Wonderful memories of the 80's.

fishy fishy

niallo27 wrote: »

I remember roaring at Dave fanning to shut the **** up as he always used to talk over that start of the songs. He ruined many a good mix tape.

is that you Tommy? :rolleyes:

Aglomerado

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Round the Bend with Doc Croc. So controversial they had it banned.

I thought about posting this! You can see them all on Tony Husband's site at;
http://tonyhusband.co.uk/rtb.html

I watched one at the weekend, still hilarious, "Swill Collins".

Cantona's Collars

humbert wrote: »

Copying cassette tapes with amstrad games on them then waiting half a day for the game to load as in image formed on the screen line by line.

Lol,I used to do that.

Forget your Xbox vs Playstation,back then it was Amstrad vs Commodore & the Spectrum was equivalent to the Wii.

Summers were better then,we used to swim in the river and the water was warm,jump in these days & you'd die of hypothermia.

07Lapierre

northknife wrote: »

Champion the wonder horse
Swap shop
The Monkees
The sh1te wrestling with big daddy and giant haystacks

Eh was that the 70's??

Mariasofia

The slow set at the end of a disco...going home feeling majorly rejected if you didn't get asked to dance ( or so I've heard :-))

Sleepy

Some definite confusion with early 90's going on in this thread too...

Some things I've not seen mentioned:

Sticklebricks
Action Man, the desperate trawl through old country shops for accessories after Palitoy went out of business and the feeling of being ripped off when you did find them at the realisation that you couldn't send off the tokens for the bonus accessories.
Live Aid being a day when you had your breakfast, dinner *AND* tea in front of the telly.
Watching The A Team after your weekly bath on a Saturday night whilst wearing your A Team pyjamas.
MacGuyver
Collecting tokens from Weetabix boxes to send off for a mix tape with Nik Kershaw and Haircut 100 on it.
Tyre swings
Frilk - Orange Juice flavoured milk delivered by the milkman!
Centurions - Power X Treme!

9959

Great times, England winning the World Cup, The Sex Pistols 'Anarchy in the UK', and not forgetting Blur v Oasis, marvellous.

hollster2

Sleepy wrote: »

Some definite confusion with early 90's going on in this thread too...

Some things I've not seen mentioned:

Sticklebricks
Action Man, the desperate trawl through old country shops for accessories after Palitoy went out of business and the feeling of being ripped off when you did find them at the realisation that you couldn't send off the tokens for the bonus accessories.
Live Aid being a day when you had your breakfast, dinner *AND* tea in front of the telly.
Watching The A Team after your weekly bath on a Saturday night whilst wearing your A Team pyjamas.
MacGuyver
Collecting tokens from Weetabix boxes to send off for a mix tape with Nik Kershaw and Haircut 100 on it.
Tyre swings
Frilk - Orange Juice flavoured milk delivered by the milkman!
Centurions - Power X Treme!

It was manky but you still drank it !!!!!

fishy fishy

glass milk bottles with half the bottle being fresh cream and the birds beak marks in the tin foil lid.

smash

fishy fishy wrote: »

glass milk bottles with half the bottle being fresh cream and the birds beak marks in the tin foil lid.

I still have my millennium milk bottle

07Lapierre

Sleepy wrote: »

Some definite confusion with early 90's going on in this thread too...

Some things I've not seen mentioned:

Sticklebricks
Action Man, the desperate trawl through old country shops for accessories after Palitoy went out of business and the feeling of being ripped off when you did find them at the realisation that you couldn't send off the tokens for the bonus accessories.
Live Aid being a day when you had your breakfast, dinner *AND* tea in front of the telly.
Watching The A Team after your weekly bath on a Saturday night whilst wearing your A Team pyjamas.
MacGuyver
Collecting tokens from Weetabix boxes to send off for a mix tape with Nik Kershaw and Haircut 100 on it.
Tyre swings
Frilk - Orange Juice flavoured milk delivered by the milkman!
Centurions - Power X Treme!

