How awesome were the 80s!

[Ploughmans Lunch]

I dunno, I watched "How to Survive a Plague", a really good doco about AIDS activism in the 80s. 80's was pretty bad sometimes!

[GoktimusPrime]

Some parents are just too sterile these days. I'm suprised they don't have their kids locked in one of them giant, clear plastic spheres.

Oh... they do. Not literally, but figuratively, they do.

I'm pretty sure my daughter is happier than I was when I was younger.

And I think that our kids are, in general, smarter than we were at their age, thanks in no small part to advances in modern paedagogy. I rarely got to present a news item when I was in primary school (I could count the number of times I got to present news from K-6 on one hand). My Kindy age daughter presents a news item once a week at her primary school, and also once a week at her Saturday school. I also craved opportunities to do creative writing, which was also something I very rarely got to do at school.

[Sinnertwin]

I dunno, I watched "How to Survive a Plague", a really good doco about AIDS activism in the 80s. 80's was pretty bad sometimes!

oh yeah. Bravestarr had an episode titled "the price" were a teen boy gets addicted to a drug called spin, overdoses and dies.


And yes, Goki, that mollycoddling has got to go

[GoktimusPrime]

I remember StarCom, although I don't think that really took off in Australia (one of my cousins had StarCom toys, videos and books purchased overseas). And I must admit that I still have a big crush on Lynn Minmay.

[drifand]

I remember StarCom, although I don't think that really took off in Australia (one of my cousins had StarCom toys, videos and books purchased overseas). And I must admit that I still have a big crush on Lynn Minmay.

That's macross not Starcom you were referring? (On minmay)
Starcom toys are everything power used with magnets and astronauts with magnetic boots.

[GoktimusPrime]

I know what star com and macross are. I was having two separate thoughts... probably should've qualified that. Another cool thing about star com was the vehicle gimmicks which had self operating parts but didn't require batteries.

[Trent]

I forgot about this thread until I remembered this movie:



I haven't seen it in at least 20 years but I used to love it.

I bet it hasn't aged well

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Oh man! I did an American Ninja marathon a couple of months back!

The first one hasn't aged too badly (for a cheap '80's film), nor has the second, but the third and fourth one... ouch!

But who cares if it hasn't aged well, it's still full of awesome!

And I must admit that I still have a big crush on Lynn Minmay.

Give me that milf Lisa Hayes! Grrrr!!!!!

[millhouse]

I love American Ninja 2: The Confrontation.

The ninja gene. The ninjas who die at the slightest hit. The persistent ninja hanging off a truck.

Awesome guilty pleasure. Find me a blu-ray of it please.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Number two had that nice blend of action and comedy!

And I remember when Jackson pulled out his double sword (you dirty feckers!), my friends and I just went nuts!

https://youtu.be/uCQk9TPNdbI?t=1h19m18s

Ah, good times!