There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

ohnonotgmail

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Spectrum.... pft

Serious people were on C64s!

rich people you mean

RandomViewer

mariaalice wrote: »

The cartoon of my childhood anything from the wakey racers Dick Dastardly being my favorite, Top cat, Yogi Bear, loony tunes with Wile E. Coyote, and the Road Runner.

I wonder would children today be entertained by them?

Daughter loved Scooby Doo, eventhough he's 50years old

The J Stands for Jay

mariaalice wrote: »

The cartoon of my childhood anything from the wakey racers Dick Dastardly being my favorite, Top cat, Yogi Bear, loony tunes with Wile E. Coyote, and the Road Runner.

I wonder would children today be entertained by them?

My kids have been loving the old Donald Duck cartoons on Disney+, so I reckon Looney Tunes would be a big hit. They're not so fond of the 90s Disney output. In fairness, ducktails etc so seem to drag a bit now and some of the art is so, so.

Living Off The Splash

The Continental Op wrote: »

But back then you also had a "B" movie first.

The Follyoner. Usually a cowboy movie. Each week was an episode following on from the previous week.

At the end of the movie the hero would go over the cliff while on his horse. You had to come back the next week to see what happened. The next week comes around and you see the hero jumping from his horse just before he got to the cliff.

Great fun.

To sit on the balcony was 9d and downstairs with the rabble 6d.....

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McGaggs wrote: »

My kids have been loving the old Donald Duck cartoons on Disney+, so I reckon Looney Tunes would be a big hit. They're not so fond of the 90s Disney output. In fairness, ducktails etc so seem to drag a bit now and some of the art is so, so.

The old stuff like Tom and Jerry, Daffy Duck is much better than the revamped "right on" versions

rn

Supercans of Coke, Fanta, Pepsi, 7up etc

Ubbquittious

Beauty Board


There is certainly a generation who never saw this thick cheap cardboard-like construction material that was used back in the day instead of plaster board)


Great stuff for lighting the fire, which is why it went out of fashion

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Ubbquittious wrote: »

Beauty Board


There is certainly a generation who never saw this thick cheap cardboard-like construction material that was used back in the day instead of plaster board)


Great stuff for lighting the fire, which is why it went out of fashion

Still an odd pub with a bit of it

L1011

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Beauty Board


There is certainly a generation who never saw this thick cheap cardboard-like construction material that was used back in the day instead of plaster board)


Great stuff for lighting the fire, which is why it went out of fashion

Regional and generational differences as to what that can refer to, the type with the holes for mounting hooks was probably still being installed new in kitchens in the NW until the early 1990s.


New houses not having fitted kitchens is something that had a generational phase-out. I don't remember any; but I know in the estate I live in now that the first phase came with solid fuel stoves (that heated the radiators also) and a freestanding sink unit in the kitchen, nothing else, in the 1970s. The later houses had modern-type kitchens, wiring for an electric cooker, plumbing for a washing machine and so on. And resistive electric, forced air central heating which is an anachronism of its own.

silliussoddius

Coyote and Road Runner

branie2

The Muppet Babies

French Toast

The A-Team.

branie2

Knight Rider

gogo

The video man, the man with the van that used to drive around and rent 5 videos for 5 pounds, keep them for a week and wait until he came again the following Friday to part with another fiver.. might have just been rural areas though?

andy6

Sesame Street

kennypowers

Repercussions for criminal activity.

Autosport

gogo wrote: »

The video man, the man with the van that used to drive around and rent 5 videos for 5 pounds, keep them for a week and wait until he came again the following Friday to part with another fiver.. might have just been rural areas though?

We had to pay 50p if the video wasn’t rewound so Thursday evening you went through all 3 videos to make sure they were all rewound 3 videos for the week was 2pound

the purple tin

Film day at the library or GAA club or wherever. The chislers would pay a small amount and sit on the floor to watch a film on video
They were always full up too.
Depending on your teacher, you might have been allowed to watch a video in cless on the last day before Christmas and summer hols, if somebody brought one in. Happy Days.

the beer revolu

the purple tin wrote: »

Film day at the library or GAA club or wherever. The chislers would pay a small amount and sit on the floor to watch a film on video
They were always full up too.
Depending on your teacher, you might have been allowed to watch a video in cless on the last day before Christmas and summer hols, if somebody brought one in. Happy Days.

