Has anyone seen the news article on the BBC London news website about school refusal and autism which had come up a few hours ago? I refer to this article published on Sunday:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68575779
I thought that I would write on here about how...
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RIP Steve Harley (of Cockney Rebel fame)
It was only yesterday that I was looking at the "List of Stage Names" page on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stage_names - and I just happened to see a certain musician on that page who had the birth name of Stephen Nice on the list. It was indeed nice that he changed it...
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As I am writing this on Friday 15th March 2024, I thought that I would bump this thread up again as a "celebration" of 30 years to the day since leaving school for the last time. Freedom for social citizenship! It happened at 3.10 pm, etc...
I recently found out that the very...
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I am delighted to welcome you to DYR, Naomi - I am also 45 as well, so you are in great company on here!
I always say that DYR is all about freedom and expressing oneself and not being afraid to discuss the past, be it a friend or foe. I hope you will join in as many times as you like....
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"I want me pudding... where's me pudding?"
At least it developed one or two memorable catchphrases, and I suppose that Les Dennis was one of the many comedians who used to impersonate Grandad - probably easy for him to do considering he was from Liverpool himself....
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I am certain that Mary Whitehouse would have disapproved a lot of them. I often rack my brains at what the pre-1982 BBFC equivalent of what an 18 certificate was - that was an X wasn't it? Then again one gets councils of the Ken Livingstone left-wing sort banning certain films because of its content,...
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Which is worse, though? People think of backisdes as being more taboo than hands....
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I believe that Swindon was the first town to launch - it was a consortium with WHSmith being one of the company that launched it, and Kate Bush "officially" opened it on-air. Well, there's a YouTube clip which reveals all. The Daily Mirror did Mirrorvision in which only they published the...
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RIP Tony Green - Darts Commentator
Things and people who were regarded as Sunday institutions in 1980s Great Britain are very easy to write about, and this gentleman that I am paying tribute to was someone who was a Sunday institution himself in his day. Imagine that it is around 5.00 pm on an very British early Sunday evening in around...
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You are correct - the teaching staff would not get away with it now, but it is a case of closing the stable door when it comes to what had happened in the past. I am certain that in recent years there have been former pupils who have taken their former LEA to court, sometimes taking direct action against...
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After reading the post above, (and I have mentioned this before on here): I have to say that I am not surprised that former Headteachers from the 1970s and 1980s often make the news as a result of being accused of historic child abuse, and most are brought to justice in the courts, and to see what adult...
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Did they ever do a My Dad's range as well? I seem to have the feelings about My Mum's as I did about Mum deodorant.
Did Mace take over the Happy Shopper (nee Peacock) brand?
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I have just heard that music on a John Smith's bitter advert from around March 1991 - around 2:40 in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0FDGlL0kdU&t=184...
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Did it have a whistling theme tune? I am sure that Andy Marriott played the theme on one of his radio (television) shows where he played old TV themes. Was too young to remember it myself.
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Iceland (the frozen food specialists not the Scandinavian country) used Wouldn't it Be Nice in their adverts back in the mid 1980s, and that is what I associate the tune with when I was younger. The Beach Boys even had their songs used in adverts for my favourite brand of tea - Tetley.
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I suppose that what happened earlier on in this thread was a but of an Organ grinder...
(I'll get me coat).
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A favourite animal soft toy?
Firstly, congratulations on Yours Truly hitting the big 5,000 and becoming a DYR fanatic for the first time! To celebrate, I thought that I would start a thread on something that a lot of people must have had when they were younger.
Apart from the obvious Teddy Bears, did any of you have...
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Why Williams did become as popular as DFS is anyone's guess.Last edited by George 1978; 3 weeks ago.
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