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Title: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 04, 2016, 11:47:15 AM
Should we do this as we are in the second division , how we go about it ?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: eamonn on September 04, 2016, 12:03:17 PM
How do you mean, Boil in the Bag Vestas thrice weekly and relying on local shrubbery for pornographic needs ?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 04, 2016, 12:18:35 PM
There never used to be 99p donner meat n chips deals in 1987. Perry common v Stockland green was a regular occurrence,  gypsy lane the meeting point
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Des Little on September 04, 2016, 02:03:33 PM
Any idea where I'll get some stonewashed Pepe jeans?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: edgysatsuma89 on September 04, 2016, 02:10:22 PM
I'm going to have to find a large ball bag to live in.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: mallo on September 04, 2016, 02:20:29 PM
8 cans of woodpecker cider and vomiting on the pavement and getting the bus home? No ta.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Ron Manager on September 04, 2016, 02:29:45 PM
Any idea where I'll get some stonewashed Pepe jeans?

Mr Byrite.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Malandro on September 04, 2016, 02:37:52 PM
I'm sure I have my Casio calculator watch somewhere.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: brian green on September 04, 2016, 02:49:44 PM
Be nice to be taller than Damon again.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Des Little on September 04, 2016, 03:23:56 PM
8 cans of woodpecker cider and vomiting on the pavement and getting the bus home? No ta.

That's every home game for me
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: The Edge on September 04, 2016, 03:57:53 PM
I'm going to have to find a large ball bag to live in.
LOL. nice one
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: UK Redsox on September 04, 2016, 04:00:50 PM
If there's one year I don't ever want to see again, its 1987.

Nothing to do with Villa. I had virtually no interest in football back then
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 04, 2016, 04:30:28 PM
Let's see who really is dedicated,  4 tv channels,  no mobile no Internet.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sexual Ealing on September 04, 2016, 04:38:55 PM
Ah fuck, The Smiths have just split up.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 04, 2016, 04:41:16 PM
5p to do the whole 11 route.£4.50 Now disgrace.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sexual Ealing on September 04, 2016, 04:52:57 PM
And Coventry have won the cup. Why are we doing this again?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on September 04, 2016, 04:58:17 PM
Cov were knocked out by non league Sutton United in 87-88 season in the 3rd round. It was humiliating
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 04, 2016, 05:00:31 PM
Did the number 7 stop at colmore row or corporation Street in 1987-1988. I might ask the driver to drop me there to give the 1987-88 experince.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Havencheese on September 04, 2016, 05:02:28 PM
Sinitta on cassingle!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sexual Ealing on September 04, 2016, 05:05:16 PM
Cov were knocked out by non league Sutton United in 87-88 season in the 3rd round. It was humiliating

So they were. I remember that.

I always (though not in 1987, when I was 9) wanted to write a novel that depicted the great storm of 1987 having no metaphorical significance in the lives of its protagonists. Couldn't be arsed in the end though.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 04, 2016, 05:08:49 PM
Cov were knocked out by non league Sutton United in 87-88 season in the 3rd round. It was humiliating

88/89.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on September 04, 2016, 05:13:14 PM
So it was.

87/88 was the last time I went on a football special - to Leeds in the cup. I'd liked to have seen Corbyn travelling in one of them. Then he'd know what being treated like shit was all about.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on September 04, 2016, 05:13:36 PM
They definitely won it the year we went down.  I remember we played them after they had got to the Semi Final and for some reason our Announcer wished them luck in the Semi Final which bought some applause from their horrible masses.  Oh and we beat them again 1-0.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sexual Ealing on September 04, 2016, 05:15:12 PM
Are we still talking about The Smiths?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 04, 2016, 05:16:03 PM
And iirc Sutton got smashed 8-0 by Norwich in round 4.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: brian green on September 04, 2016, 05:16:09 PM
I could have given you the perfect plot Sexual.  We spent three months digging the horse manure out of a chalk pit on the Arundel estate.  Hundreds of cubic metres we were going to bag up and sell.  Along came Michael Fish's hurricane and blew it all back in again.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Havencheese on September 04, 2016, 05:19:03 PM
Are we still talking about The Smiths?

Nah, Johnny Hates Jazz and Wang Chung.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sexual Ealing on September 04, 2016, 05:20:55 PM
I could have given you the perfect plot Sexual.  We spent three months digging the horse manure out of a chalk pit on the Arundel estate.  Hundreds of cubic metres we were going to bag up and sell.  Along came Michael Fish's hurricane and blew it all back in again.

