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You know you grew up in the 80's if...
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bermuda shorts
quinnsworth barcode battlers
white dog eggs
grotbags
trapdoor
button moon
cockleshell bay
little house on the prairie
hale & pace
the fall guy
wurzle gummage
naff jackets
sports day on the road
hide and seek
knocking in for a friend instead of saying 'r u cumin out'
taping music off the radio
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humberklog wrote: »Wearing Monkey Boots that talked (when one layer of the soul come away).
Burning said monkey boots as a ligitimate form of house heating.
Maroon and grey striped cardigans with a yale Y on the right side.
Nicking returnable pop bottles from back gardens for cashing in shops.
Being munged by supersers.
Every one and thing smelled of smog and damp from october to...october.
Raliegh burners with 5spoke mags. Beauty.
Elastic band and clothes peg guns.
Dracula ice pops.
Slack coal.
Jumping records.
Glue sniffing.
ROFL - best post so far!
Can relate to this SO much!!
I remember 4 of us crammed around the Superser in the morning (I'll never forget the smell of synged school socks - (at least that's what I hope it was:p) trying to get as much heat into our little bodies as possible before being shoved out the door into the cold and the smog - the cold just went through you back then... All we had in our bellies was a small (we were BROKE) bowl of watery porridge in our bellies - meant to sustain us until our flattened beyond recognition bread and jam sambos at lunch time (on a friday we also got a Panky Bar - this can only be described as some sort of wafery sh1t with cheap chocolate purporting to be a snack bar!)
One of my lasting memories was my dad watching snooker on our 10" black and white portable tv (I kid you not!), it was only much later that I realised he wouldn't have had a fooking clue as to what was being potted! Very funny now that I can look back but it must have been utterly depressing for him! We needed a pliers to change the station on this telly too, it was so difficult us kids couldn't do it so if the parents were'nt home we were stuck watching the same channel (not that there were many other options - bleedin Network 2!!)
Remeber the coal man wh used to come around once a week and we all got scuts on the back of the lorry?
Remember the Video Man who came once a week also? He had a load of pirate videos in his boot to rent for 50p a week. He also sold cheapo minerals (red lemonade, cola) and sold Sam Spudz crisps!
Remember when milk was delivered to your door in bottles with a peel back tin foil lid?
Remember the neighbourhood watch scheme - the blue sticker on people's windows that meant your neighbour was a nosey fooker? (maybe that was only in my hometown of Tallaght ! LOL:p)
Remember, against better judgement, when you dad would give you a £1 after one to many pints and you ran all the way to the shop to fill up on Wham bars, maroon bars, golf ball chewing gums, eating paper, blackjacks, jaw breakers, pretend cigarettes made of pink chewing gum (how were they ever legal!?), dip dabs, burger bites, 54321 bars, club milks, and those 2p chewing gums that had a tatoo transfer in them and a cool pic of what the tat would look like? - you'd spit on it and press it onto your arm for about 30 seconds, you were dying to peel back the transfer to reveal the tatoo and when you did.... ultimate disappointment - all there was was a navy/blackish blotch (with a hint of red if you were lucky!), they never came out right and the in took weeks to get off your arm!
And the tv...wow... in a time when corny was cool, shoulder pads were big and stunts were real....
Magnum PI, MGyver, Golden Girls, Family Ties, Boon, Riptide, Cheers, Silver Spoons, Green Acres, Highway to Heaven, Hart to Hart, Taxi, Alf, Different Strokes and Falcon Crest....
Oh, the nostalgia of it all
As a kid it was brill! 80's FTW!0 -
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DetectivFoxtrot wrote: »ROFL - best post so far!
Can relate to this SO much!!
I remember 4 of us crammed around the Superser in the morning (I'll never forget the smell of synged school socks - (at least that's what I hope it was:p) trying to get as much heat into our little bodies as possible before being shoved out the door into the cold and the smog - the cold just went through you back then... All we had in our bellies was a small (we were BROKE) bowl of watery porridge in our bellies - meant to sustain us until our flattened beyond recognition bread and jam sambos at lunch time (on a friday we also got a Panky Bar - this can only be described as some sort of wafery sh1t with cheap chocolate purporting to be a snack bar!)
