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Wonderful memories of the 80's.

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    #62
    Legs.Eleven
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    Can those that were adults in the 80s please confirm weather or not the Summers were better in the 80s?


    For the women: Crimpers and crimping your hair!


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    #63
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,592 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Sunday afternoons listening To Fab Vinnie on MT USA-when I should have been studying for the Leaving'.

    Regularly skipping last class at school to watch the Irish soccer team's qualifying campaign for the '84 and '86 European/World cup -class.

    Thursday nights at The End in the Phoenix Park,Sunday nights at Club Nassau bouncing to The Waterboys, weekly house parties.

    The Princess Bride,Ferris Bueller,Top Gun,Platoon.....
    Leg warmers and Fame wannabes!

    When a kiss or a shift led to a date,and not a big dilemma as to whether or not you were "in a relationship".

    Best decade ever.


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    #64
    bradlente
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    Being 1?


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    #65
    shopaholic01
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    msthe80s wrote: »
    Sunday afternoons listening To Fab Vinnie on MT USA-when I should have been studying for the Leaving'.

    Regularly skipping last class at school to watch the Irish soccer team's qualifying campaign for the '84 and '86 European/World cup -class.

    Thursday nights at The End in the Phoenix Park,Sunday nights at Club Nassau bouncing to The Waterboys, weekly house parties.

    The Princess Bride,Ferris Bueller,Top Gun,Platoon.....
    Leg warmers and Fame wannabes!

    When a kiss or a shift led to a date,and not a big dilemma as to whether or not you were "in a relationship".

    Best decade ever.
    Apt username, you must have spent your boards life waiting for this thread!


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    #66
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
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    bradlente wrote: »
    Being 1?

    Ooooooooh so close!


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    #67
    SEPT 23 1989
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCRiLyL0koc


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    #68
    shopaholic01
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    For the women: Crimpers and crimping your hair!
    Perms and mousse, lots and lots of mousse..... the shame. :o


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    #69
    mikom
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    Jim'll fix........... oh nevermind.


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    #70
    sellerbarry
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    Enjoy
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619206330728/


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    #71
    [Deleted User]
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    Atlantic 252


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    #72
    shopaholic01
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    Blockbusters and Catchphrase.


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    #73
    Larianne
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    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Atlantic 252

    And taping the songs on cassette... no ads :)


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    #74
    Lisha
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    The 'Dear John' letters on Kerry radio after 11 at night


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    #75
    shopaholic01
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    Larianne wrote: »
    And taping the songs on cassette... no ads :)
    And the agony when the DJ spoke at the start of the song and cut in at the end. It could take 5 or 6 attempts to get the perfect copy.


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    #76
    Frere Jacques
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭Frere Jacques


    I'm going to go with the election of '81. A gang of us queuing at the Fine Gael caravan each getting a sticker and some of the lads even got a bit of a roll with 3 or four stickers on it. Then running off up to the FF caravan and getting some of those flat cardboard hats in green and white that you put on and it spiraled up from the outside to fit your noggin. Espania '82 and hot summers in Youghal and Garretstown, and being painted from head to toe in calamine lotion after spending 10 hours in the baking sun wondering why you were itchy.
    They were still sh"t though.


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    #77
    grey_so_what
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    Shoulder pads Alexie style (Dynasty)

    Big heated roller hair (mega split ends)

    Getting my first car Mini HL...........:) (pmpa only shower to insure you and robbing you to the end of the earth)

    Pioneers Stereos getting robbed every time you went to a dodgy area

    Buck W's in Leeson Street...........(overpriced German plonk)

    ***sighs****


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    #78
    shopaholic01
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    Lisha wrote: »
    The 'Dear John' letters on Kerry radio after 11 at night
    Arthur Murphy's Mailbag.


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    Praetorian Saighdiuir
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    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    And the agony when the DJ spoke at the start of the song and cut in at the end. It could take 5 or 6 attempts to get the perfect copy.

    Yeah and then 3 days later you had to stick a pencil in the cassette hole (giggiddy) and twirl it to fix the tape.


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    #80
    Loopy
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    The smell of coal burning
    If you're a Dub, the smog
    Soda streams
    7/8 people fitting into a crappy little car (we had a mini)
    Being allowed roam about till 11 at night in Summer & coming in filthy & tanned


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    #81
    The Princess Bride
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    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Apt username, you must have spent your boards life waiting for this thread!

    :o


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    #82
    grey_so_what
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    Loopy wrote: »
    The smell of coal burning
    If you're a Dub, the smog
    Soda streams
    7/8 people fitting into a crappy little car (we had a mini)
    Being allowed roam about till 11 at night in Summer & coming in filthy & tanned


    Never diss the Mini!.........:mad:

    Forgot about the smog! :eek:


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    #83
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
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    Jeremy Beadle and his creepy little hand.

    Michael Barrymore's Strike it lucky.


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    #84
    shopaholic01
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    Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »
    Jeremy Beadle and his creepy little hand.

    Michael Barrymore's Strike it lucky.
    What's a hot spot not? :D


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    #85
    1ZRed
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    Just chillin' as an egg


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    #86
    shopaholic01
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    1ZRed wrote: »
    Just chillin' as an egg
    This should really be in oulwans 'n' oulfellas. Fecking younsters butting in! :mad:


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    #87
    Loopy
    Registered Users Posts: 12,220 ✭✭✭✭Loopy


    grey_so_what wrote: »
    Never diss the Mini!.........:mad:

    Forgot about the smog! :eek:

    I loved that mini!
    I remember my folks leaving a hotel after a wedding and driving home (it was the 80's) and next day they realised they'd driven the wrong mini home.


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    #88
    grey_so_what
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    Loopy wrote: »
    I loved that mini!
    I remember my folks leaving a hotel after a wedding and driving home (it was the 80's) and next day they realised they'd driven the wrong mini home.

    :):):)

    I frequently got into the wrong Mini (my key was clearly dodgy) and I could get into any dark blue one outside the local if it was anywhere near mine!.......

    And also - the wipers getting robbed frequently....that was an every two week or so event...:(

    Duran Duran also Adam Ant short pedal pushers.....oh, dear!


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    #89
    shopaholic01
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    Gameshow with the female co-presenters smiling orgasmically and gesturing suggestively at the prizes. Bruce Forsyth presented the majority of them.

    'Nice to see you ......... to see you nice'.


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    #90
    spankysue
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    Acidwash denim jeans, video covers that looked like books and getting feck all for your communion :P


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    #91
    shopaholic01
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    spankysue wrote: »
    Acidwash denim jeans, video covers that looked like books and getting feck all for your communion :P
    Nick Kamen in the Levi's ad. ;)

    *Swoons*


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