Are we heading back to the 80's?

hakenberg

Is it just me or does anybody else get a warm feeling while listening to the news or reading the tabloids and broadsheets.

Every report seems to state we have not been in these various fiscal situations for the past 20 or 30 years.

In my honest opinion (hate text speak) and in my ripe old age of 33 I can remember the 80's and early 90's

They were my best memories,neighbours spoke to one another, the music was great,the term "boy racers" was not in the dictionary and a single road death was a headline not a statistic,we walked miles to school,restraunts always had a prawn cocktail or melon stater, the music was better (or is that just my age).

Sharpshooter

hakenberg wrote: »

Is it just me or does anybody else get a warm feeling while listening to the news or reading the tabloids and broadsheets.

Every report seems to state we have not been in these various fiscal situations for the past 20 or 30 years.

In my honest opinion (hate text speak) and in my ripe old age of 33 I can remember the 80's and early 90's

They were my best memories,neighbours spoke to one another, the music was great,the term "boy racers" was not in the dictionary and a single road death was a headline not a statistic,we walked miles to school,restraunts always had a prawn cocktail or melon stater, the music was better (or is that just my age).

Dallas ftw..

Tommy Burns

"And you could leave your key in the front door" (but that was because nobody had fook all worth robbing )

jester77

hakenberg wrote: »

Is it just me or does anybody else get a warm feeling while listening to the news or reading the tabloids and broadsheets.

Every report seems to state we have not been in these various fiscal situations for the past 20 or 30 years.

In my honest opinion (hate text speak) and in my ripe old age of 33 I can remember the 80's and early 90's

They were my best memories,neighbours spoke to one another, the music was great,the term "boy racers" was not in the dictionary and a single road death was a headline not a statistic,we walked miles to school,restraunts always had a prawn cocktail or melon stater, the music was better (or is that just my age).

I'll agree with everything except the music bit!

graciegrace

in your dreams were going to the 80's no jobs, smelly smoky pubs, everything grey, margaret thatcher, poll tax in england, no jobs, dole queues,

yellow packs margarine sandwiches,
strikes,
no buses, strikes,
no jobs

forget it!:rolleyes:

admiralofthefleet

my local boozer was empty earlier on when i dropped in for a pint. i remember in the early 90's that place was heaving on a friday night with 6 lounge staff working, i was one of them. so in my experience no, we arent heading back to the old days

Supermanscat

i hope not because if we got back to the eighties i wouldnt be born and that would suck!

hakenberg

graciegrace wrote: »

yellow packs margarine sandwiches,
strikes,
no buses, strikes,
no jobs

forget it!:rolleyes:

We are already there on these points :rolleyes:

Allbeit Yellow Pack has changed to amber.

axel rose

I loved the way my mother used to describe every big house she saw as 'just like south fork'......oh for the days when everything Dallas was classy.........:D (Is that the right name? What a crap name for a house!!)

RATM

Wispa bars ftw

Senna

I'd say well be in worse shape than in the 80's, we'll have all the current problem that aren't going away cause of a recession, with none of the 'small country culture' that we had in the 80's.

Quazzie

hakenberg wrote: »

Is it just me or does anybody else get a warm feeling while listening to the news or reading the tabloids and broadsheets.

Every report seems to state we have not been in these various fiscal situations for the past 20 or 30 years.

In my honest opinion (hate text speak) and in my ripe old age of 33 I can remember the 80's and early 90's

They were my best memories,neighbours spoke to one another, the music was great,the term "boy racers" was not in the dictionary and a single road death was a headline not a statistic,we walked miles to school,restraunts always had a prawn cocktail or melon stater, the music was better (or is that just my age).

So great you named it twice.

It might be great thinking of the good old 80's but imho (i luvs txt speak) the 80's isn't gonna be a patch on what we are going to experience. If I were you I'd be worrying about how they lived during the crash in the 20's, because all factors taken into consideration thats the epic fall that we are about to have,

Njoy
Ktnxbai

marcsignal

as long as we can minimize the rebirth of (P)rick astley...

Ruu_Old

Brilliant, I can get my shell suit out!

Rhyme

Ruu wrote:

Brilliant, I get get shell suit out!

"It was acceptable in the 80's*"




*courtesy of Calvin Harris

greatgoal

is there anybody that can actually remember the 80s?

Zaph

greatgoal wrote: »

is there anybody that can actually remember the 80s?

Yep, and it wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs. I left school in 1984 and I'd say half my class had left the country by 1986. Some of the music was better though.

