You know you grew up in the 80's if...

J.L. · 03-04-2008 11:02AM #1

LOL
http://www.backtotheeighties.net/80s-kids/

I forgot some of that stuff even existed.
I guess it makes you feel kinda old...

Dudess · 03-04-2008 11:06AM

The 80s was the best decade to be a kid in - fact.

TPD · 03-04-2008 11:08AM

A much quicker way to determine if you grew up in the 80's is to check your date of birth. Saves all that list-reading.

Dragan · 03-04-2008 11:11AM

If your Squire used to put your horses saddle on without you needing to ask him too!

Oh right.................you meant 1980's.

kaimera · 03-04-2008 11:17AM

Dudess wrote: »

The 80s was the best decade to be a kid in - fact.

The 80's sucked donkey balls as a kid

Dudess · 03-04-2008 11:20AM

Saw your age. You were a young kid for some of the 90s too - ah, you didn't get to experience it properly so...

Quality · 03-04-2008 11:23AM

And the 80's sweets were great as well,

Fizzle sticks
Wham bars
mint crisps

And half penny sweets. Ah remember the half penny...

5starpool · 03-04-2008 12:02PM

The fact that I know most of the things on that list shows how much American influence there was on TV back then even. Ah the '80's, they were grand old days. Days when Sunday evenings in winter in rural Ireland made you want to cry as Gelenroe and where in the world (or Murphys micro quizm before that) were the most entertaining things on telly god help us.

gcgirl · 03-04-2008 12:33PM

The 80's were the best years ever Summers going to Paddo's beach in wicklow from 10 in the morning and you'd still be there at 6 in the evening or walking out to the Silver Strand , the music Duran duran List too many to mention! The A Team, McGiver,Just great tv!! I miss the 80's:(

Dudess · 03-04-2008 12:35PM

I got that Glenroe feeling last Sunday night - it was so long since my last Monday morning. And it was freezing Sunday night too. Grim.

But other than that, the 80s was the biz for kids. Murphy's Micro Quiz-m was awesome! And so was Play The Game!

Dragan · 03-04-2008 12:38PM

5starpool wrote: »

Days when Sunday evenings in winter in rural Ireland made you want to cry as Gelenroe and where in the world (or Murphys micro quizm before that) were the most entertaining things on telly god help us.

Don't forget School Around the Corner.

No wonder i liked sports.

gcgirl · 03-04-2008 12:39PM

Dudess wrote: »

I got that Glenroe feeling last Sunday night - it was so long since my last Monday morning. And it was freezing Sunday night too. Grim.

But other than that, the 80s was the biz for kids. Murphy's Micro Quiz-m was awesome! And so was Play The Game!

My claim to fame is I stayed in Stephen Brennans house in Glenroe!!

Schism · 03-04-2008 12:43PM

I feel like I've missed out in so much here... I only had 4 years of the 80's

Dudess · 03-04-2008 12:47PM

kaimera wrote: »

The 80's sucked donkey balls as a kid

I imagine the 80s in Ireland would certainly have sucked donkey's balls if you were a young adult. Unemployment - yay! Emigration to London where the Irish were still treated like sh1t cos of the IRA's campaign - woohoo! The church still having a considerable grip on Irish society yet your peers in other countries enjoying themselves and not being made to feel guilty for enjoying sex - huzzah! Greyness everywhere, grim television, grim Irish bands - bring it on!

I wouldn't like to have been born in Ireland before the early 70s.

I was born in the late 70s so the 80s evokes nothing but, thankfully, pleasant childhood memories for me.

gcgirl · 03-04-2008 12:47PM

The 80's far outrocked the 90's!! Whitesnake Def Leppard Bon Jovi!!big hair bands:D:D my guilty pleasures

seamus · 03-04-2008 12:48PM

The worst thing about growing up in the 80's is that people you can remember being born, are now hitting the legal adult age.

Girls that you remember as irritating, shrill little toddlers, are now legal sexual fodder.

Howard the Duck · 03-04-2008 12:50PM

36. You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Belair".

"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
TV series 1990-1996

Also i'm pretty sure school around the corner was the 90's too.

My biggest memory of the 80's was the children's channel

Caoimhín · 03-04-2008 12:51PM

Fizz Bombs.
Score Cola.
20 kgs Walkman
Ford Kadetts (With a different coloured replaced door and baleing twine holding the boot shut.)
Knight Rider.
Air wolf.

