Random 80's Person ID

Technically I'm not a baby boomer.

But I listen to Boom radio and the 80s was the best decade for both music and films.

I wear hats, I have flat caps, a trilby, a pork pie, baseball caps, a cowboy hat, a leather hat, a fez and a chechia. And probably others I can't remember. I hold my trousers up with braces.

No whippet though and I don't live in the north. I call the radio 'the wireless' and that's catching. People I worked with a few years ago also call the radio the wireless now. I sometimes use 'bob' to talk about money. "Jeez, that's thirty bob" and I've always used rhyming slang in normal day-to-day conversation without even thinking about it. When I was skinny, I had a cardigan.

I don't have a pipe but I do have slippers. I can't deny that I've often thought about buying a pipe, just so I can hold it by the bowl and point at people when I correct them. I prefer dimple pint glasses with handles.

But I'm not a boomer.
 
Werewolf said:
I sort of know what you mean.

Having said that the rose tinted specs are always handy, and I'm very aware that at that sort of time I was young enough not to really be aware of what was going on a lot of the time, and that we didn't have the 24 hours news services we do now that were needing to fill in airtime, so we didn't hear half the stuff we do now. I've mentioned before that IIRC statistically in terms of crime a lot of serious crimes have gone down, it's just we hear of stuff from the other side of the country within minutes, where 30 years ago we'd often not hear much about something similar in the next town over (let alone 60 years ago).

I do think that we've seen a quality of life decrease in the last 10 years or so though, as I remember things like being able to actually import from the US at a reasonable exchange rate and how much cheaper, even in relative terms a lot of things were.



No mention of Kelly LeBrock in weird science/woman in red either.
I guess her elbows are too pointy for the modern generation.
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She was stunning in Weird Science. I was thinking, how come she/weird science isn’t in this video and then I saw her on the escalator and then chet(Bill Paxton RIP).
 
I don't think I appreciated how hot Elizabeth Shue was, great smile.

A few have mentioned how it was better in the 80's/90's and I don't think its rose tinted specs. There seemed to be much less division than there is now...it seemed less complicated.
 
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burtie said:
The 90s was epic, great drugs, friends, days drinking without a care. The weekend started on a Thursday.
Now I'm counting my grey hairs and playing games on a Friday night. my eyesight is failing and my back hurts. Choose Life!
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I always remember the 90s with fond memories, but I am never sure if that's rose tinted because it's the decade I primarily grew up in (I was born in 1979)

At least politically and economically the UK really did feel like a positive and optimistic country at the time, to me at least - certainly compared to what I see now.
 
I was born in 1966 so the 80's was my decade as a teenager. Left school on Friday started work on Monday, discovering girls, clubbing at Demelza's which then became the Winter Gardens (again) and the Barn Club in Penzance, then rolling home across the promenade and Newlyn Green in all weathers ****** as a matress. Every now and then we would get to the Berkely Centre in Cambourne, what a club that was, 60's music downstairs, modern music upstairs. It was the decade I really got into music and started buying my collection. Back then I was a New Romantic listening to Duran Duran, Howard Jones (one of the greatest solo artists in the 80's for me), Tears for Fears, The Thompson Twins etc and on the other end of the scale I really got into what was then heavy rock such as AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Dio amongst others (I have a wide range of music tastes). Sadly towards the end of the 80's I lost interest in "pop" music when the likes of House and Rap started appearing and the 90's I hated thanks to so called "Brit Pop". I still bought music but not the current popular stuff. It was more catching up with what I didn't buy in the early 80's as well as new releases from my favourite rock groups and stretching back to groups from the 60's and 70's which is still the case even now. We had some cracking film releases in the 80's with Aliens, Top Gun, Ghostbusters and many other greats not that I saw much of them in the cinema as my girlfriends had other ideas!! I have more fond memories of the 80's than any other decade and the way this country is going I doubt that another decade will ever be the same.
 
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