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Gen X where are you ????

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JRHartleysmum · 06/06/2023 16:39

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’

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Neverknowinglysensible · 06/06/2023 17:48

Will it be waffles? Fried onion rings? You’ll have to wait and see. We hope it’s chips, it’s chips…

midsomermurderess · 06/06/2023 17:50

‘Were you truly wafted here from paradise?’, ‘Nahh, Luton Airport’.

WhisperingAutistic · 06/06/2023 17:50

A Mars a day helps you work rest and play

🎵 I'd like to teach the world to sing......I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company 🎵

CoffeeAndFagToStartTheDay · 06/06/2023 17:50

AliasGrape

Yes! we did at high school, someone sat on chair and we'd pat them whilst chanting and then lift them on chair like they were light as a feather.
we also did tying pretend string to people's backs and pulling it so they fell back, or around legs and arm and lifting them up.

jimmymcg · 06/06/2023 17:51

I'll screme, and screme and screme until I make myself sick (sic)

ProfYaffle · 06/06/2023 17:51

Re-record not fade away

Oranjeboom, it's a lager not a tune

AliasGrape · 06/06/2023 17:52

CoffeeAndFagToStartTheDay · 06/06/2023 17:50

AliasGrape

Yes! we did at high school, someone sat on chair and we'd pat them whilst chanting and then lift them on chair like they were light as a feather.
we also did tying pretend string to people's backs and pulling it so they fell back, or around legs and arm and lifting them up.

Oh yes - I’d forgotten the chair! I was picturing the one to be lifted lying down, but now you’ve said that I remember that’s what we did!

CherryRipe1 · 06/06/2023 17:52

Findus. Success on a plate for you. No it wasn't, it was tasteless pap.

DeoForty · 06/06/2023 17:53

Gino Ginelli ice-cream-ah-piazza-Italia!

Coffeesnob11 · 06/06/2023 17:53

theblackradiator · 06/06/2023 16:54

I was going to say this!
Do you remember talking to Buzby down the BT telephone line as a child. or was it just me?
oh and for mash get smash

Yes I had a bath toy buzby too I was obsessed.

CherryRipe1 · 06/06/2023 17:56

AliasGrape · 06/06/2023 17:52

Oh yes - I’d forgotten the chair! I was picturing the one to be lifted lying down, but now you’ve said that I remember that’s what we did!

Is this the Science of Levitation?

Sandybabey · 06/06/2023 17:58

Findus minced beef crispy pancakes mmm

OnMyWayToSenility · 06/06/2023 17:58

CherryRipe1 · 06/06/2023 17:37

My friend lived right near the car front in Goldhawk road, Shepherds Bush where that was filmed. We used to reenact "Ullo John etc etc" everytime we went past. My friend actually bought a car from there for £99 from a right tricky dicky Arfur Daily type proprietor and it was a heap of sh*t. Woss that button over there for?

I lived on Dewhurst road! And when we came back from school we watched that being filmed! It's probably a posh house now

ShoesoftheWorld · 06/06/2023 18:00

Yes, Wide Awake Club!

Grab an Outspan, small ones are more juicy naturally

Newsflashes that actually used the phrase 'newsflash'..

The opening credits to Grange Hill with the cartoon strip and the sausage on a fork.

Byker... Byker... Byker GROVE

dreamonlucid · 06/06/2023 18:00

I remember evil knivel and begged for a wind up bike toyand loved it.

Kit the car, from knight rider.

I fancied the guys from a motorbike programme? Some American series.

Loved the dukes of hazard

And adorned Wonder Woman and superman!

But one of the TV ads that's tick in my head was the scotch VHS tapes where they had skeletons dancing around, I loved it.. seem to recall it was quite funky music.

Can I add that back in the day, I was 100% allowed to be an utter Tom boy and had toy guns etc, and I'm so grateful that was not seen as anything out then me loving cars.

Those were the days.

OnMyWayToSenility · 06/06/2023 18:01

Warm milk bottles with straws 😬🤢

minou123 · 06/06/2023 18:02

WhisperingAutistic · 06/06/2023 17:17

The red car and the blue car had a race
All red wants to do is stuff his face
He eats everything he sees
From trucks to prickly trees
But smart old blue he took the milky way..

He's looking for a chocolate treat, flufy and light
Cos he knows it won't spoil his app-e-tite

mm mm MMMM

OH NO! The bridge has gone
poor old red cant carry on
but snart old blue, he took the milky way

ShoesoftheWorld · 06/06/2023 18:04

I loved the Krypton Factor! The colour-coded tracksuits for the assault course. The 'hi-tech' flight simulator.

In fact, quiz shows in general. Blockbusters - 'can I have a P please, Bob?' Bullseye!

Brokendaughter · 06/06/2023 18:04

Patrick Duffy as The Man from Atlantis.

Coffeesnob11 · 06/06/2023 18:04

Everybody say blaeurggghhhh
Thank you very much for feeding William
This is a story about an ordinary Teddy Bear.

CoffeeAndFagToStartTheDay · 06/06/2023 18:07

I fancied the guys from a motorbike programme? Some American series
was Chips

I had the evil knivel toy!

yes to all your others too. plus
Air wolf and Blue Thunder
(both helicopter program)

was also a tomboy, skirt/dress refuser and had my hair cut short like a boy.

minou123 · 06/06/2023 18:08

Did anyone else sing the rude version of Fraggle Rock?

🎶 Down at Fraggle Rock (clap clap)
Grab that Fraggle by his cock
Swing him round your head (clap clap)
Now that Fraggle surely dead 🎶

Hopefully someone else admits to singing this 😳

Stickytoastandhoney · 06/06/2023 18:10

Pharos · 06/06/2023 17:14

Ooh I 'ate that dragon!!

Duck ? 🤔

Gtsr443 · 06/06/2023 18:11

A man's occupation is to stick his cockulation up a woman's ventilation to increase the population of the younger generation.

AliasGrape · 06/06/2023 18:12

CherryRipe1 · 06/06/2023 17:56

Is this the Science of Levitation?

YES!

Gosh memory is a funny thing, all coming back to me now!

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