I, for one, welcome the return of the 80s

Umaro

Many commentators have stated that if present economic conditions maintain their course it's likely we'll see a return to the 80s. This can only be a good thing.

Rambo movies = good

Legwarmers = good

Unemployment = more time with the family/more time to watch classic 80s cartoons such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or the one where it's The Three Musketeers only they're all played by cartoon dogs ("Ruff ruff ruff, one for all and all for one")

Rocky III = good

Wham! = good


To all the people at Hibernian who are mourning the loss of their jobs, I say: do not shed a single tear, you may be steeped in debt with no prospects but emigration and the Dole queue, but Dempsey's Den will be back on the air soon.

Hooray for the 80s!

Karoma

Swwweeeeet. Zig and Zag shall return to RTE 2 and be funny amusing not what they became! Will LEGO be good again?
Shall penny sweets be 1c?

I look forward to the swift return of woppa bars.

RayM

Another advantage is that we'll be able to go on the dole and stay on it, without getting accused of being lazy. People will look at you sympathetically and wish you luck in your impossible jobseeking quest. Whereas during the Celtic Tiger years, if you weren't working, you were automatically presumed to be a sponging waster.

Archeron

DJ Kat will once again rule the world of television.

Important question though, will this classify as time travel? Because if I'm going to meet myself aged 9 in the 80's, I'd like to put on a tie and look decent. May as well give myself something to aspire to when I grow up.

Run_to_da_hills

Buy a gaff in the City for the change in your pocket.

rossie1977

liverpool league champs every year and european champs every second year

ireland actually qualifying for major football tournaments

good fun arnie flicks like predator, running man, terminator etc

roscommon actually having a half decent senior team

english wrestling on itv, the return of giant haystacks

the return of great metallica albums not the sh*te we have to put up with these days

gcgirl

A Bros reunion on the cards!!! Big hair Rock Bands !! Joe Elliote growing his hair!! No1 coming back to our screens alomg with Joe Maxi and loved Nighthawks as well!! oh and Garda Patrol !!!

Run_to_da_hills

rossie1977 wrote: »

the return of great metallica albums not the sh*te we have to put up with these days

Apart from Garage Inc, Metallica have not produced any albums since 1991.

marcsignal

Umaro wrote: »

I, for one, welcome the return of the 80s

Good God Man !! Do you fully realise the implications of what you're saying ?? :eek::eek:

Rick (with the silent 'P') Astley ?
Shakespears Sister ?
Bros ?
Fine Young Cannibals ?
TaPau ?
Mel and Kim ?
No Late Pubs and only Leeson Street as an Alternative ??
and
Mullets for God sake ! Mullets I say !!!

Ruu_Old

Kangroos runners, glad I saved my pair! X-worx, eclipse and dunlop tracksuits, fab. Looking through Ireland with rose tinted glasses for the victory, thems were the times.

rossie1977

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Apart from Garage Inc, Metallica have not produced any albums since 1991.

they have still brought out load, reload and st anger but they were all craptastic

Run_to_da_hills

rossie1977 wrote: »

they have still brought out load, reload and st anger but they were all craptastic

I said albums not rubbish :mad:

connundrum

1980's Shows
ALF
Cagney & Lacey
Cheers
Cosby Show, The
Diff'rent Strokes
Dukes of Hazzard, The
Facts Of Life
Family Ties
Golden Girls, The
Greatest American Hero
Growing Pains
Head of the Class
Hill Street Blues
Knots Landing
Love Boat, The
MacGyver
Miami Vice
Mork & Mindy
Mr. Belvedere
St. Elsewhere
Three's Company
Magnum PI
The A Team

That'll do.

I reckon that this aul recession will have the amount of cars on the road back to 1980's numbers, thereby saving the planet.

Recession, loving mother earth!

