# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 12:34pm 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/968283/161 "2022-07-22T12:34:34Z")
I’m happy flying cars have not come to fruition. It’s bad enough risking your life driving with idiots on 2-dimensional roads. No way I want to risk it on 3. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 12:46pm 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/968283/162 "2022-07-22T12:46:15Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > For that matter, cryptocurrency. My take is this: Okay, the one of the richest guys in the world is Satoshi Nakamoto. He invented a computer program that gives away coins he also invented. The program keeps a record of every time people exchange the coins and who owns them but it’s all completely anonymous. And then he gave away the computer program. Nobody ever paid Satoshi Nakamoto for the computer program or the coins it gives away but he made the computer give him a lot of coins before he could convince other people to let the computer give them the coins instead. So the coins he got from the computer are worth $30 billion. Even though it’s completely anonymous, people run the program on computers all over the world to keep track of who owns the coins in hopes the program will give them some more coins too. People use the phones in their pocket to receive or transmit the coins from anywhere but only criminals really use the coins to actually buy stuff. Hackers break into people’s phones to steal the coins, which seems to happen a lot. The computer program now uses more electricity than Sweden. Also, Satoshi Nakamoto isn’t a real person. And he might be dead. The coins he made up are worth $500 billion, which is more than the value of GE, GM, Ford, Toyota, Macy’s, Sears, K-Mart, Sony, Canon, Kodak, TWA, and Polaroid…combined. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 1:15pm 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/968283/163 "2022-07-22T13:15:09Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The right wants gay marriage abolished. No they don’t. Gay marriage is actually pretty popular with most on the right, which is causing a schism. Like the left, they have a coalition with different interests. Some fundamentalists want to eliminate gay marriage but most on the right are fine with it. Perhaps their coalition will start to break down over differences like this. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Hell, they want Loving v Virginia overturned. Interracial marriage has 90% support in America. It’s also, contrary to histrionic reporting on the matter, is only loosely based on the some of the same legal logic later used in Roe. Roe doesn’t implicate a fundamental right to marry recognized in Loving and again in Obergefell v. Hodges. There would be no inconsistency from the court’s perspective to ditching Roe and keeping Loving. Gay marriage and Loving are tied together so if Obergefell goes, Loving could theoretically be on the chopping block but neither is going anywhere. Also, this is not a court that cares one whit about consistency. If they hate gay marriage but like interracial marriage, they will just do as their whim suits them. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 1:59pm 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/968283/164 "2022-07-22T13:59:17Z")
I think Bam Bam and his daughter Pebbles were recently elected to the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 2:00pm 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/968283/165 "2022-07-22T14:00:48Z")
> [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](#): > > No they don’t. Well, some do. The ones with the power. > **[Thomas wants the Supreme Court to overturn landmark rulings that legalized...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/thomas-wants-supreme-court-overturn-landmark-rulings-legalized-contrac-rcna35228)** > > In a concurring opinion to the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, the conservative jurist called on the court to overrule a trio of watershed civil rights rulings, writing, "We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those... ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 2:18pm 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/968283/166 "2022-07-22T14:18:09Z")
Certain tennis shoes will be highly valuable. People will be killed so someone can steal their tennis shoes. Television broadcast technology will undergo a fundamental change. Almost all of the television sets in use will be thrown out and replaced. The new broadcast technology will promise a better picture, but television stations will instead split themselves apart into lower-quality “substations”. And broadcast distance will be reduced. TV commercials will be largely class-action lawsuits, medicines, insurance policies, and something called Medicare Advantage Plans. Wide-screen movies (Vistavision, Panavision, etc.) from the 1950’s will be seen more often because the new television technology will change aspect ratios. People will pay hundreds of dollars a month to have a “full cable plan”. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 2:20pm 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/968283/167 "2022-07-22T14:20:56Z")
And > **[After Roe, Republicans Sharpen Attacks on Gay and Transgender Rights](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/us/politics/after-roe-republicans-sharpen-attacks-on-gay-and-transgender-rights.html)** > > Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, anti-gay rhetoric and calls to roll back L.G.B.T.Q. rights have grown bolder among Republican elected officials and candidates. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 2:42pm 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/968283/168 "2022-07-22T14:42:53Z")
