Observations: The eighties are over.

Someone on Facebook said that with Corey Haim's death, it was a sad day for the 80s.

I'm just going to let that sink in for a minute.

OK, you know what was a sad day for the 80s?  January 1st 1990. On that day, the 80s were officially OVER.

Don't get me wrong, some great things came out of the 80s (for example: me), but seriously. What decade could be so unfathomably awesome that you feel the need to relive it at literally every single party? Didn't you wake up some morning in that ten years and think to yourself "Good Lord, it sucks to be alive today!"

Hasn't anything good happened to you in the past 20 years? I get it, most of you were in high school during the 80s. Woopdishit. I was in High School during the 00s (the 'Naughties' if you're a stickler).

They really sucked.

But hey, so did the 80s (OK, we win on whose decade sucks more).

We had Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, you trained and installed both of them. We had the mortgage crisis, you had the S&L. We both had Bush. You had Friday the 13th, we've had at least three movies about talking penguins. In your decade, Al Gore tried to say that music made kids kill themselves and the musicians did it on purpose. Anyone who disagreed with him was evil. Now he's trying to tell us that he can predict the weather for the next 30 years when people who actually study it can't do 12 hours, and anyone who disagrees with him is stupid.

You had Friday the 13th, we had the Scary Movie franchise. You had New Wave, we had Nu Metal. You had Goth, we had Emo. You fantasize about the good old days in high school when they were ruled by impenetrable cliques that scorned all outsiders. Every single school movie had the exact same fantasies about being the outcast from them. Your nerd got the girl in the end by, let's be honest, raping her (Revenge of the Nerds). Ours most likely didn't get the girl, but he did make her realize he wasn't such a bad guy.

In short, the eighties sucked for a whole bunch of reasons, and the Naughties (and that's from 'naught' meaning... 'if you don't know it I'm not going to explain it') sucked too. Unlike you, I realize how much my high school years sucked.

You don't see people screaming about how great the 60s and 70s were, at least not like you do. When's the last time you heard of a Baby Boomer holding a 60's party (there are a lot Baby Boomers, by the way)?

I'm not going to say that nothing good came out of the 80s, or my own high school decade either. Lots of great things came out of both... but enjoying the fruits of a decade is one thing and dressing up in the ugly fashions of yesteryear so you can discuss how great a time it was and even pretend they are still around is another.

This is another one of those posts I'm going to get in trouble for.