FabSwingers.com forum: 1980s 1990s

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Type something which reminds you of the above years

Commidore

Vhs recording

Sony walkman

conkers

Floppy disks

Waiting half an hour for a music download

Blockbuster

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

Land line phones for chatting to friends

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By *heNerdyFembyWoman
over a year ago

Eastbourne (she/they)

The Dial Up Sound

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

School, university and starting work.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Milk in school

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mixtapes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Eclipse jeans

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Stirrup leggings

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Back in Black.

Ford Capri 2.8i.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Pink and blue eyeshadow

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By *ittleJohn52Man
over a year ago

north west

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By *ittleJohn52Man
over a year ago

north west

Shell suits

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By *elloWoman
over a year ago

alpha centauri

1980s - our rented video player that had a super duper remote control which wasn't infa-red so was attached via a lead which reach half way to the sofa so we still had to get up to use the remote but we was so impressed with it

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Mr Blobby

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By *ong-leggedblondWoman
over a year ago

Next Door

Radio 1 roadshows

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Doobie Boppers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

New Romantic clothes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jokes on a lolly stick

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By *utterflyandArtificeCouple
over a year ago

Trowbridge

LHD Cologne 2.0 V6 Granada with vinyl roof.

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

Top of the Pops, when people cared who was at no. 1.

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

80s - Blue Nun, The Castrol GTX advert, Allo Allo

90s - Lad Mags, Eurotrash, low-rise hipster jeans

Looking at that list, I'm not sure adolescence did me any favours

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By *nto the LouWoman
over a year ago

Preston

"Milk in school"

3p a day in glass bottles at my school!

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

"Milk in school

3p a day in glass bottles at my school!"

We had the little cartons that were pointed at the top like the juice ones and you had to rip open the corner.

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Exeter - South West

ZX Spectrum

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Flight of the navigator

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

VHS tapes

Ghostbusters

Minder

Farah trousers

Madness

Swap Shop

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By *orbidden eastMan
over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

Radio rentals and my parents actually renting a camcorder from them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

RaRa skirts

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

The Broom cupboard with Philip Schofield and Gordon the Gopher is a treasured childhood memory from the 80s. Especially with Mysterious Cities of Gold.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blockbuster

wacky warehouse

MCribs

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By *oodoodMan
over a year ago

Suffolkish

80s

Being my mum and dad's TV remote

Learning the 24 hour clock to program the betamax

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Pat Sharp's mullet...

and the Fun House twins!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Curly perms and shoulder pads

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chopper bikes!

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

Wandsworth

Box TV those dial once

Rotary phones

Tetris

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

Hoffmeister lager

20/20

Pubs full of tv screens

New romantics

Exctasy

Raves

Sierra cosworths

Xr3is

Yuppies

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By *otBunsHunWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

My dad telling at me to end the phone call after 59 mins on a Friday night

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

Porn tapes with a black star covering the bum hole

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

"My dad telling at me to end the phone call after 59 mins on a Friday night "

Remember the phone locks they put on them so you couldnt dial out

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By *rMs.NeekCouple
over a year ago

Worcestershire

Taping the top 40 off the radio and trying to avoid the DJ Talking

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bigger curly wurlys

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

"Taping the top 40 off the radio and trying to avoid the DJ Talking "

That was an art in itself ,never managed it though lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Living room thick with cigarette smoke from parents, grandparents and everyone else. Plastic keys for the electric meters. TVs that you put 50p in to make work

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

Fame

Sunday night charts

Crackerjack

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

C90's

John Hughes movies

From Hair to Grunge

Wimpy

A wall through Germany

Track and Field

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By *romagefraisWoman
over a year ago

Sunderland

Trainspotting

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By *ad Bod AdonisMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

Getting d*unk and going to gigs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going to club called

The 80s was in Runcorn

Bottles of grolcs

Cans of red stripe

Pints of brown bitter

Taylor dayne

Human league

Duran Duran

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Live aid

Band aid

Lucozade

Dolly the sheep

Hand of god

Gazza

Steve ovett

Broad sheet newspapers

Swap shop

Tomorrows world

The tube

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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago

Not all that North of North London

The Hummingbird in Birmingham fir club nights abd gigs

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Friends reunited

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By *otBunsHunWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Eurotrash

The Word

TFI Friday

The Big Breakfast

Vauxhall Novas

Cosworths

Britpop

Jane Norman PE bags

Kickers shoes

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

"Fame

Sunday night charts

Crackerjack

Oooh i could crush a grape

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By *rMs.NeekCouple
over a year ago

Worcestershire

TJ Hooker

Miami Vice

Airwolf

Knight Rider

Cagney and Lacey

Dallas

Dynasty

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Madchester

Raves

Sunday chart show

Cheese cloth shirts

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

Buck rogers

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

TheA team

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By *otBunsHunWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Noel's House Party

Big Break

Goodnight Sweetheart

Cadbury spiras

Just Seventeen magazine

Smash Hits

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

Harvey moon

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Marvellous Marvin Hagler

John Conteh

Big Frank

Daley Thomson

Bothams Ashes

Charlie / brut / hai karate

Buy British

Jiffy condoms

Ayrton Senna

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By *appytaffWoman
over a year ago

blackwood

Cadbury spira - sad loss to society used to love them

Md20/20

Cheap lambrini

From the 80’s the shoulder pads my mum used to wear lol

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

Miami vice

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By *hisisntpofMan
over a year ago

bristol

"Cadbury spira - sad loss to society used to love them

Md20/20

Cheap lambrini

From the 80’s the shoulder pads my mum used to wear lol"

Dont forget the cabana bar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Recession

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Diamond White

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By *rying2niteMan
over a year ago

Egremont

Marble wash jeans, kouros aftershave, permed mullets

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By *emma HoldenTV/TS
over a year ago

Ramsey

Being constantly filmed on holiday by parents obsessed with their new Panasonic M1 vhs camcorder, not far off the size of Del Boys Russian versions.

