You know you grew up in the 80's if...

J.L.

LOL
http://www.backtotheeighties.net/80s-kids/

I forgot some of that stuff even existed.
I guess it makes you feel kinda old...

Dudess

The 80s was the best decade to be a kid in - fact.

TPD

A much quicker way to determine if you grew up in the 80's is to check your date of birth. Saves all that list-reading.

Dragan

If your Squire used to put your horses saddle on without you needing to ask him too!

Oh right.................you meant 1980's.

kaimera

Dudess wrote: »

The 80s was the best decade to be a kid in - fact.

The 80's sucked donkey balls as a kid

Dudess

Saw your age. You were a young kid for some of the 90s too - ah, you didn't get to experience it properly so...

Quality

And the 80's sweets were great as well,

Fizzle sticks
Wham bars
mint crisps


And half penny sweets. Ah remember the half penny...

5starpool

The fact that I know most of the things on that list shows how much American influence there was on TV back then even. Ah the '80's, they were grand old days. Days when Sunday evenings in winter in rural Ireland made you want to cry as Gelenroe and where in the world (or Murphys micro quizm before that) were the most entertaining things on telly god help us.

gcgirl

The 80's were the best years ever Summers going to Paddo's beach in wicklow from 10 in the morning and you'd still be there at 6 in the evening or walking out to the Silver Strand , the music Duran duran List too many to mention! The A Team, McGiver,Just great tv!! I miss the 80's:(

Dudess

I got that Glenroe feeling last Sunday night - it was so long since my last Monday morning. And it was freezing Sunday night too. Grim.

But other than that, the 80s was the biz for kids. Murphy's Micro Quiz-m was awesome! And so was Play The Game!

Dragan

5starpool wrote: »

Days when Sunday evenings in winter in rural Ireland made you want to cry as Gelenroe and where in the world (or Murphys micro quizm before that) were the most entertaining things on telly god help us.

Don't forget School Around the Corner.

No wonder i liked sports.

gcgirl

Dudess wrote: »

I got that Glenroe feeling last Sunday night - it was so long since my last Monday morning. And it was freezing Sunday night too. Grim.

But other than that, the 80s was the biz for kids. Murphy's Micro Quiz-m was awesome! And so was Play The Game!

My claim to fame is I stayed in Stephen Brennans house in Glenroe!!

Schism

I feel like I've missed out in so much here... I only had 4 years of the 80's

Dudess

kaimera wrote: »

The 80's sucked donkey balls as a kid

I imagine the 80s in Ireland would certainly have sucked donkey's balls if you were a young adult. Unemployment - yay! Emigration to London where the Irish were still treated like sh1t cos of the IRA's campaign - woohoo! The church still having a considerable grip on Irish society yet your peers in other countries enjoying themselves and not being made to feel guilty for enjoying sex - huzzah! Greyness everywhere, grim television, grim Irish bands - bring it on!

I wouldn't like to have been born in Ireland before the early 70s.

I was born in the late 70s so the 80s evokes nothing but, thankfully, pleasant childhood memories for me.

gcgirl

The 80's far outrocked the 90's!! Whitesnake Def Leppard Bon Jovi!!big hair bands:D:D my guilty pleasures

seamus

The worst thing about growing up in the 80's is that people you can remember being born, are now hitting the legal adult age.

Girls that you remember as irritating, shrill little toddlers, are now legal sexual fodder.

Howard the Duck

36. You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Belair".

"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
TV series 1990-1996

Also i'm pretty sure school around the corner was the 90's too.

My biggest memory of the 80's was the children's channel

Caoimhín

Fizz Bombs.
Score Cola.
20 kgs Walkman
Ford Kadetts (With a different coloured replaced door and baleing twine holding the boot shut.)
Knight Rider.
Air wolf.

Ah yes the 80s.

Dudess

seamus wrote: »

The worst thing about growing up in the 80's is that people you can remember being born, are now hitting the legal adult age.

Girls that you remember as irritating, shrill little toddlers, are now legal sexual fodder.

Yeah, I've had to face that reality for a few years now - and it's just gonna keep getting worse...

kaimera

I imagine the 80s in Ireland would certainly have sucked donkey's balls if you were a young adult. Unemployment - yay!

That happening to your parents [on more than once occasion] is going to have an effect on you as a child. ****ing 80s

Schism

caoibhin wrote: »

Fizz Bombs.
Score Cola.
20 kgs Walkman
Ford Kadetts (With a different coloured replaced door and baleing twine holding the boot shut.)
Knight Rider.
Air wolf.

Ah yes the 80s.