> [@Sine\_Nomine](#): > > The cool kids wouldn’t be caught dead at the mall. 🙂 This. They’ll think I’m crazy when I tell them the cool kids all hang out downtown, which is where their parents used to hang out when they were kids back in the 50s, and that the mall is now full of old people who go to old people places. At least that would be true of my hometown. > [@Tibby](#): > > A computer named Deep Blue will beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov, the reigning chess champion of the world. The least believable part is that it was Kasparov rather Bobby Fischer who was bested by a computer. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 2:54pm 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/968283/169 "2022-07-22T14:54:55Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > The 21st century makes the Jetsons look like the Flintstones. > > Except there’s still no flying cars. We can do all this stuff, still can’t make a small car fly. Like how the professor could take 2 coconuts and some bamboo and build a nuclear reactor but couldn’t fix a hole in a boat to save his life. I want my flying car, goddamnit! They promised me in the 60’s I’d have one by 2000. That was two decades ago. Where is my flying car? [https://youtu.be/vzm6pvHPSGo](https://youtu.be/vzm6pvHPSGo) ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 3:08pm 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/968283/170 "2022-07-22T15:08:53Z")
I remember a news story from around 1987 about someone killed for Air Jordans, which was a big story featuring regrets from the star basketballer. So this is not something new although the first times shocked many. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:14pm 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/968283/171 "2022-07-22T15:14:17Z")
“Cure” means you don’t have the condition anymore, for example antibiotics can cure bacterial infections. “Treatment” often means you still have the condition and may in fact need treatment for the rest of your life - which may have been saved or extended by the treatment. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 3:14pm 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/968283/172 "2022-07-22T15:14:22Z")
I remember having a hard time c. 1985 parsing this bumper sticker, even though I knew about AIDS: FIGHT AIDS NOT PEOPLE WITH AIDS Since it was in all caps and had no punctuation. I’m sure there are current relatively inexplicable stickers/shirts/memes that would make no sense in 1985 and sound unhinged. “Fo shizzle,” say. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 3:21pm 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/968283/173 "2022-07-22T15:21:14Z")
Maybe “Birds aren’t Real?” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:24pm 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/968283/174 "2022-07-22T15:24:46Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Tattoos become fashionable and practically mandatory for NBA players. Why specify NBA players? Somebody in 1985 would be amazed at how common tattoos will be in 2022. Especially on women. Maybe one woman in a thousand would have had a tattoo back in 1985. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 3:26pm 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/968283/175 "2022-07-22T15:26:22Z")
“What a day! A Chrome extension kept blocking Twitter and because I won’t disable VPN, I kept getting caught in a Captcha loop :(” ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 3:42pm 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/968283/176 "2022-07-22T15:42:42Z")
> [@Keeve](#): > > > [@Limmin](#): > > > > I bought my own handheld Garmin unit as early as…oh…1993. > > The nice software integrating web-based map data … wasn’t of course a thing for a bit longer > > If I’m understanding you correctly, you had a handheld GPS with no map? I think Limmin is saying old GPS units had static-ish map data as opposed to something that is frequently updated via the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:48pm 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/968283/177 "2022-07-22T15:48:01Z")
Were body X-Rays mandatory in airports in 1975? I thought only after 9/11. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:53pm 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/968283/178 "2022-07-22T15:53:40Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > It’s bad enough risking your life driving with idiots on 2-dimensional roads. No way I want to risk it on 3. Bingo. Peruse any of the countess dash cam channels on YouTube then imagine them falling out of the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:55pm 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/968283/179 "2022-07-22T15:55:05Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > static-ish map data Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I remember a Rand McNally CD that I had in the mid-90s. No GPS, but the idea was to get (and print out) driving directions before leaving home. But the map data was so crappy! I remember when it told me to make a right turn from the Garden State Parkway onto Midland Ave in Paramus NJ. Theoretically it would have been possible, I suppose, but a little dangerous. For those of you unfamiliar with the neighborhood, take a look [here.](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.9474226,-74.0666886,45a,35y,14.98h,64.4t/data=!3m1!1e3) ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 4:31pm 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/968283/180 "2022-07-22T16:31:54Z")
Print media will soon be in its death throes. You’ll get your news online. Many of the news publications you respect today will be little more than ill-written, barely edited click-bait in the future. What’s _“click-bait”_? Lemme explain… [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=8) [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=10)