The 80s

partyatmygaff

What does everyone remember/hate about the 80s?


Wasn't old enough to remember anything from then (Thank god:pac:) but what do all you oldies remember?




on a side note

I wonder if all 80s gangs were like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_oxk0x_uw

:pac:

aidan_walsh

Thankfully, we now have the Eurosaver menu at McDonalds.

giggsy664

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Thankfully, we now have the Eurosaver menu at McDonalds.

Damn you. Got in before me.

And this was top notch gaming, in the 80's. Insert a very crap game here.

stovelid

partyatmygaff wrote: »

I wonder if all 80s gangs were like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_oxk0x_uw

No, they weren't like opaque, white boxes. Not that I can remember, anyway.

marcsignal

I used to love 'Not the Nine O Clock News'

Loopy

I remember people were not as obsessed with money/cars/property and kids were brown and healthy and wrecked at the end of the day!!

partyatmygaff

looptheloop wrote: »

I remember people were not as obsessed with money/cars/property and kids were brown and healthy and wrecked at the end of the day!!

Surely teh recession back then wasnt so bad people couldnt afford toilets
:eek:

Flashraziel

Move to All things Retro please.

nyarlothothep

All I remember are vague images of prince valiant, ghostbusters, live and kicking, some beardy dude who gets interrogated after catching his hand in a door at 8pm on a tuesday night on tv and watching robocop 1 and 2 on repeat.

The 80s were pretty lame though, shoulder pads, crap music etc. I don't know why people want to emulate it in this decade in terms of music anyway. The 90s rocked

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/WM1985.jpg




Where it all began...

Ruu_Old

I haven't moved out of the 80's. Now if you don't mind I'm going to watch the rest of Family Ties. *electro-pop music playing in the background*

pretty-in-pink

The turtles, bosco, postman pat sweets, 50p pocket money being a lot, apple jack sweets, 52, cowboys and indians, mother may I, mummies and daddies, chips on a friday, take aways being special treats,

She Devil

Video Vans calling to your street once a week, i loved that!!
Being able to feck off in the morning and not having to return home til 6pm for dinner and not one question was asked because not only did we not have a phone in our house we had no personal phones either. Parents trusted their kids.

admiralofthefleet

nyarlothothep wrote: »

crap music

:eek:. if you are calling 80's music crap im afraid you havent lived

monkeyfudge

I for one applaud the OP for using "80s" as opposed the commonly used and incorrect "80's"

Aisling(",)

i wasnt alive in the 80's
did my head in last year with that calvin harris song because i loved it!

stovelid

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I for one applaud the OP for using "80s" as opposed the commonly used and incorrect "80's"

I've also come across the even worse 80ies...

Dudess

The 80s was awesome - way better than the 90s (which sucked apart from the very early part of the decade). 80s pop music was fantastic, TV was brilliant if you were a kid, and ok the clothes were baaaaaad... but some were pretty cool. I was aged 2-11 between '80 and '89 - a very good time to be a little kid. A sh1t time to be an adult trying to find work though...

Blush_01

I remember second hand clothes and scrunchies. But that rolled over into the 90s too.

I love 80s cheese-y pop. Being an 80s baby had its perks!

shane86

looptheloop wrote: »

kids were brown

I dunno, alot more brown kids around today if you ask me.

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Ahem.

Aisling(",) wrote: »

i wasnt alive in the 80's

No hugs/love for you Im afraid.

I have a very vague memory of one or two 1990 things (very vague recollection of the world cup buzz and going to hospital for a week that year). Think the 80s is completely lost in my mind though.

Nightwish

Ah the 80s. A decade of hair crimpers, clashing colours, ski pants, baggy t-shirts, knitted jumpers, hot summers, playing outside everyday no matter what the weather was like, announcements on the news for people holidaying in Ireland to phone home, books on tape, Sons and Daughters, Live at 3 and Dempsey's Den.

therewillbe

We hung out as a group of like minded "MODS" at the pillar on o connell st in Dublin. Some had scooters and we used to go to a club called Bubbles/apartment in what is now the temple bar.We would be just posing all day long basically. We were banned from the new MCDONALDS as we used to have a good laugh and a mess around. ****, life seemed great then but unemployment was bad . I had my mates and we all had a great time growing up in Dublin in the early 80s. Music was various, mod/ska/punk/romantics/metal. The Blades were a favourite of mine back then. Down the Baggot on a sunday was good. The Classic in Mary st for a haircut, Man some weird mohawks came out of there on a saturday ! Hang out in freebird after picking up your latest VINYL. Yes bad things were to come, no jobs/drugs but you could walk around the aul city at any time day or night and not be bothered . Yes there was scraps going of but I never recall anything vicious. **** , memories are great. God help all of the kids of today , life moves to fast.:)

dathi1

The smell of Wella hair gel (the pink see through stuff) Herring bone trousers and coats. Buttoned up tieless white ben sherman shirts and Italian cardigans. Dancing to Shalamar at Rainbows on Wicklow street. I know sick..:D

Blush_01

Was "Long wave Atlantic 252" an 80s or 90s phenomenon. It was the only "cool" radio station to listen to, according to my older cousins.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Dudess wrote: »

I was aged 2-11 between '80 and '89 - a very good time to be a little kid. A sh1t time to be an adult trying to find work though...