Opel Kadetts, I know because my girlfriends father still has one :eek:

Born mid-80's and spent most of that in England so missed out on what it was like here. Nobody believes me when I say I've never once seen an episode of Bosco.

Dudess

kaimera wrote: »

That happening to your parents [on more than once occasion] is going to have an effect on you as a child. ****ing 80s

Too true. Not easy to shield a child from that, no matter how young they are. I remember so many kids in my class (even in a relatively upmarket area) were so hard-up - really poor by today's standards.

lorweld

caoibhin wrote: »

Fizz Bombs.
Score Cola.
20 kgs Walkman
Ford Kadetts (With a different coloured replaced door and baleing twine holding the boot shut.)
Knight Rider.
Air wolf.

Ah yes the 80s.

Haha soo funny I remember these. Does anyone remember get in shape girl?????? I pestered my parents for one of these I was so delighted when I got the ribbon on the stick off of santy

Jigsaw

seamus wrote: »

The worst thing about growing up in the 80's is that people you can remember being born, are now hitting the legal adult age.

Girls that you remember as irritating, shrill little toddlers, are now legal sexual fodder.

Aw man, too true!!

It is now perfectly legal to buck someone who was born in the 1990s. Think or World Cup Italia 90. I can remember it well. A girl that was born during that tournament can now be bucked. Tis insane!!

gcgirl

http://www.threerockmountain.com/images/Cars_Kadett.jpg

kaimera

Dudess wrote: »

Too true. Not easy to shield a child from that, no matter how young they are. I remember so many kids in my class (even in a relatively upmarket area) were so hard-up - really poor by today's standards.

Perhaps I should have prefaced my original post with "imo".

Music in the 80s sucked.

It is now perfectly legal to buck someone who was born in the 1990s. Think or World Cup Italia 90. I can remember it well. A girl that was born during that tournament can now be bucked. Tis insane!!

Ehh...the latest I'd go is USA 94 tbh. After that is just wrong :pac:

chopperbyrne

Jigsaw wrote: »

Aw man, too true!!

It is now perfectly legal to buck someone who was born in the 1990s. Think or World Cup Italia 90. I can remember it well. A girl that was born during that tournament can now be bucked. Tis insane!!

Only if they were born on or before 3/4/90

Dues Bellator

Dudess wrote: »

Saw your age. You were a young kid for some of the 90s too - ah, you didn't get to experience it properly so...

dude i grew up in the 80,s unless u had money it did suck balls,sleepin with your clothes on to keep warm,101 things you can make with mince,it blew ass man:)

Caoimhín

Opel Kadetts, I know because my girlfriends father still has one

Sorry, OPEL.
Does he have a different coloured replacement part and baleing twine as "a feature". If so its a classic.

lorweld

almanu wrote: »

dude i grew up in the 80,s unless u had money it did suck balls,sleepin with your clothes on to keep warm,101 things you can make with mince,it blew ass man:)

The duffle coat! You wore it to school (it smelled awful when it got wet) and then you put it over ya in bed at night lol
We were so poor we made kites out of a plastic bag and thread! haha ah the memories!

Caoimhín

We were so poor we made kites out of a plastic bag and thread! haha ah the memories!

Plastic bags!!
We were so poor we had to make do with one cardboard box and some old rope...

lorweld

caoibhin wrote: »

Plastic bags!!
We were so poor we had to make do with one cardboard box and some old rope...

Lmao:D:D

IanCurtis

almanu wrote: »

dude i grew up in the 80,s unless u had money it did suck balls,sleepin with your clothes on to keep warm,101 things you can make with mince,it blew ass man:)

No Irish person that grew up in the 1980s would use words like "dude" and "suck".

They are American words, and sh1t ones at that.

You are in Ireland, get it? I-R-E-L-A-N-D

Ascii

The 80's were a real fab time to grow up in.....

Used to love MT USA on a Sunday evening.... The original music show. Vince Hanly (RIP) was a legend when it came to music.

Compare the artists/bands/tunes that were out back then to the horse s**t that they call music today. The 80's were a league of their own.

Voodu Child

I remember when the Atari 2600 was under 50 bucks (50 bucks!). Now isn't that nice :pac:

Silent Partner

A random list springs to mind:
Quinnsworth & Crazy Prices.
Quinnsworth Yellow Pack & Superquinn Thrift Pack.
The Childrens Channel.
Count Duckula.
Fun House with Pat Sharpe.
King Rollo.
Paddington Bear (who is the new pretender by the way? :mad:)
Mr. Benn.
Thomas the Tank Engine with Ringo Starr.
James Bond Junior (may be 90's).
Ford Cortinas.
The old green Pound note.
Santa in Switzers in Dublin.

