It Was Acceptable In The 80's

[tup]

1. Drink driving.

2. Wholesale stadium wide abuse of black players with chants like 'nigger, nigger lick my boots' etc etc.

3. Hirsute clunges.

4. Glue sniffing.

5. Electro.

6. Semi-naked weemin on tins of lager.

7. Allegros, Maestros, Montegos and Ambassadors.

8. Proper ringpulls on tins of lager.

9. Mullets on men with spiked bits on top, poodle perms etc.

10. Compulsory smoking of fags, choked ashtrays well in need of emptying, used sardine tins with Donald Duck stickers on them as temporary ashtrays etc etc.

11. Breakdancing.

12. Owning clapped out pieces of shit like Capris and Escort RS Turbos.

13. Being a super rock star poof and temporarily surviving AIDS.

14. Being a comedian and succumbing to AIDS.

15. Going to the shop/vannie with a note from your mither for a half bottle of vodka and 40 fags, and getting served them no bother.

16. Cashing in umpteen lemonade bottles at once.

17. Adidas Sambas.

18. Leg warmers.

19. Mahogany effect dashboards.

20. Getting tampered with by the local scout leader.

21. Calling feel folk 'spazzies', 'watchbreakers' etc.

22. Getting 10p to go to the phone box and phone the pub to get your faither home.

23. Letting your dog out on it's own for it's walk.

24. Lifting your hand to the wife.

25. Scrambles at weddings.

26. Finding used scud mags full of weemin with boxes like axe wounds on gorilla's backs.

27. BMX's.

28. Bullying.

29. Fights with the whole school in attendance in a circle chanting 'fight, fight'.

30. 48k of memory for whole actual computers.

31. Gang fights.

32. Bonfires in the street, onto which it's fun to chuck aerosols.

[Stoney]

Getting away with being a vigilante

 

Killing animals for fun

 

Pinching milk from doorsteps

 

Graffiti

[tup]

1. Drink driving.

2. Wholesale stadium wide abuse of black players with chants like 'nigger, nigger lick my boots' etc etc.

3. Hirsute clunges.

4. Glue sniffing.

5. Electro.

6. Semi-naked weemin on tins of lager.

7. Allegros, Maestros, Montegos and Ambassadors.

8. Proper ringpulls on tins of lager.

9. Mullets on men with spiked bits on top, poodle perms etc.

10. Compulsory smoking of fags, choked ashtrays well in need of emptying, used sardine tins with Donald Duck stickers on them as temporary ashtrays etc etc.

11. Breakdancing.

12. Owning clapped out pieces of shit like Capris and Escort RS Turbos.

13. Being a super rock star poof and temporarily surviving AIDS.

14. Being a comedian and succumbing to AIDS.

15. Going to the shop/vannie with a note from your mither for a half bottle of vodka and 40 fags, and getting served them no bother.

16. Cashing in umpteen lemonade bottles at once.

17. Adidas Sambas.

18. Leg warmers.

19. Mahogany effect dashboards.

20. Getting tampered with by the local scout leader.

21. Calling feel folk 'spazzies', 'watchbreakers' etc.

22. Getting 10p to go to the phone box and phone the pub to get your faither home.

23. Letting your dog out on it's own for it's walk.

24. Lifting your hand to the wife.

25. Scrambles at weddings.

26. Finding used scud mags full of weemin with boxes like axe wounds on gorilla's backs.

27. BMX's.

28. Bullying.

29. Fights with the whole school in attendance in a circle chanting 'fight, fight'.

30. 48k of memory for whole actual computers.

31. Gang fights.

32. Bonfires in the street, onto which it's fun to chuck aerosols.

33. Milk theft.

34. Graffiti.

35. Mitre Multiplex footballs which had woodchip just under the skin.

36. Woodchip.

[spamspamspam]

shell suits

ghetto blasters in the streets

wooden framed games consoles

Pink suit, white shirt, piano tie.

This bird

[spamspamspam]

Dave Lee Travis deciding what we could and couldnt listen to in songs.

