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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Sir Tigger KC on 12 May 2017, 09:19:52
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If Labour win the election and drag us back into the 1970's politically and economically, does that mean we'll have to wear flares as well? :-\ ::) ;D
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I thought they were promising more of a Star Trek style socialist utopia than a 1970s dystopia? Y'know, free money for everyone! Free education for all! Universal healthcare! All fully funded! (presumably from their magic money tree) ;D
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If Labour win the election and drag us back into the 1970's politically and economically, does that mean we'll have to wear flares as well? :-\ ::) ;D
You mean you don't wear them now ? ;D
Flares and really bad shirts ::)
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Couldn't they take us back to the early 60s - then I wouldn't be married! :y
Ron.
P.S. If only I knew then what I know now.....
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I thought they were promising more of a Star Trek style socialist utopia than a 1970s dystopia? Y'know, free money for everyone! Free education for all! Universal healthcare! All fully funded! (presumably from their magic money tree) ;D
Miss Abbott will be planting the trees, she knows how many we need ;D
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You can take me back to the 70's all day long, best and stomach pain laughing years of my life. :y
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I was still trying to look up Nicola Whinyates' skirt in the 70s...
...and was young enough, that was enough pleasure for me :P
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I thought they were promising more of a Star Trek style socialist utopia than a 1970s dystopia? Y'know, free money for everyone! Free education for all! Universal healthcare! All fully funded! (presumably from their magic money tree) ;D
Miss Abbott will be planting the trees, she knows how many we need ;D
You weren't even born in the seventies ;D
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I thought they were promising more of a Star Trek style socialist utopia than a 1970s dystopia? Y'know, free money for everyone! Free education for all! Universal healthcare! All fully funded! (presumably from their magic money tree) ;D
Miss Abbott will be planting the trees, she knows how many we need ;D
You weren't even born in the seventies ;D
I was!!! No... wait. :-\
How can I get a refund? I went to Miss Abbott's School of Maths.
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I thought they were promising more of a Star Trek style socialist utopia than a 1970s dystopia? Y'know, free money for everyone! Free education for all! Universal healthcare! All fully funded! (presumably from their magic money tree) ;D
Miss Abbott will be planting the trees, she knows how many we need ;D
You weren't even born in the seventies ;D
I remember the power cuts :-[
Or was that just Dad not paying the bills ;D
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Only 40 years ago, but a different world. Whether it was was better than now, or worse, depends upon your point of view. But remember, it might only seem as if it was better because you were 40 years younger.
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Only 40 years ago, but a different world. Whether it was was better than now, or worse, depends upon your point of view. But remember, it might only seem as if it was better because you were 40 years younger.
I look back fondly, as I was of an innocent age, with no cares in the world :y
But I know money was really tight, and mum was having to juggle part time jobs around the kids. So I'm sure if I asked her, she'll say it was shite!
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will Duckhams Q 50/90 be a pound?
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If we go back to the 70,s I will have hair. Lots of it. 8) ;D
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If we go back to the 70,s I will have hair. Lots of it. In a perm 8) ;D
They'll go well with the flowery bell bottoms ;D
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I have a vague recollection of "helping" my Dad rebuild a Triumph Herald engine back then. Don't think he's lifted a bonnet since. ;D
I remember watching Concorde take off on our first colour TV set and thinking how great it was to have orange fire coming out of the back of an airliner. 8)
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If we go back to the 70,s I will have hair. Lots of it. 8) ;D
I won't :'( But then I was still only 1 at the close of the decade ;D
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If we go back to the 70,s I will have hair. Lots of it. In a perm 8) ;D
They'll go well with the flowery bell bottoms ;D
I wore Loons with embroidered flowers on the sides. Also used to make my flared Levis even more flared by splitting the outside seam from the knee down and sewing in triangular patches. Cheesecloth shirts were a must too. Cool as fack - of so I thought at the time. ;D
Anyone who has met me may find it hard to believe, but my hair was over halfway down my back. ::)
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Sic transit gloria mundi, Albs!
Ron.
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I remember the heatwave of the summer 76.....I was 12 at the time :)
Now that was a summer.....and I remember the snow 5 years later...weeks upon weeks of snow on the ground...
Summer and winter seems to have gone to pot recently :(
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Hmm, I remember that summer. It was hot .My rally car had perspex windows bolted in place. Co driver had a circular hole in his six inch in diameter with cover. Didn't even have a heater fan as that and all gubbins had gone in the interests of saving weight.
