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The 80s thread!

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    #92
    GirlInterrupted
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    I remember Hurricane Charlie when I was about five, and the fallout the next day. There were about five or six fallen trees across our driveway, and I still remember the sound of the chainsaws cutting them up, and the neighbours tractor pulling the carcasses out of the way.


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    #93
    BeerWolf
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    I hate the 80s... of all the decade genres.. I truly hate the 80s.

    It brought the horrid age of electronic music... *shudders*

    Terrible fashion sense

    Sharp cornered vehicle designs

    etc.


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    #94
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    Vincent Hanley hosted MT USA, changed Sunday evenings,
    Music cassettes, Heart, Edi Brickell, Debbie Gibson, Annie Lennox.
    Radio Luxemburg,


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    #95
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Ford Capri
    Ford Escort
    Ford Orion.

    A family near hear won a Ford Orion in 'Murphy's Micro Quiz-M' in about 1984. 'Where in the World', presented by Theresa Lowe, replaced Murphy's Micro Quiz-M in the latter 1980s. They were both on at 8.00pm and then at 8.30pm Glenroe came on, which was the highlight of the week's tv of course.

    At 9pm Vere Wynne Jones, Don Cockburn, and Charles Mitchell among others read the news.


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    #96
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    My 80's memories

    Dallas, Dynasty, Hart to Hart, Glenroe, Wanderly Wagon, 40 Coats, Flahertys Garden

    Butter vouchers, food packages at the parish hall, Fiat 127's, mass, All Ireland final day, Sunday dinners, neighbours coming to visit on a Sunday night, picking blackberries/apples/mushrooms, summers with no rain, winters with proper snowfalls, helicopters dropping in food because we were snowed in, Hurricane Charlie(i could have imagined this one).

    Hillsborough, Euro 88, Ben Johnson being disqualified in Seoul 88, Barry McGuigan, Dennis Taylor.

    Cindi Lauper, Madonna, Paul Simon, Phil Collins, Bros, Prince, Carly Simon, Lisa Stansfield

    Not having a worry in the world......


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    #97
    Magic8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭Magic8


    Betamax videos
    Duffle coats before they were fashionable and you were forced to wear them by your mammy
    Lolo balls
    Colly Dollies from H Williams with the free tokens
    Saturday morning TV shows like Tiswas and Noel Edmonds swop shop. Does anyone remember Anything Goes, the Irish one with Aonghus McNally??
    Appetite For Destruction by Guns N Roses. In particular, Sweet Child O Mine :D
    Eastenders first episode ever with Mary the prostitute finding that dead guy.
    Sharpshooter wrote: »
    Freddie Mercury in Live Aid.
    Ledge. I remember that like it was yesterday.
    Kess73 wrote: »
    Fizzle Sticks. Mmmmmmmmmm
    Man I miss those things
    Nforce wrote: »
    80's clothing memories..... shoulderpads, leggings,teenyboppers....suit jackets with teeshirt underneath (ala Miami Vice)
    Puffball skirts the first time around. Fluorescent shoelaces and socks. And ski pants.
    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Time bars were the pink rectangular ones that you chewed, or were they Wham! bars?
    Does anyone remember Zombie bars? The bright green ones with the little black yokes in them?
    kelle wrote: »

    Smash Hits for the song words, and latest info on pop stars. Waiting all day for your favourite song to come on the radio so you could tape it onto cassette, then the DJ would talk all over it!
    Oh God, plastering your bedroom wall in all the Smash Hits posters :D
    Rebelheart wrote: »
    You are joking? Never heard of that. Anybody else hear of it?
    Yeah, I remember everyone going on about it. We were on our holliers at the time so we missed the carnage :P


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    #98
    CDfm
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    GirlInterrupted wrote: »
    I remember Hurricane Charlie when I was about five, and the fallout the next day.

    Ah -hurricane charlie.

    I lived in Bray and was stranded in a Dart for 4 hours. The concrete tension weights on the poles were swaying in the gale.

