Are you a child of the 80's?

I KNEW i was a child of the 80s when i read this:

You know you were a child of the 80s when...

Made me smile like Gary Coleman.

Is this like a British thing? Kylie and Jason, who are they?

Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan = "Neighbours" soap stars and later pop stars, Australians.
Now I'm a Brit but wtf was the aerobie scandal?

I'd say a LOT of that is Brits only...

I don't think your problem is that you're not British, its the fact that you weren't born anywhere near the 1980's

No beer for you young man.

i didnt know what the aerobie scandal was either...

Maybe we should call in Columbo, or Quincy.or Magnum. or one of those guys

"The" A-ha video (they had more than one) is still the best going.
(child of the 60's defining culture)

Very good, and bought back some funny memories, but can someone please explain"Ca-vey Wa-vey!"...?

I was more a fan of Duran Duran's 'wild boys' because if you squinted, you could see boobies.

Captain Caveman! Some girls (can't remember them) used to call him this when they needed his help.

Oh my God!!!


puff-ball skirts!!!

hahahahahahaha

Maybe we should add to the list:

opposite matching flourescent gloves and socks

computer games where you types in xxxxxxx 'RUN' / 'PLAY'

Scratch 'n' sniff sticker collections

The Tshirts were alot more fun!

I just read that list and there wasn't one mention of Joey Deacon.

Global Hyper-colour t-shirts ... oh my god!!!

I was never allowed one (phew!) but didn't they change the design of them after a particularly hot summer, so that only the front panel and back panel changed colour, to avoid embarrasing colour changes in armpit areas... (ruined all the fun of them!)

I had a purple one that lasted for precisely two days before my loving mother decided to boil wash it and it remained permanently light blue from then on. Curses!

But surely if they really were children of the 80's then they would know that it is Frankie say not says?



Oh... and the aerobie thing? I'm not sure, but wasn't there a claim that someone had thrown it over a mile, and it all turned out to be rubbish? I forget... I think it does hold the furthest thrown object record, but I don't think it is that far

ah... now I've re-read it. The aerobie scare was that it could cut your head off. It doesn't - but it don't 'alf sting.

lol, the lethal aerobies.

I will add to the list:

Trying to play 'axel f' on your friends casio keyboard

Thinking that you might get drunk if you consumed too many lyon's maid cider ice lollies.

casio keyboard = trio and "da da da ich lieb dich nicht..."
the jingle on the advert was "la la la la la look innnnnn!" and the magazine was crap.
the word fuck and the tube
channel four
"video killed the radio star" (was in a ar in berlin on the weekend when the song came up. tried to guess the date. friend in car says "ohhhh 83. cos that was when i was born"
i had a piano tie.
the A-team shot more ammunition off than an army division. but there was no blood. nor reloading and jamed weapons.
sinclair zx 80 (my first computer. ram = 1K)
sinclair zx 81 and then the colour one, loading down games from casette.
"loads of money" and "'ello peeps"
red braces and dawn raiders.
mobile phones the size of a brick - had one nearly killed me.

And nobody was actually killed. They usually just ran off or were left unconcious. Once BA got shot in the leg. Twas the only actual injury I remember.

I think he may have injured Murdoch a few times whilst they were trying to sedate him with milk before putting him onto a plane.

Martin Jervis reading Jackanory.

Texan Bars temporarily back

I remember them from when I was really little (was born in '71) they've been back in the sweety shops as a 'Blast from the Past' range. my sister bought me one when I was home at the weekend and I scoffed half of it last night.
it tasted like plastic.

Smiths 'salt and shake'

hee me and my sister tricked our little brother into eating 'the magic blue crisp' he cried.

hmm.. even though I was born in 80, I don't remember most of these things, just the music because of my older sisters.

Weren't Hypercolor t-shirts from the 90s? God, I think 90s fashion was just as bad. Anyone heard of the brand Multiples? A bunch of stretchy-cotton gear in all different colors. You could turn a tube top into a belt or wear it as a headband. The parachute pants tapered at the ankles were also a big hit.

kids spending a million pounds on cadbury's cream eggs.

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Don't remember those... (maybe that's a good thing!??)

Do remember jump suits and ra-ra skirts though...

u can't touch this!

The Wombles
The Flumps (I always wanted to be Posy flump coz she had a balloon!)
Henrys cat
Danger Mouse
Batfink
Banana Man
Fingermouse
Badger Girl (BBC shcools programme girl with streak in her hair - sooooo cool!)
The Gnome Mobile...

YES! BADGER GIRL!!!

Was she the one that stopped a shipment of Dartmoor ponies being shipped off to France? Or was that someone else?

STOP!

Hammer Time

haaaaaaaaaaa - yes it was!! God, I thought i'd be labelled as a nutter for including Badger Girl, but well remembered! She was such a rebel!

There was also the fairground programme in the same BBC series, that had the lad that went on to be in Eastenders...

tucker.
arther doing a wobbler down the allotment.
"give us a job".
sam fox (now a lesbian)
the falklands
west end boys and east end girls
steel toe capped dock martens (with the leather cut out) and red stripe 501s
bottled lager with a lime in it
arthur scargill
wearing suits (JPG with the skull and cross bone lining)
sade - abc - terrance trent d'arby - and the best rick astley
in fact "never gonna give you up"
stock aitkin waterman
was jason gay?
blitz magazine
the face magazine
Neville brody
DTP and apple mac.

see also Fine Young Cannibals.

I think to be a child of the 80s you probably need to have been born by about 75 (I'm born 72 and wouldn't really consider myself a child of the 70s)

*bottled lager with a lime in it*

or even better ... getting your big sister and her mates to drink Grolsch so you could wear the cermamic bottle tops on the laces of your Wallaby shoes ...

oh shit yeah grolsh and learning how to openthe bottle by whacking it with your thumb (i was a teenager of the eighties)

VW badges

sewing heavy metal band (preferably 'The Maiden') patches on your natty denim jacket. Or, a little while later, an american flag inside the rip on the knee of your jeans.

no seat belts, the law came in about 85, but that was after we could take my mom's Plymouth Fury (1970 car) to the drive in- $5 a car load- we could seat 14 in there! 3 grown boys could fit in the trunk.

doing donuts in the parkinglot with mom's car! God rewheel drive was great!

Ps- Sam Fox used to be a Men's Magazine regular- I used to work in a giftshop, and we had all the mags, and one of my brothers friends always had to have every mag with her in it.

Lucy K... have u forgotten the thundercats,prince valiant,visionariesand gummi bears???
Oh,and dark towers was the best bbc schools series... that and the boy from space

@ Uefastriker - I'm impressed! I had indeed forgotten all about two of my particular favourites that you mentioned there, Thundercats (MUMRAAAAAA!) and Gummi Bears ... shame on me!

My brother used to have a huge Sam Fox "oben-ohne" poster on his bedroom wall and when any prudish aunts etc came to stay he always had to take it down!!

Definitely a blast from the past seeing that list - ashamed to admit I had the ra-ra skirt, pixie boots, leg warmers etc

Still you can't beat the 80's music for disco danicing

don't forget BIG HAIR!!!
on men and women!

All that backcombing ... ouch!