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Scottish Sun
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
30 things you'll definitely remember if you went on holiday as a kid in the 80s and 90s
Buying your holiday on Teletext certainly seems a thing of the past TAKE ME BACK 30 things you'll definitely remember if you went on holiday as a kid in the 80s and 90s CHEAP Ryanair flights, AirBnb, iPads - holidays of today are practically unrecognisable from the 1980s and 90s. Back in the day, you were more likely to spend 10 hours sweltering in the air con-free car as your dad drove across the whole of France, with two cassette tapes for company the whole way. 5 We've rounded up 30 things you will remember from your holiday as a kid Credit: Getty If that's making you feel nostalgic, we've asked all the Millenials and Gen X-ers we know about their best (or worst) memories of holidaying abroad in the Eighties and Nineties. 1. Ridiculously long flight delays that were like two days of waiting. 2. Not being to wear any of your clothes for at least six weeks before going away as they were 'for holiday'. 3. Smoking on the plane - and being just five years old and sitting in the smoking section. 4. Shell suits to travel in, along with dayglow 80s leisurewear as well as jelly shoes, tasseled t-shirts and bermuda shorts. 5. Only having five cassettes tapes to play on rotation and then fighting over the cassette player in the car. Or having to just listen to local French/Spanish radio stations (and hearing bands like Vengaboys a year before the UK. 6. Buying your holiday off Teletext or from the classified ads at the back of the newspaper and having no idea where you are staying. 7. Severe sunburn in a desperate attempt to tan - and only parents only using Factor 2 suncream or even tanning oil. And then peeling sunburnt skin off your body including your face. 8. Always getting an ear infections from the pool. 9. Being terrified of drinking the tap water. Look around historic 200-year-old lido with stunning seaside views abandoned for decades 10. Being mystified by how to use you the French squat loos. 11. The smell of diesel and vomit when using the cross Chanel ferries. 12. Buying 200 fags in duty free, as well as knives, straw donkeys and dolls in local custom dress as souvenirs. 13. Naked Germans playing volleyball on a none nudist beach in France 14. Discovering calamari for the first time on holidays. 15. French milk which was always disgusting but there was no other option for your cereal. 16. Sleeping in the boot of the car on long journeys. 17. Foreign currency such as Francs and Pesetas - or even travellers cheques. 18. Having to make the most of the most basic games such as Travel Battleship, Connect Four and Space Invaders, or those early Nintendo games like Snoopy Tennis. 5 Hair wraps were a must Credit: Pinterest 5 The battle over the best Pez dispenser toy was common Credit: Etsy 5 Who needs to see pictures of the hotel before booking? Credit: Alamy 19. Parents having to change the colour of headlights and stick the GB stickers on car. 20. Spending all your holiday money on a hair wrap . 21. Your dad squeezing into a pair of budgie-smuggler speedos. 22. Being jealous of people with air con cars after having to get out yourself to cool down because of the sweltering journeys. 23. Getting left on the beach because there were so many kids. 24. Having no seat allocation on the plane but being able to take as may suitcases as you want. 25. Pez dispensers in France, long strips of individual sweets you can buy, giant red baby dummies made of rock. 26. Putting Sun In or lemon juice in your hair so it would go blonde. 27. Having pen pals that you would write to all summer then never again. 28. Getting the massive map out in the car which took up the whole space to find out where on earth you were going. 29. Having to buy phone cards or find the nearest internet cafe. 30. Buying a copy of the Sun from two days ago to find out the football scores.
Pink Villa
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji-Sensei Episode 8: Kanna Finds Reaper's Score, Release Date And More
In ' The Monster Cat Is Here,' Kanna and Atsuko take in a stray cat and bring it to Atsuko's home. With Chizuko and Yukie's help, they clean it and name it Pomegranate. Chizuko's missing hand mirror is later found by the cat, prompting Akihiko to suspect it is a Kinka-byo. Meanwhile, Akihiko helps resolve a dispute over a pawned backpack, revealing the buyer unknowingly possessed hidden money. After resolving the issue, Akihiko looks for a suitable bowl for Pomegranate, now part of the family. The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-Sensei Episode 8 will center on one of the school's seven mysteries involving a cursed musical score said to summon death to those who see it. While cleaning the old school building as punishment, Kanna and her classmates will discover a strange, nonsensical sheet of music. While they dismiss it, music teacher Mr. Sugimoto will react with visible distress. As his condition deteriorates and he is later attacked by a masked assailant, questions will arise whether the curse of the so-called 'Reaper's Score' is real. The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji-Sensei Episode 8 will either be titled 'The Reaper's Score' or 'Shinigami Sheet Music,' depending on the translation. is scheduled to premiere in Japan on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, beginning with a Teletext broadcast at 1:30 am JST, followed by BS Teletext on May 28 at 12:30 am JST. Japanese viewers can start streaming The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji-Sensei Episode 8 from 2:30 am JST on May 27 via U-NEXT, Lemino, Anime Hodai, and Anime Times. From June 1, it will also be available on ABEMA, d Anime Store, Hulu, Bandai Channel, and Amazon Prime Video Japan. Ani-One Asia will stream the subtitled version on YouTube for South and Southeast Asia. For more updates from The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji-Sensei anime, stay tuned to Pinkvilla.
