Do you remember........................

[Charlie Farley]

I liked the 80's , great music , great cars , even better bikes and I first met my lovely wife........

 

[Terminator x]

Jet Set Willy.

TX.

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[Ghost]

Playing conkers without safety goggles

 

[joinerman]

Bill and Ben
The wooden tops
The test screen
Sherbet dabbs
The cane
Lino
Redex
Horace Batchelor
Keynsham

 

[happytalk73]

I liked the 80's , great music , great cars , even better bikes and I first met my lovely wife........

Yep. Same here Rob. 80's was fab. I also met a girl at school. Both of us were 14. Started going out. Married at 20. Been together ever since. (Both now 44)

Just remembered the best programme ever from my childhood:

Jonny Balls 'Think Of A Number'. All school teachers should apply the same enthusiasm as Jonny.

 

[happytalk73]

Jet Set Willy.

TX.

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You Avatar is another:

 

[Audi Bairn]

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.

Ah Hardcastle & McCormick, and the car was a Coyote from memory.
There was another show called BJ and the Bear too. Bear was a chimp, just to confuse things.

 

[Charlie Farley]

Did anyone ever watch "tales of the golden monkey " Friday nights .......mad but watchable....lol

 

[happytalk73]

Did anyone ever watch "tales of the golden monkey " Friday nights .......mad but watchable....lol

It rings a bell but can't quite remember the subject. I'll google.

 

[happytalk73]

Did anyone ever watch "tales of the golden monkey " Friday nights .......mad but watchable....lol

Nope. Don't remember it at all. Looks cheesy,,,,,,,I mean classy though.

 

[happytalk73]

Was it on a par with 'Prisoner Cell Block H' for shear quality???

 

[45bvtc]

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...

Here you go, just for you young bu**ers that thought it was a joke...

 

[Audi Bairn]

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.

 

[happytalk73]

Oh I remember that!
On the monkey theme, there was Monkey too.

You been the martial arts Monkey or Jonny Vagas monkey? Hehe

 

[Audi Bairn]

You been the martial arts Monkey or Jonny Vagas monkey? Hehe

The martial arts one which you felt like you were on drugs when watching the strange half human half creature characters

 

[A4A4]

BBC Micro computers - how we have come on now!

 

[desertstorm]

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.

 

[T-800]

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.

Ah ZX81 then the good old Commodore Vic20.

Happy days

 

[happytalk73]

Who remembers this bad boy?

I always wanted one. Many of my friends had them but sadly not something 'santa' could ever afford for me.

 

[DolomiTTe]

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.

 

[happytalk73]

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.

Fantastic.

 

[Audi Bairn]

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 lol
Had to be dark chocolate Bounty's though for me.
Although mine was one of those rectangular tape recorders where you pressed the two buttons down to record.
Telling your parents to shoosh when they walked in mid song

 

[jdp1962]

I can remember when England were the holders of the Jules Rimet trophy and, get this, railway lines were closing down under The Beeching Cuts;

 

[happytalk73]

Brick patterned wallpaper around the chimney breast.

Or if you were posh, velvet wallpaper.

 

[BarryG79]

Rope swings, them were the days!

Not a safety harness in sight.


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[SPIKE_]

White Dog S**t (you just don't see that anymore lol)

LOL....so true!

 

[happytalk73]

Rope swings, them were the days!

Not a safety harness in sight.


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A great memory.

Another of mine was taking a handful of 6" nails from dads shed along with his bull nose hammer down the woods and driving the nails into trees to help me climb the tree. I used to get to some breathtaking heights too. THEN panic and struggle to get down.

All the above took place when I was 12-14 (IIRC). If my 12 year old daughter did this now I'd be wild with anger at her. Very hypercritical of me really.

 

[A4A4]

Apple Scrumping
Knock a door run
10p mix - hubba bubba, pear drops, cola cubes etc.

 

[DolomiTTe]

Brick patterned wallpaper around the chimney breast.

Or if you were posh, velvet wallpaper.

We had velvet wallpaper (or 'flock' as it was called) - just call me Posh!!

 

[jdp1962]

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.....

 

[Ozmosis]

Home made bicycle with solid rubber "tyres". Proper bone-shaker...

 

[B5NUT]

NO internet, if you wanted to find something out you used one of these...

 

[happytalk73]

Shag pile carpet anyone? That was the ultimate in 1970s middle class/aspirational working class bad taste . And yes, we had it.....

Didn't have shag pile but had really fancy polystyrene tiles on the ceiling. Luckily we never had a fire on da house.

 

[happytalk73]

Btw a big thank you to everyone posting on this thread. I'm really enjoying the memories.

Ant.

 

[QuattroCalum]

Absolute classic this


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[jdp1962]

@QuattroCalum, oh man , Scotch and Wry, I loved that when I was at university in Edinburgh. I leanred so much about the Scottish psyche from watching it.

 

[Charlie Farley]

NO internet, if you wanted to find something out you used one of these...

and sometimes a lot more accurate aswell.....

 

[Charlie Farley]

don't forget the old original "old spice and Brute 33 " adverts....splash it all over..lol

 

[Ghost]

Do you remember........

 

[happytalk73]

Who remember the Carling Black Label ads from the 80's?