[tup]

1. Drink driving.

2. Wholesale stadium wide abuse of black players with chants like 'nigger, nigger lick my boots' etc etc.

3. Hirsute clunges.

4. Glue sniffing.

5. Electro.

6. Semi-naked weemin on tins of lager.

7. Allegros, Maestros, Montegos and Ambassadors.

8. Proper ringpulls on tins of lager.

9. Mullets on men with spiked bits on top, poodle perms etc.

10. Compulsory smoking of fags, choked ashtrays well in need of emptying, used sardine tins with Donald Duck stickers on them as temporary ashtrays etc etc.

11. Breakdancing.

12. Owning clapped out pieces of shit like Capris and Escort RS Turbos.

13. Being a super rock star poof and temporarily surviving AIDS.

14. Being a comedian and succumbing to AIDS.

15. Going to the shop/vannie with a note from your mither for a half bottle of vodka and 40 fags, and getting served them no bother.

16. Cashing in umpteen lemonade bottles at once.

17. Adidas Sambas.

18. Leg warmers.

19. Mahogany effect dashboards.

20. Getting tampered with by the local scout leader.

21. Calling feel folk 'spazzies', 'watchbreakers' etc.

22. Getting 10p to go to the phone box and phone the pub to get your faither home.

23. Letting your dog out on it's own for it's walk.

24. Lifting your hand to the wife.

25. Scrambles at weddings.

26. Finding used scud mags full of weemin with boxes like axe wounds on gorilla's backs.

27. BMX's.

28. Bullying.

29. Fights with the whole school in attendance in a circle chanting 'fight, fight'.

30. 48k of memory for whole actual computers.

31. Gang fights.

32. Bonfires in the street, onto which it's fun to chuck aerosols.

33. Milk theft.

34. Graffiti.

35. Mitre Multiplex footballs which had woodchip just under the skin.

36. Woodchip.

37. 'Ghetto blasters' i.e. tape recorders run on batteries.

38. Computer games on tapes. Endless attempts to load cheap copies of the cunts at differing volumes.

39. Spam

[diamondsr4ever]

being a hairdresser

going on a bus

having an ice cream cake for yer birthday

going to the beach on a sunday

going to the baths

[BubbaRayDon]

Breaking yer joystick playing Daily Thomsons Decathalon on yer ZX Spectrum.

[tup]

1. Drink driving.

2. Wholesale stadium wide abuse of black players with chants like 'nigger, nigger lick my boots' etc etc.

3. Hirsute clunges.

4. Glue sniffing.

5. Electro.

6. Semi-naked weemin on tins of lager.

7. Allegros, Maestros, Montegos and Ambassadors.

8. Proper ringpulls on tins of lager.

9. Mullets on men with spiked bits on top, poodle perms etc.

10. Compulsory smoking of fags, choked ashtrays well in need of emptying, used sardine tins with Donald Duck stickers on them as temporary ashtrays etc etc.

11. Breakdancing.

12. Owning clapped out pieces of shit like Capris and Escort RS Turbos.

13. Being a super rock star poof and temporarily surviving AIDS.

14. Being a comedian and succumbing to AIDS.

15. Going to the shop/vannie with a note from your mither for a half bottle of vodka and 40 fags, and getting served them no bother.

16. Cashing in umpteen lemonade bottles at once.

17. Adidas Sambas.

18. Leg warmers.

19. Mahogany effect dashboards.

20. Getting tampered with by the local scout leader.

21. Calling feel folk 'spazzies', 'watchbreakers' etc.

22. Getting 10p to go to the phone box and phone the pub to get your faither home.

23. Letting your dog out on it's own for it's walk.

24. Lifting your hand to the wife.

25. Scrambles at weddings.

26. Finding used scud mags full of weemin with boxes like axe wounds on gorilla's backs.

27. BMX's.

28. Bullying.

29. Fights with the whole school in attendance in a circle chanting 'fight, fight'.

30. 48k of memory for whole actual computers.

31. Gang fights.

32. Bonfires in the street, onto which it's fun to chuck aerosols.

33. Milk theft.

34. Graffiti.

35. Mitre Multiplex footballs which had woodchip just under the skin.

36. Woodchip.

37. 'Ghetto blasters' i.e. tape recorders run on batteries.

