http://www.people.com/article/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-exercise-parody
Seriously, IPA shot out my nose.
All kinds of awesome.
The 80s were something. Something is the best I can say.
The 80s were something. Something is the best I can say.
Ain’t that the truth?
I had flashbacks to Solid Gold!
I love watching those early cross fit videos.
I loved the 80’s. Used to get up early mornings to watch “Twenty Minute Work Out”. Oh, those girls in those skimpy work out costumes!
It was my 30’s decade. I wouldn’t want to be the age I was then now and that’s no b.s.
The 80s were something. Something is the best I can say.
Here’s the deal. That shit was lame back then. Aerobics on TV was NEVER popular. That would come on and everyone would groan.
It sucked back then and it’s just plain funny now.
And dudes who did aerobics were not popular, they weren’t getting laid (by womens) and nobody thought it ok to do.
Now people put this shit on the Internet as if everyone in the 80s did this stuff. More people were doing cocaine and smoking a pack a day than doing aerobics back then.
As someone who is recently in to his 30’s, why would you not want to be 30 now? I love now!
That being said, I’ll say the 90’s was a pretty sweet time to grow up. I wouldn’t have wanted to experience any other decade in my youth.
The 80s were something. Something is the best I can say.
More people were doing cocaine and smoking a pack a day than doing aerobics back then.
some of us were doing all three.
The 80s were something. Something is the best I can say.
Here’s the deal. That shit was lame back then. Aerobics on TV was NEVER popular. That would come on and everyone would groan.
It sucked back then and it’s just plain funny now.
And dudes who did aerobics were not popular, they weren’t getting laid (by womens) and nobody thought it ok to do.
Now people put this shit on the Internet as if everyone in the 80s did this stuff. More people were doing cocaine and smoking a pack a day than doing aerobics back then.
So, really nothing’s changed - other than we’re all older.
As someone who is recently in to his 30’s, why would you not want to be 30 now? I love now!
That being said, I’ll say the 90’s was a pretty sweet time to grow up. I wouldn’t have wanted to experience any other decade in my youth.
I can only say that being a child in the late 70s was fun as hell. No one was all “special snowflake” and kids were free range and loving life.
As someone who is recently in to his 30’s, why would you not want to be 30 now? I love now!
That being said, I’ll say the 90’s was a pretty sweet time to grow up. I wouldn’t have wanted to experience any other decade in my youth.
I can only say that being a child in the late 70s was fun as hell. No one was all “special snowflake” and kids were free range and loving life.
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I remember being told…“come home when the streetlights turn on.”
As someone who is recently in to his 30’s, why would you not want to be 30 now? I love now!
That being said, I’ll say the 90’s was a pretty sweet time to grow up. I wouldn’t have wanted to experience any other decade in my youth.
I can only say that being a child in the late 70s was fun as hell. No one was all “special snowflake” and kids were free range and loving life.
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I remember being told…“come home when the streetlights turn on.”
My Dad used an orange whistle, the one he used for his black lab at field trials. We could hear that thing for miles and when he blew that, it was time to come home.
I admit it- I’ve seen that video before. However, that was the first time I had heard that song. Crap I’m old.
To add to the divergent part of the thread:
We had the street light rule too. When we got a little older, we had the “it’s time to come in when my parents flashed the front porch light several times” rule. We negotiated for that after the time change since we recognized the inequity of having to be indoors on nice, fall evenings when the street lights came on at 5:00 pm.
As someone who is recently in to his 30’s, why would you not want to be 30 now? I love now!
That being said, I’ll say the 90’s was a pretty sweet time to grow up. I wouldn’t have wanted to experience any other decade in my youth.
I can only say that being a child in the late 70s was fun as hell. No one was all “special snowflake” and kids were free range and loving life.
x1
I remember being told…“come home when the streetlights turn on.”
My Dad used an orange whistle, the one he used for his black lab at field trials. We could hear that thing for miles and when he blew that, it was time to come home.
We had a bell, but like the pets would also drift home when our stomachs started growling.
The 80s were something. Something is the best I can say.
Here’s the deal. That shit was lame back then. Aerobics on TV was NEVER popular. That would come on and everyone would groan.
It sucked back then and it’s just plain funny now.
And dudes who did aerobics were not popular, they weren’t getting laid (by womens) and nobody thought it ok to do.
Now people put this shit on the Internet as if everyone in the 80s did this stuff. More people were doing cocaine and smoking a pack a day than doing aerobics back then.
You need to take a class in social science. Even unpopular trends can have a significant historic effect. Or even an effect on a future niche, as is the case with aerobics. In the 80s and 90s as the popularity of aerobics declined, the popularity of triathlon increased. The folks leaving stationary indoor aerobics formed the mass of people who made outdoor aerobics, or triathlon, popular, and this correspondingly created a market for fancy triathlon gear and bikes. Somewhere here on slowtwitch there is a article that Dan wrote about his early days as a aerobics instructor and how he turned to triathlon when that dried up. In it he also talks about his early journalistic work for Rolling Stone Magazine. Did you know that in the 80s there was a movie staring Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta that was based on Dan’s early life? Show some respect.
I’m looking for Dan’s article. I think it was called “Perfect.” Really. When I find it I’ll post it. Be patient.
I admit it- I’ve seen that video before. However, that was the first time I had heard that song. Crap I’m old.
To add to the divergent part of the thread:
We had the street light rule too. When we got a little older, we had the “it’s time to come in when my parents flashed the front porch light several times” rule. We negotiated for that after the time change since we recognized the inequity of having to be indoors on nice, fall evenings when the street lights came on at 5:00 pm.
Not old. I have 2 teenagers and an 8 year old that thinks T. Swift hung the moon…so maybe just not in touch with pop music trends. 
“As someone who is recently in to his 30’s, why would you not want to be 30 now?”
Its about how the world has changed. For example my daughter has just turned 30, lives in Vancouver, has a decent middle class job and has no chance of ever owning a house in that city unless she marries rich. Thirty years ago potential home ownership in Vancouver was a non issue.
I liked the funky styles, liberal social attitudes, etc of the 80’s but on the other hand my 30’s was a stressful decade. My 20’s in the 1970’s were very care free but once I hit my 30’s there was marriage, kids, mortgage, etc, etc, and was under the gun. but I still really enjoyed the 80’s. If I was in my 30’s now the financial stresses would be higher now.
The 90’s for me were a divorce, newly single again, starting over but still good. But then I’m a boomer and for us its all been mostly good just based on the technology/demographics of the time we were born.
That’s interesting. I’m the same age as your daughter and in Victoria, which is an equally crazy market (it’s actually cheaper, but wages are less in Victoria so it’s a close enough comparison). I agree, I have a small but busy construction company, and my girlfriend is a nurse. We are looking for our first house, and are resigned to the fact that we will end up with a total piece of shit fixer-upper built in the 70’s, for around $400,000 - $450,000.
That being said, I think people my age had it pretty good. We grew up in a great time, really got in on the ground floor with the internet and modern technology, and really have yet to face real hardship. Sure there are challenges like mentioned above, but there is also opportunity.
I should also add that my dad, when he moved to Canada and was buying and building his first houses, was saying how he got his first mortgage for $22,000, and his interest rate was 13% and he felt like he won the lottery! And I think he was making all of $3 or $4.50 an hour as a machinist’s apprentice.