Sold! As long as it didn't reflect any personal emotional turmoil, of course.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 04, 2016, 05:22:29 PM
Must have been around then for Spagna.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: brian green on September 04, 2016, 05:59:24 PM
SE I was a bit Hedley Lamarr like (churning, seething) but my crew were mildly amused.  I too planned a novel with the big storm as its mise en scene.  When Freddie Trueman was sued for divorce he claimed he knew exactly where he spent the night in question because it was the night of the Hurricane.  I saw split screen flashbacks - one of Fiery Fred in his underpants trying to close the window shutters and the other of the plaintiff in her chemise trying to get him to leave the shutters and come back to bed.  Should have written it.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Bungle on September 04, 2016, 06:17:10 PM
Did the number 7 stop at colmore row or corporation Street in 1987-1988. I might ask the driver to drop me there to give the 1987-88 experince.


Not sure about '87 but I remember getting the 7 from Dale End, before they tore up the map of Birmingham and redirected all the traffic.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sexual Ealing on September 04, 2016, 06:36:12 PM
SE I was a bit Hedley Lamarr like (churning, seething) but my crew were mildly amused.  I too planned a novel with the big storm as its mise en scene.  When Freddie Trueman was sued for divorce he claimed he knew exactly where he spent the night in question because it was the night of the Hurricane.  I saw split screen flashbacks - one of Fiery Fred in his underpants trying to close the window shutters and the other of the plaintiff in her chemise trying to get him to leave the shutters and come back to bed.  Should have written it.

I can already hear the sound of the Pulitzer committee clearing their throats Brian!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: brian green on September 04, 2016, 06:45:28 PM
You are too too kind.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 04, 2016, 07:03:22 PM
SE I was a bit Hedley Lamarr like (churning, seething) but my crew were mildly amused.  I too planned a novel with the big storm as its mise en scene.  When Freddie Trueman was sued for divorce he claimed he knew exactly where he spent the night in question because it was the night of the Hurricane.  I saw split screen flashbacks - one of Fiery Fred in his underpants trying to close the window shutters and the other of the plaintiff in her chemise trying to get him to leave the shutters and come back to bed.  Should have written it.

Sounds more entertaining than anything we served up in '87.

And a darned sight more plausible than Bingo Billy keeping us up.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Godfrey Brian on September 04, 2016, 07:46:40 PM
SE I was a bit Hedley Lamarr like (churning, seething) but my crew were mildly amused.  I too planned a novel with the big storm as its mise en scene.  When Freddie Trueman was sued for divorce he claimed he knew exactly where he spent the night in question because it was the night of the Hurricane.  I saw split screen flashbacks - one of Fiery Fred in his underpants trying to close the window shutters and the other of the plaintiff in her chemise trying to get him to leave the shutters and come back to bed.  Should have written it.

Do you reckon he'd have incorporated his legendary long run up in such a situation Brian?☺
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Ian. on September 04, 2016, 08:43:28 PM
I'm sure I have my Casio calculator watch somewhere.
I had ditched the Casio by then and was wearing a very colourful Swatch.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Dave P on September 04, 2016, 08:52:45 PM
This was me circa 1987.

(https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12494663_10153492748319032_3975124657627879991_n.jpg?oh=505fb2d6b47b6fbfcfd6868d1b3a1a38&oe=5841A966)
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on September 04, 2016, 09:14:50 PM
Anyone fancy a pint ?  I know its after 9 but we've got time for a couple or three before last orders.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Grande Pablo on September 04, 2016, 09:47:47 PM
No way am I going back to earn £2.48 per hour.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Des Little on September 04, 2016, 11:11:55 PM
Anyone fancy a pint ?  I know its after 9 but we've got time for a couple or three before last orders.

I'd keep it to just the three...you're driving remember
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: AndyB6 on September 04, 2016, 11:39:19 PM
£1.50 to stand on the Holte as an under-16  :) :) :)
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Pete3206 on September 05, 2016, 12:11:54 AM
Listening to Prefab Sprout on my Aiwa Personal Stereo
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: VancouverLion on September 05, 2016, 03:39:23 AM
Blue or red Kickers? I got both, bloody loved them shoes.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Deano's Mullet on September 05, 2016, 05:17:45 AM
I'm off to see Predator at the cinema tonight - Get to da choppa!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Des Little on September 05, 2016, 07:34:24 AM
Blue or red Kickers? I got both, bloody loved them shoes.

Don't start me off! Best shoes ever
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on September 05, 2016, 07:47:26 AM
I suffered from blurred vision all the way through the late 80s until I realised it was hairspray on my glasses.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: not3bad on September 05, 2016, 10:49:15 AM
What do you think of Blackadder 3?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on September 05, 2016, 11:00:11 AM
What do you think of Blackadder 3?

