Thanks for all your lovely comments guys and girls. Don’t forget to check out the first part to my 80s trips down memory Lane. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U2zmZTzzuwc.html
@@lewiskemp5893 Man, remember being pretty late to the party but I was bought a second hand Atari 2600 from my friend's parents in late 1986, I loved it! Only had Yars' Revenge for the first few months though but luckily it was an awesome game!
@James Alderson Thanks for this video dude! Some great memories and stuff I'd even forgotten about! Anyone remember Reddifusion? We didn't have it but I thought it was cool!
@@GirGir183 the Internet has created a bunch of narcissistic miserable c'ts who can't formulate a cohesive thought without getting a suggestion from Google.
Things that I remember about the 80s: being allowed to stay up late on a Friday & Saturday night ! - Change out of your school clothes as soon as you got home from school then clean your shoes on newspaper so as not to get black polish on the floor - Fish n chips on Saturday (it was the only takeaway there was) - Playing out all day in the summer holidays that seemed to last months but you had to be home before dark - Tea cards - laying on the floor behind a ramp whilst a mate jumped over you on a bicycle - nylon t-shirts with a printed photo of your favourite kids tv show - black plimsoles & white tennis pumps - That white paint in a Squeezy bottle that had a foam pad to cover the marks on said tennis pumps - Hitec trainers - bath on a Sunday night - Matey bubble bath - 10p deposit return on Corona bottles - ½ penny sweets - matchbox cars - polystyrene glider planes with clip on propellers & Little house on the Prairie ! I am 50 this year.
Turned 51 at Christmas, work in IT and beginning to think there's too much of the thing. We had computers to play games on and do a bit of Basic programming but we also had friends we hung out with as well. If we wanted to say something we went to the person and said it in person, not by text message or over the internet. We had tech and personal interaction, now it's just tech. There are actually courses to teach our kids how to interact with other people! I have a friend who was best man at my wedding, we've been friend since we were 4 and I'd trust him with my life. Can't see kids of today who live in a world where everything is throw away growing up with that. People had little money in the 80s but had more friends and people they could depend on. People would help each other. Now we're too busy working to keep in touch with friends and family and despite having more money we have given up a lot for it. in many ways we have less today. Our kids will be tracked by Artificial intelligence by the time they're our age and will have virtually no real freedom and the sad thing is that we did that in our quest to control everything we see. I would wish kids today could have the childhood we had despite the hardship there was due to recessions and strikes etc. Not what they have now where they're stuck in a phone that'll ruin their eyesight from having a fixed focus all the time and measuring how cool they are by the number of likes they get on some social platform or other.. Boom time for Opticians ahead though :) I grew up on the poverty line but despite this I would not change a thing about my life.
@@ravenmadd1343 I am somewhat autistic so i’ve never been that much in to hanging out with people & i’m really not in to social media for friends & family so i’m not that affected, if fact it helps that i can still communicate with people who otherwise i’d go years without speaking to. We definitely have too much money today & that has filtered down to the kids who are mostly entitled & disrespectful of any & everyone outside of their friends & family. Nothing with kids is earned anymore, it’s all expected. Glad i’m past “having children” age
OMG! I was born in 1959, grew up during the 60s and 70s. But the 80s were the best times of all. I'm am familiar with every thing that showed up in this video. The 80s were the best!
Funny story about the libray. Last time I had gone to the library was in 1997 and my local library still hade the index card cabinet. Fast forward 12 years later. I went back after having been away in the Navy. I was looking for the index card cabinet, but couldn't find it. Finally, intrigued, a woman that worked there asked me what I was looking for. I said "I can't seem to find the index card cabinet!" she was quit shocked. After being done laughing, she took me to a computer by the main desk.
Wow, so many childhood memories, when Snickers was called Marathon, Star Burst were still Opral Fruits and 10p would buy you a lot at the corner store. Summer holiday cartoons (the ones that never seemed to be on at any other time of year for some reason) and always excited about what the 'surprise toy' was in the box of breakfast cereal. Simpler times.
I was 14 in 1980, met my first love, well 2nd love, as The Jam were my first love. Best days of my life, but now 54 im content with my lot, but give me a time machine to go back for the nostalgia and memories.
