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Just in case you were feeling young today...

Some of you might be too old/young, now you can see what the rest of us remember.

The people who are starting University this autumn across the nation were born in 1980.

They have no meaningful recollection of the Thatcher era. They were prepubescent when the Gulf War started. Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression. Their world has always included AIDS. Ataris and Space Invaders predate them, as do vinyl albums and audio tapes. The Compact Disc was released when they were one.

* Even worse......
From their earliest years, a camera was something you used once and threw away.
As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 26 pence.
Few, if any, have lived without an answering machine.
Few have used a TV set without a remote control and they don't know they come in black and white.
They were born the year that Sony brought out the Walkman.
The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.

AND HERE'S THE INTERESTING BIT!!!

You're probably aged 25 to 35 if...........

• You wore a Kagoul, especially those windbreakers that folded up into a pouch you could wear around your waist.
• You remember Le Freak by Chic and Bad Manners' Can-Can.
• At school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play "1999" by Prince over and over again.
• You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna or Bruce Springsteen video.
• You're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all (and neither would wearing school uniforms).
• Bo, Luke and Daisy Duke are fond memories.
• There was nothing strange about Bert n' Ernie living together.
• Knickers and leg warmers were cool.
• You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.
• You even wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and choreographed "Dancing Queen" by yourself in your room.
• Doctor Who made you hide behind the sofa.
• The first time you ever kissed someone was at a dance during "Crazy for You" by Madonna.
• You know who shot J.R. but have probably forgotten..... or maybe not!!!!
• This rings a bell:..... "and my name, is Charlie. They work for me."
• You owned a pair of rainbow braces just like Mork used to wear and said 'nanu nanu'
• You remember which policeman you liked best in "Chips".
• Mark from Eastenders will always be Tucker from Grange Hill/Tucker's Luck.
• You remember when Terry Wogan was on TV everyday.
• You could sing "99 Red Balloons" in English and in German.
• Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those "brick-sized" packages of Bazooka gum.
• You reckon Wagonwheels/Mars Bars/Ginger Nuts used to be bigger.
• You remember a 'Man's got to chew, what a Man's got to chew'.
• Waiting for the TV set to warm up was normal.
• You remember when there was no breakfast TV and when TV shut down at midnight, and when there was nothing on TV in the middle of the day except for that test card girl with the stupid clown and a blackboard.
• You remember Farleys rusks tasting nice, but when you had one about 5 years ago they were bloody awful!!
• and lastly ..........one word..........SPANGLES!!!

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