Blurred.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: not3bad on September 05, 2016, 11:16:54 AM
What do you think of Blackadder 3?

Blurred.

It's a pity that's all you see. You sure There's No Other Way?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: LeeB on September 05, 2016, 11:33:02 AM
What do you think of Blackadder 3?

Blurred.

It's a pity that's all you see. You sure There's No Other Way?

Mate, this is a thread about the 80's, not the 90's. That one is For Tomorrow.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: IAmTheOneIanOlney on September 05, 2016, 11:35:39 AM
I Seymour Blur puns are starting to arrive.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 05, 2016, 11:45:22 AM
Well strictly speaking it was released in the close season, but surely Appetite for Destruction has to be the most appropriate album for the Villa in 1987?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Marlon From Bearwood on September 05, 2016, 12:02:27 PM
Well strictly speaking it was released in the close season, but surely Appetite for Destruction has to be the most appropriate album for the Villa in 1987?

I actually listened to that whole album on Saturday on vinyl, whilst assembling some furniture. Rock n roll or what?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 05, 2016, 12:09:31 PM
Well strictly speaking it was released in the close season, but surely Appetite for Destruction has to be the most appropriate album for the Villa in 1987?

I actually listened to that whole album on Saturday on vinyl, whilst assembling some furniture. Rock n roll or what?

As long as it wasn't Ikea furniture, as that would have required some Swedish death metal, Ikea being the work of Satan!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on September 05, 2016, 12:14:52 PM
Well strictly speaking it was released in the close season, but surely Appetite for Destruction has to be the most appropriate album for the Villa in 1987?

I actually listened to that whole album on Saturday on vinyl, whilst assembling some furniture. Rock n roll or what?

As long as it wasn't Ikea furniture, as that would have required some Swedish death metal, Ikea being the work of Satan!

Or tanaS as it would be if I built it.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on September 05, 2016, 12:28:57 PM
I'd be 10, fuck that
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: el león Benidorm on September 05, 2016, 12:40:24 PM
Chinos, striped shirts and ties - for a 16 year old! I am OK thanks!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Nev on September 05, 2016, 01:15:05 PM
I'm taking an overcoat to the match at Huddersfield.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: eamonn on September 05, 2016, 01:39:06 PM
I Seymour Blur puns are starting to arrive.

The best ones were in the Music section (What Are You Listening To? thread), when after I posted a pic of Modern Life Is Rubbish/Goodish, there were some great Villa-related puns relating to the tracklist i.e relating to James Colins' Zeal, and Damon Green's view of Villa:Rosie.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Bad English on September 05, 2016, 02:29:04 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Herman on September 05, 2016, 02:43:18 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

Was Keith Vaz with you?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: MarkM on September 05, 2016, 03:05:20 PM
I have just left school and joined the Army!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: UK Redsox on September 05, 2016, 03:28:07 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

Philip & Tina Green ?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Des Little on September 05, 2016, 03:44:34 PM
I'm taking an overcoat to the match at Huddersfield.

...and wearing nothing underneath?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: simon ward 50 on September 05, 2016, 03:45:48 PM
I'm taking an overcoat to the match at Huddersfield.

You will get soaked still!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: not3bad on September 05, 2016, 04:29:48 PM
I had my first job in this year. It didn't last long. I looked up the company recently to find it's still going. Alca Fasteners in exotic Darlaston.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Richard E on September 05, 2016, 04:35:15 PM
Mel (RIP) from Mel and Kim had just appeared in a gentlemen's magazine wearing not much clobber, much to the delight of 17 year old me.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: wittonwarrior on September 05, 2016, 05:41:18 PM
Football was just about football. No really daft admission prices.  Still ha a chance of winning something and even then life was simpler than today and the villa were now on an upward spire
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 05, 2016, 05:42:27 PM
Did the number 7 stop at colmore row or corporation Street in 1987-1988. I might ask the driver to drop me there to give the 1987-88 experince.


Not sure about '87 but I remember getting the 7 from Dale End, before they tore up the map of Birmingham and redirected all the traffic.
the 7 was stopping at dale end in late 90s from what I remember.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 05, 2016, 05:48:04 PM
£1.50 to stand on the Holte as an under-16  :) :) :)
I remember a juvenile section on the holte end till 1990. Walk to the top of aston park,  you could see part of the game.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: brian green on September 05, 2016, 05:55:23 PM
Climb up the big elm tree (since succumbed to Scolytus destructus) and you could see most of the pitch.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 05, 2016, 06:00:13 PM
I  remember a chippy down the witton lane, not sure if it was directly opposite the holte end,  where those houses are or if it was on holte Road??
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: brian green on September 05, 2016, 06:16:48 PM
It became a knocking shop.  The three lovely ladies who ran it kept the chip shop as a front.  Not that they were deficient in the front department.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: eric woolban woolban on September 05, 2016, 06:44:00 PM
These spectrums are great. Best graphics ever
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sister of Top Cat on September 05, 2016, 07:14:43 PM
Blue or red Kickers? I got both, bloody loved them shoes.
I read that as blue or red knickers!!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Godfrey Brian on September 05, 2016, 07:23:12 PM
Love the claret and blue paint work on that Witton Railway Bridge - looks like it could last decades.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Risso on September 05, 2016, 07:23:52 PM
Mel (RIP) from Mel and Kim had just appeared in a gentlemen's magazine wearing not much clobber, much to the delight of 17 year old me.

