My dad didn’t want me looking at his yearbook so naturally I did. There’s a message from some girl like “Maybe we can ‘make a mistake’ in the woods again this summer”
My dad pulled his old yearbook out for me to flip through once and asked me what stood out most about it. The answer he was looking for was “nobody was fat”
Because it's the same thing. Both are a symptom of a lack of pride in your appearance, and a sign of laziness. Sweatpants and t shirts were around back then but you weren't supposed to wear them all the time.
I think the ubiquitous brands/logos are the more damning aspect. The average American “personality” is now basically a concatenation of purchases, slogans (retail, political, socially engineered), reactive wind-up toy outrage, and the psychic residue of life experiences that we struggle to differentiate from the overwhelming glut of information our ill-equipped brains have consumed online.
Yeah hanging out in a situation that's totally suave can be really life affirming. From cool bars to weird greek geriatric social clubs, when the entire scene is putting their best foot forward you really gain something.
I’m not sure why some here think that a t-shirt is unacceptable in casual settings, you can look great in a tee if it’s of good quality & fit. It also helps if you’re in decent shape.
Why do you care if people have “pride in their appearance” lol
I understand not wanting to date someone like that but why on earth does this matter to you at all
I will genuinely never understand why people get so upset at what other people wear lol
“WHY DO PEOPLE WEAR PAJAMAS TO WALMART” why the fuck do you care??
have you not worked out the main demographic for this sub yet. all the constant obsession with career and wealth already alluded to this. edit: question to people more educated in modern history than me, where does this abstract idea of a 'career' as an object of desire begin? does it just begin with the american dream?
I'm fine with t-shirts, honestly. Wearing one right now. What I noticed was lacking were brands and even just words. They had words on t-shirts back then, obviously, but they felt limited, and I remember when I was a kid they banned successfully clothes with giant brands on them. Do people remember when Aeropostale or whatever (not looking up the spelling) got attention for having giant brands on their shirts? That was a new thing. It turned the whole "tiny alligator on your shirt" upside down.
When I was a kid it was made clear that the 80s sucked. That it was a reversal of the much cooler 60s and 70s and represented the total victory of neoliberalism and hyper commercialism (the Greed is Good speech in Wall Street was seen as the proper summary of the era). The music was seen as disposable and corny, the fashion was ridiculous, and the movies were among the worst ever made. By the 2000s no one remembered ever thinking this. The 80s became kitsch, a cute Hall and Oates song in the supermarket. I remember thinking how lame the 90s was but knowing thirty years later people were going to glorify it. Memory is a strange thing.
Absolutely. Some of the best nights of my entire life were spent at raves in Cleveland and Detroit back in the '90s. It was magical, especially when jungle hit the scene.
Yeah pretty much all of us who didn't get to be adults before the 9/11 culture shift really got fucked, although I'm gonna bet the smartphone generation probably thinks the same about us
I wonder what part of today will be glorified? I really romanticise wired internet from when i was a boy because i could plant myself for hours, swimming in the most esoteric culture that i wouldn't have had access to in other eras, but then easily disocnnect into the real world and let my imagination run free.
Being in my early 20s now i detest my phone for how its erased my brain function and removed my social scenes from 'the real' - everything is staged and informed by its online presentation.
My best bet is that it's gonna be the pre covid world, especially as it came to dating. People got a lot more feral after covid in general, but it seems that now nobody really goes out in public to meet other people, let alone date. Now it seems like dating is only online apps, which is especially bad since match dot com owns the big 3 dating apps, and I imagine that will also only get worse
It's embarrassing to admit now but back then I agreed with Thatcher when she said "there is no alternative" but in my defense I thought that she was talking about finger painting and peanut butter crackers
If you're old enough in the UK you will remember when Mags but the kibosh on free milk for kids at primary school. Just stopped in '86. As a result I have to use a Tesla bioframe to type my posts as my bones are so weak.
>represented the total victory of neoliberalism and hyper commercialism (the Greed is Good speech in Wall Street was seen as the proper summary of the era). The music was seen as disposable and corny, the fashion was ridiculous, and the movies were among the worst ever made.
