nostalgia

[Ross PK]

Yup, I'm very nostalgic, love the 80's and very early 90's.

I remember those friendship bracelets, my mate gave me one. I don't klnow if it's just me but looking at them now they don't seem to look dated at all. I can easily imagine young people wearing them now.

Anyway, here's a few things that some of you may remember.

Jeans with leather bits round the pockets in the late 80's

Jeans with pictures on the legs, like Garfield and Oddie (or whatever his name is)

Black baggy jeans where the butt could be either in green or red.

Flowery patterned thin material hooded tops.

Red suade Fila boots.

I worn all of these, and I still think some of it looks good now. I've never been into anything that's been fashionable since then, except for a few things recently.

[Ross PK]

The cool thing now though, is that we can now buy a lot of things that we remember thanks to the net. I'll sometimes buy a game for my Atari on ebay, and I may see if there's any original friendship bracelets on there just out of curiosity.

[Stepford]

Been watching a load of the old movies and series I used to watch years ago, gets me all nostalgic. Things like,

Series:
Space 1999
The Land of the Giants
The Time Tunnel
UFO
The Outer Limits
The Twilight Zone
Hammer House of Horror

Tons of movies: (mostly quaint horror)
From Beyond the Grave
The Vault of Horror
Tales from the Crypt
Don***8217;t Be Afraid of the Dark
Quatermass and the Pit
Asylum
etc

I***8217;m a bit of an Amicus productions nut, rather than Hammer, which were ok***8230;

Most of which will probably make it to my website when I have the time, I love the 70s/80s. Great time.

[newboy]

I'm only two years over 30 but what the heck!

TV shows:

Multi-coured Swapshop
Bod
The Flumps
Space 1999
Worzel Gummidge
Cat Weezel
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Jamie and the Magic Torch
Play School
Willow The Wisp
The Perishers
The Amazing Adventures of Morph
Battle of the Planets
Captain Caveman
The Flintstones
The Pink Panther
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Wacky Races
Box of Delights
Stig of the Dump (the original)
You and Me
Fingermouse
The Potties
Saturday Superstore
Crackerjack (with Stu Francis in his crushing-a-grape days)

Sweeties/food:

Opal Fruit (before they became Starbust)
Marathon (before it became Snickers)
Huge Wagon Wheels (much bigger than today's versions)
Mojo chews (1p each )
Flumps (like marshmallows but long and twisty)
Choc Dips

Other stuff:

Only 3 TV channels until I was 8 (BBC1, BBC2 and ITV)

Life even before 24 hour TV!

Life before Breakfast TV - you just got a blank screen and/or the little girl at the blackboard on the test card with a high-pitched continuous beep!

Life when BBC1 didn't start programmes until around 10/11 am for "Play School" etc, and then showed Ceefax Pages until the "News", "Pebble Mill at One" and "See-Saw Programmes" (such as "Bod" and "Chock-a-Block"), then more Ceefax Pages until the kid's stuff started at 3.55pm.

BBC1 and BBC2 being very patriotic and playing the National Anthem before the programmes ended for the night whilst the globe symbol spun around on BBC1 and/or the swirly huge "swan-like" Number 2 symbol sat in the middle of the screen on BBC2

Life before EastEnders and Neighbours.

Coronation Street only being on twice a week on Monday and Wednesday

No video recorder in the house until I was 10

No mobile phones, not even the bricks

Computers that didnt run on Windows (because it didn't exist) that just had black screens and blocky ceefaxy-type text, and codes to switch form screen to screen.

And wait for it.................... life before the internet, oh my

Now I actually feel 32!!!

[Blueberry]

I miss these



Also loved having chocolate concrete at school

Oh and remember those big reversable jumpers, i used to have a sheep one and looked like mitchellin man in it

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by Marley's Ghost

I can't think of anything from the 80's or 90's to be nostalgic about - except for these guys of course:

thundercats was great, a fantastic distillation of all your childhood fantasies about justice and violence.

i'd love it if the voice of mum-ra joined a death metal band, and also if corpsegrinder from cannibal corpse or possibly chris reifert got a guest slot as mum-ra. 'twould have been awesome

[Ross PK]

Ah, I totally forgot but I uploaded some commercial breaks onto Youtube ages ago from an old video of mine from 1991. Here they are if anyones interested.