38. Computer games on tapes. Endless attempts to load cheap copies of the cunts at differing volumes.

39. Spam

40. Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac etc.

41. Hyper Sports and Phoenix (not the old radge on here, the game) in your local chipper.

[BubbaRayDon]

Laughing at yer neighbours 8 track in his "vintage" Hillman Imp

[diamondsr4ever]

hiring a sunbed

[Jonty]

Wearing a Nevica jacket and boasting about the "Recco". (Maybe early 90's?)

 

Shopping in C&A's.

[BubbaRayDon]

Playing "kerby" across the busiest street in yer village,town or city

[tup]

1. Drink driving.

2. Wholesale stadium wide abuse of black players with chants like 'nigger, nigger lick my boots' etc etc.

3. Hirsute clunges.

4. Glue sniffing.

5. Electro.

6. Semi-naked weemin on tins of lager.

7. Allegros, Maestros, Montegos and Ambassadors.

8. Proper ringpulls on tins of lager.

9. Mullets on men with spiked bits on top, poodle perms etc.

10. Compulsory smoking of fags, choked ashtrays well in need of emptying, used sardine tins with Donald Duck stickers on them as temporary ashtrays etc etc.

11. Breakdancing.

12. Owning clapped out pieces of shit like Capris and Escort RS Turbos.

13. Being a super rock star poof and temporarily surviving AIDS.

14. Being a comedian and succumbing to AIDS.

15. Going to the shop/vannie with a note from your mither for a half bottle of vodka and 40 fags, and getting served them no bother.

16. Cashing in umpteen lemonade bottles at once.

17. Adidas Sambas.

18. Leg warmers.

19. Mahogany effect dashboards.

20. Getting tampered with by the local scout leader.

21. Calling feel folk 'spazzies', 'watchbreakers' etc.

22. Getting 10p to go to the phone box and phone the pub to get your faither home.

23. Letting your dog out on it's own for it's walk.

24. Lifting your hand to the wife.

25. Scrambles at weddings.

26. Finding used scud mags full of weemin with boxes like axe wounds on gorilla's backs.

27. BMX's.

28. Bullying.

29. Fights with the whole school in attendance in a circle chanting 'fight, fight'.

30. 48k of memory for whole actual computers.

31. Gang fights.

32. Bonfires in the street, onto which it's fun to chuck aerosols.

33. Milk theft.

34. Graffiti.

35. Mitre Multiplex footballs which had woodchip just under the skin.

36. Woodchip.

37. 'Ghetto blasters' i.e. tape recorders run on batteries.

38. Computer games on tapes. Endless attempts to load cheap copies of the cunts at differing volumes.

39. Spam

40. Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac etc.

41. Hyper Sports and Phoenix (not the old radge on here, the game) in your local chipper.

42. Proper 'foreign' fitba teams, full of foreign cunts, who we hate.

43. No attempts at pronouncing their foreign names properly, if at all. Number 7 etc will do fine.

[BubbaRayDon]

Buying "Now Thats What I Call Music 2" because the first one was so good

[tup]

1. Drink driving.

2. Wholesale stadium wide abuse of black players with chants like 'nigger, nigger lick my boots' etc etc.

3. Hirsute clunges.

4. Glue sniffing.

5. Electro.

6. Semi-naked weemin on tins of lager.

7. Allegros, Maestros, Montegos and Ambassadors.

8. Proper ringpulls on tins of lager.

9. Mullets on men with spiked bits on top, poodle perms etc.

10. Compulsory smoking of fags, choked ashtrays well in need of emptying, used sardine tins with Donald Duck stickers on them as temporary ashtrays etc etc.

11. Breakdancing.

12. Owning clapped out pieces of shit like Capris and Escort RS Turbos.

13. Being a super rock star poof and temporarily surviving AIDS.

14. Being a comedian and succumbing to AIDS.

15. Going to the shop/vannie with a note from your mither for a half bottle of vodka and 40 fags, and getting served them no bother.

