just loved it helping mum and dad . the beach in the summer was beautifull cos it was sunny then not like now rain and storm.