Roll back 25 years - it's 1986

[Alf W]

As an antidote to all the doom and gloon and cynicism of 2011 I'm mentally rolling back to 1986 today.

Inspired by finding this on You Tube (bonus points available if you can tell us, without the aid of the internet, what it replaced as Number 1 and what subsequently replaced it at Number 1)

So, it's 1986. What's happening? I'm about to take my driving test and then I'm off skiing.

[Pondlife]

I would have been in my early teenage years so basically this;

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but mostly

[d000hg]

Well, I was 4 so I was just starting, or about to start, school.

[cailin maith]

I was ten... and totally in love with Tom Cruise - ah the memories

[Old Greg]

I would have been in my early teenage years so basically this;

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but mostly

At least one thing hasn't changed.

[Lockhouse]

In 1986 I was 24 and working as an Operations Analyst in my one and only permie IT job. I went contract the following year.

I was still living with my parents, dating the woman that was to become my first wife and driving a 1956 Vauxhall Velox.

[Moscow Mule]

I was well into playing with Star Wars figures and riding my bike.

[Pondlife]

At least one thing hasn't changed.

Yeah I know. Smoking is a disgusting habit but I enjoy it.

[thunderlizard]

After a tentative practice run with Panini Football 85, I would have been motoring through Panini Football 86, and would swap you two Mark Duxbury's and a Kenny Dalglish for a foily of the UEFA Cup.

[RichardCranium]

So, it's 1986. What's happening?

I am either hungover, eating bacon rolls and debugging COBOL, or pissed, eating MacDonalds and writing COBOL.