Saturday, 4 April 2009

Acceptable in the 80's

A list of things that happened or were acceptable in the 80's:

- shoulder pads
- leg warmers
- plastic bags
- aerosol sprays
- clashing colours
- big, frizzy hair (I still carry this trend due to my Kurdish genes)
- slapping people every second friday of the month
- WHAM!
- jelly drinks (still available in our college shop)
- swearing at kids
- abusing colour
- Mohican
- Brylcreem
- MJ gloves
- the moonwalk
- homosexuality was considered a disease
- people used to think Car Wash's were a fun ride
- the hip-hop scene evolved
- me and Luigi were born to the delight of our blog followers
- doing the box in the club
- bandanas
- leotards
- Rubix cube
- David Bowie make-up
- using brocolli as an item of clothing
- Freddie Mercury moustache
- poop bags
- slapping other people's kids
- smashing plates
- peeping on your neighbours through a discreet hole in the wall
- sheep shagging
- men wearing tight short-shorts
- the colour orange

this list is welcome to suggestions :)

2 comments:

Thuy said...

How about a baseball jacket? Michael J. Fox is wearing that in the film Back to the Future.

Anonymous said...

i sometimes wish i could have been an 80's child