1982

[waynedear]

Wife is watching some pop music programme, a song from 1982 came on, she asked what I was doing then.
I had a think, quite a year, turned 21, nasty motorbike crash and centre spread Daily Star. :-)

[Alorotom]

Year I was born … so not a lot

[Dr Jekyll]

I was working with someone who became a multi millionaire, ended up as a Dragon in the Den. So it's more a case of what I didn't do but he presumably did.

[Stuart70]

Started secondary school, moved from housing estate to a farm, leaving behind friends and football.
Interesting year in retrospect.

[Stuart70]

Dr Jekyll said:

I was working with someone who became a multi millionaire, ended up as a Dragon in the Den. So it's more a case of what I didn't do but he presumably did.

Was the difference obvious at the time? Working with; or working for?

[Dr Jekyll]

Stuart70 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

I was working with someone who became a multi millionaire, ended up as a Dragon in the Den. So it's more a case of what I didn't do but he presumably did.

Was the difference obvious at the time? Working with; or working for?

Working with but not all that closely, he was a bit more senior but his boss and my boss reported to the same guy. A difference was obvious, not sure it was the difference but it could well have been much to do with it. He was very much a 'fake it till you make it' guy, always trying to act as if he was senior management until he was, then some kind of entrepreneur until he was, then as if he was running a big business when he was actually a one man band, and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Caan_(business...

[Stuart70]

Dr Jekyll said:

Working with but not all that closely, he was a bit more senior but his boss and my boss reported to the same guy. A difference was obvious, not sure it was the difference but it could well have been much to do with it. He was very much a 'fake it till you make it' guy, always trying to act as if he was senior management until he was, then some kind of entrepreneur until he was, then as if he was running a big business when he was actually a one man band, and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Caan_(business...

Sounds like an “interesting” chap. Thank you for taking the time to reply.

[vixen1700]

I was 15.

First girlfriend and Motorhead at Hammersmith Odeon are the first things that come into my mind when I think of 1982.

[loafer123]

Dr Jekyll said:

Working with but not all that closely, he was a bit more senior but his boss and my boss reported to the same guy. A difference was obvious, not sure it was the difference but it could well have been much to do with it. He was very much a 'fake it till you make it' guy, always trying to act as if he was senior management until he was, then some kind of entrepreneur until he was, then as if he was running a big business when he was actually a one man band, and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Caan_(business...

His stupid PR firm keeps spamming me for business without an unsubscribe option.

Tossers.

[waynedear]

Stuart70 said:

Started secondary school, moved from housing estate to a farm, leaving behind friends and football.
Interesting year in retrospect.

I had left school, moved from a farm to an estate, made new friends and started going to football.

[spikeyhead]

I finished school. My only recollection of that summer was being the only white kid playing a lot cricket on a small park in the middle of Luton.

[NDA]

waynedear said:

Wife is watching some pop music programme, a song from 1982 came on, she asked what I was doing then.
I had a think, quite a year, turned 21, nasty motorbike crash and centre spread Daily Star. :-)

I also turned 21... I recall the IRA bombing and the Falklands war.

[glenrobbo]

I was working every possible hour equipping Nimrods for in-flight refuelling, converting Vulcans to tankers, and modifying certain Nimrods to become "The World's Biggest Fighter".



Hectic times.

[Starfighter]

First year of secondary school for me. I also watched my mum getting very nervous as a wanted to join the navy at the time. Pictures of Sheffield, Ardent and Antilope didn’t help.

[Blib]

During 1981-1982 my best friend and I travelled overland (mostly) through Europe, into Egypt. We followed the Nile into Sudan, then on through Ethiopia to Kenya.

We flew from there to Bombay, took a boat down to Kerela. From Bangalore we took a train to Dehli, thence by bus to Kathmandu and return.

We then flew to Thailand, went north into the Golden Triangle thrn down south again, on to Malaysia and Singapore.

Finally, we flew to Sydney and spent a few weeks in the Blue mountains before flying home to London.

It was fun.

[Colonel Cupcake]

I was 14. Great music, bit of money from the paper round, ZX Spectrum. Crushes on girls that lasted a week, if they (or, maybe I) was lucky. I'd love to do it all again.

[Dr Jekyll]

Blib said:

During 1981-1982 my best friend and I travelled overland (mostly) through Europe, into Egypt. We followed the Nile into Sudan, then on through Ethiopia to Kenya.

We flew from there to Bombay, took a boat down to Kerela. From Bangalore we took a train to Dehli, thence by bus to Kathmandu and return.

We then flew to Thailand, went north into the Golden Triangle thrn down south again, on to Malaysia and Singapore.

Finally, we flew to Sydney and spent a few weeks in the Blue mountains before flying home to London.

It was fun.

You win.

[Quhet]

Aston Villa won the European Cup. That's obviously the most important thing to have happened

[Hoofy]

Dr Jekyll said:

Stuart70 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

I was working with someone who became a multi millionaire, ended up as a Dragon in the Den. So it's more a case of what I didn't do but he presumably did.

Was the difference obvious at the time? Working with; or working for?

Working with but not all that closely, he was a bit more senior but his boss and my boss reported to the same guy. A difference was obvious, not sure it was the difference but it could well have been much to do with it. He was very much a 'fake it till you make it' guy, always trying to act as if he was senior management until he was, then some kind of entrepreneur until he was, then as if he was running a big business when he was actually a one man band, and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Caan_(business...

Interesting. I watched something where he was talking about his early days and he worked out of a broom cupboard running his recruitment business just so he had a London address - so it was a bit "fake it" as you described.

[Dr Jekyll]

I'm trying to imagine what a 2022 thread will look like in 2062. 1982 doesn't seem that long ago to me, but 2062 seems unimaginable.