1. John Carpenter's The Thing
When I was 12 - Brilliant
When I'm 53 - Not brilliant
Wagon wheels
Fray Bentos pies
Auf wiedersehen pet
Tinned ravioli. Bought it (a fair few years ago) to have with the kids, let them know what growing up in the 70s was like, and god it was grim.
The hottest, driest summers on record
1976 was way more fun than this year.
Space hoppers, white dog poo, Jumpers for goalposts...
Findus Crispy Pancakes.
Findus Crispy Pancakes.
Yes!! A rare treat and food of the gods when I was a kid. Tried them a few years back and it was like eating greasy sandpaper pouches filled with a spoonful of gritty gravy,
Tinned ravioli.
I was talking about this just the other day to the kids, I'll take youre word for it and avoid!
The other food stuff I tried in the past couple of years was super noodles, not how i remember them at all.
Loved crispy pancakes but they had to be deep fried or they werent crispy!
With all the bad stuff removed from Nitromors youd be better trying to lick the paint off.
The words of Johnny Rotten
Total Recall---back then --->> Brilliant
Total Recall---now ----->> Total pants
The UK
I still have tinned Ravioli! 🙂
The driving pleasure of pretty much every car you lusted after in the 80's. I suspect a 2022 base model Fiesta is more pleasant (and probably faster).
Tinned ravioli.
Add to this tinned Spaghetti Bolognaise. Definitely tasted meatier when I was a lad, used to love it on toast.
Birds Eye potato waffles; Dalepak Dalesteaks; also The Thing
I still have tinned Ravioli!
Is that in your prepper store/bunker 😉 😀
Auf wiedersehen pet
Yep, pretty much all old tv shows. I tried rewatching Hill Street Blues a few years back, it was a truly groundbreaking show when I was a kid. Just unwatchable compared to modern stuff like The Wire.
Same with Trainspotting and Fightclub.
Prepper!?
...I'd struggle to last a week with what's in our cupboards! 🙂
. John Carpenter’s The Thing
When I was 12 – Brilliant
When I’m 53 – Not brilliant
Utter nonsense 😂
The Red Army was a lot better BITD
I got my wife to watch The Thing a couple of years ago - I really bigged it up. Yeah, it's not aged well!
Pot Noodles. Maybe
John Carpenter’s The Thing
When I was 12 – Brilliant
When I’m 53 – Not brilliantUtter nonsense 😂
Absolutely. It's still brilliant now, just of it's time.
I'd add Blake's Seven, Mr Whippy ice cream, Xmas morning (specifically around 6am!), and that old girlfriend, you know the one. 😀
Vesta curries wtf were they made from?
Louise? ^^
Yep, pretty much all old tv shows. I tried rewatching Hill Street Blues a few years back, it was a truly groundbreaking show when I was a kid. Just unwatchable compared to modern stuff like The Wire.Same with Trainspotting and Fightclub.
This but for MacGyver (the original series with Richard Dean Anderson, not that new series which was terrible anyway...)
I remember as a kid it being an absolute must-watch. Now it's just lame. 🙁
Wall's Viennetta. Had some the other day. Utterly bland.
And chocolate angel delight. Butterscotch flavour is magnificent. Chocolate... meh.
Scalextric.
Sorry but The Thing and Total Recall are still amazing.
Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney pies. Food of the gods when I was a lad, now it's just a lid of half-cooked pastry over a really salty gravy with unidentifiable lumps in.
The Red Army was a lot better BITD
It was never that great, there were just loads of the buggers.
Those small Chicago town pizzas. Not microwaved of course, but still terrible.
The driving pleasure of pretty much every car you lusted after in the 80’s. I suspect a 2022 base model Fiesta is more pleasant (and probably faster).
Yeah, I had the misfortune to once drive a 1980s Ford Mustang that an American imported as his personal car, so it was in pretty shitty condition anyway instead of being a well-maintained example. He thought it was the greatest car on earth. Good god, that was a truly awful car. It's no exaggeration to say that a decent condition Escort (just a standard one, not a Cosworth or anything) was a much better car, obviously a bit slower in a straight line, but any road requiring steering and brakes would be an easy win for the Escort.
Easy rider the film. Its not aged well
Just unwatchable compared to modern stuff like The Wire.
Final season of The Wire now 14 years old!!!
Just to add to the list: Starsky & Hutch (the original TV series)
The UK
Life in general. Youth is wasted on the young.
The Thing and Total Recall are still amazing.
+1
Airwolf and Knightrider have not aged well. But I'll still sit and watch that rather than any celebrity nonsense that TV seems to be overloaded with these days.
The Thing is still brilliant. Hard to argue with the other posts though
Easy rider the film. Its not aged well
I watched that over 30 years ago - it hadn't aged well then.
My job.
Knightrider
I was watching this on Saturday. It's awesome (but for completely different reasons to those I had as a 7 year old)
Agree on Potato Waffles, had some the other month as I had a hankering for some hash browns, but they were sold out. Double disappointment that day…
Jim'll Fixit
I've actually been watching a load of old TV shows now that I have the technology to see what I still enjoy from when I was a kid.
The A-Team- Still mildly amusing. Quality falls off massively towards the end.
Knight Rider- Looks amazing in HD. Something about all those hot and dusty locations and the car still looks mint. Bad acting, nonsense plots. Quite funny. Awesome theme tune.
Airwolf- Nah. Knight Rider rip off with none of the humour. Very low budget, not nice to look at.
Street Hawk- Terrible. Another Knight Rider ripoff filmed on a camcorder in a dark back alley. Awful in every way. Even the bike looks laughable now.
