Josh's Journey Party Trick (priceless!)

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Fair, I can take it. There are a wide number of tease-able haircuts to choose from in those early vids, for starters. :stuck_out_tongue:

:clap:

Even Jaco extended the invitation:

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Hey, those videos are of Josh BtB! (Before the banana). :laughing:

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I’m quite sure all of us who were
Around in the 80s had many questionable haircut decisions, sir.
I was a longhair in central Nebraska in the early 80s, this is not only questionable, it also got me punched a lot.
Oh yeah, it was also very big and vertical-think 80s band cinderella with way worse stylists.

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Well played @NipperDog , well played. :clap:

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Holy crap! Good catch!

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Outstinkinstanding! Sounds like something I would do…… and most likely will when I get better!

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I think that was awesome!

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Awesome!

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Mine was more like a Robert Smith/Jesus and Mary Chain hybrid :slight_smile:

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My hair was down to my waist.

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Can you please post a link?

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Excellent! You’re a good sport.

While I still need to go through some of those earlier vids, I did want to ask: did you bleach your hair at some point?

Non-teasing question: How is it you so often sound like a Gen Xer? (your musical & cultural references, mainly - you don’t seem to have the I-grew-up-during-the-Cold-War ennui)

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Yeah! One of us! One of us! :rofl:

I have to explain this to people all the time, basically “All you need to know to understand the '80s is that we all assumed we could be nuked at any time.”

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The seeds of grunge right there

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Did you have the drills? We had to get under our desks. Even in the 3rd grade i had a rudimentary understanding of atomic war ( mostly on account they purty much beat it into us daily.) I always wondered what good the desk would do. I remember the tail end of the 70s pretty good, and we weren’t so hyped up about it. And then in 1980 we started with the fear campaign. One wonders why…

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The 80s was way, way later in the whole “we can be nuked anytime” game.

The Cold War started in the 50s. As baby grammar school kids, we had to do the infamous “Duck and Cover” drills, whether under our desks or, really, just anywhere. Because, you know, kneeling in a ball with arms over your head is how you protect yourself from a nuclear blast.

The 60s revolution was fueled by the “we can be nuked at any time” thing that we grew up with. That’s what the “Sha, la, la-la-la-la, live for today” song was all about. Turn on, tune in, drop out. Been there, did that.

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I am well aware that the Cold War started in the 50s. My original comment was about Generation X - people born from the mid-60s to mid 70s. Our experience and awareness of the Cold War is centered mostly around the 80s and, like other groups, had a particular mix of music, TV, movies, and current events.

For Gen X in particular, this included the transformation of the financial system in America when the deregulation of banks and businesses began, resulting in the S&L crisis, derivatives, Enron, Worldcom, the crash and burn of the real estate market. Jobs were shipped overseas, and the American workers were gaslit into believing they had had to do the work of two people because “they were lucky to have a job.”

All this started in the 80s, the last decade of the Cold War, when Gen X grew up, and has deeply affected people’s ability to gain financial traction. But thanks for the history lesson. :slightly_smiling_face:

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No, thank you for recounting the geopolitical and economic defining factors of the 80s. I remember them well. Not fondly, but well.

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Yeah. :slightly_smiling_face: It kinda sucks to have come in right at the tail end of “f*cked around” and then spending a couple of decades in “finding out” with no real end in sight. :joy: :sob:

But, you know…whatever. :crazy_face:

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