Memories of the 70s-80s-90s

Finding my brother's stash of dirty magazines and using then as blackmail leverage for a VERY long time :)
 
Chris L said:
Cool, I probably would have got mine free with either The Beano or The Dandy as they were the ones I read.
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I think I got mine free with The Dandy, we used to make our own too once the freebies got battered with too much use.


Anyone remember the kids TV programme Why Don't You? Some of the kids on there really used to make me cringe, they were so precocious.
 
nilagin said:
I think I got mine free with The Dandy, we used to make our own too once the freebies got battered with too much use.


Anyone remember the kids TV programme Why Don't You? Some of the kids on there really used to make me cringe, they were so precocious.
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Oh yes, I remember Why Don't You?
I could still sing the theme tune if ya like :lol:
 
nilagin said:
I think I got mine free with The Dandy, we used to make our own too once the freebies got battered with too much use.


Anyone remember the kids TV programme Why Don't You? Some of the kids on there really used to make me cringe, they were so precocious.
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oh god yeah why dont you. Hated that prog. loved the arabian knights though.
 
Whyyyyyy don't you.......
Whyyyyyy don't you.......
Why don't you just switch-off ya-television-set and-go-out-and-do-something-less-boring-instead............

(Thank you very much folks.....I'm here all week.....) :lol:
 
Anyone remember riding their bike 'in formation' alongside a friends bike, maintaining a constant distance (it was serious business :D) after watching CHiPS on the TV? :lol:
 
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Yeah, Why Don't You?. Wasn't Arabian Knights the cartoon they showed during the Banana Splits?

A couple of my favourites were Johnny Ball's Think of a number and early Grange Hill with Tucker, Benny & Alan. I also remember the spin off they made called Tucker's Luck.
 
I remember the whizzy tubes and the thunderclap things.
What about those 2 mini snooker balls on a bit of string with a thumb holder half way along. You were meant to bounce them together with more and more force until you got them to meet overhead.
I dont think they were around long because of kids with broken forearms up and down the country.
Clackers I think they were called.
 
DorsetDude said:
I remember the whizzy tubes and the thunderclap things.
What about those 2 mini snooker balls on a bit of string with a thumb holder half way along. You were meant to bounce them together with more and more force until you got them to meet overhead.
I dont think they were around long because of kids with broken forearms up and down the country.
Clackers I think they were called.
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Oh yeah. Fantastic those were. Proper face breakers if you got it wrong though.
 
Clackers! Yes!
I remember a product recall when some dodgy batches of Chinese origin would shatter when clacked too hard.
Of course, you should never clack too hard.....
 
viv1969 said:
Clackers! Yes!
I remember a product recall when some dodgy batches of Chinese origin would shatter when clacked too hard.
Of course, you should never clack too hard.....
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If you clack to hard you could bust your giblets :gag:
 
Bicycle tyres on lamp posts....what ever happened to that phenomenon?
 
Remember playing out all day during the summer hols, when the woods would be alive with the sound of Tarzan calls?

Ooooowwiieeooowieoooooooooooowieooowieooooooooooow!!! :lol:
 
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ZoneV said:
Remember playing out all day during the summer hols, when the woods would be alive with the sound of Tarzan calls?

Ooooowwiieeooowieoooooooooooowieooowieooooooooooow!!! :lol:
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:lol::lol:

I memorized his elephant command "Umgowa!" when I was young - just in case I ever needed it.
So far, I have to say, I have not needed it. And in fact I am doubtful that it would even work should I end up in the relevant position.:suspect:
 
DorsetDude said:
:lol::lol:

I memorized his elephant command "Umgowa!" when I was young - just in case I ever needed it.
So far, I have to say, I have not needed it. And in fact I am doubtful that it would even work should I end up in the relevant position.:suspect:
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:lol: Fantastic! (or as young ZoneV would have said, 'Brill!' :D).

It's better to have an elephant command and not need it, than need one and not have it! At least young DorsetDude was prepared - very wise. :rules: :lol:
 
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viv1969 said:
Whyyyyyy don't you.......
Whyyyyyy don't you.......
Why don't you just switch-off ya-television-set and-go-out-and-do-something-less-boring-instead............
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I never saw a full episode of "Why Don't You...?" as I switched of my television set and went out to do something less boring instead!
Bit of a marketing fail that one, methinks!


One program I DID make sure we watched, which involved leaving the Cub Scouts for, was "Kenny Everett's Television Show"...now THAT was superb TV!