Sherifu

Law students entering the McDonalds career path.

fonpokno

connundrum wrote: »

1980's Shows
ALF
Cagney & Lacey
Cheers
Cosby Show, The
Diff'rent Strokes
Dukes of Hazzard, The
Facts Of Life
Family Ties
Golden Girls, The
Greatest American Hero
Growing Pains
Head of the Class
Hill Street Blues
Knots Landing
Love Boat, The
MacGyver
Miami Vice
Mork & Mindy
Mr. Belvedere
St. Elsewhere
Three's Company
Magnum PI
The A Team

That'll do.

I reckon that this aul recession will have the amount of cars on the road back to 1980's numbers, thereby saving the planet.

Recession, loving mother earth!

don't forget Airwolf and KnightRider!

RayM

connundrum wrote: »

I reckon that this aul recession will have the amount of cars on the road back to 1980's numbers, thereby saving the planet.

Even better than that - since nobody will have any work to go to, the roads will be completely clear at 'rush hour'.

Rust on cars, orange buses, white dogshit, Live at Three... I can't wait until the recession starts to hit really hard.

Ghost Train

No Internet yippee... wait.... why is this good...*starts to cry*

Loopy

RayM wrote: »

Rust on cars, orange buses, white dogshit, Live at Three... I can't wait until the recession starts to hit really hard.

OMG, what's up with that... How comes dog shit aint white anymore

ejmaztec

RTE closing down every night after the Angelus.

mike65

Alice Glenn and Oliver J. Flanagan in the Dail, Charles Haughey like Napoleon with Bertie "Five O'Clock Shadow" Ahern at his side, the Labour party Beardiestas. The price for returning to the eighties could be far higher than some here understand.

Mike.

Kovik

Hooray for a return to the days before divorce was legal.

No divorce = No divorce rate = Highest marriage success in the world. Sorted.

Also, I miss seeing St. Bridget on my cash.

EDIT: Just found out it was Catherine McAuley on my £5 notes, not the other one. My childhood is ruined! **** the 80s.

pocketac3s

If it lasts long enough Ireland are a sure to get into the next European championships, then roll on two successive world cups!


All hail recession!

Max_Damage

Another does of radiation from Chernobyl is in order.

Captain Darling

Datsun Cherry ftw.

stovelid

Sherifu wrote: »

Law students entering the McDonalds career path.

...to the merriment of the rest of the population.

marcsignal

RayM wrote: »

......white dogshit, Live at Three...

Live at Three..... Asleep at Quarter Past

looptheloop wrote: »

OMG, what's up with that... How comes dog shit aint white anymore

The Corpo clean it up now, before it gets the 18 months required to reach that state

lorweld

Ruu wrote: »

Kangroos runners, glad I saved my pair! X-worx, eclipse and dunlop tracksuits, fab. Looking through Ireland with rose tinted glasses for the victory, thems were the times.

Oh I'd forgotten about my kangaroo runners, there was a secret pocket in the tongue of them. I used to hide my money in there.

ejmaztec

Fuc*ing huge pot-holes that you could sail a Stena ferry in.......oh, sorry, still got 'em........:o

mike65

Kangroos runners

Had a few pairs of them, fecking huge ugly things they were too. Shellsuits, they'll have to come back as well. The population of Lisduggan will be trilled.

Mike.

marcsignal

lorweld wrote: »

I used to hide my money in there.

You must have been doing well in the 80's

lorweld

marcsignal wrote: »

You must have been doing well in the 80's

Haha I mean the 10p pocket money I used to get a week!

Earthhorse

The 80s are coming back?

Cool, I can't wait for the 90s.

Archeron wrote: »

Important question though, will this classify as time travel? Because if I'm going to meet myself aged 9 in the 80's, I'd like to put on a tie and look decent. May as well give myself something to aspire to when I grow up.

If you're wearing the tie you're gonna half to ditch the jeans and t-shirt.

Mossy Monk

Hurray for the return of hair metal.

Dave!

Archeron wrote: »

DJ Kat will once again rule the world of television.

HAH, I remember waking my folks up one morning asking could I use the phone to enter a competition on the DJ Kat Show

Good times!

