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

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?

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.

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

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]

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

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.

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

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?

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")

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

Maharlika wrote:<snip>
Looking back, I think 80's fashion sucked.
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Is it possible to call BIG hair and HEAVY makeup in NEON clothes fashion :speech: :laugh:

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.

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

Best album.

Ever.