16. Cashing in umpteen lemonade bottles at once.

17. Adidas Sambas.

18. Leg warmers.

19. Mahogany effect dashboards.

20. Getting tampered with by the local scout leader.

21. Calling feel folk 'spazzies', 'watchbreakers' etc.

22. Getting 10p to go to the phone box and phone the pub to get your faither home.

23. Letting your dog out on it's own for it's walk.

24. Lifting your hand to the wife.

25. Scrambles at weddings.

26. Finding used scud mags full of weemin with boxes like axe wounds on gorilla's backs.

27. BMX's.

28. Bullying.

29. Fights with the whole school in attendance in a circle chanting 'fight, fight'.

30. 48k of memory for whole actual computers.

31. Gang fights.

32. Bonfires in the street, onto which it's fun to chuck aerosols.

33. Milk theft.

34. Graffiti.

35. Mitre Multiplex footballs which had woodchip just under the skin.

36. Woodchip.

37. 'Ghetto blasters' i.e. tape recorders run on batteries.

38. Computer games on tapes. Endless attempts to load cheap copies of the cunts at differing volumes.

39. Spam

40. Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac etc.

41. Hyper Sports and Phoenix (not the old radge on here, the game) in your local chipper.

42. Proper 'foreign' fitba teams, full of foreign cunts, who we hate.

43. No attempts at pronouncing their foreign names properly, if at all. Number 7 etc will do fine.

44. Kerbie, Wally etc.

[Tommy]

Abandoning your children in the car with a packet of Smokey Bacon as you 'pop into' the pub for two hours.

 

 

I still do that, we'll try and stick to things which are no longer common.

 

 

 

With a packet of crisps and a cheeky smile.............................

[BubbaRayDon]

Wondering who shot JR

[diamondsr4ever]

snowballing buses

sticking the lifts in skyscrapers

pannini albums

[Robbie Winters]

Being actively encouraged by your gym teacher not just to beat the 12 year old lassie at tennis but to drive her too tears by ace-ing piledrivers against her weak body

[BubbaRayDon]

Watching The Fall Guy, Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazard etc on TV along with 20 million other viewers on a Saturday night.

 

Only having 3 channels on the TV (or was that the 70's)?

[Robbie Winters]

Thinking that the last place in the world you would ever want to visit would be grey looking shiteholes like Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest & Riga not knowing nearly 30 years later you could die happy in one of these cities

[Bobby Connor]

Watching The Fall Guy, Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazard etc on TV along with 20 million other viewers on a Saturday night.

 

Only having 3 channels on the TV (or was that the 70's)?

 

It was 3 channels until Channel 4 came out.

 

Having to get up to change the channel, having to tune the channel on a 14" portable TV.

 

Sodastream.

 

Swingball.

[Bobby Connor]

Fearing 'The Bomb' and the terrifying documentaries and dramas that went with the threat of total annihilation before you were 16 yrs old.

[tup]

1. Drink driving.

2. Wholesale stadium wide abuse of black players with chants like 'nigger, nigger lick my boots' etc etc.

3. Hirsute clunges.

4. Glue sniffing.

5. Electro.

6. Semi-naked weemin on tins of lager.

7. Allegros, Maestros, Montegos and Ambassadors.

8. Proper ringpulls on tins of lager.

9. Mullets on men with spiked bits on top, poodle perms etc.

10. Compulsory smoking of fags, choked ashtrays well in need of emptying, used sardine tins with Donald Duck stickers on them as temporary ashtrays etc etc.

11. Breakdancing.

12. Owning clapped out pieces of shit like Capris and Escort RS Turbos.

13. Being a super rock star poof and temporarily surviving AIDS.

14. Being a comedian and succumbing to AIDS.

15. Going to the shop/vannie with a note from your mither for a half bottle of vodka and 40 fags, and getting served them no bother.

16. Cashing in umpteen lemonade bottles at once.

17. Adidas Sambas.

18. Leg warmers.

19. Mahogany effect dashboards.

20. Getting tampered with by the local scout leader.

21. Calling feel folk 'spazzies', 'watchbreakers' etc.

22. Getting 10p to go to the phone box and phone the pub to get your faither home.

23. Letting your dog out on it's own for it's walk.

24. Lifting your hand to the wife.

25. Scrambles at weddings.

26. Finding used scud mags full of weemin with boxes like axe wounds on gorilla's backs.

27. BMX's.

28. Bullying.

29. Fights with the whole school in attendance in a circle chanting 'fight, fight'.

30. 48k of memory for whole actual computers.

