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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 7, 2022 10:36:10 GMT -5
I have a mystery on my hands. Today Amazon dropped a package off on my doorstep. I didn't order anything but when I opened it , it was 2 dvds. The first was a 2 movie disk of the Reb Brown Captain America movies and the second dvd, was the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie. Is this terrorism ? I actually didn't mind the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie, thought it was a nice bit of campy schlock. Haven't seen Reb Brown Captain America, but the guys over at the Captain America Comic Book Fans group seem to hold it in high regard. But then again, these are people that won't let you bad mouth how bad Rob Liefeld's run on the character was....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2022 12:33:57 GMT -5
Bob-a-job week is not something I personally remember, but I know what it is. Hey now, this is supposed to be a family-friendly site!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2022 13:20:59 GMT -5
I have a mystery on my hands. Today Amazon dropped a package off on my doorstep. I didn't order anything but when I opened it , it was 2 dvds. The first was a 2 movie disk of the Reb Brown Captain America movies and the second dvd, was the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie. Is this terrorism ? I actually didn't mind the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie, thought it was a nice bit of campy schlock. Haven't seen Reb Brown Captain America, but the guys over at the Captain America Comic Book Fans group seem to hold it in high regard. But then again, these are people that won't let you bad mouth how bad Rob Liefeld's run on the character was.... I remember being disappointed when I first saw that Captain America film (on videotape). I know things were different years ago, but I didn’t grasp the reasons behind the changes. It was okay (sort of) in a leave your brain behind and enjoy the action kind of way, but compared with something like the live-action Hulk series, it was deeply disappointing.
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Post by Calidore on Nov 7, 2022 19:47:32 GMT -5
What do you remember? We’ll all be different ages, of course… I do remember fish and chips in newspaper. Been about 15, if not 20, years since that happened around here. Right now, fish and chips probably costs more than drugs. There was a milkman and a pop man that used to deliver drinks in glass bottles (the pop stuff was lethal, it tasted so sugary). Party telephone lines? Vaguely remember it. Such an odd system in retrospect. We had a black and white TV. Not recommended to watch snooker on! I don’t particularly recall a coal man delivering coal. A shilling-in-a-slot machine? Erm, no. But I do remember a neighbour who put money into a TV. And we had an outdoors energy meter, which I think you put money in (or maybe a token). A GP made a house call to my sister around 1990. They wouldn’t do that now. Our first TV was rented from the local video store. Bob-a-job week is not something I personally remember, but I know what it is. I did see a short (cartoon) at the cinema prior to a film, but I don’t recall a cinema showing two films. I don’t remember conductors on any bus I went on. I vaguely recall an usherette in a cinema, telling some people to shit up. I also remember some smoking in a cinema.
Whoops, might want to edit that last line.
For me, 2, 4, 6, and 13. Our first TV was a black-and-white also. As a kid, I remember us going to a screening of Wizard of Oz at a local theater. That was the first time I ever saw the Oz transition in color, and it was on a big screen. Big "wow" moment. And, of course, the "horse of a different color" gag finally made sense.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 8, 2022 4:02:33 GMT -5
1 through 6 plus 13 were all part of my childhood. I'm nostalgic for none of it except 13.
Cei-U! I summon Saturday afternoon at the movies!
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 8, 2022 5:26:42 GMT -5
Hey driver1980, I wish Fish and Chips were a thing in the US. I love it. The closest we ever had was a franchise called Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips. It was a fast food joint in the vain of McDonald's and Burger King. I remember eating there in the early 80's.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 8, 2022 5:40:02 GMT -5
A few of those seem specific to the UK, and of those that are more universal, most had passed before my time. However, since I grew up in a pretty rural area, we had something sort of similar to a party telephone line - in that we only had to dial the last four digits of any local number that had the same prefix, which covered a pretty large radius. As for black and white TV, that was one of the big frustrations of my early childhood. Our family didn't get a color TV until 1977, when I was in the third grade, for no other reason that my dad was kind of cheap and had all of these opinions about how useless TV was and the only thing that people should watch is the news. All of my school friends, all of our relatives, *everyone* had color TVs, while we had this little b&w set with a rabbit-ear antenna that often had trouble catching two of the five channels available in the area (and one of those was the cool one that showed cartoons and reruns of shows like Gilligan's Island and Batman in the late afternoon).
