Stuff from The 1980s

[Andy008]

Does anyone have any particularly personal strong memories of things from the 1980's, symbolic of that decade?

[dothawkes]

More than any royal wedding or Worldwide concert or even a couple of horrible football disasters, on a personal level I remember how much we paid each month for our Mortgage, and in 1987 it was just �50 less than I am paying on a Remortgage now!  Not a financial advisor but I know it makes us alot better off now.  We really struggled back then with a young family, one wage and no Working Tax Credit!

[-=BigD=-]

Day-glo socks and odd coloured shoes (I know, "totally rad"). The Commodor Amiga. Seeing girls as more than moving targets for spud guns. The word "cool"!!

Oh and sweets cost about a quater wot they do now!!

If you've got amnesia check this site out:

http://tv.cream.org/

[Litchick]

Depeche Mode and John Hughes films....guilty pleasures!  :)

[Romeo]

The Falklands War, the Miners' Strike, New Romantic, the Rubic cube, Amstrad computers, the Sinclair C5.

[Loosehead]

Maggie kicking Scargill's @rse, bliss!

[spudqueen]

Yes Loosehead, she may have kicked his @rse, and Scargill may have gone about it the wrong way, but he has been proved right.

Anyway, the '80's - IRA bombs, high unemployment, cheap London Transport (in those days you could travel anywhere by bus on a Sunday for 30p), smoking on the top deck of a bus, Kings Cross fire, Bradford, Heysel, Hillsborough, video recorders becoming very popular, seeing my first mobile phone (yes, the size of a brick), shoulder pads, white stilettos, ra-ra skirts, cocktails, new 20p coin and new �1 coin, the end of the sixpence as legal tender, the first colour newspaper (Today), playing computer games (ah, the good old commodore 64), Torvill and Dean, Bowie playing his first concerts in years (Serious Moonlight tour), Kenny Dalglish, Herpes (nothing to do with Kenny Dalglish), Aids, (again, nothing to do with our Kenny!), Mother Teresa, Princess Di, Reagan being shot, Pope being shot, what a great decade!

[Gevs1966]

Spudqueen, how has Scargill been proved right??

Eighties kids tv was the best ever!! None of this modern day teletubbies or tweenies rubbish!! Bring back Superted and Dogtanian!

[littleoldme]

Puffball skirts (women)
Jackets worn with sleeves pushed back up to the elbow (men)
Poodle perms (both)
Rubik cubes and all their variations
Deely-boopers (a.k.a. bonce-bouncers)
Mullets (and I don't mean the fish)
America having a brainless president (as opposed to now, when...oh)
The birth of "right-on" alternative comedy
Having to sit over 7 hours of A Level exams in one day
Glasnost and perestroika (thanks again, Mikhail!)
Pretentious Duran Duran videos
Treasure Hunt with Kenneth Kendall and Anneka Rice's bum

...but best of all...

...Dangermouse!

[littleoldme]

*Deely-boppers

[kaktus]

As bigD says the Amiga, coming home from school, playing superfrog with my friend who I was in love with, we were 8 or something like it. :0)

 Having a vague understanding of the world outside and all the big things starting to happen. A memory that for some reason is stuck in my mind reagarding the unification of Germany (I know it wasn't until 1990 but things were starting to happen) is my Dad saying "what a great football team they'll have",  but not that great, just look at 1992... Sorry Andy I'm starting to ramble.

[spudqueen]

Scargill knew that the end was nigh for British industry, though I think he went the wrong way about protesting about it, in fact he probably hastened the end of it. How many miners do we have now? In fact, how much industry do we have now? In the 80's a lot of customer based services sprang up and now even those jobs are being lost to the Indian sub continent.

[Cristo]

hairstyles and shoulderpads

[pixi]

Me doc marts and leather jacket

[juliely]

Leg warmers, Fame the series and Duran Duran

[davver]

Shell suits!

Now making a comeback being bought from charity shops and worn on nights out by ironic students. Or moronic students. Or both.

[epstein]

For me personally...

 

rubik's cubes

deely boppers

white socks,loafers,and very tight trousers

he-man,she-ra,and dangermouse

the top 40 rundown on a tuesday afternoon...would frankie goes to hollywood still be at number one after two months...?

miami vice

the falklands war

chart lps costing 3 pounds 99p

dallas

the kids from fame

...blimey...I could go on forever!!!

[dove]

The Bumpkin Billionaires, fantastic stuff, always trying to get rid of their money, even when they tried to bury it they would dig up a treasure chest,  but I cannot remember which comic it was in, possibly Whizzer and Chips.