Seriously tacky and grim...

[TornFromTheInside]

Inspired by a thread about hygiene - carpets in kitchens and toilets, I thought it could be interesting to recall some of the diabolical tat from the past.

Hahaha! Corn on the cob holders in your Christmas stocking!?

I thought my mum was bad, shelled nuts (we didn’t own a nut cracker) apple and tangerine from the fruit bowl downstairs, no stocking, in a sock!

The old days were very practical

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Keep did you get my PM? My 4G's being an arse

No. Do you want to come to the wedding too? You can sit on Torn's side.

Thorn in my side more like

Will you hurry up, man! There's a whole wedding going on around you.

Ain't happening.

Go ahead without me, but you'll never get me in a wedding dress.

Single handedly responsible for more eye injuries and optical defects than I've had hot dinners.
Instead of riffling through the pages of a magazine or book, you would gaze through this contraption and stare at random crap images instead.

They were supposed to be 3D, and indeed they where, by virtue of them being perched on your end of your nose.

The local A&E was inundated with children who had turned cross-eyed having used this optical marvel.

A very unfortunate view managed to look through them the wrong way round, and achieved a stereoscopic view of the inside of their empty skulls.

Excuse typos, I'm using a 1970s keyboard with 1960's fingers

oh Torn I never had one of those but I coveted my friend's one SO much. even if I had already sen all the random pics of animals and disney characters already

@Claw001 yep 3 or 4 years running we got a box each of those beauties in our christmas stockings. I hasten to add that this was within the last 10 years... also our brother obviously doesn't get given such items of domestication he gets socks, chocs and jocks

That said, what I REALLY coveted was this...

At least you got something decent.
We were so poor, one Christmas my mother got a fork... she said it was to eat my cornflakes with to save milk.

*got me

This toy I adored. I truly spent hours on this thing. Although utterly naff now, back then, it was stunningly magnificent

A fork?! That were luxury. WE were so poor we didn't have even forks, but it didn't matter as we couldn't afford milk and what we had for cornflakes were just bits of newspaper dipped in flour.

I could have sworn I still had my Top of The Tots LP, went hunting and couldn't find it but did find these beauties for you

But this, as its name suggests - really was for simpletons.
It's naffness knew no bounds (did you like my alliterative moment there?)

And these

617 posts of pure dross - it's no wonder we're so messed up.
People talk about living through wars, and troubled times, but there's nothing like a shit telly and nylon curtains to damage a child forever.

As someone previously said - those TOTP covers were very raunchy. That one is mild, but some of them were very revealing.

And that's given me a new thread idea - naughty album covers!

I can't find a picture right now but did anyone else have these all in one pyjama suits (I suppose they're onesies but they weren't called that then) which were styled like baseball outfits and made of the MOST static conducting Nylon/polyester blend I've ever come across in my life?

we used to create our own lightning storms in our bedroom after lights out...

Hot Gossip and Legs and co used to do raunchy dancing on TOTP! While everyone else swayed in the background! Occasionally the camera would pick out an audience member, who was really giving it some!

I think this needs an airing, I'll put it here as it doesn't really fit with Torn's new thread idea.

I used to have utterly shiny nylon pyjamas. They were quite good for swimming badges when you used to have to inflate your PJ's as a bouyancy aid .

haha that sooooo fits in

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3338616-WTF-Album-Covers

Thanks for the new thread, going to get fuck all work done this afternoon now