Best Childhood

BlitzKrieg

I did a search and didnt see this topic (but some similer) anyway this is how it works



I want you to waste 5 minutes of your life to think in the following terms about which childhood was the best. 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s (anyone older then that i apologies)

I know you could be biast towards your own childhood but try and think outside the box

age 5-15 (10 years)

the terms are


Freedom: What you could and could not do

Punishements and authority: How much did it hurt and who could control you.

Friends: emotional sensitive or physical tough cool.

World: wha kinda world u had (economy gave u all the TV u wanted or depression mean make your own fun)

Music: The music children of that decade would listen to. Not the big band of the time (though some passed all ages)

Movies: Best children films

TV shows: Still watch those cartoons today?
Games: (atari jaguar?)

Future: Wha were your hopes were like in those times.






Anyway i'll go first


80's

i was born 1985 but i felt i missed too much of that wonderful decade i was too young to cherish alot of what was available, all the great cartoons and films which didnt talk down to you or try and protect you the freedoms of going out with your m8s beyond the front garden (i feel i barely escaped with this, i got the freedom a m8 of mine didnt, so my generation was the beginning of the paranoia) The rule of the fist on the playground, which died just after i entered school The music was great even Micheal jackson.

Course the disney films were not as great as the ones comin in the 90s (but we had don bluth instead) and the great games would not come till then either. But the freedoms, films and cartoons of the 80s are bliss.

so from experiance i'm stuck between 2 decades but from my little experiance and the stuff my sister has from the 80s i sometimes wish i lived the full 10 years of it.

daveg

I voted 1980's. I was born in 1974 but would consider the 80's as the decade of my childhood. Imo the 80's was the best decade for music. I remember band aid and the likes. Tv was excellent as well what with the Fall Guy and others.

AL][EN

Originally posted by daveg
Tv was excellent as well what with the Fall Guy and others.

not to mention the likes of

airwolf
streethawk
knight rider (when they wernt re runs)
the A - team
battlestar gallatica

my childhood was in the 80's too, as for music well the 80's was the best however i didnt really start listening to music until the 90's (how sad i know)

xx

80's were the best.
We had the likes of He-man, Thundercats, Centurions etc. unlike all this pokemon $hite they show on tv nowadays. Music was good too. And you didn't need to bring 50+ quid out with you to have a good time.

Mossy Monk

i'll say the 80's too because well i ddnt have a childhood in any other decade to compare to

blondie83

The 80's definitely, we had Mask, he-man, transformers, and my little pony! There was care bears, Dr Snuggles, Danger Mouse, ah I could go on, but tv was the best /contented sigh /
Music was good too, for some reason, prob cos its the first music I ever heard, I still love 80's music. Even Michael Jackson was good in that decade (anyone remember the song "leave me alone"?)

][cEMAN**

Born in 77 myself I loved everything about the 80's. The cartoons, the music, the really crappy TV shows that were so bad that they were great (ie. Fall Guy A-Team etc that have already been mentioned). I even loved the flamboyant clothes everyone wore at the time and at one stage wanted to "go back in time" like Michael J. Fox. I loved all of those types of films and the coming of age ones. Somehow I don't think teenage life has had quite as satisfying a feel to it since the 90's.

Of course it was mostly BS as life wasn't that great and the films lied to us as kids, but compare how we felt watching those films back then to how you feel watching a 90's teen angst film - try walking away from one of those feeling "oooh goody". You can't.

Best films of the 80's - Ferris Beullers day off, Breakfast Club, Lost boys!

SheroN

Death by stereo!

koneko

Oh geez, My Little Pony was the best. Carebears! Transformers, A-team. Memories

TheWolf

Super-Ted, Thomas the tank engine, Transformers.


That is all

SheroN

Had a pair of superted pj's so i did...and bosco pj's.

M.A.S.K., teenage mutant ninja turtles, Transformers, Cities of gold, etc etc.


80's.

dictatorcat

then there was ducktails, timmy mallet, magnum pi. Movie wise it was great with back to the future, the neverending story, indiana jones etc. Even though alot of my memories are from the 90's they're all square, german and grey. The 80's were round, dutch and purple with yellow sequins:)

TheWolf

Damn, forgot about the turtles!

Offtopic, but best turtle?
Has to be Raphael, all the way

vibe666

i was born in 76, so i grew up in the 80's, but i have to say, i think now is a good time to grow up, because of all the possibilities that lie ahead for kids these days.

the future is a marvellous thing, and if technology advances enough there's no reason why children born now should ever have to die of old age. would be pretty cool.

especially when the sun expands and eats the earth. I'd say that would be a right old larf.

blondie83

I can't believe I forgor super-ted (I remember at one stage my mum actually got us super-ted shape vitamin C tablets, and they were yummy!) and the turtles! Incidently Leonardo was definitely the best, did you not see the swords?:ninja:

TheWolf

Raphael, cool but rude.


'Nuff said

][cEMAN**

I'd have to say Michelangelo (or Michaelangelo as they spelt it wrong in the cartoon). He didn't give a **** and everything was a joke to him. Also his continuous reference to "D00D" were my formative years preparing for a life spent playing CS "OMFG D00D U SUX/ROX"

Big Ears

donatello smart and coolww)

Pinkchick03

Originally posted by ][cEMAN**
I'd have to say Michelangelo (or Michaelangelo as they spelt it wrong in the cartoon). He didn't give a **** and everything was a joke to him. Also his continuous reference to "D00D" were my formative years preparing for a life spent playing CS "OMFG D00D U SUX/ROX"

Oh I loved Michelanglo! He was the way I am! Not afraid to speak my mind even though It might get me in trouble?

