1979

[philandlil]

i'm doing a memory/scrapbook and i would like to know if anyone has any interesting facts about 1979.

[B00]

Too many to name have a gander at this.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979

[Panic Button]

I think that was the year I lost my virginity

[4candles]

Mrs T was elected PM. Everything downhill since - choose another year!

[Panic Button]

Oh I think we were hurtling downhill already 4C

[Ice.Maiden]

Yes, I was into my first year of life! Not interesting to anyone else but my parents - but we have a picture of my eldest sister going to a fancy dress party - as a punk rocker. Lol - x

[donegal]

http://www.rte.ie/tv/reelingintheyears/1979.ht ml

Have a good look at this

[New Judge]

I�m not sure how old you are, 4candles but would suggest one of these two scenarios:

1.You were under about sixteen years of age in 1979 and are therefore not really qualified to say whether things have gone downhill as a result of Mrs Thatcher�s eleveation to office.

2.You were older than that and have either purposefully of accidentally forgotten what the country was like in the 1970s. More importantly, you have not considered to imagine what the country would have been like now had we continued the way we were.

Either way, I think we should be told!

[EngTeach]

Sesame Streat was 10 years old. (As was I.)

[EngTeach]

That should be Street.

[saxy_jag]

I got married. It was also the year of the Fastnet Race disaster (remembered because one of the competitors washed up on a beach close to where we were staying on honeymoon).

[Le Chat]

"I don't like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats was number one in this year!

[Lil O'lady]

Kate Bush 'Lionheart' ? Tom Robinson 1-2-3-4 howzitgo. National Front and Anti Fascist League. Bright Eyes (singalong now -'how can you close and fail'). The Radio version of HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Womens suits with slit pencil skirts.
Shoulder pads -oh god, the shoulder pads.
Tight straight-leg jeans. Slit-neck baggy mohair jumpers.

A train journey from Leicester to Manchester that took from 7.30pm to 3.00 am because of snow.

Teachers on strike but instructed to cross any picket lines by local authorities. Lots of other people on strike too. Someone trying to teach me to use an offset litho press as it was deemed an essential skill for a trainee teacher.

And I got married too, on a freezing cold day in July. Thank god for global warming.

[R1Geezer]

yeah come on 4candles how old where you? I bet you only got that anti MrsT stripe from getting brow beaten by left teachers who hated her because she proved their glorious socialist principles a load of cack. I bet you have no clue about the state of the place in the70's when we where on the way to becomming a state of the Soviet Union and hence what state we'd now be in without the Iron lady. Sur the cure was rough but the patient survived and prospered and I bet you have benefitted personally. Now come on answer the judge.

[Panic Button]

No it wasn't