Question for British jammers who were kids in the '70s

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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Now, I love the Mr Men. The Little Miss lot were a bit after my time ('80s, and therefore shite), but the Mr Men were fantastic.

    Remember this stoner?:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mU32lw4WXZw


    Oh my, fingerbobs!!!! We'd be transfixed, like he was a fucking genius or something...not a creepy bloke with gloves on :D
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • Fender_Man
    Fender_Man Posts: 408
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Liza Goddard.

    Cheers buddy. Remember her as a bit posh, but easy on the eye, up there with Sally James and Jenny Hanley from Magpie.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    This was a personal fave. I brought this up in a conversation in work once....blank faces all around.
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G9wtMQNyGSo
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Now we're talking. Here's some hardcore seventies kids' TV:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YssElFqgyqw
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ua6NPkGD6k
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YR0ew7fCr0s
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Ecky Thump! Classic stuff mate, sending me to work wi' a big smile on m' face lad. :D

    I liked this un :D
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7bu69cnv0iU&feature=related
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    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.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    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.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    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!"
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Also, 'Rainbow' was the thing when I was growing up. I owe a lot to Bungle for making me the man I am today! :D


    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.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Saturdays were all about Tizwas for me. "Saturdaaay is Tizwas day!"


    Yep. If you watched Tiswas, you were cool. If you watched Swap Shop with Noel Edmonds, well, goes without saying.
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    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!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs8VMz-cuc
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    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!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs8VMz-cuc


    Oi, get your own eighties thread, youngster!


    :p
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Also, 'Rainbow' was the thing when I was growing up. I owe a lot to Bungle for making me the man I am today! :D


    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.
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    But the real question is... would you be taking your kids to a pearl jam concert?






















    Ah, just kidding :D
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Byrnzie wrote:


    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 :o
    A human being that was given to fly.

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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    urbanhippie wrote:
    OMG! I do this all the time! I had no idea I was just showing my age :o

    Hahahahaha I'd love to see that. :D

    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.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    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 :D;)
    A human being that was given to fly.

    Wembley 18/06/07

    If there was a reason, it was you.

    O2 Arena 18/09/09
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    urbanhippie wrote:
    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 :D;)

    Imagine if the kids in Rolf's Cartoon Club had gone 'Put the fucking drawing pen down.... you'll never earn money doing that.' :D
    '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.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    urbanhippie wrote:
    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 :D;)


    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."
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Seeing as Byrnzie mentioned trouser patches, how about this?
    Who had one of these on their jeans, or their Wrangler jacket?


    http://www.amazon.com/Fingers-Embroidered-United-America-American/dp/B000QFONKW
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....

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