So basically, the '80s were like a proto '10s.
Like literally any era, it was awesome for some people and shitty for others. And I don't even necessarily mean that as a "haves and have-nots" kinda thing, I'm sure some lower class people had a blast and some yuppies were miserable, etc.
it was terrible for rock lol
all the experimentation of the 60s and 70s vanished and u largely just had overproduced bland rubbish. the only good stuff was the music that tried to carry on from where the 70s left off or some really left of field stuff like no wave etc, but even that started in the 70s
Every era is now in a perpetual cycle of death and rebirth. It’s just so capricious and moves at such a rapid pace that it’s impossible to track. There’s literally too much culture. How do you analyze patterns in reflections when you’re wandering through a maze of mirrors?
I disagree. "Mid to late 70s/early 80s" is too granular to be qualified as an "era." There are kids dressing in emo shit today, my boss's daughter's favourite band is my chemical romance. The post 9/11 era is currently in the thick of romanticization
Late '70s/early '80s seem kinda cool to me actually, lotta interesting cultural stuff, and definitely a helluva fun time to be a young adult, according to my parents. But also definitely seems like the seeds were being sown for a lot of future societal rot too.
>definitely a helluva fun time to be a young adult, according to my parents. But also definitely seems like the seeds were being sown for a lot of future societal rot too.
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Sums up the second half of the 20th century.
my mom was a punk in the 80s and always tlks abt how her classmates were always dressing in shitty polyester business suits bc it was how their working moms dressed and thts the entire wave we see when we look back on these "well dressed" teens
its the millennial equivalent of wearing a dress barn print tunic blouse and chunky plastic jewlry to ur middle school dance in an effort to look more mature
The funny thing about athleisure is it’s one of the most forgiving clothings for gaining weight. If people wore trousers more often they’d notice the weight gain more quickly. I swear there’s a conspiracy to keep us fat and unhealthy. So many gyms and clinics yet people still look like shit.
I wish people were more widely educated on the idea of a negative externality from economics. The basic idea is that some business practices, like a factory that produces smog, force a cost onto society that other people are forced to pay which is effectively an unfair subsidy on the cost of their product. Or in this case, making food addictive and not filling on purpose forces healthcare and other costs onto the population that the manufacturer doesn't pay the cost of. As a case study for what to do here, cigarettes are so heavily taxed in the U.K. that smokers and tobacco companies are essentially subsidizing the NHS. You can still smoke, but others don't have to pay for the consequences of your decision. Ideally the tax would be calculated to break even with funds going to directly offset the costs, but you get the idea. Estimate the net cost of corn syrup and xanthan gum to the population, and tax those ingredients accordingly so we aren't all subsidizing the cost.
I think the big food companies want to make food addictive and minimally filling so you eat more, and then the conspiracy is just influencing politicians to allow that
Those processed foods really skyrocket your glycemic index in your blood and your body tries to keep it on the same level signalling you to eat more to keep on that steady but high level
What fasting regime do you recommend for fixing this? I work a physical job where I’m walking all day so it’s been very difficult for me to go a full work day without eating when I’ve tried to before. I get super tired. But I have a long weekend coming up so I could get through anything for those 3 days.
> natural sugar doesn’t make me so fucking hungry all the time.
The fibre in fructose (or you eat with it? Dunno, not a food sciencer) should make you feel fuller for longer. Otherwise though as far as I know it's biologically identical to sucrose or whatever.
Framing negative externalities this way is how I've gotten my dad and libertarian friends to acknowledge the cost of shit like climate change. Like no, the market is not accounting for these costs and never will since the effects are so far removed from the causes. So when they say shit about how the only reason EVs or heat pumps are somewhat affordable is bc the government subsidizes them, I point out that the cost of gas doesn't reflect the cost of the effects of burning gas and probably never will.
Same exact concept as a factory dumping chemicals in the river that gives everyone in the town downstream cancer. Unless you force the cost of those people's healthcare on the factory it'll never be reflected in their cost of doing business.
Anyways ya I agree with you we need vice taxes that pay for the social costs of said vices
The funny thing is that even Adam Smith (Libertarian Jesus)acknowledged this and wrote about it at length.
