Ask UK

1235 readers

1 users here now

Community for asking and answering any question related to the life, the people or anything related to the UK.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

tom

What was better in your childhood. (self.askuk)

submitted 9 months ago by Oneeightnine to c/askuk

22 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The size of Freddo's, Saturday morning TV, free to air sports, Jamie Oliver-less school lunches. You get the picture.

What was better twenty years ago than it currently is today.

And you can't say everything, because it wasn't. The country is in ruin but at least now we can.........order a takeaway without having to speak to another human...??

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pifs?

I only know them from the '90s as Program Information Files on Windows 3.1

What are they in your context?

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Public Information Films. Essentially the British term for PSAs.

My YouTube / PeerTube channel is an archive for them: https://spectra.video/c/randomwolf

I like them because, until I was old enough to watch the real thing, these were as close as I could get to horror films. They can get pretty scary, especially considering they're warning about real things (as opposed to monsters or fictional murderers).