The 80s

partyatmygaff · 21-10-2008 10:21PM #1

What does everyone remember/hate about the 80s?

Wasn't old enough to remember anything from then (Thank god:pac:) but what do all you oldies remember?

on a side note

I wonder if all 80s gangs were like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_oxk0x_uw

:pac:

aidan_walsh · 21-10-2008 10:24PM

Thankfully, we now have the Eurosaver menu at McDonalds.

giggsy664 · 21-10-2008 10:27PM

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Thankfully, we now have the Eurosaver menu at McDonalds.

Damn you. Got in before me.

And this was top notch gaming, in the 80's. Insert a very crap game here.

stovelid · 21-10-2008 10:34PM

partyatmygaff wrote: »

I wonder if all 80s gangs were like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_oxk0x_uw

No, they weren't like opaque, white boxes. Not that I can remember, anyway.

marcsignal · 21-10-2008 10:41PM

I used to love 'Not the Nine O Clock News'

Loopy · 21-10-2008 10:44PM

I remember people were not as obsessed with money/cars/property and kids were brown and healthy and wrecked at the end of the day!!

partyatmygaff · 21-10-2008 10:48PM

looptheloop wrote: »

I remember people were not as obsessed with money/cars/property and kids were brown and healthy and wrecked at the end of the day!!

Surely teh recession back then wasnt so bad people couldnt afford toilets
:eek:

Flashraziel · 21-10-2008 11:04PM

Move to All things Retro please.

nyarlothothep · 21-10-2008 11:10PM

All I remember are vague images of prince valiant, ghostbusters, live and kicking, some beardy dude who gets interrogated after catching his hand in a door at 8pm on a tuesday night on tv and watching robocop 1 and 2 on repeat.

The 80s were pretty lame though, shoulder pads, crap music etc. I don't know why people want to emulate it in this decade in terms of music anyway. The 90s rocked

21-10-2008 11:12PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/WM1985.jpg

Where it all began...

Ruu_Old · 21-10-2008 11:14PM

I haven't moved out of the 80's. Now if you don't mind I'm going to watch the rest of Family Ties. *electro-pop music playing in the background*

pretty-in-pink · 21-10-2008 11:17PM

The turtles, bosco, postman pat sweets, 50p pocket money being a lot, apple jack sweets, 52, cowboys and indians, mother may I, mummies and daddies, chips on a friday, take aways being special treats,

She Devil · 21-10-2008 11:51PM

Video Vans calling to your street once a week, i loved that!!
Being able to feck off in the morning and not having to return home til 6pm for dinner and not one question was asked because not only did we not have a phone in our house we had no personal phones either. Parents trusted their kids.

admiralofthefleet · 21-10-2008 11:56PM

nyarlothothep wrote: »

crap music

:eek:. if you are calling 80's music crap im afraid you havent lived

monkeyfudge · 21-10-2008 11:56PM

I for one applaud the OP for using "80s" as opposed the commonly used and incorrect "80's"

Aisling(",) · 21-10-2008 11:59PM

i wasnt alive in the 80's
did my head in last year with that calvin harris song because i loved it!

stovelid · 22-10-2008 12:00AM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I for one applaud the OP for using "80s" as opposed the commonly used and incorrect "80's"

I've also come across the even worse 80ies...

Dudess · 22-10-2008 12:04AM

The 80s was awesome - way better than the 90s (which sucked apart from the very early part of the decade). 80s pop music was fantastic, TV was brilliant if you were a kid, and ok the clothes were baaaaaad... but some were pretty cool. I was aged 2-11 between '80 and '89 - a very good time to be a little kid. A sh1t time to be an adult trying to find work though...

Blush_01 · 22-10-2008 12:04AM

I remember second hand clothes and scrunchies. But that rolled over into the 90s too.

I love 80s cheese-y pop. Being an 80s baby had its perks!

shane86 · 22-10-2008 12:09AM

looptheloop wrote: »

kids were brown

I dunno, alot more brown kids around today if you ask me.

DISCLAIMER: http://noisetosignal.org/images/posts/ted/rightthere.jpeg

Ahem.

Aisling(",) wrote: »

i wasnt alive in the 80's

No hugs/love for you Im afraid.

I have a very vague memory of one or two 1990 things (very vague recollection of the world cup buzz and going to hospital for a week that year). Think the 80s is completely lost in my mind though.

