It's the holidays.... (1 Viewer)

[theweeyin]

.....and I'm BORED! Suggestions please?!??!

 

[pete]

Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?

 

[theweeyin]

Yes thank you Pete, like what?

 

[pete]

well if memory serves you could collect soap, or build your own hovercraft

 

[pete]

'Why Don't You?' or, to give it its more snappy title 'Why don't you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?' was a massively bizarre television programme, broadcast throughout the United Kingdom in the late seventies and early eighties. It was a very BBC affair.

It was always on during the summer holidays - you always got five or so weeks of it - during the week from about 9 till half past. Technically it was a magazine type show, with loads of things to do, make, eat, visit... and so on, but - and this was the 'good' bit - it was presented by kids, usually in some sort of a youth hut, or other idealized, stereotypical, suited businessman's conception of a place where kids like to be.

It was heavily scripted, and usually very over rehearsed: occasionally bits were so clunky (almost always involved them making peppermint creams with sugar, peppermint essence, sugar, food colouring and sugar; or bashing digestives in a plastic bag with a rolling-pin - no-one knows why) that it's a wonder the whole thing didn't come crashing round their faded jeans and multi-coloured socks. But, marvellously, it didn't - and it was, actually, reasonably good fun. It certainly had a golden era, though, round about 1980 I think. It was the time they took to telling jokes using puppets made of spectacles: take your glasses off, extend your middle finger and stick the glasses on it, as if it was a nose (you're all doing it, I can tell); use second and fourth finger to grip the top of the glasses, and then connect the thumb up to the 'nose' to make the mouth. Now you can make it talk. Use half-moon glasses for intellectual jokes, Barry Humphries glasses for outrageous jokes, and National Health glasses for jokes about the working class. Fun, huh?

And then there was Doris. Doris came and got people if you said her name - her trademark was a large, stripey sock. It all made so much sense at the time.

Ho hum. The fickleness of youth.

there you go

 

[Hector Grey]

Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?

that's not the why don't you i remember...

 

[rampz]

well if memory serves you could collect soap, or build your own hovercraft

or make a homemade pizza. ingredients: bread, easi singles, tomato ketchup............................................

 

[cpr]

why don't you- go see leonardo's codex in the chester beatty library!its awesomes.

 

[pete]

why don't you- go see leonardo's codex in the chester beatty library!its awesomes.

she's foreign

 

[cpr]

i was unaware...

 

[theweeyin]

I'm in Reading at the moment And I'm also still Scottish!

 

[cpr]

mmm i was in reading once..not much to do around those parts...

 

[Hector Grey]

mmm i was in reading once..not much to do around those parts...

except read.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

.....and I'm BORED! Suggestions please?!??!

Fancy taking a trip down to The Three Sisters to see did my mobile phone ever turn up?

 

[Squiggle]

I wish I had time to be bored... that would be lovely!

 

[rettucs]

that's not the why don't you i remember...

I had a huge crush on one of the ones out of the Liverpool gang. Made sure I was tuned in at 9:30am all that summer to see her on it.

wonder whatever happened to her.

 

[Hector Grey]

I had a huge crush on one of the ones out of the Liverpool gang. Made sure I was tuned in at 9:30am all that summer to see her on it.

wonder whatever happened to her.

i had a crush on yer one from dungeons and dragons and stewpots girlfriend from grange hill.

 

[rettucs]

i had a crush on yer one from dungeons and dragons and stewpots girlfriend from grange hill.

which one was stewpot's girlfriend?

I had several crushes on ladies in Grange Hill. Can't remember any of their names. One of them might have been called Caroline Donnington (the same as the monsters of rock festival place).

Ziggy Greaves looked ok in a certain light also

 

[Hector Grey]

which one was stewpot's girlfriend?

I had several crushes on ladies in Grange Hill. Can't remember any of their names. One of them might have been called Caroline Donnington (the same as the monsters of rock festival place).

Ziggy Greaves looked ok in a certain light also

i can't remember her name, but he snogged her in a cupboard or somewhere and something very weird happened to my heart and groin simultaneously

 

[rettucs]

i can't remember her name, but he snogged her in a cupboard or somewhere and something very weird happened to my heart and groin simultaneously

i remember that. They was smoochin in the janitor's closet and they got snared by Mr.Griffiths (the PE teacher). He ratted them out to McCluskey and she called in their parents. I remember Stewpot's aul lad going nuts at McCluskey saying it was no big deal, all they did was had an aul smooch. I think they got suspended for a bit.

Stewpot turned up in the bill there a few years ago as a copper (whats the chances). Hadn't changed a bit.

anyone rememeber Danny Kendall. The madser who designed the Grange Hill school logo? He looked a bit like Richie Jape only couldn't sing as well.

Roly Poly was the all time best though. The fat tub of lard. Remember that little black one fancied him and he was all morto and all.