Great things about the 1980s

[ThryllSeekyr]

The 80s,

A sure sign that 'getting there' was much better 'than Being' there.for those of you that really do miss the 80's like I do.  What I mean is that the 80's was merely a preparation for the ninties and now we are living in result of 80's.

Does anybody remember this guy. I know it looks abit camp now, but back then this show was popular because of all breakthroughs that were being made with computers.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sqY40K-m9U&search=automan" target="_blank">Could have been a spin off of Tron.

[Quirkafleeg]

Two great things on Page 3... Sammy Fox AND Linda Lusardi.

[Satanist]

The Adventure Game.
The Great Egg and Spoon Race.

Video Nasties before they enforced age ratings to videos. Zombie Flesheaters at the age of ten, ah the memories.

Playing outside while a game loaded.

Kiss,cuddle or Torture and not getting sued.

[Floyd-the-k]

isn't that four great things on Page 3?

[nofuture]

Even better than Automan......

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP6VMQEOS9Q&search=manimal" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP6VMQEOS9Q&search=manimal

[ThryllSeekyr]

It was great show, but not as much the sign of the times that Automan was. To me this show represented that burgeoning computer age that was happening all around me about that time.

Link: http://www.retrojunk.com/" target="_blank">Retro Junk..... anyone?

[Dounreay]

In hindsight the eighties was a pretty weird time.

It was the decade of disaster (Chenobyl, Piper Alpha, Lockerbie, Kings Cross, Herald of Free Enterprise to name but a few), Cold War got as hot as it ever had since the Cuban missile crisis (Criuse missiles, SS-20s missiles, Pershing missiles to name a few).

A revolutionary government was in power (The miners strike,inner city riots (when was the last time there was a riot eh?, privatise everything)).

Good thing we had The Tube, Channel 4 in general and the John Peel show.

[Wils]

I discovered Snakebite and Black! :)

[Buddy]

- The The

Fuckin' right Floyd, fuckin' right.

Seen them in Dublin in 1990, best concert I ever seen.

[Floyd-the-k]

I envy you

also The Boys Next Door
     The Birthday Party
      Nick Cave
      Wings of Desire
     and...ummm...it will come to me later


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[HiEx]

Spectrum games.

Hi-Ex

[ThryllSeekyr]

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLfoy2XsFw&search=hall%20%26%20oats" target="_blank">Private Eyes

[Devons Daddy]

TV, Miami vice and star trek NG,
Music, ADAM AND THE ANTS.
Clothes, ok every decade looks terrible looking back, but come on, at least they where colourful.
2000ad its first golden age.

but overall i was a teenager,which is enough to make it a brillant decade.

[scutfink]

Posted by Wils:

I discovered Snakebite and Black! :)


Jesus, Snakebite and Black? Is there anything more you can do to ruin a perfectly good pint of cider? Do you take that with a little paper umbrella in it? A slice of fruit perched on the glass? A Curly-fuckin'-straw?

Please tell me you're not totally ruining a perfectly good pint, you're only putting the crap mass produced bubbly applejuice 'cider' in that right?...


:)

[House of Usher]

It was an evil 1980s drink favoured by goths. It's famous.

Imagine my dismay three years ago on going up to the bar of a club in town that runs a trendy 'alternative' night (for townies who like a bit of Rammstein and The Cult) and being told that snakebite and black was ?1.50 a pint, but a pint of lemonade was ?2.50 - I felt like I was being charged a 'not-throwing-up-in-the-morning tax'.