Cultural references the ‘young uns’ don’t get

[Peculiar23]

Called someone at work ‘Victor Meldruw’ and got looked at blankly. God, I’m old
Anyone else ??!!!

“They don’t like it up ‘em, the fuzzy wuzzies!”

But it’s all done in the best possible taste.

Hello, Possums!

Will it be chips or jacket spuds
will it be salad or frozen peas

Took my DS 10 to a museum today, they were showing old news reels, he said, who's that lady Mum? It was princess Di!

A colleague of mine told me she learnt about 9/11 in HISTORY. 😫

Things being a bit Heath Robinson.

Referring to indeterminate food as soylent green.

My DDIL when her two DS were fighting, held up her hand and said "STOP!" And I said "Hammer time!" 😳

I sing that to myself if I have a club biscuit

I used to watch CW religiously just in case I could ring in with the missing clue and could solve whichever that months appalling crime was. The fact that I was a teenage schoolgirl and unless the crime involved was stealing mascara from Miss Selfridge it was unlikely I could help was totally lost on me.

The fact that a whole generation now haven't been told to sleep well and not have nightmares by Nick Ross makes me sad for them 😂.

My teen son looked at me like I was mad when I said:
"Nicole?!" "Papa!"
the other day.

It was hard trying to explain it so I showed my kids the advert to explain...

Nothing like watching Reconstructions of violent crime for a restful nights sleep.

Isn't it getting the sofa up the stairs! Ross being bossy?

Indeed 😂🤦

It's always chips!
See also, "that's 'andy 'Arry, stick it in the oven" 😂

I'd say that this lack of knowledge on the truly important stuff in life is just down to bad parenting; our DS can pretty much recite all of Blackadder, Monty Python etc. DS2 even named his hamster Baldrick 🤣🤣

I do also have to stop myself from walking into the room and either saying Bono Estente (Fast Show) or Greetings (Bread). Neither would be worth the distainful looks.

I.e. the archetypal seaside postcard couple!

I evaluated something at work with that appraisal and it got one laugh! I felt like a fossil.

Meet Mike..he swims like a fish

Blimey this thread has moved on! Probably been said before but I find us using these quite often:

We’ve gone on holiday by mistake
We want the finest wines available to humanity!

Also (slightly misquoted):

Turn it up to eleven!
What’s wrong with being sexy?
How much more black could this be? None more black.

Lovely to vada your eec.

Can you believe in the early days of CW they fully identified the witnesses eg:

”Mrs Janet Barnes of 43 Sycamore Lane saw the robbery unfold”

you just know next month Janet’s disappearance will be appearing on the incident desk

A while back, I heard an interesting bit of trivia about the band Queen.
You are all fondly quoting references from decades and decades long ago. Apparently Queen made a policy decision to have their music featured in adverts - hence "Flash! Speed mop!!" and "another Dacia bites the Duster" (or whatever it is). Obviously the revenue is nice now but it is also a cunning plan to lodge their hits in the brains of the next generation, to give the songs a few more decades of longevity.

“William is going to be a footballer.
Suzanna is going to be a ballet dancer.
And according to Mummy, I’m going to be a proper little madam.”

Telly ad for shoes, I think.