Don't Forget.:

"AirWolf"
"Knight Rider"
"The Dukes of Hazzard"
"ChiPs"

And on UK TV

"The Professionals"
"The Avengers"

I watched a lot of TV as a kid!

keano_afc

Going out for hours catching bees.
Knocking in for your mates. No text messags then to see if anyone was coming out.
On the volley and 3 and you're in.
Playing "Paths", or kerbs as my southside friends tell me it was called where they're from.
Rope swings on telegraph poles.
Water fights in the summer, and then real fights after when one of the lads left washing up liquid in the end of his container and it stung the eyes out of someone.
White dog poo, everywhere.
Midgets. The little mosquito things that were always around in the summer.
Black Jack, Postman Pat and Fruit Salad sweets.
Really brilliant and well made toys, like MASK, the A-Team stuff and Star Wars toys. Transformers were great too.
Knight Rider, TJ Hooker and the Fall Guy.

Loads more, it really was a great decade to grow up in.

shopaholic01

keano_afc wrote: »

White dog poo, everywhere.

:pac:
I'd forgotten that! Why don't you see white dog poo anymore?

DainBramage

Watching Glenroe on Sunday evening signalled the end of the weekend

WoollyRedHat

Calvin Harris, acceptable in the 80s.

RayCon

Hiawatha's
Heavy Metal
Raleigh Grifter

... sorted.

Kerrydude1981

Allround Predator

shopaholic01 wrote: »

:pac:
I'd forgotten that! Why don't you see white dog poo anymore?

You do, just mostly in the summer after a few sunny days!:)

rolliepoley

Great music and microdots

monkeysnapper

Scooping up frog sporn and watching the little black dots slowly move , then start swimming , I remember putting a bit of bacon rasher in tank and them going nuts for it.

Then one terrible day while I put them in bath while I cleaned tank my sister used basin and when she realised water a bit comes out plug in bath and I loose a good 25% of my tadpoles .

The bitch!

animum

Having whatever roast meat on a Sunday in your sandwich for tea on Sunday night, (with Brown sauce) sittin infront of fire after bath (to dry your hair) and watchin glenroe!!

Buying cigarettes for my mom with a note for the lady in the shop! :-)

The fear of Lice combs whenever letter sent home from school!

Being sat on the toilet and scrubbed in my vest with a wash cloth.- keeping my watch on to show my tan!
my dad went to work in channel tunnel and we all had to go into neighbour house to use their phone to talk to our dad! Leaving 20p if we needed to use the phone!!

Happy times

sh1tstirrer

1985 the year the statues came to life :eek:
Remember the old trains inside you would hear "bang bang" "bang bang" down the line all the way from Dublin to Cork. Back then they had to shout out the name of the next stop and walk down through the carriages while shouting it out for the benefit of the sleepy heads. I remember coming down from Dublin one time and when we were approaching Charleville your man was passing shouting Chaaaaar le vill, Chaaaaar le vill some smart arse in the opposite seat said "this is not a recording"

JohnMearsheimer

Liga, the noise the soda stream made and Transformers for me.

Czarcasm

RayCon wrote: »

Hiawatha's
Heavy Metal
Raleigh Grifter

... sorted.

Climbing over your brothers in the back seat of the Cortina to scream out the window at your mam to get you a chilly willy, then scrambling into the drivers seat to pretend you were driving... til the steering wheel locked!

Sneaking a goofy gawk at Sabrina's boobs in the Sunday World newspaper... over your old man's shoulder

(Then sneaking the page out of the newspaper when everyone else was in bed.)

Chopper bicycles with the back pedal brakes that when you went to show off to the postman by pulling a skid, the bearings in the back wheel were worn to shìt and you ended up slapping into the side of the orange pt van.

He near blew up when I asked him had he any jelly tots anyway (We used burst out the door to be first to get the post, and he'd usually give us each a handful of jelly tots!) :pac:

Tea towel round the neck and jumping off the back of armchairs after watching Superman, then doing it all over again for Superman II.


Immitating CHiPS on aforementioned Super Deluxe bicycles. Nobody wanted to be Jon cos he was hopeless with the ladies; Punch on the other hand, he never seemed to get just THE girl, he'd strut off with a girl on each arm! :pac:

The Fall Guy- Jody Banks.

Mother. Of. God :eek:

Near had me go cross-eyed!


