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’

@Newgolddream70 you knew where you were with the beeeep 😃

I remember the rolling news 24 starting and watching in the middle of the night just because you could.

Oh yes to Day of the triffids terrifying 😳

I know it has been mentioned before but Threads was really disturbing because it could have happened.

Threads was bloody terrifying, the way the wind blow too

I also used to like Metal Mickey with Irene Handl.

Xaja. Xaja diuqil.

Has no one mentioned being traumatised by watching The Snowman and Watership Down

Can anyone remember The Lightning Tree? It’s super old and I watched repeats in the morning at about 6:30am in the late 80’s.

Kids used to walk around the playground with arms linked calling for anyone who wanted to join up for playing a particular game. If it was a popular one there would be a huge line of kids at the end, all with linked arms.

Oh God I was traumatised by that. It used to be ‘Join on the end if you want to play XX’ and whenever I tried to ‘join on’ some little shit would push me away and say ‘Not you!’

They were crazy about a game called ‘Off Ground It’, a version of ‘It’ (or Tag) where you couldn’t be caught if your feet were off the ground. I was rubbish at running so hated this game, but I still managed to break a tooth on the climbing frame during a game.

We want to be Smiths crisps, we want to be Smiths crisps etc
Ragu Ragu, bring out the Italian in you
Its not Terry's, its mine
One banana, two banana, three banana, four banana, five
Wake up in the morning, wanting some breakfast, o o vitalite

Follyfoot? With Steve and Dora?

I bloody loved that and had the books too. If it is repeated I would love to know where!

🎶Down in the meadow where the wind blows free
In the middle of a field stands a lightning tree
Its limbs all torn from the day it was born
For the tree was born in a thunderstorm
Grow, grow, the lightning tree
It's never too late for you and me
Grow, grow, the lightning tree
Never give in too easily🎶

Whenever I see somebody carrying too much I say all you need is a cabbage - usually they back away from me looking concerned!

I bought a packet the other day and as I was opening it I sang the song.

DS(15) looked at me like I'd grown another head 😂😂😂🤣

I thought you might all appreciate this.....

😀 I used to be so jealous I wanted all that stuff .

Oh god yes! The Snowman melting - beyond sad. And the cartoon version of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I had to leave the room and was inconsolable when Aslan died. Watership Down I will never get over!

Had totally forgotten the arms linking thing. How did all kids from all kids know to do the same thing?’

All kids from all schools that should have said…

Does anyone remember a schools programme during the daytime called Watch? There was one episode about Halloween and the witch in it was petrifying. I refused to watch the programme ever again.

Speaking of which did anyone else watch the schools programmes at home as a preschooler, like Music Time? (After Pebble Mill) Because they were the only kids programmes during the day!

We used to link arms and walk around singing ‘who’s playing mums and dads, no boys allowed to play’

I still refer to somewhere boring as being 'like John Major's living room'. No-one gets it yet still I persist.

Yes (if it's the same one) - I hated that too. There was a song "we're witches of Halloween wooo ooooh". I couldn't watch it!

Achrington Stanley!

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Funny Foot lollies, Fiendish Feet yogurts, Munch Bunch ice poles, Triiiiiiiio biccies....

Watching The Mary Whitehouse Experience or Harry Enfield and everyone talking about it at school the next day (secondary) I can still remember some of the catchphrases!

In Primary, there was always some toy that was the latest must have craze...I pestered my Mum for a rubix cube and a rubix snake. Who remembers the yo-yo's you could get if you bought cans of coke/ Fanta/ sprite and saved up the tokens?