To think growing up in the 80s was the best?

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Feeling all the nostalgia.
Big scrunchies,nike air max,fun house,mix tapes,michael Jackson before the rumours,sweeties and irnbru in spades ,playing out from the moment you came in till it got dark,sitting around a small 20inch tv,proper playing make believe, eating loads of stodgy food!the music high school with crazy teachers.all the stuff that's frowned upon now basically.
I had such a fun adventure filled childhood even though we never travelled even out of our home town.And we were poor!
Anyone else?

@EarringsandLipstick your post nuclear children’s book, was it the one with the girl living in the valley and a man comes along who also survived (he was called mr lomas or something like that). She had to escape in the end, and take her chances to find other survivors. I did that for gcse. It was grim.

80s Sundays though, bugger all on TV in the daytime apart from religion and Aap Kaa Hak, then roast dinner which was often a Bernard Matthews cylindrical turkey breast roast (not bootiful!), with Vienetta or Sara Lee gateau (chocolate or Black Forest) for afters.

Then it was time for the Top 40, so I'd need to have a tape ready, often needing to sellotape over the tab holes in the top. After that, it was bathtime, then That's Life and stuff like Howards Way and Spitting Image or New Statesman. All of this with that dreadful thought in the back of my mind that it was school tomorrow! Sometimes, there'd be a decent band featured on the South Bank Show so I'd have to get DM to record it for me.

@thebiggestmoose I loved The Cure, also The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode.

70’s were the best years for me, as a teenager. The 80’s was buying a flat, then a house, marriage and children. The 70’s were carefree, great music and lots of fun on very little money. Maybe it’s the same for everyone, the teenage years?

Happy memories of the 80’s

Plastic baskets and matching jelly shoes
Candle wick bedspreads
Stripey flannelette sheets
Smash hits, Jackie and patches
Thompson twins and go west
Vesta chow mein
Marathon ( now snickers) and old Jamaica chocolate

Happy times!

@Dreamscomingtrue I think you're spot on there, it's the times of carefree youth and no responsibilities. As a teen, older people would often tell me that these were 'the best years of my life - make the most of them' and I'd be thinking 'No they aren't, can't wait to be an adult, drink in the pub and leave home' but these days, I find myself saying the very same thing to the teens I know!

80s now seems like such a unique period of time
None of us had much, none of us knew that much either the general public were ill informed
But what a blast ! V v special time period liek you say with the fashion the music
No mobile with cameras
We were all so much less self conscious imo

[quote Lemons1571]@EarringsandLipstick your post nuclear children’s book, was it the one with the girl living in the valley and a man comes along who also survived (he was called mr lomas or something like that). She had to escape in the end, and take her chances to find other survivors. I did that for gcse. It was grim.[/quote]
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