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Blatant sexism.
One of my ‘favourite’ memories of the late 80’s is walking alone down a long, narrow street towards a pub where I was meeting work colleagues in Preston.
A large group of young guys (looked like a rugby or football team on a night out) launched into a very loud, long and tuneful chorus of ‘get your tits out for the lads’! I very nearly turned around and went home again. |
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Going out with the money in your pocket and when it ran out, you went home not to a hole in the wall cash machine.
Alongside that I remember taking money out of the Bank because a lady who worked there knew my Mother. So she called her to tell her that I’d be calling in.
No mobile phones  |
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Winding back speedometer readings! Which was reasonably easy to get away with back then because, service history was never really seen as important, and online government web site to check MOT history had still yet to be invented. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Perms.
Nobody liked my perm when I was 19 
Ha, curly hair is the best  "
My hair is so straight that perms wouldn't even take. I live for the day I can crimp again though! |
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"Perms.
Nobody liked my perm when I was 19
Ha, curly hair is the best
My hair is so straight that perms wouldn't even take. I live for the day I can crimp again though! "
I was just going to put crimped hair!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Puff ball skirts!!
and NafNaf, Sweater shop and being shite-faced on a fiver, listening to 'Zoom' (just one look and then my heart went boom) at the local "sticky carpeted nightclub, wondering if the bloke at the side, in the catchy Farrah stay-press, is going to come stick his tongue down your throat!!
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Just me, then?! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sex education at school what a joke lol "
I heard wanking was like shaking a tomato sauce bottle. My bell end was sore for years after smacking it to get the sauce out |
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My dad had a van in the early 80s. He kitted out the back of it with carpet and bean bags, for me and my sister. And there we’d play with our Sindy dolls as he drove. Can you imagine that now?! 
Bicycle helmets really weren’t a thing.
Much less of a health & safety focus in general.
God, I loved my Sindy dolls and Sindy house. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My dad had a van in the early 80s. He kitted out the back of it with carpet and bean bags, for me and my sister. And there we’d play with our Sindy dolls as he drove. Can you imagine that now?!
Bicycle helmets really weren’t a thing.
Much less of a health & safety focus in general.
God, I loved my Sindy dolls and Sindy house."
You do make me smile |
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By *dalisqueWoman
over a year ago
land of make believe |
"Saving the tokens of the jam jar wrappers to send off and get a Robinsons …….. I’m sure you can fill in the rest, or was that the end of the seventies, time passes fast. "
I'm sure I read somewhere they are worth £5,000 if you still have yours. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Puff ball skirts!!
and NafNaf, Sweater shop and being shite-faced on a fiver, listening to 'Zoom' (just one look and then my heart went boom) at the local "sticky carpeted nightclub, wondering if the bloke at the side, in the catchy Farrah stay-press, is going to come stick his tongue down your throat!!
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Just me, then?! "
And did he  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sex education at school what a joke lol
I heard wanking was like shaking a tomato sauce bottle. My bell end was sore for years after smacking it to get the sauce out "
Haha  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My dad had a van in the early 80s. He kitted out the back of it with carpet and bean bags, for me and my sister. And there we’d play with our Sindy dolls as he drove. Can you imagine that now?!
Bicycle helmets really weren’t a thing.
Much less of a health & safety focus in general.
God, I loved my Sindy dolls and Sindy house.
You do make me smile "
Xxx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Being able to speak your mind and have cheeky banter without every Tom, Dick and Harry being offended.
Also miss Woolworths and the good old TV adverts."
Do the shake and vac  |
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"Saving the tokens of the jam jar wrappers to send off and get a Robinsons …….. I’m sure you can fill in the rest, or was that the end of the seventies, time passes fast.
I'm sure I read somewhere they are worth £5,000 if you still have yours."
Sadly not. I think it was last seen being devoured by the dog. |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
grangemouth |
"Blatant sexism.
One of my ‘favourite’ memories of the late 80’s is walking alone down a long, narrow street towards a pub where I was meeting work colleagues in Preston.
A large group of young guys (looked like a rugby or football team on a night out) launched into a very loud, long and tuneful chorus of ‘get your tits out for the lads’! I very nearly turned around and went home again. "
And homophobia. Both were pretty much instutionalised and portrayed as such on TV: there were regular anti-gay jokes on TV, as well as an expectation that all that women wanted was to marry and have kids. |
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"Blatant sexism.
One of my ‘favourite’ memories of the late 80’s is walking alone down a long, narrow street towards a pub where I was meeting work colleagues in Preston.
