Private thoughts?

by **general jack o'niell** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:21 pm

i've leapt ahead and now i can take the remote to bed with me, no more complaining cos sky+ doesn't automatically change the channel to a preset choice, was life ever any better than it is now?

by **gizmo** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:16 pm

general jack o'niell wrote:i've leapt ahead and now i can take the remote to bed with me, no more complaining cos sky+ doesn't automatically change the channel to a preset choice, was life ever any better than it is now?

Yes I think it was... I remember in the dim and distant past, when there was only 4 channels and 2 of them were garbage... Now we have 412 channels and if you dont get turned on by watching American Police car chases or 1970s comedy programmes there is nothing worth watching.... Remember when we used to moan about the licence fee? Now we pay the fee and another £400 to watch mince. :twisted:

by **bill** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:33 pm

I remember in the dim and distant past, when there was only 4 channels and 2 of them were garbage...

I can beat you there,I remember the first tv we had there was only the one channel..BBC.

Always remember when my Mum was thinking of getting ITV,she said she did not want any arguing over which channel we wanted to watch :lol:

by **petewick** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:18 am

Is it true that tvs in them old days did'nt come on until it was dark and that they had to be left to heat up for a while?
Also, if you had a gas powered fridge, you could run your tv on gas too?

petewick

by **Dunc** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:04 pm

I even remember when the SNP had its own TV channel ...illegal but it happened cos I was there.

Dunc

by **bill** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:55 pm

I think you have had a whiff of gas Petewick :lol:

by **general jack o'niell** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:28 pm

poor gizmo gave his age away, four channels!!!! luxury, i can't remember when we got channel four but i know it was long after the rest of the country 85-86?

as for watching mince? if you don't watch it, it burns and nobody wants to scrub burnt mince off the arse of a pot while neighbours is on, do they?

i,m not old enough to beat the only bbc, but i remember clearly the first colour tv we had and bbc2 starting, the good old days (period, not crap variety show) when you closed the doors on the cabinet and went to bed cos all there was, was a testcard, now i refuse to go to bed if theres a possibility of something worth watching, i haven't slept since 1998, i even watch bbc news 24 and every half hour mutter "bloody bbc repeats, i've seen this before"

thats if i'm not watching rounders till 4.30am, its a well known fact that you smoke more fags in the four hours after midnight than you do in the four hours before, and now with pausing live tv, you can go and make a three course meal instead of the quick snack while the ads are on. i admit i do sometimes give in if the wife gets up in the middle of the night and says "now, even i've seen this episode of CSI before!" still paramount 2 are re-running rab c and the goodies so theres hope yet!!!

by **bill** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:29 pm

You'll be telling us next that you'r not old enough to remember Andy Pandy, Bill&Ben,and The Woodentops :lol:

by **Annie** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:32 pm

Bill, ye forgot Loopy Loo!!!!!!!!!!

by **Dunc** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:54 pm

Plus of course" Muffin-the-Mule"..probably after the watershed for that one now !!!!

Dunc

by **bill** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:31 pm

The two I could'nt remember yesterday were Picture Book, Rag Tag and Bobtail :lol:

by **petewick** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:05 pm

bill wrote:I think you have had a whiff of gas Petewick

Feckin' right an am headin' doon tae Whiskys the night tae get gassed again.

petewick

by **general jack o'niell** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:14 pm

not the mule, far too young for that one, but i do remember coming home fae dally doat at lunchtime for chicken soup and indigo pipkin

that hartley the hare was a character, so he wis

a scabby looking puppet if ever i saw one, can't remember the pig's name

ah bagpuss and the doll that sat next prof. waffle on the mouse organ

chlymidia was her name

made you think tho!!!!!

by **bill** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:33 pm

Got to pull you up there Annie,it was Looby Loo. :lol:

How sad is that,admitting to knowing that :oops:

"Time to go home,time to go home,Andy is waving goodbe..goodbye" :cry:

by **petewick** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:44 pm

[quote="general jack o'niell"]not the mule, far too young for that one, but i do remember coming home fae dally doat at lunchtime for chicken soup and indigo pipkin

that hartley the hare was a character, so he wis

a scabby looking puppet if ever i saw one, can't remember the pig's name

ah bagpuss and the doll that sat next prof. waffle on the mouse organ

chlymidia was her name

made you think tho!!!!![/quote

pigs name was....................................................................................................pig!

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