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Cultural references the ‘young uns’ don’t get

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Peculiar23 · 22/08/2025 12:05

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

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NevilleBigBottom · 27/08/2025 21:14

That's Numberwang

suburburban · 27/08/2025 22:01

DontStopMe · 27/08/2025 08:07

Thank you! I remember the phrase "Course you can Malcolm", but not where it came from.

Vicks sines I think

also the tunes advert

somewhere to dottingham

BrickBiscuit · 28/08/2025 07:44

LaMarschallin · 26/08/2025 23:32

Previous posts have been eye openers.
For years I've thought "Course you can, Malcolm!" was from the Tunes advert.
Of course it was Vicks Sinex 🤦🏻‍♀️
Tunes was the man saying "A seckodd clard returd to Dottingham, please" to the baffled train ticket seller.
Quick suck of a Tune and he was back with "A second class return to Nottingham, please!" followed with a chirpy "Tunes!" when he tripped off with his ticket.

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That was Eric from 'Please Sir!'

LaMarschallin · 28/08/2025 13:52

@BrickBiscuit

I never noticed that!
And I'm one of those annoying people who's always yelling "Oh, look! It's him! You know, the one with the one who was in the thing about the shop...etc"

suburburban · 28/08/2025 18:07

BrickBiscuit · 28/08/2025 07:44

That was Eric from 'Please Sir!'

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Thanks for the description of the Tunes Ad 😀

BrickBiscuit · 28/08/2025 18:08

suburburban · 28/08/2025 18:07

Thanks for the description of the Tunes Ad 😀

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Kudos to @LaMarschallin for the words - all I could remember was him trying to get to Dottinghab!

suburburban · 28/08/2025 18:19

BrickBiscuit · 28/08/2025 18:08

Kudos to @LaMarschallin for the words - all I could remember was him trying to get to Dottinghab!

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Likewise

KettleOn919 · 28/08/2025 18:39

Okey dokey pig in a pokey.

SinnerBoy · 28/08/2025 19:08

Riiiiiight! Yer fuckin' bone idle workshy layabouts!

Rosscameasdoody · 28/08/2025 19:21

LaMarschallin · 26/08/2025 15:35

Was anybody else in the Tufty Club?

Was that the one with the squirrel ?

Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes · 28/08/2025 19:32

Rosscameasdoody · 28/08/2025 19:21

Was that the one with the squirrel ?

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Yes.

Catpiece · 28/08/2025 19:37

“There’s a tiger in your tank”

Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes · 28/08/2025 19:55

Catpiece · 28/08/2025 19:37

“There’s a tiger in your tank”

Reminded me of
They're Great with the the elongated great.

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Peculiar23 · 28/08/2025 19:59

Wasn’t there some urban myth about the kid from the Frosties ad or did I just imagine that ??
off to google …

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Ohnobackagain · 28/08/2025 20:18

@Peculiar23 you’ve reminded me that at the end of Message in a Bottle on a Police vinyl album they sing ‘sending out an sos’ getting quieter and quieter and if you listen to the end someone sings ‘sending out an esso blue’

Ohnobackagain · 28/08/2025 20:19

Showing my age now @Peculiar23 🤣

Catpiece · 28/08/2025 20:26

Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes · 28/08/2025 19:55

Reminded me of
They're Great with the the elongated great.

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Wasn’t the tiger one some sort of engine oil 60s/70s? Then there was “boom boom boom boom Esso Blue!”

Catpiece · 28/08/2025 20:27

“It’s frothy man” the Cresta bear in sunglasses.

ImGoingUpstairsToTakeOffMyHat · 28/08/2025 20:28

I recently caught myself in the mirror at a work event and my eyebrows were randomly spiked upwards. I said “Oh my god I look like Norman Lamont”. My 2 younger colleagues had no idea who I meant. I felt old

Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes · 28/08/2025 20:29

Catpiece · 28/08/2025 20:26

Wasn’t the tiger one some sort of engine oil 60s/70s? Then there was “boom boom boom boom Esso Blue!”

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Yes the Esso tiger slogan.
There was also Tony the tiger for frosties cereal.Theyyyre greaatt.
They're Great was elongated and exaggerated.

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Peculiar23 · 28/08/2025 20:30

ImGoingUpstairsToTakeOffMyHat · 28/08/2025 20:28

I recently caught myself in the mirror at a work event and my eyebrows were randomly spiked upwards. I said “Oh my god I look like Norman Lamont”. My 2 younger colleagues had no idea who I meant. I felt old

I say emperor Ming or Dennis Healey !

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Catpiece · 28/08/2025 20:31

@Gladysknightjustwalkinmyshoes Yes, Tony the Tiger! Or “Watch out there’s a Humphrey about”

iwishihadaname · 28/08/2025 20:49

You’ve got an ology

upinaballoon · 28/08/2025 20:53

PistachioTiramisu · 26/08/2025 13:44

I am not a number; I am a free man.

The Fugitive?

upinaballoon · 28/08/2025 21:03

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 25/08/2025 22:20

As a proud Scouser, I do have to mention some more negative examples - Harry Enfield’s “Calm down, calm down” and “Eh, eh, eh, eh!” and the Yosser Hughes “Gis a job”
These popularised (mis)characterisations that the people from Liverpool are largely unemployed (the implication being they are simply job shy generational abusers of the benefits system and/or thieving scallies constantly on the scrounge), as well as aggressive, loud, gobby, overly sensitive, inarticulate cadgers

Blimey, you’ve totally misinterpreted the Yosser Hughes character and the whole point of the programme. If others interpreted it like that, that’s on them. It wasn’t the intention of the author.

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Yosser Hughes was desperate for work. He wasn't work shy. The unemployment figures were sky-high. The programme was a comment on the situation, not about people from Liverpool.

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