A large group of young guys (looked like a rugby or football team on a night out) launched into a very loud, long and tuneful chorus of ‘get your tits out for the lads’! I very nearly turned around and went home again.
And homophobia. Both were pretty much instutionalised and portrayed as such on TV: there were regular anti-gay jokes on TV, as well as an expectation that all that women wanted was to marry and have kids. "
Yup. My best friend at the time was gay. I often had to pretend to be his girlfriend so he didn’t get ‘queer bashed’!
There were lots of great things about the eighties - but some shit ones too! X |
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Before the real days of Internet with lonely hearts out the local paper envelopes and stamps as in the late 70,s and very early 90,s had its good points and bad I suppose but all that effort often to get stood up by someone.. enjoyed many years of course fishing with my dad into the mid late 80,s till I turned to bird watching but not so much now days. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Gold Label
Boom Boxes
Crappy ridiculous looking fiberglass bodykits on cars
White dog poo everywhere
Getting into a fight with no one ending up in court
Returning pop bottles to get your deposit back
Mobile grocery shops
Hairy groins |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have been telling the world I have been trying to bring back 2 classic things from the 80’s
Backwards dancing….. you know the move!!!!!!
Malibu and pineapple…… "
I love Malibu! Would tend to have it with orange, although pineapple sounds nice ... if a tad sickly! |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
grangemouth |
"Blatant sexism.
One of my ‘favourite’ memories of the late 80’s is walking alone down a long, narrow street towards a pub where I was meeting work colleagues in Preston.
A large group of young guys (looked like a rugby or football team on a night out) launched into a very loud, long and tuneful chorus of ‘get your tits out for the lads’! I very nearly turned around and went home again.
And homophobia. Both were pretty much instutionalised and portrayed as such on TV: there were regular anti-gay jokes on TV, as well as an expectation that all that women wanted was to marry and have kids.
Yup. My best friend at the time was gay. I often had to pretend to be his girlfriend so he didn’t get ‘queer bashed’!
There were lots of great things about the eighties - but some shit ones too! X"
I got the cold shoulder from one of the few friends that I had, when I suggested that maybe a woman wanted a career and not just to stay at home with the kids.
Yeah, that went down well. |
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"Shoes and shirts in nightclubs or you ain't coming in  "
before that it was the tie and a big bouncer round the corner those were the days.. I stuck to s after a while haha £5 in those days was a fair amount ridiculous prices now no doubt. |
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over a year ago
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Smoking in pubs.
Remember the yellowed ceilings and fowl stench of stale tobacco when you went in your local for a pint?
I can't say much though because I was a smoker back then so probably didn't mind it at the time  |
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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago
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"Smoking in pubs.
Remember the yellowed ceilings and fowl stench of stale tobacco when you went in your local for a pint?
I can't say much though because I was a smoker back then so probably didn't mind it at the time "
I can remember the ceilings of double decker buses when you could smoke upstairs, graffiti written in the yellow nicotine stains.... Yuck! |
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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago
North Norfolk area |
"Lager and black currant
Or lager and lime One from the late 70,s here Cider and guinness.. Black velvet I,ve never tried that thou it was popular at the time."
Black Velvet is actually Guinness and Champagne.....got totally wasted on that more than a few times after rugby  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Superman - Black Lace
Except when you're 10 pints deep at a family do, it suddenly becomes acceptable again
That must include the Conga then "
Oops Upside Ya Head |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"3 channels on your TV (and then 4, what a time to be alive that was!). Getting your first video player. Look at us now!
Danish x"
2 questions though about the video player…
1) was it vhs or was it Betamax???
2) did it one where you put in the video at the front… or at the top and you had to push it down!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Loving all the Swap Shop, Tiswas, smoking on the top deck of busses et al memories. However the ages, including mine!, seem a little on the young side for memories of the 70’s and early 80’s!! Lol. Oh what fun had. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember going to the Boys Brigade 7 a-side football competition. Our leader had an estate car and the whole team (including 2 subs) were happily transported in it in a oner. Fantastic. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Toot and wave. Technically the early 90s but that’s almost the 80s right?
Just after passing our driving tests at 17 going out as groups of lads in our mates Ford Fiesta XRi (he had rich parents .. ) honking the horn and shouting out at any groups of girls we saw.
Absolutely cringeworthy looking back and definitely laddish and not just a little bit misogynistic too. Although surprisingly a high percentage of the girls liked it back in the day and many hook ups occurred as a result.
However looking back now I guess there would have been a lot that absolutely hated it or felt threatened by it but at the time it seemed just good fun through our naive perspective |
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