Glad I was born when I was (long time ago)
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This was my Dad's hi-fi back in the 70's was quite pimped for it's day:
Receiver:
Turntable:
Speakers:
My Granddad was an international Rep for Pioneer so we used to get quite a lot of hi-end Pioneer stuff.
He still has the speakers, they sound awful as they're too slow so anything like a drum sounds like it's going through a slow-attack low-pass filter.
We used to have 2 pairs of these too with a quadraphonic amp:
Quad was quite cool, better than modern surround sound but was awfully noisy.
Receiver:
Turntable:
Speakers:
My Granddad was an international Rep for Pioneer so we used to get quite a lot of hi-end Pioneer stuff.
He still has the speakers, they sound awful as they're too slow so anything like a drum sounds like it's going through a slow-attack low-pass filter.
We used to have 2 pairs of these too with a quadraphonic amp:
Quad was quite cool, better than modern surround sound but was awfully noisy.
The biggest single negative change from the 70s to now in my view is the state of British Comedy.
The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs b
h now.
Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs b
h now. Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
cazzer said:
You might think the country was narrow minded and racist, I think it was no worse than it is now. The NF marched then, EDL marches now.
Yes, but the EDL are inclusive racists, with black and non muslim asian members!Never met any myself, im begining to think its an invention of telly bosses in the absence of any actual news.
12gauge said:
The biggest single negative change from the 70s to now in my view is the state of British Comedy.
The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs bh now.
Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
Bull. Tommy Cooper was never, and will never be, funny.The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs b
h now. Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
Colonial said:
12gauge said:
The biggest single negative change from the 70s to now in my view is the state of British Comedy.
The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs bh now.
Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
Bull. Tommy Cooper was never, and will never be, funny.The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs b
h now. Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
12gauge said:
The biggest single negative change from the 70s to now in my view is the state of British Comedy.
The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs bh now.
Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
Sitcoms are rubbish now but then they've always been a bit hopeless, over the last 30 years there's not been many that are memorable, but the likes of QI, Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 cats are very funny and couldn't be less PC if they tried.The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs b
h now. Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
I think our music is as good as ever but it's very diverse so finding good stuff is harder, the chances of hearing quality music on the TV or radio is impossible as it's all been XFactored. But you tend to forget the music you disliked but if you go through the charts in the 60's, 70's and 80's there was probably just as much guff as there is now.
Will also never forget, back in about 1976/77 ish, watching Tom Baker as Doctor Who, my Dad coming home with our first colour TV!!
Not sure on the model but it was similar looking to this:
It was pretty hardcore as it has presets rather than just a rotary tuner.
We rented it from Granada TV, presumably my Dad had seen their advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ZvAQNjVSc
Clearly TV was better back then though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPtIlHYBTEg (can't see modern audiences having the attention span required to sit through all that now).
Wasn't until the early 80's that we had one with a remote control, was on a huge cable though!
Not sure on the model but it was similar looking to this:
It was pretty hardcore as it has presets rather than just a rotary tuner.
We rented it from Granada TV, presumably my Dad had seen their advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ZvAQNjVSc
Clearly TV was better back then though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPtIlHYBTEg (can't see modern audiences having the attention span required to sit through all that now).
Wasn't until the early 80's that we had one with a remote control, was on a huge cable though!
Colonial said:
12gauge said:
The biggest single negative change from the 70s to now in my view is the state of British Comedy.
The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs bh now.
Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
Bull. Tommy Cooper was never, and will never be, funny.The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs b
h now. Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
Wrong mate, he was funny.
qube_TA said:
Not sure on the model but it was similar looking to this:
It was pretty hardcore as it has presets rather than just a rotary tuner.
Look at the size of that thing. Must be atleast 20", and colour you say?? I am thinking about getting a colour TV but i still think it might be a bit of a stepping stone technology, time will tell.It was pretty hardcore as it has presets rather than just a rotary tuner.
cazzer said:
Fume troll said:
Here's the question, if you could the clock back would you? (Obviously you'd stay the same age, sorry!)
Absolutely, in a heartbeat, with no hesitation.If you were out, you were out. People couldn't get in touch with you until you were in.
