Youth entertainment | 1980s Youths | Boredom | Living in the 1980s | White light | 1981
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- 'White light' Presenter James Maw chairs discusses what entertainment is available for today's youth - and what more could be done to prevent boredom and anti social behaviour.
First shown: 09/10/1981
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“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
40 years on, the youngsters are still grappling with the same old problem: boredom. It's serious thing. I loved the roller rinks of the early part of the decade. They died out in the late '80s. I was lucky enough to learn and then get to skate. Even though my folks lived in a sleepy village, I had a gran who had a holiday home in Rhyl, North Wales, where there was a huge rink, and that's where I spent school hols. I think it closed in about '90. Sad.😎
I go roller skating now :) Not everywhere has shut down :)
Yeah but jenny than mass playstations cheap international travel,mass migration of other youngsters to liven things up and 24 hour news sunday and late evening shopping came and... the internet..mass pornography and youtibe music and tv...surely no youngsters are bored since 2020...apart of course from those on london estates who after taking mass drugs complain they are bored and stab each other...this is filmed in an age of innocence when there was genuine boredom....not now
Its refreshing to listen to how English is suppose to sound.
NO VOCAL FRY
Would be great for people who were in this to find this. Would be interested where they are now.
I was just thinking that!
@bad intentions Great, cant beat squash as well !
@HK Klein 😂
This was from 1981. If they were 15 then, must be 55 plus now. That guy
in the red shirt, is it me or does he seem a bit odd?
Indeed!
Im feeling so bloody guilty for watching them for free on youtube while living so far out in the country.
It's OK, I turned Rik's bedroom into a roller disco.
Tickets for a concert costs 6 quid (1981). They're absolutely astronomical nowadays £££ 😂
According to the bank of England today's equivalent is £23.52. something has happened
@@MrDirkles Recording artists have become greedy in their old age ☹
@@frankiehoskyn3948 so have the Odeon!
@@MrDirkles Yep the cinema's have as well.
@@frankiehoskyn3948 Well they're certainly not making much on album sales anymore
Why don't you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?
"Whyyyyy don't youuuuu" "Whyyyy don't youu?"
"All the glamour is in London"
the tube /bus
We had Hard Rock music, Rainbow, Def Leppard, Kiss, Whitesnake, Rush etc Great times of youth, friday/saturday night at the rock disco☺💋🤸🌟
"Everybody's just sitting back, hoping it's going to be handed to them."
She is knackered but she is a beauty.
8:10 this chick currently helps to run the national all lesbian burn - your - bras - ladies feminist movement
@Jed Maxwell haha! Yes but I don't think she's a lezzer lol
Nah that’s a youngsters gayme- she’s in her 50’s now - so living with her “friend” of 20 years, 4 rescued dogs and working at the local underfunded drop in for people with disabilities on benefits. Still Changing fuck all. 😂
A 6 hour school day is knackering to be fair
9:38 that girl owned him.
I was that age them. Love the figures. Tickets £3.
I think there has always been this issue and always will be for SOME. Anyone could watch this and take it at face value and imagine all kids and teens were the same when thats far from the truth lol. while i was born in 82, remember most things from 3 up there were youth clubs, kids and teens did things, played out together, we all had roller skates, made dens in fields, ice skating. we were never bored when i was little. we went to each others houses etc.
we all who i know had commodores and Amstrads so yes we were on computers playing games, swapping games, watching tv but there was a good even balance back then.
£1.50, £2 wish they were that now. Yes aware was a lot of money back then.
Update: £5.88 in todays money.
2:25 was he actually working for the record labels? Wasn't it well known and still is that artist make little from record sales and actually make all their money from touring? So was him claiming they didn't make money from gigs a lie?
@bad intentions That was reason why, I heard the name wrong so couldn't find info on him. I had heard it as Don Murphy.
What would those kids say if they could see teenagers in the 2010's and 20's who simply stick their faces into a smartphone 24/7 growing dumber each day.
Smartphones, Ipads & such are a hub of information. Not sure how these are supposed to make you dumber. Dumber than what alternative, hanging around on street corners smoking, drinking & being antisocial because tbh I see less of these kids than I did growing up in the 90s.
@@NoirFan84 Dumber in the sense that people don't go outside and communicate face to face anymore like they did up until the 90's. Social media eliminates the all important need to talk directly with the physical person in front of you so we all walk past each other without even acknowledging each others presence. But I also see your side of the argument aswell and you've made some good points.
@@nicky29031977 I see what you mean but it's not always a bad thing. I think we can get too caught up in how things used to be & just dismiss it as "things were better back then" but I don't think it's entirely always the case. One thing is a certainty we can all agree on regardless of what kids of today want to argue otherwise is that music of these times is garbage in comparison with any other decade of the late to mid 20th Century. Haha
You people be acting like you' re not on your phone, and even if youre on the phone it doesnt matter let live what lives. My grams is on her phone more than any of the teens today because we just dont have time bein on our phones all the time with working, school, going out w friends and taking drugs
I was a teenager in the 1980s and I struggle to limit the time I spend on my smartphone. My message to kids and teens now is to have as much face to face interactions as possible.
Not one of them popped an E. All I can say dispute over
They picked all the posh kids to be on this? Especially the one from Essex. Way too posh sounding for Essex.
Thought there was a good mix but you had to watch the whole thing.
@@D-K930 I did, would still say was more posh than common.
Working class kids could not afford to be on TV talking about what they have not got.
Shallow people in the 1980s
The decade of sticky magazine pages and STDs
This has been an on going problem even in America.
Lol if concert tickets cost £6 today no one would be complaining
@bad intentions £24 is still really cheap haha
There are “real young people” in the audience. What other kind of young people do you get? This is hilarious, as someone actually had this idea as a tv programme.
5:07 jesus. Wonder if she became a wineo. From 14 going in pubs.
Well looking at her she already seems to have aged her self another 10+ years probably due to the drink
@@marklola12 you don't know how old she is in this clip.
Now the money's everywhere and people are the same..
Long before the days of Candy Crush and Instagram.
I'd love to know who that girl saw at Wembley and said they were shit
Break the law just to enjoy myself? Not me your honour!!
But piggy ,I hold the conch, so I get to speak first, no RALPH I want the conch
The kids make good points but still not listened to (security/promoter)!
Haha these kids are so entitled even at this age. They don't like Pool, Table Tennis, Football, they want gigs and discos.
These are all the old boomers now.
-- Gen X.
This video is so boring, I can’t watch lol 😂🤣
What a waste of footage