FabSwingers.com forum: What do you miss about the 80s

By *lder A Wiser Passion OP Woman
over a year ago

morecambe

I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
over a year ago

A den in the Glen

The first one I agree. You can still listen to the music. What food has stopped since the 80s?

Me. Being between 10 and 20

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and rose tint is one hell of a colour.

People didn't care about each other all that much more than they do now. Conflict and controversy was still strong back then.

There was little care for those that are different, so much less care than there is no in that regard. Different sexuality, race, even those with different hobbies and interests were bullied and picked on by adults no less.

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

I don't think people caring for each other stopped in 1990, not in my experience anyway.

I miss primary school - I really enjoyed school.

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

Comedy, now seems extinct, Michael fecking McIntyre

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

"Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and rose tint is one hell of a colour.

People didn't care about each other all that much more than they do now. Conflict and controversy was still strong back then.

All this too! For many people/communities the 80s were a complete shit show.

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By *renchy19Man
over a year ago

Heathrow

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

"Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and rose tint is one hell of a colour.

People didn't care about each other all that much more than they do now. Conflict and controversy was still strong back then.

Couldn't agree more. But because we didn't have instant global communication we didn't have access to the world's lack of care like we do now.

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
over a year ago

A den in the Glen

"Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and rose tint is one hell of a colour.

People didn't care about each other all that much more than they do now. Conflict and controversy was still strong back then.

Fair point looking at it from racism, bigotry, homophobia pov I guess. We were definitely less accepting of those that were in the margins.

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

Hm.

I am tempted to say I miss everything- the music, the food, the toys, the cartoons, not the clothes because parents wouldn’t buy

But I don’t miss all the drama at home, the crying, the hysterical episodes, the suicidal mother…

Love revisiting the 80s in my mind but they’re ok where they are. In the past.

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By *lder A Wiser Passion OP Woman
over a year ago

morecambe

"Hm.

I am tempted to say I miss everything- the music, the food, the toys, the cartoons, not the clothes because parents wouldn’t buy

But I don’t miss all the drama at home, the crying, the hysterical episodes, the suicidal mother…

Love revisiting the 80s in my mind but they’re ok where they are. In the past.

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food dose not taste the sane

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By *ellinever70Woman
over a year ago

Ayrshire

"Hm.

I am tempted to say I miss everything- the music, the food, the toys, the cartoons, not the clothes because parents wouldn’t buy

But I don’t miss all the drama at home, the crying, the hysterical episodes, the suicidal mother…

Love revisiting the 80s in my mind but they’re ok where they are. In the past.

food dose not taste the sane

It probably tastes so much better now thanks to the availability of an abundance of ingredients

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By *osco78Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and rose tint is one hell of a colour.

People didn't care about each other all that much more than they do now. Conflict and controversy was still strong back then.

All this too! For many people/communities the 80s were a complete shit show."

Exactly this , my dad was Irish and I had every comedy twat at school asking me how many bombs he made for the ira every day

And people wonder why I'm so proud of my Irish side

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

I miss not being alive

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

I miss the back end of 85, where I made little noise.

Servants fed me and washed my backside.

There were a plethora of toys…

Aaahhhhhhhh to be young free and careless

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

"I miss folk caring about each other"

This was the hallmark of Thatcher's Britain.

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

White dog shit

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By *wist my nipplesCouple
over a year ago

North East Scotland, mostly

"I miss folk caring about each other

This was the hallmark of Thatcher's Britain."

I miss the miner's strikes. And free school milk. And having a bowl cut.

Mrs TMN x

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Having hair and a 32 inch waist.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"I miss folk caring about each other

This was the hallmark of Thatcher's Britain."

And yet...

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By *riel13Woman
over a year ago

Northampton

Absolutely nothing

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Absolutely nothing "

Good tune

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

The films .the music .and the safety

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By *oe n JayCouple
over a year ago

Surrey

The music and my first love. I wish I'd married her.

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

Socializing/Communicating in person and not over the Internet.

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By *reya73Woman
over a year ago

Whitley Bay

Kids playing out in the street!

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Nothing except my tight jaw line.

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

"Hm.

I am tempted to say I miss everything- the music, the food, the toys, the cartoons, not the clothes because parents wouldn’t buy

But I don’t miss all the drama at home, the crying, the hysterical episodes, the suicidal mother…

Love revisiting the 80s in my mind but they’re ok where they are. In the past.

food dose not taste the sane

It probably tastes so much better now thanks to the availability of an abundance of ingredients "

That is exactly what I miss- the probably-now-forbidden artificial flavourings and colourings. Not saying they were better, just that I miss them….