Pepperpot alloys

Tape then CD Walkmans.

Unwinding chewed up cassette tapes with a hexagonal pencil or staedtler biro

Elbow & knee patches sewn on clothes to cover holes

Grange Hill with Zammo & Roland & having a huge crush on Faye

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watching Republic of Ireland playing at Italia 90

Going to watch Wimbledon

Watching Liam Brady play for West ham at my first football game

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

early electronic 80s had pointed side boards like midge ure,,

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

WWF, and MTV playing music videos

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cassette tapes

Video man in the Van

CB radio

Gig tickets for under £5

MTV

Cheap petrol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remote control on a wire... phones with the ring to dial the number.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Worzel gummidge

DMs, dungarees. Mods rockers skinheads.togetherness

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

RaRa Skirts, Duran Duran, going to buy my mum's fags, horse riding, vespas with tails on, canvas satchels. Those were the days!!

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By *icole 123Woman
over a year ago

Baildon,West Yorkshire

Ra Ra skirts

Leg warmers

Jelly shoes

New Romantic

Synthesisers

Wrist/sweat bands

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Knocking on about 15 houses and riding around the estate trying to find your mates.

Playing footie outside the shops.

Oh and lilt mango and mandarine

The mr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Roller boot parties as a kid

As a teen... Wallabees, drawstring bottom pants, posters covering wall to wall, wide bottomed jeans, burning the fringes on the Bottom of jeans.. Bottle tops on shoes vs Bros, litter pick detentions, white star cider, furious fingering, long v shaped hairstyles, 10 pack of cigs £1.15

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Being able to get a doctor's appointment and a dentist appointment.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitting the clubs in basically what was a silky nightie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Women - Shoulder pads

Men - Rolled up blazer sleeves

Levi's 501 ads

Thatcherism

Falklands War

Coal Miners' strikes

Big Bang of London Stock Exchange

Apple Macintosh

Gulf War

Compuserve vs AOL

Netscape vs Internet Explorer

Napster

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By *drian52Man
over a year ago

Derby

Phone boxes and saving up 10 pence pieces to make phone calls

ALF

Home perms

Mork and Mindy

Getting my ears pierced

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The idea of being safe around jimmy Saville, rolf Harris, Gary glitter and Bill Cosby

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By *erc2Man
over a year ago

Wymondham

Madonna in the charts.

Steve Wright on radio 1 tour

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

80s - hanging out in my sisters room listening to her music :-

Duran Duran,

Wham,

Spandau Ballet

90s - my teen years,

Blur,

Oasis,

Weezer

Nirvana

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Invention of emails

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Back to the Future

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Being able to get a doctor's appointment and a dentist appointment."

A myth surely?

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Chris Evans on virgin radio oh he is doing it again now

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By *eachcplCouple
over a year ago

blackpool/preston/normandy france

We started swinging in the 80s

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By *iromancergirl1Woman
over a year ago

bolton

80s - garbage pale kids stickers , zig and zag on morning tv. 90s - hit man and her - friends.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Spitting Image and alternative comedy...Ben Elton.

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By * U mineMan
over a year ago

Fun

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By * U mineMan
over a year ago

Fun

Shame you didn't include 70s

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough/ Kettering

Respect from the under 30's towards their elders, teachers, people in general, the law, the rules and errrm pretty much everything else !

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By *cvite1TV/TS
over a year ago

essex

Phone cards

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

80s

Shoulder pads

Radio rentals.

Clubbing

Walking home from the bus stop at 2.30am.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pony stabil trainers Sergio tacchini adidora fila best of all hi karate soap on a rope

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

For some reason those ‘bucket’/raving hats are the first thing which springs to my mind when I think of the 1990’s.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Kappa

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By *utterflyandArtificeCouple
over a year ago

Trowbridge

Telly and Video from Radio Rentals

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Benny hill

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The old Wembley.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Button up tracksuits.

Covering your school jotters in wallpaper

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Guildford four, Maguire seven

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Falkland’s War

Tiswas

New Romantics

Dallas

Knight rider

Mork & Mindy

Thriller video

Donkey Kong

Rubik’s cube

Back to the future

Live aid

No seat belts

Berlin Wall falling

Chernobyl

Aids

Too many

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By *mooth Operator 07Man
over a year ago

in the deep mist of the valleys

Soda streams machines

Nintendo II

MP3 players

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Panam flight lockabie

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By *otBunsHunWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

"Shame you didn't include 70s"

Start a new thread!

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By *orruptionandliesMan
over a year ago

leeds

Jazz mags and readers wives

Remember what the count was on the porn video to get it back to the exact point where you found it

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