Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
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I cannot comment on those programmes seeing as I don't remember them, but from what I heard, getting old things like that back on the air now can be notoriously difficult as you need to get permission from the people in it or their family before it can be broadcast again or put onto DVD, etc.
No idea how true that is, but seemingly trying to track down kids after all these years can be next to impossible.
A result of what was being smoked at the time??
My dad getting his first new car August 1st 1976, it was red Datsun 120y, all the neighbours, came round to look at it, after a succession of crap British Leyland things, it was like a spaceship!
Well, I am interloper to this thread as I was a kid in the '80s, but certainly, I do remember those cars about (along with other seemingly ancient things like Austin Allegros). I don't remember them being really rusty, but then, what I saw must have been the best examples of the lot to have survived that long!!
I think it is because everyone is so cynical of everything now and everything has been reduced to the lowest common denominator.
You have the interenet where everything can been seen and (crucually) commented on almost immediately, and where rolling 24 hour news channels take any of the great drama of having to wait half the day to find out what has happened somewhere out of things. Everyone used to see what was happening at the same time, and it was filmed by people like the BBC or ITV, not some twunt with a smart phone. The whole process took a lot longer, so if anything catastrophic did happen in between times, by the time you saw it, either the worst had happened or someone or something had saved the day (although Radio must have filled the gap to a certain extent), and you also had to wait until the morning/next day to see the papers. Most things were just slower.
And then, there was the Cold War and what was going to happen to factor in too.
It is as if we were living in a fish bowl, we were fed in dribs and drabs, and it wasn't just the news either.
Society isn't like that any more though, now we want everything yesterday and we look at the cost of everything, not the value. We are too quick to judge, to condemn, to ridicule, and now every Tom Dick and Harry has an opinion, so it has all become so cheap in comparison to what it used to be like.
There have been genuinely interesting and amazing things happening in the world in that young man's life time, but it is treated differently now. Everything is seen as crap these days.
I remember when they re - released it in the early '90s, and people on the telly were going on as if it was a long forgotten, old piece from about a hundred years ago, and that the words were some sort of ancient text that if deciphered could tell us a whole load of great mysteries like what the meaning of life was, are we alone in the universe, and, who really shot
Granted, the film Wayne's World was where I first really heard it, but still, it wasn't THAT old at the time!
I was given a helmet c.1990, and I felt so stupid wearing it that I think it got used once and then put in a cupboard somewhere.
I eventually exchanged it at Halfords for something decent in the mid '90s, but I wish I had held onto it now purely for a laugh, I mean, it made you look like one of the mushrooms out of Super Mario, it was MASSIVE!!
Umm, yet again, what were they smoking??
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I wish I could just go back to the '70s.
