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Acceptable in the 80’s .. aka the ‘how times have changed’ thread!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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“Here they are,
They’re so appealing,
Come on Dollies,
Do your dealing!”
So said Brucey introducing the “Dolly Dealers” on tv’s “Play your cards right!”
Back in the day most people didn’t bat an eyelid - in today’s enlightened era I’d imagine there would be an uproar if they did that on Primetime telly!
The Darts PC thread got me thinking - what *used* to be largely accepted “back in the day” that most would deem wholly unacceptable today?
Bonus points for the first person to mention Alf Garnett! |
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"“Here they are,
They’re so appealing,
Come on Dollies,
Do your dealing!”
So said Brucey introducing the “Dolly Dealers” on tv’s “Play your cards right!”
Back in the day most people didn’t bat an eyelid - in today’s enlightened era I’d imagine there would be an uproar if they did that on Primetime telly!
The Darts PC thread got me thinking - what *used* to be largely accepted “back in the day” that most would deem wholly unacceptable today?
Bonus points for the first person to mention Alf Garnett! "
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"Almost anything Jim Davidson said or did as part of his act!!
Ashamed to admit my "Chalky" impression was regularly rolled out as a party piece for guests at Sunday lunch in our house!!  "
Oh cool I’ll look forward to that  |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Almost anything Jim Davidson said or did as part of his act!!
Ashamed to admit my "Chalky" impression was regularly rolled out as a party piece for guests at Sunday lunch in our house!!
Oh cool I’ll look forward to that "
It's been consigned to the never to be opened again box of my teenage years where it shall forever remain in the shameful purgatory that it deserves!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Almost anything Jim Davidson said or did as part of his act!!
Ashamed to admit my "Chalky" impression was regularly rolled out as a party piece for guests at Sunday lunch in our house!!
Oh cool I’ll look forward to that
It's been consigned to the never to be opened again box of my teenage years where it shall forever remain in the shameful purgatory that it deserves!! "
 that’s exactly the point of the thread, stuff that was culturally ‘ok’ then (particularly as naive kiddies that didn’t really understand what it all meant and the implications) that today, now we’re grown up and enlightened, we think ‘whaaatttt!?!’ and wouldn’t dream of thinking as acceptable.
Back then it we didn’t realise it was unacceptable - we do now! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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The Black & White Minstrel show .. white people ‘blacking up’ on prime time telly! 
Mrs Slocombes pussy ...
The Diet Coke ads, incredibly sexist - against men!
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False advertising: Remember the old Readybrek ads depicting the kid eating it and subsequently attending school with a (badly rendered fx) orange glow around him? BULLSHIT! I ate tons of that shit and never even emitted so much as a fucking spark  |
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"False advertising: Remember the old Readybrek ads depicting the kid eating it and subsequently attending school with a (badly rendered fx) orange glow around him? BULLSHIT! I ate tons of that shit and never even emitted so much as a fucking spark "
“It’s Central Heating for kids” |
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"False advertising: Remember the old Readybrek ads depicting the kid eating it and subsequently attending school with a (badly rendered fx) orange glow around him? BULLSHIT! I ate tons of that shit and never even emitted so much as a fucking spark
“It’s Central Heating for kids” "
 That’s the one; Even in the wording the buggers we’re lying though their teeth though; I ate two bowls of the stuff, went outside in the snow and promptly caught hypothermia |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Think it was worse in the 70s
Dick Emery
Benny Hill
Love thy Neighbour
And doing PE at school in knickers and vests"
Ha, that’s true! Blimey back in my day the PE teachers used to watch you shower!
The official reason was to make sure you did, hygiene and all that. But looking back that’s flippin’ sinister isn’t it?! |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Smoking on telly.
And the cigar adverts on TV have to say I used to love the castella ones they were hilarious "
Now here's a curious thing - TV ads for cigarettes were banned in 1965 - yet cigar ads not until 1991!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Think it was worse in the 70s
Dick Emery
Benny Hill
Love thy Neighbour
And doing PE at school in knickers and vests
Ha, that’s true! Blimey back in my day the PE teachers used to watch you shower!
