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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Tramp on 15 July 2009, 11:56
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The 1980's
NO SPEED CAMERA'S......OR VERY VERY FEW....AND IF THERE WAS ONE IT GOT BURNT DOWN :grin:
NO EMISSIONS ......
INJECTION ENGINES COME INTO PLAY :evil:
NO POWER STEERING (EARLY 80'S) WHERE REAL MEN DROVE REAL CARS!.
NO ABS ....
fun fun fun! :grin:
And then the 90's... :sick:
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I think you summed up the only good thing about the 80s
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I think you summed up the only good thing about the 80s
Pfft you're forgeting:
(http://www.liketotally80s.com/images/madonna1.jpg)
Nicik
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I think you summed up the only good thing about the 80s
Pfft you're forgeting:
(http://www.liketotally80s.com/images/madonna1.jpg)
Nicik
she looks good back there :drool:
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Shzaam!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7IMYl5oU8
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I think you summed up the only good thing about the 80s
Yeah!
But that's good enough ain't it :cool:
And as for Madge she scrubs up quite well for 50.Old Jacko don't look too well though....i think he might come back as one of the cast from Thriller!
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*cough* Sam Fox *cough*
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*cough* Sam Fox *cough*
AH Yes........The first page 3 girls....You see the 80's get better....
Don't forget too....'Only fools and Horses'..... :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:As my golf Mk1 sits on my forecourt Dell boy is still playing on TV...
Next.....
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i'm a 80's kid. . . far better years than any now!!
films, music, kids tv :smiley:
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the A team, knight rider.
raleigh burners...
and no big brother :smiley:
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Don't get me wrong i don't go round in 80's clothes etc like that 1960's lot do, power to the people and all that crap but as a motorist it was the last great decade of what i called freedom. I was only 18 in 85 but as i said above no speed camera's emissions etc.
The MOT was basic but enough to be road worthy, but now it's OTT like everything else and all for the GOVT MP expenses. More Tax for bigger faster cars..
We are now so restricted in what we do.
One other point too note. I used too work for British Airways, My job was too fill the planes with fuel and then balance the load out too the weight of each plane.
It takes 60 tonnes of fuel for a jumbo too get off the ground , then lets say if it's the US about 30 tonnes in the air and 10 tonnes too land.
1OO TONNES For just 1 aircraft.
Does anyone know in just the US alone how many planes are in the sky at once :rolleyes:
So make sure of your emissions test ... 'Every little helps' as they say :wink:
OK rant over.....Just got woken early by the ruddy dogs this morning...GRRR GRRR
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One other point too note. I used too work for British Airways, My job was too fill the planes with fuel and then balance the load out too the weight of each plane.
It takes 60 tonnes of fuel for a jumbo too get off the ground , then lets say if it's the US about 30 tonnes in the air and 10 tonnes too land.
1OO TONNES For just 1 aircraft.
Does anyone know in just the US alone how many planes are in the sky at once :rolleyes:
Not for ASIG at Heathrow by any chance?
Nick
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One other point too note. I used too work for British Airways, My job was too fill the planes with fuel and then balance the load out too the weight of each plane.
It takes 60 tonnes of fuel for a jumbo too get off the ground , then lets say if it's the US about 30 tonnes in the air and 10 tonnes too land.
1OO TONNES For just 1 aircraft.
Does anyone know in just the US alone how many planes are in the sky at once :rolleyes:
Flying sucks satan's c0ck.
Driving holidays FTW all the way. I might be kicking out a bit of CO2 from my Golf on track but you ain't got nothing on me if you fly off to foreign climes on holiday. :grin:
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It was acceptable in the 80's! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexLIOH1MG4)
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80's was best as with a simple tool kit you could fix most things on cars (without needing to connect it to a computer)
oh and parts were much easier as 1 part seemed to fit all models!
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I think you summed up the only good thing about the 80s
....... Level 42? Duran Duran?
Some 80's music was good!
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the only good thing about the 80's was that I was born in them. :kiss:
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ME :grin:
And also Knightmare :laugh:
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ME :grin:
And also Knightmare :laugh:
hehe!! and i thought i was the only one :embarassed: :laugh:
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In the eighties we spoke proper English not Jafakean and could sort out our problems without blades and shoota's.
Croydon was Posh.......
People did not pretend Brixton was cosmapolitan
If someone slagged the forces they got a slap and not a free flat
The Police used to meat out street justice and you were still scarred of a bad report getting to your mum
Also Goths were all above the age of 16 and not poor little rich boys/girls and the only junkies were in the Bill and Grange hill
Level 42 sucked then as well, Flock of Seaguls rocked :grin:
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"Ahem"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1F2fX8ntA
Shotgun the keyboard player.
