There’s a fine line between satire and accidentally encouraging what you’re satirising. And it’s hard to really find that balance. I know Al Murray’s pub landlord character had this problem. Where it was created to clearly be a satire of the kind of Middle Englander, in the end you’d get the crowd chanting along about the casually xenophobic jokes to the point where the people who it was satirising were the ones cheering along with it.
Tupperware parties. Basically an agent would be invited to a gathering of say 10 women and she would try and flog them plastic sandwich boxes, containers etc etc. She would get commission on the total sales so was in her interest to sell as many as she could. Mum went to a few that my Auntie had in her house. Exciting times.
Oh no, where are we going to get our butty boxes and cereal containers from now. The economy will crash.
I can remember when all the males in the house had to leave for an Ann Summers party ,nowadays they're happy to stay and model in the hope of a pegging.
Snickers will be renamed Marathon bars for a limited period - if you buy them from Morrisons. Mars is bringing back a classic 80s chocolate bar
Bet they don't make them the same size they were back then. Had a Cornetto earlier and it was bloody tiny. "Just one Cornetto, give it to me, you must be joking they're 50p" as the song used to go in school. Hilarious I know.
We found the old toys I had. My daughter laughed her head off at teela for having chunky thighs. Seriously she did. it just goes to show the difference in body image thst has been created.
That looks like one of the later ones with those strange 'gripping' hands, I'm sure the one I had didn't have them. It did have a cord sticking out of its back though and when pulled said one of these random phrases: "This is your Commander speaking" "Enemy aircraft - action stations" "Volunteer needed for a special mission" "Enemy in sight: Range 1000" "Patrol fall in!" "Hold your fire until I give the order" "Mortar attack - dig in" "Commander to base: Request support fire"
BBC Micro Had a great game called citadel. If it was raining and we couldnt play football outside or play table football (with coins)...remember that? We'd play this...that's if we could find which classroom had the computer lol.
These were out around the same time I got my Commodore 64. The BBC was a much better machine but I think it was dearer and the C64 had more software on the market.