I had a summer job in a plastics factory. The army place at Chilwell wanted to strike because it was a mere 95 deg F . I used to drink 6 pints of milk at work each day
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The '70's for me was,got married,first daughter born,second daughter born,the man I most admired of any I've ever known[my dad]passed away,son was born.In that order.
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Only 40 years ago, but a different world. Whether it was was better than now, or worse, depends upon your point of view. But remember, it might only seem as if it was better because you were 40 years younger.
It was a really naff decade. British industry going downhill with strikes; rubbish cars; British Railways in a terrible state (yes, the great days of BR were not!!!) and, after Led Zeppelin, poxy music. Labour nestling up to the unions over beer and sandwiches at No.10, with Red Rob at Longbridge fighting for the rights of the night shift workers who came in to sleep in sleeping bags, some called Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, with the print unions allowing the same practices with the printing of national newspapers. Labour were wasting the country's money, spend, spend and spend again supporting in subsidies out of date industries. We WERE the sick man of Europe!
Now Labour want to take us back there!!! :o :o
No chance. Those who were alive and working in those days will never forget that mess >:(
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Hmm, I remember that summer. It was hot .My rally car had perspex windows bolted in place. Co driver had a circular hole in his six inch in diameter with cover. Didn't even have a heater fan as that and all gubbins had gone in the interests of saving weight.
I had a summer job in a plastics factory. The army place at Chilwell wanted to strike because it was a mere 95 deg F . I used to drink 6 pints of milk at work each day
Interesting, you must have been rallying at the same time as my dad! He used to make a lot of the it's for his at Rolls Royce in Derby - the joys of being on the shop floor! What car did you use?
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Hmm, I remember that summer. It was hot .My rally car had perspex windows bolted in place. Co driver had a circular hole in his six inch in diameter with cover. Didn't even have a heater fan as that and all gubbins had gone in the interests of saving weight.
I had a summer job in a plastics factory. The army place at Chilwell wanted to strike because it was a mere 95 deg F . I used to drink 6 pints of milk at work each day
Interesting, you must have been rallying at the same time as my dad! He used to make a lot of the it's for his at Rolls Royce in Derby - the joys of being on the shop floor! What car did you use?
That was one was one of a great string of Cooper S's that I had. I took nightclass in welding and took subframes and suspension parts and exhausts in to beef them up. they had some brilliant nightclasses. Did a ten week gliding one with the last lesson being a practical at Husbands Bosworth. What car(s) did your Dad have?
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Radio Luxembourg, 208 metres Medium Wave - remember this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWBJpR0HgGo
It always closed transmission for the day - I listened secretly in my bedroom! :-[ :y
Ron.
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Great decade .
I literally grew up through the 70's. and have nothing but fond memories .
All the first steps in life occurred then ,all my family were alive , that great camaraderie of close mates , new tastes ,experiences ::) ,places and people every day , the start of the incredible great learning curve of life and the unknown and the hopes, aspirations and dreams of all to come . Weekends seemed to last for a week ,no doom and gloom ,first car and money to spend on it .
Music too, I still listen to the artists daily that I listened to then and am still buying their music almost daily too ( Ta Ebay :y ) Only tonight bought tickets for Steely Dan and the Doobie Bros which cost five times the price of my first car !
I don't have one single bad memory of the seventies , well , maybe that motorbike crash in '78 comes close ......and as I get older find myself drifting back into my memories of those halcyon days more and more .
Maybe I was lucky but many from the gritty little village I come from seem to think the same .
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1970's naff politicians, >:( >:( >:( great music with so many classic rock, blues and heavy metal bands, some of which I saw when at college. :y :y Rubbish punk bands who couldn't sing or play mostly. ??? ??? Unreliable Japanese and mega unreliable British motorbikes. :( :( 1976 in the height of the heatwave sheared the crank on my Wideline Triton, so sweated cycling the 5-6 miles to work and back in the 80-90 degF heat each day. Just got the bike rebuilt and back on the road as it started pi$$ing down with rain for a few months. >:( >:( >:(
1980's great for my business, 8) 8) 8) rubbish for music. :D :D :D
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What car(s) did your Dad have?