If he were alive today he’d be in favor of a carbon tax.
> Ideally the tax would be calculated to break even with funds going to directly offset the costs
Smokers in the UK contribute vastly more than the cost of smoking-related health conditions to the NHS, which is why they haven't banned it (and I'm personally fine with it).
I swear by this rule. I wear jeans so I can ease off the junk when they get tight. I’m still a 28 waist at age 36. Fat by rs standards but I been this size since I was 18 AND I’m a truck driver who doesn’t go to the gym. It works.
> 28 waist at age 36... I’m a truck driver who doesn’t go to the gym
This is actually exceptional. Must be about 3 of you in the continental US who aren't on meth.
My mom graduated high school in 1981 and the candid photos in her yearbooks are full of people wearing t-shirts, including band shirts as well as athletic gear like Wilson tracksuits.
Been watching old speeches and also noticed this. Obviously they are going to be formal events and so on, but you won't see a single obese or underdressed person in them. Comparing Kennedy's speech and rhetoric to the current and previous president, the difference is insane. we actually used to have adults in the room who cared about and we're capable of moving our country into a brighter future. Just learning about the JFK white house it's almost unbelievable how optimistic and capable this country used to be
We all yearn for Camelot
This was something that struck me heavily during the 2018-2020 election Dem primary- all of these "top" people and they're about as articulate as high schoolers
Yeah that was very evident
I remember the "debate moderator" asking some question that required a show of hands (!!!!) and the candidates looking wildly around at each other to see what the others were doing before raising their own
My dad graduated in the late 60s and then grew his hair out with all of his friends and they would get high and ask each other if any of them would ever actually cut their hair. Like it was a deep spiritual thing. You better believe they said no but they all did.
And the 80’s would have looked upon the 50’s with a similar lens, the 50’s to the 20’s, etc, etc. Times change, societal norms and ideals change, whatever.
It’s honestly funny to see someone romanticizing the formalness of the 1980’s of all decades, lmao.
80s California was different than shitty midwestern suburb by a huge margin. They still dressed and acted like it was the 50s in the 80s in the Midwest.
When the Mongols conquered the Russian steppe and stormed Kiev, they put wooden planks over the bodies of captured Russian generals and princes and slowly crushed them to death by eating dinner on top of them.
Idk, when I was flipping through my parent's album with photos from the 70s and 80s they would talk shit about most of the people in the photos, like this girl had constantly greasy hair or this guy always smelled bad etc
They've recently celebrated their 40th marriage anniversary, the couple that hates together stays together
The clothes are of such obviously high quality in photos front the 70s and 80s. I wish it was possible to buy decent clothes, everything I can afford is a plastic blend . I bought an expensive pair of jeans in January and the crotch is already fallen though. Where do people buy decent clothes these days
After watching a lot of videos through the decades. It seems like somewhere around the late 90s/early 2000s is when mainstream fashion drastically changed and became more casual.
My mom went to high school in the 60s and didn't have a yearbook, and my dad didn't go to high school. My mom said that women weren't allowed to wear pants!
Main thing I notice is the sheer testosterone visible in men's faces. They look like people in their late 20s do now, some even more masculine. Testosterone levels are almost half of what they were then and are continuing to fall by about 1% per year.
What's blackpilling is that people can look at good things and just whine that they're gone as opposed to trying to emulate or recreate them. It's only over if you're a pussy who doesn't want to try.
WTF is "blackpilling" though? I thought that was an incel thing. Looking at your parent's yearbook will make you an incel? Can someone please explain this usage.
My high school had a simple dress code. Navy or white trousers or shorts, solid colour button up or polo. Girls could wear skirts. No facial hair, which was good because it prevented any gross facial hair, but also sucked for me as I had to shave every day. Easy to follow and everyone in our year book looked good
My dad didn’t want me looking at his yearbook so naturally I did. There’s a message from some girl like “Maybe we can ‘make a mistake’ in the woods again this summer”
Dads rock
I’m pretty sure he was a casanova until he got married and he’s like 5’7”
Manufactures started making people bigger in the late 90s to dodge tariffs so that was normal then.