Anyway, just for the nostalgia-


NSFW, numerous nip slips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuHdUkuRi0

Tiffany, still worth a sneaky shame filled tug-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78

Wonderful mammaries of the 80's indeed

major bill

Those Horrible knitted jumpers the mother used to make you wear cos they were ''lovely''

Bed after Glenroe on a Sunday

Holidays in Arklow or some other exotic Irish place

Drinking dirty water, playing in the muck, lighting matches in the lanes, getting chased by older gangs for been a cheeky lil Bastard

Dan bars + Roy of the rovers

staying out late in the summer

we actually got a summer

Money didnt matter purely cos nobody had any to begin with so anything and everything was appreciated

Playing football in school with a tennis ball

Madam_X

Yeh lads in my class talking about nothing but Sam Fox's and Sabrina's boobs... and us girls finding it hilarious. :pac:

Thinking it was hilarious when you rewound video tapes and the stupid goofy looking people doing stuff fast and backwards.

shopaholic01

Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

Committed a decade of crime against music, but I loved it!

big dar

George Webb shoes
The Moomins
Button Moon
Fleck Trousers

wow sierra

Soccer was simple - you had Division 1,2,3 and 4
You got relegated from 1 to 2 .
No bull**** Premiership, Championship,League one,League 2????

If you won the league you played in the European Cup - now if you don't win the league you still play in the Champions League????

The Europa League was the European Cup Winners cup and surprise surprise you got to play in it by Winning the Cup.

Simples

And don't get me started with the offside rule"not interfeering with play"?????? - as someone famously said "If he's not interfeering with play he shouldn't be on the pitch"

Kerrydude1981

Oldham,QPR and Luton's plastic pitches

lukesmom

I was aged 0-10 for the 80's.

Barbie
Care Bears
Banana syrup for making banana milk
Soda stream
A-Ha particularly Morton Harket and the 'take on me' video which I loved (collected tokens from weetabiz to get their cassette tape)
Scooby Doo
Ghostbusters
Awful shell suits bought a size too big so they'd last ages
Boot runners with fluorescent laces
Fluorescent everything
Our little semi with clashing prints and ferguson tv with no remote control
The shake n vac ads
Button moon
Kylie and Jason
Freedom
Long hazy hot summers that had no beginning or end
My little pony
Swapping Fancy papers at school
Free cartons of milk and jam donuts for little break every day at school

Kevwoody

Home made go carts, made from scrap wood and old rubber pram tyres, finding the biggest hill to race down and not giving a flying fcuk about having no brakes.

Shell suits

Czarcasm

Madam_X wrote: »

Yeh lads in my class talking about nothing but Sam Fox's and Sabrina's boobs... and us girls finding it hilarious. :pac:

How could I forget Sam Fox! God she was beautiful! :pac:

I don't think anyone could top Madonna for her one woman sexual revolution in the 80's though, when she wasn't causing controversy by singing about virgins touched for the very first time, she was embroiled in controversy for kissing a ten year old boy at the end of 'open your heart', but she outdone even herself by causing WORLD WIDE controversy with this one, still one of her best songs-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ8YGwUOHUQ

shopaholic01

Czarcasm wrote: »

How could I forget Sam Fox! God she was beautiful! :pac:

I don't think anyone could top Madonna for her one woman sexual revolution in the 80's though, when she wasn't causing controversy by singing about virgins touched for the very first time, she was embroiled in controversy for kissing a ten year old boy at the end of 'open your heart', but she outdone even herself by causing WORLD WIDE controversy with this one, still one of her best songs-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ8YGwUOHUQ

Eh...... That IS the video for 'open your heart'.

Edit: nice ninja edit there, C!

Czarcasm

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Eh...... That IS the video for 'open your heart'.

Edit: nice ninja edit there, C!

Aye, lol, I was gonna stick in the 'open your heart' video but I didn't wanna be filling up the thread with music videos! :pac:

dark crystal

Czarcasm wrote: »

How could I forget Sam Fox! God she was beautiful! :pac:

I don't think anyone could top Madonna for her one woman sexual revolution in the 80's though, when she wasn't causing controversy by singing about virgins touched for the very first time, she was embroiled in controversy for kissing a ten year old boy at the end of 'open your heart', but she outdone even herself by causing WORLD WIDE controversy with this one, still one of her best songs-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ8YGwUOHUQ

I had a major Madonna obsession in the 80's. Had all the albums, posters etc. Even had a pair of lace fingerless gloves and a crucifix.

