It Was Alright in the 1970s

RideOnTime

I saw a bit of this last night and it was cringe-worthy.

There was an episode of Curry and Chips (1969) that was unbelievable you just can't imagine it was acceptable to show...

The scenes for the Black and White Minstrels... jeezsee

pinno

Link ?

type:epyt

No different to looking back at medeival or Victorian times ... It reflected life in Britain at that period and should not be viewed as a period of shame but part of British history. Bear in mind that we used to kill the majority of foreigners who came to our shores so calling them a few names was progress of some sort. We've just moved on again.

pblakeney

Makes you wonder what is acceptable today that will be deemed outrageous in 40 years time.

Driving cars? Smoking? Alcohol? Drugs in general? Gangsta Rap?

........

Stevo_666

PBlakeney wrote:

Makes you wonder what is acceptable today that will be deemed outrageous in 40 years time.

Driving cars? Smoking? Alcohol? Drugs in general? Gangsta Rap?

........

Vote for a left of centre party if you want to find out sooner.

RideOnTime

I can't find a link to the Curry and Chips gem.

Another one was Derek Griffiths and a bus with a woman singing chink-ee chink-ee something or other while pulling their eyes to make themselves look Chinese.

This is not it but was the best I could find;

http://starsclassic.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/melting-pot-blue-minkmari-gordon-price.html

Its the bit where he goes Mr Yellow Chinky that in Derek's version he does the eyes...

RDW

Driving cars? Smoking? Alcohol? Drugs in general? Gangsta Rap?

Smoking, of course, is already unacceptable.

Vote for a left of centre party if you want to find out sooner.

What, the SNP? Certainly none of the parties that have English MPs...

pblakeney

RDW wrote:

Driving cars? Smoking? Alcohol? Drugs in general? Gangsta Rap?

Smoking, of course, is already unacceptable.

To some.
My wife is 100% against. My sons are 100% for.
I am, meh.
And are we talking purely tobacco, or all smoking?

RDW

PBlakeney wrote:

My sons are 100% for.

I blame the parents (well, not your wife).

And are we talking purely tobacco, or all smoking?

All smoking outside the works of JRR Tolkien. Don't they even have vapourisers for the dodgy stuff now?

pblakeney

So we are predicting that smoking will be looked on as ridiculous in the future.
I don't doubt you are correct, so what else?

I say future as no matter how offensive it is to some right now, there is a sizeable percentage that are happy to continue today.

slowmart

Legs & Co. One 70's throwback I'm not adverse to.

pblakeney

Slowmart wrote:

Legs & Co. One 70's throwback I'm not adverse to.

Not exactly PC and that is pretty much the subject.

Doesn't mean that you are wrong though.

Kendoddsdadsdeaddog

Slowmart wrote:

Legs & Co. One 70's throwback I'm not adverse to.

The 70's Bush would put me off. :shock:

orraloon

Slowmart wrote:

Legs & Co. One 70's throwback I'm not adverse to.

Ehm, is that not Pan's People? Big Babs (per Norman Stanley Fletcher) 2nd left.

type:epyt

Yet weirdly reminiscent of Girls Aloud, so not really that much 'progress' after all ...

pblakeney

Kendoddsdadsdeaddog wrote:

The 70's Bush would put me off. :shock:

I cannot agree.

slowmart

:shock: someone knows their 70's all female dance troupes'

a quick search does indeed show the group is pans people. My apologies if anyone has knocked one out under the false impression they are looking at legs and co and not pans people. :shock:

mm1

Hasn't all that Top of the Pops stuff been wiped from the internet?

orraloon

Slowmart wrote:

:shock: someone knows their 70's all female dance troupes'

a quick search does indeed show the group is pans people. My apologies if anyone has knocked one out under the false impression they are looking at legs and co and not pans people. :shock:

Pan's People made many a young lad very happy, back in the day. It was indeed alright in the 70s, sometimes.

slowmart

mm1 wrote:

Hasn't all that Top of the Pops stuff been wiped from the internet?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26p26 ... 9_creation

Kendoddsdadsdeaddog

Slowmart wrote:

:shock: someone knows their 70's all female dance troupes'

Someone clearly knocked one out more often than you.

mr_goo

The 70s did it for me.

pinno

Oooh yes, remember the Pickwick album cover girls? They actually had some flesh on them and were very curvy.

pinno

There was these:



...and these:



...and this lot:



...and this bloke at Hamburg, wossisname?



Some dodgy clothing:



Some super cool cars:






and the odd dodgy one:

city_boy

pinarello001 wrote:

I remember, as a child of the 70's, the first family to get a car in our street got an Austin Allegro. It became something of a communal vehicle with different households borrowing the car at weekends. I recall the excitement felt on the occasions my dad would come home and say "we've got Brian's car for the day on Sunday!" This invariably resulted in a drive to a country pub, and me spending several hours sat on my own in said Austin Allegro being topped up with coke and crisps while my mum and dad got p1ssed in the pub.

Happy days

mr_goo

I seem to recall most people who had a telly rented it from DER or Radio Rentals.
I distinctly remember one of the neighbours trying to flog a device that you plugged into the aerial socket on black and white TVs that was supposed turn it into colour telly! Thankfully my technically inept late father didn't fall for that one.

seanoconn

Mmmmmm Bidi Bidi Bidi

whoof

As a child I went to Torquay in the 1970s and saw the Black and White Minstrels live. We sat in the front row and for the whole show one of the blacked up guys stared straight at me whilst sings. I found it to be quiet scary.

As others have said difficult to judge the 1970s from today's prespective. In the future people might be looking back and saying 'That Nelson Mandela was disgusting, he ate meat'.

Frank the tank

RideOnTime wrote:

I can't find a link to the Curry and Chips gem.

Another one was Derek Griffiths and a bus with a woman singing chink-ee chink-ee something or other while pulling their eyes to make themselves look Chinese.

This is not it but was the best I could find;

http://starsclassic.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/melting-pot-blue-minkmari-gordon-price.html

Its the bit where he goes Mr Yellow Chinky that in Derek's version he does the eyes...

The song Derek Grifiths was sing was "Melting pot" by blue mink (multi-racial band) which got high in the charts and is still played on radio today.

As for the curry and chips episode it has to be the singularly most unfunny and offensive piece of TV comedy/sit-com ever broadcast. Even allowing for the passage of time it is just so offensive.

Paulie W

Curry and Chips was written by Johnny Speight so in principle I suspect that it was actually attacking discrimination even if that is not really apparent now or tehn for that matter (given it only lasted 6 episodes)!

Frank the tank

Paulie W wrote:

Curry and Chips was written by Johnny Speight so in principle I suspect that it was actually attacking discrimination even if that is not really apparent now or tehn for that matter (given it only lasted 6 episodes)!

Bloomin' 'eck, I didn't know that. 'Til death was brilliant in it's observation and it was bloody funny. Can't believe the same bloke penned both.