# Say something that is true to a person in 1985 that will make you sound like a crazy person **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283 "2022-07-20T20:59:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/422 "2023-02-08T03:21:21Z")
When you need to go somewhere, you’ll push a button and a stranger will show up in their car. You’ll get in the stranger’s car. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/423 "2023-02-08T04:09:42Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Prince Andrew is a renowned perverted and widely despised. “Randy Andy” was dating a woman mostly known for starring in erotic films in the early 80s, so it’s not like he was a choirboy back then. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/424 "2023-02-08T17:20:37Z")
In the _future_, we have portable devices called _lasers_ that you can carry in your pocket and buy for a dollar. They are mostly used to play with cats. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/425 "2023-02-08T17:28:47Z")
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of members includes a white rap artist (Eminem), Michael Jackson and Dolly Parton. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/426 "2023-02-08T17:40:59Z")
> [@bump](#): > > But had they told me that 75" screens that had like ten times the resolution of the 1985 televisions would be common in 2022, I’d probably have looked at them like they were crazy. They’d have looked at you even crazier if you told them those TVs cost less than $100 after adjusting for inflation. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/427 "2023-02-08T18:08:20Z")
In 1985, the older people had already experience the cost of a 25" Color TV not really going up or even going down compared to 1970. So probably less of a shock. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/428 "2023-02-08T18:32:55Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > The President of the United States is an out of touch old man with possible dementia. Uh… Reagan was president in 1985 and let’s just say the cracks were showing… Also, this: > [@Procrustus](#): > > > [@Asuka](#): > > > > The Republican Party is against poor people and minorities. > > That was pretty clear in 1985 too. > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Not only would the people of 1985 of all parties heavily oppose all of the above, they would likely see our current time as a liberal dystopia, not a fascist nightmare. Seeing the future would have killed support for gay rights in the 80’s and 90’s. Er… I supported mostly all of what you mention back in the 1980’s. I mean, I’m old enough to remember those days, I was even an adult. Admittedly, I was never the typical citizen… And a rabid science fiction fan. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/429 "2023-02-08T18:56:29Z")
I’m considering Goop for vaginal steaming. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/430 "2023-02-08T18:57:56Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Goop for vaginal steaming. I’ll admit to having to google that. Forget 1985, that sounds crazy today. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/431 "2023-02-08T20:20:00Z")
Considering that this was what Goop was in 1985, you’re probably right! [![](https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/dab6c1a7-57de-42e5-993f-4633dabc5dfa/svn/goop-hand-soaps-12-64_1000.jpg) ](https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/dab6c1a7-57de-42e5-993f-4633dabc5dfa/svn/goop-hand-soaps-12-64_1000.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/432 "2023-02-08T20:22:02Z")
The price of ginormous TVs has fallen up to 97% within a couple decades. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/433 "2023-02-08T20:36:25Z")
More like $200 in 1985 dollars, if you assume a cheap 75" TV costs about $550, which is what quick Googling tells me. Still though, I think the price wouldn’t be the sticking point- $200-$500 for a “standard” sized TV has been the price point for decades. It’s what “standard size” is today that would be mind-boggling. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/434 "2023-02-08T23:37:48Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Still though, I think the price wouldn’t be the sticking point- $200-$500 for a “standard” sized TV has been the price point for decades. It’s what “standard size” is today that would be mind-boggling. And you don’t mount old TV’s on a wall like a picture. A heavy picture it is, but you get a big as piece of ‘furniture’ out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/435 "2023-02-12T02:23:34Z")
I’d bet that the 1985 Joe Biden would look at you crazy if you told him he was POTUS in 2023, having finally won in 2020 after failed campaigns in the Democratic primary in 1988 and 2008. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/436 "2023-02-14T01:59:41Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > > [@Joey\_P](#): > > > > […]Bill Cosby is in jail. > > And so was O.J. Simpson for nine years, but not for the murder he was acquitted of. Oh and one more thing about O J Simpson. His defense attorney has these daughters with the ex wife of Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner. And they are on TV and this thing we have called the Internet and pretty much everywhere all the time and they are super famous for something (I’m not sure what). The shows are mostly just them going about their day to day lives shopping and bickering and their love lives and whatnot. And one of the girls was married to this black rapper who identifies as a Nazi and worships Hitler. Oh and by the way Bruce Jenner is now a woman and goes by Caitlyn and won Glamor Magazine Woman of the Year a few years back. True story. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/437 "2023-02-14T02:04:21Z")
> [@bump](#): > > But had they told me that 75" screens that had like ten times the resolution of the 1985 televisions would be common in 2022, I’d probably have looked at them like they were crazy. And with a proper harness, the average healthy person can carry it with one hand. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/438 "2023-02-14T02:05:06Z")
Yeah, this. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/439 "2023-02-14T02:19:12Z")
Bill Cosby? A monster. Ozzie Osbourne? A befuddled old man. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/440 "2023-02-14T23:16:03Z")
The first might seem more surprising than the second. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/441 "2023-02-14T23:34:58Z")
In the 1990s, my grandmother (1915-2007) wanted a small TV for her bedroom, so we got her one for Christmas. When she unwrapped it, she started to cry because she’d purchased two TVs in her life, and paid about $600 for both of them, so she assumed that’s what the 13-inch we got her cost. The first one was purchased in the 1950s (one of my uncles had his tonsils out, and she figured this was as good a time as any to get one, and paid for it over several years) and another, the big console that she used until she went to a nursing home a few years later, in the late 1960s. On a heavier note, remember when that guy walked into McDonald’s last year and shot all those people? Yeah, all in a day’s news in 2023. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283.md?page=23)