The official reason was to make sure you did, hygiene and all that. But looking back that’s flippin’ sinister isn’t it?! "
You think that's bad? We had a teacher that used to join us in the shower. Ugh.
Mr B |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Referring to anything black in colour by a new name incase its deemed racist, for example chalk board, not sure I welcome this change tho"
It's all gone too far. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Renting tellys,
Telly closedown at 12,
Smoking on planes....oh and if someone insisted that you take your shoes off at airport check in you'd say something like 'pack it in tucker'...
Ahhh the 80's...depressing
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Embassy Snooker tournament smoke filled room, players half cut or fully cut in some cases.
Alcohol laden tables . "
I can remember Alex Higgins half cut pretending to do a line on the table |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Think it was worse in the 70s
Dick Emery
Benny Hill
Love thy Neighbour
And doing PE at school in knickers and vests
Ha, that’s true! Blimey back in my day the PE teachers used to watch you shower!
The official reason was to make sure you did, hygiene and all that. But looking back that’s flippin’ sinister isn’t it?! "
Towel above your head before they would let you out at ours |
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I for one very much objected to the portrayal of villains on popular TV shows as stupid. Take the A-Team as an example; Every bloody week some arsehole would lock them (B.A’s van and all!) in a fully equipped tool shed/workshop whereupon they could fashion via the freely supplied blow torches etc. armour plating with which to bust out with! BULLSHIT!!! |
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"Referring to anything black in colour by a new name incase its deemed racist, for example chalk board, not sure I welcome this change tho
It's all gone too far."
This is essentially a "PC gooorn maaad!!' thread isn't it? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Embassy Snooker tournament smoke filled room, players half cut or fully cut in some cases.
Alcohol laden tables .
I can remember Alex Higgins half cut pretending to do a line on the table "
I remember it well great footage. Must try n dig it out . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Girls doing home ed.. Boys doing woodwork. Our school midway through my 2nd year decided to allow the students to pick which we wanted to do. Parents were in uproar lol
Remember the innuendo in so many things that I remember watching as a kid and not getting... And then later as an adult realising what my parents had been sniggering at.
Teachers being able to make you stand facing the wall. Oh had to dodge a board rubber or too as well.
Page 3 was big in the 80s too. Remember the lads all trying to hide copies of the paper and the teachers cutting out page 3 if we had to use papers in class. One of my teachers had a drawful of cut outs. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Smoking on telly.
Smoking anywhere! I remember my Mum n Gran havin a fag while inside shops! "
Ah yes the cigarette stubbers on the backs of the seats in the cinema and on busses even the school bus |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Getting the slipper or cane at school for punishment "
on an associated note, Dennis the Menace getting a slippering for misbehaving in the Beano! Long since gone .. |
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"3 television channels for part of the 80s.
Having to remember phone numbers but that’s ok because they were only 6 digits and the first two were the code for your town anyway "
Shared phone lines |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Getting the slipper or cane at school for punishment "
I had the edge of ruler across back of my hand just for getting under my desk and looking up when my young female teacher walked past I was only 4 and curious lol |
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"Girls doing home ed.. Boys doing woodwork. Our school midway through my 2nd year decided to allow the students to pick which we wanted to do. Parents were in uproar lol
Remember the innuendo in so many things that I remember watching as a kid and not getting... And then later as an adult realising what my parents had been sniggering at.
Teachers being able to make you stand facing the wall. Oh had to dodge a board rubber or too as well.
Page 3 was big in the 80s too. Remember the lads all trying to hide copies of the paper and the teachers cutting out page 3 if we had to use papers in class. One of my teachers had a drawful of cut outs. "
And copies of Razzle, Escort and Readers' Wives stashed in bushes. What was that about? The amount of rhythm mags that found their way into bushes was astonishing. |
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"False advertising: Remember the old Readybrek ads depicting the kid eating it and subsequently attending school with a (badly rendered fx) orange glow around him? BULLSHIT! I ate tons of that shit and never even emitted so much as a fucking spark "
Nah! False advertising hasn't been left in the 80's
Cillit Bang anyone? |
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The rampant sexism (and all sorts of other 'isms' for that matter) which was prevalent in almost all British sitcoms. One of the most cringeworthy examples being 'On The Buses' where the mini-skirted, false-eyelashed 20-something 'dolly birds' would simper and swoon at the greasy haired, snaggle toothed, cerebrally challenged and *much* much older supposed 'lotharios' who were Stan and Jack.
