1984 was 30 years ago

Chefrio · 02-01-2014 06:22PM

Born in November 1984.

RoboRat · 02-01-2014 06:23PM

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

Take that back... TAKE THAT BACK NOW!

The Princess Bride · 02-01-2014 06:29PM

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 06:41PM

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

Eileen Down · 02-01-2014 06:42PM

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 06:48PM

A hole in my shoe which was letting water.

branie · 02-01-2014 06:53PM

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

SirCreepalot · 02-01-2014 07:15PM

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

Mena · 02-01-2014 07:23PM

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

2ygb4cmqetsjhx · 02-01-2014 07:30PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

I was born in 2006 so .

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

HerrScheisse · 02-01-2014 07:43PM

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 07:51PM

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 07:55PM

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

HerrScheisse · 02-01-2014 07:58PM

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.

PizzamanIRL · 02-01-2014 08:05PM

Jase Deep Vowel wrote: »

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

You never know who's behind the screen. Could be someone with 3 balls.

Billy86 · 02-01-2014 08:09PM

30 years on...

...and that b*tch in the short shorts still hasn't paid up for putting that sledgehammer through my big-screen TV. :mad:

GLaDOS · 02-01-2014 08:10PM

I was -6, good times.

Sam Kade · 02-01-2014 08:14PM

Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy came and he drank a pint of the black stuff in Ballyporeen. It was a scorching weather from April to September.

Rothko · 02-01-2014 08:15PM

I was -5 years old so I don't have many memories of it.

donegal__road · 02-01-2014 08:21PM

GAA centenary, Coca Cola centenary, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Michael Jackson, Ronald Regan visit, the North was bad. I started secondary school.

antodeco · 02-01-2014 08:25PM

Eagerly anticipating the summer release of The NeverEnding Story!

Irish Guitarist · 02-01-2014 08:29PM

The original Transformers cartoon was first broadcast in 1984. They used to fit more action and story into one twenty minute episode than the recent film did in two and a half hours.

I wish I had kept my Transformers comics and toys. Between the ages of eight and twelve I was obsessed with them and anytime I got money for my birthday or Christmas I bought a Transformer. I had loads of them including a rare one that I bought in England that transformed into six different things.

rolliepoley · 02-01-2014 08:55PM

Leg warmers, cindy looper time after time, the cosby show , and my first bag of cider.

mike65 · 02-01-2014 08:59PM

LordSutch wrote: »

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.

Way off! years off!

1984 was my first outside the family home, the Bridge nightclub with the LA Olympics on the big screen as the music blared (odd one that!), FGTH and the countless remixes of Two Tribes, a very good summer. The last until 1995 pretty much, nearly getting killed in the car - some stupid woman pulling out of petrol station right into my path :mad:

Zaph · 02-01-2014 09:06PM

Did my Leaving. And in a desperate attempt not to look ancient I should point out that I was a very mature 16 year old when I did it. :pac:

El Guapo! · 02-01-2014 09:09PM

Zaph wrote: »

Did my Leaving. And in a desperate attempt not to look ancient I should point out that I was a very mature 16 year old when I did it. :pac:

Do you know Jesus?