I never had a Flock of Seagulls 'do or a Thompson Twins hat. I almost always wore socks and never, to my recollection, owned a Sonny Crockett-style pastel blazer. I could only ever solve one side of a Rubik's Cube and I wasn't able to memorize the patterns that would let you rack up high scores in Pac-Man.
I will plead guilty to Sperry Topsiders, a couple of Swatches and even the odd Duran Duran cassette (hey, Seven and the Ragged Tiger still holds up), but overall the '80s was a cultural void best forgiven and forgotten. Especially by those of us who lived through them.
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