I agree with the stuff about cars as well. I've been surrounded by classic and iconic cars most of my life and turned it into my job for a while. Almost none of them live up to the hype especially the real giant killers like Cossy's and Integrale's. I honestly believe a modern Fiesta ST is one of the best cars available to mankind. I'd have an Impreza P1 though.
Nostalgia.
Easy Rider: pretty good soundtrack though
Jelly
Guinness in Ireland
Your Mum
And
Reminiscing
Jackass
40 watt light bulbs.
Any Smokey and the Bandit film. Just no.
Any Police Academy film. Just no.
On the Buses. Was that really as successful as I think it was in the 70s? (disclaimer, I never thought it was briliant).
The royal family
Pot Rice
Louise
Most computer games. Even though by comparison from a graphics and complexity point of view they are a million times better, nothing seems as “good” as things like Elite, Wizzball, original Zelda, Leisure Suit Larry, etc…
Me.
Football, rugby, cricket, athletics etc. Sports people today are very far removed from Joe Public in terms of fitness levels and in some cases wealth. 40 years ago footballers had beer bellys.
Chip shop chips - look great, smell great but just not as good as they used to be (maybe newspaper print missing!)
Here's the thing - most of the food products you have mentioned with have changed. Manufacturers produce what sells - taking into account government and consumer demands. So with the move to natural flavours and colours, reduced salt, lower fat, lower sugar, vegetarian / vegan demands etc most products have changed significantly from the 1990 to now, let alone the 1970s.
Hence most will be worse - and generally a lot smaller, than you remember them
However things that are worse:-
Monty Python ( and most comedy) has aged badly
Blakes 7
Star Trek
Doner kebabs
Chip shop chips – look great, smell great but just not as good as they used to be (maybe newspaper print missing!)
Find a better chippy. We don't have chips very often but the one around the corner is vastly inferior to the one we occasionally drive to.
Hence most will be worse – and generally a lot smaller, than you remember them
Not always. Listening to a programme about obesity recently - your average pasta based main course in a restaurant has doubled in calorific value in the last 20 years.
Blazing Saddles. Watched it with my daughters when they were early teens. Told them what a great film it was and that the campfire scene was hilarious. They sat stony faced the whole way through, while I had to admit to myself it hasn't aged well. It's now my daughters' benchmark for a truly shite film.
People. back when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's only a minority out there were idiots. Now it seems there are gangs of Chavs just trying to out stupid each other.
The Thing is still great the practical effects are far better the GGI garbage we get in many movies. I borrowed an colour TV of my gran as she was away we could only afford a B&W one. I was 11 and stayed up to watch The Thing on it I was terrified.
The Young Ones I thought it was amazing (I was probably 9 at the time) but I tried to watch it again recently and it was rubbish.
Me. By which I mean my body mainly, brain also.
Gah. On edit, missed Richs_s's
Me.
So actually not me. Him.
The Young Ones I thought it was amazing (I was probably 9 at the time) but I tried to watch it again recently and it was rubbish.
Bye Neil!
nothing seems as “good” as things like
Elite, Wizzball, original Zelda, Leisure Suit Larry, etc
...Hungry Horace Goes Skiing 😉
Me.
You've only got yourself to blame.
Any Police Academy film. Just no.
Dunno, watched the first fairly recently and it was still quite entertaining. Obviously an 80s film though, and I have to agree with this review: "Police Academy is rude, crude, and proudly sophomoric".
Disappointingly and probably controversially - The Hitchithiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I remember the series with incredible fondness, thinking it to be hilarious, but read it to my son (10 at time) last year and it was not. There's some great concepts but it wasn't anywhere near as amusing as I recall. I did insist on finishing the trilogy though. ;o)
Leslie Ash.
Joe Cocker.
Fred Perry shirts.
Waxl Rose.
Adidas Samba.
Sunday papers.
The BBC.
I love the first film, the whole cast are great, & it's totally different to the sequels which are just lame slapstick! It's very tame though compared to later "gross out" comedies."Police Academy is rude, crude, and proudly sophomoric"
Total Recall is still a great 80s film. Two weeks! Get your ass to Mars!
You'll be telling me Ferris Bueller is rubbish next. It's not. I still want to be Ferris when I grow up.
Yep, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I rather like the flawed theory that Ferris Bueller is actually Cameron's imaginary friend from his fever dream, even if it doesn't add up.
Fish fingers
Fish fingers
What? A man who's tired of fish fingers is tired of life. Fish fingers are as good as they've ever been (which is moderately good, let's not get carried away).
Fish fingers
I'm afraid that's just plain wrong, what kind of monster are you? Cheapo fish fingers mebbe, buy some good ones. A good fish finger sandwich is a thing of beauty. Thick cut crusty white bread, loads of real butter ready to melt when the fish fingers lay on it, loads of tartare sauce, at least five fish fingers (4 side by side, one along the top obvs). In fact, might have that for my tea, thanks!
In fact, might have that for my tea, thanks!
I think we have some in the freezer for just this sort of emergency.
I think we have some in the freezer for just this sort of emergency.
That's the kind of prepping I can get behind.
Kingsize sausage fingers (whoops wrong thread)
Ben Sherman shirts
Lambrettas
The Magic Roundabout
Drugs
It was quite the night out!
You’ll be telling me Ferris Bueller is rubbish next. It’s not. I still want to be Ferris when I grow up.
my legs
Tales of the Gold Monkey - bought the DVD box set when I saw it when dropping something off at a charity shop.
Not as good as I remembered it.