Something else I don’t miss- adults chain-smoking

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By *r Black 85Man
over a year ago

nottingham

The cartoons

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By *oding1Man
over a year ago

marlow

Me being in my 30's

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By *0ng0 furyMan
over a year ago

Birkenhead

acid house

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Common sense and respect.

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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago

west midlands

Pound notes, used to think I was rich when I got a pound note, pound coins just aren't the same!

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

Finding porn mags in hedges

Seems to be replaced with bags of dog poo nowadays.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

My youth

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

I was born in 96

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

Having a fringe

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

Not being at the immediate beck and call of anyone, just one house phone.

Not being reliant on Americans for my opinions, and not thinking the UK is the Fifty First.

FAFO being a legit thing.

Hating spending time at home, being outside being the main reason to get out of bed.

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By *izzy.miss.lizzyCouple
over a year ago

Pembrokeshire

being young? lol

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

My boobs when they stayed just under my chin. Even without a bra

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

"Common sense and respect."

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"Common sense and respect.

And logic

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

Communities were closer.Now neighbours hardly know each other,people don't use the local shops they get it all online.Only the locals are in the local pub and only locals get involved in the community.In the 80's people who had just moved into the area got involved.You didn't need an organised neighborhood watch for everyone to look out for each other.

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

Early 80s I was totally feral. Always out with my mates. No one knew where we were or what we got up to. By late 80s I was a teen. Still feral. But I had manners amd respect, cos I was raised right

I guess I miss manners and respect

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By *ustamanMan
over a year ago

weymouth

My 20's

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

What I miss from the 80s is the nostalgia for the 60s.

it was all so much better then

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By *host63Man
over a year ago

Bedfont Feltham

"I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food"

The music was more interesting other than that not much.

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By *ovetolick78Man
over a year ago

The Shire

"I was born in 96

Please leave the room independently!!

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

Not having a worry in my life.

Apart from getting swaps for my football sticker album.

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By *ovetolick78Man
over a year ago

The Shire

"Kids playing out in the street! "

My youngest and his mates do that now, it's lovely to see bikes and scooters everywhere, only see him when he wants food or a plaster.

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By *host63Man
over a year ago

Bedfont Feltham

I remember Yuppies, Greed is Good. Thatcherism and Regans dog eat dog no such thing as society attitude that has lead to so many problems today.

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

Disposable income and only having my cock to keep

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By *hagTonightMan
over a year ago

From the land of haribos.

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By *hagTonightMan
over a year ago

From the land of haribos.

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By *hagTonightMan
over a year ago

From the land of haribos.

I miss the music and the hairstyle it was back then

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

Talks with my gran in her little Terrace in Garston

Nan, mum says I'm not supposed to have red top.

How old are you?

Well I'm very old aren't I?

Yes

Thank you, and I have been here a very long time?

Yes

Do you think maybe I have learnt a few things?

Yeaaaahhh

Well trust me you will see every 10 years or so they change their mind. Sometimes it's silver, sometimes red, sometimes blue. They like to reinvent the wheel, even if the wheelbarrow is on fire. You just drink what you like... ok?

Yes nan thanks nan.

Now go play out. Don't be a bully aaaand?

Don't let anyone bully me

Love you Nan

I miss my Nan. Timeless wisdom.

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

cahoots

"What I miss from the 80s is the nostalgia for the 60s.

it was all so much better then

This I have to agree with

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By *apxxxWoman
over a year ago

North Shropshire not Wales!!!ffs & Manchester

Me being in my teens and loving life

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By *ee04Man
over a year ago

Essex

Being able to eat pie chips and gravy and knowing my 32” waist jeans would still fit no matter how often I ate it.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Tech was very basic but a good challenge to get the most out of it. Home computing for one example.

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

"Early 80s I was totally feral. Always out with my mates. No one knew where we were or what we got up to. By late 80s I was a teen. Still feral. But I had manners amd respect, cos I was raised right

I guess I miss manners and respect"

same.Do kids play out now?

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Fuel prices

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

"Talks with my gran in her little Terrace in Garston

Nan, mum says I'm not supposed to have red top.

How old are you?

Well I'm very old aren't I?

Yes

Thank you, and I have been here a very long time?

Yes

Do you think maybe I have learnt a few things?

Yeaaaahhh

Yes nan thanks nan.

Now go play out. Don't be a bully aaaand?

Don't let anyone bully me

Love you Nan

I miss my Nan. Timeless wisdom."

And talking to all the oldies who had been through the real shit of ww1,the depressing,Ww2 etc.

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By *pleaseyouMan
over a year ago

glasgow

Readers wives and a proper bush

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Being aged 1-5

Mrs

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Kids playing out in the street! "

Policemen playing on the street

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Early 80s I was totally feral. Always out with my mates. No one knew where we were or what we got up to. By late 80s I was a teen. Still feral. But I had manners amd respect, cos I was raised right

I guess I miss manners and respect

same.Do kids play out now?"