Pink Villa
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji-Sensei Episode 7: Kanna Gets A Cat; Recap, Release Date And More
In 'The Wicker Basket That Must Not Be Opened,' Kanna learns of a rumored soldier carrying a basket filled with mononoke. When Reijiro enlists Akihiko to investigate a bartender named Kenichi, they meet Reijiro's brother Soichiro at a jazz bar. Kenichi is later revealed to be forging pottery under duress. A sting operation led by Akihiko exposes the scheme, catching the culprits. Kenichi, freed from manipulation, confesses his admiration for a potter and is encouraged to follow his passion honestly The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji- Sensei Episode 7 will begin with Kanna and Atsuko encountering a dirty stray cat. Growing attached, Kanna will decide to find it a home. Atsuko will advise cleaning it first, so they will end up bringing it to the Chuzenji household. With help from Chizuko's friend Yukie, the cat will be bathed and named Zakuro. Meanwhile, Chizuko will be troubled by the loss of her favorite hand mirror. Just then, Zakuro suddenly runs off, appearing to guide Kanna and Atsuko toward something related to the missing item. The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji- Sensei Episode 7 will either be titled 'The Visiting Bakeneko' or 'A Visit From A Ghost Cat,' depending on the translation. It will premiere in Japan on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, starting with a broadcast on Teletext at 1:30 am JST, followed by BS Teletext on May 21 at 12:30 am JST. Japanese audiences can stream The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji-Sensei Episode 7 from May 20 at 2:30 am JST on U-NEXT, Lemino, Anime Hodai, and Anime Times. From May 25, it will also be available on ABEMA, d Anime Store, Hulu, Bandai Channel, Amazon Prime Video Japan, and others. Ani-One Asia will stream the subtitled version on YouTube in South and Southeast Asia. Stay tuned to Pinkvilla for more updates on The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji-Sensei anime.
The Guardian
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Finally, someone gets it!' The TV invention that could revolutionise viewing for disabled people
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with watching TV. I would rush home after school and wake up early on weekends, just to soak up the magic of storytelling on screen. But as a child with partial deafness, I could only catch about 70% of the dialogue; the rest was guesswork. Like being in a foreign country, winging it with limited vocab, not having full access is tiring and everything is tinged with a sense of alienation. One day in the early 80s my parents brought home a new TV set. Up flicked a page of blocky coloured digital text – Teletext. They pressed page 888 and subtitles suddenly appeared. It was a revolution, my own personal moon landing. The half stories were unlocked. I had full access. TV inclusion was later extended to visually impaired people with the arrival of audio description, and in the mid-90s the government legislated that a proportion of UK terrestrial TV would be offered with British Sign Language interpretation. But since then, there has been little innovation in TV access. As I devised my own children's series, Mixmups, and started writing stories for Pockets, Giggle and Spin and their magical wooden spoon, I wondered how deaf children, who were too young to read English subtitles, would access my work. I thought about how much of the stories they would understand and how much their brains would be left to guess. At the time, my godson, who is visually impaired, was learning braille and another friend's two children were diagnosed with autism and ADHD. I realised they too were being left to fill in the blanks. Anyone with a special needs child knows the time spent navigating an inaccessible world, and adapting to it. I began observing the work teachers and parents do to bring stories to life using props, emotional regulation cues and social stories to embed concepts in a bespoke way. I wondered if TV access could be personalised too? What if you could turn down the background sound so a deaf child could focus on dialogue alone? What if you could strip out background colour, allowing a child's eye to be drawn to the characters and essential action only? What if you could choose between British Sign Language or Makaton signs, or learn signs for key concepts at the start of an episode? What if you could watch a shortened storyline to pre-embed understanding or provide a list of sensory props to place in the hands of a child to bring an episode to life in a tactile way? Could Mixmups revolutionise TV access for the next generation by devising a way to allow viewers to pick from a menu based on their own access needs? The Netflix series You vs. Wild used interactive TV technology to allow viewers to make decisions about the narrative, choosing to send presenter Bear Grylls up the mountain or down the valley. I wondered if this tech could extend personalisation of 'how' we view, rather than altering the narrative itself. I contacted Stornaway, the Bristol-based interactive TV technology firm and, together with the Mixmups team, we devised Ultra Access. The launch of Mixmups with Ultra Access marks an important milestone in broadcasting. With a choice of 14 access features – from low background sound to Makaton and big subtitles – the permutations of viewing Mixmups with Ultra Access are mind boggling. There are now thousands of ways to watch, and meet every child's unique needs. Beyond Mixmups, Ultra Access could enable all streaming platforms to have an optional BSL signer (as you can have subtitles and audio description), so that all viewers can start from the same landing page (at present, BSL content is often buried and hard to find), or enable global streamers to choose country-specific sign language at the click of a button. Advances in AI will probably make Ultra Access even easier to streamline. Whatever the future holds, Ultra Access remains the biggest development in TV access for decades. As one parent of a disabled child at our user-testing focus group said, 'Finally, someone gets it!' Mixmups with Ultra Access powered by Stornaway is available to stream on Channel 5
