Grumpy guide to the 80's

[Pesty]

Anybody else just watching this?

They have been talking about John Inman and how nobody knew he was gay (WTF?)and if they knew they would not have watched it because homophobia was so rife in teh 80's dito Freddy Mercury.

Hello what planet were /are they on.

Do they just make this st up for these kinds of programmes?

I knew he was gay and it didn't bother me and I am one of those working class bloke they are talking about.

Homosexuality was not invented last year.

[V8mate]

The programme is st. They are moaning for its own sake about stuff which was actually pretty good.

The 80s TOTP prior to it was great. (Well, V8mate's impromptu karaoke provided LadyV8 with mucho side-aching laughter anyway )

[heta1]

It's really fking me off. What does Russell tosspot Kane know about growing up in the 80s? He was born in 1980.

[heta1]

Plus of course, he isn't even slightly funny.

[heta1]

Ronnie Ancona is very nice.

[El Guapo]

heta1 said:

Ronnie Ancona is very nice.

You are not wrong there, chap.

[Tuna]

Being grumpy/sarcastic is only funny if you have some ability to observe and are basically right (cf. Charlie Brooker). Last night was a disaster. "Huh, 80's fashion, what was _that_ about?", "Mobile phones were huge, how embarrassing!" and so on.

One bit made me smile, "Filofaxes were awful - they cost like £80 pounds and everyone flashed theirs around!". Maybe in London media circles they did. By the way, how're you getting on with that iPhone you moron?

[Nicol@]

TOTP before it was good (I remembered too much).

I have recorded the 80's programme.
After some of the comments above, is it worth watching?

Edited by Nicol@ on Tuesday 11th May 10:38

[V8mate]

Nicol@ said:

TOTP before it was good (I remembered too much).

I have recorded the 80's programme.
After some of the comments above, is it worth watching?

Only if you fancy a bit of slurpy-slurpy with Ronni Ancona

[Lost soul]

It made me angry the way Mrs Thatcher was talked about

[V8mate]

Lost soul said:

It made me angry the way Mrs Thatcher was talked about

It's because all the commentators were bleeding-heart, work-shy, arty-guadrian liberals. Most of whom would have been little kids in the 80s.

[Lost soul]

V8mate said:

Lost soul said:

It made me angry the way Mrs Thatcher was talked about

It's because all the commentators were bleeding-heart, work-shy, arty-guadrian liberals. Most of whom would have been little kids in the 80s.

Well the worst comment were from the voice over

really pissed me off

[HiRich]

Nicol@ said:

After some of the comments above, is it worth watching?

Only if you want to listen to people who weren't there, talking, half of the time about stuff that actually happened in the 1970s, missing the real targets and slagging off things that were actually quite good, and doing it without any reference to an old concept known as humour (ironically, something the 1980s was rather good at).

What Charlie Brooker (correctly namechecked earlier) might describe as "pisspoor barrel-scraping of a once half-decent franchise. Our star rating: Delete."

[Steamer]

El Guapo said:

heta1 said:

Ronnie Ancona is very nice.

You are not wrong there, chap.

The only bit of that show I actually like - but even she couldnt hold me past 30mins. I thought I had suffered a 'sense of humor' failure.

..what a bunch of fkwits!!

[5pen]

Glad I wasn't the only one. I watched 20mins and gave up. Very poor selection of comedy 'targets' and general making stuff up to make a weak point. Poll tax riots? - note to the researchers - that was the 1990s.

The TOTP2 80s special before was ace though!

[Alex]

What? Next they'll be claiming that Larry Grayson was gay!