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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 535777" data-attributes="member: 158">Being a child of the 80's, I HAD to comment:Which I loved as a kid. I didn't DO it, but I had fun watching the girls who did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />According to Gary, sales figures TRIPLED from 1981 to 1984.Billy Idol, the biggest punk rocker of all, is a music icon today.I have a theory that the explosion of the Tupperware party was a very strange, yet lucrative, form of female empowerment. The 80's was by far the biggest decade for consumerism.You win this one. I have no defense.by far.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I loved this song. Sorta - the worst changes didn't occur until the late 1980's to the early 1990's. I have some more for you, all I consider good:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hair Bands (Guns 'n Roses original lineup and AC/DC (not a hair band) defined my late high school and early college music tastes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rubiks Cube (the most insane puzzle ever invented)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon!!!!!!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Macintosh Computer, which set a new standard in Personal Computing</li> </ul>You have to take the good and the bad! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have several more, but they are politically and religiously inappropriate for this board - but one thing that CAN'T be said about the 1980's was that little change occurred. In many ways, the 1980's was the most momentous decade for change since the 1960's!</blockquote>

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