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[Starscream`s Gho...]

I like the new Audi ad. (Cardboard car and silly song = win)

I like the images, but the song is beyond annoying.

I feel the need to commit nasty murder whenever the Shredded Wheat ad is on. I know it's only made of wheat. I don't need a collection of daft bints telling me so.

[Sostie]

Liking the he new Virgin Atlantic ad. So much 80's nostalgia in one ad. Though I can't listen to Frankie's "Relax" now without Tiki Bar flashbacks.

[Rua]

So much 80's nostalgia in one ad.

That'll be why I'm not enjoying it so much.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

That'll be why I'm not enjoying it so much.

C'mon, who doesn't have fond memories of 'Our Price' stores?

[Rua]

C'mon, who doesn't have fond memories of 'Our Price' stores?

I give you Our Price stores. I did smile at that. It's true.

[Sostie]

I give you Our Price stores. I did smile at that. It's true.

And Wimpy. Where else could you get a Knickerbocker Glory or a doughnut with a blob of ice cream on it (a brown derby I do believe)

[Rua]

Was never that keen on Wimpy & I don't like Knickerbocker Glorys. I used to have to make them when I was a waiter, horrid things.

I'm just sick of the 80's. I was sick of the 80's during the 80's & I can only really remember half of it properly.
It's also sad that the 00's have no distiguishable identity of their own apart from nostalgia. It's a poor refelection on current generations & we should all just curl into a giant ball & crawl back into one giant womb.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

And Wimpy. Where else could you get a Knickerbocker Glory or a doughnut with a blob of ice cream on it (a brown derby I do believe)

A brown derby? That sounds like a weekend at your house.

Wasn't it strange how Wimpy prided themselves on "real plates and cutlery"? You sell burgers and chips!

[PrincessKate]

What is Blimpy to Wimp? Is it the sausage-based offshoot?
I saw one in either Newcastle or Middlesbrough once.

A quick google reveals it to not actually exist, maybe I was hallucinating.

There's an advert on TV currently which I do really like but right now I can't remember what its for, what the theme is or why I even like it.
I'll be back.

[Zoe]

It's also sad that the 00's have no distiguishable identity of their own apart from nostalgia. It's a poor refelection on current generations & we should all just curl into a giant ball & crawl back into one giant womb.

I like to think that we were responsible for the nineties.

It's the young'uns that fucked up the noughties.

[gulfcoast_highwa...]

Back in the 80's, Wimpy opened their 50th ever UK restaurant in Leeds and it coincided with my Grandparents' 50th Wedding anniversary.

As a promotional thing, they threw a big free party for all the grandkids in the restaurant and ferried my grandparents back and forth in a gold Rolls Royce for the day. The Wimpy is now a Macdonalds.

[logger]

we should all just curl into a giant ball & crawl back into one giant womb.

Only if I can take a load of air hostesses with me.

[maian]

I'm just sick of the 80's. I was sick of the 80's during the 80's & I can only really remember half of it properly.
It's also sad that the 00's have no distiguishable identity of their own apart from nostalgia. It's a poor refelection on current generations & we should all just curl into a giant ball & crawl back into one giant womb.

Could it not be argued that the identity of the noughties is the result of the end of any form of optimism that lingered at the end of the last century? That with a paranoid world dominated by a utilitarian superpower roaming free and a media that wants us all to shit ourselves twelve times before breakfast, the idea of familiarity and kitsch is an appropriate response for most people? It's not the response of everyone, I personally have a lot of disdain for the 80s, and even aspects of the 90s and most of the 00s (I'm disdainful, really) but it's not exactly the fault of 'current generations' that everyone has donned some massive rose-tinted glasses.

I'd say that the nostalgia thing has died off somewhat recently, it's certainly not anywhere near the level it was three or four years ago, and I imagine that the next decade will probably be more forcefully shaped, culture wise, in the same way (and I hate writing this because the historian in me knows that it's a logical fallacy that makes me sound incredibly twattish) that the late 1940s had no real sort of cultural identity to it other than that which had exsited prior to the war but which was replaced by more prominent cultural movements and identities in the 50s.

The profliferation of forms of media and a move away from mass movements is probably responsible for it as well. If nothing else, the noughties will be remembered as tumultuous and divergent.

This post has been edited by maian: Jan 6 2009, 09:26 PM

[Starscream`s Gho...]

C'mon, who doesn't have fond memories of 'Our Price' stores?

I seem to remember people calling it 'Our Pricey'.

[Rua]

I'd say that the nostalgia thing has died off somewhat recently.

Dude, it's 2009. The decade is over next year.

Ed, I'm no historian but I'd say almost every generation has it's reason to don rose-tinted glasses of some persuasion. I don't think anything has happened in the last nine years in contrast to the last hundred of such magnitude that should have caused a response of such babyish & mass regressive behaviour. It's not just the nostalgia thing that bothers me but the increase of child like behaviour that seems to go hand in hand with it. I'm interested though, has anything like this happened before?

Obviously the media & the recent past have an effect on the present but the people of the era have to take responsibility for what they have produced, they certainly like to take credit for what they have in the past.