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Craig Earl
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| Posted: 19 May 2025 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | 1
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If you could choose the year of your birth, what would it be?
I was born in 1969 but often think that being born in 1959 would have suited my subsequent tastes in music, movies etc (more 70's than 80's). The downside is the 1970's strike situations here in the UK (the Winter of Discontent).
I certainly wouldn't want to be a teenager these days!
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Harry Dounis
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I was born in 72 and couldn't be happier... Caught Star Wars when it was new and it defined a generation! The music, the cars the roadtrips all things I still cherish. Kids today have ZERO childhood, especially here in NYC. My 16 year old daughter often suffers as a result and yearns for how I grew up. The NY I knew is long gone...
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 19 May 2025 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | 3
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I sometimes think I would have liked to be a bit older in the Fifties. Better able to appreciate what was going on. So maybe my birth year should have been 1940. Of course, run that forward to now……..
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Bill Collins
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1963 and would't change it. It was the right time for me
movie and music-wise.
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Athanasios Kollias
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1972 and proud of it! Having actively hunted down and purchased clothing representing 1972 has somehow cemented my attachment to my birth-year.
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Michael Penn
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This is going to be incredibly on the nose, but... excepting Vietnam veterans, I've never met a white American male born in the immediate years after WW2 who didn't think that, as Paul Simon put it, he was "born at the right time."
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Michael Penn
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(For Athanasios: 1970s Greece, especially post-Junta, was great fun. The music especially was outstanding... I still have an 8-track[!] of my favorite, Απόστολος Νικολαΐδης – Όταν Καπνίζει Ο Λουλάς.)
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John Byrne
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Gesundheit!
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Peter Martin
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Difficult question!
There is a temptation to nudge the year forward, just to be younger now. At the same time, might have been nice to remember a bit more of the 70s and experience the early 80s in a slightly more advanced manner (I was four when the eighties dawned).
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Paul Kimball
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for a few nerd related interests musically and movie wise, , being born about
1963 would've been good but I'm sure if I was I would've missed out on some
future events so I'm good staying where I am.
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Athanasios Kollias
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| Posted: 19 May 2025 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | 11
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To Michael: Ha! I think our tastes differ a bit. My father was a captain in tankers, and he used to bring all sorts of music cassettes gifted to him, so I listened to a variety of artists from Parios to Kazatzidis to Leandros to Mouschouri! I don't recall Nikolaidis being a household name back then!
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James Johnson
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1965.
I would not change it.
For me, like Bill said above, movies and (especially) music. Growing up in the late Sixties/ early Seventies, I got to listen to Soul (as it was called then), Album Oriented Rock, FM Radio, 8-Tracks, Reel-to-Reel tapes (the quality was mind blowing as I got older).
Also, being born then, I got to appreciate broadcast TV, enjoyed when stations " end our broadcast on day".
I know what it's like to not have a phone in my pocket. I know what it's like to not have a phone in the home.
If cell , cable TV, and internet service were to drop out for a few weeks (months?), it would not bother me.
Edited by James Johnson on 19 May 2025 at 7:52pm
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