Comments on: Why We Grew Up Strange

By: dead_roses

dead_roses — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:50:45 +0000

I remember “Day After Tomorrow” and the controversy it caused- the network couldn’t even get advertising for the second half of it – but played it anyway. It was depressing to say the least, but it was “Threads”, I believe, that was downright devastating. Talk about envying the dead! So, yeah, I distinctly remember growing up and knowing that I wasn’t likely to live to a ripe old age, due to nuclear war.

By: Liam T

Liam T — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:55:27 +0000

Don’t forget the classics BBC’s “Threads” and “The Wargame” both hideously frghtening as well as “Day after tomorrow” and Shutes “On the Beach”.

All fantastic works that managed to fuck me up, mix that with bbc’s “day of the triffids”, I was a virtual insomniac.

OH and btw SLA INDUSTRIES – BEST WORLD BACKGROUND EVER

By: Danny Wasp

Danny Wasp — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:27:18 +0000

RT @jearle: Excellent videos to scare the crap out of you.
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By: Jared Earle

Jared Earle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:21:01 +0000

Excellent videos to scare the crap out of you.
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By: dava

dava — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:12:26 +0000

I actually think this program might even have been shown to me at school! I guess it’s all very well educating children of the dangers but really what is the point when the knowledge cannot be applied in any shape or form. If a child is going to be vaporized by a nuclear blast, then I guess it’s better he knows as little about what is going happen as possible.

Protect and Survive was really just about false hope. You were dead before realised it was all crap. Perhaps the government hated this program for this exact reason. ‘Well done, QED – thanks. There’s not a single person in the whole of the UK who has a single chance of survival, and now they have to carry on their day to day lives, knowing it”.

Dave

By: Jared Earle

Jared Earle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:02:15 +0000

The piece at the end is "Missa Brevis in D Op. 63: Benedictus" by Benjamin Britten, probably the Kings College Choir version.

By: Dave C

Dave C — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:41:26 +0000

For years I had a great idea of building a nuclear survival shelter from a door propped against a wall and covered in meringue. I figured that if Baked Alaska could survive the heat of an oven then it should work to save me

On reflection it seems I may not have been taking the impending apocalypse seriously

By: DaveAllsop

DaveAllsop — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:37:59 +0000

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