How did I miss that?  Be right back...
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Risso on September 05, 2016, 07:26:00 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

I lost my virginity with a girl called Jenny in a park in Exeter.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 05, 2016, 07:30:51 PM
Love the claret and blue paint work on that Witton Railway Bridge - looks like it could last decades.
done up in 1985, Ellis paid for it. The paint hadnt even dried, before some local witton villa lads tarted it up with some villa graffiti.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Nev on September 05, 2016, 07:45:33 PM
Mel (RIP) from Mel and Kim had just appeared in a gentlemen's magazine wearing not much clobber, much to the delight of 17 year old me.

She was stunning.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Risso on September 05, 2016, 07:52:34 PM
Blimey.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Bad English on September 05, 2016, 07:55:50 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

I lost my virginity with a girl called Jenny in a park in Exeter.
I was 21 and studying at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon. I could put a few posts on here...
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Ian. on September 05, 2016, 07:58:41 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

I lost my virginity with a girl called Jenny in a park in Exeter.
A play park or a park as in a field area?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 05, 2016, 08:04:06 PM
These spectrums are great. Best graphics ever

I thought we'd got tired of colour clash by then but me Sega Mega Drive apparently didn't turn up until 1988.  My first "big ticket" purchase with my own wages.

Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Hopadop on September 05, 2016, 08:44:28 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

I was having the occasional twosome and an awful lot of onesomes in Morecambe.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Bad English on September 05, 2016, 09:26:55 PM
Palmela Handerson in Morecambe, eh?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: cdward on September 05, 2016, 09:33:31 PM
Just bought my first car, a 1975 blue mini. Now I am realising how fu**ing temperamental cars made in Longbridge were, carrying a dry cloth and WD40 everywhere because every time it rained the thing cut out at the lights or a roundabout, and I had to jump out and spray the distributor cap and spark plugs.
Also learning the delicate art of manual choke.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Ducksworthy on September 05, 2016, 09:35:58 PM
Just bought my first car, a 1975 blue mini. Now I am realising how fu**ing temperamental cars made in Longbridge were, carrying a dry cloth and WD40 everywhere because every time it rained the thing cut out at the lights or a roundabout, and I had to jump out and spray the distributor cap and spark plugs.
Also learning the delicate art of manual choke.

Sounds like you and Hopadop were having a similar experience.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on September 05, 2016, 09:38:19 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

I was having the occasional twosome and an awful lot of onesomes in Morecambe.

Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: LukeJames on September 05, 2016, 10:31:31 PM
I had my first job in this year. It didn't last long. I looked up the company recently to find it's still going. Alca Fasteners in exotic Darlaston.

One of my closest mates works there as admin.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Damo70 on September 05, 2016, 10:55:30 PM
I left school/finished my exams on the exact day SGT was appointed Villa manager. I started helping a relative in his haulage business for a few quid a time. I went to see David Bowie on The Glass Spider Tour at Wembley and Maine Road. I saw Madonna at Wembley on the Who's That Girl Tour. I was earning £28.50 a week on a YTS business course in Chelmsley Wood. Myself and Nev started following Villa home and away. I went to Australia to visit relatives over the Christmas and New Year '87-'88. When I came back I got a job in an insurance office which took my weekly wage from £28.50 to the astronomical sum of £80 a week. I felt like I had won the pools.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: German James on September 05, 2016, 11:23:17 PM
I'd just left school and started my apprenticeship... I had a moped...
I spent my time moping about, playing guitar and smoking things which made me look like this:

(http://the-limpets.de/other_stuff/Happy_days.jpg)
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Jean Quereue-Quereue on September 05, 2016, 11:29:25 PM
5p to do the whole 11 route.£4.50 Now disgrace.
It would have been a bit more than that - reckon about 20p for kids at that time.  Of course there was the added complication of peak and off-peak fares.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Damo70 on September 05, 2016, 11:29:59 PM
I'd just left school and started my apprenticeship... I had a moped...
I spent my time moping about, playing guitar and smoking things which made me look like this:

