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digger wrote:Holes in jeans and lumberjack shirts

Fingering your first bird

check shirts are back in, and lets face it, fingering birds never went out of fashion!!

[quote="digger"]Holes in jeans and lumberjack shirts

Fingering your first bird[/quote]

last friday..................i'll get me coat

Cartoon shows at Christmas!!!!!

Kids TV was about half an hour in the afternoons. That was it. We were starved of Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, whatever.


But at Christmas we could get Walt Disney films (if mum and dad allowed it). Fucking brilliant.

olgitgooner wrote:Cartoon shows at Christmas!!!!!

Kids TV was about half an hour in the afternoons. That was it. We were starved of Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, whatever.


But at Christmas we could get Walt Disney films (if mum and dad allowed it). Fucking brilliant.

the paraffin man (esso blue)

jubblies

custard creams (for lunch)

british bull dog

rubix cubis

stone wash jeans

ford xr2's

ford capris

the professionals

dempsey (sort) and makepeace

walking down downing without the cages/security

the GLC

The days when you did'nt get a day off school coz it snowed, we just walked through the stuff, it's fucking snow for fucks sake Levi Sta Prest tousers, tonic trousers and jackets, getting iron horseshoe thingy's put in the heel of your loafers or brogues and causing as much damage as poss to the back wall of classrooms at school with them Getting a new pair of steel toe capped dm's and cutting the leather out so you could see the steel Good tv at xmas, being genuinely excited about what was No 1 in the singles chart, usually Slade or T rex Aztec bars, being able to buy enough sweets to really spoil your dinner for a shilling (5p) Peter Marinello on Top of The Pops Bob Mcnab on On The Buses. Mary Whitehouse getting her knickers in a twist about Chuck Berry's "My Ding A Ling"

charliegeorgewhocanhitem wrote:The days when you did'nt get a day off school coz it snowed, we just walked through the stuff, it's fucking snow for fucks sake Levi Sta Prest tousers, tonic trousers and jackets, getting iron horseshoe thingy's put in the heel of your loafers or brogues and causing as much damage as poss to the back wall of classrooms at school with them Getting a new pair of steel toe capped dm's and cutting the leather out so you could see the steel Good tv at xmas, being genuinely excited about what was No 1 in the singles chart, usually Slade or T rex Aztec bars, being able to buy enough sweets to really spoil your dinner for a shilling (5p) Peter Marinello on Top of The Pops Bob Mcnab on On The Buses. Mary Whitehouse getting her knickers in a twist about Chuck Berry's "My Ding A Ling"

Top post Charlie

Cant be arsed to read all the way through, has anyone said 'til death us do part'? I always loved Alf Garnett.

Carol Vodermann not being Mutton dressed as Lamb

Original Star wars figures

being grounded

Buck Rodgers

The A Team music as the teams ran out

50p yah peanuts!

Anders Limpar for the half way line

Tony Woodcock

The Marching Band before the game.

Thomas Charging through

ds wrote:Cant be arsed to read all the way through, has anyone said 'til death us do part'? I always loved Alf Garnett.

Used to love that ds Thought Dandy Nicholl's as the "silly old moo" was brilliant

21.......3 and in?

Button Moon
The Flumps
Trumpton
Spangles
British Bull Dog
Spectrum Computer
Kick Start
Knock Down Ginger
Rubic Cubes
Phone Cards
Granny Grifters
Chopper bikes
Space Hoppers
Rainbow
Bagpuss
football sticker albums (with about 300 stickers to swap)

all the typical things growing up in the 80s

ds wrote:Cant be arsed to read all the way through, has anyone said 'til death us do part'? I always loved Alf Garnett.

The best moment, for me, was when they were discussing Christmas.

The "silly ol' moo" said that little baby Jesus was born in a barn because all the hotels were full.

"Well it was Christmas weren't it? All the 'otels get full up at Christmas"

Radford149 wrote:does anyone remember ............i think they were c
alled "klakers" two balls on a string (don't laugh) mid/earlies 70's

I think there called love-eggs rads(saw them in ann summers).
captain scalet,ufo,mk2 cortinas,crombies,ben shermans and braces,jon pertwee as dr who,sportsnight with harry carpenter,world of sport with dickie davies and wrestling from up north in the show,bagpuss,shops shut on sunday,pubs close half ten but half eleven on fri&sat,babysham(girls thought that was posh)double diamond,watney's red party 7.slade,judge dredd,bleedy glam rock(bunch of weirdo's wearing make-up),benny hill,black and white minstrel show.The 70's what a cringing memory.

Happy days put on the blue stratos,iron me ben sherman,polish me loafers,squeese into me sta-pres,red hanky in crombie pocket and out on the pull.

Radford149 wrote:1. curly wurllies

2. only having 3 channels

3. randal and hopkirk

4. rainbow

5. run outs

6. knock down ginger

7. chopper bikes

8. the galloping gourmet

9. ford granadas

10. the sweeney

11. topsy and tim

12. videos (betamax vhs)

13. records vinyl

14. bleach jeans

15. your first mcdonalds

16. walkmans

17. micheal jackson (when he was black)

18. shit Arsenal teams (not including this season)

19. music that made you wanna dance

20. add anything you want

Love it. I remember my mum and dad getting their first colour TV, renting it too. Saw Haiwai 5 O on it in colour for first time i was amazed

When Thames TV turned into LWT (about 6pm on a Friday)