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  • Thanks, Arran - I will take that as a compliment! I probably never thought of myself as being a sociologist!

    To be fair, regarding the link between Mr Bean and stamps, there was an episode of Mr Bean (Rides Again, I think from 1992) where Bean needs a first class stamp to put on his...
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  • It sounds like one of those CFF films which were shown, usually during the summer holidays, but as you say, another company produced it....
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  • George 1978
    replied to 1980s Men's jeans
    Speaking of our favourite denim trousers, I just couldn't stop laughing at the news that Alan Titchmarsh's jeans (referred to as "trousers" in order to make one even more curious), were banned in North Korea because denims are "seen as a symbol of western imperialism in the secretive...
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  • Well, I noticed that around five days ago I had 5,018 posts according to the detail on the left, and all of a sudden on Sunday I think, I had around 4,968, which meant that it was down by 50.

    I know it's not a matter of life or death, but I was wondering whether there was some bug in the...
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  • George 1978
    replied to A favourite animal soft toy?
    in Toys
    At the start of this thread I mentioned that it was the 5,000th post I have made on here - when I look at my post count, I have only made 4,970 of them. What's going on?...
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  • George 1978
    started a topic Post number going down

    Post number going down

    Has anyone lost around 50 posts to their total in the last couple of days or so?

    Mine has gone down from around 5018 to 4969.

    Has this affected anyone else?...
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  • Sometimes when I see some of the trash there is on TV nowadays, I have always wanted to know who the incumbent Mary Whitehouse is these days. I raise my hat to her, even though she probably complained about nothing in her day....
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  • George 1978
    started a topic School Refusal and Autism

    School Refusal and Autism

    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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  • George 1978
    replied to I'm Naomi!
    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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  • George 1978
    replied to Bread
    "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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  • George 1978
    replied to School Punishment
    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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  • George 1978
    replied to School Punishment
    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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  • George 1978
    replied to School Punishment
    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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  • George 1978
    replied to My Mum's
    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 nearly read that as Bobby Davro!
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