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RetroSteveUK 🦇

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Retro-themed YouTuber and video gamer from the Bucks area, UK. New videos every Thursday and Friday on my "RetroSpectives" & "Time Travel TV" YouTube channels. All links can be found here: https://bio.link/retrosteveuk

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 9h

FFS .. just charge more or make a smaller alternative to sell alongside it more cheaply. Messing with recipes is destructive and deceptive, at best.

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 10h

Clearing up the evidence? - Been there, way too many times. 🤣

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12h

I did consider ROTroSteveUK among others, but nothing was really hitting right. Necro is a good'un.

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 1d

Cassette storage?
Gimme! 📼

Old UK Catalogues @oldukcatalogues.bsky.social · 1d

1979: Storage & Accessories and Electronics from Argos

(+Cambra 88 Music Mobile; Cambra 69 Cassette Cabinet; Cambra Cassette Storage Cabinet; Cambra "De Luxe" Cassette Case; Purpax Cassette Carrying Case; Bib "Musicentre" Care Kit; Bib Record Care Kit; EMI Standard Cassettes, and more)

This page from a vintage catalogue shows a range of electronic goods, primarily televisions and cassette storage solutions. The layout features product images alongside pricing information and product numbers. Several brands are showcased including Cambra, Bib, EMI, Contek, Scotch, Pye, Sharp, Ferguson and Waltham.

(+Bib "Musicentre" Care Kit
Bib Record Care Kit
Cambra "De Luxe" Cassette Case
Cambra 69 Cassette Cabinet
Cambra 88 Music Mobile
Cambra Cassette Storage Cabinet
Contek Audiogold Low Noise Cassette Tapes
EMI Standard Cassettes
Ferguson 3787 "Movie Star" 14" Portable Colour T.V.
Ferguson 3848 Portable Black and White 625 Line UHF Television
Purpax Cassette Carrying Case
Pye "Rambler" Portable Black and White 625 Line UHF Television
Scotch High Energy "Super Ferric" C90 Cassettes
Sharp 12P37H Portable Black and White 625 Line UHF Television
and Waltham W154 Portable Black and White T.V. with Radio/Cassette Recorder)

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 1d

I can't think of a clever & witty Halloween modification to my username so I've just stuck a bat on the end.

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 1d

At least y̶o̶u̶ they weren't broadcasting.

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 2d

The big boxes are nice, tho'

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 2d

Take a trip back to 28th May 1983 as we take a look, page-by-page and in Full HD, at What's Inside this issue of Look-in magazine, featuring Danger Mouse and loads of other 1980s TV classics, plus a couple of old UK TV adverts to complete the experience. 📺

Look-in Magazine (May 1983) / Danger Mouse - What's Inside?

YouTube video by RetroSpectives

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 4d

I think Jason Statham should play the next Doctor.

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 4d

If I'd cooked something like that, I'd throw it in the bin and get a takeaway.

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 4d

Can confirm ...

Face of Timothy Claypole in a haunted rug.

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 4d

Hug emoji? 🫂

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 9d

This edition of Retro Newsround is a bit 'Halloweeny'. Spooky retro games & some super Addams Family lego. More news including a classy collection of Atari & Space Invader watches that may or may not be out of your price range; go see for yourself in the latest RetroSpectives roundup of retro news.

Halloween Retro Games & Lego | Space Invader Watches | more

YouTube video by RetroSpectives

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 10d

Ooh! Is there a special section at my local garden centre with decorations & stuff? 😊

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

Alternative response .. Everyone simultaneously floods the platform with willy artwork.

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a door that has a sign on it that says meeting in progress

Alt: American TV dude taking a bow.

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

He' thrown out?

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

I'll give anything pickled onion flavour ago.

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

Am I seeing this correctly? The pasta shapes in that thumbnail are spelling out "DROP DEAD" to my eye. 👓

RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

My dumbass stepdad used to say smoking was good for him because it made him cough, which helped clear his chest. He's dead now, obvs.

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

Is that from The Groovie Goolies?

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

Almost related .. 2000ADcomic writers have been making up fake swear words for years (eg. Drokk). My favourite is "Funt" from the Sinister Dexter comic strip.

Comic strip featuring a fake swear word - "Funt"

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 12d

#OnThisDay 1986 : Trap Door was first broadcast on ITV.

Berk and co were featured in 40 episodes spread over 2 series.
#80s

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The first in a new animation series set in an old forgotten castle in the dark and nasty region where nobody goes. The trap door gives entrance to a foul-smelling pit beneath the castle. Who knows what creatures live there? And what will happen if they escape..?

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

F****ng "further ado" .. one of my biggest YT pet hates, especially when it comes half way through what's classified as an introduction.

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RetroSteveUK 🦇 @retrosteveuk.bsky.social · 12d

After the 2nd video with the same intro on a channel, I admit I ALWAYS skip forward, particularly the ones that are 10-20 sec long. I like an introduction to the video, but tailored to that specific video. Exceptions would be stuff like Ashens, with a quick-hit intro that's more like a catchphrase.

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