to want to drink, smoke and snog a boy ....

[anothernewname09]

....wearing Ray Bans, a checked shirt and a Fred Perry jacket.

Just for an evening???

Beta- no worries, and thankyou.

Try not to worry about what people think too much, live never turns out quite the way it's supposed to! I think it's really sensible that you're not dragging out a bad marriage for 20yrs the way some people do.

We must've had babies at a similar age and I got lots of why aren't you getting married comments, so you can't win!

The Futureheads new song is called Christmas Was Better in the '80s. And it was. Christmas trees are well shit now. Remember 80s trees with all of the stuff we made at school hanging off them, all bit of potato and tin foil and that?

Beta won't remember as he was out fetching his pension or something

I am 6 years younger than Beta and didn't actually find the 80s all that much cop. My main memory of them is of living in a small village, of having zits and uncomfortable trousers, and of apparently everyone in the whole world except me having a girlfriend. :( Miserable fucking time. I much preferred the 90s.

No can never win. Everbody couldn't be my friend quick enough when I announced the engagement. Now they all act like they knew it was going to happen.

I was 22 and 1 month when I had DD. I'm so glad it worked out at that age. I love being a young mum, without the stigma of being a teen mum ( not that I think there is anything wrong with teen mums, you can be a good or bad parent at any age. But some people can be a little judge-y). And when she is 18, I will only be forty- when life begins!

(not that I ever want her to be 18- id like her to stay as she is forever!)

The '80s were exactly like This Is England, for anyone who watched it. They were still better than the noughties, which were shite.

If you could choose an era in which to live, which would you choose? I think I'd go for the 1920's. You could wear real fur without getting smacked upside the head and smoke cigarettes out of a holder without looking like a nob and men had to court you and shit.

UQD - you just described the 1970s for me in every detail. Small village life, itchy trousers, no girlfriend, zits.

Maybe we all have a rubbish decade before our best one.

PMSL at

"uncomfortable trousers"!

Why were the 90s so much better Unique?

I love the cheesy-ness of the 90s. Boybands and such.

Although I'm sure you may remember it for different reasons, other than the boybands!

The 90s always seems so camp when I look at old videos.

Very close ages, I was 2mths younger than you!

I still got some shitty comments from MW but I found out she is notorious recently and clearly didn't give a shit. It doesn't bother me though, I love being younger. I reckon I get extra parenting compliments too.

Hope you've got some supportive friends in there too. It's definately out for drinks time, victory dance for every paperwork hurdle I reckon.

UnquietDad - Best decade so far: Naughties. Because I went to University and left my boring village. Take it you are another 'escape from the country' club member?!

The 90s after 1995 were shit, I reckon. Britpop became big, the raves stopped, a load of shit music happened like The Corrs and the Backstreet Boys and Dawson's Creek was out. It was shit as I remember it.

I think the best decade is the one in which you are able to go out and drink!

Nooo not the Corrs! I have horrible memories of being humiliated at Brownies while 'C'est La Vie' played!

My ideal era as a teenager/ early 20s would have to be 1950s.

Purely for the music.

Elvis
Johnny Cash
Rat Pack
Ray Charles

Also love the gangster/ mafia vibe.

Okay so, 1950s but in America!!

C'Est la Vie was B*Witched, you spanner

Oh yeah... Wow. I have been hating the corrs for 15yrs unjustly.

Sorry, Corrs, I apologise.

I thought that but was too scared to say anything in case I was wrong??

They were both Irish though, right?

Do you think this is the most odd thread ever. It started off with me wanting to snog a Danny Dyer type person!!

I'm drinking and smoking and I'm going to snog my DH in a minute - does that count?

Loved the 80's. 87 - 89 was the start of the drinking & clubbing era for me though. They were my golden years! Before that was Youth Club discos and being the only one without a slow dance at the end. Scarred for life I tell ya!!

Maureen- it counts if he is wearing the aforementioned clothing!

If not I'm afraid it doesn't count but have fun anyway!

I had DS1 in 1987 and DD in 1989 so the clubbing/ravey bit of the eighties passed me by completely. I was up feeding DS1 in Peckham during the hurricane - it was a weird night. DH (not their father) still hasn't grasped the fact that I just don't know apparently classic songs from that period.

But the early eighties - yes, they were bloody marvellous. And BB is spot on re the contrast with the grim seventies.

I was a student in 87-90 but "the whole clubbing/ravey thing" passed me by too, apart from the fact that, when I came back from a year abroad, lots of twats people had grown their hair and were wearing tie-dye, and the college bops now had a greater preponderance of music which sounded like car alarms, rather than the decent indie guitar pop of yore.

I think I was a couple of months old during the hurricane. When was it? I was born in July.

The hurricane was October 17th 1987.

Exactly 3months old!

I was born in 1985 and often feel like I missed out on some of the better decades! Mind you I spent the 90s in Germany which was most bizarre and it means that whenever I try to reminisce about that decade with my peers I have completely different memories.

My sister was born in August '87 and her pram blew over in the hurricane with her in it. Mum trots out that story every time the wind blows at all strongly