Canuk Posted June 17, 2012 Posted June 17, 2012 I bet you can do a better calculation than that, Tim. Calculate how many days there were between December 7, 1985 to December 31, 1989. Then calculate how many days there were between January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. You'll get a more accurate percentage there. that seems a fairly simple EXCEL calculation: 7 Dec 85 - 31 Dec 89 = 1485 1 jan 90 - 31 dec 99 = 3651 = 29% "80's" =71% "90's" tho' I am not sure that tells me any more about you than the wealth of info I already knew! and it certainly doesn't bring Mark back from his revelries any faster! I feel like a kid whose next door neighbour has gone away "is he back yet?, is he back yet?, is he back yet?,......"
Mark Arbour Posted June 17, 2012 Author Posted June 17, 2012 I have not been idle on my vacation, and I've actually written a few chapters. I'll try to get back on track with posting soon.
methodwriter85 Posted June 17, 2012 Posted June 17, 2012 that seems a fairly simple EXCEL calculation: 7 Dec 85 - 31 Dec 89 = 1485 1 jan 90 - 31 dec 99 = 3651 = 29% "80's" =71% "90's" tho' I am not sure that tells me any more about you than the wealth of info I already knew! I was curious to see if Tim would actually try to make a more accurate percentage. He went through the trouble of calculating the percentage after I called myself a half-80s/half 90s kid. I mean, really, I'm just justifying my massive 80's nostalgia. I definitely experienced 80's culture.
Canuk Posted June 17, 2012 Posted June 17, 2012 I realise this has NOTHING to do with Mark's (bloody long) vacation , but this hankering for a recently passed decade was brought home to be by my two boys - born '83 & '87 - they have this desire to know what it was like for me in the '70s. I'll admit is seems a lot more fun the way they talk about it that what I actually lived!! 1
methodwriter85 Posted June 17, 2012 Posted June 17, 2012 The 70's can be summed as this- really good music, really good movies, really good television, and a crappy everything else. Although I kind of envy people who grew up during Mark Arbour's generation- in the 1970's, people were so much less uptight about teenaged/college drinking, sex, and drug experimentation. The 1970's were a much more relaxed time, where people could get away with more. I mean, when I was in high school, people were so obsessed with political correctness and the like. Now as I understand it, high school kids can't even have bake sales anymore!
GLH Posted June 18, 2012 Posted June 18, 2012 If I may interject, both Tim's and Canuk's calculations on Jeremy's existence as a child of the 80's/90's are incorrect. The 80's decade ended at 12:00:00 a.m. January 1, 1991, therefore Jeremy lived 1850 days during said decade and 3653 days during the 90's. Given that fact, Jeremy actually lived 33.62% of his first fifteen years as a child of the 80's and 66.38% as a child of the 90's. Isn't insomnia just grand! 1
methodwriter85 Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 You just proved Tim wrong. Hallelujah. This whole "debate", if you will, comes from this whole YouTube comment war between kids of the 90's vs. kids of the 2000's. People who've set up . Those kids are striking back by saying that they still relate to a 90's childhood. It's kind of fascinating, really- who claims ownership to a 90's childhood, and if there's any real way of measuring that. I personally relate to both 80's kids(I remember growing up with the , sisters that had , , Ruff , , etc) and to 90's kids ( , Are You Afraid of the Dark?, , , , electronic pets, etc). So I figure, if someone born in 1996 can call themselves a 90's kid, why can I call myself a cross between an 80's kid and a 90's kid?
PrivateTim Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Sorry, but I've never bought into that "1990 is really part of the 80's" argument. It didn't work for the millennium celebrations and it still isn't 1
methodwriter85 Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Whatever, Tim. The point to all of this was that I grew up in and around 80's culture, and damn it, I feel entitled to miss the 1980's because I DID experience them.
PrivateTim Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 I feel entitled to miss the 1980's because I DID experience them. In poopy diapers for most of them! 2
Canuk Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 (edited) Frankly , Methodwriter85, I'd give up on this argument if I was you. The Tim-created image of you in "poopy diapers" has probably ruined what was left of Mark's holiday, and I sincerely doubt you can do or say anything that will wipe that image Edited June 19, 2012 by Canuk
Mark Arbour Posted June 20, 2012 Author Posted June 20, 2012 Frankly , Methodwriter85, I'd give up on this argument if I was you. The Tim-created image of you in "poopy diapers" has probably ruined what was left of Mark's holiday, and I sincerely doubt you can do or say anything that will wipe that image While it's certainly not an erotic image, it is a somewhat humorous one.
methodwriter85 Posted June 20, 2012 Posted June 20, 2012 Whatever, I'm just saying that Tim saying that I shouldn't miss the 1980's is pretty ridiculous, and I know I'm right on that one.
methodwriter85 Posted December 28, 2012 Posted December 28, 2012 Dude, you were like 3 when the 80's ended, how could you miss them? I think I can explain it better this time around. I have three older siblings who were born in 1977, 1981, and 1982. That put them squarely as "80's children", and I was familiar with a lot of their childhood toys like Cabbage Patch Dolls, the Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, etc etc. I was also familiar with a lot of 80's movies and t.v. shows....one sister could not get enough of that movie. And I watched with them a lot. Hell, I even remember my sisters having that perfume that Debbie Gibson named after her song. As a consequence of having older siblings, I experienced more of 80's culture than I would have if I had been an eldest child with siblings born in the late 80's/early 90's instead. I was also one of those latch-key kids who had been raised by television back in the early/mid-90s, and at the time a lot of 80's shows were being re-run on TV, like The Facts of Life, , (why were there so many shows about adoption back in the '80s?), , (yes, kids, before there was a movie there was a tv show starring Johnny Deep), etc etc. I actually once had someone who believed that I was lying about my age because of the references that I was making would point to me not being a 15-year old in 2001, but meh. I missed most of the 80's in terms of a physically tangible sense, but I experienced a lot of the culture, hence the nostalgia. I mean, I get all the references in Bowling for Soup's 1985: I totally feel justified in my 80's nostalgia, because I "get" that decade. Sometimes I wish I had been born in 1974-ish instead of 1985, so I could have experienced the 80's as a teenager. (And then later on, experiencing the grunge era as a college student. That would have awesome.)
Mark Arbour Posted December 28, 2012 Author Posted December 28, 2012 Dude, this thread has been dead for six months, and now this? Someone is not taking his Adderall.
methodwriter85 Posted December 28, 2012 Posted December 28, 2012 I was inspired by your reminsces of the 1980's in my "Memories of the 1980's" thread.
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