Seems like an appropriate time to post this
QED, a Guide to Armageddon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb7EO1e62IQ
They showed us this at school in Finsbury Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v =mb7EO1e62IQ#t=731s just to ram home the whole 'you're going to die whatever you do' vibe.
Well done The Sun, pixelate Heidi Klum's nipple as she rescues her son
Being a kid in the 80s really wasn't fun was it
You'd never guess the boy was a Seal's son
You can't see the Norwegians waiting just out of shot to club him to death
Is it any wonder we're a generation of nihilists?
Seriously though, they show a lovely young couple who could very easily be your parents meticulously preparing their shelter and then say "but they would only survive for 17 seconds, being blown to pieces "
He was never gonna surviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyiiiiiiiiveeee....
I remember Threads being on BBC1 - possibly the grimmest thing I've ever seen on tv
apart from the 8-2 at Old Toilet of course.
And you try telling that to kids today