Red is Dead Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Another one gets a fucking blue peter badge - at 19!!!!!! lucky cunt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 A couple of my friends got Blue Peter badges in the early 80s. They got invited on because they wanted to know who got to eat the leftover cake mix out of the bowls when they baked on Blue Peter... so they wrote in to Jim'll Fix It, and got on to Blue Peter via that. I was pretty jealous at the time. Not so much now though. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I'm a bit disappointed they did not bring back the European title. History aside, it has a great design, 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 8 hours ago, AxB said: A couple of my friends got Blue Peter badges in the early 80s. They got invited on because they wanted to know who got to eat the leftover cake mix out of the bowls when they baked on Blue Peter... so they wrote in to Jim'll Fix It, and got on to Blue Peter via that. I was pretty jealous at the time. Not so much now though. I... have no idea what you're talking about. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I think we need to be British. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Jim'll Fix It was presented by Jimmy Saville. Umm... imagine if you'd had a friend at High School who'd been really good at American Football, to the point that he was recruited by Penn State, and you'd been jealous that he got to meet the famous Jerry Sandusky. It's like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red is Dead Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 3 hours ago, Michael Sweetser said: I... have no idea what you're talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peter_badge Blue Peter was a magazine type show for kids. A 4:30pm staple for kids tv, Monday through Friday from the late sixties all the way up to the current day. It is INCREDIBLY British. Imagine a British version of Mr Rogers, but with three hosts, in a live studio with pets and a garden outside. It focused on good things that parents could do with kids, fun features about sports and art competitions. shit to get kids to sit down and be creative with mum or to go out and try sports or cook in the kitchen with the family. Stuff these days which would be derided as "gay" by your average 14 year old. it also didnt pull punches in youth development. When the pets died, they didnt skirt around the issue, they confronted the talk about death head on so kids could understand. And part of the attraction was they had these badges - innocuous looking things. But they were coveted. If you had one, people knew that you'd done some good shit for your community as a youngster, you'd completed a massive feat, or you'd come through some serious hardship and raised money for a charity. Thing was, the badge opened doors to all sorts of attractions...for free. National museums, theme parks, the lot. Which, for a kid of about 8 or 9 was fucking mindblowing. Yes, I freely admit theres a ton of nostalgia around the mythos of the Blue Peter Badge, but because they were literally like rocking horse shit, it's still a mark out moment for me to see these things. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Shush lads, you're giving the game away! We could've had a unique carny code on this board 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyld Samurai Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 On 1/15/2017 at 7:31 AM, The Natural said: It's Bayley!!! Are you sure that's not Joseph Gordon Levitt circa Third Rock from the Sun? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 3 hours ago, CreativeControl said: Shush lads, you're giving the game away! We could've had a unique carny code on this board You mean English English? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfrey Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 3 hours ago, CreativeControl said: Shush lads, you're giving the game away! We could've had a unique carny code on this board A friend was reading the board over my shoulder one time and safe to say I think we've got enough of our own vernacular already. On the other hand, he'll never know what a Hollywood Cibernetico is so maybe he comes out on top. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 7 hours ago, Michael Sweetser said: I... have no idea what you're talking about. Lets say if he met Jimmy Saville he would be getting more than a badge. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Even I know about that weird fuck. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 'Weird.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Is Blue Peter not still going? Where does the Doctor Who cast go to awkwardly interact with kids now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 9 minutes ago, Mike Zeidler said: Is Blue Peter not still going? Where does the Doctor Who cast go to awkwardly interact with kids now? Not the Jimmy Saville estate, I'll tell you that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 19 minutes ago, Mike Zeidler said: Is Blue Peter not still going? Where does the Doctor Who cast go to awkwardly interact with kids now? American comic book conventions. Oh wait, you said kids. Never mind. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 You guys could always just start writing in Cockney rhyming slang and only a lurking Chris Jericho might know what you're talking about. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Just you wait till we add the Ubbi Dubbi macro like I've been asking for. Just. you. wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iron Yuppie Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Blue Peter sounds like a program that was wildly popular in Arizona called Wallace & Ladmo. It aired out of Phoenix for about three decades, wrapping up its run in...1990, I think. I was just starting school when it went off the air. When Nigel and Cole talked about their Blue Peter badges, it reminded me of the Ladmo Bag: It was basically just a brown grocery bag stamped with the show logo and had toys and snacks inside. Wallace & Ladmo's relevant to the wrestling discussion because the show's creator, Wallace (one of the left) worked as an announcer in the Arizona territory. He referred to the show's antagonist, Gerald (the Li'l Lord Fauntelroy character in the middle) as its "heel." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 5 hours ago, Mike Zeidler said: Is Blue Peter not still going? Where does the Doctor Who cast go to awkwardly interact with kids now? One of the current hosts was on camera as a ringsider at the WWE UK Championship Tournament (night 2). So yeah, it's still going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 On 1/15/2017 at 9:31 AM, The Natural said: It's Bayley!!! CASH ME OUSSIDE HOW BOW DAH 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red is Dead Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I dont know what the problem was with Jimmy Savile. He fixed it for me to milk a cow, while I was blindfolded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintthecrippler Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 LIJ found its newest honorary member! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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