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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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FlyMaybe · 02/02/2018 23:30

Ooohhh sorry I'm late. My mum made me eat a whole box of Findus pancakes for tea, then we had Vienetta. Took me ages to crimp my henna'ed hair! Dragged on my blue and white Benetton rugby shirt and I thought I was going to split my skin tight Snow-wash jeans. Had to lie on the floor and get the zip up with a coat-hanger. I love them. They came from Stolen From Ivor in the Arndale. Can't decide between my pixie boots and my pointy ballerina flats. What do you think?

Ohhhh they're playing Wham on the jukebox ...

boatyardblues · 02/02/2018 23:25

I miss the 99p singles bin at Woolies. When everyone else was loving Bros, Madonna and Wham, I was enjoying Lionel Ritchie, Culture Club, Steve Winwood, Cyndi Lauper and Bruce Springsteen. I can’t help it. I like what I like and that’s that. I liked the 80s because you were allowed to enjoy them in your own way.

dustarr73 · 02/02/2018 23:25

Can we nominate this for classics, i have

dustarr73 · 02/02/2018 23:23

@Twoweekcruise

Written by Madonna,shes also backing vocals

Dizzybintess · 02/02/2018 23:22

I have my glitter gel and scrunchie , pink boiler suit and waspy belt had copy of hi magazine all ready

CanIBuffalo · 02/02/2018 23:18

Can I please also be the same weight I was in the 80s?

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Twoweekcruise · 02/02/2018 23:13

Loved a prawn cocktail especially if it was served in one of those little stainless steel bowls!

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Twoweekcruise · 02/02/2018 23:12

dustarr I remember the Nick Caymen ad, didn't he become a singer after?

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Gohackyourself · 02/02/2018 23:09

I’ll join you, my dad can drop me off in his bottle green Granada that stinks of farts! I’ll ask him to play paul young for me who is my crush... I’m gonna marry him.
I’m gonna wear my naf naf jumper, soviet jeans and dr martens too.

If we go anywhere to eat I’m going to order prawn cocktail, so sophisticated....

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Twoweekcruise · 02/02/2018 23:07

Probably 😣

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dustarr73 · 02/02/2018 23:06

Remember this ad

And that one

ShackUp · 02/02/2018 23:05

I bet if we were to petition Terry's to bring Pyramints back, we'd only experience disappointment. In my head, they were like a glorious fat After Eight mint, but in reality I bet they'd be insipid toothpastey yukness Sad

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Twoweekcruise · 02/02/2018 23:03

Don't worry shack I'll stop the time machine in 1988 and you can give your younger self a good talking too!

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SingaSong12 · 02/02/2018 23:00

Shack how could you be so mean - I'm going to tell on you

ShackUp · 02/02/2018 23:00

Yes cruise and the Pacers, and the Golden Cups

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Twoweekcruise · 02/02/2018 22:58

shack did you also scoff all the Terry's Pyramints and Horlicks tablets cause I really miss those?

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ShackUp · 02/02/2018 22:49

OP I ate all the 5-4-3-2-1 bars back in 1988, it's why they don't sell them any more. They were so delicious, I couldn't let anyone else have them, so I finished off the world's supply.

Backingvocals · 02/02/2018 22:33

Great thread. I almost fell over from the head rush from hearing Thinking of You by the Colour Field on TOTP this week. And my love for Terry Hall still burns brightly. I need to find my giant anchor earrings, my pale pink cotton knit Aran jumper from Jigsaw which is still the most aspirational piece of clothing I’ve ever owned, and my Joe Boxer boots and I’m good to go.

MrsBartlet · 02/02/2018 22:28

47 here and I am coming too but first I have to stop off at the off license to buy some woodpecker to sneak into the school disco. I will be very happy to be at home with my little brother, still alive and downstairs on the sofa watching CHIPS while I am upstairs putting on my electric blue mascara and listening to Wham. Happy days Smile

BestIsWest · 02/02/2018 22:26

I’m a 70s girl at heart but I’m game if I can come wearing my new romantic frilly shirt with my floppy fringe and artful scarf with tassels and threaded with gold lurex. Burgundy suede pixie boots.

I’ll be listening to Ashes to Ashes, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Teardrop explodes. Party Fears Too.

I’ll be drinking Malibu or Tia Maria and Coke and eating Dime bars.

Unless Dave takes me to the Cinema to see Gregory’s Girl.

Katkincake · 02/02/2018 22:24

Oh wow, flashback central - I was a late 80s / early 90s shopper / disco attender.

I'll be out in my Aztec print hoodie and bleached jeans with a spritz of exclamation when I've finished recording the top 10 on my ghetto blaster, I've got to pause it during the talking and adverts. Grin

AndromedaPerseus · 02/02/2018 22:24

You could read this thread as it’s cheered me up no end
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3157165-I-m-building-a-time-machine-to-go-back-to-the-80-s

TalkinPeace · 02/02/2018 22:24

Sunday afternoon listening to the charts

walking down to menzies to see the singles chart laid out on the racks

the excitement of the first ever stretch jeans

MTV

AndromedaPerseus · 02/02/2018 22:19

Have been to ’Blockbusters’ and got out ’Flash Dance’ and ’Gregory’s Girl’. Anyone fancy coming back to mine’s afterwards to watch them on the VHS.

GlassHeart1 · 02/02/2018 22:14

I welled up with nostalgia on holiday last year when they put on a little show Electric Dreams in a holiday park ...

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