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I’m building a time machine, to go back to the 80’s.

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Twoweekcruise · 02/02/2018 14:03

Just for the weekend.
They’ve just played ‘Together in electrics dreams’ on the radio and it’s left me aching for my youth.
So, for just this weekend only, I don’t want to be almost 45, I don’t want to keep hearing my kids squabbling with each other, I don’t want any responsibilities or to worry about the state of the world.
No, what I want is to go to the school disco tonight, I want to spend hours perfecting my gaudy sparkly make up, I want to wear my new ra-ra skirt or my batwinged jumpsuit, I want to hot brush my hair into an 80’s flick (with the help of a whole can of ozone-unfriendly hairspray!) and I want to smear my lips with that spearmint flavoured lip gloss from that little glass bottle with the roller ball and dance the (earl Your) evening away to Wham!, Whitney Houston, Duran Duran, Madonna and the like.
When I get up on Saturday morning (about 10am, I want to watch kids morning tv, for breakfast, I want my dad to cook his famous French toast (eggy bread really but French toast sounded posh), I want to go into town with my mates and buy the No.1 single from Our Price, I want to go to Top Shop and look at the posters in Athena and have a knickerbocker glory at The Wimpy. I want to spend the afternoon watching Knight Rider, Chips, The Fall Guy, Murder She Wrote, Hart to Hart and The Golden Girls.
On Sunday, I want to help dad wash the car in the morning (never did that in real life but my nostalgic brain tells me I did!), I want to eat my mum’s lovely Sunday roast and not worry how many calories, saturated fats, gluten or other nasties are in it. I want to see my much loved and missed grand parents and hug our lovely beloved family dog.
But most of all, I want to tape the Top 40, being careful not to get Bruno Brooke’s voice in at the end of each song ( that took great skill and judgement!)
So, does anyone fancy joining me for a trip back to the 80’s this weekend?
Refreshments on the journey will include, Panda cola, Clearly Canadian, Lilt and Quatro to drink and Spangles, Marathon bars (NOT snickers!), fruit salads and black jacks and 54321 bars ( E numbers included, yum!) to snack on.

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Twoweekcruise · 02/02/2018 15:58

Your all welcome aboard but there’s too many of us for just a weekend, let’s do a whole 1980’s year. I want a 1980’s Christmas when the living room was decorated EVERYWHERE, even had tinsel and shimmery crap draped from the ceiling, those paper things that opened up concertina style and a lovely plastic Christmas tree covered in lametta and fairy lights that shorted out all the time. I want to hear Whams first Christmas for the first time and go back to when Christmas wasn’t Christmas without a proper sized tin of Quality Street and I want a proper chocolate orange with the middle bit left in it.
Oh and I want a box of Weekend chocolates from my nan.

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Willow2017 · 02/02/2018 15:51

If people are bringing their fellahs I am bringing my new guy. I luffs him.

I’m building a time machine, to go back to the 80’s.
WingsOnMyBoots · 02/02/2018 15:46
Readermumof3 · 02/02/2018 15:46

I want to do all that OP too almost 48

BrimFire · 02/02/2018 15:45

Christ no. Music was shit, TV was shit and I had a jumpsuit I could never get out to have a wee or a bodysuit I could never get out if to have a wee.I was too fat for skinnies the the first time round and horribly self concious.

School was rough as fuck. Bullying just was. I quite liked that champers and being posh was a thing towards the end of the 80's but unfortunately that meant I thought my nice accent and decent brain would see me through when in fact I needed a plan and and some guts.

MamaLupine · 02/02/2018 15:45

Can I come too please? I'll be doused in L'Aimant perfume and sporting shimmery pink/lilac Constance Carroll eyeshadow. With Avon 'Iced Champink' lipstick.

