Bring Back the Tufty Club

[Father Ted]

About 1971 I used to get dragged along to the Tufty club, where I got a sticker for my card and a little lecture on safety, then we played or painted pictures whilst our mothers gossiped and drank tea.

 

Im 39 and have never locked myself in a fridge yet, so obviously it did something right....

 

[Albert Ross]

You'd look a right cock, wearing your lifejacket and reflective armband, looking for a footbridge, to cross over a road that doesnt have a bridge, in daylight with no water......................

[Guest]

"Keep out of fridges"

[retrogeezer]

'Use a footbridge to cross the road' What about if there is no footbridge??Whats the missing one???

[Des]

Whats the missing one???

Don't accept Western Union from Nigerians.

[r.welfare]

"Keep out of fridges"

We could do with that slogan now to cut down on child obesity.

[mouseflakes]

I lost my Tufty Club metal/enamel badge on Scafell Pike.

[pompei]

Don't go up Scafell Pike

[Cavcraft]

Whats the missing one???

'Do not murder hitch hikers and let God reward you with bright lights and music in your head' I think.

[Father Ted]

I always "keep away from the cooker" too - I keep telling the wife I cant cook any meals and that she has to do them and bring out my battered card to prove to her that I have exemption from going near cookers.I think the missing one is something about "dont staple your tongue to electricity pylons" or something like that - it might have been "dont stick screwdrivers into old round pin sockets", but I did that once and fused the entire house.

[Guest]

Alternative suggestions for the missing ones:"Always carry a handkerchief""Keep away from the poor""Don't watch ITV"

[pogweasel]

You'd havea job to keep away from the poor AND sit quietly on the bus. I'm in favour of the 'not watching ITV' suggestion though. Fugging GMTV makes me angry to the point of throwing shoes at the telly. Keep Away From The Fridge. Any chance of a scan/enlargement so I can pin it said chilled produce container... anything to stop the grubby little urchins foraging through it every 5 minutes.

[mouseflakes]

I lost my Tufty Club metal/enamel badge on Scafell Pike.

Don't go up Scafell Pike

Arf!

[mnde]

Aaw I found some cute Tufty public information films on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BrivBSv20YI don't remember those films, but there were definitely Tufty Club activites at my primary school - I'll ask my mother if she's still got anything like a booklet or badge somewhere! "Tufty" was her nickname for me at the time.My suggestion for the missing sticker:Never accept lifts/sweets from strangers?Cheers,Mark.

[Pillock]

"Keep away from parked vans" - that's buggered up commercial vehicle shows for a generation then.Missing one, possibly "never ebay whilst under the influence"?

[Cavcraft]

I'm in favour of the 'not watching ITV' suggestion though. Fugging GMTV makes me angry to the point of throwing shoes at the telly.

Glad to hear it's not just me then. Why, of why oh why do they only have the most terminally stupid and air headed presenters? Fiona Phillips? I'd break my vow to never hit a member of the fairer sex and club her to death with a microphone the pointless, stupid, sad-cow-faced, twizzling effing bint. Oh aye, all the rest of the shop window dummy-esque, poncey, biscuit arsed illegitimates.Light entertainment? Shite entertainment more like. B*st*rds.

[pogweasel]

Fiona Phillips needs a hefty kick in the clack. IMO.

[Father Ted]

Keep Away From The Fridge. Any chance of a scan/enlargement so I can pin it said chilled produce container... anything to stop the grubby little urchins foraging through it every 5 minutes.

Your wish will be my command (about 7pm)Thank crap Im not the only one who finds ITV utter shite, Thank god we dont pay licence fees for ITV - BBC Radio 4 and 7 are IMHO worth the licence fee in themselves, as is anything with Keeley Hawes in it....

[Father Ted]

[pogweasel]

Ta

[pompei]

The Keep away from the Cooker reminded me of this ....

 

[retrogeezer]

How times change...during 'You've been framed' which is on a teatime and my 5 year old loves it, they have a 'goodfellas' pizza advert with a Barry White type doll singing from inside a freezer and inside an oven!!! FFS!!

[alfetta]

scrapped fridges used to be a real issue, could lock shut - no magnetic seals in them days....

[MrRegieRitmo]

I received this today.....http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/276-5378281-2550958?url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=charley+says&x=3&y=20it had been mentioned on here previously but I'd bookmarked it as a future purchase. I finally got around to it the other day. Looking forward to getting stuck in. It features Tufty among many many others.Apparently Amazon think that there are some people out there who would rather pay £11.98 for volume 1 and £9.99 for volume 2 of Charley Says than £7.97 for volume 1 & 2 together like I bought! Mind you, on checking Play.com they had it that way round too!

[Lord Sterling]

Wow! I very vaugly remember the tufty club thing as it probably ran in the 80's but more in books etc... The warnings about fridges do ring a bell, but more to do with shite TV adverts than anything.

 

I remember as a child watching those scary 1970's Public Information films that used to come on during the adverts sometimes, they used to scare the hell out of me and still do to a degree, though these days if you want to see the old public info films you really need to trawl around the web.

 

For any of you shite TV fans check this site out for old shite public info/adverts/regional TV Idents:

 

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/

 

Speaking of old PIF's I have also found an old advert for the car crime prevention which features some shite, mainly a dark blue Ford Sierra sitting in an underground car park.

 

Its the Hyena campaign launched in 1992,click on the pic to go directly to the page and see the advert again:

 

I actually have this on tape after phoning the Home Office to blag off them a tape featuring the advert! plus posters etc... I've also managed to download the advert onto my computer if anyone's interested.

 

Lord Sterling

[r.welfare]

It's OT Lord Sterling, but I for one am enjoying the Max Boyce avatar. Now, if you could swap it for the "They All Had Doctor's Papers" album cover...