:eek: The 2nd one is terrifying! Electricity can kill??? At least ours are to the tune of MC Hammer. It was this song playing in the background while teaching people the dangers of power lines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMzoBkaFxh4&feature=related
That cat is so cute! All snuggled up in the end.
Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
There usually seems to be alot of British people here. It looks like a small country goegraphically, like yall aren't too far from eachother. I have no idea how many people live there. May be England has tons of people crammed together, but I always picture green country side with farm houses and little towns with pubs. I've never been there, but I'd like to check it out someday.
ignore the other 2 cynics
i've just spent 3 days in and around Yorkshire and came hame via the Yorkshire Dales.
this is where you want to go to if you want to see the above.
truly breathtaking i was in a pub that was built in 1460something... it was great
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
Speaking as a child of the seventies, who remembers Jokers soft drinks? They used to have Tom and Jerry on the can. I suppose I'm going back to about 1976.
Googling has been fruitless.
I don't remember them. I used to like slush puppies though. And my favourite crisps were, and still are, Frazzles.
Who remembers getting a colour telly for the first time?
We were really late getting one in our house. We didn't get one until 1977. I can remember the old black and white. It was a valve set, and the valves would always explode during Heads and Tails with Derek Griffiths.
Yeah, I remember our first colour t.v. We had a black & white t.v for about ten years as my old man was a stingy bastard. My Mum saved up and got us a colour t.v. It was a big un too - 28" screen. The first thing we watched on it was an American civil war movie - I can't remember the name of it.
I remember those. I might be wrong, but I only started seeing Texan bars in about 1978-9. Topdec were around for ages.
Oh, I remember the test card, all right. A typical day on the BBC in the seventies was: Open University programmes, around six. Then closedown. Then an Indian music programme (remember that?), then schools and colleges programmes until about midday. Then closedown. (You'd switch over to ITV for their kids' programmes, then.) I can't remember when the afternoon news bulletin would come on on the BBC, but there'd be Pebble Mill at One, more kids' programmes (of the Bagpuss/Mr Benn/Fingerbobs variety). Then there'd be another closedown for a couple of hours. Then there'd be some programme or other before four, and there'd be more kids' programmes (Jackanory, Blue Peter, etc). At twenty to six you'd get the news, and at six there'd be nationwide. Fook knows what would be on after that. I was only little.
Saturdays were all about Tizwas for me. "Saturdaaay is Tizwas day!"
Also, 'Rainbow' was the thing when I was growing up. I owe a lot to Bungle for making me the man I am today!
Another thing...I often catch myself giving the 'thumbs up' to - for instance - car drivers when they let me walk across a zebra crossing. Only children of the 70's give the thumbs up. I once had a trouser patch for my knee with a picture of the 'thumbs up' sign on it, and at the top it read 'Nice on Cyril', and 'Nice one son!' underneath. That's something I wish I still had. Quality! Trouser patches kicked ass. Those and blue and orange hooded parkers.
I've been holding back from this thread because I didn't want Fins tto shout at me and accuse me of derailing but does anyone remember this from the eighties? I wish they'd bring it back!
I've been holding back from this thread because I didn't want Fins tto shout at me and accuse me of derailing but does anyone remember this from the eighties? I wish they'd bring it back!
Also, 'Rainbow' was the thing when I was growing up. I owe a lot to Bungle for making me the man I am today!
Another thing...I often catch myself giving the 'thumbs up' to - for instance - car drivers when they let me walk across a zebra crossing. Only children of the 70's give the thumbs up. I once had a trouser patch for my knee with a picture of the 'thumbs up' sign on it, and at the top it read 'Nice on Cyril', and 'Nice one son!' underneath. That's something I wish I still had. Quality! Trouser patches kicked ass. Those and blue and orange hooded parkers.
Yep, I'm a thumbs-upper, too!
I had one of those coats. Everyone had one. I remember one time, just after school, going in the cloakroom and reaching for my blue and orange hooded parka. It wasn't there on its usual hook. It was on another. I put it on, and the arms were too long. I put my hands in the pockets for my Star Wars figures, and I felt something cold and rubbery in each. I freaked. I pulled out a load of toy dinosaurs. Confused, I waited for mum to arrive to pick me up, only to see her pointing at some lanky kid at the other end of the playground with a parka with really short sleeves up the arms, shouting "Star Wars figures??? Star Wars figures???"
Ah, those were the days. That was about 1978, I think.
Another thing...I often catch myself giving the 'thumbs up' to - for instance - car drivers when they let me walk across a zebra crossing. Only children of the 70's give the thumbs up.
OMG! I do this all the time! I had no idea I was just showing my age
OMG! I do this all the time! I had no idea I was just showing my age
Hahahahaha I'd love to see that.
The thumbs up - a truly retro gesture.
'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'
Talking of kids TV, anyone remember 'Why don't you'?
All those bloody annoying kids saying 'switch off your TV set, and do something less boring instead' :rolleyes:
If we all did that, you fuckers'd be out of a job
Imagine if the kids in Rolf's Cartoon Club had gone 'Put the fucking drawing pen down.... you'll never earn money doing that.'