[emgee]

Ah, the Good old days.

I remember when you could call a spade a spade and no-one would bat an eyelid.

I always called them shovels though.

I get nostalgic about stuff I haven't experienced

Anyone remember Banana Medicine? It was penicillin I think, but banana flavour for kids.

Other junk I suppose I'm nostalgic about:

Originally Posted by Befals

I wasn't allowed Sylvanian families, they were too expensive, sob sob.

Neither was I for the same reason. I used to go round the block to my friend's house to play with hers and nick her characters and bits of tea service.

Also, she had Sindy where I had Barbie. I think her Mum thought Sindy was a better role model as Sindy was curvier than Barbie. :rolleyes:

[Medea]

I might have had sylvanian familes toys :embarass:

Actually my parents first said no. The my grandparents took me to ASDA (no idea why, I can never remember them taking me to a supermarket before or after this) and nan said I could pick a toy... guess what I went for? :embarass:

Well I got told off by my parents but they still ended up buying me more

Originally Posted by Blueberry

I miss these



Also loved having chocolate concrete at school

Oh and remember those big reversable jumpers, i used to have a sheep one and looked like mitchellin man in it

God I'd forgotten about those! I loved chocolate concrete and fish 'n' chips'.

I actually had a whole reversible outfit from Tesco's when I was about 7. It was a white sweater with a teddy on the front, turned it round and it was pink. Also it had polkadot leggings, pink on one side, black on the other.

My Mum's got a photo of me and my friend Katie with the same outfit on but wearing the opposite sides, walking round World of Minature in Devon pointing at the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower etc.

[luckie]

i loved this ad, thought it was sooo funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdxm8Ia0Wc

just found this one too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51CBG1FbfTg

pure class

[Winnie57]

Originally Posted by CaughtByTheFuzz

Anyone remember Banana Medicine? It was penicillin I think, but banana flavour for kids.

I remember either myself or my younger sister/brother having banana-flavoured penicillin. It still tasted horrible.

[wobbly]

clackers, chopper bikes (1st time round). Penny bubblegum. Arrowbars, lovehearts, licorice sticks, two tone pants, platform shoes, parallels, black and white tv, saturday morning matinee at the pictures (cartoons and a western & queuing round the block to get in);no paedophiles;chips made in dripping; milkmen; coalmen; love thy neighbour; Morecambe & Wise; snow at Xmas; British Rail; policemen etc. ahhhh

[Winnie57]

You must be around my age to remember all those things wobbly

[Chach]

I remember most of those. And Steptoe and Son, Beyond our Ken, the first TV linkup with France, the start of BBC2, Landing on the moon, ....

[wobbly]

Jeux Sans Frontières; Wooden Tops; Magic Roundabout (hated it!); Magpie.

Winnie57 - I presume that's your dob (sorry if it's not) I'm not far off - 1960.

[Winnie57]

Originally Posted by wobbly

Winnie57 - I presume that's your dob (sorry if it's not) I'm not far off - 1960.

Yes it is my dob - and you're close enough to be counted as a contemporary

[incommunicado]

Rag and bone man, blacksmiths and stables, milkman's horse with oatbag, white dog-shit, live transatlantic transmision, twisted limbs(polio), twisted chops(stroke), sonic booms, vertical take off, smog, single handed yachtsmen, steam locomotion, shunting, night-watchmen, underneath the arches, tramps, plastic macks, 405 & 625 lines, valve radios, shipping forcast, shutdown with the anthem.

[ALiAS!]

Originally Posted by Mel

Anyone mentioned tupperwear & Avon lady

I'm an Avon lady (have to go on my rounds tonight) - we are still going strong although most of us place our orders online now..

I do remember one Christmas getting a soap cat with a plastic mouse in the middle and I think that was from Avon. I also remember getting some Avon children's perfume and emptying the whole bottle onto my handkerchief on the first day - of course I didn't mean to do that!

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by incommunicado

white dog-shit,

had a rare sighting of this about a month ago, as well as being white, it had mouldy tendrils coming from it.

fascinating. i'll pm you my tri-corder readings from the site if you wish, showed definite signs of temporal discombobulation