Wonderful memories of the 80's.

Sergeant

The death of Margaret Thatcher seems to have ignited some very strong emotions amongst the denizens of AH. So what are the lovely memories of your childhood growing up in the 80's? Apart from all that nonsense?

Gollywog Bars - Racist now, but a fantastic biscuit and ice-cream treat back then.

Those chocolate cigarettes that tasted horrible even then.

Swapping Commodore 64 games with the other lads in your class. Having them stop working just as they were about to load.

Watching Dallas with your Gran. J.R was such a bastard.

Ian Dempsey as the presenter of Dempsey's Den. Zig and Zag living it large. Then Ray D'Arcy arrived. Things changed.


So what do you want to talk about?

Lisha

Stinger bars, wham bars, big time bars

Home and away

Not having a care in the world in spite of the fact we had feic all.

kneemos

Unemployment,misery and wonderfull memory of getting away from it.

PizzamanIRL

Walking 3 miles to school playing Angry Birds in my head.

af_thefragile

The farthest back I can remember is the 90s... Watching Denver the Last Dinosaur on TV...

HondaSami

Sergeant wrote: »

So what what do you want to talk about?

Lets talk about sex baby, lets talk about you and me.

Seriously, childhood memories are great but for some reason they seem better now than they did at the time.

Loopy

Lovely hot Summers!

The Backwards Man

I have many many many memories from the 80s, and very few of them can be described as 'wonderful'.

Face it folks, forget all the rose tinted bollocks, the 80s were sh1te.

Chemical Burn

A nickel would buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel, with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds

shopaholic01

H.R. Pufnstuf.

Jimmy and his magic flute :P, loved that show!

Ilik Urgee

Maurice fuckin Pratt lording it to us on every ad break.

Aaaah the good times.

Madam_X

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I have many many many memories from the 80s, and very few of them can be described as 'wonderful'.

Face it folks, forget all the rose tinted bollocks, the 80s were sh1te.

I was aged 1-11. It was a great decade to be a kid. All the economic woes and worries for my parents etc, I was blissfully oblivious to. TV, music, toys, comics were the biz.

I was obsessed with sticker albums.

Girls, remember ELASTICS?!! And skipping rope games.

oldyouth

Getting the ride at the Trinity Ball

Dyr

a)Gollywog bars were just icecream, eskimo bars were the ones with a biscuit sandwich.

b) They were called Golly bars not Gollywog

80's kid? You've been rumbled pal.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Supercans!
Marathon bars
Real Monster Munch

Viz

Is it still published?

kneemos

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I have many many many memories from the 80s, and very few of them can be described as 'wonderful'.

Face it folks, forget all the rose tinted bollocks, the 80s were sh1te.

It was a priest ridden absolute kak hole.

Legs.Eleven

Luminous bermuda Timmy Mallet-style shorts.....

Asking my friend's mam what a virgin (from Madonna's Like a Vrigin) was.

Bumbags of marbles.

Fancy papers.

Kylie.

Jumpers that could be worn inside out.

Boot runners.

Hot summers playing Tip the Can outside with all the kids of the estate.

Macaroon Bars.

Side ponytails.

Dublin Millenium.

Ken's skin colour underpants.

AIDS.

Parents payiing 60% taxes and being broke.

Modest Chrimbo pressies.

A lot of great memories.

oldyouth

Bambi wrote: »

a)Gollywog bars were just icecream, eskimo bars were the ones with a biscuit sandwich.

b) They were called Golly bars not Gollywog

80's kid? You've been rumbled pal.

Fail at a fail They were icebergers

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Italia 90





LOL

PizzamanIRL

The babysitter giving us 50p when she minded us every Saturday and we would go to the shop across the road and I would get a packet of mints and a bag of penny jellies in those brown paper bags.

Sergeant

Madam_X wrote: »

I was aged 1-11. It was a great decade to be a kid. All the economic woes and worries for my parents etc, I was blissfully oblivious to. TV, music, toys, comics were the biz.

I was obsessed with sticker albums.

Care Bears. The sticker album of choice.

The Backwards Man

Madam_X wrote: »

I was aged 1-11. It was a great decade to be a kid. All the economic woes and worries for my parents etc, I was blissfully oblivious to.

I was a kid too M, and it wasn't wonderful. Stupid jumpers, dungarees, hair lice, one pair of shoes, walking to school, no phone, stupid foreign pen pals, toys that looked great in the TV ad that were crap in reality, one TV in the house where Top Of The Pops was banned by Pops, gathering tadpoles in jars and them dying almost immediately, making rhubarb jam and having to eat it constantly for six bleeding months.

I HATED THE EIGHTIES.

krudler

Great toys for christmas, my head nearly exploded the morning I unwrapped Castle Greyskull.

Ceral toys, remember the bike spoke clacker things with Tony The Tiger on them, hell remember bikes? proper ones, BMXs you could just chuck down in the garden and nobody would nick it , those coloured bead things you put on the spokes and doing wheelies out on the road.

