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Dark nostalgia

You've been eating cheese at bedtime my friend, haven't you?
Hat full of **** indeed, I copped a balloonful from the top of the science block back in the sixth form.
Shocking memory...but it still raises a smile.
 
jon81uk said:
Does anyone remember the late 1980s book on railway safety by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake that demonstrated not throwing things out a window with a story about a hat full of **** being thrown over passengers when going at high speed through a remote station.
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Oh my god YES! Pretty sure I owned that book. Didn't it also have a picture of someone with their head taken clean off because they stuck their head out of the window?
rob666 said:
You've been eating cheese at bedtime my friend, haven't you?
Hat full of **** indeed, I copped a balloonful from the top of the science block back in the sixth form.
Shocking memory...but it still raises a smile.
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@rob666 The story was a kid needed a wee but this was back in the day when trains didn't always have loos so he used his father's hat and he tossed it out of the window just as they were going through a station...

How is it that this is all lodged in my brain when I can't remember anything I did at work last week?
 
jon81uk said:
Does anyone remember the late 1980s book on railway safety by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake that demonstrated not throwing things out a window with a story about a hat full of **** being thrown over passengers when going at high speed through a remote station.
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Yes I do.

I remember the beautiful Quentin Blake illustration of a man having sticking his head out of the window and being decapitated by a pylon
 
Slugjc said:
Already all over them, great band.


They always hit home. But the dangers have changed for kids. Back in our time (I'm 38.) We were told to be weary of strangers who, for reasons unknown, always wanted you to see puppies! Now they are groomed from miles away online.


The film that was replaced by the below, because it too scary.Later found out that the film was made in the 70s, cheggers replaced Peter purves. Because us late 80s kids had no idea who the hell purves was, so why would we listen to him.


From: https://youtu.be/jEv8CS1hL6E




Threads................the stuff on nightmares. The overall theme of threads of "OH CHRIST" Charlie Brooker once said of threads. " Threads is the story of a multi mega tonne detonating near Sheffield and causing millions of pounds of improvements."

We got shown when the wind blows as Christmas treat at school. We also had the book in the library. Great way to celebrate Xmas when your 8.

Some interesting stuff on threads, and the cold war in general on a podcast called atomic hobo.
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Basically for those of us of a certain age this was the triple threat hanging over our little heads and scaring the **** out of us…

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jon81uk said:
I’m also now reminded of PJ getting blinded at paintball on Byker Grove.
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“He can’t see can he… HE CAN’T SEE MAN!!!”

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There were some tragic incidents back then. The blinding of PJ, the death of Danny Kendall in Mr Bronson’s car, the kid drowning in the school pool, danger lurked everywhere back in those days.

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Shaggy_Dog_ said:
“He can’t see can he… HE CAN’T SEE MAN!!!”

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There were some tragic incidents back then. The blinding of PJ, the death of Danny Kendall in Mr Bronson’s car, the kid drowning in the school pool, danger lurked everywhere back in those days.

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He cannie see HE CANNIE SEE!!!!
Shaggy_Dog_ said:
Basically for those of us of a certain age this was the triple threat hanging over our little heads and scaring the **** out of us…

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The book of WTWB has even better and more heart breaking than the film. Good song but Bowie too



You look back at 3 years ago. We needed an aids type campaign. What we got was the daily brief.

Can't imagine a kids TV show being able to do a zammo story line now. They showed that episode recently. Still fits today.
 
I recommend everyone watches it. Once. Not many would watch it multiple times.
 
Matt N said:
I’m not sure that this is a public information film per se, but this anti-piracy advert that always used to be on DVDs is one that sticks out to me:

When I was a child in the late 2000s and early 2010s, every DVD you used to watch used to have this advert on it! It certainly scared me into not pirating films, anyhow! (Although I probably wouldn’t have done it anyway, so they were perhaps preaching to the converted when I watched them…)

If any of you are interested, a recent study proved that that advert actually increased rates of piracy, so in hindsight, it was somewhat counterintuitive: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a...iracy-ads-made-people-pirate-more-study-finds

And rather ironically… it was later found that the background music for the advert was itself pirated: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/
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I mean, the fact they were telling me I would not steal a car, kind of made me want to steal a car to prove them wrong. Plus, the fact that were trying to compare a car theft as being in the same league as little Johnny downloading The Smurfs Christmas Party was what made it comical.

This was a time when the industry was in chaos though and they really did not know how to tackle piracy.
 
DistortAMG said:
I mean, the fact they were telling me I would not steal a car, kind of made me want to steal a car to prove them wrong. Plus, the fact that were trying to compare a car theft as being in the same league as little Johnny downloading The Smurfs Christmas Party was what made it comical.

This was a time when the industry was in chaos though and they really did not know how to tackle piracy.
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Ashens has done a good talk covering anti-piracy ads through the ages


From: https://youtu.be/zFd60nCBygg
 
Burbs said:
One of Inside Number 9’s creepiest episodes IMO is Wise Owl (series 7 I believe) - with a plot around a public information film.
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Yes! You beat me. The comedy was brilliant but this episode was great. If you’re not avoiding iPlayer right now because you’re not ****** at the BBC for Linekar-gate, then get it watched.
 
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