Wow, you were only 10 going on 11 when I was in Lebanon for the first time!.

I grew up in Ballymun during the 70s-80s, it was tough but honestly I think it was better for a kid than things are now.

In a rough working class neighbourhood like The 'Mun nothing was expected of us. If you were lucky you got got a job in Dublin Meat Packers slaughtering sheep and cows.

We were discriminated in so many ways, for instance we couldn't go to school in Glasnevin, couldn't join their credit union or worship in Our Lady of Victories church. If we got a bus through the area we took abuse from the locals and if the police seen us there we'd be put into the cop car and driven back to our side of Glasnevin avenue (it used to be Ballymun ave. but the locals had the name changed)..

Despite all that I loved Ballymun in the 80s and consider that I was lucky to grown up through my teens back then.

Oh yea, back in the 80s everyone used a CB radio and Channel 11 was the AH of the 80s I guess!.

Wurly

Loved:

Mr Frostie
Orange juice poured into ice trays to make ice pops
'Get Set' colour candle making set
The majority of the music
ALF
Funhouse with Pat Sharpe and Melanie & Miranda
Trap Door


Hated:
Super ser's as the only source of heating
The bangers of cars my dad used to drive. Especially the sh1t brown Datsun Cherry that he used to drop me to school in
The knitted mohair t-shirts that my granny used to make me wear in summer. ITCHY f*ckers
Spraoi magazine in school. Booooooring.

Spootie

Recording great mucic off Dave Fanning/John Peel (onto cassette of course)

Ghastly clothes:eek: Progressed from ski pants, batwing jumpers, leg warmers in the early days to parkas and docs and oversized jumpers/coats/shirts etc. Even had short spiked hair and a rats tail when I was 13.

Dudess

Tri, the Spraoi Christmas annual was awesome - I'll not hear a word against it.

Mairt wrote: »

We were discriminated in so many ways, for instance we couldn't go to school in Glasnevin, couldn't join their credit union or worship in Our Lady of Victories church. If we got a bus through the area we took abuse from the locals and if the police seen us there we'd be put into the cop car and driven back to our side of Glasnevin avenue

Jesus...

(it used to be Ballymun ave. but the locals had the name changed)

Ah yes, I went to DCU and know it well. Sad. Ballymun Road is still Ballymun Road though...

Wurly

Dudess wrote: »

Tri, the Spraoi Christmas annual was awesome - I'll not hear a word against it.

Jesus...
.

Ha ha - yeah, s'pose. Lots of colouring. But the normal every month one's were pants.

Sorry Dudess.

What was the other one called? Maybe that's the one i'm thinking of.. Think it begins with F. One was a blatant rip off of t'other and it was sh1te.

Dudess

Oh the regular one WAS crap, but the annual... well it was one of the best parts of Christmas (along with getting the Christmas RTE Guide - that still causes me much excitement!)

Can't think of any beginning with F but there was Sugradh for very small kids and Siamsa for kids reaching the end of primary.

Ruu_Old

Sonas was another one from what I remember.

eVeNtInE

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Greendaze

There was better tv shows for blokes in the 80s i reckon
A-Team
Blue thunder
Fall guy
MacGyver
Magnum P.I
Simon and Simon
Knight Rider
Hill St Blues etc...Tv shows had much better theme tunes back then aswell!

abouttobebanned

Look in magazine.
Big Comic Fortnightly magazine
Why Don't you
Panninni stickers
packed lunch in school of a 5-4-3-2-1 bar, sandwich and a capri sun.

FlutterinBantam

I remember those big bulky lavatory pans with the white ceramic cisterns,which used to be in nightclubs.If the bouncer or bar staff gave you gyp you could top deck at least three in a night, that would "larn 'em"

No frikken goon selling fragrances, and boxed in cisterns in those days.

You could exact some retribution for bad customer service.

Dudess

Captain Darling wrote: »

My parents also had this rust bucket Datsun that they bought for £60. My father still swears to this day it was the best car he ever bought.

