What was it like growing up in the 80's.

2bit · 28 Apr 2012 at 22:57

RDM said:
No, I completely disagree. You only managed a half dozen films across two decades, TV today is much better, considerably more choice, lots of decent programmes and the ability to Sky+/TIVO means you no longer have to rely on dodgy VCR timers working and worrying about tapes being overwritten. Also Quantum leap was rubbish (And only just something from the 80s)...

Kids TV is much more varied and much better than the two hours of pap we had to endure. Cinema is much more entertaining, with a much wider range of flims due to the widespread mutliplexes. Especially for kids, the sheer joy on my daughters face whilst she watched the Avengers today was great.

I'm not sure if that was a good point well made or not.

I've had a few so can't decide...

[FnG]magnolia · 28 Apr 2012 at 22:58

When people say 'back in the day' I generally think they mean the 80s so imagine my surprise when they're talking about 2006.

The 80s were good. Not great, just good.

Castiel · 28 Apr 2012 at 23:00

ThatAsianGuy said:
You old git :O, I dare to ask but how old are you?

My age and the meaning of the universe are synomomous.....

As far of which was better.....I am now living in a future I could only imagine back in the 70s and 80s.....it's like living in an episode of startrek.

ScoTTyBEEE · 28 Apr 2012 at 23:06

The 80's were infested with Chuck Norris /thread

Pawnless Endgame · 28 Apr 2012 at 23:09

I agree with kids being able to socialise more back then and the whole paedophilia paranoia nowadays.

I had a base in the woods in the late 80s, played tig-on-ball a lot, we all had different computers Speccy, C64, Amstrad, Beeb etc. We saw Transformers the 1st time round, plus Inspector Gadget, Trap Door, Knightmare. The girls were able to watch the original My Little Pony, none of that Friendship Is Magic **** or whatever it is nowadays that seemed to have dominated the net. What is the fuss with that anyway?

batsy · 28 Apr 2012 at 23:14

Looking back I enjoyed my childhood in the 80s, we didn't have much money but made our own fun and I got a Spectrum 48k one Christmas which I loved. :cool:

We lived beside a park with a few bowling greens and behind the clubhouse/toilets there was a wooded area where we always found tattered porn mags stuffed in the hedges.

Good times.

cheets64 · 28 Apr 2012 at 23:18

I cant believe how many kids are on facebook or have mobile phones, literally 10 year olds on facebook and twitter, stupid.

We use to have to go and knock on your mates door if you wanted to play footie etc.

Uther · 28 Apr 2012 at 23:40

Castiel said:
Damn......I'm older than the OP's Dad....

Same

I enjoyed my childhood though, without any of the modern stuff kids find indispensible these days.
In the '80's I was making more money than I get now...

Spit · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:03

Space Lego and Transformers, nuff said.

2bit · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:08

cheets64 said:
I cant believe how many kids are on facebook or have mobile phones, literally 10 year olds on facebook and twitter, stupid.

We use to have to go and knock on your mates door if you wanted to play footie etc.

Noooohhh, did we really?

jamesblade · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:08

Going to Matches just to kick off, travelling to away games on the train.Buzz all day long.And never realy getting nicked for it.

Viper² · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:12

jamesblade said:
Going to Matches just to kick off, travelling to away games on the train.Buzz all day long.And never realy getting nicked for it.

Buzz?

RomanNose · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:13

Lol, when I was a kid my parents let me cycle miles away without a phone or anything. Once did about 20 miles with my mate, we are talking 10 years ago, maybe a bit less..

SexyGreyFox · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:20

G-MAN2004 said:
Films...

Remaking films seems to be a growing trend recently. The writers are running out of ideas and are now butchering the classics. Hardly an improvement on the past is it?

How may remakes?
About 10?
Tell you what I'll give you 20 out of the 1000s & 1000s of films that have been made since the 80s.

G-MAN2004 said:
Music...

Is there not a lot more **** in the charts and whatever else these days? Music has been taken over by rubbish artists such as Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and a decent band these days in a lot of the population's opinion is something like One Direction. Certainly not a good thing.

But there were older people saying exactly the same thing about your music back in your day.
"Ooh Martha all this 80s music is rubbish compared to what we listened to in the 60s".

I just hope I never get think like that.

jamesblade · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:20

Viper² said:
Buzz?

Adrenaline, pumped up, Natural High.

You ever jumped out of a plane, bungee jump, Been in the ring, same feeling

The Halk · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:25

Dimple said:
How may remakes?
About 10?
Tell you what I'll give you 20 out of the 1000s & 1000s of films that have been made since the 80s.

I think you're right there. While Hollywood does now do shoddy remakes, and they do bandwagon jump (3D!), they still do plenty of other movies and the standard of acting is incredible. If you watch an old classic, while they still stand the test of time the acting in them isn't up to today's standards. Nor is the camera work, the lighting, the everything.

Dimple said:
But there were older people saying exactly the same thing about your music back in your day.
"Ooh Martha all this 80s music is rubbish compared to what we listened to in the 60s".

I just hope I never get think like that.

Hmmm. For me the 90s was when mainstream music peaked. Since then it's fallen away, Pop Will Eat Itself were right - it did eat itself. The test for me is that in the mid 90s pubs and clubs played mid 90s stuff. They had the odd 70s night (80s nights were super rare). These days there's plenty of places still playing plenty of 90s stuff, I think pop music has targeted an ever younger demographic. However it's only fair to say that there's way more variety of music available now. While the mainstream may have fallen away that doesn't mean there's not good music around.

Judgeneo · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:26

Kids have as much or more freedom these days, it seems to be socially unacceptable to punish children after all.

Also, we have the internet.

ArchAnGeL · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:40

Home video gaming took off and changed everything
Hip hop took off and changed everything
Acid house arrived in the uk and changed everything

Video recorders came mainstream and were pretty cool

Liverpool were good!

Nitefly · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:47

The people that grew up in the 1980s knew who Oasis were.

And those that grew up in the 1990s.

What the hell man?!

Threepwood · 29 Apr 2012 at 00:57

2bit said:
Good to know the topics that me and my partner should be really worried about.

(I have to put rolleyes here - just in case)..

I'm unsure if you are taking the mick or not. The biggest change I see in Larger towns is the ammount of traffic, It's way more realistic that a child could be hit by a motor than picked up by a pedo. Am I the only one who thinks this?

Either that all of the friends and work colleagues I know who have kids are raising them far too protectively compare to the norm... or when I was younger everybody I knew was raising them far less protectively compared to the norm.

Can't tar us all with the same brush. While I accept that parent tend to be a lot more protective of their kids nowadays, there are some of us that allow them the same kind of freedom that we used to have, just a couple of years later that's all. Again that is so they are more aware of things like traffic etc.

But, like mentioned, it depends where they live. My eldest two are in a small town and have been allowed out and about since 8 or 9, but they live in a place where everyone is looking out for everyones kids.

My youngest (currently 8) lives on the coast, his back yard is literally the beach, on the outskirts of a very small scottish village and he has the most freedom of the lot, including being able to walk 2 miles away to the post office.

But if they were in a large town, or the city, yeah I doubt they would have much, if any freedom.