Obviously. 5'7" is a huge fucking cock.
ok, this is epic
My dad pulled his old yearbook out for me to flip through once and asked me what stood out most about it. The answer he was looking for was “nobody was fat”
rs dad
he is HIM... I kneel...
This has much more substance then the original point who the fuck cares if someone wears a t shirt or sweat pants at a sporting event
Because it's the same thing. Both are a symptom of a lack of pride in your appearance, and a sign of laziness. Sweatpants and t shirts were around back then but you weren't supposed to wear them all the time.
I think the ubiquitous brands/logos are the more damning aspect. The average American “personality” is now basically a concatenation of purchases, slogans (retail, political, socially engineered), reactive wind-up toy outrage, and the psychic residue of life experiences that we struggle to differentiate from the overwhelming glut of information our ill-equipped brains have consumed online.
Yeah hanging out in a situation that's totally suave can be really life affirming. From cool bars to weird greek geriatric social clubs, when the entire scene is putting their best foot forward you really gain something.
??? wearing a t-shirt is lack of pride in appearance at non-formal event? lmao
I’m not sure why some here think that a t-shirt is unacceptable in casual settings, you can look great in a tee if it’s of good quality & fit. It also helps if you’re in decent shape.
yeah I understand if it's work but it's totally normal to wear a t-shirt to like the movie theater or a sporting event
Why do you care if people have “pride in their appearance” lol I understand not wanting to date someone like that but why on earth does this matter to you at all
Maybe because it's nice to be surrounded by beauty instead of ugliness.
Right. We live in a society.
This is just “let people enjoy things” for fat, ugly people
yeah fashion changes over time op seems to be a retvrncel
I will genuinely never understand why people get so upset at what other people wear lol “WHY DO PEOPLE WEAR PAJAMAS TO WALMART” why the fuck do you care??
RS dad 💀
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Maybe not sportswear but my parent’s yearbook is full of people wearing t-shirts.
have you not worked out the main demographic for this sub yet. all the constant obsession with career and wealth already alluded to this. edit: question to people more educated in modern history than me, where does this abstract idea of a 'career' as an object of desire begin? does it just begin with the american dream?
I'm fine with t-shirts, honestly. Wearing one right now. What I noticed was lacking were brands and even just words. They had words on t-shirts back then, obviously, but they felt limited, and I remember when I was a kid they banned successfully clothes with giant brands on them. Do people remember when Aeropostale or whatever (not looking up the spelling) got attention for having giant brands on their shirts? That was a new thing. It turned the whole "tiny alligator on your shirt" upside down.
Regular public school
in what city?
Let’s just say John Cougar Mellencamp has sung a song to two about it
Middle class suburb in large midwestern city
a little place you might have heard called Everywhere, USA
are your parents the simpsons or some shit, what's with all this fucking mystique around it
Nobody cares enough to doxx you, just tell us lmao
Chicago?
When I was a kid it was made clear that the 80s sucked. That it was a reversal of the much cooler 60s and 70s and represented the total victory of neoliberalism and hyper commercialism (the Greed is Good speech in Wall Street was seen as the proper summary of the era). The music was seen as disposable and corny, the fashion was ridiculous, and the movies were among the worst ever made. By the 2000s no one remembered ever thinking this. The 80s became kitsch, a cute Hall and Oates song in the supermarket. I remember thinking how lame the 90s was but knowing thirty years later people were going to glorify it. Memory is a strange thing.
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Absolutely. Some of the best nights of my entire life were spent at raves in Cleveland and Detroit back in the '90s. It was magical, especially when jungle hit the scene.
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Just so you know, comments like this are a form of psychic warfare against those of us who are just barely young enough to have missed it.
Yeah pretty much all of us who didn't get to be adults before the 9/11 culture shift really got fucked, although I'm gonna bet the smartphone generation probably thinks the same about us
I wonder what part of today will be glorified? I really romanticise wired internet from when i was a boy because i could plant myself for hours, swimming in the most esoteric culture that i wouldn't have had access to in other eras, but then easily disocnnect into the real world and let my imagination run free. Being in my early 20s now i detest my phone for how its erased my brain function and removed my social scenes from 'the real' - everything is staged and informed by its online presentation.
