[Humour] What have you witnessed growing up in the 70's/80's would you like to see creeping back

[Pavilionaire]

Seaside Special, Summertime Special and The Specials.

 

[Blue3]

We should not forget that income inequality was at its lowest in the mid to late-1970s, while today Britain is one of the world’s most unequal countries.

 

[Official Old Man]

The forgotten art of fingering

This should be on the Crystal palace at 10 tonight thread.

Luncheon Vouchers and less cars on the roads.

My Dad would come home with pockets full of LV's. As for cars, yearn for the old empty roads and free parking.

My hair

Me too.

Strip at the Ship.

Was this on Lewes Road opp B&Q Fridays? And you had to stay after 2 to get the best show thus being late back to work. And free parking outside in those days. Thought about this today when I saw that they've pulled down the building.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Love they neighbour
wheeltappers and shutters social club
Mind your language


All good wholesome family fun

 

[Is it PotG?]

Indoor League.

I'll se thee

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Ahhhh.........halcyon days

Punk
Standing on the terraces
Watching the Piranhas down the Alhambra on a Sunday night
jumpers for goalposts

I did that soooo many times. The Dandies. Blues Jim. Bloody magic.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

We should not forget that income inequality was at its lowest in the mid to late-1970s, while today Britain is one of the world’s most unequal countries.

Yes but it was still largely shit. And for some, extremely so.





Things are, on average, better now. We live better. We are healthier and less ignorant.

The only thing from the 70s I'd really like to see back is 60 years' of who-knows-what life ahead of me. Like Woody Allen once said, 'I want to achieve immortality by living forever'. But not that....living a fresh life with wonder and expectation, like it was when I was 20. But that would be a bit greedy.....

 

[GT49er]

Apologies. If I'd known you would be so precious I wouldn't have bothered.

Not bothered - just that it didn't make any sense. Sorry!

 

[Saunders]

Hair in the right places...

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

wage packet with real money inside

then pissing it all up over the weekend

and wondering if you had enough petrol money left to be able to get to work for the rest of the week

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Proper office Xmas parties (as in parties in the office)

 

[W3 BHA]

Flares

Ben Sherman Jumbo Collars

Aztec Bars

No shops open on a Sunday apart from the newsagent until lunchtime

Alan Freeman on Pick of the Pops

 

[timbha]

Taking your 12 or 20 holiday photos to Boots to be developed and waiting 2 days to discover how crap they looked, esp your photo of your mates (NOT YOU) with some birds from Newcastle. Still stuck them in an album though with labels such as “Mick with a girl at the Champions Bar on the last day, magic”

 

[LamieRobertson]

Hair on my head

Edit...having read the thread it seems I'm not alone

 

[Dave the OAP]

Alan Freeman on Pick of the Pops

Not arf mate!

 

[Blue3]

Yes but it was still largely shit. And for some, extremely so.

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Things are, on average, better now. We live better. We are healthier and less ignorant.

The only thing from the 70s I'd really like to see back is 60 years' of who-knows-what life ahead of me. Like Woody Allen once said, 'I want to achieve immortality by living forever'. But not that....living a fresh life with wonder and expectation, like it was when I was 20. But that would be a bit greedy.....

All true but income inequality was lower

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

All true but income inequality was lower

True. But the issue is whether it is income that is paramount, or inequality. For me it is income. As long as more people have enough, I don't care if some people have insane amounts more. History shows that striving for equality tends to end in more people getting poorer. I give you Venezuela. Even Russia has given up communism. China is just pretending to be communist. Autocracy, more like.

Don't get me wrong, allowing a clique to get rich by theiving off the poor (Thatcherism) is deplorable. But, with some blips, things have been heading towards better for decades (except, perhaps, for the mentally ill; the number of rough sleepers I see between Victora and Westminster each day is getting rediculous....).

 

[Dr Bandler]

I did that soooo many times. The Dandies. Blues Jim. Bloody magic.

How about The Ammonites, The Golinski Brothers and Woody and the Splinters? All at The Alhambra regularly. Do you remember the floor used to move when everyone was pogoing?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

See what I've done there, I'm a freakin genius and you lot would be lost without me.


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Nostalgic, but people are forgetting something.
If I was to eat a Texan bar today it would pull my fillings out or even a tooth or two, sadly.
I struggled a bit with them years ago.
And if anyone with false teeth thinks they would love to have a chew on one you will have to remember what they were like.

 

[el punal]

Also evenings Thursday(?)

I believe that was the Vogue Cinema Club. I was advised that if you wore glasses not to sit in the front row. Apparently a rather buxom lady who was performing there noticed a gentleman, in the front row, peering at her through a pair of bottle stop specs. The lady in question bent down and parted her bosom around the poor man’s glasses and took them off, and, still holding them in her magnificent orbs, continued with her routine. I’m not altogether sure whether the myopic gent fumbled around to retrieve them but I’ll have a bet they were steamed up when he did.

P.S. It was after that incident that I decided to wear contact lenses.