(http://the-limpets.de/other_stuff/Happy_days.jpg)


I had similar hair but mine was bleached blonde. I looked like the bastard love child of a crazy debauched night of sex between the snooker player Kirk Stephens, Just Good Friends' Paul Nicholas and Rick Parfitt out of Status Quo.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: thick_mike on September 05, 2016, 11:32:12 PM
I'd just left school and started my apprenticeship... I had a moped...
I spent my time moping about, playing guitar and smoking things which made me look like this:

(http://the-limpets.de/other_stuff/Happy_days.jpg)


Fucking hell! That's a great look!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: eamonn on September 05, 2016, 11:38:50 PM
I always thought you were between 28-35, German James.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: German James on September 05, 2016, 11:44:36 PM
I always thought you were between 28-35, German James.
I'm not sure if that reflects well or badly on me...
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sexual Ealing on September 06, 2016, 12:34:39 AM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

I lost my virginity with a girl called Jenny in a park in Exeter.

I love the old romantics on H&V, who can remember the name of the person they lost their virginity to.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: edgysatsuma89 on September 06, 2016, 12:44:24 AM
I always thought you were between 28-35, German James.
I'm not sure if that reflects well or badly on me...

I got the feel that you were near my age. You cool hipster muhfugga.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: edgysatsuma89 on September 06, 2016, 12:45:21 AM
Obviously not '87, but what was number 1 when we won the european cup?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: CT Villan on September 06, 2016, 02:26:01 AM
Was in my second year at college in Dundee having the time of my life...bought my first Satriani album, Surfing with the Alien, and loved it.

I do also wonder if Tawny is still stuck to that car bonnet...

Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Damo70 on September 06, 2016, 02:37:58 AM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

I lost my virginity with a girl called Jenny in a park in Exeter.

I love the old romantics on H&V, who can remember the name of the person they lost their virginity to.



It was one crazy night between me and you and I thought we had agreed never to broadcast it. But yes I do still think about you constantly  'Big Boy'.



Actually it was a girl called Karen who lived round the corner and we did it whilst my mum and dad were out at their social club on a Saturday night. I distinctly remember that Casualty was on the telly whilst we were doing the deed.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Damo70 on September 06, 2016, 02:50:05 AM
Obviously not '87, but what was number 1 when we won the european cup?


Without cheating and Googling it I would have three guesses and go Come On Eileen, Joe Dolces's Shaddupya Face or  something by Bucks Fizz. As for 1987,  when we went down I'm pretty sure we went down to the sound of Madonna's La Isla Bonita. Funny the stuff you remember.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: ChicagoLion on September 06, 2016, 03:19:50 AM
I'd just left school and started my apprenticeship... I had a moped...
I spent my time moping about, playing guitar and smoking things which made me look like this:

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jethro Tull
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Vegas on September 06, 2016, 07:12:33 AM
Speaking of 1987 and the 11 bus route, I think it was that year that someone from my school decided it would be good for the kids to do the Walkathon. Bloody knackering
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 06, 2016, 07:21:49 AM
I had my first job in this year. It didn't last long. I looked up the company recently to find it's still going. Alca Fasteners in exotic Darlaston.

One of my closest mates works there as admin.

Working tirelessly on our behalf?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Exeter 77 on September 06, 2016, 08:54:17 AM
Obviously not '87, but what was number 1 when we won the european cup?
The Eurovision winner 'A Little Peace' by a German teenager called Nicole.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on September 06, 2016, 08:57:45 AM
I've just walked out of my job in Tyseley that I hated and bought an Interrail Card to go round Europe shagging on a cultural tour for a month.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on September 06, 2016, 09:01:26 AM
I've just walked out of my job in Tyseley that I hated and bought an Interrail Card to go round Europe shagging on a cultural tour for a month.

Remember when you could get European train vouchers from Persil boxes back then.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: rob_bridge on September 06, 2016, 09:23:26 AM
1987 was an utterly shit year for me.

I suffered from depression. Not fun anytime.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: not3bad on September 06, 2016, 10:08:40 AM
These spectrums are great. Best graphics ever

I thought we'd got tired of colour clash by then but me Sega Mega Drive apparently didn't turn up until 1988.  My first "big ticket" purchase with my own wages.



You guys are crazy. Have you seen how much memory the Commodore has got?! SIXTY FOUR K!!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Risso on September 06, 2016, 10:39:46 AM
These spectrums are great. Best graphics ever

I thought we'd got tired of colour clash by then but me Sega Mega Drive apparently didn't turn up until 1988.  My first "big ticket" purchase with my own wages.