I know. Pleased you enjoyed it. Don’t forget to check out Part one of my 80s compilation too! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U2zmZTzzuwc.html
How nostalgic, they were the best days of my life growing up. Such fantastic times, thank you for bringing back so many memories. Life was so much better then and less fraught than today’s digital society.
My grandfather was a bus conductor and I remember him letting me wear the hat and carry the ticket machine on Saturdays and to ticket everyone on the sofa ... (that was the 70’s)
The 80’s after school in summer we’d all race to play in the fields till dark about 10 pm and if we met someone we didn’t trust from a distance we’d yell “What are you looking at, you owl perv” We were never afraid of being abducted, pity on the perv that would even dare. Kids traveled in large groups, had freedom, and therefore were street wise.
Loved this video (big thumbs up). I still have my casio watch purchased in 1989 (F-91W) stll going strong - battery has never been changed. Watch and strap still intact.
Things have progressed so quickly nowadays, young people will probably have no idea about any of this. Brings back memories of a simpler, happier time, (and I'm only 43).
Good! Best place for us! Don’t forget to check out Part one of my 80s compilation too! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U2zmZTzzuwc.html
Don’t forget the local video shops before blockbusters! Small section for new releases but the rest of the shop was a treasure trove of videos from all time periods. Spent hours just looking through the video covers. Good times
OMG! Dont you just forget about things until you see and get reminded of things gone by,Bloodyhell feeling old now I tell ya,but laughing at the same time,this is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. Cant wait to show my partner when he comes home,thank god for RU-vid and smart TVs, he loves all this especially old cars a lorrys. 🤣
Mate fair dinkum they were trully the best times, im 50 and my wife and i often reflect on what was just a good point in time when life was just pretty easy and simple....even if we didnt know it !!!
@@lilme7052 surely do !! & can be ment as " no bullshit " - " for real "- " honest to god " etc etc , & you'll find its really only fairdinkum people say fairdinkum !,, have a nice day !
I still use Vosene shampoo Shep but it's a shadow of it's former self, no nice strong carbolic smell any more, & now it only irritates rather than burns out your eyes. Another victim of the Health & Safety brigade no doubt.
@@The_Capri_Kid your right, I recently got some lifebuoy soap, it's what my mum used to buy. But sadly it's nothing like it used to be, barely has any smell anymore 😕
in the 1970s Margaret Thatcher as Education minister cut children’s milk as a cost cutting measure. There was a public backlash with the comment “Thatcher Thatcher the milk snatcher”
OMG!! A trip down memory lane. I still use one of those pop up phone number files. A car with a choke now that is going back. In the old days you put a clothes peg on it to stop it going back in. Oh happy days...... 😀
When you had to get up to change channels and being a milk monitor was a premium position. Lol...the xmas pack of tapes!! Fantastic! Thanks for this! 😀
They had Ambre Solaire I think, I was fair skinned so my grandfather insisted I had it on, mum wasn't bothered and used to use tanning oil or olive oil, and in Egypt on holiday she only used a low factor and came back absolutely fried and peeling. Definitely there was sun cream in the 80s.
Phones connected to the wall. Knowing how to start any engine without “flooding” it. Everybody was skinny. Tattoos were only see on Navy Vets and Ex-Cons. McDonalds was actually appetizing. Most homes, cars and schools didn’t have air conditioning. Aqua-net. You could go to the beach and walk away from your stuff to get ice cream and when you came back your stuff was still there. Today’s conservatives would’ve been appalling liberals by 80’s standards. Social media didn’t exist. MTV had music videos on. All day!
I didn't trust auto chokes at first. As I felt there was a skill involved in knowing how to start your own banger, that an auto chokes couldn't possibly know !!!
Several pupils at my school were obese, one girl had a glandular illness though that made her fat, and when she was on medication she lost an amazing amount of weight very quickly. My nan was obese. I recall seeing quite a few fat people as a child.
Damn I was born 85 but remember almost all of these, funny really was speaking to a friend the other day about the plastics issue, being a 90's baby they were shocked about the glass bottle thing and couldn't believe we had milk delivered to the door everyday
Haha. You must have been rich David. Izal was in schools, council buildings, public loos, and all my friends homes. Ol’ money bags David and his fancy home 😂 Apart from train stations, did you enjoy the rest of the clip?