Things commonly seen in the '80s

[qwertyaccount 15793]

While watching some '80s porn and "reminiscing" about the decade, there were several things I saw in the movie that were commonly seen in the '80s and not so much today:

• telephones with cords
  
• telephones with dials
  
• people enjoying a meal together and no one at the table was checking their email, taking a phone call or texting
  
• people getting up and walking across the room to change a channel or adjust the volume
  
• bush, lots of bush
  

For some of you younger lads that may not be familiar with the term "bush" having never seen one, it is a reference to a ladies vaginal hair.

 

I must have been in a coma years ago and missed reading all the headlines, but what ever happened to bush?

 

Was some guy (or gal) dining at the Y and after an unfortunate snag it was decided that it had to go?

 

I kind of miss it :(

[WriteOn 3250]

80's = Big Hair/Mullets.

[Guest realnicehat]

 

I must have been in a coma years ago and missed reading all the headlines, but what ever happened to bush?

 

Was some guy (or gal) dining at the Y and after an unfortunate snag it was decided that it had to go?

 

I kind of miss it :(

 

It was the porn industry. When they finally got daring enough to actually try and show a vag on camera nobody could see it through all the hair ;)

[NotchJohnson 214123]

Kids playing outside not on video games.

 

Long cars, can't take a car from the 80's and park it in a parking lot easy anymore.

 

Cassette tape players, VHS, walkman etc.

[Guest webothscore]

- Hypercolour tshirts

- safety pins down the pant legs (huge trend) to get rid of bell bottoms

[Guest A*ro**n]

Loud sweaters that are now being resurrected for "Ugly Sweater" parties

[qwertyaccount 15793]

Learning how to drive in an empty mall parking lot on a Sunday (all stores were closed on Sunday's until 1992).

[Guest realnicehat]

KFC was still known as Kentucky Fried Chicken and they looked like this:

 

 

The K Car:

 

 

Cable Converter:

 

 

The stubby (phased out by '86):

 

[Boomer 33202]

A little bit further back were the big bad muscle cars of the early seventies. Remember the Swinger 340 ,the 383 Superbee with a six pack and the 426 hemis, you probably figured out by now I was a Chrysler guy at the time.

[marriedbutnotdead 3844]

there were keys to open the car door, you had manually put down the car windows, white wall tires just to name a few

[Surf_Nazis_Must_Die 8958]

Movie montages seemed more common

[LeeRichards 177238]

Drive Inn Movies

 

Purrrhaps a Bond movie on Friday night and triple header Traci Lords / Ginger Lynn porn on Saturday night ;)

 

Ahhhhh the memories ......... I miss my van :( and bed in the back :( Oh ya and the drive in movie theatres .......

[Motorbykerider 4754]

80's music! Most anything from the UK was what I was listening to.

 

Loved it.

[Rounding Third 9568]

Five or six people in an office sharring ONE IBM 100 Personal computer and putting data on a 5.25 inch floppy

[qwertyaccount 15793]

When floppy disks were actually floppy.

 

My first floppy drive stored a whopping 85K of information on a single disk. That's a K as in kilobyte, not M or G -- 85K is 87,040 bytes. Your 8G flash drive (which stores 8,589,934,592 bytes) is the equivalent of 89,128,960 of those floppies. If those floppies were stacked they would be in a pile about 312km tall, or placed end-to-end, 1,188km long.

 

Just imaging how many floppies it would take to store your porn collection!

 

8 inch floppies:

 

and 5 1/4 inch floppies:

 

I remember many a time have a 5.25" floppy, when rubbed the right way became 8".

 

Additional Comments:

It was the porn industry. When they finally got daring enough to actually try and show a vag on camera nobody could see it through all the hair ;)

 

Thanks, that certainly explains porn and makes a lot of sense.

 

But what about the rest of the north American female population!?!

[Guest webothscore]

 

 

But what about the rest of the north American female population!?!

