I liked the 80's , great music , great cars , even better bikes and I first met my lovely wife........
I liked the 80's , great music , great cars , even better bikes and I first met my lovely wife........
Jet Set Willy.
TX.
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Black and white 405 line TV with a big clunky dial to select the programme.
"At the time of its introduction the 405-line system was referred to as "high definition", which it was compared to earlier systems"
Great when trying to watch Pot Black, It was a bit of a challenge to tell the blue from the brown .
Wired remotes on the VCR that people used to trip over.
Crossply tyres, I complain about cheap ditch finder radials but crossplys were in a different league.
The Horace games for the Spectrum, Hungry Horace, Horace goes sking etc and Jet set Willy.
Hardcastle and Mcormick , I so wanted a car like that
Things were so much simpler back then.
Did anyone ever watch "tales of the golden monkey " Friday nights .......mad but watchable....lol
Did anyone ever watch "tales of the golden monkey " Friday nights .......mad but watchable....lol
I remember well when my mate said he had a colour TV, 1951 I think it was.
So we goes and looks and it was the same black-and-white TV we had but with a blue-green-whatever colour plastic sheet in front of it.
Oh yeah, for sure, colour it was...
Did anyone ever watch "tales of the golden monkey " Friday nights .......mad but watchable....lol
Oh I remember that!
On the monkey theme, there was Monkey too.
The martial arts one which you felt like you were on drugs when watching the strange half human half creature charactersYou been the martial arts Monkey or Jonny Vagas monkey? Hehe
My first PC was a ZX81. Had the 16K ram pack on the back that would crash the PC after you had spent 2 hours typing in loads of machine code to create a program. That wasn't the best.
Sitting in your bedroom 'taping' the top 20 on your ghetto blaster, while eating a Bounty wrapped in nice waxed paper and cardboard insert.
Playing out with no means of being contacted by your parents, other than hearing a very distant "your dinner's ready" yell.
Spot on lolSitting in your bedroom 'taping' the top 20 on your ghetto blaster, while eating a Bounty wrapped in nice waxed paper and cardboard insert.
Playing out with no means of being contacted by your parents, other than hearing a very distant "your dinner's ready" yell.
White Dog S**t (you just don't see that anymore lol)
Rope swings, them were the days!
Not a safety harness in sight.
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We had velvet wallpaper (or 'flock' as it was called) - just call me Posh!!Brick patterned wallpaper around the chimney breast.
Or if you were posh, velvet wallpaper.
Shag pile carpet anyone? That was the ultimate in 1970s middle class/aspirational working class bad taste . And yes, we had it.....We had velvet wallpaper (or 'flock' as it was called) - just call me Posh!!
Shag pile carpet anyone? That was the ultimate in 1970s middle class/aspirational working class bad taste . And yes, we had it.....
and sometimes a lot more accurate aswell.....NO internet, if you wanted to find something out you used one of these...