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Kirk
The Psychotic Network Ferret@WorkWithKirk @FeloniousPunk DUCK AND COVER!
Geoff@FeloniousPunk sad but true
Angie@FeloniousPunk I've been taking the stance of "I've got experience, let me know if I can help."
Faraiwe
Bridge&Tunnel Jeff@FeloniousPunk Yeah, today reminded me of my early teens.
your auntifa liza ๐ต๐ท ๐ฆ ๐ฆฆ@FeloniousPunk i feel seen ๐
Matt HallLet's all go out into the hallway and kneel with our heads against the wall with our hands over our heads.
I'm sure that'll help.
Fuck'n _flash_ backs.
It was the _exact_ same thing we'd do for TORNADOES.
Obviously a similar phenomena.
@401matthall @blogdiva And similar outcomes.
Joan of Contention ๐ท๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Don't forget about us elder Millennials..
Joan of Contention ๐ท (@[email protected])
I think the last time I felt like this was as a kid in the 1980s. The utter fucking dread in the pit of my stomach; and it's no better as an adult.
disorganized tropical low@FeloniousPunk for real
First reaction: well, guess itโs time to hide under desks uselessly again
Second reaction: only one country has ever dropped a nuclear bomb on another country โฆ ๐ค
DianeJust in case anyone wasn't there for the 1980s... and missed the omnipresent feeling of nuclear war.
And inspired by "I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction
How 1980s MTV helped my students understand the Cold War"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/my-mtv-cold-war-retrospective/618812/
So here's a few really obvious songs I happen to remember.
Weird Al's Christmas at Ground Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
Tom Lehrer's We'll all go together when we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
Sting's I hope the Russians love their children too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
@alienghic @FeloniousPunk i have that Sting album: Dream of the blue turtles
I think I've got it in the old box of cds I should get around to ripping some day as well.
Tom Harrington@alienghic @FeloniousPunk Frankie Goes to Hollywoodโs video for โTwo Tribesโ was a masterpiece of explaining the Cold War
DB@alienghic @FeloniousPunk David Byrne wrote Life During Wartime about the Cold War. The sixties and seventies music was primarily about the Cold War, one manifestation being the war in Vietnam
Szymon Sokรณล ๐ต๐ฑ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ@alienghic @FeloniousPunk also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FySFvQoapU (lyrics: https://genius.com/Simon-and-garfunkel-the-sun-is-burning-lyrics)
The Sun Is Burning
Ouch those last verses hurt
@alienghic @FeloniousPunk BTW I have meant to link a different video โ this one hits even worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgnbuOPpb8
The Sun is Burning/Terminator 2
@blotosmetek @alienghic So wholesome
lynfox@FeloniousPunk
Spare a thought for us Boomers- the entire 1st half of my life was pure existential dread.
I had moments of optimism when the Wall came down, but lately it's all come back and this time there's a psychopath in charge.
Spare a thought for us Boomers- the entire 1st half of my life was pure existential dread.
I had moments of optimism when the Wall came down, but lately it's all come back and this time there's a psychopath in charge.
MoyaBoomers: Shame shit, different madman!
Dane ๐๐โ๏ธโฎ๏ธโ๏ธโธ๏ธ๐๏ธ@FeloniousPunk Goddamn right. The Sword of Damocles and I are old friends.
KanaMaunaI will never forget the early 90s, when I realized that a nuclear war was not going to get me out of having to find a real job.
@KanaMauna Shhhh you are gonna blow my retirement plans
pela0 ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
John Maxwell@FeloniousPunk Boomer yawns, ducks, covers, and naps.
Bill Lloyd@FeloniousPunk "Cold-war" kids were hard to kill, under their desks in an air raid drill
https://music.apple.com/us/album/leningrad/158618758?i=158619082
aprilfollies@FeloniousPunk Robert Frostโs โFire and Iceโ poem hits me differently these days.
Ianto Jones@FeloniousPunk wonderful post and comments. Thanks, y'all.
Hurricane Daveosaurus@FeloniousPunk the entire story of "1999" is "tomorrow we could be obliterated, but don't let that stop us from partying tonight".
It''s also in the background of some of the Oils' 1980s output. "Hammer and the sickle, news is at a trickle, commisars are fickle but the stockpiles grow. Bombers keeping coming, engines softly humming, Stars and Stripes are running for their own big show. Another little flare up, storm brewed in a teacup, imagine any mixup and the lot would go" - "Read About It". "ICBM, SS20, they lie so dormant, they got so many" - "Minutes to Midnight", which isn't the only absolute classic 1980s track based on the doomsday clock.
Geography class, about 1983, we did a quick assessment of what would happen to our town if the Russians decided to bomb a major strategic target about 20 km away. The results would not have been pretty, especially if there was a southerly blowing at the time.
ghostdancer@FeloniousPunk Tell them to watch "When the wind blows"
Jon PENNYCOOK@FeloniousPunk We even had pop songs that started with an air raid siren and repurposed the nuclear war public information films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1HC8pHZw0
or even worse:-
"Mine is the last voice you will ever hear, do not be alarmed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il3zKQzZ6No&list=OLAK5uy_ksC9BBjzLJkf8V3H7TVbO4UsdbuQTDy6E&index=38
or even worse:-
"Mine is the last voice you will ever hear, do not be alarmed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il3zKQzZ6No&list=OLAK5uy_ksC9BBjzLJkf8V3H7TVbO4UsdbuQTDy6E&index=38
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
Two Tribes - OfficIal VideoMusic video by Frankie Goes To Hollywood performing Two Tribes. ยฉ 1984 Universal Music Operations Limitedhttp://vevo.ly/ZFoOSM
๐ต holly@FeloniousPunk This is exactly how I felt when I accidentally checked the news and the socials yesterday
Earsmeardius
slash@FeloniousPunk Boomers: We've done it before. Twice.
Machiel@FeloniousPunk @siracusa major difference: although there were some terrible people in charge, non were as unpredictable and just plain insane as the current one is