[Closed] Were you a child of the 80's?

Yep. 😐

50's? Rock 'n' Roll, postwar freedom, jobs for all.
60's? Drugs, free love and very silly clothes.
70's? Cheap motorbikes, punk, Northern Soul and the most amazing trousers.

What did we get?
Deelyboppers, unemployment, herpes, Thatcher and New Romanticism.

Yay.

Yes I was, this movie was the one that got me worried.

THREADS

Growing up in the 70s and 80s was cool! We had impending global destruction, Raleigh Choppers, BMX, Grifters, Angel Delight, Charlie's Angels and

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Spangles.. Texan Bars n Rickets

Public Info Films of the 70s and were proper scary even featured Paedos.

Be safe kids.

The 50s had Elvis
The 60s had The Beatles.
The 70s had the Stones.
The 80s had Michael Jackson.
Now we have Ed Sherran and Mumford and Sons.

Now we have Ed Sherran and Mumford and Sons.

You seem to have skipped a few decades.

I remember that QED and also Threads - Threads gave me nightmare and still gives me the heebees today.

You want scary?

Here you go.

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Sleep well.

What did we get?

You forgot AIDS

Noseybonk!!

and

I still have my Astro Wars. I should get around to trying to fix it at some point. As a child I discovered that upping the voltage on the power adapter made the screen really bright, with hilarious consequences. Hopefully it's just a fuse or something and not the VFD.

Threads and salems lott had a lot to do with many sleepless nights. Oh and that film walkabout but for different reasons 😆

I remember an animated film about nuclear war, it started with this lovely old couple listening to the news on the radio about 'the bomb' dropping then slowly die from the fall-out of the course of it, I'm pretty sure we saw it as a double feature with Watership Down on the last day of junior school - **** me, it was like they were trying to trim the herd to reduce class sizes in comp.

That and worzel gummidge, no wonder my generation spent most of the 90's taking drugs!

P_jay, it was When The Wind Blows

[i]Sleep well.[/i]

cheers, noseybonk really did freak me out 😯
😆

Thanks Piedi.

For those who didn't get to 'enjoy' it in school this is the synopsis from IMDB:

"Jim and Hilda Bloggs, a middle-class couple whose children have all grown up. Their home is hit indirectly by a Soviet nuclear bomb, leaving it in ashes and barely standing. Jim and Hilda survive by ducking behind a door that Jim set up as an inner refuge. But as they cope with the devastation and humiliation of barely surviving the attack, and as they steadily fall into radiation sickness which will eventually kill them both."

It's a laugh a minute!

No I was a child in the 70's so got:

[i]Cheap motorbikes, punk, Northern Soul and the most amazing trousers.[/i]

You should have seen some of the flares I got caught in the chainrings!!!

Amusingly it (when the wind blows) is available on iTunes - under 'comedy' 😯

It's like the snowman for grownups

Noseybonk definitely came across as a complete psycho. In a bid to appear slightly stupid and dimwitted, the actions without facial expressions became incredibly sinister.

Good memory...

One of Raymond Briggs wasn't it?

Brings a tear to my eye

1980s safety films traumatised me. Pylons and electrical substations will kill you if you so much as look at them (especially if you have a kite). All reservoirs have lethal currents, just waiting to pull you into their watery depths.

Still, the decade gave us Transformers, Ulysess 31, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Dungeons & Dragons, Jem & the Holograms, the Spectrum, the C64, the Amiga 500, thrash metal, Empire Strikes Back, the Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, the Goonies, the Princess Bride, Terminator, Aliens and Predator, amongst other things.

I quite like the 80s.

Hours of test card or hours of Ceefax.
I can't believe Ceefax only stopped in 2012!

One of Raymond Briggs wasn't it?

the sound of a carefully dubbed copy of Sabre Wulf - on a TDK 'chrome' c60

..failing after loading for 12.38s

.....brsqklburrr-ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

fek!

(Sorry 'Ultimate' 🙂 )

Anyone remember the cops coming to school and giving the talk on dont play on railway lines. The video they showed was well gruesome at that age.

The 80s gave us mountain bikes!!! 😀

Porlus, that would be Robbie. Scarred for life!

I still get edgy around electrical sub stations thanks to those films! Somewhere at my parents I've got my 4D special agents membership card that the local bobby gave out when showing the film to my primary school. Remember kids, strangers are all paedos!.
The 80s were awesome, the 90's weren't bad, the 00's were a bit shit, and tbh the 10's can go to hell as they've given us skinny jeans and shit beards.