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If you could go back to 1983, what's the first thing you'd do?

466 replies

Sinat · 26/03/2023 15:54

I'd buy a brand new Volvo 340 straight from the Volvo dealership

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JaceLancs · 26/03/2023 22:04

Realise how beautiful I was and that I was not even overweight
my lack of confidence meant I dated far too many losers

Nanalisa60 · 26/03/2023 22:05

Timeforachangeisitnot Toottooot

The Sheep the sheep the sheep were on fire in 1983

Stand free

ChaliceinWonderland · 26/03/2023 22:09

Got tickets to a wham concert, started saving and bought a house...

tiger2691 · 26/03/2023 22:11

Keep my cockatiels and tell my girlfriend (future wife) to ditch the cats, she'd imported, or move out of my flat.

londonrach · 26/03/2023 22:11

Buy all the flower faries and the posable carebears and take myself to body shop to smell the soaps.

Daisybuttercup12345 · 26/03/2023 22:15

See my Mum and Dad and other relatives.

Conkersinautumn · 26/03/2023 22:15

Refuse to move south with my parents, insist on living with my grandparents. Probably invest in something with the money that my parents were to yoink off me in 1984 too.

likeafishneedsabike · 26/03/2023 22:16

Somebodiesmother · 26/03/2023 16:16

Tell social services not to let my parents adopt me.

Wow. Genuinely sorry you feel like that. Sounds rough.

Dibbydoos · 26/03/2023 22:18

Add double maths to my A' levels and study law not chemistry at uni.

I'd also use some £ to invest in shares - someone said Apple and I agree!!!

I'd also buy a property in London using money Id made from flipping properties 😀

Illegally18 · 26/03/2023 22:20

I'd tell mine the same

likeafishneedsabike · 26/03/2023 22:22

NeverDropYourMooncup · 26/03/2023 16:52

Found somebody that actually cared enough to do something about it what my mother was doing instead of letting the inaction of the person I told (in public, more to the point, there was no way that nobody knew) embolden the vicious bitch.

I'd also tell that person that I wasn't allowed to take the entrance exam for the private school offering a 100% scholarship because she thought they'd listen to my 'whining ''Poor me, my Mum beats me, boo-hoo-hoo'' please help, I'm scared because she says she's going to scar me for life if I tell anybody' and ask them if they could try and find my father so he would have least had the opportunity to decide whether he wanted a relationship with me before he died - failing that, I'd have opted to go into care.

Dreadful. It sounds like you were failed on so many fronts.

Newrumpus · 26/03/2023 22:23

Get a perm. I had such a cool hairstyle.

Willowpuss · 26/03/2023 22:24

Watch Cockle shell bay on tv

Blossomtoes · 26/03/2023 22:26

Sinat · 26/03/2023 15:54

I'd buy a brand new Volvo 340 straight from the Volvo dealership

Go into a pub or cafe and light up a fag.

Monzeitia · 26/03/2023 22:36

Not to do a perm on my hair that completely ruin my hair for the next decade

AdoraBell · 26/03/2023 22:37

I was 15 and had given up on school due to my abusive parents.

So, with hindsight, I would drag my myself out of bed and ask my fabulous teacher to help me get through my GCSEs instead of dismissing his attempts to support me.

HoobleDooble · 26/03/2023 22:45

Stick my roller boots on and zoom round to see my best mate who died unexpectedly 4 years ago, then go and see my grandparents and, finally, end the day playing cards and having cuddles with my dad who I miss like mad.

Toomanycreatures · 26/03/2023 22:48

I guess tell my mum to go to the gp and get checked for cancer. She passed away when I was 3.

But, doing that would have led me down a completely different path and I probably wouldn't have met ex twat dp and not had my dc. They drive me mad but I couldn't imagine life without them.

mrssanchez · 26/03/2023 22:51

Have a massive word with myself to stop my life going to shit like it has.

Unfortunately, I'd probably just put my potty on my head and blow raspberries as I was only two.

grannysmithspips · 26/03/2023 23:36

TroysMammy · 26/03/2023 17:10

Tell myself to enjoy exercise or you'll end up as a 55 year old 5foot pudding.

That's me!

Gardengirl108 · 26/03/2023 23:46

Zuffe · 26/03/2023 19:32

Were to travelling to an Island in Africa?

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thebaneofmylifeisacat · 26/03/2023 23:48

The 80s was indeed a fabulous time to be a teenager/20s. Just fabulous. The music the hair and clothes. Just fab 😂

ODFOx · 26/03/2023 23:52

In 1983 at an Adam and the Ants concert a woman in stiletto heels stepped back onto
my foot . I did nothing about it, hobbled about for a few weeks.
40 years later it still hurts on cold days and the bones fused badly. If I could go back I'd probably stay for the concert so I didn't ditch my friend but I would get medical attention the next morning.

MajorCarolDanvers · 26/03/2023 23:57

Visit all my grandparents

SinnerBoy · 27/03/2023 00:47

MaryKateDanaher · Yesterday

I had an art teacher called Mr O'Higgins, his daughter was a complete bitch.

I wonder if they're related...