1980s Jokes

If a millennial asks you...

If a millennial asks you why people in old photos have red eyes

Tell them that they're too young to remember the demon uprising of the 1980s

Soviet Economics

1980s. Soviet Economy minister is making speech at Communist Party session:

- According to latest statistics, our incomes rose 20%, our quality of life rose 30% and our buying economic power rose 40%

From the audience: That's great that YOURS did, but what about OURS??

I just saw two really large spiders dancing to some 1980s music.

I think they were Duran Durantulas.

Mikhail Gorbachev started an anti-alcohol campaign in USSR in 1980s. People went crazy because of the restrictions on selling of alcohol. An old Soviet joke went like this:

A disaffected and angry citizen, fed up of standing in lines for vodka, decided to go assassinate Gorbachev. He soon came back and ruefully reported that the lines to assassinate Gorbachev were even longer than the lines for vodka.

People are forever going on about how video games are an unhealthy influence on the young.

But I grew up in the 1980s when all we had was Pacman and it's not like we spent all our time running around in the dark munching pills to weird repetitive music!

Technically, people in the 1980s were correct when they said we would have flying cars in the future.

They're just currently not very safe and one-use only.

I've now been alive in six decades:

The 1980s
The 1990s
The 2000s
The 2010s
The 2020s
May

My friend broke his computer

His parents refused to buy him a new one and gave him an old 1980s computer. After hearing about it I told him "I am sorry for your DOS"