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The family start the annual arguments over the bumper double issue of the Radio Times!! :lol:

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Popped into the shop earlier and the Radio Times was by the counter. Haven't bought it for years, but couldn't resist seeing as me and @Yves Geza were only chatting a few days ago about way back when you got your double Radio Times and spent an evening circling all the things you wanted to watch over Christmas ;)

So come on, what's your 'You know it's christmas when...' thing? Photos to go with are always good too.
 
When I get all the ironing done ....;)





Although now I want to go and get the radio times and do the same.. We used to do that years ago too
 
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I remember when i was a kid we had to get the radio times and the TV times because the radio times only did BBC 1 and 2, and the TV times only did ITV and channel 4. My dad called them the rat-a-tat for short lol
 
Cg_Girl said:
When I get all the ironing done ....;)

Although now I want to go and get the radio times and do the same.. We used to do that years ago too
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I know, I haven't bought it for years but now I want to sit and look through it and of course, its HAS to live on the arm of the sofa for the next 3 weeks :lol:

Bobsyeruncle said:
Didn't realise folk still bought the radio times
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Some still do, though not usually one of them

Raptor Mike said:
I remember when i was a kid we had to get the radio times and the TV times because the radio times only did BBC 1 and 2, and the TV times only did ITV and channel 4. My dad called them the rat-a-tat for short lol
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LOL, yes, I remember that too, you had to get both if you wanted all the channel listings
 
There is a direct link between days to Christmas and the distance my jaw drops at the trollies loaded with tat in supermarkets.

Why? What is going on? I'm genuinely baffled by it.
 
simon ess said:
There is a direct link between days to Christmas and the distance my jaw drops at the trollies loaded with tat in supermarkets.

Why? What is going on? I'm genuinely baffled by it.
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Same here, I never cease to be amazed, year on year, how many people seem to think the shops will be closed for a month, not just 2 days. I understand buying some extra goodies for the festive season, but I have watched families pushing 3 trollies round at once for goodness sake. Me? I'll be doing my ususal online shop with a few added bits for chrimbo dinner and some nibbles, that'll be it.
 
Yv said:
The family start the annual arguments over the bumper double issue of the Radio Times!! :lol:

You know its christmas when... by Yvonne White - WhiteGoldImages, on Flickr

Popped into the shop earlier and the Radio Times was by the counter. Haven't bought it for years, but couldn't resist seeing as me and @Yves Geza were only chatting a few days ago about way back when you got your double Radio Times and spent an evening circling all the things you wanted to watch over Christmas ;)

So come on, what's your 'You know it's christmas when...' thing? Photos to go with are always good too.
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And check out that old school sky remote. You wanna get @Yves Geza to get his money out and get you sky plus HD lol
 
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...you get a printed black bag shoved through the handle on your wheelie bin to tell you when your bin will be emptied next..

...you have to book your delivery slot for shopping a full three weeks in advance rather than the day before like normal..

...a massive supply of luxury chocolates arrive and you know you'll only be able to actually eat a very small amount of them, as with today being 141 days into my diet I'm not going to go man over Christmas...

...and finally when my big sister takes over my kitchen as she still doesn't trust/think I can cook :lol: :lol: not that I'm complaining as it's a day off
 
Raptor Mike said:
And check out that old school sky remote. You wanna get @Yves Geza to get his money out and get you sky plus HD lol
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Gedoudahere!! That IS for Sky HD plus and we have it on multiroom, HD upstairs and downstairs!! :D In fairness, I think the remotes are replacements for the originals, which @Yves Geza managed to wear out :rolleyes:
 
Please,please,please............stop.
 