Scrumping

Being able to switch a light on without fear of an overdraf

Tuborg gold

Sit down space invaders

Being able to see people's faces

Being able to pay with cash

The orchard nightclub

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

Lack of morality crusaders jamming the keys on their laptop in an orgy of self righteousness and outrage archeology.

A higher education system that had the respect of employers.

Tony fucking Blair was still getting bullied at school.

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By *ornLordMan
over a year ago

Wiltshire and London

Being able to get into a single train carriage at London Bridge with a girlfriend and have no qualms about getting my hand in her knickers between there and Lewisham...

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

My tight perm x

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By *ake_or_deathMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Having summer/Easter/Christmas holidays and half-term holidays.

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Bliss

Raves

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

"I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food"

Being innocent

At school not work

Know what I knew then was rubbish and lies

Music

Parties

Clubs

80s.. Food and games

80s prices

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By *tooveMan
over a year ago

belfast

Being young.

Finding new music ( still do now but it's not as exciting)

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By *tooveMan
over a year ago

belfast

"Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and rose tint is one hell of a colour.

People didn't care about each other all that much more than they do now. Conflict and controversy was still strong back then.

All this too! For many people/communities the 80s were a complete shit show.

Exactly this , my dad was Irish and I had every comedy twat at school asking me how many bombs he made for the ira every day

And people wonder why I'm so proud of my Irish side "

You're proud because he made bombs?

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

"Talks with my gran in her little Terrace in Garston

Nan, mum says I'm not supposed to have red top.

How old are you?

Well I'm very old aren't I?

Yes

Thank you, and I have been here a very long time?

Yes

Do you think maybe I have learnt a few things?

Yeaaaahhh

Yes nan thanks nan.

Now go play out. Don't be a bully aaaand?

Don't let anyone bully me

Love you Nan

I miss my Nan. Timeless wisdom.

And talking to all the oldies who had been through the real shit of ww1,the depressing,Ww2 etc."

Indeed quite a loss and the value unappreciated at the time.

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

I miss my friends. Or some of them. I made some good friends at the bank end of the 80s. (In high school). Had some real fun too. Good times.

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By *ltrMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Only a few mobile speed cameras and music that you could actually dance to

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By *acktopervMan
over a year ago

Stourport-On-Severn

I miss being 43 years younger

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

Surely no one can miss the music of the 1980s... seeing as most of the sad bastard's have reformed now...

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

The A team.

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By *toobguyMan
over a year ago

Manchester

My youth. ??

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

No social media, crazy conspiracy theories spreading around the globe within minutes.

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By *ewcomers2021Couple
over a year ago

Leeds

A life with no mobile phones, such an evil necessity.

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

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

miss the music,, packed pubs and night clubs it was a buzzing time

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

Being young

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By *entBarryUKMan
over a year ago

Ashford

I miss pension day and having my own hips.

Oh, those 80s!

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By *ovetolick78Man
over a year ago

The Shire

"A life with no mobile phones, such an evil necessity."

Definitely glad camera phones didn't exist then

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By *mber81Woman
over a year ago

Chorley, Eng

"I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food"

I mis some people that are no longer alive.

I miss the long summer nights and long summer holidays that seemed to last forever.

I miss getting 10 sweets from the penny tray (or 8 and one from the 2p tray).

But they are more to do with the passage of time and remembering being young than specific to the 80s.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"The A team.

Think the A team means something different now

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By *rystal DreamtimeTV/TS
over a year ago

horsham

Being in my 20s

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By *rystal DreamtimeTV/TS
over a year ago

horsham

"Surely no one can miss the music of the 1980s... seeing as most of the sad bastard's have reformed now...

Apart from the dead ones of course ..,

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food"

You must have lived through a very different 80's to me because caring for each other??

Can I just say one word.

THATCHER

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

Missed the 70's in the 80's.

Great decade to be a teenager.

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By *ocksareoffMan
over a year ago

Out n About

The national anthem been played on TV at the end of the days service.

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Working in the coal mines, pledging allegiance to Margaret Thatcher, and fighting the Scottish... or something, I don't know I wasn't born yet

LvM

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

Used to be able to afford to go to the Pub in the 80's.

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

"I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food

You must have lived through a very different 80's to me because caring for each other??

Can I just say one word.

THATCHER "

What a shit tip basket case this country would be without her.Michael Foot? Really? Kinnock?The socialist Republic of Utopia where everything is nationalised and nothing works.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food

You must have lived through a very different 80's to me because caring for each other??

Can I just say one word.