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 8, 2022 6:51:01 GMT -5
Hey driver1980 , I wish Fish and Chips were a thing in the US. I love it. The closest we ever had was a franchise called Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips. It was a fast food joint in the vain of McDonald's and Burger King. I remember eating there in the early 80's. There eas also H. Salt, Esquire, which I think was only on the West Coast. They served "English-style" fish and chips, complete with vinegar and (pseudo-)newspaper wrapping. There was one less than five blocks from our house so we ate there at least twice a month. The building is still there but it's a Chinese restaurant now. Been trying to find f&c as good as H. Salt's for some 40 years. Skipper's fell short, alas, but the Harmon Brewery in downtown Tacoma comes darm close, as confirmed agaain when Karly and I had lunch there after the Grit City Comic Show on the 22nd.
Zcei-U! I summon the omgoing quest!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 8, 2022 7:10:26 GMT -5
Hey driver1980 , I wish Fish and Chips were a thing in the US. I love it. The closest we ever had was a franchise called Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips. It was a fast food joint in the vain of McDonald's and Burger King. I remember eating there in the early 80's. There eas also H. Salt, Esquire, which I think was only on the West Coast. They served "English-style" fish and chips, complete with vinegar and (pseudo-)newspaper wrapping. There was one less than five blocks from our house so we ate there at least twice a month. The building is still there but it's a Chinese restaurant now. Been trying to find f&c as good as H. Salt's for some 40 years. Skipper's fell short, alas, but the Harmon Brewery in downtown Tacoma comes darm close, as confirmed agaain when Karly and I had lunch there after the Grit City Comic Show on the 22nd.
Zcei-U! I summon the omgoing quest!
Skipper's is the one I recall as well; I think it was also limited to the West Coast, or maybe just the Pacific NW? I think I only ate there once when I was in my teens. And yeah, it fell short because it probably has about as much to do with the authentic fish & chips experience as Taco Bell does with actual Mexican cuisine.
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Post by commond on Nov 8, 2022 8:37:43 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 8, 2022 9:23:58 GMT -5
Hey driver1980 , I wish Fish and Chips were a thing in the US. I love it. The closest we ever had was a franchise called Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips. It was a fast food joint in the vain of McDonald's and Burger King. I remember eating there in the early 80's. There eas also H. Salt, Esquire, which I think was only on the West Coast. They served "English-style" fish and chips, complete with vinegar and (pseudo-)newspaper wrapping. There was one less than five blocks from our house so we ate there at least twice a month. The building is still there but it's a Chinese restaurant now. Been trying to find f&c as good as H. Salt's for some 40 years. Skipper's fell short, alas, but the Harmon Brewery in downtown Tacoma comes darm close, as confirmed agaain when Karly and I had lunch there after the Grit City Comic Show on the 22nd.
Zcei-U! I summon the omgoing quest!
H. Salt also had locations in the Southeast. They were not limited to the West Coast.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 8, 2022 11:33:44 GMT -5
Wait, you could rent tvs?! I remember you could do that with video game consoles (I remember one Blockbuster doing that with the Sega Saturn)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2022 12:44:50 GMT -5
Wait, you could rent tvs?! I remember you could do that with video game consoles (I remember one Blockbuster doing that with the Sega Saturn) My parents did. TVs were quite expensive, so renting was an option for us for a long time. Nowadays, you can probably get a TV for a hundred quid or under.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 8, 2022 12:47:56 GMT -5
Wait, you could rent tvs?! I remember you could do that with video game consoles (I remember one Blockbuster doing that with the Sega Saturn) In the UK, you had to pay a license fee, which went towards paying for the BBC. So, you could rent TVs and radios. I presume the rental included the license fee, though I have no idea. In his first memoir, Michael Caine spoke of his father renting a radio almost his entire life. He could have bought multiple radios, over time. He used that as an example of how the poor were exploited, as they were scammed with extended rentals, rather than rent-to-own or alternate time payments towards ownership.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2022 13:22:48 GMT -5
I’m really not sure the licence fee can be justified in 2022. I mean, I rarely watch the BBC. I tend to choose specific programmes on streaming platforms. If I watch news, I tend to watch it on ITV. £126 a year simply to own a TV is frustrating. I *used* to watch BBC in the pre-internet age, but nowadays it is rare.
The only show I’ve watched on the BBC in the last 12 or more months is Line of Duty. I just prefer the alternatives.
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