EraArils · 02/02/2018 15:44

I've got a new jelly bag in yet another disgusting colour. I need to find a new carrier bag to use with it so my stuff doesn't full out of the gaps. My hair is a lovely orange colour just at the front and I'm looking good in my brown corduroy knickerbocker trousers and oversized pattern aigle jumper.
I've also prepared my tape for the top 40, it's my Dad's Don Williams tape that I have sellotaped on the corners.

I’m building a time machine, to go back to the 80’s.
dustarr73 · 02/02/2018 15:35

For the drive there

WingsOnMyBoots · 02/02/2018 15:34

I smell cherry lip gloss, harmony hairspray, Charlie perfume, leather jackets and pink bubble gum.

WingsOnMyBoots · 02/02/2018 15:30

"Peach stilettoes and electric blue mascara!" I want them NOW!!

crackerjacket · 02/02/2018 15:29

Oh go on then Dave

I’m building a time machine, to go back to the 80’s.
Willow2017 · 02/02/2018 15:28

I'm in once my sprial perm is finished. (if I dont die from the fumes first)
Mine is a 'purple passion' if you are buying first round Grin
Will wear my black 'knickerboker' trousers and an oversized white shirt and waistcoat and stupidly high stilletos (which will be killing me by 11pm) or my crushed velvet bodysuit and long skirt.

I have the cherrry lip gloss in the glass tube and 'Heather' lippy too. I only use 'White Musk' during the day, I have gone upmarket and have 'Poison' for the evenings, proper sophisticated me Grin
Pass the spangles please.

crackerjacket · 02/02/2018 15:28

I'm with you. Life was better in the 80's.

StealthPolarBear · 02/02/2018 15:28

Oh yes bath pearls. Left a blob of sludge stuck to the bottom of the bath after the water had drained out

dustarr73 · 02/02/2018 15:27

Im 45 [sob] and from 84 i loved it.Dirty Dancing,Top Gun,Cocktail.God had some fab times.

MadisonAvenue · 02/02/2018 15:27

I'll join you after I've watched Brookside, I've got a crush on Barry Grant.

GameOldBirdz · 02/02/2018 15:23

I wasn't born until the mid-1980s but can I come anyway?

WingsOnMyBoots · 02/02/2018 15:22

This is true - about three mornings ago I woke up and was singing my heart out - 'Crazy For You' Madonna. Well, it felt like I was. I asked my husband if I was but he heard nothing actually come out of my mouth. I remember thinking 'he'll hear me but I don't care!' as I was doing it.

dustarr73 · 02/02/2018 15:22

And dont forget your fingerless gloves and leg warmers to complete the look.

When everyone fancied George Michael and Tom Cruise was Cool

Hoppinggreen · 02/02/2018 15:20

I’ll be right there wearing one white lace glove and peach stilettos .
You’ll recognise me by the badly applied electric blue mascara.
I will be chewing gum and seductively popping it and whirling it around one finger.
Please can someone call me on my CB radio ( 1-9 for a copy) to let me know where we are meeting?

dustarr73 · 02/02/2018 15:19

Ah my heart is aching for that time.Listening to Madonna,going to school discos.Having my lovely grandad,going to the pub on a Sunday morning wiht him.For a lemonade.

Going in to Cassidys and trying my hand at make up.Such innocent times.

picklemepopcorn · 02/02/2018 15:16

Oh yes, and the eyebrows and the contouring. I mean yes, they blend it these days, but we know how it should be done.

WingsOnMyBoots · 02/02/2018 15:16

I've noticed that when we post as 'us now' we can sound so different, yet when we travel back to earlier times in our lives we sound very similar, (if similar ages) like we grew up on the same street and knew eachother. Shared experiences and feeling remembered though we don't know eachother.

picklemepopcorn · 02/02/2018 15:16

You may not need a time machine- I saw ski pants in a shop last week, along with ruffled shirts. No puffballs, sadly.

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 02/02/2018 15:14

The video shop where you could pick out Streets of Fire or St Elmo's Fire and swoon over the Brat Pack, wishing you were Ally Sheedy or Molly Ringwald. You might even get to sneak out one of the video nasties that were anything but!!