Wonderful memories of the 80's.

fishy fishy

niallo27 wrote: »

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.

is that you Tommy? :rolleyes:

Aglomerado

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

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

I thought about posting this! You can see them all on Tony Husband's site at;
http://tonyhusband.co.uk/rtb.html

I watched one at the weekend, still hilarious, "Swill Collins".

Cantona's Collars

humbert wrote: »

Copying cassette tapes with amstrad games on them then waiting half a day for the game to load as in image formed on the screen line by line.

Lol,I used to do that.

Forget your Xbox vs Playstation,back then it was Amstrad vs Commodore & the Spectrum was equivalent to the Wii.

Summers were better then,we used to swim in the river and the water was warm,jump in these days & you'd die of hypothermia.

07Lapierre

northknife wrote: »

Champion the wonder horse
Swap shop
The Monkees
The sh1te wrestling with big daddy and giant haystacks

Eh was that the 70's??

Mariasofia

The slow set at the end of a disco...going home feeling majorly rejected if you didn't get asked to dance ( or so I've heard :-))

Sleepy

Some definite confusion with early 90's going on in this thread too...

Some things I've not seen mentioned:

Sticklebricks
Action Man, the desperate trawl through old country shops for accessories after Palitoy went out of business and the feeling of being ripped off when you did find them at the realisation that you couldn't send off the tokens for the bonus accessories.
Live Aid being a day when you had your breakfast, dinner *AND* tea in front of the telly.
Watching The A Team after your weekly bath on a Saturday night whilst wearing your A Team pyjamas.
MacGuyver
Collecting tokens from Weetabix boxes to send off for a mix tape with Nik Kershaw and Haircut 100 on it.
Tyre swings
Frilk - Orange Juice flavoured milk delivered by the milkman!
Centurions - Power X Treme!

9959

Great times, England winning the World Cup, The Sex Pistols 'Anarchy in the UK', and not forgetting Blur v Oasis, marvellous.

hollster2

Sleepy wrote: »

Some definite confusion with early 90's going on in this thread too...

Some things I've not seen mentioned:

Sticklebricks
Action Man, the desperate trawl through old country shops for accessories after Palitoy went out of business and the feeling of being ripped off when you did find them at the realisation that you couldn't send off the tokens for the bonus accessories.
Live Aid being a day when you had your breakfast, dinner *AND* tea in front of the telly.
Watching The A Team after your weekly bath on a Saturday night whilst wearing your A Team pyjamas.
MacGuyver
Collecting tokens from Weetabix boxes to send off for a mix tape with Nik Kershaw and Haircut 100 on it.
Tyre swings
Frilk - Orange Juice flavoured milk delivered by the milkman!
Centurions - Power X Treme!

It was manky but you still drank it !!!!!

fishy fishy

glass milk bottles with half the bottle being fresh cream and the birds beak marks in the tin foil lid.

smash

fishy fishy wrote: »

glass milk bottles with half the bottle being fresh cream and the birds beak marks in the tin foil lid.

I still have my millennium milk bottle

07Lapierre

Sleepy wrote: »

Some definite confusion with early 90's going on in this thread too...

Some things I've not seen mentioned:

Sticklebricks
Action Man, the desperate trawl through old country shops for accessories after Palitoy went out of business and the feeling of being ripped off when you did find them at the realisation that you couldn't send off the tokens for the bonus accessories.
Live Aid being a day when you had your breakfast, dinner *AND* tea in front of the telly.
Watching The A Team after your weekly bath on a Saturday night whilst wearing your A Team pyjamas.
MacGuyver
Collecting tokens from Weetabix boxes to send off for a mix tape with Nik Kershaw and Haircut 100 on it.
Tyre swings
Frilk - Orange Juice flavoured milk delivered by the milkman!
Centurions - Power X Treme!

Don't Forget.:

"AirWolf"
"Knight Rider"
"The Dukes of Hazzard"
"ChiPs"

And on UK TV

"The Professionals"
"The Avengers"

I watched a lot of TV as a kid!

keano_afc

Going out for hours catching bees.
Knocking in for your mates. No text messags then to see if anyone was coming out.
On the volley and 3 and you're in.
Playing "Paths", or kerbs as my southside friends tell me it was called where they're from.
Rope swings on telegraph poles.
Water fights in the summer, and then real fights after when one of the lads left washing up liquid in the end of his container and it stung the eyes out of someone.
White dog poo, everywhere.
Midgets. The little mosquito things that were always around in the summer.
Black Jack, Postman Pat and Fruit Salad sweets.
Really brilliant and well made toys, like MASK, the A-Team stuff and Star Wars toys. Transformers were great too.
Knight Rider, TJ Hooker and the Fall Guy.

Loads more, it really was a great decade to grow up in.

shopaholic01

keano_afc wrote: »

White dog poo, everywhere.

:pac:
I'd forgotten that! Why don't you see white dog poo anymore?