Senna

greatgoal wrote: »

is there anybody that can actually remember the 80s?

Not everyone here is pre-pubescent:rolleyes:

Darragh29

greatgoal wrote: »

is there anybody that can actually remember the 80s?

Yeah, I remember huge classes and if we had round roast for dinner on Sunday, we'd have beef sambo's for school lunch until the following Thursday! I remember loads and loads of lads in my class, their Da's were unemployed. I remember lads coming to school with no copy books 'cos their parents couldn't afford to buy them.

One particular Christian Brother made a point of telling the whole class what the story was when this happened, humiliating one poor kid that was in this situation, by saying, "and I bet you that your Dad has money to go to the pub and drink his arse off at the weekend, doesn't he?"...

Wurly

My 80's childhood lunch consisted of fatty ham sandwiches with heinz sandwich spread, a panky bar and thrift orange 'squash'.:(

Good times.:pac:

Darragh29

I remember getting into a row in school (6th class), because some lad in the class starting running around saying that I was eating a "sh*te sandwich", because he saw I had beef in the sambo!

Hehe, I remember getting "the leather" strap from the principal in the CBS for running around in the school yard!

I've a mate who's Da used to have a bread run back then and my mate said to me recently that he remembers father's in the estate coming to the house at around 9 or 10 at night, looking for any spare loaves of bread that might be in the back of the van that would be thrown out in the morning... Seriously, this did happen apparently...

greatgoal

i reared my 3 youngest kids during the 80s and it was tough,i wouldnt wish a repeat of that on any young couple.

Highsider

If it's only as bad as the 80's i'll be delighted....Q the folks who said "property crash ha ha ha" and also the "soft landing crowd" and not forgetting the classic " the banks will never be in trouble" crowd.:rolleyes:

Caoimhín

Tri wrote: »

My 80's childhood lunch consisted of fatty ham sandwiches with heinz sandwich spread, a panky bar and thrift orange 'squash'.:(

Good times.:pac:

Your so lucky, you must have been loaded.

My 80's childhood consisted of fat sandwiches with turnip sandwich spread, a lump of coal and water.

Turd Ferguson

Caoimhín wrote: »

Your so lucky, you must have been loaded.

My 80's childhood consisted of fat sandwiches with turnip sandwich spread, a lump of coal and water.

Oh la la. My childhood consisted of asbestos sandwiches and for desert I would get stabbed in the chest...and I was happy to even get that!!

Nolanger

There's only one fast solution to solving the current jobs crisis - Self Aid 2.

af_thefragile

I don't really remember the 80's...

Music was slightly better though, still too popish/glamish for my taste.
The 70's were better... Music wise...

Gyladene

He-Man, She-Ra and the Smurfs are about all I remember from the 80s. And mi madre blaring Billy Idol.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Huh! You thought you had it bad? Throughout the 80s I lived off milk and crushed vegetables. Although apparantly being a baby is shítty at any time...

Turd Ferguson

Nolanger wrote: »

Self Aid

Masterbation thread thataway ===>

ejmaztec

My family used to send food, money, clothes and toys, from England to Ireland in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. My cousins tuk are Lego - bastards!

Our house was like a transit camp for immigrants off the boat looking for work. Myself and my siblings had to sleep on the floor when our feckin' relatives showed up.

Happy Days.:(

I can't vouch for the music, always assuming that in the 80s, Glenn Miller was probably quite high in the Irish pop charts. :P

Caoimhín

ejmaztec wrote: »

My family used to send food, money, clothes and toys, from England to Ireland in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. :P

How flippin old are you?

TPD

Caoimhín wrote: »

How flippin old are you?

Over 9000?

ejmaztec

Caoimhín wrote: »

How flippin old are you?

My family's been around a lot longer than I have, otherwise I wouldn't have been here in the first place.

iPlop

graciegrace wrote: »

in your dreams were going to the 80's no jobs, smelly smoky pubs, everything grey, margaret thatcher, poll tax in england, no jobs, dole queues,

yellow packs margarine sandwiches,
strikes,
no buses, strikes,
no jobs

forget it!:rolleyes:

sounds like today ,apart from yellow pack larger that was fcukin muck 23p a can

An Fear Aniar

I don't think so. We have a much more educated and skilled workforce and an entrepreneurial culture, a lot less begrudgery and higher aspirations.

The national inferiority complex we had on the '80's is no longer. If the economy goes down we now correctly blame global influences rather than ourselves.


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Caoimhín

ejmaztec wrote: »

My family's been around a lot longer than I have, otherwise I wouldn't have been here in the first place.

