Settle an argument

[peachy]

Same here.

I would have loved a pair as a bairn but my rather puritanical Dad thought any sort of Americanisation was the work of the devil.

Same applied to denims, comics, bubble gum, ITV and going to the pictures on a Saturday morning - the acceptable substitute for all of these things was 'getting outside in the fresh air'.

It really was a different world back then.

I wasn't allowed to watch Batman.

 

[Pancho]

I wasn't allowed to watch Batman.

Any particular reason?

 

[black cat in france]

Any particular reason?

Not remember the warning at the begining, Batman can't really fly don't try it kids. Mebee that.

 

[Hair Flick]

I wasn't allowed to watch Batman.

When my aunties used to come round to babysit, we'd play batman, running around in our underpants with a towel round your neck & shoulders for a cape. You probably got off lightly

 

[peachy]

Any particular reason?

"Better off playing in the garden"

 

[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

I think it was the adverts that he thought were evidence of creeping Americanisation which he hated.

"Dangling stuff in front of people that they can't afford" or "if it was any good they wouldn't need to hawk it on telly". When he was in rant mode, logic wasn't his strong point.

Our family went from having one of the first TV's in Seaham ( got it for the Coronation) to one of the last in the country to buy the "converter" you needed to get ITV.

It was really frustrating as a kid not to join in with mates when they were talking about the latest ITV shows.

They were all singing the theme tune to Torchy the Battery Boy while I was stuck with f***ing Panorama.

And that was another thing he hated, cartoons.



Aye, all bitter and twisted.

 

[Vinny the Mackem]

For the sake of completeness ...

 

[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

For the sake of completeness ...

Completion...

 

[Vinny the Mackem]

Completion...

Completeness...

 

[Alan BStard]

We had a shoe bag that we kept our plimsolls in.
I had a brown one with my initials that my mum made at primary school. I made my own in red gingham check with embroidered initials at secondary school. They both hung on coat pegs. Kept house shoes in the senior school one.

Were they P and B?

 

[Sir Lancelot]

What did we used to call those black shoes you wore to do PE in at school?

The Midlands Inlaws called them daps or plimsolls. The Sheffield in laws called them pumps.

I remember them called summat else but can’t remwmber.

Sand shoes?

Bugger it, read the fluffing thread before hitting reply.

My favourite programme as a child. I used to cry when it finished. I had such a deprived childhood with no repeat function on the tv or even videotapes!

 

[knarfw]

Sanners

 

[SAFCOldie]

Sannys ?

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[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

Were they P and B?

Peachbum or Paddington Bear?

 

[goldie]

I’m going to hazard a guess that as someone called them Punjabs earlier, it’s an abbreviation of that. Mebbes based on some kind of footwear brought back from India during the days of the Raj?

If i remember properly it was pund jabs rather than punjabs cos they cost a quid

 

[Hair Flick]

If i remember properly it was pund jabs rather than punjabs cos they cost a quid

More likely most of us had never even heard of the Punjab back then so said what we thought we heard that fitted in with our experiences at that time? It only takes one person to say it and then it becomes the accepted name.

 

[Vinny the Mackem]

More likely most of us had never even heard of the Punjab back then so said what we thought we heard that fitted in with our experiences at that time?

It was definitely punjabs in my school. Given the racist comments & false Indian accents that went with it, it was punjabs without a doubt.

 

[Aldhun]

Sand Shoes

 

[WildTurkey]

What did we used to call those black shoes you wore to do PE in at school?

The Midlands Inlaws called them daps or plimsolls. The Sheffield in laws called them pumps.

I remember them called summat else but can’t remwmber.

You must have put up a cracking argument

 

[j.p.calhoon]

I used to call them "my shoes" as they were the only ones I had......