Primeval

[oldspice]

Did anyone watch this rubbish? Did anyone feel they'd seen it all before? Eager young student, disbelieving scientist, little boy with a nice bedroom, someone from officialdom, big, bad monster and so on and so on and............

[Forth Bridges]

its still on.

have you seen this before>

you do have an excetting life oldspice, I can see now why you name after one of the spice girls

[Forth Bridges]

and

"Find it a bit daft that the boys Mother told him to clean the mess up
in his bedroom. ITV really is making out this country to be thick if
there saying a woman can't work out a boy didnt smash his wall down"".

[loulou]

I didn't see it but I read that Hannah from S Club 7 would be in it.

[goldencup]

Oldspice have you seen about that new programme on Tuesday on Channel 4 called "It didn't do me any harm" or something similar?  Apparently they make a family of today live like one in the 70s so it might be interesting for one or two of us!  

[Velvet Darkness]

Garbage. Rubbish. Twaddle. Junk.

The kids talked me into it but by half way through even they had lost interest. We won't be watching it again.

[loulou]

I will have to watch that programme GC mentions. How will a modern day family cope without fast food, mobile phones and computers.

[goldencup]

Yes, I expect they'll only have one TV (if at all) so they'll all argue about what to watch.  And they'll all have to eat together as a family.

[loulou]

and listen to Sweet, Mud and Slade.

[oldspice]

Won't those kids be surprised to find you have to GET UP AND WALK to the TV if you want to switch it on/off or change the channel! YOu might even have to wait for the thing to WARM UP! If you're really poor, you might have to hang from the lamp shade with an ariel in your hand to get a DECENT PICTURE!

On the plus side, they could listen to JUNIOR CHOICE on the radio on a Saturday Morning (The runaway train went over the track and she BLEW ooooo  ooooo!)  or they could watch all that raw talent on JUNIOR SHOWTIME on TV (with Bobby Bennett).

Stangely, if it happens to smow over night, they will find they STILL HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL!. How they will love wearing big wellington boots and a black mackintosh with huge buttons and a belt! Very cool!  When at school, if they misbehave they will find they get a BIG STICK ACROSS THEIR BUTTOCKS!

Back home, mum might sooth their troubles with a real treat after tea - that top-of-the-range, luxury dessert - Angel Delight!

It's a pity I will miss the first programme as I will be in Florence but I must say that my experience in the 1970s, living in a reasonably comfortable home with, let's face it, no luxuries, was far more comfy than my loving but chilly 1960s home with mum and dad where the lav was outside the kitchen door, there was no bathroom (until dad converted one of the bedrooms in the mid 60s) there was no phone, no TV, no fridge and heating in one room only!

I wish it could be 1977 every day.  Everyone was a lot nicer then.  Obviously we were all nice but there were not so many nast people as there are now.

[Forth Bridges]

Don;t FOrege the Stirke the bad Ecomany

Lack of invertsment in publis services,

 SOCAILAISM!

USSR

[oldspice]

I wish it could be 1977 every day. Everyone was a lot nicer then. Obviously we were all nice but there were not so many nast people as there are now.

Except for the nasty old IRA blowing us up

[StrollingMinstrel]

Ahh the 70's T remember them well.

When you had to ask the operater to put you through to the number you wanted on the telephone... and if you had a party line (shared) you had to wait until your the other party (usually a neighbour) to finish their call first!

As for angel delight I still have nightmares about that catering pack of buttersccotch flavour my mum bought .

In the days when eating out meant prawn cocktail, then steak followed with Black forest gateau.... no international cusine!

 

 

[oldspice]

In the days when eating out meant prawn cocktail, then steak followed with Black forest gateau.... no international cusine!

I was going to mention that! Berni Inns! When I was old enough to start eating out in 'posh places' (!!!!) I used to so look forward to visits to the local Berni Inn. I don't like prawns so I always had soup and a roll to start. I thought that was terribly sophisticated! I didn't have steak but chose fish with jacket potato. To follow I usually had Black Forest Gateau or Raspberry Sorbet with blackcurrants and cream. Mmmm. To finish off, if I was flush, I had posh coffee with Tia Maria and floating cream.

I could never manage three courses now!

If you went to a locally run restaurant, they usually had empty bottles of Matias Rose with a candle stuck in them on each table. Eating pizza or pasta was considered very exotic and I feel quite ashamed to think I scoffed my older relatives who looked forward to fish and chips from the chippie on a Friday night.

I don't know if those of you out there who actually remember the 70s had a similar experience but there were all sorts of social customs that 'nice working class girls' had to obey. These included not wearing ankle bracelets (apparently this signalled that you were a prostitute), never buying red knickers, not bleaching your hair and definitely not going out after washing your hair or having a bath (the germs in the air would penetrate your open pores!!). I always obeyed the first few but could never go out after a day's work without having a bath.

The other things I remember are record booths (in record shops - you went in them to hear singles or LPs you were thinking of buying) and cheap Top of the Pops LPs with terrible tracks on them that usually didn't get higher than number 36 in the charts.

Oh God, now you've got me started ... Green Shield Stamps, Pink Shield Stamps, double stamp days, machines that shot your change down a chute, cheesecake mixes, gadgets that removed bobbles from your jumper and hair from your nose, keys that squeezed the last bit of toothpaste from the tube.....