I loved Rainbow, my little pony, care bears, he-man and she-ra, Rainbow Brite, the smurfs oh the list is endless

Does anyone remember lets pretend?? And another one- Rod, Jane and Freddy??!! And I can't remember the name of this one. its set in a house and they've a dog that is a human dressed up as a dog and one of the characters was called Bonzo and there was another man and woman in it. they used to dress up and play games etc. In one episode Bonzo pretended to be sick and drew measles all over him to get some sympathy! i think the girls name was Jane! Not sure though! Help me out!

sionnach

leonardo was clearly the coolest

Mossy Monk

everyone forgets the rat. Splinter was the pinnacle of coolness tbh

rainbow kirby

That he was. Donatello was so the coolest turtle though!

SheroN

Bebop and rocksteady were pretty cool as was shredder.......

neoB

I say the 80's, I enjoyed it much, being born in 1983. My favourite catoon shows were still on, I didn't have to worry about racial slurs and my town was great. I loved the music as well. Oh that the clothes. I didn't have to worry about whats going on today with the massacres at schools, and so much other stuff.

blondie83

Massacres at schools? where are you from?

PS: Leonardo was clearly the coolest, I mean he could pull out the two swords over his head at exactly them same time - none of the others had to do that!

Agent Smith

it has to be the 90's.




for the sole reason as it was the main decade i lived in (so far)

inaccessibleisl

WTF? ninetys were sh1t. What the fuk is the age group here? 16?
Eightys were brilliant. In the 80's, I don't see why we are reliving it.
By next decade all there will be to remember about the first decade of the century will be retromania of the 1980's.

Agent Smith

close, i'm 18 by the way ( born 1985) but i cant remeber much of the 80's

SheroN

man im getting old, means you can hardly remember world cup 90?.....one of the defining events of my youth....

SantaHoe

80's or above definitely... before that, you'd have christian brothers bashing you across the head with chairs and hanging you from a coat-hook by your ears every day.
Wouldn't fancy being a young kid these days either though, picking up used srynges, not to mention all the extra traffic on the roads.

Charcoal

Anyone remember a really japanese cartoon that used to be on 2 during the 80's. All I can remeber of it was a girl alien type, and all of her people were asleep on the spaceship, suspended in air and couldn't be woken up??

tman

i was born in the early 80's, the 90's hold my fondes memories for me, so that's what i voted for...

i_am_dogboy

The 80's, simply because of dogtanian and the 3 muskahounds and It's fantastic theme tune,

Makaveli

Originally posted by Charcoal
Anyone remember a really japanese cartoon that used to be on 2 during the 80's. All I can remeber of it was a girl alien type, and all of her people were asleep on the spaceship, suspended in air and couldn't be woken up??

Ulysses 31

BlitzKrieg

i notice the major influence on wha was a good decade is wha was on tv...hmm interesting.

ixoy

80s had all the great shows didn't it? Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, M.A.S.K. (responsible for my avatar!), Robotech series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Transformers, The Real Ghostbusters, etc. etc.

90s was good then for being a teenager 'coz then you got all the wave of new shows that appealed to teens: X-Files, Twin Peaks, Friends, etc.

80s win easily - look at the huge nostaliga buzz! Today, in the 00s, kids are grown up as bratty little sh1ts with poor remakes of the cartoons we enjoyed

Faust

The 80's were ghey whats wrong with you people.. byw i'm a 1985er

http://www.vvm.com/~tkaufman/mask.html - - there's a few shítty quality mask shows streaming off this guys site

sionnach

Originally posted by i_am_dogboy
The 80's, simply because of dogtanian and the 3 muskahounds and It's fantastic theme tune,

making its way on DVD to me in a day or two

growler

this is obviously biased towards whenever you were a kid yourself.

I'll have to go for the 70's myself , totally carefree life for a young fella, Irish people had kinda cottoned on to the concept of the 60's (albeit a decade late) so things had calmed down a little although you could still be crucified upside down for not getting all your Irish spellings correct at the age of 6.


As a child of 72 i guess my childhood straddles both the 70's and early eighties, grew up with the Hulk, Invisible Man , Charlies Angels, Dallas, Bosco , dukes of Hazard and we only had RTE 1 and 2. There were no computers except in America. You played with Dinky cars or as cowboys and indians. A Ford Capri was like a Ferrari. And we knew each counties registration plates by their codes , ie ZB for Cork.

Country life was devoid of any concept of external threat, the nastiest thing you were warned about was the dangers of falling into combine harvesters or eating foreign food.

You could buy half-penny sweets and wonder at how old your parents were when they talked of Shillings and Guineas and Pieces of Eight. You could buy fags as a 5 year old without anyone blinking an eye.

The 80's got a bit nasty though , bombs, IRA , dicovering girls soft bits , the inter cert , and unemployment all kinda ruined it ,,,,,, although the quality of TV did improve immensely.

Glad i missed the 50s though , sounded like hell.

Ah shure those were the days.

TheWolf

Back in the days when you would find 10p and think you were rich, buying a 10p bag and sharing it with everyone...

Aaaahh, happy days

Charcoal

Originally posted by Makaveli
Ulysses 31

Thank you!!!