So, what exactly *was* acceptable in the eighties? (that isn't now)

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OK, so if you were born in the eighties, the guy has love for you and yep, that'd be legal.

But what... (etc) ?

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

doctor who
coloured tights
tottenham hotspur

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

and yep, that'd be legal.

I know! My first throught when I heard this song was, "What a perv!" and then I realized that even people born in 1989 will be 18 this year, and that the dude was probably born in the 80s himself.

― jaymc, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

SLAP BASS

― Matt DC, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Mullets

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Poor people

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

children in gay pop videos
1950s nostalgia
shorts on men

― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

80s music. (also acceptable in 2003)

― Ronan, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Suit jackets with the sleeves rolled up

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0VcGJZpfl1c

― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Unattended packages, liquids on airplanes, photographing buildings, etc.

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Smoking on airplanes!

― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

steroids

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

55 MPH Speed Limits!

― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

what song are we talking about here?

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Routemasters
Smoking in the office
Not having a mobile phone
Dave Stewart
the NME
Eastenders
Going to Ibiza
One pound notes
Unattractive people under 30 presenting popular TV shows
Saddam Hussein
European Communism

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

amphetamine sulphate.

― stirmonster, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

this one time I did cocaine off Neneh Cherry's buttcheeks. Not so sure I could get away with that now.

― TynanTynan, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Piercings and tattoos

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

hey man, I'm down w/that

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Coal mining (UK only)

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Heartland rockers

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Steelmaking (UK only)

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Shipbuilding (UK only)

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Car manufacturing (UK only)

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

trade unions

― stirmonster, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Workers rights

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Employment laws

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

a little bit of politics

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

unprotected sex.

― stirmonster, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

video games with shitty graphics

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Programmed, hideously reverbed drums

― fife, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Ghetto Blasters

― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

me in shorts

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Political beliefs

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Programmed, hideously reverbed drums

SO GOOD

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Anti-war protests

― Comstock Carabinieri, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

more than 6 grams of salt per day

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Not supporting a football team or being interested in football at all

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Programmed, hideously reverbed drums

This needs to come back.

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

genesis p. orridge

― stirmonster, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Terraces/standing room at major football grounds

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

burgundy stay press trousers

black baggy jumpers

donkey jackets

frankie goes to hollywood tshirts

pvc trousers

― djmartian, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Melodics :(

― Comstock Carabinieri, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Jonathan Ross

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

"and yep, that'd be legal."

Legal maybe Mark, but if you or I were to sleep with even so much as one teenage girl now, I reckon some people would probably make a number of unpleasant comments.

― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

the teenage girl for starters

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Those daft hats people wore in clubs.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

burgundy stay press trousers

black baggy jumpers

donkey jackets

frankie goes to hollywood tshirts

pvc trousers

guilty on three counts m'lud.

― stirmonster, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

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Owowowoo guys and gals like some of you what are like listening are gro-wen up and married with the house and the children kiddy children and you would not even have been a twinkle in your mother's eye when Jags, The, were like number sev-en-teeeen and you get ten points if you said it was like Back Of My Hand Open Brackets Single Mix Close Brackets you see owzabout &c

― Comstock Carabinieri, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

... and rah-rah skirts... guilty there too?

guilty as in i thought they were the sexiest thing ever in the summer of '81.

― stirmonster, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Lenny Henry (OK, 70s only... and only on Tiswas)

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

(I fully expect some politically correct do-gooder to tell me that you can't do that any more either now!)

― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Television snow

― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

multi-coloured jeans - blue denim but mixed with orange/red/ yellow lines

ice / snow washed jeans

bleached jeans

― djmartian, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"

― Comstock Carabinieri, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Madonna

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

pedal pushers.

― stirmonster, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Tony Blair

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Michael Jackson's face

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Being suspicious of Russians.

― Matt DC, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

... oh I think that's still acceptable

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Are you some sort of TRAITOR?

― Matt DC, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Hale & Pace................................................................... strike that

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Wanting to fuck Princess Di.

― Matt DC, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

... but not if you were Prince Charles

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Bobby Davro

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Labour party leader on the front cover of the NME

radical artists on the front cover of weekly british based music magazines

― djmartian, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Pamela Stephenson

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

NME

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Music journalism

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

tight pants in hip hop

― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Simon Reynolds

― Comstock Carabinieri, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

It was acceptable in the 80s
It was acceptable at the time
It was acceptable in the 80s
It was acceptable at the time

I've got love for you
If you were born in the 80s, the 80s
I've got hugs for you
If you were born in the 80s, the 80s

P.S.:
Smoking in bars
Barebacking
Leaving you kids unattended for a few hours
Standup comedy
Sylvester Stallone
Saxophone solos
Glen A. Larson
Patrick Nagel
Frankie say...
Student + teacher = hot!

― Pye Poudre, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Damn-ed x-posters

― Pye Poudre, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Diane Abbott

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

watching the young ones

watching music tv programmes such as the tube and the whistle test [now it's the yawning boring jools holland later show]

― djmartian, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Rail travel

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Living on a council estate

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Gay modern-dance chic.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

getting home to watch tv programs such as blockbusters, screen test, magpie, scooby doo, crackerjack, rentaghost, newsround, Take Hart etc

sucking long frozen ice pops

― djmartian, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Channel 4

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

not recycling

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Terrycloth menswear

― Pye Poudre, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Brass sections

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Florida

― Pye Poudre, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

George Bush

― abanana, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Joe Camel and Mayor McCheese

― abanana, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Hating pop music (that wasn't made in 1984).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Liking OJ Simpson

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

cutouts

― zaxxon25, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ksultonbass.com/images/steve-vai-move.gif

― darin, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

Bono
Yamaha DX7

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

The Orch Hit
Drum Machines
Lots of "space" (reverb) in the production of "guitar bands".

Yamaha DX7

Myonga OTM. Specifically, that glossy e-piano sound in particular. And that bass sound.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 30 March 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Tight pants on heterosexual males in general.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 30 March 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

(Btw. if this thread was posted in 1990, analog synths would have been the most obvious answer. Time changes.....)

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 30 March 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

false

― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 March 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Big Country

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 31 March 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

Fridges containing CFC

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 31 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

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