Ah yes the 80s.

Dudess · 03-04-2008 12:53PM

seamus wrote: »

The worst thing about growing up in the 80's is that people you can remember being born, are now hitting the legal adult age.

Girls that you remember as irritating, shrill little toddlers, are now legal sexual fodder.

Yeah, I've had to face that reality for a few years now - and it's just gonna keep getting worse...

kaimera · 03-04-2008 12:53PM

I imagine the 80s in Ireland would certainly have sucked donkey's balls if you were a young adult. Unemployment - yay!

That happening to your parents [on more than once occasion] is going to have an effect on you as a child. ****ing 80s

Schism · 03-04-2008 12:55PM

caoibhin wrote: »

Fizz Bombs.
Score Cola.
20 kgs Walkman
Ford Kadetts (With a different coloured replaced door and baleing twine holding the boot shut.)
Knight Rider.
Air wolf.

Ah yes the 80s.

Opel Kadetts, I know because my girlfriends father still has one :eek:

03-04-2008 12:56PM

Born mid-80's and spent most of that in England so missed out on what it was like here. Nobody believes me when I say I've never once seen an episode of Bosco.

Dudess · 03-04-2008 12:59PM

kaimera wrote: »

That happening to your parents [on more than once occasion] is going to have an effect on you as a child. ****ing 80s

Too true. Not easy to shield a child from that, no matter how young they are. I remember so many kids in my class (even in a relatively upmarket area) were so hard-up - really poor by today's standards.

lorweld · 03-04-2008 01:01PM

caoibhin wrote: »

Fizz Bombs.
Score Cola.
20 kgs Walkman
Ford Kadetts (With a different coloured replaced door and baleing twine holding the boot shut.)
Knight Rider.
Air wolf.

Ah yes the 80s.

Haha soo funny I remember these. Does anyone remember get in shape girl?????? I pestered my parents for one of these I was so delighted when I got the ribbon on the stick off of santy

Jigsaw · 03-04-2008 01:02PM

seamus wrote: »

The worst thing about growing up in the 80's is that people you can remember being born, are now hitting the legal adult age.

Girls that you remember as irritating, shrill little toddlers, are now legal sexual fodder.

Aw man, too true!!

It is now perfectly legal to buck someone who was born in the 1990s. Think or World Cup Italia 90. I can remember it well. A girl that was born during that tournament can now be bucked. Tis insane!!

gcgirl · 03-04-2008 01:03PM

http://www.threerockmountain.com/images/Cars_Kadett.jpg

kaimera · 03-04-2008 01:03PM

Dudess wrote: »

Too true. Not easy to shield a child from that, no matter how young they are. I remember so many kids in my class (even in a relatively upmarket area) were so hard-up - really poor by today's standards.

Perhaps I should have prefaced my original post with "imo".

Music in the 80s sucked.

It is now perfectly legal to buck someone who was born in the 1990s. Think or World Cup Italia 90. I can remember it well. A girl that was born during that tournament can now be bucked. Tis insane!!

Ehh...the latest I'd go is USA 94 tbh. After that is just wrong :pac:

chopperbyrne · 03-04-2008 01:05PM

Jigsaw wrote: »

Aw man, too true!!

It is now perfectly legal to buck someone who was born in the 1990s. Think or World Cup Italia 90. I can remember it well. A girl that was born during that tournament can now be bucked. Tis insane!!

Only if they were born on or before 3/4/90

Dues Bellator · 03-04-2008 01:07PM

Dudess wrote: »

Saw your age. You were a young kid for some of the 90s too - ah, you didn't get to experience it properly so...

dude i grew up in the 80,s unless u had money it did suck balls,sleepin with your clothes on to keep warm,101 things you can make with mince,it blew ass man:)

Caoimhín · 03-04-2008 01:14PM

Opel Kadetts, I know because my girlfriends father still has one

Sorry, OPEL.
Does he have a different coloured replacement part and baleing twine as "a feature". If so its a classic.

lorweld · 03-04-2008 01:19PM

almanu wrote: »

dude i grew up in the 80,s unless u had money it did suck balls,sleepin with your clothes on to keep warm,101 things you can make with mince,it blew ass man:)

The duffle coat! You wore it to school (it smelled awful when it got wet) and then you put it over ya in bed at night lol
We were so poor we made kites out of a plastic bag and thread! haha ah the memories!

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