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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:26 pm

^^^ Bloody hell Nanny. I forgot about all that Smile

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I remember sitting in overcoats and scarves at school as the headmaster had donated the coal for the boiler to the local old folks home
Then at home we'd sit with candles in the kitchen with the gas cooker on, transistor radio playing
I think my granny created the sugar shortage, she had cupboards stuffed with bags and bags. She hardly ever used the stuff grabbed it whenever there was any going
Same with the toilet roll

How did we have a toilet roll shortage???

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:44 pm

My mom was ducking down to avoid gunfire by a terrorist.

And no, i'm *NOT* kidding.

Like I said before, that shit was heavy in my country those ages.
Kidnapping politicians, bombing and random shootouts.

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:48 pm

I was already hankering for the old days, after 18 months without steam trains.

The Beatles were going down the tubes, but I was discovering the Faces... Smile

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:05 pm

I was 9 years, 5 months, 21 days, 10 and a half hours away from being born. I arrived with a handlebar ;tasche and an afro Laughing

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:24 pm

Terror Mask wrote:

My mom was ducking down to avoid gunfire by a terrorist.

You've reminded me of this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I

Still giving me creepy feelin'

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:03 pm

Terror Mask wrote:

Like I said before, that shit was heavy in my country those ages.
Kidnapping politicians, bombing and random shootouts.

Sounds like IRA - am I wrong?

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:12 pm

^^^^

Nope, not Irish. Smile

I'm quite due South from that - Bunga bunga land Wink

We had a tide of red terrorism - communist insurgent groups.
Then the Fascists came out of hiding to counterattack with a couple strikes of their own - and the common people, obviously, were caught in the crossfire.

We called them "The Lead years" - and for a reason.

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:28 pm

^^^ "Gli anni di piombo"

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:05 pm

Correct. ^^^

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:24 am

Jan 1970, I'd just got back to Canberra after spending 18 months driving around, through, up and down Australia in '67 VW Campervan

Sorry for not doing anything interesting Crying or Very sad

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:23 am

Nanny Ogg wrote:

^ I had their autographs!
Met them at a radio station promo as they were a local group, before they were famous.

Nanny - Which one of this audience is you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIlsqkBis3k&feature=fvw Laughing

I was 11, just started secondary school, was listening to Bowie, T. Rex, Led. Zep and Pink Floyd amongst others and had just discovered
reggae thanks to Desmond Dekker's Israelites (or as i first thought it was called, My ears are alight)

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:40 am

I hadn't even been conceived and my oldest sibling was almost one month old.

The country I live in now was under a military dictatorship.

Rap "music" and techno didn't exist yet.

My mother had sent a letter to Richard Nixon telling him that she didn't understand what the US was trying to do in Vietnam.

Somoza was still in power in Nicaragua, Franco in Spain, and Duvalier in Haiti.

Overall, a quite mixed bag.

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@ Scentless - ya cheeky bissum ye
Though one of those hats did look very familiar, I often wondered what Granny's knitting circle got up to!

The regime in Spain was the reason my dad gave for the family never taking a package holiday. I'm sure Franco wept bitter tears on our absence from Benidrom beaches
We couldn't go to Greece either- the regime of the Colonels
or eat South African peaches...

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:31 pm

@irish, I bet it was interesting. Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

^ nah bet all he did was make vegemite sandwiches Laughing

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:56 pm

^^^Do I detect Zombies? Shocked

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:15 am

Jan 1970 is when we ordered the orange/white/brown/yellow shag carpeting for our living room, and I was almost 30!

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:25 am

^^ Yeah, like 18 is almost 30 Wink

I remember that carpet, it was great for hiding stains that matched

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:28 am

^^^ I was actually 29. Laughing

The problem with that carpet is after vacuuming it, you had to rake it with a small plastic rake. And our sofa was orange/yellow/brown/white PLAID!!

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:32 am

August playmate 1969 wrote:

I was actually 29

Like, who is going to believe you?

and seriously, a Scottish plaid sofa? Not that i know any clans that have that combination, but I'm sure Nanny will, or make one up for you Wink

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:40 am

Ahhh, shag carpet. Must be where the British term Sh***ing came from.

Man, Irish, you must be my brother from another mother. I drove a Chevy van as my work truck from 1971 until 1976 when I rolled / totaled it in a one car incident. Yes, it had carpet in it as it was used to demonstrate built in vacuum systems.

I'd have rather used it to go on tour though! Cool

It only had an AM radio in it, sadly. How I longed for an 8 Track player... Laughing

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:31 am

Nanny, take me with you to meet the Bay City Rollers and when we get to the 80s, you're welcome to meet Bad Manners - backstage, after a gig, me and my mate were beside ourselves with nervous excitement as we were taken to meet them, entered their dressing room and :yikes:

Buster Bloodvessel is sat there dripping sweat, wearing only his underpants :yikes:

Chatted with the band for about half an hour and they autographed our tour posters - still have mine in the attic.

What visit to the UK 70s music scene could be complete without that moment when we won the Eurovision Song Contest back in 76.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhq_Q1Ut8SQ

NSFDiabetics - high sugar/saccharin content Laughing

Song starts at about one min into the clip

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

^ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

I'd forgotten about the girls trousers oxford bags, loose in the legs but a bit tight around the crotch, sitting could get uncomfortable.
Worn with platform shoes.

Other horrors were woodchip wallpaper and avocado bathroom suites

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:15 am

For real, I was 14. Wink

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