1. The movie “Top gun” is a hit in cinemas. Tom Cruise looks the same as in 1986 when he shot down Russian Mig planes to the tunes of romantic synth pop.
2. Order “Depeche Mode” makes me feel black-eyed unhappy and sweetly melancholy. I think death awaits us all.
Russia is hostile and is ruled by a murderous dictator with a vague perception of reality.
4. During the 1980s Sweden averaged annual inflation of 7.9%.
5. The popular TV series “Stranger things” takes place in the present. That is, 1986.
6. A socially dangerous disease is spreading around the world and the spinal reflex in some people is to blame it on monkeys or on men who have sex with men.
7. Russian boats end up in trouble in places where they should not be. U-137 should not have been in Goose Bay and the missile cruiser Moscow should have better things to do than invade Ukraine.
8. The Kurds are persecuted. (They certainly will be, no matter what decade it is, but still.)
9. The Americans have handed over parts of the killing to artificial intelligences. Just like in the movies “Wargames” or “Terminator” from … yes you know what decade.
10. The Cold War is obvious back. However, the violence takes place in Ukraine instead of places like Korea, Afghanistan and Vietnam. It remains to be seen whether this second Cold War will end in the heat of nuclear explosions.
11. I ate a hamburger yesterday, it tasted the same as a 1986 Big Mac.
12. Yuppien admittedly selling cryptocurrency this time, but it’s the same kind of guy. A young man who – just because the stock market happened to rise at the same time as his career – believes that it is precisely his talent that has made him rich.
13. If it really is had been 2022, as some claim, we would have had a colony on Mars, flying cars and world peace. Otherwise we would have really clung to ourselves.
Read more kåserier by Augustin, such as when he goes on a show with one of the world’s most famous stand-up comedians – who forgot to snap the fly or when he makes up for the worst holiday in the calendar.