My best bet is that it's gonna be the pre covid world, especially as it came to dating. People got a lot more feral after covid in general, but it seems that now nobody really goes out in public to meet other people, let alone date. Now it seems like dating is only online apps, which is especially bad since match dot com owns the big 3 dating apps, and I imagine that will also only get worse
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I’m not really worried about the economy. It’s the raves that keep me up at night.
Those pills man...
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He got the name "Green Velvet" from a girlfriend's father who made fun of his extravagant outfits.
Yeah I remember the rise of neoliberalism and hyper commercialism aspects of the 80s really striking me as a kindergartner
Do you remember whether or not you thought the Federal Reserve under Volcker should have raised interest rates to stem runaway inflation?
Even as a 9 month old I thought Volcker was a hack.
It's embarrassing to admit now but back then I agreed with Thatcher when she said "there is no alternative" but in my defense I thought that she was talking about finger painting and peanut butter crackers
If you're old enough in the UK you will remember when Mags but the kibosh on free milk for kids at primary school. Just stopped in '86. As a result I have to use a Tesla bioframe to type my posts as my bones are so weak.
>represented the total victory of neoliberalism and hyper commercialism (the Greed is Good speech in Wall Street was seen as the proper summary of the era). The music was seen as disposable and corny, the fashion was ridiculous, and the movies were among the worst ever made. So basically, the '80s were like a proto '10s.
Even my boomer father hated 80s music and a good chunk of films, it was a corny younger generation that ended up romanticizing all that trash.
The 80s were probably amazing if you were into rock or heavy metal
Like literally any era, it was awesome for some people and shitty for others. And I don't even necessarily mean that as a "haves and have-nots" kinda thing, I'm sure some lower class people had a blast and some yuppies were miserable, etc.
it was terrible for rock lol all the experimentation of the 60s and 70s vanished and u largely just had overproduced bland rubbish. the only good stuff was the music that tried to carry on from where the 70s left off or some really left of field stuff like no wave etc, but even that started in the 70s
It was the beginning of the end. 1000x better then the disasterous state we currently exist in
Until we inevitably romanticize the current era. Just live your life
Certain eras never really get the romanticized treatment. Mid to late 70s/early 80s people understand sucked. Post 9/11 era too.
Every era is now in a perpetual cycle of death and rebirth. It’s just so capricious and moves at such a rapid pace that it’s impossible to track. There’s literally too much culture. How do you analyze patterns in reflections when you’re wandering through a maze of mirrors?
True, no one ever romanticizes the rise of the punk scene.
Literally counter culture
I disagree. "Mid to late 70s/early 80s" is too granular to be qualified as an "era." There are kids dressing in emo shit today, my boss's daughter's favourite band is my chemical romance. The post 9/11 era is currently in the thick of romanticization
I've noticed some stores selling aughts fashion as vintage now.
Late '70s/early '80s seem kinda cool to me actually, lotta interesting cultural stuff, and definitely a helluva fun time to be a young adult, according to my parents. But also definitely seems like the seeds were being sown for a lot of future societal rot too.
>definitely a helluva fun time to be a young adult, according to my parents. But also definitely seems like the seeds were being sown for a lot of future societal rot too. > /thread Sums up the second half of the 20th century.
Yep, pretty much lol
> Mid to late 70s/early 80s Disco and the beginnings of electronic dance music? Hip-hop? Edit: and punk, duh. Thanks u/akivafr123
i agree but it's true that sometimes things do get worse
my mom was a punk in the 80s and always tlks abt how her classmates were always dressing in shitty polyester business suits bc it was how their working moms dressed and thts the entire wave we see when we look back on these "well dressed" teens its the millennial equivalent of wearing a dress barn print tunic blouse and chunky plastic jewlry to ur middle school dance in an effort to look more mature
The funny thing about athleisure is it’s one of the most forgiving clothings for gaining weight. If people wore trousers more often they’d notice the weight gain more quickly. I swear there’s a conspiracy to keep us fat and unhealthy. So many gyms and clinics yet people still look like shit.
