h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just want to thank all of you for this huge amount of feedback...
(BTW, I haven't seen anyone of you talking about the "VW Golf", that's really "'80ies" too, at least here)

...sorry, I forgot Yuppies...

I just want to thank all of you for this hugew amount of feedback...
(BTW, I haven't read about Yuppies and the "VW Golf" yet, they too are really "'80ies", at least here (the Volkswagen)).

Bad fantasy films (Krull, Red Sonja, Legend), Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers, Only Fools and Horses, the Brighton Bomb.....
BCNU - Crescent

The Mk 1 White Golf GTI convertible is just sooooo 80's Yuppie it's not true.

Oooh! oooh! Sloane Rangers! Owning shares in former public utilities! Grey loafers with white socks!

...Arnold Schwarzenegger as "Conan"...
...Mods...

What about IBM? They are '80ies, even nowadays
Post- communism: Every bad guy in every film was russian, even the Orks in the movie to "Lord of the Rings" sound russian...

Deloriens and all they sybolised (Back to the Future, Cool Gull Wings, Unemployed Northern Irish, Cocaine etc.)
Anything mentioned in the Wedding Singer.

Sinclair Spectrum, The Hobbit, Way of the exploding Fist (Only cos I can't spell Y ar Kung-Fu), Manic Miner, Lunar Jetman, Atic Atack, Underwurlde (and anything else by Ultimate Play the Game), Spindizzy.

Oh lordy - nostalgia alert!

Cool things
The start of Channel 4 - Especially "The Tube".
Japan (the band)
Billy McKenzie / The Associates
"Japanise style" Anything minimalist, black/red or black/white etc.
Being 16/17 and sneeking into pubs.
That nasty green hair gel that made all the lovely styles possible.
Blokes in make-up! (comming home with lippy-marks on your neck always made your Mum look puzzled)
Swapping hair/make-up tips with your boy friends (Or was I just a trainee fag-hag?)
Midori / Taboo and all those girlie-drinks (prototype Alcopops?)
Compact disks
12 inch re-mixes
Walkmans
Madonna
Customising clothes with bits of lace/bleaching/bottletops etc.
"Gender Bending"
The Young One
Feris Buller's Day Off
Calling people "Thatcherite Fascists" (and meaning it!)
Laughing at the thought of flares!

Phew - and loads more besides...

Is it me, or have the Eighties sort of become the new Seventies, in that everyone regards them as really naff and tacky, while the 70s (and even flares!) have become cool again?

The '80ies have always been cool... sort of.
(Thatcherite Fascist )

... not to forget Eurythmics (Soundtrack for the movie to Orwell's 1984, synthi- style, big time '80ies) and David Bowie.
BTW, Only in the '80ies it was possible even for animated films to have lousy actors. (see HeMan)
Nevertheless they were great, because they had a certain, hard-to-describe flair.

Remarking in Jan 1985 'I see George Orwell cocked it up, then' and waiting for any knee-jerk AntiThatchers in the vicinity to say 'Oh, you think so, do you?' and completely fail to see the irony in the Labour Party suggesting that a Ministry of Peace would be a good idea.

Hacky-sacks, GMTV, telling Sid, good winters, rubix cube.......
BCNU - Crescent

Watching the Superbowl, Donkey Kong, The Meaning of Liff.

Buzby (or was he earlier) and red phone boxes

Oh, and Trim Phones (although I think they are earlier, as well as dangerous)

Oh yeah !
that good old C64, somtimes i load down games like ELITE,URIDIUM,
PAC-MAN,or PARADROID from the net and play it on my PC.
I can remember a Band called BOSTON was that in the 80´s ?
did anybody hear somthing about them ?

The 80's. Happy, happy days. They were not as consumerist as popular mythology would have us believe - try living in the north of England or Scotland and enjoying the 80's boom - it didn't happen!
But all this did: New Romantics, music with a sense of GRANDEUR, without taking itself too seriously, stretch denim - mmm! Stiletto shoes - loverly! Snoods, white trousers, paint-splash effect prints and japanese writing on everything... My other half would probably want me to mention the 8 Spectrums and 2 ORICs he had, and playing Chuckie Egg and sabrewolf, whatever that may be...
Band Aid, Live Aid, Not the Nine o'Clock News, the Young Ones, Blackadder...
Well I had a great time anyway, and still came out of it with an education. Why do you ask?

You are great, keep on going...