 

After RNH showed them his wet vac kiss from another thread, all these women decided to shave so that they could attract a different kind of man ;)

[Brad 49548]

For my part, I have to say this link has it all:

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/things-you-will-never-be-able-to-forget

[Andee 220524]

Big Hair Bands:

 

Motley Crue, Platinum Blonde, Warrant, Poison, Cinderella, David Coverdale, etc.

 

 

 

 

Big Glasses:

 

 

 

Brat Pack Movies (Less than Zero, St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, etc.):

 

 

[Guest S*rca****sid]

Lawn darts! The only game you could play with minimal effort that could kill your siblings.

[Emma Alexandra 123368]

I found this list..oh the memories. Lmao You know you grew Up in the 80s If . . .

 

 

 

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE

2. You watched the Pound Puppies

3. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly

sexy

4. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.

5. You owned those lil' Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls

6. Two words: Hammer Pants

7. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock"

8. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars... and

spokey-dokes or playing cards on your spokes for that

incredible sound effect

 

 

 

9. Your grandma was addicted to TAB cola

10. You owned both Underoos and Garanimals!

11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales" (Woo ooh!)

12. It was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons

13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head

14. You know all the turtles' names from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series

15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school

16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side

17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)

18. You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it

19. L.A. Gear... need I say more?

20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten. (She's Truly Outrageous.)

21. You remember reading Tales of a fourth Grade Nothing and all The Ramona books

22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"

23. You wanted to be a Goonie

24. You ever wore fluorescent neon clothing (some of us...head-to-toe)

25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted

26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf

27. You took lunch boxes to school...and traded Garbage Pailkids in the schoolyard

28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets

29. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence

30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts

31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band

32. You thought She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should hook up.

33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.

34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly shoes.

35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"

36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"

37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.

38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.

39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.

40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.

41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.

42. You remember Popples

43. Don't worry, be happy

44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.

45. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do..getting yelled at by younger hip members of the family)

46. You remember boom boxes and walking around with one on your shoulder like you were all that.

47. You remember watching both Gremlins movies.

48. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"

49. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and & My Little Pony Tales

50. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot

51. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac

52. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool...and don't even flinch when people refer to them as

"NKOTB"

53. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell," The ORIGINAL class

54. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - > YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME

55. You just sang those words to yourself

56. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird

57. Homemade Levi shorts... (the shorter the better)

58. You remember when mullets were cool!

59. You had a mullet!

60. You still sing "We are the World"

61. You tight rolled (pegged) your jeans

62. You owned a banana clip

63. You remember "Where's the Beef?"

64. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?

65. You had big hair and you knew how to use it

66. You're still singing "Shot Through the Heart" in your head, aren't you!

[redskin44 3588]

micheal jackson was black

no metal detectors at schools

kajagoogoo

teri nunn [ berlin ]

 

in my own personnel 80s time - 7 high schools

[Rounding Third 9568]

"WKRP in Cincinatti" Late 70's early 80's

[canuckhooker 19203]

Music video channels actually played music videos, and a lot of them were pretty good. Or alternately you could watch the late night music video shows on the non-cable channels.

[Meaghan McLeod 179664]

Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

The guys who created these toys, couldn't get anyone to produce them. So, they created a cartoon and commercials showing the toys. Of course the kids wanted the toys - so the parents went to the stores to buy them, and of course they didn't exist. So the stores started contacting the manufacturers who then started producing them and voila - They sold like hotcakes.

 

Cabbage Patch Kids? Remember the fist fights women got into in the stores to get their hands on one of them? Real fights - interrupting news bulletins.

 

Shoulder Pads - they made women look like quarter backs.

[qwertyaccount 15793]

• game cartridges that you needed to clean with a pencil eraser to make work
  
• reel to reel tape players
  
• phones without call display - you actually had to pick up the phone to find out who is calling or hide behind your answering machine
  
• answering machines with remote controls
  
• car phone antennas
  
• leg warmers
  
• bag phones