Sometimes I'd even pencil on a fake beauty spot above my lip when going to the teenage disco. What a twat!

Czarcasm

Kevwoody wrote: »

Home made go carts, made from scrap wood and old rubber pram tyres, finding the biggest hill to race down and not giving a flying fcuk about having no brakes.

Shell suits

Loved those big black prams with the solid rubber tyres! And Anneka Rice in a shell suit!

Speaking of clothes; the hand-me-downs from your elder brothers, the color never ran in those bright red cotton flares pants with the muppet show logo on the thigh like a badge, and the tee shirts that were so tight you'd to get somebody else to pull it off! :pac:

madmaggie

The clothes, shoulder pads, big bows on blouses, peplums, white stilletoes, skinny jeans. I went into River Island recently and ran out again, aaaaaaaaaaargh, I was back in the '80's:eek:

madmaggie

madmaggie wrote: »

The clothes, shoulder pads, big bows on blouses, peplums, white stilletoes, skinny jeans. I went into River Island recently and ran out again, aaaaaaaaaaargh, I was back in the '80's:eek:

That would be the Chelsea Girl range they have revived. Loved that shop!

Never wore a shell suit but I had Club Sports in every colour.

Smidge

Wham when George Michael was still "Straight"

Girls fringes hairsprayed and back combed a foot and a half of the top of their heads.

Grolsch bottle tops on shoes(or was it Michelob?)

Supergran, Bananaman and Dangermouse on telly.

One phone in the house on the phone table under the stairs in the hall and trying to whisper on it to your mates.

And the fecking emersion:mad::pac:

Czarcasm

madmaggie wrote: »

The clothes, shoulder pads, big bows on blouses, peplums, white stilletoes, skinny jeans. I went into River Island recently and ran out again, aaaaaaaaaaargh, I was back in the '80's:eek:

Crystal Carrington jumpsuits all over again :pac:


Although Joan Collins and Stephanie Beacham... mmhmm, made Dynasty just about watchable, couldn't compare to Dallas though, Charlene Tilton was just all sorts of adorable!

sunbeam

madmaggie wrote: »

The clothes, shoulder pads, big bows on blouses, peplums, white stilletoes, skinny jeans. I went into River Island recently and ran out again, aaaaaaaaaaargh, I was back in the '80's:eek:

Ah, how could I forget the Lady Di frilly necked blouse and the must-have hair accessory of the mid 80s-the Fergie bow (the bigger the better)!

Tigger

cans of fosters on hot summer days, boot runners and drainpipe snow washed jeans. girls with big hair and one side shaved off. boob tubes and americian football. mtv and video recorders, coca cola yo-yos and badges collected from smokes.
it all ended an it was all e and coke and speed and fighting.
the 90's sucked the 80's were incredible


sun was always shining , we just lived for fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDUmT3wm-0A

Smidge

Cans of Stieger:o

Swatch watches(and the longing for one)

Going to Newry of the bus for xmas shopping to Argos(none in the south at the time)

Jo King

true wrote: »

And remember when non-smokers came home from a disco / nightclub their clothes stank the next day?

How come the smokers clothes didn't stink?

opinion guy

The 80s were ****. The only good thing was the computer game store on cathal brugha street off the bottom of o'connell street Dublin. I forget the name anyone remember??

Galwayguy35

We used to get nicer summers than we do now.

Also a bag of crisps would only cost about 10p

McDermotX

opinion guy wrote: »

The 80s were ****. The only good thing was the computer game store on cathal brugha street off the bottom of o'connell street Dublin. I forget the name anyone remember??

Computer City ??

seven_eleven

I wasn't born in the 80's, and this depresses me. Why do I always miss out on the best things?

sh1tstirrer

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

We used to get nicer summers than we do now.

Also a bag of crisps would only cost about 10p

That's a rip off a bag of crisps were only 2p in the 70's.