Aaaargh yes. Good thread.

I vaguely remember thinking that we were all going to go up in Mushroom Clouds from about 1980 for a good few years, (Whoops Apocalypse and Spitting Image on telly) but apart from that:

Ski Sunday theme tune, nicked from Innsbruck Winter Olympics coverage as I recall. If Innsbruck was '76, I was only 7. Downhill skiing looked AMAZING!

The drought of '76 and standpipes.

Silver Jubilee street parties and mugs, '77

Star Wars.

Battle of the Planets hitting children's hour somewhen in the late 70's / early 80s. Seriously.

Street Sounds Electro albums, early 80's and doing windmills on spread-out cardboard boxes in the playground.

Miners' Strike, '84

Gauntlet hitting arcades. '85?

Chernobyl disaster '86

Herald of Free Enterprise sinking with open doors '87

Hungerford massacre '87

Serious, proper House club culture and first drug use ' 88 and ongoing dance club madness for about 5 years.

Ceaucescu execution and Berlin Wall '89

Foot & Mouth and having to drive through disinfectant 2001

Anything more recent is probably in line with everyone else, apart from the sudden spike in aggressive media manipulation of opinion over the last couple of years and the State doing for David Kelly because he blew the whistle on the whole blag of the Iraq WMD bollox.

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Have you got any good jokes about the people that died at Hillsborough?

There was one about them getting to Heaven but finding the Pearly Gates locked.....