Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "BBC Archive" channel.

  1. I slept through 2020. Did I miss a joke or something?
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  2. Objectively it has had a terrible effect on humanity.
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  3. She did seem to think that people were too stupid to realise it was not a documentary.
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  4. These days listening to an old 80's LP is called snobbery lol.
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  5. i don't think what he did would not hurt a CD at all, if you cleaned it all off. As long as you didn't scratch it. It's probably true that they are made cheaper with lower quality now though.
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  6. Media consumption is more about quantity than quality today.
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  7. Michael here is giving me real Alan Partridge vibes.
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  8. I had a spectrum and always wished it was a C64. Then I had an Atari ST and always wished it was an Amiga. The trauma never really left me.
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  9. I'd like to travel back and leave a note for myself to buy a thousand bitcoins around 2010.
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  10. 2 minutes in and he's 100 feet up climbing that vertical ladder with no safety gear whatsoever. My bollocks are doing backflips just watching him.
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  11. My phone is literally my Internet modem. I use mobile hot-spot because I'm in a rural area with crappy land lines. 25meg download on a mobile phone in the middle of nowhere. Just crazy how far things have come.
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  12.  @nyx9875  Well I am old enough to have been an adult before the internet was a thing. So yeah... I know. Cars really haven't warped human psychology in anywhere near the same extent that the internet has.
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  13. I never realised until I watched this that the service needed a special box that cost nearly 400 quid. I mean 400 quid must have been an absolute fortune back then. By the time I came along it was already a free service that most TVs came with. I remember going to the kids' page and doing the quizzes and also there were video game tips.
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  14.  @danh5637  Until the last handful of years strangely.
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  15. I'll stick with my cosy cluttered house with a Bob Dylan vinyl on the shelf thank you.
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  16. I tried this back in the day but I accidentally put in my mix tape. The first track started saying "Get back.... Get back..." Then the next one was "Turn around.... every now and then...." Then it was "Stop right now...." I never got anywhere.
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  17. I'm not so sure. How often do we really need a new iPhone?
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  18. You'll notice Tomorrow's World isn't on any more because it would be too depressing.
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  19. "When you're 35 and 45" Those kids will be at least 50 now.
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  20. And pretty soon the censors will be issuing fines if we say something politically incorrect in the privacy of our vehicles. You see if I'm wrong.
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  21. Oh my god Future Zone. There's a name I have not even thought about in a long time. Me and my mate used to bunk off school and go to play the demo Megadrive they had there.
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  22. Google Home, Alexa, Smart meters.... It's all creepy AF if you ask me.
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  23.  @therealcaldini  No I meant those MASSIVE EARS.
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  24. It's actually not a bad idea to stay warm.
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  25. How about "We can take as much or as little of this technology as we like" YEAH RIGHT...
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  26. There were only about 3 channels back then so people didn't have a lot of choice.
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  27. All of a sudden Bros weren't cool any more.
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  28.  @horiabodeanu7641  - It has shortened our attention spans. - It has introduced deranging non-stop political radicalisation to the masses. - It has ruined dating and courtship. - It has given authorities immense power to monitor and condition our behaviour. Far from being a source of information, we have now reached a point where you can no longer tell what is even real, be it a video, image or a news report. Nothing on the internet can be trusted and unlike previous methods of propaganda, there is very little effort and zero consequence for simply making up complete lies online. A central site like Wikipedia that 90% of people use as their primary source of facts can be re-written in seconds and is aggressively gatekept by a small elite group of ideologues in California. Similar situation with other hugely influential social media sites. We have a long way to go and perhaps it will turn out to be a boon to humanity, but for the meantime my opinion is that the internet is doing massive damage to our society and our humanity and poses a short term existential threat.
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  29. Yep. I use the very phone I'm typing on now as my Internet (via the hotspot function) because it has faster bandwidth than my land-line.
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  30. Yes my kids use them. Not 'their own' but in some lessons they dish them out as learning tools. They're cheap androids of course, although the autistic kid gets an ipad air. Not a bad idea since that's the world they are growing up in.
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  31. Lol me too. Or maybe mine is older. I have a fireplace... in the bedroom!
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  32. I never liked this movie. Maybe something to do with the ordeal of it being the earliest school play I can remember doing. I'm not a keen actor.
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  33. I love the way it's still called a "cassette of tape".
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  34. Sounds like something you might catch in a seedy nightclub.
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  35. I went straight the that website too around 1996... Clicked on an image of Emma Bunton using my 28k modem. Then got bored waiting. I should check to see if its downloaded yet.
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  36. Taxing us for air and light... don't give the current crop of ********s more ideas.
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  37. For some reason Fred has me thinking about the FA Cup. Can't think why. Was he an ex footballer?
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  38. The one thing that TW didn't predict was the use of all this tech for surveillance, censorship and private data collection by mega corporations who are in league with government. In those days we would have regarded it as an Orwellian nightmare.
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  39. To be all the way up there chatting away and not shitting a brick you need to have something wrong in the head.
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  40. People didn't get so triggered by spoilers back then.
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  41. I totally forgot there were three of them.
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  42.  @Ceu.Noturno  You're kind of right. Atomic science gave us Hiroshima and now we have the prospect of near infinite energy if we use it wisely. The internet is in the early stages of that story arc. It hasn't got to the mass death stage yet, but after the truly dystopian ordeal it will almost certainly put us through as inevitably states realise it's full potential for control and subjugation, I think we will emerge enlightened in the further future.
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  43. I wonder if Howard has grown into his suit yet.
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  44.  @MichaelRowe-cv3oq  It might be irony.
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  45. "Alexa... Bach please" Alexa: "Woof Woof"
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  46.  @shingitai5882  HS2 has been a massive land grab scam with their compulsory purchases. Somebody needs to go to jail for it. Absolutely atrocious.
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  47. The way she was marching around that sitting room was doing it for me.
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  48. It's a poisoned chalice. Worst thing that ever happened to the Western world.
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  49. When I go to my parents' house, I literally sit on the exact same toilet I did back in 1988 when I was a child.
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  50. That news report could have been yesterday.
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