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― james hat, Saturday, 29 May 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
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― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 29 May 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
haha do u guys remember this shit at all
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
people used to talk abt ww3 all the time like it was a real thing that was totes gonna happen
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
To be fair though, the rhetoric in the aftermath of the KAL 007 shootdown was strong enough that it feel like the missiles would have started flying if anyone blinked. Especially when the US got the go ahead to deploy the Pershing IIs in West Germany. My dad told me that he felt like it was the Cuban Missile Crisis all over again.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
even before KAL 007 Reagan's anti-soveit rhetoric & military build-up were scaring lots of people. it really seemed like he could start a nuclear war. there were two huge heating/AC units outside my apt window (for the restaurant downstairs) and when they rumbled loud abt 4AM I would wake up and think "the russian planes are coming..." seriously.
― hubertus bigend (m coleman), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf there were points where the world was dangerously close to utter nuclear annihilation, its just kind of funny at this point how it was such a part of the popular imagination and now no one thinks abt it anymore, ww3 histeria was super popular even from the small less intense end piece of the cold war i remember
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
its kind of absurd that the u.s. policies of the era are now generally considered a success because the world was not destroyed and the ussr collapsed - and all we had to deal with was 40 years of terror, proxy wars, and ridiculous military build up!
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
The Day After movie! that shit scared me when i was a kid
― http://www.ilxor.com/glyloop.mp3 (Aerosol), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Thedayafter.jpg
OH SHIT WE GONNA DIE
― http://www.ilxor.com/glyloop.mp3 (Aerosol), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man that movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA
― dan m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
the only cold war the kids might remember is Janelle Monae's.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
According to Edmund Morris, Reagan's response to The Day After was to write in his journal, for the first and only time in his public life, "profoundly depressed."
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
there was a whole, quite interesting, article about reagan's response to it in 'empire' magazine the other month
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Link?
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
paper only, by someone called simon braund
― ohhhh we plop champagne (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
thought of this cause a younger friend teaching english in korea was all via gchat last nite omg we did a drill and hid in the school bomb shelter - i was like pfft we used to do that IN AMERICA
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mauriciobaccarin.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/domino_theory1.png
― buzza, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
loll
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
so much for that theory i guess
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
not gonna lie when i saw thread in site new answers my first thought was 'good song but did it really needs its own thread'
― /\/K/\/\, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Testament >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Day After
― from the lowly milligeir to the mighty gigahongro (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
but yeah I remember late 70s/early 80s nuclear annihilation Cold War hysteria really well. Enough that when all the OMG WE GONNA DIE bloviating/hystrionics began afte r9/11 I was just like *ppffffft* "we had thousands of nukes pointed at this country for decades - a bunch of luddite loonies with boxcutters is nothing in comparison".
― from the lowly milligeir to the mighty gigahongro (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Did America win?
wait, you're saying it's over?
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
(I still feel that way tbh - the threat Al Qaeda poses to the US by comparison is miniscule and pathetic and we should be responding accordingly instead of having extra-judicial killings and invading random countries)
xp
when two tribes go to war, a point is all that you can score
― buzza, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yah shakey otm people searching for a new cold war trying to find that juice, pitiful
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/BonzoGoesToWashington.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"Day After" was on TV a couple of years back, Mr Veg decided it to watch it for lols. It was pretty funny, corny disaster movie etc...then the attack scene happened and I had to leave the room, it freaked me out too bad. Mr Veg was all, "but you were just a kid, right?" and I was like, yeah a kid who watched TV! Sting singing songs about the Russians, and little kids writing crayon letters to Reagan about not pushing the button, and every news story was about Star Wars or Russia or some shit, and reading all those post-apocalyptic 'kids' books like Z for Zachariah and Children of The Dust...it sticks in a kid's head!
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
yah im sayin it was everywhere, most currently unacknowledged cultural phenomenon of recent history
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing and gross how much it seems like so many of our elites loved that shit and miss it. bolton, mccain, all of them. they can't think of anything the country ought to do than more of that.
― goole, Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
having an enemy makes life easy
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
true, even garfield has nermal
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
THAT LIL FUCKIN PUFF BALL
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
was pretty tense that one time doctor manhattan left for mars...
srsly tho, nuclear weapons are still one of the planet's main existential threats and the dickweed republicans blocking any replacement for the start treaty isn't helping.
― maxhchivan (max arrrrrgh), Friday, 17 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
knew his telly career was a front for something
― titular character (acoleuthic), Friday, 17 December 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiW7NbkhbJ0
nuclear winter gonna FREEZE YOUR BRAIN
― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
did the cold war ever really end? or did it just let up a bit during the 90s, then resume as before?
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 February 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link