DainBramage

Watching Glenroe on Sunday evening signalled the end of the weekend

WoollyRedHat

Calvin Harris, acceptable in the 80s.

RayCon

Hiawatha's
Heavy Metal
Raleigh Grifter

... sorted.

Kerrydude1981

Allround Predator

shopaholic01 wrote: »

:pac:
I'd forgotten that! Why don't you see white dog poo anymore?

You do, just mostly in the summer after a few sunny days!:)

rolliepoley

Great music and microdots

monkeysnapper

Scooping up frog sporn and watching the little black dots slowly move , then start swimming , I remember putting a bit of bacon rasher in tank and them going nuts for it.

Then one terrible day while I put them in bath while I cleaned tank my sister used basin and when she realised water a bit comes out plug in bath and I loose a good 25% of my tadpoles .

The bitch!

animum

Having whatever roast meat on a Sunday in your sandwich for tea on Sunday night, (with Brown sauce) sittin infront of fire after bath (to dry your hair) and watchin glenroe!!

Buying cigarettes for my mom with a note for the lady in the shop! :-)

The fear of Lice combs whenever letter sent home from school!

Being sat on the toilet and scrubbed in my vest with a wash cloth.- keeping my watch on to show my tan!
my dad went to work in channel tunnel and we all had to go into neighbour house to use their phone to talk to our dad! Leaving 20p if we needed to use the phone!!

Happy times

sh1tstirrer

1985 the year the statues came to life :eek:
Remember the old trains inside you would hear "bang bang" "bang bang" down the line all the way from Dublin to Cork. Back then they had to shout out the name of the next stop and walk down through the carriages while shouting it out for the benefit of the sleepy heads. I remember coming down from Dublin one time and when we were approaching Charleville your man was passing shouting Chaaaaar le vill, Chaaaaar le vill some smart arse in the opposite seat said "this is not a recording"

JohnMearsheimer

Liga, the noise the soda stream made and Transformers for me.

Czarcasm

RayCon wrote: »

Hiawatha's
Heavy Metal
Raleigh Grifter

... sorted.

Climbing over your brothers in the back seat of the Cortina to scream out the window at your mam to get you a chilly willy, then scrambling into the drivers seat to pretend you were driving... til the steering wheel locked!

Sneaking a goofy gawk at Sabrina's boobs in the Sunday World newspaper... over your old man's shoulder

(Then sneaking the page out of the newspaper when everyone else was in bed.)

Chopper bicycles with the back pedal brakes that when you went to show off to the postman by pulling a skid, the bearings in the back wheel were worn to shìt and you ended up slapping into the side of the orange pt van.

He near blew up when I asked him had he any jelly tots anyway (We used burst out the door to be first to get the post, and he'd usually give us each a handful of jelly tots!) :pac:

Tea towel round the neck and jumping off the back of armchairs after watching Superman, then doing it all over again for Superman II.


Immitating CHiPS on aforementioned Super Deluxe bicycles. Nobody wanted to be Jon cos he was hopeless with the ladies; Punch on the other hand, he never seemed to get just THE girl, he'd strut off with a girl on each arm! :pac:

The Fall Guy- Jody Banks.

Mother. Of. God :eek:

Near had me go cross-eyed!


Anyway, just for the nostalgia-


NSFW, numerous nip slips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuHdUkuRi0

Tiffany, still worth a sneaky shame filled tug-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78

Wonderful mammaries of the 80's indeed

major bill

Those Horrible knitted jumpers the mother used to make you wear cos they were ''lovely''

Bed after Glenroe on a Sunday

Holidays in Arklow or some other exotic Irish place

Drinking dirty water, playing in the muck, lighting matches in the lanes, getting chased by older gangs for been a cheeky lil Bastard

Dan bars + Roy of the rovers

staying out late in the summer

we actually got a summer

Money didnt matter purely cos nobody had any to begin with so anything and everything was appreciated

Playing football in school with a tennis ball

Madam_X

Yeh lads in my class talking about nothing but Sam Fox's and Sabrina's boobs... and us girls finding it hilarious. :pac:

Thinking it was hilarious when you rewound video tapes and the stupid goofy looking people doing stuff fast and backwards.

shopaholic01

Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

Committed a decade of crime against music, but I loved it!

big dar

George Webb shoes
The Moomins
Button Moon
Fleck Trousers

wow sierra

Soccer was simple - you had Division 1,2,3 and 4
You got relegated from 1 to 2 .
No bull**** Premiership, Championship,League one,League 2????

If you won the league you played in the European Cup - now if you don't win the league you still play in the Champions League????

The Europa League was the European Cup Winners cup and surprise surprise you got to play in it by Winning the Cup.

Simples

And don't get me started with the offside rule"not interfeering with play"?????? - as someone famously said "If he's not interfeering with play he shouldn't be on the pitch"

Kerrydude1981

Oldham,QPR and Luton's plastic pitches