80's chod, F-4 porn, instant sunshine and historical context.

[Gerald]

May I bring '80's shite into focus...

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLSGLjcJJc

 

The rest of the film/series is on there and worth a look to pull the 1980's into focus. (As is 'When The Wind Blows) …

It scared the shi'ite out of me as a bairn...

[Station]

Watch the whole film if you want to watch it, been meaning to watch it again, but haven't felt up to it.

[Junkman]

They blew up a Woolworth's.

[Gerald]

I was born in '79 and was shown protect and survive and WTWBlows at school.

I could remember the burning hand sticking out of the rubble and the melting milk bottles in dreams from being little up 'til a couple of years ago when I watched the film.

 

It's bloody dark but as accurate as TPTB would allow plus it's local ish to me.

 

Well worth watching the full film or the series on yt particurlarly for 'younger' members.

[Gerald]

They blew up a Woolworth's.

And the Egg Box in Sheffield…

[HillmanImp]

That's random. I had never heard of this until yesterday when someone at work was telling me about it. 

[dangerousdave]

yep a friend showed it to me a few years ago scary as hell so realistic and so close I was born in 77 but for some reason was never shown or told anything at school about it

[oman5]

God this scared the crap out of me when I was a teenager in the '80s. we really thought this was how the end would come, the cold war being in full swing and such.

[Negative Creep]

If however you were in a Micra at the time of the attack you would have been absolutely fine

[Ghosty]

I assume from the comments that this is Threads, and as such, I'm not fucking going anywhere near it. Heard about it 18 months ago, watched a bit out of intrigue... oh god.

[trigger]

I've never seen or heard of it before but after watching that clip I won't be sleeping tonight!

[Tayne]

Nobody is stupid enough to press the "end of the world" button.

 

Cleaning up Chernobyl bankrupted the old Soviet Union, the Japanese won't press the button and the Americans would have nobody to lord it over.

[Inspector Morose]

Ooh, somebody might. Someone who you didn't think about. Oh yes, they might. Be scared be very scared. You know those foreigners, those who have nasty things that might blow up the world. Yes they'll do it. Yes they will. And soon.

[Station]

It'll probably ruin your day and it's such a powerful film you'll do that thing where you drift off thinking about it for days after. The hundreds reviews on imdb are all the same!

[spike60]

It's not the old powers who are the most dangerous, just as an example Pakistan has nuclear weapons. This is a country where westerners offering Polio vaccination for children are regularly murdered as they think the west is trying to sterilise them and currently have an 11 month old child charged with attempted murder. Perhaps not the most stable nuclear power. They too have an "end the world button".

Not to mention the missile silo's all over what used to be the Soviet Union falling into "independent hands".

[Vince70]

We should be fine in one clip of the film it says the priority targets are Communications, Steel, Energy and Chemicals..

As for Communications has anyone tried getting through to a BT call centre it's in India anyway so we should be safe.

The Steel industry has now all but gone or owned by Tata so again we should be fine and the same with our Energy industry and in my book I would be glad to see a few less wind farms.

 

And the only Chemicals I know that are produced since the closing of Pfizer are produced down the road from me in the dodgy no go area of town and the sooner a bomb hits that place the better lol.

 

The depressing bit is that is there anything that hasn't been outsourced or sold off.

[stuboy]

i was born in 75 and remember 80's was miserable ww3 holocaust of rubbish british mades cars and post apocalyptic fashion mistakes... cords... bow ties and v kneck tank tops....

[mattblack]

Ah, Threads... scared the shit out of me too. If you weren't around then it's had to explain how real the threat of nuclear war felt. 

 

There was an American film out at around the same time call something like 'The Day After', was less graphic IIRC.

[Station]

I don't think they would bomb London because [insert factually incorrect and completely unresearched opinion here]. Lol

I'm right next to Stanlow which is about 20 miles of chemical/fuel processing which also pipes fuel off to Manchester airport (safer than by road). I think that lot would make a large explosion. Also in Coventry which was completely decimated in ww2

[NorfolkNWeigh]

A few years ago when the yanks finally started going home after WW2 (about 1995) there was a massive sell off of housing at RAF Chicksands in Bedfordshire. We went along to an open day and there were some great houses at very good prices, a lot were massive,open plan American style with 2 or 3 bathrooms.

All the time we were there I couldn't help thinking about this film and how somewhere in Russia there were a lot of missiles loaded with the co-ordinate for this place, and I doubt they've ever been updated even if they've been sold to the Yemen or wherever! We didn't buy one( a house not a missile).

[inconsistant]

It's funny how easy it is to remember the 80s as a decade of New Romantics and Sierras, and forget the sinister '2 minutes to midnight' undercurrent that lasted for most of the decade.

When the Wind Blows scared the beshite out of me as a kid. Much preferred Watership Down. 

 

Threads went out in the autumn, and for the couple of months before this Two Tribes was no1.

I re-discovered this 'annihilation mix' recently and it's brilliant, and sort of fits here...

 

 

 

 

 

"Mine is the last voice you will ever hear. Do not be alarmed,"

[scruff]

Threads, bloody terrifying. I did watch it some time ago for the brief steam content but wish I hadn't, very harrowing!! 

[warren t claim]

It's not the old powers who are the most dangerous, just as an example Pakistan has nuclear weapons. This is a country where westerners offering Polio vaccination for children are regularly murdered as they think the west is trying to sterilise them and currently have an 11 month old child charged with attempted murder. Perhaps not the most stable nuclear power. They too have an "end the world button".

Not to mention the missile silo's all over what used to be the Soviet Union falling into "independent hands".

Almost correct. Osama Bin Laden was tracked down by people pretending to be immunising people against polio, hence the problems caused that have given polio a new foothold in the area.

[Gerald]

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Threads went out in the autumn, and for the couple of months before this Two Tribes was no1.

I re-discovered this 'annihilation mix'

"Mine is the last voice you will ever hear. Do not be alarmed,"

 

Slightly more menacing video...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJWbkbEy2Qo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[mattblack]

Oh, and re: Threads.

 

The following is a message to to any producers of dramas set in the 80s.

 

DO YOU SEE THE TATTY 15 YEAR OLD CORTINA? DO YOU SEE IT? DO YOU?

[Gerald]

15 YO in '83?

[Ghosty]

15 YO in '83?

'68! A Mk2. If I remember it's at the beginning.

[Mash]

I've never dared watch Threads even for the curiosity.  I'd rather remember the 80s through my rose tinted glasses of being a 10 year old playing out on bikes and making dens and Lego!

[cort1977]

Almost correct. Osama Bin Laden was tracked down by people pretending to be immunising people against polio, hence the problems caused that have given polio a new foothold in the area.

I think you're both right.   In Pakistan there is the issue that the CIA used a doctor and Polio vaccine scheme to investigate Bin Laden's compound but in Nigeria there are imams preaching that Polio vaccination is a Western plot to sterilize muslims.

 

I was born in '77 never saw Threads and was never aware of any 'Protect and Survive' stuff until much later.