Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "BBC Archive" channel.

  1. Having grown up at the same time as these kids I know why many expressed the opinions they did. Science fiction in those days, as it always had, made so many accurate predictions. From Ladt Penelope's poder compact (mobile phone) to the Star Trek replicator (3d printer).
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  2. Who knows of the famous magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead? A totally fantastic idea that is so cheap to make and maintain, does not depend upon power and cannot be broken. The two previous layouts of that junction were a total nightmare!
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  3.  @snowdog9954  Warm - pretty disgusting some times to be honest - LOL.
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  4.  @poempadgett4664  I would put them a little older than I was then maybe 13 or 14? Even most 16 or 17 year olds wouldn't be a match for their wisdom and pleasantness.
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  5. When you hear the lyrics of Do they know it's Christmas you realise how utterly stupid the whole thing was - Of course, many would not know it is Christmas as they are not Christians. And then there is the corny old "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas" - Well, I have a surprise for some people, yes there will be and lots of it in some parts of Africa!
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  6. Few people realise just how nutritious potatoes can be, as long as you don't over do them!
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  7. But they do have their smart phones and posh trainers!
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  8. Just imagine if they brought a law like that in these days. One lot would be claiming it was discrimination and refused to comply, another lot would be shouting it was the Government trying to control us and/ or that they were dangerous. Both lots would regret their decision when they hit the windscreen or the steering wheel and were either disfigured horribly for life or didn't live.
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  9. Where I worked a few years after this, the computer was the size of my current house!
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  10.  @KoshVader  Very sad but true. An awful lot of girls were tom boys but generally it was only a phase that they went through though.
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  11.  @vantheman1238  It was cowboys and Indians when I was a kid because that was what all American movies seemed to be about.
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  12.  @emmettturner9452  I agree that there was some early factory farming back then (I grew up in a farming community), but the old school farmers often looked down on it. I think these kids would have been talking about what it developed in to later. It was that later type of farming that got people used to cheap foods in the supermarkets and started to create a generation who didn't value food in the way it should be and the resulting huge waste of good food.
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  13. Those lads would be labelled as all sorts of things these days and it would be blamed on this and that. In those days they were just normal lads and no one really cared as they grew up and grew out of it.
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  14.  @SJHFoto  Branded and over priced sports footwear that never gets used for sports.
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  15.  @SJHFoto  Nike is about the only one I, some are named after your sports personalities, Jordan rings a bell.
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  16.  @SJHFoto  Sorry, I thought you were from south of the border. What part? I used to travel to Montreal fairly regularly for work with Pratt and Whitney.
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  17. @Andrew Schneider Until recently I had no real idea what a pronoun was!
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  18. @Andrew Schneider All those BS training courses are one of the things that contributed to my early retirement.
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  19. That is not bell ringing! It is an awful racket like you hear on the continent. There are people who can ring changes two in hand but they are rather special. This woman is rather "special" in a very different way!
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  20. @Craig Nothing wrong with eccentrics, that is how change ringers are generally viewed these days by those who do not understand the attraction.
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  21. Sadly I only ever knew one of my grandparents but both my parents had inherited some of the Victorian ways being born pre 1920. If only the 1850s generation could have recorded these sort of interviews!
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  22. If only kids were so innocent these days!
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  23. I just love those reckless youth! Lol.
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  24.  @KoshVader  Totally agree and I was not trying to deny that there have always been people who seem to have the wrong body as it were. In the past, this was mostly visible among the upper classes who could get away with it whereas the poor had to suffer in silence or face the full force of the law (including capital punishment in some cases). I do however think there should be an age limit before anything irreversible is done for the very reason that some children do go through phases (all three of my sisters and my Mrs fall into the Tomboy category that could have easily been misdiagnosed).
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  25.  @barbarasanders7965  That is because it was always hidden away and those affected made to feel ashamed. Have you ever heard of the Famous Five books or the "Amazons" in Arthur Ransome books?
