The loopy 1980s!

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Why was everything so 'silly' and over the top in the 1980s?

Is it because everyone was money mad back then?

Definitely the yuppies had something to do with it. Power dressing was in for rich women because of successful women like Maggie Thatcher (yuck).

I was an 80's kid, so I know from experience what it was like. But mostly from a kid's point of view. I can tell you things were lot less loopy than it is now, with the exception of maybe the Cold War. Being a Canadian I never really understood why the Americans saw Russia as the "enemy". I really don't understand now why they don't seem happy unless they see someone as the "enemy".

I remember wanting to wear neon-splashed clothes and having big hair when my mom would make me wear drab dismal colors and have my hair cut shorter than my brother's. It made me feel like so totally gross.

I had that and thought it was the coolest thing

I remember the 80s with the big hair and bright colours. I wore the bright colours but I didn't have the big hair, because I didn't want it. I also didn't tight roll my jeans, because I thought that looked stupid on people. I also remember Princess Diana and following the royal family. I also remember watching classic TV shows on KSTW. I thought some of the music was good until I discovered classic rock and oldies. I also remember that my family was more tightly knit than it is today. I somehow had a feeling that I would grow up to be a rebel, however.

The 80s were quite good for me.

I enjoyed the kittenhood and young adulthood of my first cat, Samantha.

I graduated from high school in 1982 with a good grade average and won an award for excellence in English.

I got my Bachelor's Degree in English in 1987.

I had many lovely pets in addition to Samantha.

The eighties started out bad with 8th grade and high school, but when I graduated high school and started college I actually had friends and a social life. I was so busy between 1985 - 1990 that I dont remember much of the TV series from that time.

I've noticed this about the 90s too. I think it was because of how there was no recession or major war and all the protests of the 60s and 70s had died down. Women and minorities had more rights as well. Also, it was a good decade for TV and movies.

Some of it might be due to nostalgia; people like to show off their happiest memories and push the sad ones aside, and a lot of the 80s kids are now parents with older kids and their life is less frantic. That's probably why a lot of older franchises are being rebooted. Even Power Rangers is getting a movie.

No eighties thread is complete without this song

probably of the belief that competition, not so much animosity, leads to progress and improvement, whereas global harmony leads to stagnation because there's nothing better/different to strive for.

i sure know *i* don't like stagnation.

that, and having someone to scapegoat....

if you want to get super technical, a person can be traced all the back to the ovum which was fertilized to create him, which itself was created when his mother was in her own womb, so that puts my true, initial creation sometime in late 1970

which makes me a 70s and 80s kid!

A couple of kids from Switzerland and Spain were born, who would later meet often on court, Roger Federer (1981) and Rafael Nadal (1986).

Another young boy was born in Russia and moved to Uzbekistan-Denis Istomin.

The 80s, to me, was the start of my adulthood.

It was a pretty good time.

I moved around quite a bit then.

The music was, primarily, synthesizer stuff--especially earlier in the decade.

really good s**t it was, too.

The 80's was a great decade. During the 80's I lived in 3 different apartments and moved twice. I was 30 months old when the decade started. 1984 was they year I reluctantly was enrolled in compulsory school.

My family had no less than 12 pets throughout the 1980's.

The decade had nice music and some great TV shows. We still had the oh so exciting Sky Channel in the 80's and I watched my faves religiously. The two new channels TV3 and TVN started up in the 80's, and TV3's children's show Maxsat had three hosts, a Norwegian girl and two boys from respectively Denmark and Sweden. I really liked the common Scandinavian projects TV3 used to have. They'd also finish the day's broadcast with the anthems and the flags waving in the wind.

The 80's had a lot of nice toys, as well as Ball sweaters and some good music. I was a bookworm for most of the decade, I even liked my picture books before I could even read their text.

I didn't know it at the time, but my generation was also the last to experience a traditional childhood with a fairly safe environment and a lot of freedom, common shows "everyone" watched and a common pop culture, I miss those good old days.

The cold war was scary to me though. I was afraid of nuclear war (or conventional war for that matter) There were also a couple of bad stuff that happened to me personally but that's not what I mainly think of in regard to the decade.

The late 80's was when my love of pizza was born (at a younger age I didn't like it), but I still didn't like spaghetti back then, unlike most other kids.

For me the 80's mostly means familiarity and safety.