31. Gang fights.

32. Bonfires in the street, onto which it's fun to chuck aerosols.

33. Milk theft.

34. Graffiti.

35. Mitre Multiplex footballs which had woodchip just under the skin.

36. Woodchip.

37. 'Ghetto blasters' i.e. tape recorders run on batteries.

38. Computer games on tapes. Endless attempts to load cheap copies of the cunts at differing volumes.

39. Spam

40. Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac etc.

41. Hyper Sports and Phoenix (not the old radge on here, the game) in your local chipper.

42. Proper 'foreign' fitba teams, full of foreign cunts, who we hate.

43. No attempts at pronouncing their foreign names properly, if at all. Number 7 etc will do fine.

44. Kerbie, Wally etc.

45. The Fall Guy, Airwolf, Dukes of Hazzard etc.

46. Sodastream.

47. Thomas the Tank engine slippers for old men.

48. Creamola Foam.

[Bobby Connor]

Making yer own ice lollies.

[BubbaRayDon]

The Phantom Raspberry Blower on The Two Ronnies (may be 70's again)

[Robbie Winters]

Taking a right good hiding aff the local bully (or yer da) and nae phoning Childline aboot it

[BubbaRayDon]

Making yer own ice lollies.

With a metal spoon and diluting orange.

[tup]

1. Drink driving.

2. Wholesale stadium wide abuse of black players with chants like 'nigger, nigger lick my boots' etc etc.

3. Hirsute clunges.

4. Glue sniffing.

5. Electro.

6. Semi-naked weemin on tins of lager.

7. Allegros, Maestros, Montegos and Ambassadors.

8. Proper ringpulls on tins of lager.

9. Mullets on men with spiked bits on top, poodle perms etc.

10. Compulsory smoking of fags, choked ashtrays well in need of emptying, used sardine tins with Donald Duck stickers on them as temporary ashtrays etc etc.

11. Breakdancing.

12. Owning clapped out pieces of shit like Capris and Escort RS Turbos.

13. Being a super rock star poof and temporarily surviving AIDS.

14. Being a comedian and succumbing to AIDS.

15. Going to the shop/vannie with a note from your mither for a half bottle of vodka and 40 fags, and getting served them no bother.

16. Cashing in umpteen lemonade bottles at once.

17. Adidas Sambas.

18. Leg warmers.

19. Mahogany effect dashboards.

20. Getting tampered with by the local scout leader.

21. Calling feel folk 'spazzies', 'watchbreakers' etc.

22. Getting 10p to go to the phone box and phone the pub to get your faither home.

23. Letting your dog out on it's own for it's walk.

24. Lifting your hand to the wife.

25. Scrambles at weddings.

26. Finding used scud mags full of weemin with boxes like axe wounds on gorilla's backs.

27. BMX's.

28. Bullying.

29. Fights with the whole school in attendance in a circle chanting 'fight, fight'.

30. 48k of memory for whole actual computers.

31. Gang fights.

32. Bonfires in the street, onto which it's fun to chuck aerosols.

33. Milk theft.

34. Graffiti.

35. Mitre Multiplex footballs which had woodchip just under the skin.

36. Woodchip.

37. 'Ghetto blasters' i.e. tape recorders run on batteries.

38. Computer games on tapes. Endless attempts to load cheap copies of the cunts at differing volumes.

39. Spam

40. Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac etc.

41. Hyper Sports and Phoenix (not the old radge on here, the game) in your local chipper.

42. Proper 'foreign' fitba teams, full of foreign cunts, who we hate.

43. No attempts at pronouncing their foreign names properly, if at all. Number 7 etc will do fine.

44. Kerbie, Wally etc.

45. The Fall Guy, Airwolf, Dukes of Hazzard etc.

46. Sodastream.

47. Thomas the Tank engine slippers for old men.

48. Creamola Foam.

49. White snakeskin shoes.

50. Three channels on the gogglebox.

51. Jam jar glesses, with thick rims.