Widely accepted or not, even as a kid, I found these unlikely encounters horribly creepy. Benny Hill felt similarly wrong. There was a definite sense that women's main purpose was to look pretty and serve as male playthings - and not object to this at all |
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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago
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"Smoking on telly.
And the cigar adverts on TV have to say I used to love the castella ones they were hilarious
Now here's a curious thing - TV ads for cigarettes were banned in 1965 - yet cigar ads not until 1991!!"
Must’ve been later than ‘65. I remember the adverts for Marlboro and Camel as well as Benson and Hedges. I don’t even smoke! |
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By *rbaldMan
over a year ago
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"Girls doing home ed.. Boys doing woodwork. Our school midway through my 2nd year decided to allow the students to pick which we wanted to do. Parents were in uproar lol
Remember the innuendo in so many things that I remember watching as a kid and not getting... And then later as an adult realising what my parents had been sniggering at.
Teachers being able to make you stand facing the wall. Oh had to dodge a board rubber or too as well.
Page 3 was big in the 80s too. Remember the lads all trying to hide copies of the paper and the teachers cutting out page 3 if we had to use papers in class. One of my teachers had a drawful of cut outs.
And copies of Razzle, Escort and Readers' Wives stashed in bushes. What was that about? The amount of rhythm mags that found their way into bushes was astonishing."
Ah the joys of hedge porn lol ?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Animal Magic. That was deemed unacceptable by the then new BBC management and the series ended around 1982/ 83.
Thee 'unacceptability factor' was because Johnny Morris gave the animals comical voices and you couldn't have that kind of thing polluting the minds of young children according to Aunty Beeb, so it had to go!
I kid ye not! |
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By *luteguyMan
over a year ago
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"Getting the slipper or cane at school for punishment "
I was caned loads at primary school. Usually on the hand and they’d try to catch the tips of your fingers for maximum effect.
Still, didn’t do me any harm  |
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"Referring to anything black in colour by a new name incase its deemed racist, for example chalk board, not sure I welcome this change tho
Not a thing that actually happens. "
Ditto..
Education like most of society has moved on somewhat..
My mate's who are black laugh at the term 'coloured', just so 1970s |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Smoking on telly.
And the cigar adverts on TV have to say I used to love the castella ones they were hilarious
Now here's a curious thing - TV ads for cigarettes were banned in 1965 - yet cigar ads not until 1991!!
Must’ve been later than ‘65. I remember the adverts for Marlboro and Camel as well as Benson and Hedges. I don’t even smoke! "
This was TV ads only but was definitely 1965 - cinema advertising and in magazines/newspapers was allowed to continue until quite a bit later (1986 in the case of cinemas) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The rampant sexism (and all sorts of other 'isms' for that matter) which was prevalent in almost all British sitcoms. One of the most cringeworthy examples being 'On The Buses' where the mini-skirted, false-eyelashed 20-something 'dolly birds' would simper and swoon at the greasy haired, snaggle toothed, cerebrally challenged and *much* much older supposed 'lotharios' who were Stan and Jack.
Widely accepted or not, even as a kid, I found these unlikely encounters horribly creepy. Benny Hill felt similarly wrong. There was a definite sense that women's main purpose was to look pretty and serve as male playthings - and not object to this at all "
Oh those two were horrible wernt they. And that 'wife material' had to look and behave like Olive did. |
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By *essiCouple
over a year ago
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"Referring to anything black in colour by a new name incase its deemed racist, for example chalk board, not sure I welcome this change tho
Not a thing that actually happens. "
Actually called a white board or smart board now.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Almost anything Jim Davidson said or did as part of his act!!