If you went spirited driving, the only way bib could catch you was to catch you. No Cameras, no anpr, no "partnerships"
You went to the pub, got pissed, had a fag, had a laugh, came home. No standing in a smoking shelter, no "please drink alochol responsibly".
Life was more fun.
My mum and dad went to the pub 4 nights a week, from me being 12. No one called social services.
I'd go out in the mornin, come home at night, no one was worried I'd been abducted.
Life just seems to be diluted arse now.
Don't do this, don't do that, that's bad for you, think of the children, strictly come xfactor idol, where theres blame theres a claim, s
te.Would I go back? Definitely.
Am I glad I don't have kids? Very.
qube_TA said:
This was my Dad's hi-fi back in the 70's was quite pimped for it's day:
Receiver:
Turntable:
Speakers:
My Granddad was an international Rep for Pioneer so we used to get quite a lot of hi-end Pioneer stuff.
He still has the speakers, they sound awful as they're too slow so anything like a drum sounds like it's going through a slow-attack low-pass filter.
We used to have 2 pairs of these too with a quadraphonic amp:
Quad was quite cool, better than modern surround sound but was awfully noisy.
Actually as a vinyl collector I bet that set up would sound pretty good.
Receiver:
Turntable:
Speakers:
My Granddad was an international Rep for Pioneer so we used to get quite a lot of hi-end Pioneer stuff.
He still has the speakers, they sound awful as they're too slow so anything like a drum sounds like it's going through a slow-attack low-pass filter.
We used to have 2 pairs of these too with a quadraphonic amp:
Quad was quite cool, better than modern surround sound but was awfully noisy.
Actually as a vinyl collector I bet that set up would sound pretty good.
thesyn said:
qube_TA said:
This was my Dad's hi-fi back in the 70's was quite pimped for it's day:
Receiver:
Turntable:
Speakers:
My Granddad was an international Rep for Pioneer so we used to get quite a lot of hi-end Pioneer stuff.
He still has the speakers, they sound awful as they're too slow so anything like a drum sounds like it's going through a slow-attack low-pass filter.
We used to have 2 pairs of these too with a quadraphonic amp:
Quad was quite cool, better than modern surround sound but was awfully noisy.
Actually as a vinyl collector I bet that set up would sound pretty good.
Receiver:
Turntable:
Speakers:
My Granddad was an international Rep for Pioneer so we used to get quite a lot of hi-end Pioneer stuff.
He still has the speakers, they sound awful as they're too slow so anything like a drum sounds like it's going through a slow-attack low-pass filter.
We used to have 2 pairs of these too with a quadraphonic amp:
Quad was quite cool, better than modern surround sound but was awfully noisy.
Actually as a vinyl collector I bet that set up would sound pretty good.
They're not bad, with my B&W 603's plugged into them it's quite a good sound.
12gauge said:
The biggest single negative change from the 70s to now in my view is the state of British Comedy.
The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs bh now.
Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
Right... apart from Gervais, who's one of the biggest comics on the planet and created the office which is now one of the US's biggest shows. And Eddie Izzard who is loved all over the world and gets HBO specials in the states. And The Inbetweeners and Gavin and Stacey and the IT crowd which the yanks are desperate to re-do over there.The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs b
h now. Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
And Boyle, Lee, Sadowitz.......yeah, all very PC.
Yeah...they are laughing at us.
Tiggsy said:
12gauge said:
The biggest single negative change from the 70s to now in my view is the state of British Comedy.
The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs bh now.
Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
Right... apart from Gervais, who's one of the biggest comics on the planet and created the office which is now one of the US's biggest shows. And Eddie Izzard who is loved all over the world and gets HBO specials in the states. And The Inbetweeners and Gavin and Stacey and the IT crowd which the yanks are desperate to re-do over there.The whole world is laughing at us right now, and not in the right way.
Lee Nelson, Katy Brand, Russell howard. Its a disgrace that these fools are even employed in comedy, let alone given their own shows.
Our TV comedy in the 70s/80s used to be admired the world over. British 'comedy' is PCs b
h now. Our music now compared to the 70s/80s is also crap.
And Boyle, Lee, Sadowitz.......yeah, all very PC.
Yeah...they are laughing at us.
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