synapse play so hard 60938 Posts user info edit post |
So I know we all identify with the decade we grew up in, but if you can try and look at the question without bias, which decade of the 20th/21st century would you call the best, and why? 5/28/2012 12:45:48 AM |
Krallum 56A0D3 15294 Posts user info edit post |
1970s
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ncsuallday Sink the Flagship 9818 Posts user info edit post |
1990's were pretty cool with all of our economic prosperity, the advent of the Internet, etc.
the 1960's were also pretty great with the cultural revolutions, civil rights act, moon landing, etc. 5/28/2012 12:55:42 AM |
TreeTwista10 minisoldr 148439 Posts user info edit post |
what does loudRyan think?
i'm assuming this thread was made since you all had a conversation about this topic 5/28/2012 1:36:52 AM |
0EPII1 All American 42541 Posts user info edit post |
shouldn't the answer have to be a decade that the responding poster existed during?
are we supposed to answer this from a historical/theoretical point of view, or from how a particular decade affected us (our living conditions and happiness) personally?
i can only answer the latter. i would say the current decade. for me the answer will always be "the current decade" no matter when you ask me, as living conditions and technology gets better as time goes on (unless of course there is some catastrophic world war in the future which wipes out a big chunk of the world). 5/28/2012 6:17:11 AM |
parsonsb All American 13206 Posts user info edit post |
1304 to 1314 for obvious reasons 5/28/2012 6:35:25 AM |
EuroTitToss All American 4790 Posts user info edit post |
I think we can all agree the Aughts isn't coming out a winner: tech bubble burst, 9/11, George Bush, 2008 recession, multiple wars (and the economy still isn't booming).
Most of us then, answering from experience, can only really say the 90s for aforementioned reasons or maybe.... the 80s (80s music and video games: golden age of arcade video games AND release of NES, Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc.) 5/28/2012 7:32:09 AM |
Smath74 All American 93278 Posts user info edit post |
i'd love to go visit the decade i was conceived in since i never got to see it with my own eyes - 1970's (born jan 1980) 5/28/2012 8:04:52 AM |
Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
http://mwavs.com/0058349934/WAVS/Movies/Dazed_And_Confused/everyotherdecade.wav 5/28/2012 5:26:18 PM |
raiden All American 10505 Posts user info edit post |
the 90s were cool and here's a good reason, Clinton getting dome from a fat chick in the white house. 5/29/2012 12:59:38 PM |
Smath74 All American 93278 Posts user info edit post |
the 60s were cool and here's a good reason, Kennedy getting dome from a fat chick in the white house. 5/29/2012 1:05:48 PM |
qntmfred retired 40726 Posts user info edit post |
2050s are gonna be pretty kickass 5/29/2012 1:12:08 PM |
Tarun almost 11687 Posts user info edit post |
we will see about that! 5/29/2012 1:42:28 PM |
TULIPlovr All American 3288 Posts user info edit post |
1950's. 5/29/2012 1:50:49 PM |
Kurtis636 All American 14984 Posts user info edit post |
90s. The advent of the internet is the most important technological event since electricity. 5/29/2012 1:55:49 PM |
LaserSoup All American 5503 Posts user info edit post |
If we're strictly talking a decade then it would be the 70s but if we can pick any 10 consecutive years I would say 1975-1984. 5/29/2012 2:51:09 PM |
TKE-Teg All American 43409 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I think we can all agree the Aughts isn't coming out a winner: tech bubble burst, 9/11, George Bush, 2008 recession, multiple wars (and the economy still isn't booming) and Obama." |
5/29/2012 4:29:56 PM |
timbo All American 1003 Posts user info edit post |
The 2010's are going to be good 5/29/2012 4:37:06 PM |
AntiMnifesto All American 1870 Posts user info edit post |
That I've lived through? Probably the 90s. The Internet was young and novel, economic prosperity was happening, and there was a real sense of progress in the air. We weren't blowing our national budget on wars, and I wasn't living with the sense that any small teeter in the stock market was going to send us plummeting off a fine precipice into the start of a serious post-civilization collapse. 5/30/2012 12:06:41 AM |
TKE-Teg All American 43409 Posts user info edit post |
^ 5/30/2012 8:23:45 AM |