Saturday mornings spent watching GI Joe, MASK, Transformers, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, DJ Kat.

WWF wrestling, and stupidly trying it ourselves, an old mattress was our ring, my mothers stolen washing line the ropes, how we didnt wind up crippled is beyond me. Making replica title belts out of cereal boxes and tinfoil.

But what on earth was the 80's obsession with the colour brown? brown pants, brown shirts, brown panelling on everything, brown lino, bleugh.

Madam_X

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Fancy papers

Oh... my... God... :eek:
The utter dog's bollocks!

Sergeant wrote: »

Care Bears. The sticker album of choice.

My Little Pony, Barbie... Feck it, even the Panini football ones - I'd collect any! 10p a pack...

Power ballads. The way toy manufacturers capitalised on them with Jem & The Holograms, and Rockstar Barbie.

NuckingFacker

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I have many many many memories from the 80s, and very few of them can be described as 'wonderful'.

Face it folks, forget all the rose tinted bollocks, the 80s were sh1te.

I'm an 80's kid. The World cups? Argentina vs Germany??? Loadsamoney???Computers???Mobile phones??? I feckin loved the 80's. You mustn't have been doing it right.

Sergeant

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Viz

Is it still published?

Download the Profanisaurus app. The best €1.99 you will ever spend.

Lisha

Sergeant wrote: »

Care Bears. The sticker album of choice.

Care Bears are baaaaccck

New series on tiny pop at 7 pm

Oh the look the kids give me when I tell them my first trip to the cinema was to see Care Bears

bgrizzley

this

Lisha

Madam_X wrote: »

Oh... my... God... :eek:
The utter dog's bollocks!

..

Fancy papers were great but smelly fancy papers were the cats pjs

The Backwards Man

NuckingFacker wrote: »

I'm an 80's kid. The World cups? Argentina vs Germany??? Loadsamoney???Computers???Mobile phones??? I feckin loved the 80's. You mustn't have been doing it right.

Ah yes, you've just reminded me what I hated most;

****ing yuppies!!

Madam_X

bgrizzley wrote: »

this

Waaaaaaaaah! We had that exact one!

LucyLouLou

Being allowed stay up late to watch Johhny Logan win Eurovision.

SEPT 23 1989

the spending power of a green pound note

krudler

Stickers with crap, horrible chewing gum, I had loads of the Batman movie ones, and then the Simpsons cards where you could make a big picture of Springfield crazy golf course on the reverse if you matched them up.
http://www.thenerdfilter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/homer2-001.jpg

stuff like the Marvel Secret Wars stickers.

Nintendo games, the NES was a thing of ugly 80's design beauty, blowing in the carts to make them work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82TL-Acm4ts

The Backwards Man

LucyLouLou wrote: »

Being allowed stay up late to watch Johhny Logan win Eurovision.

At last, someone else with terrible memories of the eighties.

shopaholic01

LucyLouLou wrote: »

Being allowed stay up late to watch Johhny Logan win Eurovision.

Twice! I think the third time was in the 90s.

bgrizzley

Madam_X wrote: »

Waaaaaaaaah! We had that exact one!

i still have mine somewhere, it was still working a couple of years ago. i must root it out and beat my high score.:)

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Erasers shaped like fruits and that also smelled like the fruits!
Rollerskates
Skateboards
"V" the TV series
Mala
Itching powder
He Man
Starcom
"Adventures in babysitting" film
The Wonder Years
Adrian Mole
Stand By Me
Soda Stream
Glo Worms
Gummy Bears
Cabbage Patch Kids
The Goonies

LucyLouLou

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Twice! I think the third time was in the 90s.

'92 with Linda Martin :-)

Larianne

When I heard of yer wan dying today, I thought of Spitting Image! They should re-run it!

Praetorian Saighdiuir

"Knock knock open wide, see what's on the other side...."

dixiedan

It must have been around the mid 80s....my dad bought a video recorder, We thought it was the greatest invention ever. Just imagine... being able to look at RTE1 and being able to record any old sh!te that happened to be on RTE2 at the same time !

murrayp4

I really miss pointless nostalgia.

shopaholic01

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

"Knock knock open wide, see what's on the other side...."

Knock Knock any more, come with me through the magic door.

Leiva

proper cream soda.

Ronin247

Stuttgart....June 12 1988.....

Praetorian Saighdiuir

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Knock Knock any more, come with me through the magic door.

Durty! :pac:

Ah here, remember Boglins?

LucyLouLou

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

"Knock knock open wide, see what's on the other side...."

It was always the Zoo or a bottle factory

Praetorian Saighdiuir

LucyLouLou wrote: »

It was always the Zoo or a bottle factory

Yeah what was that about? Cheap bastardds!

Sergeant

murrayp4 wrote: »

I really miss pointless nostalgia.

Nostalgia forms your future.

The joy of watching Ghostbusters or Jurassic Park.