Ashamed to admit my "Chalky" impression was regularly rolled out as a party piece for guests at Sunday lunch in our house!!
Oh cool I’ll look forward to that
It's been consigned to the never to be opened again box of my teenage years where it shall forever remain in the shameful purgatory that it deserves!!
that’s exactly the point of the thread, stuff that was culturally ‘ok’ then (particularly as naive kiddies that didn’t really understand what it all meant and the implications) that today, now we’re grown up and enlightened, we think ‘whaaatttt!?!’ and wouldn’t dream of thinking as acceptable.
Back then it we didn’t realise it was unacceptable - we do now! "
I think in 20 years time we'll look at double entendres which so many seem to be acceptable in children's plays, pantomime, school dramas, nativity plays etc etc to pander to the parental audience. A humour now being widely used innaproppriately imo. I feel it reflects more the lack if quality if good humour but a cheap easy way to get a smile. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Almost anything Jim Davidson said or did as part of his act!!
Ashamed to admit my "Chalky" impression was regularly rolled out as a party piece for guests at Sunday lunch in our house!!
Oh cool I’ll look forward to that
It's been consigned to the never to be opened again box of my teenage years where it shall forever remain in the shameful purgatory that it deserves!!
that’s exactly the point of the thread, stuff that was culturally ‘ok’ then (particularly as naive kiddies that didn’t really understand what it all meant and the implications) that today, now we’re grown up and enlightened, we think ‘whaaatttt!?!’ and wouldn’t dream of thinking as acceptable.
Back then it we didn’t realise it was unacceptable - we do now!
I think in 20 years time we'll look at double entendres which so many seem to be acceptable in children's plays, pantomime, school dramas, nativity plays etc etc to pander to the parental audience. A humour now being widely used innaproppriately imo. I feel it reflects more the lack if quality if good humour but a cheap easy way to get a smile."
See I don't find that worrying at all. As long as it is actually funny.. But then I find carry on movies very funny.
I was thinking to myself "really get a grip" when some mums were whinging about the The jokes in Dick Whittington and the use of the word dick. Sorry but I would have been more concerned if my under 8 year old got the double meaning . as apparently many were. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"I was thinking to myself "really get a grip" when some mums were whinging about the The jokes in Dick Whittington and the use of the word dick. Sorry but I would have been more concerned if my under 8 year old got the double meaning . as apparently many were. "
I think most 8 year olds of any generation would get the double meaning of the word "dick" - I know I certainly knew it's alternate meaning at that age. I think in the case of the Manchester pantomime though they took it too far with chants of "Alice wants her Dick" being encouraged, Wee Jimmy Crankie (essentially a schoolboy when in character) waggling his finger out of his flies to emulate a penis and having his/her breasts fondled.
I'm the first to rail against PC gone mad but in that instance it was taken too far and I am not surprised parents were up in arms.
Done well the type of humour aimed at adults in pantomimes and Carry On etc is very good (we saw Jack & The Beanstalk this year and the lead was behind time prompting the line "Eee Jack you're late" from the dame - cue titters from the adults and a whoosh sound as it went over the head of the kids) but there is a very fine line |
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"Almost anything Jim Davidson said or did as part of his act!!
Ashamed to admit my "Chalky" impression was regularly rolled out as a party piece for guests at Sunday lunch in our house!! "
My parents favourite shows: black and white minstrels and love thy neighbour.
My dad would cry with laughter at Jim Davidson's Chalky White.
I remember my sister attending a function with Jim Davidson and telling me he reminded her of dad's laughter.
Personally, never found him funny but he made my dad chuckle. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was thinking to myself "really get a grip" when some mums were whinging about the The jokes in Dick Whittington and the use of the word dick. Sorry but I would have been more concerned if my under 8 year old got the double meaning . as apparently many were.
