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

So, the 1980s are back.

Heaven help us.

No really, the 80s were absolutely terrible the first time round - bleached short hair, tight suits, come-shag-me shoes, shoulder pads, hair spray, blue eyeliner (for the boys), illuminous socks, hair in braids, winkle picker shoes, fish net tights, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, the Brixton riots, microwaveable pizzas, bad coffee, patchwork shirts, Cyndi Lauper, The Falkland's conflict, AIDs, New Romantics, the death of the Golden Age of UK Children's TV, Janet Ellis leaving Blue Peter, Babycham and brandy, ra-ra skirts, pop sox, Dynasty, Dallas, shoulder pads, rubiks cubes, leg warmers, aerobics, the UK miner's strike, greed, John Lennon getting shot, Terry Christian, Frankie Says T-shirts, drainpipe trousers, pinstripes, cocktail bars, bad blockbuster cinema, quiffs, the death of Punk, the rise in capitalism, the poor getting poorer, the rich getting fatter, famine in Africa, butter mountains in the UK and USA, Star Wars (the counter strike strategy), conservatism, the fall in educational standards, the rise in crime, and the list goes on.

I'm not saying that the decade was all bad, just that I lived through it once and I really don't want to experience it again. I'm not saying the nineties were any better but they at least progressed.

I would have thought that for the first decade of a new millenium , we could have come up with something more original...

Come onn you have to admit that if Janet Ellis hadn't of had that reason to leave Blue Peter we wouldn't have had Spiller's 'Groovejet' to dance away to recently now come on.

Mind you I can't believe that someone has already covered 80's icons Duran Duran's big 90's hit 'Ordinary World' already. I think originaltiy went out in the 80's the naughties appear to be the age of lets copy.

There must have been something positive to come out of the '80s? I dont really remember much more current affairs than the Challenger Disaster and the fall of the Berlin Wall

Yes, these are all great things but unfortunately, the bad stuff just outweighs the good.

Actually right after posting that I remembered a whole bunch of other bad things, like Hillsborough & Kylie Minogue *shudders*
I tend to agree with you...

10 years from now people will be discussing the resurgeance in 90s fashion, it will go full circle

It's great to look back and learn, but to recycle fashions - why?

Chanel has remained timeless. Gucci have reinvented the old 1950s styles in new fabrics. Even Versace has reinvented the Zoot suit of the 1940s but at least they are innovating. However, most of us cannot afford this.

The 80s stank. The may have been glamorous, but in the words of one wise old lady, beauty is only kin deep but ugly cuts to the bone. I couldn't agree more.

Probably because its easy to cash in on. After all, the actual work was done in the '80s, so its easy to copy... its easier to copy than to think of something new. And then, if you can fool people into believeing that its cool...

I couldn't look like I used to in the 80's thank heavens. I no longer have the hair for it.

Mind you I'm sure I could be pursuaded to don the lipstick for a really good old 80's party anytime. But then I suppose I was living it a bit more than Crusader what with being 4 years older. And they were happy days for me before I hit the confusion and depression years, but I suppose the late 90's are a perios I'll feel the same way about in a few years time as well.

Mind you back to the subject on the forum. Brideshead Revisited was possibly the first time I started to search for my sexuality thinking back on it.

Nine words - 'everything that John Peel played on his radio show'
*counts 'em just to make sure.... yep, nine *

no no no... i mean, i loved the 80's (well, I was a bit young to really love the 80s, but I loved the idea of the 80s as well...), but the clothes were tacky and the hair was horrible. We just spent the last 20 years moving to a much better place, and then I go into a store and find ugly pre-ripped stone-washed jeans and big hair bows? No, this is regression. Bad regression. Im just going to have to hold out another 20 years until the 90s are back. Then I won't have to buy any new clothes.