Deep.

ejmaztec

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

I don't think so. We have a much more educated and skilled workforce and an entrepreneurial culture, a lot less begrudgery and higher aspirations.

The national inferiority complex we had on the '80's is no longer. If the economy goes down we now correctly blame global influences rather than ourselves.


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So you're in London. :pac:

Orange69

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

I don't think so. We have a much more educated and skilled workforce and an entrepreneurial culture, a lot less begrudgery and higher aspirations.

The national inferiority complex we had on the '80's is no longer. If the economy goes down we now correctly blame global influences rather than ourselves.


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I lolled.. :rolleyes:

Wertz

S' funny....just been reading my local rag and they run a piece every week about what was happening 10, 20, and 30 years ago in the area...this week the one for 20 years back was on about the hoardes of shoppers from the south heading up North to do their xmas shopping...trains and buses being stopped and boarded by customs, valuable items seized for duty evasion, along with pictures.
On the previous page there was a news piece about the effects of people shopping in the North in the present day, how something must be done, business and jobs will suffer etc. Thought it was an interesting correlation...20 yrs on, f*ck all has really changed except that there's now a load of shiny new motorways to get us up and back faster. Oh and there's no customs...

But there's no way in hell I could ever wear a mullet again...

00112984

There really is only one way to celebrate.

SV

00112984 wrote: »

There really is only one way to celebrate.

:mad:

ejmaztec

Wertz wrote: »

S' funny....just been reading my local rag and they run a piece every week about what was happening 10, 20, and 30 years ago in the area...this week the one for 20 years back was on about the hoardes of shoppers from the south heading up North to do their xmas shopping...trains and buses being stopped and boarded by customs, valuable items seized for duty evasion, along with pictures.
On the previous page there was a news piece about the effects of people shopping in the North in the present day, how something must be done, business and jobs will suffer etc. Thought it was an interesting correlation...20 yrs on, f*ck all has really changed except that there's now a load of shiny new motorways to get us up and back faster. Oh and there's no customs...

But there's no way in hell I could ever wear a mullet again...

Mullets are going to be made compulsory, along with a Mullet Tax.

InkSlinger67

If we are heading back to the 80's we better bring enough plutonium with us to come back. We don't want to be in a situation where we have to rely on a freak bolt of lightening to power the flux capacitor in order to get away from our mothers who want to have sex with us!

Marty McFly: "Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a Cinquecento?"
Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

Wertz

ejmaztec wrote: »

Mullets are going to be made compulsory, along with a Mullet Tax.

I feel a sudden bout of alopecia coming on...

InkSlinger67

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

If we are heading back to the 80's we better bring enough plutonium with us to come back. We don't want to be in a situation where we have to rely on a freak bolt of lightening to power the flux capacitor in order to get away from our mothers who want to have sex with us!

Marty McFly: "Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a Cinquecento?"
Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

You could always get shot like DI alex drake from Ashes to Ashes if you want another option. Wake up to Ultravox "This means nothingg to meee!!! OHHHH VIENNNNA!!!!!"

ejmaztec

Domo230 wrote: »

Im part of generation Y

We live for consumerism and instant gratification.
We cant survive a recession.

You can all keep yer crappy music and beef sandwhiches, overpriced coffee and subway FTW.
If we sit here and pretend theres no recession and continue to do as we do then everything will be fine.(Me hopes so anyway :P)

You're goin' down man, down, down, down. :eek:

Húrin

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

So great you named it twice.

It might be great thinking of the good old 80's but imho (i luvs txt speak) the 80's isn't gonna be a patch on what we are going to experience. If I were you I'd be worrying about how they lived during the crash in the 20's, because all factors taken into consideration thats the epic fall that we are about to have,

Njoy
Ktnxbai

Hate to rain on the parade but due to the impending arrival of rocketing oil prices caused by peak oil, and the ever-deteriorating climate affecting crop yields and other economic activity, it will probably be worse than the great depression.

ejmaztec

Húrin wrote: »

Hate to rain on the parade but due to the impending arrival of rocketing oil prices caused by peak oil, and the ever-deteriorating climate affecting crop yields and other economic activity, it will probably be worse than the great depression.

On the upside, there will be a surprising superfluity of sh1t for crops, because we're all going to be up to our eye-balls in it. :eek:

auditek923

petrol is down to 99 cent in my town

marcsignal

Zaph wrote: »

Yep, and it wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs. I left school in 1984 and I'd say half my class had left the country by 1986. Some of the music was better though.

ditto