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  26.  @wweisbeast321  Imagination was stolen from children when toys started to get more sophisticated. An ordinary push bike could be anything you wanted it to be in your imagination. As soon as it was made to look like a police motorbike or whatever, that is how it stayed for ever. Even Lego and Meccano became guilty when they started making kits that basically prevented kids using creativity and imagination.
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  27.  @KoshVader  I am aware of the laws in the UK and all the issues around this topic here. What does worry me (assuming any of it is accurate) is the situation in the US where, typical of them, money making has come into the equation. Some of the highly emotive terms being bandied around don't help either way.
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  28.  @grnpeepers2683  How old were you in 66? A great many of us grew up with a fresh outlook on the world and were brought up by parents who taught us to respect others but to think for ourselves.
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  29.  @jomac2046  I think you will find that the factory farming they were talking about was the next generation version- stuff they saw on sci fi movies and TV. Much like what was often portrayed as the cars of the future (funnily enough, many of those "future" cars seem to have been Citroen DSs originally from the 50s with bits stuck on).
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  30.  @nextinstitute7824  Someone was saying how far ahead the US is compared with Europe. I simply pointed out that they are not actually as far ahead as they think they are. Funnily enough the UK had EVs many years ago, delivering milk in reusable containers!
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  31.  @davidgray6959  If you watch these old clips, you will often spot kids predicting or saying ludicrous things so it is not as staged as you may think.
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  32.  @tgs1766  When rhythm and blues was still actually worth listening to and actually reflected it's origin.
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  33.  @raynarks  One of my big sisters carers did not know what tomatoes were when she saw them growing on a plant!
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  34.  @straightpipediesel  Is that why the song doesn't mention Ethiopia then? Still a bunch of virtue signallers
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  35. Sci Fi has so often predicted fact that it makes me wonder what there is to come next. I am pretty sure time travelling will never happen otherwise there would be evidence of it now. Autonomous weapons are another matter!
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  36. @carruthers100 I know, or rather knew Aylesbury a few years back and it was getting bad then. There used to be a huge roundabout along the road from me here on a 5 way junction. It was always fairly dodgy because it was too wide and people went too fast round it. It is now a traffic light controlled junction and extremely confusing. Quite a few people end up going the wrong way up one of the lanes due to the odd stagger. When the power goes or someone takes out a set of lights it is carnage! It would have been the perfect place for a magic roundabout and smoothed the traffic flow wonderfully.
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  37. It is so nice to hear children speaking politely and respectfully and not trying to imitate the talk of some of the less desirable amongst us.
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  38. £4 or £5 a week! Less than a gallon of petrol today.
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  39. I have not had a real mortgage for some time and have only ever bought one car on HP, but it would be interesting to do a genuine comparison today. I think some people might be shocked!
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  40.  @tatyboy1337  When you think that you can lose £3k on some new cars the minute you drive out of the showroom, £6k isn't that much!
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  41. @Andrew Schneider Is that one of each gender ethnicity?
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  42. @Andrew Schneider I am only on the pension I put away, luckily I paid my mortgage off as soon as I possible could which gives you a big effective pay rise. Use that to pay into your works pension and they match a portion of it and it builds up super quick.
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  43.  @misty_oar  That may be your opinion and as such you are welcome to it, but most normal people like a drink of nice cold milk as it is extremely healthy and good for most people.
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  44.  @original.dwornboy  And that makes a difference? I am sorry, but for this sort of thing to be broadcast now is in rather poor taste. In Victorian times they found entertainment in visiting asylums, are you suggesting it would be fine to broadcast that?
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  45.  @original.dwornboy  Then why does it need to be shown now? Is it not making a fool of the poor lady?
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  46.  @adamm2693  Are you a change ringer? Do you even know what that means?
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  47.  @kitm141  Back in the 60's my best mate from school (who got me into change ringing) was on the children's programme Magpie, ringing the portable campanile in the studio.
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  48.  @kitm141  In those days, "special" people made for good(?) entertainment on TV which I feel was rather cruel. Thankfully we have moved on when it comes to things like that.
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  49.  @Revdrwilliam  I did not say it is how they do it, only that it sounds like it.
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  50. Only when delivered to them by their mothers!
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