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.
“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.
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.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of members includes a white rap artist (Eminem), Michael Jackson and Dolly Parton.
They’d have looked at you even crazier if you told them those TVs cost less than $100 after adjusting for inflation.
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.
Uh… Reagan was president in 1985 and let’s just say the cracks were showing…
Also, this:
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.
I’m considering Goop for vaginal steaming.
I’ll admit to having to google that. Forget 1985, that sounds crazy today.
Considering that this was what Goop was in 1985, you’re probably right!
The price of ginormous TVs has fallen up to 97% within a couple decades.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And with a proper harness, the average healthy person can carry it with one hand.
Yeah, this.
Bill Cosby? A monster.
Ozzie Osbourne? A befuddled old man.
The first might seem more surprising than the second.
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.