I think most 8 year olds of any generation would get the double meaning of the word "dick" - I know I certainly knew it's alternate meaning at that age. I think in the case of the Manchester pantomime though they took it too far with chants of "Alice wants her Dick" being encouraged, Wee Jimmy Crankie (essentially a schoolboy when in character) waggling his finger out of his flies to emulate a penis and having his/her breasts fondled.
I'm the first to rail against PC gone mad but in that instance it was taken too far and I am not surprised parents were up in arms.
Done well the type of humour aimed at adults in pantomimes and Carry On etc is very good (we saw Jack & The Beanstalk this year and the lead was behind time prompting the line "Eee Jack you're late" from the dame - cue titters from the adults and a whoosh sound as it went over the head of the kids) but there is a very fine line "
my 11 year old wouldn't even get the double meaning now.. So I would think most youngsters would be oblivious... Sometimes its a little Ott but its designed to be entertaining for all... Even toy story has some moments.
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"The rampant sexism (and all sorts of other 'isms' for that matter) which was prevalent in almost all British sitcoms. One of the most cringeworthy examples being 'On The Buses' where the mini-skirted, false-eyelashed 20-something 'dolly birds' would simper and swoon at the greasy haired, snaggle toothed, cerebrally challenged and *much* much older supposed 'lotharios' who were Stan and Jack.
Widely accepted or not, even as a kid, I found these unlikely encounters horribly creepy. Benny Hill felt similarly wrong. There was a definite sense that women's main purpose was to look pretty and serve as male playthings - and not object to this at all "
Like darts and motor racing nowadays  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Unfortunately the minority are winning . Although some things are wrong and I'm glad they have been changed. Mostly though it's all gone to far . It will in the long run not help anyone especially women. |
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"Referring to anything black in colour by a new name incase its deemed racist, for example chalk board, not sure I welcome this change tho
Not a thing that actually happens.
Actually called a white board or smart board now.. "
Yes - because they are now plastic and coloured white, or because they have tech in them and so are 'smart'.
Not because 'blackboard' was considered racist. |
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"Unfortunately the minority are winning . Although some things are wrong and I'm glad they have been changed. Mostly though it's all gone to far . It will in the long run not help anyone especially women. "
I'm sure women everywhere are grateful for your insight. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I wonder what will happen when we do finally become
Me the minorities. Will it spark fury and a possible civil war. Or will the christian faith in the uk become abolished. |
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"I wonder what will happen when we do finally become
Me the minorities. Will it spark fury and a possible civil war. Or will the christian faith in the uk become abolished."
Who is "we" and what have ethnic integration and which fairy story you believe in got to do with 80s culture exactly? |
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"I wonder what will happen when we do finally become
Me the minorities. Will it spark fury and a possible civil war. Or will the christian faith in the uk become abolished.
Who is "we" and what have ethnic integration and which fairy story you believe in got to do with 80s culture exactly? "
nice thinking well presented. Thats better |
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By (user no longer on site)
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In the day and going back,
Blind Date, mullets, Cilla Black,
Smoking don't cause heart attack,
It's 80's I'm in love.
Everett was too extreme
Arctic Roll was posh Ice Cream
Magazines for the swinging scene
It's 80's I'm in love.
The Bernard's were great,
Matthews filled your Sunday plate,
Manning was the one to hate.
Chalky didn't cause offence
Porn mags in your neighbours fence
white dog shit and 1/2 a pence
It's 80's I'm in love.
Mocking how all others talked,
Not afraid of eating pork
Nanoo nanoo Mork from Ork
It's 80's I'm in love.
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"How did the A-Team, after escaping the aforementioned shed full of tools, manage to let loose several hundered bullets without actually killing anyone?"
This is a good point and not only that, how could the team be sure that blowing the enemies cars and vans onto their sides (often with such force that the said vehicles would spin 360 degrees whilst in the air!) would not kill the occupants?  Having said this, I do miss the tyre level side camera action shots which became a staple on the show though |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Unfortunately the minority are winning . Although some things are wrong and I'm glad they have been changed. Mostly though it's all gone to far . It will in the long run not help anyone especially women. "
Has it gone too far though? Just take a look at this thread for perfect examples of things we're well rid of and a lot of those things have helped not only women but have helped promote a lot of other causes too.
