1984 was 30 years ago

old hippy · 02-01-2014 4:44pm #1

What are your memories of that year?

I remember being amazed by ZTTs Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Band Aid and Robin of Sherwood on the telly. Holiday in Menorca and going red as a beacon when a topless girl talked to me on the beach

Napper Hawkins · 02-01-2014 4:46pm

Dribbling, mainly.

wazky · 02-01-2014 4:46pm

Its Friday tomorrow, sorry should I have started another thread for that?

Mint Aero · 02-01-2014 4:46pm

and 1974 was 40 years ago. I was nothing, must've been a sad world.

Teyla Emmagan · 02-01-2014 4:47pm

Robin of Sherwood! Oh Michael Praed, how I loved you. I still can't pronounce your name, but you definitely created the first stirrings in my girlish loins.

Sigh!

Nemeses · 02-01-2014 4:48pm

WHAT YEAR IS THIS?

MadsL · 02-01-2014 4:48pm

I Ran the World!!

Wish I still had the T shirt!

Can't find the charity single but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHoJPUHG83g

Duff · 02-01-2014 4:48pm

Worrying about hanging out in my dad's sac for another 3 years.

MadsL · 02-01-2014 4:49pm

Mint Aero wrote: »

and 1974 was 40 years ago. I was nothing, must've been a sad world.

Don't start that thread, I will really feel old.

branie · 02-01-2014 4:50pm

I got a tractor and trailer for Christmas that year (not a real tractor, of course)

Nemeses · 02-01-2014 4:51pm

MadsL wrote: »

Don't start that thread, I will really feel old.

How far back do we have to go?

1884? :P

o1s1n · 02-01-2014 4:51pm

I was born in July 84. Wait a minute, that means that... argh, no!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:(:(

old hippy · 02-01-2014 4:52pm

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Robin of Sherwood! Oh Michael Praed, how I loved you. I still can't pronounce your name, but you definitely created the first stirrings in my girlish loins.

Sigh!

My manish loins were not immune, either

The Backwards Man · 02-01-2014 4:53pm

Dukes of Hazzard
The A-Team
The Fall Guy

That's all I remember.

branie · 02-01-2014 4:53pm

old hippy wrote: »

My manish loins were not immune, either

for Maid Marian, I hope

Muise... · 02-01-2014 4:53pm

I thought this was going to be another conspiracist misreading of Orwell.
Phew!

TwoShedsJackson · 02-01-2014 4:53pm

The war with Eurasia.

old hippy · 02-01-2014 4:54pm

branie wrote: »

for Maid Marian, I hope

No offence to Judie Trott (think that was her name) but Praed was much more alluring.

Muise... · 02-01-2014 4:55pm

Muise... wrote: »

I thought this was going to be another conspiracist misreading of Orwell.
Phew!

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

The war with Eurasia.

Ha!

Maximus Alexander · 02-01-2014 4:55pm

I distinctly remember not existing.

branie · 02-01-2014 4:56pm

The theme from Robin of Sherwood is going through my head now!

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 02-01-2014 4:56pm

branie wrote: »

for Maid Marian, I hope

I liked the giant, talking deer

old hippy · 02-01-2014 4:58pm

Jake Rugby Walrus666 wrote: »

I liked the giant, talking deer

Herne the Hunter.

That show was such a change to the traditional Robin Hood story. A lot more mysticism and darkness. Much better (IMHO) than that dreadful BBC version a couple of years back...

Killgore Trout · 02-01-2014 4:58pm

Herniated Hunter?

Edit: Doh! beaten to it

mrsbyrne · 02-01-2014 5:07pm

Dancing like mad to Jump by The Pointer Sisters at the disco. Life was great. Life is still great.Great weather great music great friends fantastic snogging.

moxin · 02-01-2014 5:13pm

Eurythmics mentioned 1984 in one of their songs that year. Oh, there was Animal Farm too!

johndoe99 · 02-01-2014 5:17pm

fondly remember going to watch 'Police Academy' in the cinema that year.

RoboRat · 02-01-2014 5:17pm

Lucky No. 7 on a Mr. Freeze
Cigarettes being about 90p (wasn't smoking but used to get to keep the change when I got them for my mother)
Tayto being 8p
Beat the Keeper/ Squares and lots of it
Football being absolutely crap to watch on TV
Ten Penny mixture

Loved Robin of Sherwood but the only woman for me back then was Wonder Woman

Also loved the Greatest American Hero

branie · 02-01-2014 5:17pm

I think Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince was on TV in 84

BorneTobyWilde · 02-01-2014 5:19pm

I was born in 2006 so .

Galwayguy35 · 02-01-2014 5:20pm

It was the year I found out Santy wasn't real.

Chefrio · 02-01-2014 5:22pm

Born in November 1984.

RoboRat · 02-01-2014 5:23pm

It was the year I found out Santy wasn't real.

Take that back... TAKE THAT BACK NOW!

The Princess Bride · 02-01-2014 5:29pm

Did the Intercert in '84.
Morrissey must've been wailing,as I remember one of my classmates murdering his miserable songs as I did my art exam.

Went to first disco.(Wore a denim skirt!)
Got the shift for the first time- Good times;-)

chinwag · 02-01-2014 5:41pm

I can recall most of these events: http://www.rte.ie/tv/reelingintheyears/1984.html

Eileen Down · 02-01-2014 5:42pm

I kept myself busy by spinning on my back, spinning on my knees, spinning on head and then I would attempt to freeze.

eamonnq · 02-01-2014 5:48pm

A hole in my shoe which was letting water.

branie · 02-01-2014 5:53pm

I might have started watching the Houndcats and the Barkleys on video in '84

SirCreepalot · 02-01-2014 6:15pm

I'm depressed for you guys. It's a good thing I am forever young.

Mena · 02-01-2014 6:23pm

Moved to Joburg in '84. 10 years old so I was.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx · 02-01-2014 6:30pm

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

I was born in 2006 so .

Ah here. You are 7/8 and on boards? Jaysus.

HerrScheisse · 02-01-2014 6:43pm

I had only recently come out from beneath my wooden desk and removed my cupped hands from my ears, although the crouched position of the 1980's did afford me a prime view of a clearly fear moistened Fraulein Bempts underworld, for that I am forever grateful to the untold fear between east and west.

LordSutch · 02-01-2014 6:51pm

1984 ish . . .

Dallas.
Dynasty.
Top of The Pops.
The Professionals.
The New Avengers.

Compact Disc players (top loaders).
Charles Haughey.
The Troubles in NI.
Holidays in the Canaries.
This new Italian food 'Pizza'.
Push button phones!
Mini hand held TVs.
Bombardier buses.
Smoking in Cinemas.
Smoking on buses.
Smoking everywhere.

Mass emigration via boat & plane to Britain & beyond < some things never change.

C.K Dexter Haven · 02-01-2014 6:55pm

The air attack warning sounds like.
This is the sound.

HerrScheisse · 02-01-2014 6:58pm

1984 - the relief we are all still alive affter the recent Nato exercises.

Outside of that, I was pleased that if the air siren had turned true, that my last sight would have been a loosened Fraulein Bempts fear moistened undercarriage. Come take me God, my ears were cupped to prevent noise damage, if I had known it were real, I might have prodded forth with my nose and taken taken a final snifter.