"Ted Heath with an Instagram account"

[Sue]

It's a crap insult, anyone under 40 probably has no idea who Heath was , and arguably who Lawson is (apart from being Nigella's dad ) . Who writes their speeches ? They need to sack their arses & get decent speech writers.

And anyone over 40 isn't completely sure what Instagram is either so...

<Awaits outraged responses from Urbans telling me they're all over Insta... >

 

[Elpenor]

I’d love to hear a Partridge-like local radio DJ

“Tell us which current day politicians and celebrities are like ones from the 70s with a social media account”

Next up, it’s Curtis Stigers

 

[littlebabyjesus]

And anyone over 40 isn't completely sure what Instagram is either so...

<Awaits outraged responses from Urbans telling me they're all over Insta... >

I reckon you need to be about 60+ to properly remember the energy crisis, three-day week, etc.

Ted Heath with an AOL account?

 

[Sue]

I reckon you need to be about 60+ to properly remember the energy crisis, three-day week, etc.

Ted Heath with an AOL account?

Well I'm nearly 50 and I can just about remember power cuts and candles but not in any great detail (more because we thought it was fun....)

 

[gosub]

50 this year and like most of my class born as a result of the 3 day week

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Well I'm nearly 50 and I can just about remember power cuts and candles but not in any great detail (more because we thought it was fun....)

I remember power cuts and candles (and that it was fun), but I think that was from the late 70s rather than the early 70s. Heath was out of office in 74. You would have been under 2.

 

[danny la rouge]

Well I'm nearly 50 and I can just about remember power cuts and candles but not in any great detail (more because we thought it was fun....)

Yes, I remember all that (I’m 57), but I’m sure more of what I know about it is from subsequent politico nerdiness.

 

[danny la rouge]

I remember we had a collection on standby of jam jars with candles melt-stuck inside them. They were in the cupboard above the kettle.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

We had metal oil lamps with wicks.

/posh

 

[danny la rouge]

We had metal oil lamps with wicks.

/posh

Not even Bon Maman jars? Wow!

 

[Sue]

I remember me and my brother snaffling some candles and matches and trying to make toast.

(No, it doesn't work. You just get big sooty marks on your bread. We couldn't even ask why it didn't work as then we'd have needed to own up to our candles/matches badness...)

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Not even Bon Maman jars? Wow!

I can still remember the smell of petrol. I liked that smell.

 

[danny la rouge]

I remember me and my brother snaffling some candles and matches and trying to make toast.

(No, it doesn't work. You just get big sooty marks on your bread. We couldn't even ask why it didn't work as then we'd have needed to own up to our candles/matches badness...)

We had a coal fire and a toasting fork! Sounds Dickensian now, but we thought it was exciting. This was before I’d even seen a digital watch, mind you.

 

[RubyToogood]

And anyone over 40 isn't completely sure what Instagram is either so...

<Awaits outraged responses from Urbans telling me they're all over Insta... >

I remember candles and cooking on a camping gas stove and am all over Instagram.

I am duly outraged.

 

[Serge Forward]

As most people have got central heating, combi boilers and no fireplace, we'd be proper fucked now if we had full on power cuts like the 70s. Our neighbour, who worked for the council's direct works, had a generator in his back yard. Oh, how jealous we were, us with no telly, and playing monopoly by candlelight.

In truth, the novelty of cards and games was lovely.

Anyway, Rachel Reeves is Vlad the Impaler with an Instagram account.

 

[marty21]

And anyone over 40 isn't completely sure what Instagram is either so...

<Awaits outraged responses from Urbans telling me they're all over Insta... >

Tbf , I do use Insta quite a lot , and I'm well over 40 (and 50)

 

[marty21]

50 this year and like most of my class born as a result of the 3 day week

As a kid I thought the 3 day week sounded ace tbf

 

[marty21]

I reckon you need to be about 60+ to properly remember the energy crisis, three-day week, etc.

Ted Heath with an AOL account?

I'm 56 & I just about remember power cuts & the 3 day weeks (which still sounds ace btw)

 

[littlebabyjesus]

As a kid I thought the 3 day week sounded ace tbf

Fun power cuts and a 4-day weekend.

Sorry, what was the problem again?

 

[bluescreen]

I'm old enough to remember how they brought back the old manual tills out of storage for those shops that had hurricane lamps. (People could still do mental arithmetic, too.) Commerce would be totally fucked now without electricity.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm 56 & I just about remember power cuts & the 3 day weeks (which still sounds ace btw)

yeh i remember my parents getting the candles out, and it wasn't later in the decade because we were still in their first house.

 

[killer b]

We had a coal fire and a toasting fork! Sounds Dickensian now, but we thought it was exciting.

toast made with a toasting fork over the embers of a fire is the best toast though tbf.

 

[Sue]

Tbf , I do use Insta quite a lot , and I'm well over 40 (and 50)

We're not all hipsters though, marty21. Just you and RubyToogood by the looks of it.

 

[danny la rouge]

We're not all hipsters though, marty21. Just you and RubyToogood by the looks of it.

I was on Instagram for a bit, but I didn’t get anything out of it so I deleted it. It was pretty boring.

 

[Sue]

I was on Instagram for a bit, but I didn’t get anything out of it so I deleted it. It was pretty boring.

Too hip for Instagram eh?

 

[RubyToogood]

Instagram is brilliant for sewing stuff. There's a whole culture of sewing people on there which is very feminist, anti-racist, body positive and eco-conscious. And likes frocks.

 

[hitmouse]

Accidental approval for Thatcher's government is in some ways worse. How on earth can you get yourself into such a muddle that you end up accidentally praising Thatcher?

(is this more acceptable than referencing Lebowski?)

Too hip for Instagram eh?

Moved on to tiktok, I'm assuming.