Run_to_da_hills

When the only 4x4's on the Irish roads were either the Landrover or a Toyota FJ40 and these were owned by farmers or those in the trade and not by housewives living in south Dublin.

kowloon

Archeron wrote: »

Important question though, will this classify as time travel? Because if I'm going to meet myself aged 9 in the 80's, I'd like to put on a tie and look decent. May as well give myself something to aspire to when I grow up.

Don't touch your younger self, not only will it make you a peado but it may make the universe explode.

Umaro

Yes everyone. Be extremely wary of any interaction with the younger 80s version of yourself as it may severely alter the time-space continuum.

One small slip-up could mean any number of impossible sci-fi scenarios could arise, for example.. a future Ireland could be part of dystopian Euro-state, where orders are handed down to us from tight-lipped Frenchmen in sharp suits. We wouldn't want that.

Also, don't ride your own mother. No matter how attractive she is in the 80s.

billy the squid

Umaro wrote: »

Many commentators have stated that if present economic conditions maintain their course it's likely we'll see a return to the 80s. This can only be a good thing.

Rambo movies = good

Legwarmers = good

Unemployment = more time with the family/more time to watch classic 80s cartoons such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or the one where it's The Three Musketeers only they're all played by cartoon dogs ("Ruff ruff ruff, one for all and all for one")

Rocky III = good

Wham! = good


To all the people at Hibernian who are mourning the loss of their jobs, I say: do not shed a single tear, you may be steeped in debt with no prospects but emigration and the Dole queue, but Dempsey's Den will be back on the air soon.

Hooray for the 80s!

And in the 80s the dole was ~30 to 40 pounds a week. and there were no 10 and 12 pound rises back then, you might get an extra pound every year.

Although, I did notice the ulster bank have resurrected henry hippo, which can't be good when histry repeats like that.

Latchy

If we go back to the eighties i may reconsider my emigration and stay in ireland, then i could look ahead and see which cushy job i was going to apply for, while waiting for celtic tiger to arrive at my doorstep

Originally Posted by Archeron
DJ Kat will once again rule the world of television.

DJ cat , he was that dutch cat dude right ? The blonde who presentd the show was more intresting than the cat

mumhaabu

lets all burn Coal too, and wear knitted jumpers and hopefully this recession thing will bring us some decent snow also. I think it will put a more human face to Ireland, instead of some lunatic builder doing 90mph on a backroad at 6.30 in the morning in a Hyundai Santa Fe with the ubiquitous Spears of Death 4 be 2 pointing out the back door and held with baling twine. I for one will not miss those yellow reflective vests that became a stable of every Irish mans wardrobes alongside, steel toe cap boots caked in cement and a hard hat.

Recession FTW*! Thank you Alan Greenspan

*The views aired above do not neccesarily reflect those of the user mumhaabu or boards.ie.

bug

Thin Lizzy, Proper snow. My Green all-in-one coat with racing stripes and feet.
Soda Stream, Tayto crisps. Palestinian scarves.

On the up side it might bring a bit of reality back to the Irish, on the down side anyone that owns loads of property is possibly fuked, but they were greedy anyway.

Umaro

On another 80s throwback note, apparently Snickers are planning to change the name back to Marathon here in Ireland and the UK.

The time machine is working! Gnoiven!

Pepe LeFrits

The haircuts have been back for ages.

xOxSinéadxOx

it will be acceptable to do nothing again!

Seonad

Legwarmers aren't good for anyone!:p



(no matter what decade:D)

flyingoutside

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

it will be acceptable to do nothing again!

I bloody hope so coz i'm getting grief doing it now

Creature

W00t illegal condoms and anti-IRA ads.

lorweld

Gerry Adams will get a voiceover on tv again:pac:

Ponster

lorweld wrote: »

Gerry Adams will get a voiceover on tv again:pac:

It was only yesterday I was thinking of that and realised how bloody stupid it was at the time when you consider these days that you can "youtube" Bin Laden videos


What about pubs closing for the "holy hour" !

Xavi6

Bonnie Tyler, Tiffany, Nena and Belinda Carlisle \o/

I can dig out my old Hi-Tec football boots as well.