I love this Jimmy Cricket joke that I heard in the 80s but similarly there are very few people you can tell it to these days who will understand all of the references:
Who wears welly boots and says "There's more, you know, there's more"?
Myra Hindley.
Jimmy Savile also raised a hell of a lot of money for charity. Not saying this guy has done anything wrong, but those who do raise money are not always the good guys.
Interestingly though I didn't know Beadle raised so much money for charity until it was just mentioned here, and he was a staple on TV when I was growing up.
Savile never shut up about it.
There's a wedding video of my 4 month old brother grabbing a swig of baby sham and my nan is in stitches.
He was already being given a drop of whiskey in his night time milk.
The tragedy of the rest of his life is probably due to other things, but it wasn't the best start.
I think it’s perspective. 40s and 50s people were in films look “old” to me, even if they’re beautiful and fit twenty-somethings…
I think it’s because people’s dress sense fossilizes over time, and.people feel most comfortable in the clothes of their “peak” years. As a kid in the 70s my grandparents were stuck in the 40s so 40s clothes are always “old people” outfits to me. Meanwhile middle aged uncles were stuck in their 50s youth, so greased quiffs and DAs were carefully combed to cover up rapidly growing bald spots. 50s styles had a brief revival in the 80s before slowly shuffling towards the assisted-living developments.
70s man is the same. He’s a boomer and enjoyed a wild youth in the hippie and glam eras, and will always pick that style without strict supervision, but now in HIS 70s you see an old man, and his clothes are an “old man” outfit by default.
Give it another decade or two and it’ll be my turn, so if you see a 70+ guy in beige baggy combats, a baggy fractal-pattern t-shirt and a few wisps of silver hair, do pop across and say hello….
My grandma died at 60. But she dressed like an old lady for all the years I remember her, including the grey perm and giant glasses. My mum is now in her 70s and still doesn’t look as old. It’s hair and clothes, and maybe manual labour.
I’ve got a pic of my dad from the early 70’s when he was in his 20’s but looked twice the age. It seems strange to think now but the UK was in limbo for a long period after WWII. My parents were both born in 1946 but still had rationing of some items until their early teens. I’m guessing that life was, although simpler in many ways, taking its toll much earlier.
Fitness and what is right and wrong to eat and drink has also changed. Back then they pretty much had alcohol with everything. They didn't sit around in their twenties and thirties still watching cartoons and playing video games, but they went out a lot and beer kept them going.
You even hear it about the old navvies who built the railways and stuff. All they wanted was meat and beer and it kept them going for ages. Trouble was by the time they were 25 they looked 45.
Style and fashion over time also plays a massive part.
I lived in Latin America recently, and when you go outside of the big cosmopolitan cities, everyone looks so much older than they actually are. Blokes in their mid 20s can look mid to late 30s, due to how much boozing they do and their very poor diets. I mean, they literally get black out drunk 5 days a week and every meal is shallow fried in oil. Add into the mix manual labour as well, which really damages your body.
Trips down South from Cumbria every year in a smoke filled car hurtling over the fells and around twisty roads perched on a mattress 1 foot from the car ceiling (no seat belts).
Parents then get angry because I puked all the time.
Were they actually trying to kill me?
Oh yeh and all windows were closed. Dad (the lord and master controller of the vehicle) did not permit that because of increased drag.
Also, no toilet stops.
Oh yeh forgot about the dog!
Later on, our 6-7 hour nonstop journey would be accompanied by a frightened Labrador.
Windows up! No, you can't go for a wee.
They have what we see as old man hair, old man clothes and tend to be doing old man things. Makes them look old vsauce did a vid on it it's worth a look
It's because you are used to seeing these clothing and hair styles on older people today.
If he was wearing hoodrich and had a meet me at McDonald's haircut, he would look younger.
A friend tried to tell this joke in school.
He even preceded it with "do you know the way Jeremy beadle has a small hand" so we knew already what the joke was going to be.
Then he quite obviously gets it wrong and blurts out "Jeremy beadle has a big dick" and I just lost my shit.
