Poll
Question:
What was the coolest decade of the 20th century to live in?
Option 1: 1900s
votes: 2
Option 2: 1910s
votes: 1
Option 3: 1920s
votes: 8
Option 4: 1930s
votes: 2
Option 5: 1940s
votes: 0
Option 6: 1950s
votes: 5
Option 7: 1960s
votes: 8
Option 8: 1970s
votes: 6
Option 9: 1980s
votes: 6
Option 10: 1990s
votes: 14
When would you like to have been alive during the 20th century?
Me, I'm torn between the roaring 20s and the late 60s/early 70s.
1990s no doubt
80s no mobile phones
70s stagflation
60s no computers
50s no contraceptive pill
40s WWII
30s Great Depression
20s no household appliances
10s WWI
00s Nasty social situation for everybody except the rich.
Quote80s no mobile phones
Actually an argument for any decade without them.
The 1990s easily. You had Alanis, you had the Clinton years :wub:, and I was still a teenager!
Head did not start becoming a given until the 1990s?
90s.
It was pussyville.
If not the 90s then late 60s.
Nah, I would go with late 60s, the little-renessaince of those years still echoes in our culture.
90s sucked, too many posers.
Voted 20s. The first modern decade. They had almost everything we have but it was a little different.
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.
The Jazz Age.
1970s. The glam rock era.
1900s, I don't need to say more than Dreadnought.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 05, 2009, 03:23:20 AM
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.
Good call.
I never lived through the age when smoming was the sign of a healthy man.
A runner up:
The 1940s, doing commando raids with 10th Independent Company.
Those guys were real. And they did some training that would make the fat just melt off us saturated no-good 30somethings.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 05, 2009, 03:23:20 AM
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.
Your black ass would have been on the back of a bus somewhere.
1920s. Jazz, speakeasies, rum runners, tommy guns, the mob, radio, cocaine, and flappers.
In Western Europe, the 1960s for sure.
I'm with Norg and CdM.
70's. Not for the easy sex, but for the shag carpeting and orange couches.
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.
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.
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.
Most of you are too young to have remembered teh 80s for how truly awesome they were.
You all fal
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 05, 2009, 03:23:20 AM
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.
:yes:
Now I feel like watching Mad Men.
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 05, 2009, 09:31:05 AM
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.
Seedy knows truth.
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.
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on July 05, 2009, 12:09:09 PM
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! :shifty:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 05, 2009, 12:13:50 PM
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on July 05, 2009, 12:09:09 PM
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! :shifty:
yeah that's why I'd do it, coz I'm just that much of an ass. :p
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 05, 2009, 03:23:20 AM
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.
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 05, 2009, 09:31:05 AM
Most of you are too young to have remembered teh 80s for how truly awesome they were.
You all fal
In the 1980s I moved to Canada. I finished high school. Finished university. Got laid for the first time. Started working. Quite the decade.
Still picked the 60s though. They're probably romanticized now, but it seems to me they were a good decade from what I've read, and seen in Oliver Stone films.
Assuming no medical issues, I'd say the 80s.
Quote from: Queequeg on July 05, 2009, 12:22:05 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 05, 2009, 03:23:20 AM
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.
And you'd be wrong.
Quote from: Josephus on May 25, 1970, 02:22:26 AM
Still picked the 60s though. They're probably romanticized now, but it seems to me they were a good decade from what I've read, and seen in Oliver Stone films.
Never believe anything you see in an Oliver Stone film.
Chosing a decade in the 20th century is just chosing between diferent wars.
Quote from: dps on July 05, 2009, 09:33:35 PM
Never believe anything you see in an Oliver Stone film.
QFT
Now, the 60s of
From the Earth to the Moon was real.
Quote from: Siege on July 05, 2009, 10:15:32 PM
Chosing a decade in the 20th century is just chosing between diferent wars.
Not outside Israel. Outside israel, we had culture, and wars were interruptions in the developments of culture.
90's over 80's.
Quote from: Queequeg on July 05, 2009, 12:22:05 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 05, 2009, 03:23:20 AM
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.
The first five things that come to mind with the 1910s are:
WWI
Spanish Flu
Revolutions
Economic Recession/Depression
The Titanic
Even if you take out that minor detail we call WWI, it was still a crappy decade. The Armenians in particular are offended by your vote. :P
People during most of the century tended to look back on the Edwardian Age as the 'good old days' so they must have been awesome...so long as you were a white guy I guess.
Quote from: Valmy on July 06, 2009, 09:30:14 AM
People during most of the century tended to look back on the Edwardian Age as the 'good old days' so they must have been awesome...so long as you were a white guy I guess.
This may be a cop out, but in those days I'd probably be close to the end of my life expectancy, probably wouldn't have a car, possibly not electricity, definately no TV, and may be stuck using an outhouse. We also didn't have legal birth control.
I tend to think that just because of improvements in technology and general living standards that the later decades are the only viable options.
Quote from: alfred russel on July 06, 2009, 09:36:37 AM
I tend to think that just because of improvements in technology and general living standards that the later decades are the only viable options.
:yes:
I don't think I would want to live in a decade before penicillin...
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