You guys are crazy. Have you seen how much memory the Commodore has got?! SIXTY FOUR K!!

1987 was when the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST started to get popular.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 06, 2016, 11:26:16 AM
These spectrums are great. Best graphics ever

I thought we'd got tired of colour clash by then but me Sega Mega Drive apparently didn't turn up until 1988.  My first "big ticket" purchase with my own wages.



You guys are crazy. Have you seen how much memory the Commodore has got?! SIXTY FOUR K!!

1987 was when the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST started to get popular.

It was a couple of years more before I went for the ST512 with a whopping 512K. Then my mate got a 1024 at some point and we all called him a flash bastard with his 1MB.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Sexual Ealing on September 06, 2016, 12:21:55 PM
I have just had a threesome on a yacht in the South of France.

I lost my virginity with a girl called Jenny in a park in Exeter.

I love the old romantics on H&V, who can remember the name of the person they lost their virginity to.



It was one crazy night between me and you and I thought we had agreed never to broadcast it. But yes I do still think about you constantly  'Big Boy'.



Actually it was a girl called Karen who lived round the corner and we did it whilst my mum and dad were out at their social club on a Saturday night. I distinctly remember that Casualty was on the telly whilst we were doing the deed.

And I swore that I was on the pill. PM me to arrange a meeting with little baby Bono.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: robbo1874 on September 06, 2016, 12:44:23 PM
Obviously not '87, but what was number 1 when we won the european cup?
The Eurovision winner 'A Little Peace' by a German teenager called Nicole.
was it written about herself! 80's humour right there...
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on September 06, 2016, 01:14:41 PM
1987, probably the best year for black music since the early 70s. It was difficult to keep up with everything that was coming out of New York and Chicago and that's before you even mention the soul.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: bodkins14 on September 06, 2016, 01:20:39 PM
Bizarrely I also popped my cherry in May of 1987, on a grass bank behind the sea scouts hut in Tamworth. I remember it was cup final day (can't for the life of me remember who played) just it was a gloriously sunny day and we drank a few cans of breaker lager and did the deed.
As strange as it seems I think nothings gonna stop us now by starship was in the charts, I was in forever love and we went to my Aunts for a BBQ later that night, my forever love lasted about 3 more months
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: bodkins14 on September 06, 2016, 01:22:44 PM
Just looked it up it was Cov vs Spurs
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Bottom Right 89 on September 06, 2016, 01:23:37 PM
I've just tried on my 87 Hummel shirt - someone call the fire brigade I need to be cut out  :-[
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Damo70 on September 06, 2016, 01:27:58 PM
These spectrums are great. Best graphics ever

I thought we'd got tired of colour clash by then but me Sega Mega Drive apparently didn't turn up until 1988.  My first "big ticket" purchase with my own wages.



You guys are crazy. Have you seen how much memory the Commodore has got?! SIXTY FOUR K!!

1987 was when the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST started to get popular.

It was a couple of years more before I went for the ST512 with a whopping 512K. Then my mate got a 1024 at some point and we all called him a flash bastard with his 1MB.



I got a Commodore Vic20 for Chrsitmas 1982. I was obsessed with a Pac Man style game called 'Jelly Mosters'. About two years later a got a Spectrum with the old style rubber keys and then a couple of years later got a Spectrum+. I used to love Football Manager and an F1 game called 'Chequered Flag'.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Damo70 on September 06, 2016, 01:33:36 PM
Just looked it up it was Cov vs Spurs

I had actually been in Coventry on the morning of that final helping my uncle out in his haulage business. I remember plenty of sky blue flags being displayed. I watched that final sat on the sofa at my mum and dads with Nev. But seeing as this thread has partly morphed into a nostalgic look back on our teenage sexual exploits I would like to place on record that nothing happened.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: mamuu on September 06, 2016, 01:41:57 PM
so much great music in 87. Posted to Osnabruck at 18, with nothing but several Fall albums to my name

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/1980s/1987/
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Damo70 on September 06, 2016, 01:49:00 PM
so much great music in 87. Posted to Osnabruck at 18, with nothing but several Fall albums to my name

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/1980s/1987/


I was obsessed with Bowie in 1987. Saw him live twice, got his new album that year 'Never Let Me Down' and starting collecting his back catalogue. On cassettes (remember them?). I got into Pink Floyd around that time too, bought some of their albums and saw them the following year.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: bodkins14 on September 06, 2016, 02:01:06 PM
Damo70 I would like to claim that I was some kind of sexual demigod and was at it for hours like a full time Dutch porn star, however I suspect it was more like a cough and a sneeze and it was allover.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Damo70 on September 06, 2016, 02:07:38 PM
Damo70 I would like to claim that I was some kind of sexual demigod and was at it for hours like a full time Dutch porn star, however I suspect it was more like a cough and a sneeze and it was allover.


