To Want To Go Back To 1983?

[GondolaQueen]

Just seen some video clips from the time that made me nostalgic.

Surely it’s not so far away that we can’t just reach out and grab it ?

The 80s was a great decade. Born at the start of it I was 3 in '83 and don't remember too much about that year, but from 1984 on remember loads. Had a Ghostbusters jumper in 84 (which nearly everyone seemed to have). It's my favourite era of music and films. Christmas with the Radio Times circling all the films and shows.

Reminder of some things from each year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_the_%2780s_(British_TV_series)

But you can still listen to it now.

I’ll go to 1981…all the synth bands, Smash Hits, clothes, make up, teenage crushes at the roller disco.

But I’d like 1991 too please…like PP sex, drugs and clubbing thank you very much!

The 80’s were lovely
Such buoyant optimism
A much more innocent seeming era despite nuclear war threats.

Year I got married, yes would love to go ack

Yes, definitely! I was an adult (just) and had the best time. Loved the whole decade tbh

I'd love to! I was 16 and just getting into going out at night with my friends, such a carefree time and the music was great. I went to my first gig (Wham 😄) in 1983.

It's probably just as well that I was oblivious to how real the nuclear threat was at the time, though, I bet it didn't feel like a carefree time to my parents. I just thought of nuclear war as something pop stars sang about. I was quite a naive teen, looking back. 😄

Do you think the threat of nuclear war is any less today?

The Doomsday Clock is nearer midnight now than it has ever been...

This time in 1983 I’d just turned 16. Happy days!

Maybe, but it felt more real back then. The leaflet that came through the door telling you what to do in the event of a nuclear attack was bloody scary. And those awful TV adverts with the tinkling sound depicting the nuclear fallout.

That just goes to show how powerful messaging is.

Just like people are more likely to be afraid of flying than of driving, but flying is proven to be safer. We hear about just about every plane crash. We hear about hardly any car crashes.

There was a very serious threat then with government advice prepared on what to do if it happened - Protect and Survive. There were women protesting about US nuclear missiles at Greenham common. The situation was a frequent topic of conversation. It nearly happened by mistake
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident#:~:text=On%2026%20September%201983%2C%20during,it%2C%20from%20the%20United%20States.

That immediate threat did go away with the fall of USSR and the Iron Curtain but I do feel more afraid now that I did in the intervening decades.

I was 16 ,in 83 I would like to go back and take more advantage of how fun it was. I was far too serious and wasn't 'allowed' to be fashionable. I was expected to leave school, get a job and pay my way.

I would've just started school!

Absolutely. I got married in that year, still am, and would love to do my wedding again - to have a few happy hours with my dad, and my grandparents. I would also tell my beloved friend not to go on the optional TA exercise where a tragic accident occurred that took his life at only 25 years old.

Aww, you lucky thing. Sounds like you had a lovely childhood.

I was 16/17, at secretarial school & far too reserved for the time

Xmas UK no.1 was
ONLY YOU
THE FLYING PICKETS
Imagine that

Forty one years ago, I was 15. No way do I want to go there again. I did have a rather nice blue and white polka dot, dropped waist ra-ra skirt though. Nuclear war threat was a bit of a downer though, especially as an angst ridden teen.

I know there was a serious threat then. I lived through it. I sat through the video in school where they scared the living daylights out of us. I remember how prominent CND was - I had the badges. And the protests at Greenham Common also helped raise the terror level. There was so much focus on the potential for nuclear war. Nowadays we are bombarded with information 24/7, we can see images of war and terror every day. We are desensitised to it, compared to how things were back then. Imo that's why people might perceive the threat was greater then.

I remember a lot of great things about the 80s. In 1983 I was still a child. I wouldn't want to go back though. Too high a price. It would mean living through all my being bullied at school years and my mum dying in '88 and living the two years from hell that were living with my brother and monster-in-law.

The TV was a bit catchphrasey and cringey, and not sure I'd be keen to watch some of the 'entertainers' of the time, given what they got up to and their attitudes towards women.

The music and the toys of the time were great though. I was 1yrs old, so have no real experience of 1983. I'm sure if I had I'd be more nostalgic.

I would have loved to have been a teen/older in the early 90s. Music went to shit at the end of the 90's with loads of shit boybands. The early 00s was even worse until indie came back.

I’m 44.

My mum (bless her) was 38 in 1983 and looked 58. Everyone did. Mums had short perms, wore horrible clothes and didn’t work, or if they did it was a mum job.

No supermarkets or cheap children’s clothes. Thatcher in power and due to be so for a long time.

Your children could be hit at school, your husband could rape you.

Try being gay in 1983 or black.

ill take 2024!

Not a new idea. A E Housman wrote about this as far back as 1896.

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

Do you know what was nice - was talking about this the other day - we all watched the same TV programs at the same time, we had loads to talk about with our mates because of that, next morning at school OMG DID YOU SEE…

@MoonKiss.... those were the days

Yes, please. 1983 would suit me. In 1983 I made the worst career choice of my life. I was bright and full of capabilities but struggling with my self-confidence and I ended up taking the first job I was offered and hanging in there for years because I was too scared to leave. If I could return to 1983 with the confidence I've gained over the years, the next 20 years would have been much easier and 2024 would probably have looked very different. If it can't be 1983, then 1991 when I made my worst decision re purchasing a property would do too.