The 1980s in general

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I grew up with Smurfs cartoons and Garfield comics and Pac-Man. The 80's had some of the best toys ever, like Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake and He-Man and Transformers. Things were less complicated and anxiety-ridden back then...

Except for maybe the cold war and AIDS.

We didn't recycle, we just took our garbage out to be collected and that was that. Playing with lawn darts was still legal and acceptable even if the players had a few drinks. Kids were allowed to run around the neighborhood unsupervised. I would go to the beach in the summer and get completely brown. Now I look like a vampire. Didn't worry about cancer or ebola or swine flu or terrorists or climate change or getting old and people once said I had a bright future ahead of me because of my drawing and writing talents and I didn't have to take medication you know what every single thing sucks so bad now it's so depressing and I'm so anxious and uneasy why do we even continue to go on it's going to crap anyway kkhhhghn nb cvtftghjnv

Well, I was born in the early 90s and didn't actually live in or remember the 80s (or did I? )

But for my opinion...

The Good/Decent:
1. It was a technology golden era (I'd say that was one of the more redeeming qualities of that decade) 2. Music (meh, I guess-most of the songs from the 80s had the same generic sound for the time-but it had a few personal favorite gems of mine)
3. Less shock-value on the TV shows made back then-I actually think the abuse of shock value that came later on gave parents groups a reason to want to start lobbying and complaining. Funny, how are they listening to those groups now when TV today is so low-brow and dark, that they can't keep up with being the "for the children" police anymore.
4. Movies weren't always clean or innocent, even today some of them are still kind of sketchy. I'm not really the "inappropriate content" police, but at least they were more personally responsible for the way those movies were promoted then.

Now why doesn't that surprise me

I never wore them, though I did once go to a fancy dress party in the 80s dressed as Wonder Woman

Hotpants always seemed more 70s to me. They took off around 1973 and remained in fashion till the very early 80s. 80s was more aerobic wear.

The 1980s were good for me. The thing I remember most about that decade is my beautiful cat, Samantha. She was born in 1979 and lived to be 20 years of age.