What were the 80s like?

**Mark TKO** · 06-01-2016 07:29 PM

it was ace

**Fenster** · 06-01-2016 08:22 PM

Yeah it was fantastic. The films were great and all I did was ride me BMX (Diamond Back), play football, runouts and break into building sites/new buildings that shot up all along the Thames. Those were the days.

**Britkid** · 06-01-2016 08:29 PM

I think in the UK there really was a crude divide. For us in the South East it was great; there was real hope amongst the working class; but outside the South East, Thatcher destroyed the spirit and soul of the rest of the Country and there was nothing to replace it, and seemingly little hope of improvement.

**Mark TKO** · 06-01-2016 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Fenster

Yeah it was fantastic. The films were great and all I did was ride me BMX (Diamond Back), play football, runouts and break into building sites/new buildings that shot up all along the Thames. Those were the days.

Yep we actually went out those days and parents didn't seem to worry where you were as long as you were home at meal times (looking back given how much my mum worries in general about me and our kid I can't believe this was the case ?!?)

These days I see my nephew not leaving the house - as he's connected on playstation and chatting from there , where's the fun in that ?!?

We'd all meet down the park for 3 hour football matches, build dens and stuff. Find porn mags too - even better. And as you say you were never off your BMX

What went wrong - technology ?

As much as I wouldn't be without my phone and internet etc it killed a lot of things.

Maybe that's just progress