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[John]

In honour of this weeks Record of the Week (which is a top track by the way), what was literally 'Acceptable In The 80’s' that would be just laughable today?

For example...

Pat Sharp

[Jono]

You could have made it an attachment and saved my poor internet connection

Here's another - the NES - and Super Mario Brothers...

[John]

I don't know how to do that

[kitty]

Bermuda shorts- I had a lush neon pair circa 1989...

[Jono]

Chopper's watch:

[kitty]

Snoods...

[John]

Arnie:

[Geezer7348]

Kevin Keegan's awful perm....

Although I guess its still laughable to think of a bloke with a perm.

[sebdevlin]

This kind of hair was acceptable in the 80's

[Jono]

Steve Strange was acceptable in the 80s

[kitty]

ricky gervais in seona dancing

www.myspace.com/seonadancing

[sebdevlin]

The perfect album to accompany this thread just been listening to it. Rather good from the always awsome dj yoda

[kitty]

Cameo Codpieces...

[Geezer7348]

how about Gordon the Gopher & Philip Schofield from "Going Live"

[kitty]

I think Schofield going strong in the acceptability stakes!

But what about Betamax...

[phoenix]

Aaw, I remember Betamax. We still have the player in the attic. I guess we'll donate it to a museum or something.

The dude from Kajaagoogoo with the hair. That was some great hair.

[Monitorabbit]

Me :'(

Also Ford Cortinas, Teenage Ninja Turtles, MC Hammer trousers wide at the top and very narrow at the ankles.

[John]

What a superb album the DJ Yoda album is. I love that!

[Monitorabbit]

What a superb album the DJ Yoda album is. I love that!

You mean "How to Cut and Paste the 80s Edition?"

Personally I love the Run DMC/Aerosmith version of "Walk this Way" (1986) but then I'm a Steve Tyler nut...

[Monitorabbit]

The dude from Kajaagoogoo with the hair. That was some great hair.

Limahl then and now

[goldengirl]

EDIT: - This is the one I was looking for!

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 70's & 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly colored lead-based paint,which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokeys' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, and no Internet chat rooms. We had friends and we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no lawsuits.

We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played knock-and-run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

For those of you who aren't old enough thought you might like to read about us.

This my friends, is surprisingly frightening ...and it might put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1988 ...they are called youth.

They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel.

They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were born. Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are Films from last year.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.

And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

Now let's check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.

3. Your friends are getting married/already married.

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.

5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the fun you have experienced together.

7. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too...

Yes, you're getting older and still rocking away to the retro music of the 80's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More of those than I care to admit apply to me!! made me laught to read it again tho!

Do they apply to anyone else?

[Monitorabbit]

I remember the freedom, but it's important to move with the times and not everything was good in the past, for example if you got interfered with you probably wouldn't be believed, getting bullied was something you just had to deal with in your own, and food was full of carcinogens. Not to mention all the smoking on buses, in cinemas, on trains - you couldn't avoid being a passive smoker. The pavements were paved with dog sh*t and you had to find a phone box and get your parents to accept reversed charges if you needed to phone home because you were lost stranded or whatever.

Computers mean people are better informed than they ever were before in my opinion, and they can make friends they never would have met in real life - and of course it's possible to arrange to meet up and get to know each other in real life if you really want to..lastly I just want to say DIGITAL SOUND!! Music is always better live but the next best has to be digital recordings, I don't mourn for my old vinyl or cassettes one tiny bit.

[goldengirl]

I would have to agree with you but it did make me laugh to read it all Got it e-mailed to me a while ago.

[phoenix]

Limahl was somewhat hot though but it wasnt him whose hair I was speaking of.

the guy on the bottom right. sexy hair baby woohoo

Here in America the 80's are back. Frightening stuff. Today's kids sleep with Care Bears. I remember Care Bears! The kids of this generation dont! Thats MY generation! Darn kids!

[Riz]

Im a 90's kid, and sadly, a lot of that 80's stuff applies to me! Or maybe thats a good thing, im unsure. Maybe our street was still stuck in the 80's, who knows...