Oh look. It's 1987 again.

[zotz]

Well, isn't this fun.

Still, I guess this means that those of you who've wondered what it was like living in the eighties can now stop wondering. This is what it was like.

Comments

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

Yes, but in the Eighties there was a balance of power, and we could rest more or less assured that one side wouldn't kick anything off. This is far, far worse.

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

One word, 4 letters, anagram of the most famous norse king of England.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

childeric was talking a while ago about wanting to give a paper called "Cnut - King, or Typo?"

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

fcuk'd if I know...

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

ASNaCs have all the fun...

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It's often been said, yes.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

You've just got the first laugh out of me this evening. Thanks.

[sarcaustik.livejournal.com]

How the fuck did that happen?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I've just turned over from the breakfast coverage on BBC24, and am watching UK History's programme on The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher, which is far more cheerful, mostly because I know there's a happier ending (we've just got to the poll tax riots and Howe's resignation).

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

No, this is much worse.

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

The soundtrack was better though.

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

I was thinking (hoping) it was more like the early 90s - the last time the tories won. Polls skewed because people wouldn't admit they were going to vote for them. Whether there'll be anything much left for a landslide Democrat victory to win in 4 years is another question. I am not a happy bunny just now!

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

In some ways it's worse; but at least we don't have Thatcher. Blair has many faults, but at least he still leads a party that has some good people in it, to quote myself quoting Jeremy Hardy.

Unfortunately it also has Blunkett in it. I intend to contact my MP and tell him that I will vote Liberal Democrat at the next general election unless Labour drops its ID card plans. This will be hard to do, but I strongly feel that a message must be sent. It's too late for America, but there is still hope here on Airstrip One.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

I don't know what bothers me more: the people who weren't around in the Eighties who get nostalgic for the music and the fashions (as if either were any damn good), or the ones who did whose longterm memory is completely fucked. If I have to listen to yet another late thirtysomething who wants to convince me that the Eighties were great, but can't remember a thing about the decade other than the sheer amount of drugs s/he took, I'm going to go Bruce Lee on the dumb bastard.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Can we just please have the bad hair and bleepy music and cheesy drum machines and skip the politics?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Speaking of 80s nostalgia, have you read the latest Christopher Brookmyre (Be My Enemy) yet? Another Parlabane one, some interesting takes on it.