what is so great about the 80s

[TiroFijo]

The 80s - bad music (think duran duran, kajagoogoo etc...), terrible fashion, electronic drums, horrendous hairdoos, the start of Bono becoming a ubiquitous annoying c0ck, Reagan and Thatcher and the list could go on and on. With all that one would think that there will never be any comebacks!

Having said that, the last few years have been pretty lame with all the reality and talent TV shows and the mob waiting to hear Simon Cowel tell them what they want to listen to.

[NickFitz]

I left home, dyed my hair bright pink, wore lots of white makeup and black clothes, went on loads of protest marches, lived in a squat and took lots and lots and lots of legal & illegal substances in the 80's

Have you never fancied a change?

[Gonzo]

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Relax. The only trouble I really saw was on the TV.

I saw a few vehicles driving around that made me raise my eyebrows, there were some strangers in the city centre with long hair and dogs on a string, but that was about it.

All the information that I received about what went on came from the TV and I lived down there.

If I had been a few years older I would probably have gone to Stonehenge myself.

[Green Mango]

The 80s - bad music (think duran duran, kajagoogoo etc...), terrible fashion, electronic drums, horrendous hairdoos, the start of Bono becoming a ubiquitous annoying c0ck, Reagan and Thatcher and the list could go on and on. With all that one would think that there will never be any comebacks!

Having said that, the last few years have been pretty lame with all the reality and talent TV shows and the mob waiting to hear Simon Cowel tell them what they want to listen to.

Oh well, there was plenty of good music as well. Good politicians Regan and Thatcher, no Labour with blood on their hands wars.

[Bunk]

i can't believe someone born in 1980 is 30 this year

Actually, , that makes me glum

[suityou01]

I left home, dyed my hair bright pink, wore lots of white makeup and black clothes, went on loads of protest marches, lived in a squat and took lots and lots and lots of legal & illegal substances in the 80's

and experimented with the ladies IIRC

[scooterscot]

The eighties were great if you were a film buff - Sometime just on occasion I prefer when people were actually doing stunts rather than relying on blue screens and computer animation...

ET
Indian Jones
Groundhog day (although not many stunts but bill murray is fantastic so worth a mention)
Ghost busters...

[NickFitz]

Relax. The only trouble I really saw was on the TV.

I saw a few vehicles driving around that made me raise my eyebrows, there were some strangers in the city centre with long hair and dogs on a string, but that was about it.

All the information that I received about what went on came from the TV and I lived down there.

If I had been a few years older I would probably have gone to Stonehenge myself.

I know

I wonder if I was hitching a lift in any of those vehicles

One of my favourite memories of those days is Summer Solstice 1986, around 11am, when myself and my girlfriend, Deborah, were stood by a bakers in the centre of Salisbury, about to tuck into the sausage rolls we'd just bought - we'd been travelling around since the previous afternoon, and were starving. As I was raising my sausage roll to my mouth, a little old lady suddenly confronted me, shouting "Is this what we fought the Battle of Britain for - people like you?"

Having delivered the question, she didn't wait for an answer, but turned and stomped (as well as a frail eighty-year-old about four-and-a-half-feet-tall can stomp) off up the road - but you could tell from the way she bore herself that she was well satisfied with having told one of those ******* hippies what she thought of them.

As it happened, I worked for Age Concern at the time, visiting housebound frail and elderly people for an income that was only a few quid more than being on the dole. I was tempted to chase after her and explain that I probably was what she'd fought the Battle of Britain for - but when I turned to Deb, she was pissing herself laughing, so I did the same and then we ate our sausage rolls

[TiroFijo]

no Labour with blood on their hands wars.

If the tories had been in when the 'blood on their hands wars' were started by the US then the tories would have been riding shotgun with the yanks to be first into Iraq.

[Gonzo]

I know

I wonder if I was hitching a lift in any of those vehicles

One of my favourite memories of those days is Summer Solstice 1986, around 11am, when myself and my girlfriend, Deborah, were stood by a bakers in the centre of Salisbury, about to tuck into the sausage rolls we'd just bought - we'd been travelling around since the previous afternoon, and were starving. As I was raising my sausage roll to my mouth, a little old lady suddenly confronted me, shouting "Is this what we fought the Battle of Britain for - people like you?"

Having delivered the question, she didn't wait for an answer, but turned and stomped (as well as a frail eighty-year-old about four-and-a-half-feet-tall can stomp) off up the road - but you could tell from the way she bore herself that she was well satisfied with having told one of those ******* hippies what she thought of them.

As it happened, I worked for Age Concern at the time, visiting housebound frail and elderly people for an income that was only a few quid more than being on the dole. I was tempted to chase after her and explain that I probably was what she'd fought the Battle of Britain for - but when I turned to Deb, she was pissing herself laughing, so I did the same and then we ate our sausage rolls

In June 1986 the only thing that I was worrying about was my mock O'levels.

You probably saw me walking about, I used to have to wear the dark blazer and the dark blue tie with thin yellow stripes on it, as all the under 16s did at my school.

I am not sure that the people of Salisbury had much to worry about during the blitz either. Although the area was riddled with American troops once they joined in, the Germans found that the cathedral spire was a useful for in-flight navigation so they were not going to bomb it.