There are so many channels available now, and they mostly show a pile of s**t.
If you wish to see what is on, then use the menu on the hand held control and it will tell you.
We get up in the morning around 7AM, have breakfast and then go about our daily business, the telly gets turned on around 6PM, and we watch what we want to.
I hate to imagine our World being dictated in advance, by knowing what was going to be shown a day or even a week ahead.
 
fracster said:
Please,please,please............stop.
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no :p

andy700 said:
There are so many channels available now, and they mostly show a pile of s**t.
If you wish to see what is on, then use the menu on the hand held control and it will tell you.
We get up in the morning around 7AM, have breakfast and then go about our daily business, the telly gets turned on around 6PM, and we watch what we want to.
I hate to imagine our World being dictated in advance, by knowing what was going to be shown a day or even a week ahead.
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err....yes, I think we worked out the on screen Tv guide many years ago, this thread is about humour and nostalgia and the silly things that do or have meant christmas is on the way. If that's ok of course? :whistle:
 
Christmas TV stands to be a bit special this year!

Apparently on Christmas Day they're broadcasting "The Great Escape" for the first time since ...








... last year!! :rolleyes:


But just for @andy700, I saw a trailer today that on Christmas Eve there'll be a TV film of Professor Branestawn and I've already planned to watch that! ;)
 
You know it's Christmas when.....You walking into a supermarket in August and there is a Christmas aisle......
 
Yv said:
Gedoudahere!! That IS for Sky HD plus and we have it on multiroom, HD upstairs and downstairs!! :D In fairness, I think the remotes are replacements for the originals, which @Yves Geza managed to wear out :rolleyes:
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Ahh right. Sorry. Looks like our sky remote before we had sky plus. Our sky plus remote is silver on top so i assumed....
:coat:
 
The keep advertising that Frozen is going to be on sky movies and every time it comes on I hear my 3 year old twin girls shouting 'frozen, look frozen, often followed by 'can we watch our frozen DVD' or 'can we listen to our frozen music' ... Bloody frozen lol
 
Raptor Mike said:
I remember when i was a kid we had to get the radio times and the TV times because the radio times only did BBC 1 and 2, and the TV times only did ITV and channel 4. My dad called them the rat-a-tat for short lol
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Now you've made me feel old. We also used to have to get both but the TV times only covered ITV, I was 18 when channel 4 launched! :sulk:
 
Raptor Mike said:
I remember when i was a kid we had to get the radio times and the TV times because the radio times only did BBC 1 and 2, and the TV times only did ITV and channel 4. My dad called them the rat-a-tat for short lol
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When I was a kid there was no Channel 4!
 
Raptor Mike said:
And check out that old school sky remote. You wanna get @Yves Geza to get his money out and get you sky plus HD lol
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Get his money out? :rofl::rofl:

I see he's gone down the combover road as well, Yv!

Do I need to book a hotel for next month?!!!
 
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...you get a printed black bag shoved through the handle on your wheelie bin to tell you when your bin will be emptied next..
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Crikey. That reminded me of years ago in St Helens when the sure sign of an imminent Xmas was the bin men suddenly not leaving half your rubbish strewn across your front garden as they took the bin to the wagon and your front gate open when they brought it back. Next collection was the last before Xmas, when one of them would knock on yer door and said "Hello! I'm the man that empties your bin. Happy Xmas." to which the traditional reply was "I'm the one that fills it. b****r off."
 
Serendipitous Sid said:
Crikey. That reminded me of years ago in St Helens when the sure sign of an imminent Xmas was the bin men suddenly not leaving half your rubbish strewn across your front garden as they took the bin to the wagon and your front gate open when they brought it back. Next collection was the last before Xmas, when one of them would knock on yer door and said "Hello! I'm the man that empties your bin. Happy Xmas." to which the traditional reply was "I'm the one that fills it. b****r off."
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Now some tips him at Christmas
and some of them forgets
So when he picks their bins up
He spills some on the steps
Now one old man got nasty
And to the council wrote
Next time my old man went there
He punched him up the throat - Lonnie Donegan "My Old Man's a Dustman"
 
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Serendipitous Sid said:
Crikey. That reminded me of years ago in St Helens when the sure sign of an imminent Xmas was the bin men suddenly not leaving half your rubbish strewn across your front garden as they took the bin to the wagon and your front gate open when they brought it back. Next collection was the last before Xmas, when one of them would knock on yer door and said "Hello! I'm the man that empties your bin. Happy Xmas." to which the traditional reply was "I'm the one that fills it. b****r off."
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Oh I've never tipped the bin men, that said half of them I would consider it now...occasionally I've been known to forget to put the bins at the top of the drive, they are kept 5-8 metres a little way down the drive, and the team that empty the recycling bins will come and get the bin from there if i forget it, the team that do normal waste just walk on past it, lazy feckers, leaving me 4 weeks between the last collection and the next collection....and they wonder why they wouldn't get a tip
 
I we're out when they empty the bins, they leave them in the middle of the drive... If they were considerate and polite, they might get a tip but as they are neither, sod'em!
 
