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