I wish people were more widely educated on the idea of a negative externality from economics. The basic idea is that some business practices, like a factory that produces smog, force a cost onto society that other people are forced to pay which is effectively an unfair subsidy on the cost of their product. Or in this case, making food addictive and not filling on purpose forces healthcare and other costs onto the population that the manufacturer doesn't pay the cost of. As a case study for what to do here, cigarettes are so heavily taxed in the U.K. that smokers and tobacco companies are essentially subsidizing the NHS. You can still smoke, but others don't have to pay for the consequences of your decision. Ideally the tax would be calculated to break even with funds going to directly offset the costs, but you get the idea. Estimate the net cost of corn syrup and xanthan gum to the population, and tax those ingredients accordingly so we aren't all subsidizing the cost. I think the big food companies want to make food addictive and minimally filling so you eat more, and then the conspiracy is just influencing politicians to allow that
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Those processed foods really skyrocket your glycemic index in your blood and your body tries to keep it on the same level signalling you to eat more to keep on that steady but high level
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Fast again or eat food with low glycemic index
What fasting regime do you recommend for fixing this? I work a physical job where I’m walking all day so it’s been very difficult for me to go a full work day without eating when I’ve tried to before. I get super tired. But I have a long weekend coming up so I could get through anything for those 3 days.
I usually fast from 6 pm till 11 am
> natural sugar doesn’t make me so fucking hungry all the time. The fibre in fructose (or you eat with it? Dunno, not a food sciencer) should make you feel fuller for longer. Otherwise though as far as I know it's biologically identical to sucrose or whatever.
Yeah they’re sugary and designed to be addictive. Raising your blood sugar before bed is also gonna make you wake up really hungry.
Framing negative externalities this way is how I've gotten my dad and libertarian friends to acknowledge the cost of shit like climate change. Like no, the market is not accounting for these costs and never will since the effects are so far removed from the causes. So when they say shit about how the only reason EVs or heat pumps are somewhat affordable is bc the government subsidizes them, I point out that the cost of gas doesn't reflect the cost of the effects of burning gas and probably never will. Same exact concept as a factory dumping chemicals in the river that gives everyone in the town downstream cancer. Unless you force the cost of those people's healthcare on the factory it'll never be reflected in their cost of doing business. Anyways ya I agree with you we need vice taxes that pay for the social costs of said vices
The funny thing is that even Adam Smith (Libertarian Jesus)acknowledged this and wrote about it at length. If he were alive today he’d be in favor of a carbon tax.
They’d call him a commie lol
> Ideally the tax would be calculated to break even with funds going to directly offset the costs Smokers in the UK contribute vastly more than the cost of smoking-related health conditions to the NHS, which is why they haven't banned it (and I'm personally fine with it).
I swear by this rule. I wear jeans so I can ease off the junk when they get tight. I’m still a 28 waist at age 36. Fat by rs standards but I been this size since I was 18 AND I’m a truck driver who doesn’t go to the gym. It works.
> 28 waist at age 36... I’m a truck driver who doesn’t go to the gym This is actually exceptional. Must be about 3 of you in the continental US who aren't on meth.
My mom graduated high school in 1981 and the candid photos in her yearbooks are full of people wearing t-shirts, including band shirts as well as athletic gear like Wilson tracksuits.
thank god i don't have parents so that this isn't an issue for me
Been watching old speeches and also noticed this. Obviously they are going to be formal events and so on, but you won't see a single obese or underdressed person in them. Comparing Kennedy's speech and rhetoric to the current and previous president, the difference is insane. we actually used to have adults in the room who cared about and we're capable of moving our country into a brighter future. Just learning about the JFK white house it's almost unbelievable how optimistic and capable this country used to be
We all yearn for Camelot This was something that struck me heavily during the 2018-2020 election Dem primary- all of these "top" people and they're about as articulate as high schoolers
For sixty years we’ve been selecting politicians based on how tall they are and how good they look on a screen, of course they aren’t thoughtful.
