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  • Were you a child of the 80's?
  • Harry_the_Spider
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    Why not scare the crap out of your kids with this…

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vejorfkdgwU[/video]

    RustySpanner
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    Yep. 😐

    50’s? Rock ‘n’ Roll, postwar freedom, jobs for all.
    60’s? Drugs, free love and very silly clothes.
    70’s? Cheap motorbikes, punk, Northern Soul and the most amazing trousers.

    What did we get?
    Deelyboppers, unemployment, herpes, Thatcher and New Romanticism.

    Yay.

    darrenspink
    Free Member

    Yes I was, this movie was the one that got me worried.

    THREADS

    [video]http://youtu.be/s_s8CrRN76M[/video]

    Malvern Rider
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    Growing up in the 70s and 80s was cool! We had impending global destruction, Raleigh Choppers, BMX, Grifters, Angel Delight, Charlie’s Angels and

    rumbledethumps
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    Spangles.. Texan Bars n Rickets

    Drac
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    Public Info Films of the 70s and were proper scary even featured Paedos.

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5sRVyDHBR0[/video]

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CTya20-C4A[/video]

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VvcOHi2E8[/video]

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    Be safe kids.

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waEssuzV_XU[/video]

    badnewz
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    The 50s had Elvis
    The 60s had The Beatles.
    The 70s had the Stones.
    The 80s had Michael Jackson.
    Now we have Ed Sherran and Mumford and Sons.

    Drac
    Full Member

    Now we have Ed Sherran and Mumford and Sons.

    You seem to have skipped a few decades.

    Nipper99
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    I remember that QED and also Threads – Threads gave me nightmare and still gives me the heebees today.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    You want scary?

    Here you go.

    Sleep well.

    sobriety
    Free Member

    What did we get?

    You forgot AIDS

    Cougar
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    Noseybonk!!

    and

    I still have my Astro Wars. I should get around to trying to fix it at some point. As a child I discovered that upping the voltage on the power adapter made the screen really bright, with hilarious consequences. Hopefully it’s just a fuse or something and not the VFD.

    wrightyson
    Free Member

    Threads and salems lott had a lot to do with many sleepless nights. Oh and that film walkabout but for different reasons 😆

    P-Jay
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    I remember an animated film about nuclear war, it started with this lovely old couple listening to the news on the radio about ‘the bomb’ dropping then slowly die from the fall-out of the course of it, I’m pretty sure we saw it as a double feature with Watership Down on the last day of junior school – **** me, it was like they were trying to trim the herd to reduce class sizes in comp.

    That and worzel gummidge, no wonder my generation spent most of the 90’s taking drugs!

    piedidiformaggio
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    P_jay, it was When The Wind Blows

    nickc
    Full Member

    Sleep well.

    cheers, noseybonk really did freak me out 😯
    😆

    P-Jay
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    Thanks Piedi.

    For those who didn’t get to ‘enjoy’ it in school this is the synopsis from IMDB:

    “Jim and Hilda Bloggs, a middle-class couple whose children have all grown up. Their home is hit indirectly by a Soviet nuclear bomb, leaving it in ashes and barely standing. Jim and Hilda survive by ducking behind a door that Jim set up as an inner refuge. But as they cope with the devastation and humiliation of barely surviving the attack, and as they steadily fall into radiation sickness which will eventually kill them both.”

    It’s a laugh a minute!

    MrOvershoot
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    No I was a child in the 70’s so got:

    Cheap motorbikes, punk, Northern Soul and the most amazing trousers.

    You should have seen some of the flares I got caught in the chainrings!!!

    piedidiformaggio
    Free Member

    Amusingly it (when the wind blows) is available on iTunes – under ‘comedy’ 😯

    pk13
    Full Member

    It’s like the snowman for grownups

    teasel
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    Noseybonk definitely came across as a complete psycho. In a bid to appear slightly stupid and dimwitted, the actions without facial expressions became incredibly sinister.

    Good memory…

    Drac
    Full Member

    One of Raymond Briggs wasn’t it?

    Muke
    Free Member

    Brings a tear to my eye

    [video]https://youtu.be/HeEWtNaW6KE[/video]

    MrsToast
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    1980s safety films traumatised me. Pylons and electrical substations will kill you if you so much as look at them (especially if you have a kite). All reservoirs have lethal currents, just waiting to pull you into their watery depths.

    Still, the decade gave us Transformers, Ulysess 31, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Dungeons & Dragons, Jem & the Holograms, the Spectrum, the C64, the Amiga 500, thrash metal, Empire Strikes Back, the Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, the Goonies, the Princess Bride, Terminator, Aliens and Predator, amongst other things.

    I quite like the 80s.

    TheDTs
    Free Member

    Hours of test card or hours of Ceefax.
    I can’t believe Ceefax only stopped in 2012!

    suburbanreuben
    Free Member

    One of Raymond Briggs wasn’t it?

    Yup. Fungus the Bogeyman was better. Less “powers that be”.

    bonchance
    Free Member

    the sound of a carefully dubbed copy of Sabre Wulf – on a TDK ‘chrome’ c60

    ..failing after loading for 12.38s

    …..brsqklburrr-ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    fek!

    (Sorry ‘Ultimate’ 🙂 )

    porlus
    Free Member

    Anyone remember the cops coming to school and giving the talk on dont play on railway lines. The video they showed was well gruesome at that age.

    JoeG
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    The 80s gave us mountain bikes!!! 😀

    radtothepowerofsik
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    Porlus, that would be Robbie. Scarred for life!

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YMu3O-f0I[/video]

    bombjack
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    I still get edgy around electrical sub stations thanks to those films! Somewhere at my parents I’ve got my 4D special agents membership card that the local bobby gave out when showing the film to my primary school. Remember kids, strangers are all paedos!.
    The 80s were awesome, the 90’s weren’t bad, the 00’s were a bit shit, and tbh the 10’s can go to hell as they’ve given us skinny jeans and shit beards.

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