THATCHER

What a shit tip basket case this country would be without her.Michael Foot? Really? Kinnock?The socialist Republic of Utopia where everything is nationalised and nothing works. "

What you mean like the amazing condition the country is in now ?

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By *ickdasterdly51Man
over a year ago

Lingfield

Being in my 20s!

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

Crocodile Dundee...

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

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

Being in my teen’s

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

Playing kiss catch.

Even as a nipper, I always *wanted* to get caught.

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

Sex

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

The vol au vents

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

The music and footy.

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

Pre-mobile phones and the long summer holidays off school - never needing to arrange to meet friends because you always knew where they’d be and everyone was in walking distance. So you’d turn up at your mates house or wherever, and work your way round town picking up more friends en route until you got to the destination house, where there’d usually be a house party because someone’s parents had gone on holiday. Happy days.

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By *eordieguy1Man
over a year ago

london

My youth

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

I miss from the 80's:-

Being able to get up from a chair without the 'agghhh,'

Being able to go the whole way upstairs without stopping half way up wondering why i am actually going up there.

Being able to go shopping without the need to make a list before leaving home ,- then walking out without it!

Being able to line up and play 10 single records on the record pole in my radiogram.

Being able to wait 10 days for my photos to be developed. Then going to Boots to buy a new photo album for them.

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By *hampagne_Supernova_91Man
over a year ago

Manchester

I'm a 90's kid but was heavily influenced by the 80's through family and films/games.

Currently designing my music sleeve and the 80s takes up a decent chunk of the design

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

The size of a jammie wagon wheel before they got reduced in size

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By *eliciousDiva69Woman
over a year ago

Schitts Creek

Not having any responsibilities

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

"I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food

You must have lived through a very different 80's to me because caring for each other??

Can I just say one word.

THATCHER

What a shit tip basket case this country would be without her.Michael Foot? Really? Kinnock?The socialist Republic of Utopia where everything is nationalised and nothing works.

What you mean like the amazing condition the country is in now ?

Courtesy of Blair and his fetish for destroying educational standards, devaluing degrees until they are worthless pieces of junk socpop trash and undermining British values in favour of his mates in France and Germany?

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"I miss folk caring about each other

The music and the food

The crazy thing is is that the 80's were when people 'officially' started to put themselves before others!

The age of Thatcherism (the modern British Catholicism), that never-leaving guilt over non-conformity, "Greed is Good", Trump Towers, endless privatisation (selling off everything the parents of those people fought for, from council houses to care homes to our utilities and technological infrastructure), the age of 'product' for it's own sake and marketing pretty much anything for the sake of sales (music albums being knocked out with anything as filler for example), the age of green Armani suits and fashion label fascism in schools, money, money, money... the nuclear family before the extended family (nuclear family and nuclear power over anything alternative), terrible wages, higher purchase, boom-bust-boom-bust, competition obsession, the rat race, survival of the fittest, the arms race, de-funding of all the arts (and our world class cinema industry even) because creativity is seen as threatening, the idea society "doesn't exist" because we all have to move where the work is and then move again and again. Jobs that would cynically move us around. The elderly being seen as in the way....

Yet, yet... when it comes to genuinely caring (especially for the people who are clearly caring - 'snowflakes' and 'the woke' etc are so deeply hated) - how has it somehow got worse?? How is it even possible?

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over a year ago

Gigs without mobile phones and everyone just enjoying the moment rather than capturing their selfie.

Oh and rewinding vids to return them to Blockbuster

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By *eelGoodIncMan
over a year ago

Mids

Being carefree from the age of 0-3. Then we hit the 90's and that's when shit got real.

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By *eelGoodIncMan
over a year ago

Mids

"Gigs without mobile phones and everyone just enjoying the moment rather than capturing their selfie.

Oh and rewinding vids to return them to Blockbuster

I absolutely detest the people that watch the entire gig through their mobile phone screen. You pay so much money for a lot of gigs these days. A lot of people really have lost the ability to just enjoy the experience without worrying about showing off the fact that they were at a gig on social media.

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By *opa SandsCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

All the arcade games and fruit machines

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By *coobyABCMan
over a year ago

Aberdeen

Wakaday.

Timmy mallet is about the only 80s kids TV star we can still like.

Blahhhhhhhh

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

It was a time when you hardly ever heard of young people ever being stabbed to death in broad daylight. Police used to be on patrol and were an actual deterrent.

Shoplifters used to be prosecuted so people thought twice about helping themselves and walking out, free of any retribution.

You could catch a train to london without it costing the same as a flight to greece.

People used to have actual friends and interact with each other in person.

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By *ivek68Man
over a year ago

york

Living at mum and dad's when I started working and having loads of spare money

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By *usiTV/TS
over a year ago

Ealing

Doing mixed tapes for girls you fancy!

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