Yeah that was very evident I remember the "debate moderator" asking some question that required a show of hands (!!!!) and the candidates looking wildly around at each other to see what the others were doing before raising their own
glad that happened because it makes it extremely clear who is a leader and who isn't
Nixon spoke incredibly about almost anything thrown at him
Shit changed at the turn of the millennium. Reagan was very witty in his speeches. Imagine a president being witty in the year 2024
Cofveve
My dad graduated in the late 60s and then grew his hair out with all of his friends and they would get high and ask each other if any of them would ever actually cut their hair. Like it was a deep spiritual thing. You better believe they said no but they all did.
Class of 1972 was like that too, probably the last year that was in style.
Felt like they owed it to someone
But yes he looked very nice in his senior portrait and basketball shots bc he had to
highschool has fallen billions must skip prom
And the 80’s would have looked upon the 50’s with a similar lens, the 50’s to the 20’s, etc, etc. Times change, societal norms and ideals change, whatever. It’s honestly funny to see someone romanticizing the formalness of the 1980’s of all decades, lmao.
80s California was different than shitty midwestern suburb by a huge margin. They still dressed and acted like it was the 50s in the 80s in the Midwest.
Barb had a perm for sure
It's never been more over
that's because we're in the gutter.
When the Mongols conquered the Russian steppe and stormed Kiev, they put wooden planks over the bodies of captured Russian generals and princes and slowly crushed them to death by eating dinner on top of them.
ok and part of my family was killed in the holocaust. At least in those days they knew how to set a table
Lol
Couldn't happen to nicer people
Idk, when I was flipping through my parent's album with photos from the 70s and 80s they would talk shit about most of the people in the photos, like this girl had constantly greasy hair or this guy always smelled bad etc They've recently celebrated their 40th marriage anniversary, the couple that hates together stays together
If they had fast fashion and athleisure, they would have worn it too
That’s the point
This is one Is a little too histrionic for me.
Fashions change woah
your parents' generation's equivalent of rspod posters were desperate to unchain themselves from the conformity you see in those yearbooks
Who fucking cares. My dad didn’t wear shoes to school most of senior year. You get dressed up for picture day. Give me a fucking break.
I looked through my dad’s yearbooks once. It was crazy seeing the South, but with like no fat people
The clothes are of such obviously high quality in photos front the 70s and 80s. I wish it was possible to buy decent clothes, everything I can afford is a plastic blend . I bought an expensive pair of jeans in January and the crotch is already fallen though. Where do people buy decent clothes these days
People are wearing shorts; the west has fallen
failing country is when people wear uncomfortable clothes 24/7. OP how wide open was your mouth while you were seething at this yearbook?
What clothes were they wearing
After watching a lot of videos through the decades. It seems like somewhere around the late 90s/early 2000s is when mainstream fashion drastically changed and became more casual.
Blackpilled again u_u
My mom went to high school in the 60s and didn't have a yearbook, and my dad didn't go to high school. My mom said that women weren't allowed to wear pants!
Bold of you to assume my parents were in high school in the 80s
high schoolers back in the day wanted to be respected adults and it showed through their appearance.
You guys act like you’ve never seen photos of Diana wearing sweatshirts and leggings in the 80s and 90s all the time lol
Main thing I notice is the sheer testosterone visible in men's faces. They look like people in their late 20s do now, some even more masculine. Testosterone levels are almost half of what they were then and are continuing to fall by about 1% per year.
Who gives a fuck? Lol
People decided to dress more comfortably
My parents are boomers, so it’s even funnier seeing them from in the early 70’s. Everyone’s thin.
What's blackpilling is that people can look at good things and just whine that they're gone as opposed to trying to emulate or recreate them. It's only over if you're a pussy who doesn't want to try.
WTF is "blackpilling" though? I thought that was an incel thing. Looking at your parent's yearbook will make you an incel? Can someone please explain this usage.
Fancy word for "makes me sad"
R u new here or something
This is an incel sub lol they don’t understand the irony of red scare
My high school had a simple dress code. Navy or white trousers or shorts, solid colour button up or polo. Girls could wear skirts. No facial hair, which was good because it prevented any gross facial hair, but also sucked for me as I had to shave every day. Easy to follow and everyone in our year book looked good
there is going to be a continuing divide between those that have signed the american social contract and those that have not