Ahhh the innocent 80s...

[chefzombie]

One thing about the 80s: there used to be a thing called Skinheads. They were guys who...shaved their heads. well, a lot of people do that nowadays thus skinheads have lost their exotic allure. They had tattoos too and a lot of people have those now too.

If you walked into a pizza place in the 80's and saw someone with a shaved head and tattoos you'd think you were someplace crazy. Now, that person is probably someones Dad who watches UFC

skinheads back then were white supremacists, and the underground that's now surfacing with hair still are. the"dads" taught them well, vicious bastards that they are.

[RCMerchant]

One thing about the 80s: there used to be a thing called Skinheads. They were guys who...shaved their heads. well, a lot of people do that nowadays thus skinheads have lost their exotic allure. They had tattoos too and a lot of people have those now too.

If you walked into a pizza place in the 80's and saw someone with a shaved head and tattoos you'd think you were someplace crazy. Now, that person is probably someones Dad who watches UFC

skinheads back then were white supremacists, and the underground that's now surfacing with hair still are. the"dads" taught them well, vicious bastards that they are.

Not all of them were. You had skinheads called 'Straight-Edge', who were against hard drugs and boozing (though a lot of them did it), like Henry Rollins and Minor Threat. I used to run into them in NYC. Nice folks, but a little to anti-drinking for me. And that's all I did back then. I did some drugs too, but not in NY. I did a lot of blotter acid and some cocaine, in Michigan about 1987 and 1988. But I din't like pot. Go figure.  What were we talking about?
Oh yeah-they got one thing in common- most of they're music really sucks!  

[RCMerchant]

When I think of the 80's, I think of this song-because that is the way I felt for years at the time. I was young, poor, drunk, and real p**sed off.

BLACK FLAG- DAMAGED

http://youtu.be/-yQ5z6jhZKM

[claws]

You had skinheads called 'Straight-Edge', who were against hard drugs and boozing.

I actually remember that, read an article once many years ago.

[RCMerchant]

You had skinheads called 'Straight-Edge', who were against hard drugs and boozing.

I actually remember that, read an article once many years ago.

"many years ago"
Dam. Now I DO feel old. 

[CheezeFlixz]

The 80's were awesome, I was in my 20's, fit, trim, lots of girls, no money, but it didn't matter we were having fun ... then like now a virus came along and screwed everything up.

[Leah]

I don't know if the 80's were great or not. I find it hard to gauge since people either love it to death or absolutely hated it, not much in the middle ground.

[ER]

I think I was very lucky to be a child in the '80s. We could still ride our bikes without helmets, we could still just take off riding all day around the neighborhood and have adventures, come home for lunch or snack, or to catch afternoon cartoons, still a thing then, and head back out to hang out some more.

There was no internet, exactly, so we played outside more than I think most kids do today; we went on insect safaris, we played on swings and climbed trees and caught lightning bugs (still plentiful then, as were honeybees), we swam in summer and jumped in leaf piles in fall and made snow forts in winter, and we got lots and lots of snow days, which were just THE best.

We had Saturday morning cartoons, and we had shows we really looked forward to, like Tales from the Dark Side, Elvira's Movie Macabre, Star Trek the Next Generation, and Doctor Who on Saturday nights watched with my dad. It was appointment TV, not on-demand, and that made us structure life more, we planned around things. Once in a great while, if I was maybe sick, or it was summertime, or my mom was over seeing her family in Ireland and it was just Dad and me, I'd even get to stay up late enough to catch Johnny Carson, or rarer still and later in childhood,1988 or so, his protege David Letterman, who'd drop TVs and watermelons off towers.

In the '80s you could still have a certain type of childhood that's rare now, endangered, even. And of course being young time seemed to go slower, my horizons were narrower, Reagan had always been president, JPII had always been pope, and it felt like they always would be.

My hometown football team went to the Super Bowl twice, which was a big deal in town. The biggest mall in the state was a couple miles down the road one way, an international airport a couple miles the other, jets were always flying past. We'd see UFOs some evenings while we sat out on our deck. Every Halloween a local middle school put on a haunted house on the corner and I'd listen to the revving of chainsaws and the sound of delighted screams.

Then in 1989 we moved to a different state and it was a nice place to be, I made good friends, got a dog I named Charlotte Sometimes, they came and dug up our yard and put in a pool, but there time suddenly sped up, it whooshed by, childhood blending with adolescence, zooming onward faster, faster, teen years, adulthood....now.

The '80s lingered, every decade since hurried by. And now it's the '20s, but for how long?

Yeah, the '80s were great.

[RCMerchant]

When I think of the 80's I think of this-

http://youtu.be/Fsbvo5GVK10

I was an angry young man. As opposed to what I am now, which is an indifferent old man.

[Rev. Powell]

I grew up as a teenager in the 80s and I hated it. The music on the radio was awful, pop culture was crap, and just when I turned 17 Reagan raised the drinking age to 21. I much preferred the 90s.

[ER]

The '90s were fun too but definitely not as innocent, lol.