Ah yes, watching VHS tapes in the "religion roon" instead of an actual class.
I was taught by Capuchin priests and brothers but for some reason, they (or one of them) decided we needed to see The Life of Brian when it was still banned in Ireland!

No discussion or debate or anything afterwards. We just watched it.

The Continental Op

My son at 7 ended up watching Braveheart with the rest of his National School.

The kids used to bring in tapes on a Wednesday for the Wednesday afternoon video and the teachers would start them and disappear into the staffroom.

Hangdogroad

kennypowers wrote: »

Repercussions for criminal activity.

Quite the opposite.People sentenced to life for murder in this country generally served ten years or under up to not that long ago. Manslaughter generally resulted in jokeshop sentences of two or three years in the 70s.

Hangdogroad

the purple tin wrote: »

Film day at the library or GAA club or wherever. The chislers would pay a small amount and sit on the floor to watch a film on video
They were always full up too.
Depending on your teacher, you might have been allowed to watch a video in cless on the last day before Christmas and summer hols, if somebody brought one in. Happy Days.

Yes, at Christmas we were allowed watch videos in the religion room at Christmas largely unsupervised. The Lost Boys, Return Of The Living Dead and some Porkys type film I recall. One day we watched a hardcore porn film which some lad had brought in

xzanti

Copious amounts of 'free to take' plastic bags at supermarket checkouts.

Cars with no power steering. I remember the effort of our forefathers trying to turn a car in the 80s.

The absolute necessity of phone boxes.

Kids being allowed to bring all sorts of sh1te in for school lunches.

AndrewJRenko

the beer revolu wrote: »

Ah yes, watching VHS tapes in the "religion roon" instead of an actual class.
I was taught by Capuchin priests and brothers but for some reason, they (or one of them) decided we needed to see The Life of Brian when it was still banned in Ireland!

No discussion or debate or anything afterwards. We just watched it.

By contrast, a class mate was sent home by the Christian Brothers for being in possession of the soundtrack album of Life of Brian. Didn't stop him sharing taped copies of it, fortunately.

Tony EH

gogo wrote: »

The video man, the man with the van that used to drive around and rent 5 videos for 5 pounds, keep them for a week and wait until he came again the following Friday to part with another fiver.. might have just been rural areas though?

Along with the milk man, the coal man, the fruit and veg man.

Not just in rural areas though. Happened to us up in the big schmoke too. Some lad in a white van with a load of (probably) bootlegged films. And some, ahem, films of particular sort underneath the copies of 'Rambo' and 'Cobra'.

:pac:

Tony EH

the purple tin wrote: »

Film day at the library or GAA club or wherever. The chislers would pay a small amount and sit on the floor to watch a film on video

I remember as a kid, we'd go up to school on a Saturday to watch films. Some guy with an old Super 8 projector would be in the PE hall and project the film onto the wall. Used to love that.

I remember a lot of the movies to from the time. Thing is it could be anything cos nobody was vetting what was shown. One week it would be a kids film. The next week it might be a horror. I remember seeing 'Jaws', 'Xanadu', 'The Giant Spider Invasion', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. Lots of stuff when I look back.

They tried doing it for adults too. I remember my dad going to see 'The Deer Hunter' and I was mightily pissed off cos I couldn't go.

The Continental Op

Tony EH wrote: »

Along with the milk man, the coal man, the fruit and veg man.

Not just in rural areas though. Happened to us up in the big schmoke too. Some lad in a white van with a load of (probably) bootlegged films. And some, ahem, films of particular sort underneath the copies of 'Rambo' and 'Cobra'.

:pac:

My wife always talks about the "fishman" the "butcher" and the "cheeseman" who called on a regular bases back in the 50's in rural UK.

Anyone had a more "genuine" travelling salesman call in recent years (as opposed to travellers) we used to get Avon and Betterware calling to the house.

NewbridgeIR

andy6 wrote: »

Sesame Street

It's still running - in its 51st season now.

the purple tin

The seanachai. There can't be too many of them left now

its_steve116

the purple tin wrote: »

The seanachai. There can't be too many of them left now

Well what about these guys?