Several Escorts and (I think) a lotus cortina. His mate & co-driver had a garage in Mansfield and they had a deal going where they'd take all the ex plod escorts from the local ford place, tart them up and sell them.
They kept a few and brought them up to full Mexico spec (including stiffening the shells etc) and then used them for rallying - could never afford proper mexicos ;D. I think they had 3 in all, built them, raced them and then sold them on to find the next one.
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Great decade .
I literally grew up through the 70's. and have nothing but fond memories .
All the first steps in life occurred then ,all my family were alive , that great camaraderie of close mates , new tastes ,experiences ::) ,places and people every day , the start of the incredible great learning curve of life and the unknown and the hopes, aspirations and dreams of all to come . Weekends seemed to last for a week ,no doom and gloom ,first car and money to spend on it .
Music too, I still listen to the artists daily that I listened to then and am still buying their music almost daily too ( Ta Ebay :y ) Only tonight bought tickets for Steely Dan and the Doobie Bros which cost five times the price of my first car !
I don't have one single bad memory of the seventies , well , maybe that motorbike crash in '78 comes close ......and as I get older find myself drifting back into my memories of those halcyon days more and more .
Maybe I was lucky but many from the gritty little village I come from seem to think the same .
My memories of the 70,s are similar. Great times, great music, great growing up experiences and despite it all taking place in Belfast and the summer of 76 ending in a very serious motorbike accident - it was the time of my life.
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Yer I wanna go back to those innocent carefree days :y
Watchin my mates sisters gettin ready to go out disco dancin ::)
Riding around the sand dunes on Hayling Island on my dads old NSU Quickly :)
Exploring Chichester harbour in our little skiff complete with Seagull outboard.
Getttin the tide just right & hangin out on Binnis island, just me & the sea birds :)
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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.....
Ron.
Sorry!
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The seventies was great. Political correctness had yet to be invented and feminism was purely for ugly lesbian women that no man would want to go near in the first place.
The summer of 76' was wonderful and I lost my cherry that year.
If Corbyn fails to become PM he could start a new career as a seventies geography teacher. They all looked like JC back in the day. :y
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The seventies was great. Political correctness had yet to be invented and feminism was purely for ugly lesbian women that no man would want to go near in the first place.
The summer of 76' was wonderful and I lost my cherry that year.
If Corbyn fails to become PM he could start a new career as a seventies geography teacher. They all looked like JC back in the day. :y
I went to the Liverpool Institute high school for boys. All of the 'masters' wore mortar boards and gowns, there were no female teachers. During 1970 we got a 'fresh out of uni' maths teacher, he had the Corbyn beard and general beatnik demeanour about him. "Don't call me Mr Bailey", he said, "call me Steve". He disappeared after one week to be replaced by an older gentleman. ;D
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The seventies was great. Political correctness had yet to be invented and feminism was purely for ugly lesbian women that no man would want to go near in the first place.
The summer of 76' was wonderful and I lost my cherry that year.
If Corbyn fails to become PM he could start a new career as a seventies geography teacher. They all looked like JC back in the day. :y
I went to the Liverpool Institute high school for boys. All of the 'masters' wore mortar boards and gowns, there were no female teachers. During 1970 we got a 'fresh out of uni' maths teacher, he had the Corbyn beard and general beatnik demeanour about him. "Don't call me Mr Bailey", he said, "call me Steve". He disappeared after one week to be replaced by an older gentleman. ;D
I remember having a gorgeous 25 year female teacher when I was fourteen or fifteen. As 'erection prone' adolescents we soon figured out the best angles for looking down her top or up her skirt.
I can still remember her perfume when she stood next to me. Heady stuff. :y
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I remember having a gorgeous 25 year female teacher when I was fourteen or fifteen. As 'erection prone' adolescents we soon figured out the best angles for looking down her top or up her skirt.
I can still remember her perfume when she stood next to me. Heady stuff. :y
Sounds like my English Literature teacher. Subject was seriously tedious but her short skirts and fishnets... :-*
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If Corbyn fails to become PM he could start a new career as a seventies geography teacher. They all looked like JC back in the day. :y
Mine was like that in the eighties. She wasn't a very good teacher.
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If Corbyn fails to become PM he could start a new career as a seventies geography teacher. They all looked like JC back in the day. :y
No matter, Corbyn isn't much cop at anything either ::)
Mine was like that in the eighties. She wasn't a very good teacher.