Great things about the 1980s

[Wils]

The days when you could go out with a fiver, buy 20 fags, get shit-faced and still have enough for a bag of chips on the way home.

[House of Usher]

...there were riots in Luton in 1995...

[LARF]

There were riots in killamarsh as well 1982. The Beighton Boys came over the Rother Valley to fight and I got a ride in a police car!

:-)

[Artificial Idiot]

and I got a ride in a police car!

Heh, no wonder there were riots if that was their idea of law enforcement...

:)

[House of Usher]

Yes, but we were talking about riots that happened after the eighties.

;)

[Dog Deever]

Good stuff: Class War Rentamobs on tour! Crusties.
The bands CONFLICT, CRASS and DISCHARGE
Fighting with soccer casuals. I'll second Rufus on Black Flag and Docs- only 14 and 18 holers with dodgy coloured laces and clothes that hung in an unwashed spiderweb of rags! Quality. Drinking in the streets.

Bad stuff: Not getting into pubs at the weekend because they didn't want punks in- though you could drink there all the rest of the week if you liked!
Police harrassment- they didn't like punks either.
Soccer casuals. Mullets. More when I remember.

[Jim_Campbell]

"both great shortcuts to oblivion"

Ohh, I think I we had a better drink than those! Snakebite and black, with a double Benylin (sp?) ...

If you could stay standing after three of those bastards, you were already dead. You just hadn't realized it yet.

Cheers

Jim

[Art]

...there were riots in Luton in 1995...

Ah, happy days!

[Dounreay]

I stand corrected on the riots issue then.

More horrible things to do with a pint of cider in the 80s - a Red Witch, pint o' snake bite with a pernod and blackcurrant thrown in. Merrydown and Superlager being the ingredients of choice for the true conisseur.

More great stuff from the 80s. Record shops in Glasgow, Virgin when it was acoss the road from Central Station and a shithole of a place, but an interesting one. Then the one up the street from it(was it Bloggs?). Records on the ground floor then a subterrean basement full of badges, tee-shirts and dodgy looking  punters.

[Wils]

Forbidden Planet when it was still in Denmark Street.

[Adrian Bamforth]

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZYp_pt_DSQ&search=The%20Cat%20Came%20Back" target="_blank">This Cartoon...

[Floyd-the-k]

a good thing about my 80s was Cooper's ale, which is brewed in the bottle and tastes great. They also sold a stout with which you could make Black and Tan. It's a little South Australian company which somehow broke out to the rest of Australia and which deserves to conquer the universe

Link: aaaah

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[the3rdman]

what about watching rocky IV in the cinema and everyone cheering and shouting like it was real.

The Karate Kid
The Goonies
Back to The Future
Teen Wolf
Stand By Me

The Smiths

a bus into Manchester cost 12p and girls wore that much insette hair spray they were a fire hazard.

Joey Deacon

[ThryllSeekyr]

Ninja Movies. The cheap ones i used to rent at the video store.

I can't stand Australian soap T.V. like Neighbours, Home and Away, Prisoner, Blue Heelers.

It's just depressing. It's something to do with it's over familarity.

Like if I wanna see what I see in Australain Soaps all I need to do is look around me. I'm already there.

Though, I know Neighbours has huge following in the UK.

[Quirkafleeg]

When late night telly was actually worth watching including:

Central Weekend... in its prime the best chat/discussion show ever

Power Hour... short-lived rock show

and the almighty Prisoner Cell Block H ("I'm top dog!")