    Went to Dun Laoighaire for the clean-up and watch the yachts.

    The train used to have to stop sometimes and the driver would chase cows from the track. Super and sophisticated. That was holy modern catholic Ireland.


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    #99
    Magic8
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    CDfm wrote: »

    I lived in Bray and was stranded in a Dart for 4 hours.

    The DART making it's debut in '84, nearly forgot about that.


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    #100
    mle1324
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    BBCs Ashes to Ashes really shows what the 80s are like or so my da says


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    #101
    chakotha
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    Magic8 wrote: »
    ...Does anyone remember Anything Goes, the Irish one with Aonghus McNally??.../QUOTE]

    That was class. Used to watch every Saturday. 9.30am in front of the tv with a bowl of corn flakes every week. Tom Grattan's War, Mr Ed, Little Rascals. Can't remember what else. Mary Fitzgerald (?) making arts and crafts look easy. Never quite worked out as good when I tried to make it.

    Then Daktari I think was on afterwards just before Sports Stadium.


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    #102
    Magic8
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    chakotha wrote: »
    Magic8 wrote: »
    ...Does anyone remember Anything Goes, the Irish one with Aonghus McNally??.../QUOTE]

    That was class. Used to watch every Saturday. 9.30am in front of the tv with a bowl of corn flakes every week. Tom Grattan's War, Mr Ed, Little Rascals. Can't remember what else. Mary Fitzgerald (?) making arts and crafts look easy. Never quite worked out as good when I tried to make it.

    Then Daktari I think was on afterwards just before Sports Stadium.

    Mary's make and do it was called or something wasn't it? And battle of the planets cartoon, and then they brought out battle of the planets bars, queuing up at the ice cream van with your 10p so you could buy two of them :D


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    #103
    Leprachaun
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    My birth.


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    #104
    Rebelheart
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    Bros!

    When will I, when will I be famous - I can't answer, I can't answer that! (All here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWkAaD00j0)



    Not forgeting their dire 'Cat among the pigeons' and 'Silent Night'.

    Gay as Christmas, as the fella says. But in this regard the 80s firmly belonged to this fella: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sltrzG6_-zo


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    #105
    Rebelheart
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    Remember the cailíní used to be mad about this little fella:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBzbdo2LjU (great song, though!)

    Then they went mad about this pint-sized guy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpa_LO9Eiew


    Posers.


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    #106
    Rebelheart
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    This guy, Howard Jones, produced some brilliant songs, up there with Paul Young. I saw him in the Olympia in Dublin about 10 years ago.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE61Bz7IHKg

    and

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJE5cBGgTSU

    but this is my favourite:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCcLXo1JsPY


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    #107
    Ruu_Old
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    Chesney Hawkes was a ladies favourite for a while in the early 90s from what I remember.


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    #108
    BlitzKrieg
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    These sort of threads just remind me that as of last year we have adults who have never experianced a second of the 80's...

    its rather depressing when I think about it.


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    #109
    peasant
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    And then there was:

    Reaganism, Thatcherism

    MAD (mutual assured destruction)

    Perhing II's and Cruise Missiles in my back garden

    Chernobyl

    "When the wind blows" http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/RogerWaters_WTWB.JPG


    just to lighten things up a bit :D


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    #110
    dwasol
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭dwasol


    chakotha wrote: »
    Sizzlers runners from Penneys

    has anyone got a picture of these runners, can't find them anywhere online


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    #111
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Tea Spoon wrote: »
    On the subject of Soda Streams, I can still hear that noise of the gas filling the bottle in my head to this day!
    You put the bottle of water into the SodaStream and then fizzed it up, and then the flavouring, but if the flavouring was in before you fizzed it up, I think it used to over-fizz (to use the technical term) and it would overflow and destroy the place. I experimented with it... :D
    Thundercats Ho wrote: »
    Where in the world with theresa lowe. I wonder how she looks now?
    Here's a photo of her from less than 2 years ago:

    image.jpg


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    #112
    Bobblehats
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    ‘80s forever <3


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