'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'
Talking of kids TV, anyone remember 'Why don't you'?
All those bloody annoying kids saying 'switch off your TV set, and do something less boring instead' :rolleyes:
If we all did that, you fuckers'd be out of a job
I do. I could never understand the ones from Belfast. "Heeellooooo nae. Ayyyy'm Ian Smythe-Smythe Hitler from Shankill Road. Ayyy ignore the curfews an' goo ayyytt of mah hayyyyse collectin' rubber bullets from the papist areas nayyyy. Here's mahhhh prize bullet. Had tah wrench it from some Catholic girl's eyeball, nae, but mah daddy was the wee fella that fired the gun, so he got it for me, so he did."
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:eek: The 2nd one is terrifying! Electricity can kill??? At least ours are to the tune of MC Hammer. It was this song playing in the background while teaching people the dangers of power lines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMzoBkaFxh4&feature=related
That cat is so cute! All snuggled up in the end.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY8MR0ssk7c
Not to mention Bernard Cribbins.
ignore the other 2 cynics
i've just spent 3 days in and around Yorkshire and came hame via the Yorkshire Dales.
this is where you want to go to if you want to see the above.
truly breathtaking
Did they sell Jokers and have a black and white valve telly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHgQX7oj3v4&feature=related
Now this show must have had a lot to answer for:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hMdBh09zP8U
Arthur Lowe, what a man...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mUgq7nCwdJs&feature=related
Remember this stoner?:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mU32lw4WXZw
I had a crush on his missus when I was a young lad, but I'm fucked if I can remember her name? Anyone remember before I Google it?
Oh my, fingerbobs!!!! We'd be transfixed, like he was a fucking genius or something...not a creepy bloke with gloves on
Cheers buddy. Remember her as a bit posh, but easy on the eye, up there with Sally James and Jenny Hanley from Magpie.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G9wtMQNyGSo
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YssElFqgyqw
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ua6NPkGD6k
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YR0ew7fCr0s
I liked this un
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7bu69cnv0iU&feature=related
I don't remember them. I used to like slush puppies though. And my favourite crisps were, and still are, Frazzles.
Yeah, I remember our first colour t.v. We had a black & white t.v for about ten years as my old man was a stingy bastard. My Mum saved up and got us a colour t.v. It was a big un too - 28" screen. The first thing we watched on it was an American civil war movie - I can't remember the name of it.
Saturdays were all about Tizwas for me. "Saturdaaay is Tizwas day!"
Another thing...I often catch myself giving the 'thumbs up' to - for instance - car drivers when they let me walk across a zebra crossing. Only children of the 70's give the thumbs up. I once had a trouser patch for my knee with a picture of the 'thumbs up' sign on it, and at the top it read 'Nice on Cyril', and 'Nice one son!' underneath. That's something I wish I still had. Quality! Trouser patches kicked ass. Those and blue and orange hooded parkers.
Yep. If you watched Tiswas, you were cool. If you watched Swap Shop with Noel Edmonds, well, goes without saying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs8VMz-cuc
Oi, get your own eighties thread, youngster!
Yep, I'm a thumbs-upper, too!
I had one of those coats. Everyone had one. I remember one time, just after school, going in the cloakroom and reaching for my blue and orange hooded parka. It wasn't there on its usual hook. It was on another. I put it on, and the arms were too long. I put my hands in the pockets for my Star Wars figures, and I felt something cold and rubbery in each. I freaked. I pulled out a load of toy dinosaurs. Confused, I waited for mum to arrive to pick me up, only to see her pointing at some lanky kid at the other end of the playground with a parka with really short sleeves up the arms, shouting "Star Wars figures??? Star Wars figures???"
Ah, those were the days. That was about 1978, I think.
Ah, just kidding
Wembley 18/06/07
If there was a reason, it was you.
O2 Arena 18/09/09
Hahahahaha I'd love to see that.
The thumbs up - a truly retro gesture.
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
All those bloody annoying kids saying 'switch off your TV set, and do something less boring instead' :rolleyes:
If we all did that, you fuckers'd be out of a job
Wembley 18/06/07
If there was a reason, it was you.
O2 Arena 18/09/09
Imagine if the kids in Rolf's Cartoon Club had gone 'Put the fucking drawing pen down.... you'll never earn money doing that.'
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
I do. I could never understand the ones from Belfast. "Heeellooooo nae. Ayyyy'm Ian Smythe-Smythe Hitler from Shankill Road. Ayyy ignore the curfews an' goo ayyytt of mah hayyyyse collectin' rubber bullets from the papist areas nayyyy. Here's mahhhh prize bullet. Had tah wrench it from some Catholic girl's eyeball, nae, but mah daddy was the wee fella that fired the gun, so he got it for me, so he did."
Who had one of these on their jeans, or their Wrangler jacket?
http://www.amazon.com/Fingers-Embroidered-United-America-American/dp/B000QFONKW