As for the minority winning, the abolition of a lot of the things mentioned in this thread isn't as a result of a minority action else it wouldn't have happened. |
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By *ieman300Man
over a year ago
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Mind your language.
One of the funniest things on telly.
Unacceptable now with todays way of thinking despite it being a pisstake of how people generally thought at the time.
The going for an english sketch from goodness gracious me is an example of how it should be done. Twist the joke round and get even more laughs.
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Another one: Why in Masters Of The Universe we’re the inhabitants of Eternia so thick? For Christ’s sake, it was bloody obvious that Prince Adam was He Man - the only difference was that he donned some hasty fake tan and spoke in a deeper voice. Daft bastards! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Rising Damp and Rigby’s innuendos.
The names we used to call people in the 70’s just wouldn’t cross my lips these days!
Although they trying to reclaim ‘queer’.
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I’m surprised it took that long for rising damp to get a mention |
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"Rising Damp and Rigby’s innuendos.
The names we used to call people in the 70’s just wouldn’t cross my lips these days!
Although they trying to reclaim ‘queer’.
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i think you'll find 'they' started doing that in the 80's! |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
Going back a little further - Till Death Us Do Part. One episode where they were giving blood and Alf Garnet was enraged to find a black man there giving blood. His comments of "white blood for whites......." and I`ll let you imagine the rest! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Unfortunately the minority are winning . Although some things are wrong and I'm glad they have been changed. Mostly though it's all gone to far . It will in the long run not help anyone especially women.
I'm sure women everywhere are grateful for your insight."
I'm positively moist at being put in my place as a minority and a woman. I was so wrong to think I might be entitled to... well, anything. 
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"Unfortunately the minority are winning . Although some things are wrong and I'm glad they have been changed. Mostly though it's all gone to far . It will in the long run not help anyone especially women. "
Just whom is the minority and what is it that they will win..? |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Going back a little further - Till Death Us Do Part. One episode where they were giving blood and Alf Garnet was enraged to find a black man there giving blood. His comments of "white blood for whites......." and I`ll let you imagine the rest!"
Sadly, I have witnessed that in the 2000s out there in the real world still.
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Unfortunately the minority are winning . Although some things are wrong and I'm glad they have been changed. Mostly though it's all gone to far . It will in the long run not help anyone especially women.
Just whom is the minority and what is it that they will win..?"
We've won everything, apparently. I can't see or feel any of it but according to some I basically rule as a woman of colour with a disability and an ability to describe my sexuality in a range of ways. And, I'm really short. |
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"Almost anything Jim Davidson said or did as part of his act!!
Ashamed to admit my "Chalky" impression was regularly rolled out as a party piece for guests at Sunday lunch in our house!!
Oh cool I’ll look forward to that
It's been consigned to the never to be opened again box of my teenage years where it shall forever remain in the shameful purgatory that it deserves!!
that’s exactly the point of the thread, stuff that was culturally ‘ok’ then (particularly as naive kiddies that didn’t really understand what it all meant and the implications) that today, now we’re grown up and enlightened, we think ‘whaaatttt!?!’ and wouldn’t dream of thinking as acceptable.
Back then it we didn’t realise it was unacceptable - we do now! "
Ok for the white men in power, never was really acceptable despite being accepted. |
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"Almost anything Jim Davidson said or did as part of his act!!
Ashamed to admit my "Chalky" impression was regularly rolled out as a party piece for guests at Sunday lunch in our house!!
Oh cool I’ll look forward to that
It's been consigned to the never to be opened again box of my teenage years where it shall forever remain in the shameful purgatory that it deserves!!
that’s exactly the point of the thread, stuff that was culturally ‘ok’ then (particularly as naive kiddies that didn’t really understand what it all meant and the implications) that today, now we’re grown up and enlightened, we think ‘whaaatttt!?!’ and wouldn’t dream of thinking as acceptable.
Back then it we didn’t realise it was unacceptable - we do now!
