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[Misc] Which decade made you ?
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Ethelwulf
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Late 80s early 90s so a bit of both 80s and 90s but waited until 2003 to start a family when I just got into my 30s . Think growing up in the 80s and being a young man in the 90s I have been lucky as for me they were the best 2 decades
Weststander
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The 80’s.
Found the freedom from being under parental control, I grew in confidence, discovered the wonders of gigs, drinking, dance, clubbing, lads holidays and more. Incredibly lucky to live in Brighton.
Found the freedom from being under parental control, I grew in confidence, discovered the wonders of gigs, drinking, dance, clubbing, lads holidays and more. Incredibly lucky to live in Brighton.
Weststander
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What about for you @Questions ?
Thunder Bolt
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The 60s. I managed to get away from my family, join the Navy, and got married right at the end of the decade. The music, society, football and life in general was brilliant.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
And me, fantastic times
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Definitely 80’s
Started get some real confidence and at 20 to 22 got very drunk at football. Then had my first serious relationship bought a house. Got told I loved The Albion more than her and well.
Met my wife in 86 ( Brighton supporting family )
Had my first child in 89….. Mrs Q didnt want me to go on The Gulls Eye coach to Plymouth but I went and only just got home. That’s a story for another day
So Im going 80’s
It was all in that decade
I’ve just remembered something…… we got arrested coming back from the Peterborough cup game in February 86. Arrested in Cambridge… that’s for another day as well,
Yeah that’s why she left me I forgot
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Weststander
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I was a child of the 60s and 70s which were great fun, as a teenager, with all that *stuff* that boys like. 
The 80s for living abroad and the massive step up in music and experiences
The 90s, when I came back from utter disaster, rebalanced my finances and life, got my son back, and started to live...
But for me, it is the 2020s, at ease with my autism, a loving family and comforts. Pity my health is failing
In other words....it's all good, and it is what it is
The 80s for living abroad and the massive step up in music and experiences
The 90s, when I came back from utter disaster, rebalanced my finances and life, got my son back, and started to live...
But for me, it is the 2020s, at ease with my autism, a loving family and comforts. Pity my health is failing
In other words....it's all good, and it is what it is
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Harry answer the f***ing question. One f***ing decade. It’s not hard.I was a child of the 60s and 70s which were great fun, as a teenager, with all that *stuff* that boys like.
The 80s for living abroad and the massive step up in music and experiences
The 90s, when I came back from utter disaster, rebalanced my finances and life, got my son back, and started to live...
But for me, it is the 2020s, at ease with my autism, a loving family and comforts. Pity my health is failing
In other words....it's all good, and it is what it is
Ok re-read it sorry H
OzMike
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80's for me, left home, great times and music, met my life partner and became self employed.
The last one was tough for a few years !
The last one was tough for a few years !
Forster's Armband
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The 1990s but really the last 4 years of it. 1996 - 2000. Brit Pop, Blair's New Labour, went to Uni and met my better half. In footballing terms Italia 90, Euro 96!!! It was never better than that.
Swimboy64
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Exactly the same
Was 16 in 1980 and it all started to blossom
Particularly loved 1984,a fantastic summer.
Free and easy,great music and woodpecker cider
Pretty much this, a little bit of both, 1985-95 great fun!
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Gabbafella
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The 90's without a doubt were an absolute rollercoaster.
I was into jungle techno early 90's, started going to Sterns when I was 14. Due to a cheating girlfriend trying to start a fight between me and the lad she cheated on me with, me and him saw her for what she was and ended up being really good mates, we travelled all over the country going to raves and popping pills, the rave scene was my life up to the mid 90's when unfortunately the drugs well and truly took over.
Got kicked out of home by the time I was 16, homeless for some time which just made matters worse. Violence, drugs, crime, all went hand in hand and honestly didn't see a way out. Attempted suicide a couple of times, basically just on self destruct.
I had no contact with my family for years until I met a woman who convinced me to patch things up with my mum, I'm incredibly lucky to have done so as my mum passed away suddenly a few months later.
Didn't properly sort my life out until early 2000's but even now I think the life I lead in the 90's has made me a much stronger person, all the wasted years made me decide to resit my GCSEs, which lead to maths and English degrees, IT training, and so on, turns out I'm actually a half decent human when I believe in myself, shame it took so long.
Anyway, the 90's definitely shaped my future, I look back on that decade with love and hate in equal measures, but try to focus more on the good and use the bad times to better myself.
I was into jungle techno early 90's, started going to Sterns when I was 14. Due to a cheating girlfriend trying to start a fight between me and the lad she cheated on me with, me and him saw her for what she was and ended up being really good mates, we travelled all over the country going to raves and popping pills, the rave scene was my life up to the mid 90's when unfortunately the drugs well and truly took over.
Got kicked out of home by the time I was 16, homeless for some time which just made matters worse. Violence, drugs, crime, all went hand in hand and honestly didn't see a way out. Attempted suicide a couple of times, basically just on self destruct.
I had no contact with my family for years until I met a woman who convinced me to patch things up with my mum, I'm incredibly lucky to have done so as my mum passed away suddenly a few months later.
Didn't properly sort my life out until early 2000's but even now I think the life I lead in the 90's has made me a much stronger person, all the wasted years made me decide to resit my GCSEs, which lead to maths and English degrees, IT training, and so on, turns out I'm actually a half decent human when I believe in myself, shame it took so long.
Anyway, the 90's definitely shaped my future, I look back on that decade with love and hate in equal measures, but try to focus more on the good and use the bad times to better myself.
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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80s 80s 80s
crikey. Some story. And you now have two degrees?
Bloody hell - are you my second account ? Ask as every word you've posted is exactly the same for me.