And a fond mention to:

Starsky & Hutch, which got us running through the house and diving over the back of the TV.

The Sweeney...nuff said!

Dukes of Hazzard (the REAL ones, not the crappy remade film)...parents were not impressed when we used to enter and exit the car via the windows!

The Six Million Dollar Man - responsible for thousands of 8 year old boys lifting "heavy" items whilst going "igh..igh...igh..igh.igh..." (how do you spell the bionic sound, anyway?!). And then running really fast very slowly like Lee Majors did!

Ahhhh, I wanna be 7 again!
 
Bend The Light said:
I never saw a full episode of "Why Don't You...?" as I switched of my television set and went out to do something less boring instead!
Bit of a marketing fail that one, methinks!


One program I DID make sure we watched, which involved leaving the Cub Scouts for, was "Kenny Everett's Television Show"...now THAT was superb TV!

And a fond mention to:

Starsky & Hutch, which got us running through the house and diving over the back of the TV.

The Sweeney...nuff said!

Dukes of Hazzard (the REAL ones, not the crappy remade film)...parents were not impressed when we used to enter and exit the car via the windows!

The Six Million Dollar Man - responsible for thousands of 8 year old boys lifting "heavy" items whilst going "igh..igh...igh..igh.igh..." (how do you spell the bionic sound, anyway?!). And then running really fast very slowly like Lee Majors did!

Ahhhh, I wanna be 7 again!
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Sounds to me like you still are you lucky man:D Best years of our lives they say. Looks like they are spot on with that saying.
 
pepi1967 said:
Sounds to me like you still are you lucky man:D Best years of our lives they say. Looks like they are spot on with that saying.
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Best years, yes. And the worst, unfortunately. The years my parents fought and split up (about '76 to '78)...


....but the telly was cool!

What about Space 1999, or Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who? (And Tom baker...he was the best, too).
TISWAS
O.T.T. - remember that?
 
Clipping bits of card onto your bike frame so they clacked off the spokes - how many 7 year olds thought that made their bicycle sound like a motorbike :lol:
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Clipping bits of card onto your bike frame so they clacked off the spokes - how many 7 year olds thought that made their bicycle sound like a motorbike :lol:
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We used ice lolly sticks. You could tell the kids whos dad was working they had three lolly sticks :D
 
pepi1967 said:
We used ice lolly sticks. You could tell the kids whos dad was working they had three lolly sticks :D
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We had card ones....we were poor. :(
I slept in a drawer 'til I was 8 :'(
 
This is a tad disgusting, but it came up at work the other day. What ever happened to white dog poo. Always remember seeing it when I was a kid in the 70's. Never see it any more!
 
Yes....Scott (pepi1967) was hankering after white dog poo just the other day too :lol:
 
Keeby said:
This is a tad disgusting, but it came up at work the other day. What ever happened to white dog poo. Always remember seeing it when I was a kid in the 70's. Never see it any more!
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Ah i found out that white dog poo isnt seen very often anymore is because they dont use bone meal in the food anymore and thats what turned it white
 
viv1969 said:
We had card ones....we were poor. :(
I slept in a drawer 'til I was 8 :'(
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Snap. Not till i was 8 though. I thought my name was G-plan till i was 5 lol but i think alot of us who were born around the same time had it hard while we were growing up. We were bread line familys but its done us no harm i dont think.
 
pepi1967 said:
Snap. Not till i was 8 though. I thought my name was G-plan till i was 5 lol but i think alot of us who were born around the same time had it hard while we were growing up. We were bread line familys but its done us no harm i dont think.
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I agree. Certainly didn't do me any harm....nor did the occassional clip 'round the tabs when we misbehaved. :nono:
 
When I think of the 70s I think of

The Double Deckers

Sex Pistols

The Stranglers

The footage of Apollo 17's Challenger leaving the moon.

Gary Numan

Kraftwerk

The historic Slayton/Leonov handshake in orbit.

The first thing that comes to mind in the 80s is Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".
 
viv1969 said:
I agree. Certainly didn't do me any harm....nor did the occassional clip 'round the tabs when we misbehaved. :nono:
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Thats very true. And it ment more when a police officer did it than it did when my dad did it.

I got stoped for riding my bike in the dark with no lights and got lippy with the bobby who gave me a right clock winder round my ear Then he said go tell your dad what i did so i did and got another off my dad for being lippy with a police officer lol.
 
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