So You're sitting at home and this advert comes on the TV...

JupiterKid

It's been a hard, long day at work.

You are vegging in front of the box. You've heard that the war in Syria has escalated into something much more widespread and worrisome. There is talk of nukes being used...

Then you see this advert. It looks like armageddon is at hand. What do you do?:(:eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVMm2KpiDI

The Backwards Man

Head to the bookies, because I'm back in 1983 and I know all the Classics winners for the next 30 years

Cookie_Monster

press fast forward on the sky remote

Brian_Zeluz

Take the cyanide iodine pills that the government so kindly provided for just such an occasion.

Andrewf20

Wonder if that backround tune is Boards of Canada. Then get my coat.

Hoop66

Brian_Zeluz wrote: »

Take the cyanide iodine pills that the government so kindly provided for just such an occasion.

I found them the other day at the back of a cupboard.

They went out of date in 2005.

JupiterKid

I think a lot of people would be stumped and puzzled if such a public service announcement (do we even have these anymore?) came on the telly nowadays - but back in 1984 or thereabouts you'd be sh*tting your kaks right then and there.

The Cold war loomed in the background over everyday life back then...

There were a whole series of TV PBAs "Protect and Survive" due to be aired if a nuclear war was only days away.

foxinsox

I'd take out my vinyl, listen to a bit of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, open a bottle of vodka, or two, hope Will Smith would come save me and the world.

I'd hope Will Smith would do more to me than just save me, but that would be the vodka talking... Vodka is durty!

Frank Black

When I was a kid in the 80's I asked my folks what would we do if there was a nuclear war.
They said we'd hide in the hot press room.
This reassured me at the time, but thinking back it wasn't much of a plan really.

Cody Pomeray

I presume Ireland must have one of these in storage somewhere?

Gummy Panda

Fap furiously I'm the ultimate danger ****

The Backwards Man

JupiterKid wrote: »

I think a lot of people would be stumped and puzzled if such a public service announcement (do we even have these anymore?) came on the telly nowadays - but back in 1984 or thereabouts you'd be sh*tting your kaks right then and there.

The Cold war loomed in the background over everyday life back then...

There were a whole series of TV PBAs "Protect and Survive" due to be aired if a nuclear war was only days away.

Would people have been all that worried though? I was only a kid then but the threat of nuclear war never entered our young heads, unless we were watching something about mutants on TV or something, but after it was just meh.

'Shock and Awe' wall to wall news coverage only started with the first Gulf War, with stations outdoing themselves to strike fear in the hearts of viewers.

Wurly

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Wonder if that backround tune is Boards of Canada. Then get my coat.

It is.

Peregrine

I'm not going to spend the last few days of my life watching that ****ty TV



So I'd go out and buy myself a proper telly

KwackerJack

There is nothing worse in this entire world than :

Falling asleep on the couch, but hearing to same commercial going on over and over and over to the point where you are going stir crazy but you are to tired and lazy to change the channel or turn off the tv!!

Ugh hate it

Conmaicne Mara

JupiterKid wrote: »

Then you see this advert.

The ad they had out on radio was so much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOvkWZ4-cf8

FGR

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I'm not going to spend the last few days of my life watching that ****ty TV



So I'd go out and buy myself a proper telly

And write a harshly worded letter demanding that RTE remake these PBAs in HD before you even consider viewing them. :pac:

Thing is though that the Fire Brigades in many rural towns used that same siren to call in retained members before the advent of pagers/bleepers. I remember hearing the one in my home town frequently when I was in school. So we'd think either somewhere's on fire or we're all going to be on fire soon.

charlemont

I'v still got the Iodine tablets..

JupiterKid

I was a child back in the 80s and I was afraid - very afraid - of the possibility of nuclear war.:(

The sound of a siren like those little country fire stations would make me sh*t my pants.:eek: I remember the civil defence in Dublin used to sound an attack siren once a month as a drill - you would hear it from school and wonder if the end was nigh.