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Imagine waking up in the 80s

Bananatropics26

Hey everyone imagine you woke up in 1986 in summer. You wake up and a nice relaxing 80s song is playing through your Sony radio cassette player. The beautiful yellow sun has filled the room. And you wake realising you live in the 80s a golden age for western civilization you realise that all the crazy stuff happening in 2025 was all a big crazy dream. So you wake up joyful ready to go for a walk. You leave your apartment and walk down the stairs which are clean and fresh smelling. Out on the street there are children playing with a ball. There is 2 men standing on a street corner smoking reefer. And a couple sit on a bench and talk. Interestingly every one looks very healthy and fit. There isn't an obese person or a drug addict in sight. The roads are newly paved and well maintained. Tower blocks built in the 60s and 70s litter the skyline. Pubs are busy and crowded and people are socialising and smiling. You walk down the street and a young man greets you and asks how you are? It's a lovely day! You wonder if you are dreaming as everything seems so alien.

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  • Shoulder pads everything had shoulder pads!

    We started having to have a career instead of a job.

    The floppy disc revolutionised computing and meant not more punch cards.

    There was a lot more comunity infrastructure such as youth clubs, then they all got closed down and everyone started wondering why there was such a massive rise in vandalism and general bad behaviour.

    You could see live music pretty much every night of the weeks as everybody was in a band and played in church halls and comunity centres.

    The Thatcher government proved the old saying about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing, pretty much everything that gave cohesion and value to peoples lives got cut because of cost savings, but somehow everything still went up in price for the average person. They encouraged greed and brought out the worst in humanity, the sell off of so much of our national infrastructure into poorly regulated private hands, who make vast profits at our expense started here. I'm not saying there weren't problems, because there were some whoppers, over mighty unions holding the country to ransom and there was waste in public services, but the cuts were insane.

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  • Shoulder pads everything had shoulder pads!

    We started having to have a career instead of a job.

    The floppy disc revolutionised computing and meant not more punch cards.

    There was a lot more comunity infrastructure such as youth clubs, then they all got closed down and everyone started wondering why there was such a massive rise in vandalism and general bad behaviour.

    You could see live music pretty much every night of the weeks as everybody was in a band and played in church halls and comunity centres.

    The Thatcher government proved the old saying about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing, pretty much everything that gave cohesion and value to peoples lives got cut because of cost savings, but somehow everything still went up in price for the average person. They encouraged greed and brought out the worst in humanity, the sell off of so much of our national infrastructure into poorly regulated private hands, who make vast profits at our expense started here. I'm not saying there weren't problems, because there were some whoppers, over mighty unions holding the country to ransom and there was waste in public services, but the cuts were insane.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    One good thing about Maggie and the 80s, when unemployment went through the roof, my father was made redundant from a woollen mill, with his mental health problems he had no chance of finding another job, so he was offered early retirement on a full state pension at the age of 57 so he wouldn't appear in the unemployment figures.  

    Now, people in their 60s have to work till they drop or claim universal credit doing 35hours per week job seeking, or risk being sanctioned and left penniless.