Nod said:
Get his money out? :rofl::rofl:

I see he's gone down the combover road as well, Yv! [WTF!? Comb over what?? :sulk:]

Do I need to book a hotel for next month?!!!
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Are you visiting us next month? Good! I'll do all the cooking! :naughty:
 
viv1969 said:
When I was a kid there was no Channel 4!
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When I was a kid, we knew it was Christmas because we all sat down together to watch the Morcambe and Wise Christmas special .... And it was always the highlight of the day (apart from being the person who got the lucky sixpence in their helping of Christmas pud!!)

Happy days ...!
 
viv1969 said:
When I was a kid there was no Channel 4!
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When I was a kid there was only BBC and I was four years old when Dad had saved up enough to buy a Marconi TV.
Weekday BBC programming output was Children's Hour from about 4pm to 5 pm. Then they shut down until 7pm when they started with the News and closed again at about 10.30pm after the Epilogue and The National Anthem.
(Oh dear :sulk:)
 
Mag1cp2x said:
When I was a kid there was only BBC and I was four years old when Dad had saved up enough to buy a Marconi TV.
Weekday BBC programming output was Children's Hour from about 4pm to 5 pm. Then they shut down until 7pm when they started with the News and closed again at about 10.30pm after the Epilogue and The National Anthem.
(Oh dear :sulk:)
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:) ... I remember those days. What about The Interlude? Remember those? The gaps between programmes when they had to do something technical (I guess?) and we were left looking at fish swimming about in a tank ... In mono, of course!

:( ... Suddenly feeling very old indeed!
 
Quicksnapper said:
:) ... I remember those days. What about The Interlude? Remember those? The gaps between programmes when they had to do something technical (I guess?) and we were left looking at fish swimming about in a tank ... In mono, of course!

:( ... Suddenly feeling very old indeed!
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The Potter's Wheel and 'Normal service will resume as soon as possible' every time something went wrong ? !
 
Blimey, I remember Channel 5 being launched... Channel 4 (or in our case S4C as we're in Wales) was yonks old by then.

Can remember my dad being quite pleased because he just clicked the "5" button on the TV and there it was. No tuning in somehow.

In our house it's only Christmas once it's the second Sunday in December. That's the traditional date that the Deccys go up (as started by my husbands mother so we continue it). Aaaaaaaand that's today, so once the Swans have finished playing later it'll be bits of tinsel everywhere and me making lists of what lights "need" replacing. Probably none but I'm a b****r for anything sparkly or that will light up lol.
 
i know its xmas when the wife gives me some wrapping paper and sellotape to wrap her pressies
 
Yv said:
Same here, I never cease to be amazed, year on year, how many people seem to think the shops will be closed for a month, not just 2 days. I understand buying some extra goodies for the festive season, but I have watched families pushing 3 trollies round at once for goodness sake. Me? I'll be doing my ususal online shop with a few added bits for chrimbo dinner and some nibbles, that'll be it.
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I can remember when shops closed at 5.30pm Christmas Eve and did not open until 27th - if this was a Sunday closed as well. Today convenience stores are open as normal up to around 10pm and limited opening on the 26th as well. Local petrol station will be open for a few hours on both 25 & 26th

no wonder Christmas has become so commercialised getting people into panic buying mode - just whisper "bread" or "petrol" shortage as well!

Likewise already much of my Christmas fare is already in - the turkey's in the freezer already. I'll be home by lunchtime 24th and only out again to see the local point to point on Boxing day and visit the Swanage railway for their event 27th
 
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