The Ultimate "God i miss the 80`s" thread

[KennyR]

I don't miss the 80s. For me that was a time when my dad worked overtime seven days a week and we still had no money, and everyone was unemployed, and the miner's strikes, and Thatcher, and the Falklands, and people getting electricity cards because they couldn't pay the bills... Those were hard, hard times. They might have been the heyday of the C64 and the Amiga, but not much point if I couldn't afford either.

[KennyR]

Things I remember about the 80s, not necessarily positive:

- Really camp, effiminate male fashion.
- Bad sythesiser sound with terrible vocals passing as 'music'.
- Female hairstyles that were more hairspray than hair.
- Power cuts (although I was a bit young to remember much).
- Cold winters. Not many nowadays. Snowfalls deep enough to dig tunnels in.
- Yuppies and their first mobile phones ("Buy buy buy, sell sell sell!")
- Spitting Image, including its long running "The President's brain is missing!"
- Paranoia about nuclear holocaust in cartoons, series and films that they never show now. Threads, By Dawn's Early Light, When the Wind Blows.
- Miami Vice (see camp and hairspray, above).
- Dallas.
- Star Wars toys.
- Beige computers. (Eeek)
- Star Trek movies in cinemas.
- Not having any money.
- Actually being able to buy quite a lot from the shop for 20p.
- Amiga users being arrogant a*sh*les with more money than sense, and always fighting with Atari owners.
- The appearance of Sky and satellite TV, and how only unemployed people could seem to afford it.
- Rain that left dirt on your windows and no fish in the rivers, thanks to Ravenscraig steelworks.
- Space hoppers and hulahoops.
- Marbles. Lots of 'em.
- Yoyos being rebranded and resold as 'spinners'.
- Being able to buy a computer game ever week for just £1.99 for C64/C16, and cool computer magazines that were colourful and funny and not just the present day boring hardware catalogues.