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Wonderful memories of the 80's.

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    #122
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    The 80s. I can just about remember when Nottingham Forest were a top football team, and one was not derided or sniggered at for supporting them.


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    #123
    Chuck Stone
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    Bullseye on a Sunday evening.

    "Let's take a look at what you could have won".


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    #124
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,361 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    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.

    You've been rumbled pal


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    #125
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,763 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »
    Bros Jeans!

    Guilty! I thought I was the bees knees and cuckoos ankles with them though! :o


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    #126
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    Sergeant wrote: »
    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?


    your memory is crap - golly bars was just ice-cream on a stick. Gollywogs was the dolls.


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    #127
    hollster2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqSxlUJyxo


    loved this ad reminds me of the dark evenings doing my homework after eating waffles beans and eggs ehhh!

    Fancy paper
    Stinger bars
    OMG those horrible shell tracksuits
    Telecom eireann phone cards (everytime id look in the phone box for used ones lol)
    The real vica versas and monster munch- ones now do not taste the same!


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    #128
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    No head rests in cars,well that might have been only my Dad's Fiesta :D


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    #129
    Surveyor11
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    Getting roasted alive when you sat in the car on a hot day in short pants - those vinyl seats had a lot to answer for!

    Rust on cars - we had a Fiat where the entire matwell of the passenger side was rotted away. Was great fun to see the road whizzing by, but b*llocks on a rainy day.

    Ladas - everyone had 'em.

    Roller blades.

    Shops that sold single cigarettes to school kids (unbelievable, I know:eek:).

    Corporal punishment in school - if I had of known that a duster hitting me was worth €8,000, I'd be a rich man now. We used to get a reprieve at Christmas when the Brother's stick was used as Josephs staff in the crib.:pac:


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    #130
    BackScrub
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭BackScrub


    The millenium has been mentioned twice in this thread.

    Did I miss out on the whole time machine thing in the 80's or is Marty McFly posting on Boards?


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    #131
    chakotha
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    Summers 1983 and 1984 were scorchers.
    Underage smoking.
    Recording Top of the Pops each week on VCR and replaying over and over.


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    #132
    donegal_road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭donegal_road


    Italy v Brazil 1982 World Cup final

    Maradona's 2 goals against England, 1986 World Cup

    The Smiths

    Spectrum ZX with the games on cassette

    1983 All Ireland final, Dublin v Galway, Barney Rock & co.

    a fill of petrol over the border was £15


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    #133
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Glass bottles of cream soda
    Smash hits/NME
    The Edison twins on tv
    We had the only video recorder in our neighbourhood
    Having only 2 tv channels
    Yuppies
    Dallas/Dynasty
    Not being allowed to watch Live aid in case we annoyed my parents
    The Cure, my brother being a Cure head nicking my lipsticks and hearing my Dad winding my brother up about being a Cure head i.e 'Do you want me to buy you a handbag to go with that makeup on your face?
    Doing the Inter cert and Leaving cert and the fear on the morning you went to pick up your Leaving cert results

    Just remembered Leaving cert was in 1991


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    #134
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Mexico '86 and watching Maradona tear it up.

    EURO '88 and Ray Houghtons goal

    Stinger Bars

    Dallas

    Shellsuits

    Mullets

    WWF - Hogan, Randy Savage, Ultimate Warrior, Andre the Giant.....

    Guns n' Roses, Def Leppard, U2 (when they were good)

    Heads and Volleys

    Football Manager 2 on the Amstrad


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    #135
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Um Bongo.


    That is all.


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    #136
    suicide_circus
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    Is it my imagination or were cartoons a bit more harsh, grim and scary than today? More gun fire and smoking and death etc. obviously capt planet was pretty gay but it had suffering animals and a good moral lesson at the end.


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    #137
    chakotha
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    How could I forget

    Mona yoghurt drink.


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    #138
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    Kylie Minogues tits.


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    #139
    Duckjob
    Registered Users Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    Spending holidays with friends down in Shannon Harbour and Annie Lennox - There must be an angel blasting out of the radio.


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    #140
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Why were troll dolls so popular?


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    #141
    frank reynolds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭frank reynolds


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Viz

    Is it still published?

    They do an Annual around christmas each year. you can get it in eason for a fiver or something.


    TRAP DOOR - "dont you open that Trap dooooooorrrr..... there's something down there!"

    Dan Bars.

    The rise of House music.

    some other things.


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    #142
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    Jumping around the kitchen to Radio Gaga by Queen with my two sisters.


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    #143
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Getting a double deck tape recorder and being able to copy tapes borrowed from friends and making copies for others as I was the only One with such modern technology. 1984.


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    #144
    Surveyor11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Surveyor11


    CJC999 wrote: »
    Getting a double deck tape recorder and being able to copy tapes borrowed from friends and making copies for others as I was the only One with such modern technology. 1984.

    Pure luxury. We used to record songs off the radio by holding up a cassette recorder to the radio speaker (didn't have an all-in-one unit). Everyone had to be quiet to avoid any interference.


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    #145
    niallo27
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    Surveyor11 wrote: »
    Pure luxury. We used to record songs off the radio by holding up a cassette recorder to the radio speaker (didn't have an all-in-one unit). Everyone had to be quiet to avoid any interference.

    I remember roaring at Dave fanning to shut the **** up as he always used to talk over that start of the songs. He ruined many a good mix tape.


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    #146
    hollster2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    frank reynolds wrote: »
    They do an Annual around christmas each year. you can get it in eason for a fiver or something.


    TRAP DOOR - "dont you open that Trap dooooooorrrr..... there's something down there!"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9dbAQJIu1o


    Dan Bars.

    The rise of House music.

    some other things.
    !!!!!omg I loved this was the best programme ever!!!


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    #147
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users Posts: 7,937 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    has no one mentioned the most watched program of the 80s yet?
    when we all stayed up past midnight for an irish guy with massive glasses?!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byYKrvDDgew


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    #148
    texas star
    Registered Users Posts: 569 ✭✭✭texas star


    Ronald Rat and Alf oh going on summer holidays to Mosney,the pool you could see people legs ha


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    #149
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    The Cure and Gilbert...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyBi2Bgfvg


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    #150
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    and Gilbert :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDfga4LE


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    #151
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Round the Bend with Doc Croc. So controversial they had it banned.


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