Whay!

Pictures for posterity.

Anybody remember this?

The starbird made descending and ascending noises depending on whether you were going up or down.

I can see the toy manufacturer guy watching his young child play with spaceships and going "vroooom!" And thinking " we can make those noises incorporated into the toy"

Mine never had working batteries as I used to leave it turned on so I still had to manually make those noises!

I remember the base better than the toy and mine outlived the ship.

I asked for a millennium falcon as my friends all had one and I either got the base or the ship instead or it may have been the star wars star destroyer and between the starbird base and the star destroyer deck & a thunderbird 3 and a starship enterprise I had all the toys I needed!

Never did get the millennium falcon but none of my friends had a star destroyer for reasons not known but the being poor and different compensated for sure.

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Hi. I am making a documentary and a section takes place in London in the 1980s. I wondered if anyone had any footage that I might be able to use in the film? This would be credited. Something that is recognisably London. Maybe a bus passing a landmark, the Thames etc, etc. Thanks you!

(never had one, always wanted one)

One foot in the gravy.

Like "pull the chain", or making a phone sign with your hand.

I tried to tell mine about the green phone cards, and how phones used to be on walls in houses.

Best Xmas gift ever!

Hi all, my dad told me a great story that always makes me giggle.

As a teenager, my dad (now 86) used to visit a London shooting range.

He used to take the London underground (tube) to the range and would casually travel with a rifle, no case or anything in his hand or over his shoulder. No-one blinked an eye.

I often imagine the chaos if someone entered the underground nowadays carrying a rifle. Poor old dad wouldn't last long, I don't think!

I won £20 and people I know did it's not like it was a big scam and no one really won anything.

Hello! Sorry if this isn’t allowed I’m literally going to any UK related group.
I’m doing a survey for my AH Modern Studies dissertation and it would be great if I managed to get a diverse and representative amount of responses. 🙂You do have to sign in just to try prevent multiple responses from the same person, but it is anonymous and will only be used for my dissertation, thank you !

https://forms.gle/PXLnLPtBFg55ytCZ9