I'll figure out more later.

Dudess

IanCurtis wrote: »

No Irish person that grew up in the 1980s would use words like "dude" and "suck".

Plenty do. If you were 16 in 1991/92 (the time of Bill & Ted, Wayne's World, Beavis & Butthead, "grunge" - some of the main reasons why we picked up such slang) then you'd also remember the 80s.

You are in Ireland, get it? I-R-E-L-A-N-D

Don't get hostile with another poster for no reason.

Xavi6

Growing up in the 90s FTW

Clink

I remember our Amstrad CPC 464, games took at least 20 minutes to load, our neighbours thought we were at the height of technological advancement :rolleyes:

5starpool

kaimera wrote: »

Ehh...the latest I'd go is USA 94 tbh. After that is just wrong :pac:

I hope you are only 16, otherwise this is wrong!!!! :eek::eek:

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Only if they were born on or before 3/4/90

Technically 3/4/91 would now be legal as well, but that is still all wrong.

Ascii wrote: »

Used to love MT USA on a Sunday evening.... The original music show. Vince Hanly (RIP) was a legend when it came to music.

I hated MTUSA as it prevented me watching The Match on Sunday afternoons. My older sister was a bit of a bully, and I put my non interest in music (except as a distraction) down to this time period.

HammerHeadGym

IanCurtis wrote: »

No Irish person that grew up in the 1980s would use words like "dude" and "suck".

They are American words, and sh1t ones at that.

You are in Ireland, get it? I-R-E-L-A-N-D

I notice you are using the english language to disparage somone's use of a foreign language. Does the word irony mean anything to you?

tonc76

Farmer Brown crisps
Tayto for 6p
Desperate Dan bars
Luton Town's plastic pitch and Steve Foster's headband
Wavin plastic hurleys - vibrate you to death :eek:

Ah the 80's........

St Bill

voodoo_child wrote: »

I remember when the Atari 2600 was under 50 bucks (50 bucks!). Now isn't that nice :pac:

Ah Jesus, I'd just gotten that jingle out of my head :mad:

kaimera

5starpool wrote: »

I hope you are only 16, otherwise this is wrong!!!! :eek::eek:

Technically 3/4/91 would now be legal as well, but that is still all wrong.

I hated MTUSA as it prevented me watching The Match on Sunday afternoons. My older sister was a bit of a bully, and I put my non interest in music (except as a distraction) down to this time period.

Heh, what was it, 17 posts before someone copped it :pac:

seahorse

The 80's, dear God! A sh!t time indeed, made bearable only by the macaroon bars! As to American slang, I think that's more a class thing than a generational divide; I've yet to hear a working class Dub of any age use terms like 'dude' and 'suck'.

humberklog

Wearing Monkey Boots that talked (when one layer of the soul come away).
Burning said monkey boots as a ligitimate form of house heating.
Maroon and grey striped cardigans with a yale Y on the right side.
Nicking returnable pop bottles from back gardens for cashing in shops.
Being munged by supersers.
Every one and thing smelled of smog and damp from october to...october.
Raliegh burners with 5spoke mags. Beauty.
Elastic band and clothes peg guns.
Dracula ice pops.
Slack coal.
Jumping records.
Glue sniffing.

ambman

My best memory.

Is the auld dear going to RENT out our first colour tv:) Think it was a bush had huge buttons on it, so you were able to use a snooker cue as a remote:D

Ruu_Old

The 80's were flippin' (remember using flip this and flip that at school) brilliant.

Sam Spudz (they had ones called Busters I think)
Big bars (5p and they were tiny and horrible chocolate, I used to send my Dad into the shop to get me some "nice sweets" and he came out with two Big bars.:mad:)
Shell suits
Duffle coats
MOTD and Know Your Sport on RTE.
Smiley Bolger
Sega Master system with Duck Hunt and Clay Shooting.
Spiked hair (I had it in the short time it was around)
Yellow CIE school buses.
Beano and Dandy every week.
Maurice Pratt on telly with those odd adverts
TK Lemonade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhTbmMTsZNg

humberklog

Lord Anthony snorkle jackets that zipped all the way up leaving the wearer with a view of the world that was like looking through ba toilet roll and leaving them open to attacks and cars.

Gay bashing.
Heroin epidemic.
Super cans of coke.

Dudess

Ah Lord Anthony. My dad lived in those jackets - they were available in Penneys but the fact that there was the word "Lord" in the name made them sound seriously posh...