30 years of my life seem to have disappeared.

[bogeyman]

It feels just like 1978 again.

Without the flares.

How strange you should mention that. I've been feeling particularly nostalgic for the late '70s myself, of late. Sounds like we're of the same vintage.

Definitely the best years of my life.

(despite) Jim Callaghan and Dennis Healey, Mike Yarwood taking them off. The Sweeney. Getting pissed up on Harp larger and lime. The flares (of course) with the high button waist bands. The impossible effing shoes. The massive shirt collars. The big fat tie knots.

Sartorial style certainly took a dive in the '70s but it was all such great fun. If I could, I'd go back, Sam-Tyler-like - in a heartbeat.

[BrilloPad]

Do I have to take my 'O' levels all over again?

[RichardCranium]

Do I have to take my 'O' levels all over again?

No. These days they call them GCSEs and they give them away.

[Doggy Styles]

IIRC 1978 started with a pretty cold winter. My team had several footy matches postponed because of snow or ice.

[EternalOptimist]

Jim Callaghan and Dennis Healey, Mike Yarwood taking them off. The Sweeney.

Ah Mike Yarwood and the best ever impressionist joke.

taking off Arthur Scarghill, just prior to the miners strike

'And for those of you who say that they can see through me. I'd like to make myself perfectly clear...'

[bogeyman]

Ah Mike Yarwood and the best ever impressionist joke.

taking off Arthur Scarghill, just prior to the miners strike

'And for those of you who say that they can see through me. I'd like to make myself perfectly clear...'

Yarwood was a genius. Most people think he's dead, but he's still very much with us - although retired.

[wurzel]

Yarwood was a genius. Most people think he's dead, but he's still very much with us - although retired.

WHS - I used to absolutely p**s myself watching Mike Yarwood In Persons. His Brian Clough was my favourite.

ISTR he had an alcohol problem & made a brief comeback on ITV in the 80s. Think I saw him on Have I Got news For You a few years ago but that's about it.

[Diestl]

Before my time, the 80s now that was a great decade.

[bogeyman]

Before my time, the 80s now that was a great decade.

Oh no it wasn't.

The 1980s were dull, dull, dull.

The Thatcher years. Norman Tebbit's bike. Ronnie Ray-Gun, Steve Bell, Groan...

Clothes and hairstyles were even crapper than in the '70s - if that's possible.

The music was pretty shyte too. New Romantics eh?

1980s --> ROOM 101

[OwlHoot]

IIRC 1978 started with a pretty cold winter. My team had several footy matches postponed because of snow or ice.

Tell me about it - I had a holiday job in a warehouse near Dudley, and the deisel was frozen solid in the fork lift trucks.

(No training or elf-n-safety BS to drive them in those days - The foreman just let me start, and I soon got the hang of it. The only major prang was reversing into a palette of tomato sauce, which gave everyone quite a fright at first, as they thought all the red stuff was blood!)