At my age I would like to be able to claim I was like a part time Dutch porn star, let alone a full time one.

I should also ask how you seen to have some insider knowledge as to the working hours of Dutch porn stars. There is also probably the opportunity for a joke about fingers and dykes at this point.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: robbo1874 on September 06, 2016, 02:35:44 PM
Just looked it up it was Cov vs Spurs

I had actually been in Coventry on the morning of that final helping my uncle out in his haulage business. I remember plenty of sky blue flags being displayed. I watched that final sat on the sofa at my mum and dads with Nev. But seeing as this thread has partly morphed into a nostalgic look back on our teenage sexual exploits I would like to place on record that nothing happened.
i was spared the indignity of it damo, largely. I was on a coach load of school kids coming back from a French exchange trip. Word of it only spread later on the Saturday night. There were a few Pringle sweatered, Farah sporting, wet look mulleted kids excited about it on the bus; but most of us couldn't have cared less. Least of all me, as I was still doing action replays in my head of a romantic encounter with an older lady (she was in 5th yr from our school) on the top deck of the ferry as it glided into Plymouth harbour !
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 06, 2016, 02:48:11 PM
Just looked it up it was Cov vs Spurs

I had actually been in Coventry on the morning of that final helping my uncle out in his haulage business. I remember plenty of sky blue flags being displayed. I watched that final sat on the sofa at my mum and dads with Nev. But seeing as this thread has partly morphed into a nostalgic look back on our teenage sexual exploits I would like to place on record that nothing happened.
i was spared the indignity of it damo, largely. I was on a coach load of school kids coming back from a French exchange trip. Word of it only spread later on the Saturday night. There were a few Pringle sweatered, Farah sporting, wet look mulleted kids excited about it on the bus; but most of us couldn't have cared less. Least of all me, as I was still doing action replays in my head of a romantic encounter with an older lady (she was in 5th yr from our school) on the top deck of the ferry as it glided into Plymouth harbour !

That could be the best euphemism yet!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Herman on September 06, 2016, 02:48:29 PM
so much great music in 87. Posted to Osnabruck at 18, with nothing but several Fall albums to my name

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/1980s/1987/

Coincidentally, I am sitting in Osnabrück right now.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Witton Warrior on September 06, 2016, 04:19:08 PM
so much great music in 87. Posted to Osnabruck at 18, with nothing but several Fall albums to my name

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/1980s/1987/

Wonderful and Frightening World, This Nation and Bend Sinister by any chance? Fantastic life!
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Dave Cooper please on September 06, 2016, 04:22:03 PM
I had not long been posted to Germany and was discovering the Reeperbahn cultural delights of Hamburg.

On the tangent, Lynn in her parents bedroom in Wood End.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: brian green on September 06, 2016, 05:09:40 PM
I got my collar bone broken by Snowdrops (RAF MPs) on the Reeperbahn in 1959.  On the tangent, on a pile of camouflage nets with Ingrid in the tank park Hildesheim.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Hopadop on September 06, 2016, 05:58:58 PM
I know it's bad but I don't know her name. In a stable somewhere in deepest Staffordshire. She wasn't a horse.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 06, 2016, 06:06:59 PM
I know it's bad but I don't know her name. In a stable somewhere in deepest Staffordshire. She wasn't a horse.

Pit Pony?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Malandro on September 06, 2016, 07:05:30 PM
I know it's bad but I don't know her name. In a stable somewhere in deepest Staffordshire. She wasn't a horse.

Bailed?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: brian green on September 06, 2016, 07:27:16 PM
I should hope not Hop.  A filly or a mare,  chacun a son gout but not Vazzing it up with a male ungulate.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Risso on September 06, 2016, 07:48:59 PM
1987, probably the best year for black music since the early 70s. It was difficult to keep up with everything that was coming out of New York and Chicago and that's before you even mention the soul.

Who could forget:

Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on September 06, 2016, 07:55:11 PM
Indeed.

'You without me is like cornflakes without the milk.'
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Witton Warrior on September 06, 2016, 09:31:31 PM
Oh and it was Val Hopkins in a field opposite Norton Covet on a beautiful April evening in 1975 - watched by sheep...
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Bad English on September 06, 2016, 09:37:37 PM
I'm sure she'll be pleased to see her name pop up in a Google search.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Risso on September 06, 2016, 10:03:27 PM
Indeed.

'You without me is like cornflakes without the milk.'

