To say I was born in the early 70s

Being utterly transfixed by Michael Jackson's Thriller video.

Probably already mentioned but the public information films that left you 😱

Also-

Why don't you?
The boy from space
King Rollo
Mr Ben
SuperGran
Ivor The Engine
Let's Pretend
Playschool
Bagpuss
Bricabrac
Button Moon (still song the theme tube regularly 😂)
Finger mouse
Morph
Moomins
Pigeon Street
Could go on and on....

Fish n Chips served in actual Newspaper.

E numbers in everything.

Hearing the milkman /milk float early hours and leaving empties on the doorstep.

My sister and I were gutted because we wanted the choir singing 'Scarlet Ribbons' to beat Claire and Friends. Though my sister did buy the single of 'It's 'Orrible Being in Love' after it won 😃

Saturday Superstore's Search for a Super Star:

Oh it's orrible being in love when you're 8 and half
Got your picture on me wall
Got your name upon me scarf

And there was an anti smoking campaign with a baddie called Nick O'Teen, I had a badge

I voted YABU, because the experience of first jobs, YTS being the only thing available will differ between counties. I was born a bit earlier and had my teen/leaving school era during Thatcher's managed decline of Liverpool. The less able kids wasn't the only ones having to take YTS and unless your family could support you into higher education, or a move, you were stuck, especially girls.

Take on Me coming out as a single; that album was the first I ever bought.

The video for The Sun Always Shines on TV

MTV starting

Bros

Plastering my "playroom" as a teen with NKOTB posters

Smash Hits poll winners party

topshop

Famous five tv series..I've got the theme tune in my head now..

I went to a girls' school and the computer room was mainly used to play Chucky Egg

the A Team on a Sunday afternoon

Famous Five TV series

Meeting friends at W H Smiths on Saturdays at a prearranged time to trail round Benetton, Etam, Miss Selfridge, HMV abd everyone turning up as arranged.

going to the Body Shop to cover oneself in the contents of the perfume bar

bath beads

Findus Crispy Pancakes

Krona margarine, I used to love the taste of it

my mother serving a full, sit down high tea on Sundays only a few hours after a two course roast. Religiously every week. My dad picked up my two grannies and brought them here for the day then dropped them back early evening. I now appreciate how free she must have felt when they both died. Mind you she didn't work unless you count 3 hours 3 mornings a week.

The one with the helicopter - are you thinking of Airwolf?!

Oh, Belinda Carlisle was wonderful - I loved her! She was so beautiful!

The one with the helicopter- Blue Thunder?
The one with motorbikes - CHIPS?

To be fair, I preferred Saturday Superstore, but Tiswas was fun and was normally on for half an hour longer, so I'd always catch the last bit! Also loved Number 73 (with Sandi Toksvig) which was usually shown when Saturday Superstore was not airing (but on ITV not BBC!).

Tiswas was too chaotic for me.

No, I never 'got' Tiswas either, but loved Lenny Henry and his impression of David Bellamy.

Oh, you just reminded me of my best friend and I hitching up our leggings and pinning them so they were calf-length, worn under a little skirt to look like Belinda Carlisle.

Getting a new outfit to wear on Christmas day and that then became your 'best' for the year.

Thinking a Cornetto was the poshest ice-cream ever. Ditto Vienetta.

On the subject of desserts, on Sundays we sometimes had instant whip for pudding. I loved it. And Greens packet cheesecake. If we ever had cream with anything it was always Dream Topping, never actual cream.

Fighting over who had the cream off the top of the milk. Watching top of the pops in my pyjamas. Blowing through my fingers to summon a cloud like 'Monkey'.

Agree with some of that - but, this Generation X girl preferred Saturday Superstore and Tiswas to Swap Shop! Also, while everybody else was singing along to Duran Duran, Wham! and Culture Club, she was loving Shakin' Stevens!
Generation X girls at my school wore very pink lipstick - either the palest pink possible or hot pink! We also loved jelly shoes and bags, scarves with our favourite pop stars on them and fingerless gloves!
Totally loved a good annual though - favourites included Blue Jeans, Jackie, and Smash Hits!
The biggest thrill in our city was when Oxford United won the Milk Cup!

The R1 breakfast show had a segment called School Report where they read out messages from schoolkids (I think) with the Benny Hill theme or the music from Tales of the Riverbank playing. I'm sure they reported snow-day closures on there as well, although that's very local info really.

We still get beautiful fern patterns on the outside of our velux windows upstairs sometimes. A couple of times every winter. I always take pics - they're astonishing.

Lateish 70s baby and recognising so much of this.

Buying clothes being a real treat. I had a Dash dress aged 10ish and really rated myself in it.

My parents having seatbelts fitted in the back seat of their car - although I couldn't have been more than 6 I knew somehow that they were thought of as massively overcautious for this.

Going to Aunty Joan's (neighbour, no relation) and her smoking in her kitchen.

Terrifying firework safety PIFs shown among the adverts on children's ITV.

Getting a teletext TV. OMG, height of sophistication. I loved it.

Pifco London lights on the artificial Christmas tree.

School Christmas craft fair with a Santa's grotto. Got a mini Etch-a-sketch from there one year.

Jelly bags and jelly shoes.

Remember Childline launching. Strapline 'for children in trouble or danger'. It seemed like a huge step forward at the time.

No uniform in primary. Uniform incl tie in secondary but you could wear anything the right colour. A Head schoolbag was essential.

Supermousse they were delicious!