Both my parents had Datsuns in the early 80s - the Bluebird and the Cherry. Utter junk-heaps. My mum's friend had the older model Datsun Cherry which had holes on the floor. It was pretty cool to be able to see the road underneath as you were being driven though...
We were both from families that were actually doing pretty well financially - god how poor were the 80s...

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Panninni stickers

Oh wow yeah! The football ones, Smash Hits ones and Barbie ones. They were fantastic!

"Squaaaaaaaash... Capri Sun. Squaaaaaaaaash... Capri Sun."

Ebonyellie

1)when the young ones sang livin' doll with cliff richard.
2)The mini pops (you wouldnt get away with that now)
3) The frog chorus
4) tomorrows world
5) Pajos junk box with grabit and fetchit
6) Dramarama
7) The serious cartoon add on rte about keeping your dog inside to prevent it from killing sheep
8) that music show on rte on sundays with Vincent hanley MT USA
9) soda streams
10) dempseys den

I liked being a child of the 80's

Zangetsu

I forgot about apple jacks, those were the days!

Dudess

Mairt wrote: »

Wow, you were only 10 going on 11 when I was in Lebanon for the first time!

Not that young, Mairty boy. There are people using this website who were born in the 90s...

Ruu wrote: »

Sonas was another one from what I remember.

Oh yeah, you're right.

Greendaze wrote: »

There was better tv shows for blokes in the 80s i reckon
A-Team
Blue thunder
Fall guy
MacGyver
Magnum P.I
Simon and Simon
Knight Rider
Hill St Blues etc...Tv shows had much better theme tunes back then aswell!

Big time. Someone started a thread on The Fall Guy a while back - basically comparing the men of that time with the pussywhipped metrosexuals of today. Manly men ftw...

marti101

I remember Dr Snuggles ,live and kicking,Top of the Pops.And what i mostly remember was Chris De Burgh singing Lady in Red god i still hate that sont,it seemed to be everywhere.:D

Baby4

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milod

Ahhh the 80s...

"what were it like Grandad?"

I bought my first car, a mini, in 86. There were probably less than one third the number of the cars now on the road. Anywhere in Dublin was only 20 minutes from Raheny. You could park anywhere - no bloody clampers, pay parking, or one way systems. Half of Dublin comprised leveled graveled building sites opened as temporary car parks.

We could end up back there folks...

4zn76tysfajdxp

I think the best part of the 1980s was the day I was born. Beat that Demspey's Den!

citytillidie

80s were great spending each day of the summer away from the house going out 1st thing coming home for dinner then out again and not been seen until its to dark anymore to play football.

Some great cartoon like Thundercats and He-Man with its moral stories at the end of each episode .

Knowing your neighbours now it just seems people go to go and go home and dont know who is living next door.

Ebonyellie

Inspector gadget had a moral story at every ending too. Oh and there used to be adverts on the tele about AIDS and also about watching out for kidnappers, im wondering why we dont have them any more

The_Conductor

Parcels from America at Christmas from uncles and aunts we'd never met, with all sorts of clothes and other goodies. Milk teeth that actually tasted milky. Staying up at on a Saturday evening to watch Dallas. Admiring the cars in Hardcastle and McCormick. CB radios. Every little village having its own second hand bookshop. Saving up tokens on Kellogs Cornflakes for free cactus plants. Driving from Lucan to O'Connell bridge in 10 minutes at 9AM on a weekday morning. Not caring what registration no. was on our car- as long it didn't break down and didn't belch too much black smoke........

IronMan

I remember Sunday afternoon TV being absolutely rubbish, with Opera's and farming programmes on. And it would be raining, so you could not go outside and play. And then Bullseye would come on, and everything would be great for half an hour.

I remember always buying a bottle of Old Spice for my old man, when Christmas would come around.

I remember the 2FM beat on the street, presented by Barry Lang and Larry Gogan, Larry with a very cool leather jacket.

Getting free reflectors for your bike inside packets of Rice Crispies.

Chocolate cigarettes.

Pat Ingoldsby being on kids TV, being generally mad and very funny. I feel sorry for him when I see him selling his books of poetry on the streets.

Sarah**

It was acceptable in the 80s!!!

Tigger

10penny bags
bmx
karate kid
karake
hi karate
jaki chan in chineese and being cool
cherry coke
people typing in the prices for everty thing in supermarkets and taking forever
haughey vs fitzgerald
bananarama
micheal jackson being black
cpc464 with disc drive
pac-man
sam fox
triple crowns
guns and roses
iron maiden
metallica
megadeth
anthrax
regan
chernobyl
challanger
space shuttles in general

marti101

Vincent Hanley reporting all the latest music from America.I remember Philip Cairns going missing cause around that time i was the same age as him.

John Mason

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