Threevok
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Love and kisses on the bottom from Alan Freeman. Not Arf !!!
Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?
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Andrew_P
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I was completely unaware of how offensive it was at the time and Love Thy Neighbour, Benny Hill, Please Sir was borderline dodgy. Mind Your Language, On the Buses Guess there is a reason none of these are on Dave! Would have been 12ish at a guess.This horrified me at the time. A lot of British content appeared on Australian TV and I'd often sit and watch with my parents. I wouldn't stay in the room when this was on.
Was it really acceptable, even in the 70s?
(I'm not saying Australian TV is perfect.)
jefmcg
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Wikipedia says it started in the 50s. That makes more sense.
petek
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[QUOTE 5019703, member: 259"]On the Buses is still showing on ITV3 - it's still not very funny, though![/QUOTE]
Olive was a looker though.
Olive was a looker though.
Threevok
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I miss calling jobsworths "Blakey"
Andrew_P
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I can remember it in colour on Saturday nights. Mainly remember turning it over because I had to act as the remote.
jefmcg
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Threevok
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Shakin' Stevens
Kids today would probably think that was a requirement to get into a Spielberg movie
Kids today would probably think that was a requirement to get into a Spielberg movie
A friend who lived in there until recently, was telling me how appalled he was when they released a film called Wog, and then Wog 2, I believe.This horrified me at the time. A lot of British content appeared on Australian TV and I'd often sit and watch with my parents. I wouldn't stay in the room when this was on.
Was it really acceptable, even in the 70s?
(I'm not saying Australian TV is perfect.
I remember walking the the TV really slowly when my dad told me to change the channel from something I really wanted to watch.
petek
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No offence intended but the lass who played Olive in On the Buses was exceptionally comely.
They made her up to look dowdy for the TV show.
Saw her in Blackpool once and she had 'film star' good looks.
jefmcg
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That word have been reclaimed in Australia. I'd explain it, but last time I did my account was suspended.
Similarly there was an outcry from people who had lived in the UK when they advertised a test cricket series with "the Pakis are coming". Shocking if you are British, but it's not used that way on Australia, so it was just an abbreviation. Got taken off, of course - I'd assume most Pakistani cricketers would recognise it as an insult.
Glow worm
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Have we done sweets made to look like fags yet? I used to love those.
On another note- (again sorry if covered upthread) I saw a piece on the news recently where the reporter handed kids a portable radio and asked them to tune it in (on FM too- a band I still think of as modern!) - none of them bar one managed it and one kid held it upside down. Sigh.
On another note- (again sorry if covered upthread) I saw a piece on the news recently where the reporter handed kids a portable radio and asked them to tune it in (on FM too- a band I still think of as modern!) - none of them bar one managed it and one kid held it upside down. Sigh.
Threevok
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Yeah I did that. You can still get them (home bargains, B & M and such) but they are called candy sticks now.
It was sweet tobacco I loved. Cant get that anywhere.
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