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Enid · 2002-08-14T08:24:31+00:00

Anyone else watch this last night? Was anyone else left with the feeling that the experiments they do are trivial and random and that they only show the ones that work? I suppose I want it to be a straightforward developmental show (probably selfishly as dd is the same age as the kids on it), but I always find it disappointing.

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SimonHoward · 28/08/2002 19:46

Well I seem to be younger than a fair few of you taking part in this thread.

I am a child of the 70's but don't remember that much about it as I wasn't into double figures by the end of it

jenny2998 · 28/08/2002 21:25

If its any consolation I feel about 75 most days

Willow2 · 28/08/2002 21:42

I lurved White Horses - it was some badly dubbed foreign programme from somewhere in Eastern Europe - but that song won me over every time. I also used to cry at the end of Skippy and Flipper as I didn't want them to end. I remember getting the David Soul album as a pressie when I had my adenoids out. Although in my defence I don't believe his wife beating tendencies were common knowledge. Quite fancied Donnie Osmond too - there was some awful song that went something along the lines of... can't you see that I'm dying, tell the doctor it's a broken heart... but I fear I may have said too much.

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Enid · 28/08/2002 22:29

Willow2...was david soul a wife beater???????

CRASH........(the sound of Enid's childhood dreams falling in a broken heap around her feet)

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Jbr · 28/08/2002 23:03

Well it was in the newspapers that David Soul was accused. Not sure if he was ever convicted. I do know he was a drinker though.

He was never convicted for crimes against music either.

;-)

Willow2 · 29/08/2002 08:53

JBR - further proof that the law is an ass

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Enid · 29/08/2002 09:28

I won't give up on him, baby

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nexus · 29/08/2002 10:01

LOL Enid, good one.

Jbr · 29/08/2002 11:01

LOL

He recorded 5 songs I think and I only know 2.

aloha · 29/08/2002 13:15

Well, what about the Bay City Roller, random attacks, alcoholism, kiddie porn... the lot. Makes the Rolling Stones etc look like a Church Choir.

Bozza · 29/08/2002 13:16

Back to the original program.... (I'm dull I know but i have posted nostalgia on the other thread). Did anyone see it last night? It was all about activity levels and weight etc.

At the end Prof Winston posited the theory that fidgets are thinner. What do people think about this? Actually I thought it was good news on my part because I am fairly fidgetty!!

jodee · 29/08/2002 16:28

Bozza, I can't sit still for long either, so good news for me too, I hope
It was interesting to note that the toddler he politely described as 'plump' came out top overall on all the tests, though.
I did feel sorry for the boy stuck in the flat all day. OK her partner was a couch potato and preferred watching football on TV than playing ball with his son, but what was stopping her taking him to the park herself? She finally did so at the end, the first time since he had been born.

Bozza · 29/08/2002 16:54

Jodee was that really the first time - didn't realise. TBH if that had been me cooped up in such a small flar DS would have thought he lived at the park!! And probably been quite happy if the hints he drops most mornings by presenting me with my shoes are anything to go by...Although I thought she'd done quite well in tidying it up in the end.

I thought the 'plump' toddler was a lovely, well-adjusted little boy. The father seemed a bit disillusioned that they weren't able to have the lifestyle they had intended which seemed to involve them both bringing up the kids and not doing much work. But the kids were having lots of quality time and seemed to be thriving - so I thought "hello, welcome to the real world, thats as good as it gets".

Bozza · 29/08/2002 17:10

Jodee was that really the first time - didn't realise. TBH if that had been me cooped up in such a small flar DS would have thought he lived at the park!! And probably been quite happy if the hints he drops most mornings by presenting me with my shoes are anything to go by...Although I thought she'd done quite well in tidying it up in the end.

I thought the 'plump' toddler was a lovely, well-adjusted little boy. The father seemed a bit disillusioned that they weren't able to have the lifestyle they had intended which seemed to involve them both bringing up the kids and not doing much work. But the kids were having lots of quality time and seemed to be thriving - so I thought "hello, welcome to the real world, thats as good as it gets".