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high unemployment - more than it is now
high interest rates and inflation
miners strike/pit closures
Margaret Thatcher
Nationalisation
Poll Tax
John Lennon murdered
Brixton riots
Was great the 80s
BTW Page 3 birds were around in the 70s
:grin: :rolleyes:
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high unemployment - more than it is now
high interest rates and inflation
miners strike/pit closures
Margaret Thatcher
Nationalisation
Poll Tax
John Lennon murdered
Brixton riots
Was great the 80s
BTW Page 3 birds were around in the 70s
:grin: :rolleyes:
Unemployment was lower. Nowadays they filter it into jumped up polytechnics called UNI's where you can study a degree in 'David bechamology' or 'mobile phonology' , you and I pay for their grants and when they come out trying to get to be bechams minder and they can't they pay £5 a month to pay off a £20,000 grant of which they will never pay off.
Did you hear about the man who in the 80's was a window cleaner and left school at 16, they gave him 5 of today’s 'A' papers. He past all of them and yet in 1984 he only past one GCSE out of 6.
So there is your unemployment nicely filtered off the records :rolleyes:
Miners strike was only very limited and let’s be honest nobody or few people have coal..Would you run a company at a Billion year loss each year?
Margaret Thatcher....That's why the VW Golf came into this country my friend, it was not until the 90's that Cat's came in when labour got into power and then speed camera's popped up everywhere.
And when the British Falklands where invaded, NO LACK OF EQUIPMENT THERE SO OUR SOLDIERS COULD DIE....NO SHE SENT A FULLY EQUIPPED TASK FORCE (INCLUDING HELICOPTERS BY THE WAY) SO OUR SOLDIERS DID NOT GET KILLED...SOME DID..BUT WITH 200 DEAD IN AFGANISTAN CAN YOU IMAGINE IF BROWN WAS IN POWER BACK THEN, THE SOLDIERS WOULD HAVE BEEN FIGHTING WITH TREE TWIGS) :embarassed:
Nationalisation????
Now you got me stumped on this one...I think you mean privatisation....which is completely the opposite.
Poll tax....Yes that was a pile of crap...agreed.
John Lennon murdered, don't you mean assassinated....A shame but not quite on the same scale as 9/11 or 7'7 is it?
Brixton riots ...True
However how many riots are their nowadays for the human rights of an immigrant, or a riot by the population who feel the immigrants are taking their jobs.
Pubs not clubs back then, Clubs came later after the pubs shut.
The bottom line for GTI owners or any car owners then was freedom to drive, no cat's or camera's or speed limiters, the great smell of 2 stroke oil and GTX. :laugh:
There are floors to every decade but this is a car website and the 80's where the last decade for fast cars.
Clarkson still keeps a MK1 Golf
So does that tasty blonde on 5th gear. :kiss:
Will any of the standard cars of today be around 30 years from now?
I think not.
PS....page 3 girls where around in the 70's but the daily Star was not.
Oh yes and one more thing...Women danced for men then. :smug: :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEqsZExmDzI
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And they don't make ad's like this anymore :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wCwZLVLCM&feature=PlayList&p=853A95DB3DB30BF1&index=19 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wCwZLVLCM&feature=PlayList&p=853A95DB3DB30BF1&index=19)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBceW_zuKc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBceW_zuKc&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfSnt6_6VPc&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfSnt6_6VPc&NR=1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6QL4B4w6o&feature=PlayList&p=853A95DB3DB30BF1&index=0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6QL4B4w6o&feature=PlayList&p=853A95DB3DB30BF1&index=0)
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Did you hear about the man who in the 80's was a window cleaner and left school at 16, they gave him 5 of today’s 'A' papers. He passed all of them and yet in 1984 he only passed one GCSE out of 6.
Don't think he would have passed any GCSEs in 1984 - they weren't introduced until 1988 - I know coz I was the first year that did 'em! :laugh:
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^ SO was I, and they sucked A$$ as a result. :angry:
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high unemployment - more than it is now
high interest rates and inflation
miners strike/pit closures
Margaret Thatcher
Nationalisation
Poll Tax
John Lennon murdered
Brixton riots
Was great the 80s
BTW Page 3 birds were around in the 70s
:grin: :rolleyes:
Margaret Thatcher....That's why the VW Golf came into this country my friend, it was not until the 90's that Cat's came in when labour got into power and then speed camera's popped up everywhere.
And when the British Falklands where invaded, NO LACK OF EQUIPMENT THERE SO OUR SOLDIERS COULD DIE....NO SHE SENT A FULLY EQUIPPED TASK FORCE (INCLUDING HELICOPTERS BY THE WAY) SO OUR SOLDIERS DID NOT GET KILLED...SOME DID..BUT WITH 200 DEAD IN AFGANISTAN CAN YOU IMAGINE IF BROWN WAS IN POWER BACK THEN, THE SOLDIERS WOULD HAVE BEEN FIGHTING WITH TREE TWIGS) :embarassed:
Did we not borrow more stuff from the US and then lose it cos the french sold the Argies a few flying fish which sunk the Atlantic conveyor, Antelope etc leaving us with only two or three helicopters meaning our super tuff soldiers had to yomp across the whole island and then fight battles at the end of the day.
