The Biggest Scare story of your lifetime

[Iain328]

minerva said:

The only thing we have to fear is the sky falling on our heads!

Afternoon Vercingetorix (AICMFP)(!)

Edited by Iain328 on Tuesday 31st March 12:09

[AlexKP]

The one that genuinely scared me the most was the BSE / Human CJD one.

When the story was first reported it was presented as likely that a third of the population could end up with their brains turning to mush before very much longer.

I remember regretting eating too many Big Macs when I was a student.


(Strangely, in the intervening decade an awful lot of people have had their brains turn to mush, the most obvious symptom being the purchasing of Hello! Magazine and staring at reality shows on television like a drooling vegetable. But that might be a different matter.)

[boobles]

I remember being young when the Falklands war started & i seem to remember thinking that the world was going to end. Scary stuff at that age.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Not that I was alive at the time,

BUT;

This is my favourite Scare Story of all time

An absolute classic, and just to have been around at the time to see everyones reaction. Would have been priceless

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds...

Orson Welles...... what a legend

Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Tuesday 31st March 12:35

[AlexKP]

Spiritual_Beggar said:

Not that I was alive at the time,

BUT;

This is my favourite Scare Story of all time

An absolute classic, and just to have been around at the time to see everyones reaction. Would have been priceless

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds...

H.G. Wells...... what a legend

He wrote it.

Orson Welles broadcast it and was responsible for the scare.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I realised the mistake and corrected.

Cheers for heads up

[Yertis]

Gargamel said:

I'm old enough to remember the stories in the mid seventies that a mini ice age was due, and that we should be preparing for Glaciers to cover the land from Scotland to Derby !

I remember that not long after the Ice Age thing some long haired scientists on "Nationwide" (presented by Mike Barratt) warned us about a "greenhouse effect" causede by pollution, 1976 was just the beginning and we would all be living in a desert by the year 2000. Whatever happened to that?

[V8mate]

Yertis said:

Gargamel said:

I'm old enough to remember the stories in the mid seventies that a mini ice age was due, and that we should be preparing for Glaciers to cover the land from Scotland to Derby !

I remember that not long after the Ice Age thing some long haired scientists on "Nationwide" (presented by Mike Barratt) warned us about a "greenhouse effect" causede by pollution, 1976 was just the beginning and we would all be living in a desert by the year 2000. Whatever happened to that?

People thought he said 'dessert' rather than 'desert' so we all just ended up fat instead?

[Cara Van Man]

Funk Odyssey said:

Paedogeddon

Which platform have you got that on, PS3 or X-box?

[audidoody]

boobles said:

I remember being young when the Falklands war started & i seem to remember thinking that the world was going to end. Scary stuff at that age.

Good thing you weren't around in 1962 for the Cuban Missile Crisis

[chris watton]

Yertis said:

Gargamel said:

I'm old enough to remember the stories in the mid seventies that a mini ice age was due, and that we should be preparing for Glaciers to cover the land from Scotland to Derby !

I remember that not long after the Ice Age thing some long haired scientists on "Nationwide" (presented by Mike Barratt) warned us about a "greenhouse effect" causede by pollution, 1976 was just the beginning and we would all be living in a desert by the year 2000. Whatever happened to that?

I went through the same - which is why I cannot be bothered with the MMGW threads any longer, same old same old.

[Gargamel]

Or Acid Rain - the "dieback effect" on alpine snow slopes was supposed to render much of the alps a snow bowl and destroy all london buildings within a decade ?

What happened to Acid Rain ?

[interloper]

mrmaggit said:

You realise that DEFRA stands for "Destroy Every Farm Reared Animal", Don't you?

I had always wondered!

[chris watton]

Gargamel said:

Or Acid Rain - the "dieback effect" on alpine snow slopes was supposed to render much of the alps a snow bowl and destroy all london buildings within a decade ?

What happened to Acid Rain ?

The bandwagon simply moved on to feed the ideologies that are in vogue now......and it continues...

Edited by chris watton on Tuesday 31st March 12:55

[elster]

Gargamel said:

Or Acid Rain - the "dieback effect" on alpine snow slopes was supposed to render much of the alps a snow bowl and destroy all london buildings within a decade ?

What happened to Acid Rain ?

They discovered CO2 to be approximately 30 trillion times more harmful to our immediate future and the long term future of this planet.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Tanker disasters in the early 70's. I went to a school populated by sandal wearing tree hugging teachers who all advocated returning to farming and "living off the land" It was quite scary the though of an Oil slick washing up the Thames ...

[maxrider]

Gargamel said:

Or Acid Rain - the "dieback effect" on alpine snow slopes was supposed to render much of the alps a snow bowl and destroy all london buildings within a decade ?

What happened to Acid Rain ?

Didn't we fix that by not dumping fridges and giving up deodorant?

[MK4 Slowride]

In my yoof it was acid rain & the 'fact' that an area of rainforest the size of Wales was cut down everyday. So 20+ years later & Google Earth provides the evidence this is st as Brazil is still very green & Foresty as are other places.

Also these TV programs were showing it being just like summer but around Christmas and there wasn't any tap water.

Also something about Hedgehogs going extinct & the special crisps they made with stickers or something.

[CommanderJameson]

Watching Threads as an 11-year-old had me pretty bloody scared.

[JMGS4]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

ANd they all voted Labour so their brains MUST be mush....