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Too true I mean playgrounds were absolute death traps once with equipment and surfaces very rough yet we survived and it made us what we are today -bitter and twisted ??

(31-01-2019 15:11 )GreenMachine Wrote: [ -> ]Too true I mean playgrounds were absolute death traps once with equipment and surfaces very rough yet we survived and it made us what we are today -bitter and twisted ??

‘Bitter and twisted’? Don’t think so...

We are unique. Nobody has had lives like us. The preceding ‘baby boomer’ generation were old by the age of 40, millennials have yet to reach that age. We straddle the analogue and digital ages. We were breast fed on punk rock and invented indie, grunge and techno. We transformed the 80s and ruled the 90s.

Well quite. We were at the forefront of technological achievements and breakthroughs-I mean who knew that you would be able to get a telephone in your pocket(NOKIA) or that a computer would soon be controlling your watch, television or washing machine. A machine you can talk to and it talks back! Most of these innovations were mostly the realms of science-fiction(mind you still not got flying cars, moving pavements or a starship but maybe in years to come who knows) but now most of those ideas are real - still have needles to give injections but there is a Powderject type that is less painful, cleaner, greener cars, a country that cares for its environment a lot more. Music has changed a lot too but still the old ones are the best.

We were also at the dawning of several genres like Punk Rock, Nu Wave, SKA was more popular and then New Romantic, post-Punk and then hip-hop. I don't want to sound like an old curmudgeon but if we had the technology that children have today, I think we would have made more of it. They have these amazing gadgets and yet are still bored and prefer to watch television on a small screen rather than a big one, and on channels that to be frank I am not worried about not having. Too many channels-how did we manage with just three? One last major breakthrough, at least they can treat various diseases a lot better now than when we were young and your chances of survival have increased a lot more.

Who didn't delight in making camps and dens back then. It was great fun and I remember my mum helping me move the main dining table and then putting chairs in front making a tunnel to crawl into and then a giant sheet covered everything making a tent or den. The adventure aspect of it was in our own imaginations. Building camps or dens outside was also great fun. We had an old garage and we did it up, painted the doors and made a meeting place for us complete with some old chairs and a bit of carpet-very cosy. Or maybe you were lucky to have a tree-house complete with lift or steps up.

Anyone used to play conkers ? I think it's outlawed by the health and safety lobby now but great fun back in the day. After all what's a few bruised knuckles and concussion among friends.

Oh yes absolutely. My Dad and I would go down to a large main road where there were trees (or the local park) and chuck an old tableleg up and force them down. I would take a bradawl and make a hole and put some string through and the next day me and my mates would have great 'fights' no-one worried about Health and Safety - it is sheer madness to stop kids having some fun these days.

Remember the Cadbury's Fudge ad with the two boys about to play but the other one is tempted by "a finger of Fudge" just as the other boy is about to strike and he looks daggers at the kid as he runs off. We still have conkers in the house but now it is to ward off spiders and yes, it does work.

(25-01-2019 00:52 )GreenMachine Wrote: [ -> ]Here is one mentioned on other threads but relevant to this one-feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square when visiting London. Tourists and locals alike used to love it, even photographing each other with pigeons perched on their shoulders, heads or hands.

Not quite relevant to the month but I also remember going out at Christmas time in the car with my family and counting the number of Christmas trees we saw and then driving around various areas looking at the latest lights in the main streets, Regents, Bond and Oxford as well as the bright lights around Piccadilly Circus and those huge advertising boards.

(25-01-2019 11:36 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote: [ -> ]

(25-01-2019 10:04 )babelover48 Wrote: [ -> ]always remembering watching Final Score on a Saturday afternoon, then watching the original Dr. Who straight after then having tea. Who was it that gave you the instructions on how to build your own Dalek?
Was it the Radio Times?

I think it was yes..

Ah Dr Who. My Doctors if you like were Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. I do have vague recollections of Patrick Troughton’s final season, but it’s Pertwee and Baker who were THE Doctors for me.

Funny how you read stories about how children would hide behind the sofa when Dr Who was on in the 60s and 70s, but I honestly don’t ever recall doing that myself. I either didn’t do that or I have somehow succeeded in burying the memory.

I've also buried the memory of hiding behind the sofa but my parents swear I did. For me too it was Pertwee and Tom Baker. I remember the maggots in The Green Death scaring me to death at the time.

^they must have put you off touching maggots for life - we often used maggots as bait when we went fishing sometimes

I do remember when racing was called off in the 70's & 80's due to weather, they'd show greyhound racing from Haringey I think it was and I believe boxing commentator legend Reg Gutteridge was the commentator (or was it Gerald Sinstadt?). If ITV racing did it now, I think Matt Chapman would do the commentating. But i would like to think they would put films on rather than show doggie racing.

You see much winter sports getting much exposure on freeview TV as it used to. i know the BBC does the winter Olympics and Ski Sunday but they used to do the Ice Skating world championships a lot during the week and you hardly hear about it now. I think it would be a big boost to British Winter Olympic teams if both ITV & BBC invested more air time when live sport is not possible in this country so the winter Olympic teams get some decent coverage.

Grandstand was for me THE sports show to watch on a Saturday especially the football results service typewriter giving out the scores. I remember watching World of Sport with Dickie Davies and like Grandstand they showed some diverse sport but the most memorable on BOTH channels was when Eric Morecambe came in and just took the places and presenters apart. He had everyone laughing with his antics. Reg used to do boxing and once they showed him women boxing which was nothing to what it is today and he was disgusted and said it would never catch on. I wonder what he would make of it now. Never liked wrestling, and when in 1980 some clever so decided to cover the Olympics from Moscow it was awful, no wonder the BBC are better trusted with the big stuff than ITV. (see images thread for more)