Watching a Channel 5 show about the winter of 1982. Sample portentous news-style voice-over: ‘But not everyone wanted to do the Hokey Cokey.’ - ThreadSky

grindrod.bsky.social • 67 days ago

Watching a Channel 5 show about the winter of 1982. Sample portentous news-style voice-over: ‘But not everyone wanted to do the Hokey Cokey.’

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mfraz74.bsky.social•67 days ago

Don't remember that in 82, do remember it being bad Jan 85 as I was celebrating my 10th birthday. Glad I missed the celebrity interviews.

ajred.bsky.social•67 days ago

I keep thinking I don't really remember any of this, but then I flicked to C4's extreme weather 2024 and I don't remember any of that either.

grindrod.bsky.social•67 days ago

I remember it quite strongly but then I am maudlin

petercmoore.bsky.social•67 days ago

Bit of a comedown for Adam Curtis

grindrod.bsky.social•67 days ago

But it was a trap…

michaellondonsf.bsky.social•67 days ago

1982: feels to me that we were scared by Thatcherism unfolding and by Cruise Missiles re-opening nuclear arms race. No hokey cokey in sight in Dalston, London

grindrod.bsky.social•67 days ago

A whole district of London scared hokey-cokeyless

sisitar.bsky.social•67 days ago

I put my left foot in, but then skidded on the ice before I could shake it all about.

grindrod.bsky.social•67 days ago

Potential death trap

bedsboy.bsky.social•66 days ago

I was 14. I remember it being a bit snowy. I don’t remember the apocalypse

alistaircoleman.bsky.social•67 days ago

This sounds important. Did they have a list of names?

grindrod.bsky.social•67 days ago

A screen grab of them from Ceefax

chorlton-wheelies.bsky.social•67 days ago

Did you make that your ring tone?

mattavaughan.bsky.social•67 days ago

I just remembered being asked to do the Hokey Cokey around that time at play group. I had never heard of the Hokey Cokey, and found the experience very alienating

grindrod.bsky.social•67 days ago

Little did you know you would be included in a statistic in a documentary decades later

tessaku.bsky.social•66 days ago

well that’s a lie for a start …

leitch.org.uk•67 days ago

But that's what it's all about.

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