Gen X where are you ????

[JRHartleysmum]

What are you ‘I’m old’ references that younger folk might not understand ?
I’ll start: ‘too orangey for crows, it’s just for me and my dog’

There's a voice keeps on calling me,
Down the road that's where I'm going to be...

Every stop I make, I make a new friend

A few years back I was discussing things that were popular with my class who were predominantly aged 18-19. I mentioned blow-up furniture... their minds were blown!

--They were also massively confused as to the point of it, and one asked me where on earth I grew up with trends like that

Who had one of these for school?

Playaway on a Saturday afternoon , and the wrestling . Mum was out shopping and Dad on babysitting duties .

What will you give your old man with his steak house grill?

Oh god the jelly bag, that everything fell out of. Then came the jelly shoes, sweaty slippery cheesewires to the feet.

Go to work on an egg.

Hands that do dishes can be soft as your face with mild green Fairy liquid.

By golly it does you good.

Oh a fireman's a person in your neighbourhood
In your neighbourhood
In your neighbourhood
Yes a fireman's a person in your neighbourhood
He's a person that you meet each day

Orinoco, my favourite Womble, I had a poster of him. All voiced by the lovely Bernard Cribbins.

The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we,
or
The Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we! 😂

Yes! Anyone remember the bun covers for your hair in the same style? They had a plastic pin to keep it on your hair. I remember my friend and I were over the park and someone came up behind us and stole it our my friend’s hair.

Talking of hair, remember the lovely smelling Flex shampoo? “For flex get flexibility”

Yes me!

Also who remembers Cheeka-boos?! Those little monkeys that you clipped on to your curtains…

Amadeus, Amadeus, Amadeus… Rock me Amadeus!

Wil o' the wisp was great with that grouchy TV called Edna. Evil Edna!

Oh, the 'it's not all work work work' guy (Barclays, was it?)! I keep wanting to say that to my teens and then remember they will have no. idea. whatsoever.

Nothing sparkles like a Babycham

Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet - the mild cigar (accompanied by Air on a G String, in the wrong key). On the subject of 'ads no longer allowed' - those double page spreads in Sunday supplements - for Silk Cut, maybe - with abstract images and the very mild warning ('cigarettes may damage your health') at the bottom of the page.

Yes Cheekaboos-they sucked their thumbs, I had a giant one.
Also Care Bears. Oh and those Wuzzles, “have you snuzzled a wuzzle today?”

Pacers? Like minty opal fruits. The ad had two people ice skating in stripey outfits.
I also loved Spangles but hated the Olde Engish flavour ones.

Joey Deacon, bless him, on Blue Peter, and the relentless playground name calling that spawned

Yes! I used to love Evil Edna and draw her all over my school books!

Going right back in time, who remembers the ‘Make room for the Mushroooooms’ advert, with the marching cartoon mushrooms?

Bit of a weird one, but whatever happened to those tiny bright red spider things that used to swarm on brick walls? Not seen those for years and years.

Bloodsuckers. Still have them where I am.

STRIPES?!

A few years ago, husband and I were having dinner in a Loch Fyne resturant and had a seafood platter selection thing. It had some langoustine on it. Well we finished it and I'd had, shall we say, an amount of wine. And when the waiter came to pick up the empties, I thought it would be hillllaaarious to put the discarded head and thorax of a langoustine on my finger and start singing 'Yoffy lifts a finger and a scampi darts about...these hands were made for making/and making they must do."

Poor lad must have been born around late 90s/2000 and hadn't got the foggiest idea what I was doing.

Accrington Stanley??? Who are they???

Oh no my thandwiches!!

He’s got an Ology!

😂