You know you grew up in the 80s when...

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:57 am

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMGGNUSTWT8"]You remember...[/url]

Fiberfar · Post by **Fiberfar** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:06 am

Remembering the 80's, is it a bad or a good thing?

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:07 am

Fiberfar wrote:Remembering the 80's, is it a bad or a good thing?

You mean you're still in doubt after seeing that video?

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:11 am

Hell, I didn't even have memory in the 80's (I was 2) and I know all of this stuff.

Two words: Hammer pants.

Priceless.

Fiberfar · Post by **Fiberfar** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:12 am

Judging from that video, very bad.

I remember (the crap carried on into the 90's, I suppose) some of those things though, being born late in the 80's

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:18 am

Wait...it didn't include the most awesome thing to ever come out of the 80's.

[url="http://youtube.com/watch?v=dF6HIiWCh7k"]Sledehammer![/url]

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:01 pm

The 80s where fun :laugh: Luckily I was still young back in the 80s and dangnabbit it was worth it to crawl out of bed early saturday morning and seeing cartoons half the day on Sky TV

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:12 pm

Xandax wrote:The 80s where fun :laugh: Luckily I was still young back in the 80s and dangnabbit it was worth it to crawl out of bed early saturday morning and seeing cartoons half the day on Sky TV

Yeah! And those saturdays were the only times my parents had no trouble at all to get me up from bed at 7 a.m.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:37 pm

Fiberfar wrote:Judging from that video, very bad.

I remember (the crap carried on into the 90's, I suppose) some of those things though, being born late in the 80's

Heh...

I was a "sweet and innocent" teen in the 80s, and while I did not participate in a lot of the popular culture of the time, I certainly remember it... I'm sure I still bear the scars somewhere too

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:48 pm

I remember the narrow, winding streets, the houses that reached out overhead, and the way the watch drove everybody in as soon as the sun had set. You needed a special permit from the local council to stay out late, and even then, it was a good idea to travel with bodyguards, in the light of several torches! The air was cleaner, too, provided you stayed away from the leather guild, which used all sorts of unpleasant substances in curing.

We are talking about the 1380s, aren't we?

rmemmett84 · Post by **rmemmett84** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:08 pm

I don't think people that didn't grow up in the 80's can trully appreciate them. I know most of that stuff everyone has heard of but thats not the same...you had to LIVE it. The most sadly missed I believe are the Saturday morning cartoons. How innocent we trully were...especially compared to the children of today. We probably didn't even appreciate it then. By the way is it wrong that I still peg my jeans? (what we called "tight rolling")

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:54 am

Pretty cool.

What saddens me, though, is that there's NO reference to The Transformers in there. He-Man, yes. A minor reference to GI Joe (with the lunchboxes), yes. Transformers? Nada.

One of the most prolific toy lines, cartoons & comics, and not a single reference in that vid, PERIOD.

Fiberfar · Post by **Fiberfar** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:45 am

Aaaah, but were the transformers a bad thing?

I suppose it was for the parents who had to listen to their kids talking about walking car robots 24/7, but probably not for the children.

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:38 am

Galuf the Dwarf wrote:Pretty cool.

What saddens me, though, is that there's NO reference to The Transformers in there. He-Man, yes. A minor reference to GI Joe (with the lunchboxes), yes. Transformers? Nada.

One of the most prolific toy lines, cartoons & comics, and not a single reference in that vid, PERIOD.

Ehh...transformers didn't become huge until Beast wars came out in the 90's, which is odd considering it's the old 80's cartoon that was awesome and beast wars sucked big time.

rmemmett84 · Post by **rmemmett84** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:31 pm

Transformers? What about the original...Go-Bots?

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:19 pm

Bah. Go-bots, Transformers, etal are nothing to late 70's early 80's of Voltes V, Mazinger Z, Getta Robot, Great Mazinger, Grendaizer, and Daimos.

Just like DW I was a child-teen of the 80's...

The music was awesome! Talk about New Wave/New Romantics the likes of Wild Swans, The Care, U2, China Crisis, Fra Lippo Lippi, Lotus Eaters, etc.

Looking back, I think 80's fashion sucked.

I was such a sucker. :laugh:

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:05 am

Hell, it was fun to be a teenager in the 80s!

That's why 80s retro is all the rage nowadays. People tend to remember only the bad or cheesy stuff, especially when presented by a bunch of 90s mopes. As for the Transformers/GI-Joe thing, it didn't mean much to any of us, mostly because we didn't get cable television until the mid-80s, and nobody sat home watching cartoons in the morning/evening. The thing I remember about the 80s was that people got out much more. No mobile phones, no computers, no game consoles, no entertainment overload. You had one TV in the house, that was it. You wanted entertainment you had to work for it. Now people are throwing WoW New Years Eve -parties. Just how pathetic is that?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:40 am

Maharlika wrote:<snip>
Looking back, I think 80's fashion sucked.
<snip>

Is it possible to call BIG hair and HEAVY makeup in NEON clothes fashion :speech: :laugh:

Tower_Master · Post by **Tower_Master** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:08 am

Siberys wrote:Ehh...transformers didn't become huge until Beast wars came out in the 90's, which is odd considering it's the old 80's cartoon that was awesome and beast wars sucked big time.

Aww, come on, Sib - some of us have very fond memories of a rat with wheels proclaiming our impending doom

Moonbiter wrote:The thing I remember about the 80s was that people got out much more.

*Looks around at the location*...d'oh!

My one regret from the eighties? Not knowing about U2 at the time that "Joshua Tree" came out. Oh, what I missed.

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:15 am

Tower_Master wrote: Not knowing about U2 at the time that "Joshua Tree" came out. Oh, what I missed.

Best album.

Ever.