Nightwish · 22-10-2008 12:12AM

Ah the 80s. A decade of hair crimpers, clashing colours, ski pants, baggy t-shirts, knitted jumpers, hot summers, playing outside everyday no matter what the weather was like, announcements on the news for people holidaying in Ireland to phone home, books on tape, Sons and Daughters, Live at 3 and Dempsey's Den.

therewillbe · 22-10-2008 12:17AM

We hung out as a group of like minded "MODS" at the pillar on o connell st in Dublin. Some had scooters and we used to go to a club called Bubbles/apartment in what is now the temple bar.We would be just posing all day long basically. We were banned from the new MCDONALDS as we used to have a good laugh and a mess around. ****, life seemed great then but unemployment was bad . I had my mates and we all had a great time growing up in Dublin in the early 80s. Music was various, mod/ska/punk/romantics/metal. The Blades were a favourite of mine back then. Down the Baggot on a sunday was good. The Classic in Mary st for a haircut, Man some weird mohawks came out of there on a saturday ! Hang out in freebird after picking up your latest VINYL. Yes bad things were to come, no jobs/drugs but you could walk around the aul city at any time day or night and not be bothered . Yes there was scraps going of but I never recall anything vicious. **** , memories are great. God help all of the kids of today , life moves to fast.:)

dathi1 · 22-10-2008 12:20AM

The smell of Wella hair gel (the pink see through stuff) Herring bone trousers and coats. Buttoned up tieless white ben sherman shirts and Italian cardigans. Dancing to Shalamar at Rainbows on Wicklow street. I know sick..:D

Blush_01 · 22-10-2008 12:21AM

Was "Long wave Atlantic 252" an 80s or 90s phenomenon. It was the only "cool" radio station to listen to, according to my older cousins.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 22-10-2008 12:31AM

Dudess wrote: »

I was aged 2-11 between '80 and '89 - a very good time to be a little kid. A sh1t time to be an adult trying to find work though...

Wow, you were only 10 going on 11 when I was in Lebanon for the first time!.

I grew up in Ballymun during the 70s-80s, it was tough but honestly I think it was better for a kid than things are now.

In a rough working class neighbourhood like The 'Mun nothing was expected of us. If you were lucky you got got a job in Dublin Meat Packers slaughtering sheep and cows.

We were discriminated in so many ways, for instance we couldn't go to school in Glasnevin, couldn't join their credit union or worship in Our Lady of Victories church. If we got a bus through the area we took abuse from the locals and if the police seen us there we'd be put into the cop car and driven back to our side of Glasnevin avenue (it used to be Ballymun ave. but the locals had the name changed)..

Despite all that I loved Ballymun in the 80s and consider that I was lucky to grown up through my teens back then.

Oh yea, back in the 80s everyone used a CB radio and Channel 11 was the AH of the 80s I guess!.

Wurly · 22-10-2008 12:33AM

Loved:

Mr Frostie
Orange juice poured into ice trays to make ice pops
'Get Set' colour candle making set
The majority of the music
ALF
Funhouse with Pat Sharpe and Melanie & Miranda
Trap Door

Hated:
Super ser's as the only source of heating
The bangers of cars my dad used to drive. Especially the sh1t brown Datsun Cherry that he used to drop me to school in
The knitted mohair t-shirts that my granny used to make me wear in summer. ITCHY f*ckers
Spraoi magazine in school. Booooooring.

Spootie · 22-10-2008 12:36AM

Recording great mucic off Dave Fanning/John Peel (onto cassette of course)

Ghastly clothes:eek: Progressed from ski pants, batwing jumpers, leg warmers in the early days to parkas and docs and oversized jumpers/coats/shirts etc. Even had short spiked hair and a rats tail when I was 13.

Dudess · 22-10-2008 12:39AM

Tri, the Spraoi Christmas annual was awesome - I'll not hear a word against it.

Mairt wrote: »

We were discriminated in so many ways, for instance we couldn't go to school in Glasnevin, couldn't join their credit union or worship in Our Lady of Victories church. If we got a bus through the area we took abuse from the locals and if the police seen us there we'd be put into the cop car and driven back to our side of Glasnevin avenue

Jesus...

(it used to be Ballymun ave. but the locals had the name changed)

Ah yes, I went to DCU and know it well. Sad. Ballymun Road is still Ballymun Road though...

Wurly · 22-10-2008 12:41AM

Dudess wrote: »

Tri, the Spraoi Christmas annual was awesome - I'll not hear a word against it.

Jesus...
.

Ha ha - yeah, s'pose. Lots of colouring. But the normal every month one's were pants.

Sorry Dudess.

What was the other one called? Maybe that's the one i'm thinking of.. Think it begins with F. One was a blatant rip off of t'other and it was sh1te.

Dudess · 22-10-2008 12:46AM

Oh the regular one WAS crap, but the annual... well it was one of the best parts of Christmas (along with getting the Christmas RTE Guide - that still causes me much excitement!)

Can't think of any beginning with F but there was Sugradh for very small kids and Siamsa for kids reaching the end of primary.

Ruu_Old · 22-10-2008 12:49AM

Sonas was another one from what I remember.

The 80s

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