Ok for the white men in power, never was really acceptable despite being accepted. "
Agree. But back then many of us were mere children. Not yet intelligent or aware enough to properly ascertain right from wrong. It was on the telly. It was mainstream. You accepted it as the norm. |
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over a year ago
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"acceptable in the 80's..... backwards dancing and malibu and pineapple.....
p.s i am bringing back "backwards dancing"..... "
Aaaaa-gaaaaaa do do do, push pineapple, shake the tree  |
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Clause 28 in the education act 1988. Schools banned from teaching about homosexuality as a.""pretended family relationship"
One of the consolations of getting old is seeing out things change. I was 21 in 1988 and the tory government thought that clause 28 was a great way to get common sense voters on their side in the light of a few labour councils having some moderate policies on fat rights.
Fast forward thirty years and a tory prime minister legislates for gay marriage and makes a grovelling apology for clause 28... |
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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"Think it was worse in the 70s
Dick Emery
Benny Hill
Love thy Neighbour
And doing PE at school in knickers and vests
Ha, that’s true! Blimey back in my day the PE teachers used to watch you shower!
The official reason was to make sure you did, hygiene and all that. But looking back that’s flippin’ sinister isn’t it?! "
Exactly the same here, very unnerving. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"False advertising: Remember the old Readybrek ads depicting the kid eating it and subsequently attending school with a (badly rendered fx) orange glow around him? BULLSHIT! I ate tons of that shit and never even emitted so much as a fucking spark
“It’s Central Heating for kids”
That’s the one; Even in the wording the buggers we’re lying though their teeth though; I ate two bowls of the stuff, went outside in the snow and promptly caught hypothermia "
You could sue them now for false advertising!
Geeky x |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"acceptable in the 80's..... backwards dancing and malibu and pineapple.....
p.s i am bringing back "backwards dancing".....
Aaaaa-gaaaaaa do do do, push pineapple, shake the tree "
how very dare you..... lol linking agadoo with the world bestest drink if you are 15 and a "big girls blouse".......
right.... i am bringing malibu and pineapple back as well...... |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
You just need to look at some these ludicrously sexist adverts from the 1950s.
Or the Black and White Ministrel Show from 1970s TV.
And then remind yourself that the 1980s was almost 40 years ago.
What was acceptable in the late 1940s was frowned upon in the early 1980s.
And what was acceptable in the early 1980s is frowned upon in the late 20 teens.
It's what happens.
I wonder what we're doing today that people will frown upon in the future?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"You just need to look at some these ludicrously sexist adverts from the 1950s.
Or the Black and White Ministrel Show from 1970s TV.
And then remind yourself that the 1980s was almost 40 years ago.
What was acceptable in the late 1940s was frowned upon in the early 1980s.
And what was acceptable in the early 1980s is frowned upon in the late 20 teens.
It's what happens.
I wonder what we're doing today that people will frown upon in the future?
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Top knots & man-buns, SURELY!? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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And let's cut even CLOSER to the bone with the very first episode of Rising Damp.
The immortal line in conversation used by Rigsby (The great Leanord Rossiter) addressing Philip (Don Warrington) "Oh aye...There any more of your sort coming over then"? Absolute genius, you'd be SHOT for even attempting to recreate that now!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Embassy Snooker tournament smoke filled room, players half cut or fully cut in some cases.
Alcohol laden tables . "
I can remember visiting people in hospital and there being patients smoking in their beds and going to the cinema and smoking myself. |
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"And let's cut even CLOSER to the bone with the very first episode of Rising Damp.
The immortal line in conversation used by Rigsby (The great Leanord Rossiter) addressing Philip (Don Warrington) "Oh aye...There any more of your sort coming over then"? Absolute genius, you'd be SHOT for even attempting to recreate that now!!!"
Philip always got the better of Rigsby, I liked that! |
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"i was originally going to say angel delight.... and mr frostie ice treats but i have brought those back....."
My sister has lived in Italy for 30 years and was ecstatic to discover British Corner Shop so she can order her favourite: Angel Delight. |
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