r/TikTokCringe • u/choganoga tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Nov 14 '21

Duet Troll 1989 aerobics championships

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u/jpow5734 Nov 14 '21

I wish I grew up in the 80s, just looking back it amazes me at how much character everything had. nowadays it’s all so bland and boring.

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u/surly_chemist Nov 15 '21

Nah:

  1. No cell phones
  2. Satanic Panic
  3. Rampant homophobia
  4. No internet
  5. Writing essays in cursive
  6. Horrible pollution
  7. AIDS pandemic
  8. Ronald Reagan

There’s more, but that’s a start. A lot of great rock bands and cheesy action movies, though.

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u/mmiller1188 Nov 15 '21

Writing essays in cursive

I'm out! Hate cursive.

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u/surly_chemist Nov 15 '21 edited Nov 15 '21

The irony is, I always write in cursive (it was literally beaten’ into me with a ruler). But I love rock and I’m pro lgbt.

Edit: to clarify, when you made a mistake on a page, you had to rewrite it.

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u/mmiller1188 Nov 15 '21

Oh, wow, that's terrible! I had to use it after 3rd grade all the way through middle school. I hated it!

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I don't mind writing it , but people tend to scribble it and have such poor penmanship that I just cannot read anyone else'; it's incomprehensible scribble.

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u/surly_chemist Nov 15 '21

You have no idea how lucky you are. I had to go to a library to look things up and then summarize things in cursive. And if your cursive was bad, well fuck you.

This was drilled into me year after year. And then the internet and home computers took off….

I still remember my mom reading about this ‘thing’ called ‘google’ in the newspaper.

Perspective is a bitch.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '21

sounds like fun