What was the coolest decade of the 20th century to live in?

[DisturbedPervert]

1920s.  Jazz, speakeasies, rum runners, tommy guns, the mob, radio, cocaine, and flappers.

[Warspite]

In Western Europe, the 1960s for sure.

[Sheilbh]

I'm with Norg and CdM.

[Ed Anger]

70's. Not for the easy sex, but for the shag carpeting and orange couches.

[Josquius]

I do sort of see 10 years earlier and so the 80s/90s as having a somewhat cool feel.
I only vaguely remember that period from when I was a kid and it just seemed...better. Computers were more hardcore, no internet. Consoles too weren't mainstream but they just had a aura of awesomeness they lack today. Music...the mainstream sucked big style but indie was at its best- especially once you get through into the 90s.
I'd have to have the caveat of a job though of course.

The 70s are bleh. All poor and nasty. Though punk was cool.
The 60s are cool in some ways but not in others...Depends which 60s you get.
Before that and nah.

[Neil]

Hard to say.  1900-1910 was a time of unbridled optimism, a golden age for humanity that was destroyed by Slavs.  On the other hand, the 40s, 50s and 60s were the time of the great challenge to the West, a time when we had meaning and a purpose.

[grumbler]

1960s.  The world was obviously changing for the better:  The pill, rock and roll, Martin Luther King, Vietnam War protests, and we were gonna BEAT THOSE FUCKING RUSSIANS TO THE MOON!

As Tamas noted, a mini-renaisssance.

[crazy canuck]

Most of you are too young to have remembered teh 80s for how truly awesome they were.

You all fal

[FunkMonk]

1954-1963

Cool jazz, Rat Pack, smoking was in, guys wore suits and thin ties to parties, and the ladies still wore gloves.
Yeah, daddyo.

Now I feel like watching Mad Men.

[DisturbedPervert]

Most of you are too young to have remembered teh 80s for how truly awesome they were.

You all fal

I can remember how awesome my lunchboxes were.

[Grey Fox]

Seedy knows truth.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

all you people who lived through the 90s and chose that decade are lame. what imagination!

pfft. 20's or 70's (as an adult not the kid I was) I'd love to go back in time and watch old movies with crowds that have never seen them.

[jimmy olsen]

all you people who lived through the 90s and chose that decade are lame. what imagination!

pfft. 20's or 70's (as an adult not the kid I was) I'd love to go back in time and watch old movies with crowds that have never seen them.

As you scream out spoilers just before they happen!

[BuddhaRhubarb]

all you people who lived through the 90s and chose that decade are lame. what imagination!

pfft. 20's or 70's (as an adult not the kid I was) I'd love to go back in time and watch old movies with crowds that have never seen them.

As you scream out spoilers just before they happen!

yeah that's why I'd do it, coz I'm just that much of an ass. :p

[Queequeg]

1954-1963

Cool jazz, Rat Pack, smoking was in, guys wore suits and thin ties to parties, and the ladies still wore gloves.
Yeah, daddyo.

Yup.

But I voted 1910s, if you can stay out of WW1 it is just a fantastically cool era, and I'd include the early 20s in that decade.