Whilst I bow to your greater knowledge in such areas, wasn't 86 a better year than 87?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: thick_mike on September 06, 2016, 11:33:44 PM
so much great music in 87. Posted to Osnabruck at 18, with nothing but several Fall albums to my name

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/1980s/1987/

There's some utter gold there. I was at peak Peel in that period.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: UK Redsox on September 07, 2016, 10:17:47 AM
I had not long been posted to Germany and was discovering the Reeperbahn cultural delights of Hamburg.


We had a school trip the Hamburg in 1985. We were supposed to have a meal at the top of the Heinrich-Hertz-Turm but it was closed.

Therefore the teacher decided to take us on a walk down the Reeperbahn instead. Not sure that he'd get away with that these days.

The next year we had a trip to Esbjerg (despite the school not running a Danish course) which consisted of seemingly endless hours on the North Sea and then three hours in the town. Whilst on land we never saw the teachers.

As I've mentioned before, I swear that we were unknowing cover for obtaining elicit chemicals/plant material.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 07, 2016, 01:45:40 PM
I had not long been posted to Germany and was discovering the Reeperbahn cultural delights of Hamburg.


We had a school trip the Hamburg in 1985. We were supposed to have a meal at the top of the Heinrich-Hertz-Turm but it was closed.

Therefore the teacher decided to take us on a walk down the Reeperbahn instead. Not sure that he'd get away with that these days.

The next year we had a trip to Esbjerg (despite the school not running a Danish course) which consisted of seemingly endless hours on the North Sea and then three hours in the town. Whilst on land we never saw the teachers.

As I've mentioned before, I swear that we were unknowing cover for obtaining elicit chemicals/plant material.

Harwich - Esbjerg.

18 hours overnight, although DFDS stopped the route a couple of years ago. I hated that crossing. Only started feeling sea sick the first time I stood on terra firma after we'd driven off the ferry and would then be ill for 12 hours afterwards.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: simon ward 50 on September 07, 2016, 01:53:57 PM
Harwich - Esbjerg.

I think I did that trip 1986 although it could have been 1987 with some friends from Bradford College believe it or not! Coach from Bradford to Harwich, ferry across to Esbjerg, 3 hours on shore then the journey in reverse. Must have been mad?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on September 07, 2016, 03:08:18 PM
3 hours on shore sounds about right as it was a 6 hour turnaround in port to disembark, clean up and embark for the return trip and hold it to a 24 cycle.

The worst trip I ever experienced was when the crossing to England was delayed as they couldn't get the ferry into port because of the seas being so rough.

Our crossing was like a millpond, but everywhere you went on board was the smell of vomit and disinfectant as a reminder of how shit it had been for the poor bastards on board the night before stuck out in Vesterhavet.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 07, 2016, 06:41:44 PM
Nearly the whole of Stockland green secondary school shop lifting from seddons newsagents,  which is now a co-op
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: cheltenhamlion on September 07, 2016, 06:51:10 PM
On the "tangent bit from the previous page" I probably need to share the first two. I opened my account between the hockey goal at the top of the school field at Year 9 end of year disco to include being caught just after finishing the deed by a teacher.

Round 2 was a girl nearly two years older than me in a large metal container out the back of Cheltenham's premier sports store, Leisure Land (it was filled with cardboard boxes).

The wife wonders as to why I am not romantic! I should add that I also took a hiding from the brother of the second  (he was my age) who later went on to be the gypsy fraternities shining light as a world class kick boxer.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: el león Benidorm on September 07, 2016, 07:46:25 PM
Year 9!!! So that would be the third year in real money then...
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: spinksy the bfg on September 10, 2016, 09:14:35 AM
Saturday morning super store
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Pete3206 on September 10, 2016, 12:10:56 PM
Nearly the whole of Stockland green secondary school shop lifting from seddons newsagents,  which is now a co-op


I spent a fortune on Krunchy Puffs in there.
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: edgysatsuma89 on September 10, 2016, 02:42:34 PM
Nearly the whole of Stockland green secondary school shop lifting from seddons newsagents,  which is now a co-op


I spent a fortune on Krunchy Puffs in there.

Are we still on about virginity?
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Des Little on September 10, 2016, 05:03:31 PM
Nearly the whole of Stockland green secondary school shop lifting from seddons newsagents,  which is now a co-op


I spent a fortune on Krunchy Puffs in there.

Are we still on about virginity?

I think he'd have said crusty if we were
Title: Re: Living your life to 1987 standards
Post by: Pete3206 on September 11, 2016, 09:27:04 AM
Nearly the whole of Stockland green secondary school shop lifting from seddons newsagents,  which is now a co-op


I spent a fortune on Krunchy Puffs in there.

Are we still on about virginity?

I think he'd have said crusty if we were

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