Realy we were quite unprepaired for the war but had to do something before they got too dug in.
The Belgrano was sunk to stop the whole thing turning into disaster
I remember they got the avro vulcan out of mothballs to bomb the runway so more stuff could not be flown in.
The only reason we did not get a thumping was that our boys are dedicated profesionals who dont give up not because we were properly equiped.
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high unemployment - more than it is now
high interest rates and inflation
miners strike/pit closures
Margaret Thatcher
Nationalisation
Poll Tax
John Lennon murdered
Brixton riots
Was great the 80s
BTW Page 3 birds were around in the 70s
:grin: :rolleyes:
Margaret Thatcher....That's why the VW Golf came into this country my friend, it was not until the 90's that Cat's came in when labour got into power and then speed camera's popped up everywhere.
And when the British Falklands where invaded, NO LACK OF EQUIPMENT THERE SO OUR SOLDIERS COULD DIE....NO SHE SENT A FULLY EQUIPPED TASK FORCE (INCLUDING HELICOPTERS BY THE WAY) SO OUR SOLDIERS DID NOT GET KILLED...SOME DID..BUT WITH 200 DEAD IN AFGANISTAN CAN YOU IMAGINE IF BROWN WAS IN POWER BACK THEN, THE SOLDIERS WOULD HAVE BEEN FIGHTING WITH TREE TWIGS) :embarassed:
Did we not borrow more stuff from the US and then lose it cos the french sold the Argies a few flying fish which sunk the Atlantic conveyor, Antelope etc leaving us with only two or three helicopters meaning our super tuff soldiers had to yomp across the whole island and then fight battles at the end of the day.
Realy we were quite unprepaired for the war but had to do something before they got too dug in.
The Belgrano was sunk to stop the whole thing turning into disaster
I remember they got the avro vulcan out of mothballs to bomb the runway so more stuff could not be flown in.
The only reason we did not get a thumping was that our boys are dedicated profesionals who dont give up not because we were properly equiped.
Not quite :wink:
Squadron Aircraft[1] Number Lost
737 NAS Wessex HAS.3 2 1
800 NAS Sea Harrier FRS.1 12 2
801 NAS Sea Harrier FRS.1 8 4
809 NAS Sea Harrier FRS.1 8 0
815 NAS Lynx HAS.2 and HAS.3 14 3
820 NAS Sea King HAS.5 9 0
824 NAS Sea King HAS.2 5 0
825 NAS Sea King HAS.2 10 0
826 NAS Sea King HAS.5 9 2
829 NAS (Wasp HAS.1) 9 0
845 NAS Wessex HU.5 15 2
846 NAS Sea King HC.4 15 3
847 NAS Wessex HU.5 24 0
848 NAS Wessex HU.5 15 6
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Hehe was a slight exageration on my part :wink:
Point is we were under strength and could have got a pasting if it was not for the Sea harriers /Choppers the Ground troops and the yanks lending us supplies. Also the fact the Enemy did not press home the attacks on our shipping and the withdrawal of their aircraft carrier after the Belgrano went down
It was a mighty Gamble (just before an election)
Unfortunatly governments manipulate the Armed forces too much
If we let the AF do it their way and fund them correctly things would be different
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Anyway let's not make this some heavily political debate (i hate them) :sick:.
What about cars. I picked this up. Some good cars here :grin:
Did any of you have one back then?
http://cars.uk.msn.com/News/car_news_article.aspx?cp-documentid=6812800
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I wasn't driving until the 90's
The old fella did most of the 80s in various Volvo 240's DL, GLE, GLT and a couple of 760 of which I did abit of learner driving in.
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I was only 6 wen the 80's ended but now i can appricate what you said, also,
Classic tunes
The best films (back to the future, police academy etc) haha
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I wasn't driving until the 90's
The old fella did most of the 80s in various Volvo 240's DL, GLE, GLT and a couple of 760 of which I did abit of learner driving in.
Big up the volvo's, wardrobes rule :laugh:
Anyone play Kiss chase in the 80's :grin:
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Anyone play Kiss chase in the 80's :grin:
Yeah in about 1981 - it ROCKED especially when you did your Parka hood right up around the girl's face! Much more intimate - though quite why I thought that when I was 9 I have no idea... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Anyone play Kiss chase in the 80's :grin:
Yeah in about 1981 - it ROCKED especially when you did your Parka hood right up around the girl's face! Much more intimate - though quite why I thought that when I was 9 I have no idea... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Hehe, they thought that hiding in the girls toilets would provide sanctuary how wrong they were :evil: