Vehicles you didn't like to see as a child
Discussion
J4CKO said:
Thing is, you didnt know Jimmy Saville was a raging nonce back then, so most kids would have been quite excited to see him, just not as excited as he probably was...
The BBC like to tell us over and over again that he was "much loved" but my recollection is that almost everyone thought he was creepy and gross and vile, and if it hadn't been for the BBC employing him and forcing him on the public he'd have vanished into obscurity long before he died.It suits them to tell us how much we loved him, but I really don't think it was the case. Certainly I remember conversations about "not that creepy b
d again" every time they put him in front of the nation. They always found someone to look excited for the cameras, but I think that was about being on TV and the fanfare of whatever they were putting on rather than excitement at an obvious paedophile getting a crack at you.TL:DR The BBC created Saville, they enabled Saville, and now they try to gaslight us about the whole affair.
GeniusOfLove said:
J4CKO said:
Thing is, you didnt know Jimmy Saville was a raging nonce back then, so most kids would have been quite excited to see him, just not as excited as he probably was...
The BBC like to tell us over and over again that he was "much loved" but my recollection is that almost everyone thought he was creepy and gross and vile, and if it hadn't been for the BBC employing him and forcing him on the public he'd have vanished into obscurity long before he died.It suits them to tell us how much we loved him, but I really don't think it was the case. Certainly I remember conversations about "not that creepy b
d again" every time they put him in front of the nation. They always found someone to look excited for the cameras, but I think that was about being on TV and the fanfare of whatever they were putting on rather than excitement at an obvious paedophile getting a crack at you.TL:DR The BBC created Saville, they enabled Saville, and now they try to gaslight us about the whole affair.
Plus we were younger and rarely saw anyone "off the telly", I remember in about 1981 being rather starstruck at seeing Richard and Judy at a car show for example.
Jimmy Savile I think was just the slightly odd old man in the big chair you could get a brew out of the arm from on Jim'l Fix It, or one of the DJ's who introduced the acts on TOTP, didnt really know what a peadophile was then and certainly didnt think of TV people as being capable of stuff like that.
So, didnt give him a great deal of thought, just another face on the TV, like Gary Glitter, just a larger than life character.
The Louis Theroux documentary in the early 2000s was when I first got the inkling he was a wrongun, he came across as fairly odious seeing him through adult, rather than a childs eyes. Not necessarily a pervert but very, very weird and not very nice. My mum had also said stuff subsequently about him DJing when my parents were young in clubs around Manchester called "Heaven and Hell" and "The Twisted Wheel", he had something of a reputation.
So, wasn't a great surprise when the revelations started, but I personally cant say I thought he was "creepy and gross" until I saw the Louis Theroux documentary.
Rolf Harris was more of a surprise, as was Stuart Hall I met on a couple of occasions, he came across as a very nice chap, mentioned it to my gran I had met him, I was expecting her to remember him fondly or not remember him maybe, but she was very scathing and intimated all was not as it seemed, I wish I had asked what she meant a bit more but she isnt around any more to ask sadly.
GeniusOfLove said:
J4CKO said:
Thing is, you didnt know Jimmy Saville was a raging nonce back then, so most kids would have been quite excited to see him, just not as excited as he probably was...
The BBC like to tell us over and over again that he was "much loved" but my recollection is that almost everyone thought he was creepy and gross and vile, and if it hadn't been for the BBC employing him and forcing him on the public he'd have vanished into obscurity long before he died.It suits them to tell us how much we loved him, but I really don't think it was the case. Certainly I remember conversations about "not that creepy b
d again" every time they put him in front of the nation. They always found someone to look excited for the cameras, but I think that was about being on TV and the fanfare of whatever they were putting on rather than excitement at an obvious paedophile getting a crack at you.TL:DR The BBC created Saville, they enabled Saville, and now they try to gaslight us about the whole affair.
GeniusOfLove said:
J4CKO said:
Thing is, you didnt know Jimmy Saville was a raging nonce back then, so most kids would have been quite excited to see him, just not as excited as he probably was...
The BBC like to tell us over and over again that he was "much loved" but my recollection is that almost everyone thought he was creepy and gross and vile, and if it hadn't been for the BBC employing him and forcing him on the public he'd have vanished into obscurity long before he died.It suits them to tell us how much we loved him, but I really don't think it was the case. Certainly I remember conversations about "not that creepy b
d again" every time they put him in front of the nation. They always found someone to look excited for the cameras, but I think that was about being on TV and the fanfare of whatever they were putting on rather than excitement at an obvious paedophile getting a crack at you.TL:DR The BBC created Saville, they enabled Saville, and now they try to gaslight us about the whole affair.
Anyway, cars you didn't like seeing...
Landrovers. They were invariably totally knackered and wandered around all over the place at 15mph, usually with a couple of rough-looking dogs leaping in and out of the back as it drove along
2CV's
My auntie had a boyfriend back in 1984 who had one, they kindly offered to take us to see Ghostbusters and we went in it to the Tatton cinema in Gatley, which was near my secondary school and loads of kids from school saw me arrive in it. Back then 2CVs were not cool, they were social death along with Fiat 126's, Ladas and Skoda of the time.
VW Beetles and buses, my mates dad had one of the latter, lime green and smelled of vomit/disinfectant as they used to foster "troubled" kids who often would spew lavishly with tedious regularity, kids now get taken to their prom in a VW Bus, we insisted on being dropped off round the corner when we got a lift to school in it. Even a (very rusty) Mini 1275 GT or immaculate Mk1 Cortina was not cool back then.
An acceptable lift was my mate Marcs dads brand new Cortina "Crusader", Chris's dads Cavalier SRi or my dads Capri, top of the tree round that time was Chris's mums new fellas red Audi GT Coupe.
My auntie had a boyfriend back in 1984 who had one, they kindly offered to take us to see Ghostbusters and we went in it to the Tatton cinema in Gatley, which was near my secondary school and loads of kids from school saw me arrive in it. Back then 2CVs were not cool, they were social death along with Fiat 126's, Ladas and Skoda of the time.
VW Beetles and buses, my mates dad had one of the latter, lime green and smelled of vomit/disinfectant as they used to foster "troubled" kids who often would spew lavishly with tedious regularity, kids now get taken to their prom in a VW Bus, we insisted on being dropped off round the corner when we got a lift to school in it. Even a (very rusty) Mini 1275 GT or immaculate Mk1 Cortina was not cool back then.
An acceptable lift was my mate Marcs dads brand new Cortina "Crusader", Chris's dads Cavalier SRi or my dads Capri, top of the tree round that time was Chris's mums new fellas red Audi GT Coupe.
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