Mostly the TV shows, they had some great quality TV shows then,
The music was incredible, so many different Soft Rock, Rock and Ballads.
Being a kid, carefree and having as much as possible, never having to worry about anything,
Being able to go right across the road to a Dairy and a couple of Chinese Takeaways.
Playing in the Air base that we lived right in front of with my sister and our best friends.
Visiting my Uncles and Nana every holiday and weekend.
So many great toys to play with....G.I. JOE and then there was the lesser known "MASK & VENOM",
Which was kind of a cheap knock off of G.I. JOE, But they came with some cool toys.
Playing with our slot car set and playing in the play room in our attic.

I remember the hair bands. My dad was always declaiming groups that nowadays seem like they really sucked. Bands named Whitesnake and Ratt? What an era. I also remember the 80's movies. "Avenge me boy, Avenge me!" anyone? Thats from Red Dawn, one of those prototypical 80's movies. Theres so many more, Ferris Bueler's day off, Police academy, Rambo, etc...

I remember more, the challenger explosion, the cold war, Reagan, and more. The 80's were crazy.

"I pity people who don't drink. When they wake up feeling good in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel" Frank Sinatra

[Slap] "Sprechen Sie Duetsch!?"
"So what if he does? You don't."

[LOL]

I remember this quite well also...saw the American president on the telly and everyone's shocked faces as I walked into the room.

As for me, I remember my auntie shaking her head when she saw Limahl's hair, later adding a comment about how a certain other country's inhabitants would like him in about ten years' time. The smell of certain hair spray brings me back and I recall my cousin's mini skirt sets and her hairstyle that was....suspiciously similar to...now I think of it...Limahl's! Oh yeah and if you wore anything other than black and white you were not with it.

Oh I had a couple of cousins who had a record and were known maybe more for their hair than anything.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but one step--Napolean Bonaparte

"Born in the 70's. Raised in the 80's" - that's just about me.
Here is what this time was in Soviet Union:

When we were kids nobody fastened sit-belts in the cars. A ride in a waggon on warm summer day was indescribable pleasure.
Our beds had bright pictures and the paints contained much lead. Medicine phials didn't have secret caps, doors were often unlocked, and dressers were never locked. We drank tap water at the street corners, not from plastic bottles like now. Nobody could even think of cycling in helmet. For many hours we were making carts and scooters by hands out of boards and bearings found on rubbish heaps; and when we were riding down the hill it turned out that we forgot to attach brakes. After driving into thorny bushes we fixed the problem.
We left homes early in morning, played the whole day long and came back home when street lamps lit. During a day nobody knew where we were as there were no cell phones. It's hard to imagine now. We hurt our hands and legs, but nobody ever brought an action against anybody.
We ate cakes and ice-cream, drank lemonade, but nobody was fat because we ran and played all the time. Several people drank from one bottle, but nobody ever died from it. We didn't have play stations, PCs, 165 satellite TV channels, CDs, cell phones, internet. We rushed to the nearest house to watch a cartoon film on TV because there weren't video recorders either.
But we had friends. We just left homes and found them. We cycled, drove matches along spring streams, sat on benches, on fences or in the school yards and chatted about anything we wanted. When we needed to see anyone we just knocked on the door, rang the bell or just came in and met him. Without asking anyone's permission. Alone in this cruel and dangerous world. Without body-guards. How did we manage to survive?
We invented games with sticks and cans, we stolen apples from the gardens and ate cherries with stones and they didn't sprout in our stomachs.
Each of us joined soccer, hockey or volleyball group at least once in his life, but not all of us were accepted by team. Those who weren't accepted managed to cope with disappointment.
Tests and exams didn't have 10 levels, there were 5 marks in theory, but only 3 in practice. During school breaks we poured water over each other from old syringes.
What else I can remember? MOSKVICH car with 5-copeck coins around the windshield, fur steering wheel and transmission handle with a little rose on it.
Fried pasty with jam filling. You will never guess which side the jam would be squeezed from.
ZIL fridge. It's a one hand bandit! You pull the handle and the cans fall down.
Teeth powder that cleaned teeth as well as silver spoons.
"Rubin" color TV-set which we repaired by a punch.
Milk in triangle packs.

how much do i miss the 80's lol

i loved metal mickey, grangehill, count duckula, dallas, dogtanian, jamie and his magic torch

i was listening to blondie, def leopard, toni basil, culture club wham and duran duran

i loved grifter bikes, slinkys, strawberry shortcake, weeblewobbles and my fisher price camper van.

lots of great memories, although i'm trying to ignore the clothes i wore euggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

how much do i miss the 80's lol

i loved metal mickey, grangehill, count duckula, dallas, dogtanian, jamie and his magic torch

i was listening to blondie, def leopard, toni basil, culture club wham and duran duran

i loved grifter bikes, slinkys, strawberry shortcake, weeblewobbles and my fisher price camper van.

lots of great memories, although i'm trying to ignore the clothes i wore euggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

how much do i miss the 80's lol

i loved metal mickey, grangehill, count duckula, dallas, dogtanian, jamie and his magic torch

i was listening to blondie, def leopard, toni basil, culture club wham and duran duran

i loved grifter bikes, slinkys, strawberry shortcake, weeblewobbles and my fisher price camper van.

lots of great memories, although i'm trying to ignore the clothes i wore euggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry computer has a mind of its own lol :)

I know what i don't miss. Pop music, my sisters watching top of the pops, furry dice, big hair and spandex. I used to like a lot of the cartoons and tv shows of the '80s. The cartoons seemed decent then, and then there was the A Team, the Fall Guy, Street Hawk, Air Wolf, Going Live, Grange Hill, Tony Hart and Morph and Knight Rider! I liked the toys, particularly Transformers. They were cool and weren't made of the crappest, most brittle plastic known to man. The video games were great. The Mega Drive and the SNES, after the Master System and NES. I enjoyed the summer holidays, off from school, playing stupid games with friends, and fighting with my sisters. I seem to recall i even enjoyed going to school in the '80s. Primary school was great. Stories at school, with those cartons of milk that had a picture of Blackpool tower on the side.

"Watch your step by the crowd of fanatics, while they kill in the name of applied mathematics"