One of my lasting memories was my dad watching snooker on our 10" black and white portable tv (I kid you not!), it was only much later that I realised he wouldn't have had a fooking clue as to what was being potted! Very funny now that I can look back but it must have been utterly depressing for him! We needed a pliers to change the station on this telly too, it was so difficult us kids couldn't do it so if the parents were'nt home we were stuck watching the same channel (not that there were many other options - bleedin Network 2!!)
Remeber the coal man wh used to come around once a week and we all got scuts on the back of the lorry?
Remember the Video Man who came once a week also? He had a load of pirate videos in his boot to rent for 50p a week. He also sold cheapo minerals (red lemonade, cola) and sold Sam Spudz crisps!
Remember when milk was delivered to your door in bottles with a peel back tin foil lid?
Remember the neighbourhood watch scheme - the blue sticker on people's windows that meant your neighbour was a nosey fooker? (maybe that was only in my hometown of Tallaght ! LOL:p)
Remember, against better judgement, when you dad would give you a £1 after one to many pints and you ran all the way to the shop to fill up on Wham bars, maroon bars, golf ball chewing gums, eating paper, blackjacks, jaw breakers, pretend cigarettes made of pink chewing gum (how were they ever legal!?), dip dabs, burger bites, 54321 bars, club milks, and those 2p chewing gums that had a tatoo transfer in them and a cool pic of what the tat would look like? - you'd spit on it and press it onto your arm for about 30 seconds, you were dying to peel back the transfer to reveal the tatoo and when you did.... ultimate disappointment - all there was was a navy/blackish blotch (with a hint of red if you were lucky!), they never came out right and the in took weeks to get off your arm!
And the tv...wow... in a time when corny was cool, shoulder pads were big and stunts were real....
Magnum PI, MGyver, Golden Girls, Family Ties, Boon, Riptide, Cheers, Silver Spoons, Green Acres, Highway to Heaven, Hart to Hart, Taxi, Alf, Different Strokes and Falcon Crest....
Oh, the nostalgia of it all
As a kid it was brill! 80's FTW!
This whole post is spot on.
Growing up in Tallaght in the 80s was an experience to say the least.
There was nothing.
No large shopping centre.
No large industrial estates.
No employment.
No money.
Just dozens of large housing estates and poor people.
Jam or better yet, banana sandwiches and a bottle of dilute orange for lunch.
Frosties? Sugar Puffs? You must be joking! Dunnes Stores own brand cornflakes or rice crispies!
Every chimney bellowing out smoke for half the year.
It was horrible.
I wouldn't trade it for anything
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Yes to all of those!BraziliaNZ wrote: »Did anyone else collect the Mexico '86 stickers that you got free with those big chewing gums? Did anyone go and see The Goonies or Back to the Future in the cinema? Did anyone else ever pick chewing gum off the ground as a child and eat it? Christ!
Didn't see many in the 80's but apparently in Arnotts in 1979 I saw a black man and started shouting at the top of my voice for my mother to "come and see the dirty man"BraziliaNZ wrote: »Or when you saw a black person you would stop and stare in awe
I'd never seen a black guy before
Yeah me neither! Strangely enough, I sometimes miss the smell of smog, especially in Winterchopperbyrne wrote: »It was horrible.
I wouldn't trade it for anything
Yup, I was sent for the messages at least twice a week, 10 carrols, some milk and the paper, from the age of about 5 upwards as wellSilent Partner wrote: »I actually used to go down to our local shop and buy cigarettes for my parents with a note. Don't think I'd let a 5 year old out on their own anywhere these days, never mind sending them to the shop for smokes 
No but I collected the Spain 82 album.
When was the 'big snow' 81/82 I think?
The guy collecting for the Milk/Coal/pools and having to tell him 'my mams not in, you'll have to come back next week'.
Birds pecking holes in the top of the milk bottles to get at the cream.
The black and cream coloured busses then the orange ones before Dublin bus didn't exist.
God I remember all of this too I remember the milk man saying "Your Ma isn't in again???" Then he shouts in past me at the top of his voice "If she's not in next week when bill time comes there'll be no more milk delivered!" I remember her crying and wondering where the f*ck we were going to get the money to pay 3 weeks milk money. Most of the 80's was cool and fun as a kid but that was crap. 0
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