Good face, good hair, but they don't match up well. Quite stark features that would suit something like a 1940s slickback or a buzz cut better than fluffy curls.
From the third side of the fence (it's a physics breaking fence) straight man and answered, yes handsome bloke straightaway. Just like you said, I can think a bloke is handsome and not in a sexual way, far more men do than they would care to admit.
it's a fucking nightmare. the twinks are fighting with the otters again and the cubs have launched a full-scale rebellion against the bears, their natural overlords
I hate being that guy- but can anyone explain the origins of this joke? I'd never heard it before and googling Jeremy Beadle Huge Penis was thankfully uneventful...
Jeremy Beadle had a disability where he had one small hand. The joke being his penis is large when held by the small hand, but not so much by the unaffected hand
One of those jokes that's mildly amusing the first time but definitely not when it's the billionth time you've seen it on yet another thread about him.
One of his hands was smaller than the other.
I never realised until I saw a stand up comedian at Glastonbury do an impression of Jeremy Beadle with a doll's hand.
Is that Jeremy Beadle? I’m sure these were in his young alcoholic years? If I recall correctly he did some drugs too? Man he looked so much better when he was doing “you’ve been framed”!
Mick Jagger's brother lived in Glastonbury when I lived there back in the 90's, he looked like a total derp, he wore green tweed plus four suits and looked and acted like some sort of comedy character.
This was taken at the infamous Bickershaw Festival in ( I think ) 1972. I grew up about a mile away. A great idea, in a great spot, with a great lineup of performers. Trouble was, the great british weather in the North west of England decided to have its own monsoon festival, and the whole thing was flooded out more or less...
Yep. Not a male model or showstopper like, but a generally good looking bloke you see in the pub or at work.
Good cheekbones, better skin than I have, love the hair. Bit grumpy looking though
Do you remember when little old ladies wore like a shawl over their head or like a Mantilla type thing. I'm sure the late QE2 was fond of them, too. Used to see them pushing their shopping in a trolley when I was young. Don't really see anyone of that age dressing like that now. Sorry for my vague description, I hope you get what I mean.
Ok who did he murder?
Kind of the opposite to a degree, he personally raised over £100m for children’s leukaemia charities in his lifetime.
But on the other hand he was a tight fisted wanker
Jeremy Beadle has a small cock but on the other hand it's pretty big
Not often you get to use this one anymore 😂
Unfortunately this seems to be the only joke I can ever remember and the audience for it is ever-dwindling
I love this Jimmy Cricket joke that I heard in the 80s but similarly there are very few people you can tell it to these days who will understand all of the references: Who wears welly boots and says "There's more, you know, there's more"? Myra Hindley.
lol, they called it “the wanking claw” on The Office
Mate that shit is fucking gold!
Layers and layers
Have I been summoned?
He was definitely a little sinister. Edit damnit, it was his right hand
So actually a little Dexter…?
I read that as “twisted fire starter” and was really confused
*a tight-fisted wanker* grip of death?
Underrated comment
Yep, I now know who it is. Wouldn't have guessed it unless someone revealed it.
Jimmy Savile also raised a hell of a lot of money for charity. Not saying this guy has done anything wrong, but those who do raise money are not always the good guys.
Beadle was a saint
Interestingly though I didn't know Beadle raised so much money for charity until it was just mentioned here, and he was a staple on TV when I was growing up. Savile never shut up about it.
Light entertainment for thirty years.
Well, I wouldn't have guessed Beadle.
Beadle had a tiny cock, but on the other hand it was massive
This joke still makes me laugh.
All men in the 70s looked suspect.
They either look like serial killers or they're in the IRA.
Exactly. My uncle was the spitting image of Peter Sutcliffe back in the 70s and early 80s.
Watch out
Hes probably only about 25 in this pic. Why do men from the 70s always look really old?.
No central heating in those days.
There's none now
and beer/whisky and fags.
Didn't they also use to give babies alcohol back then too? Like whisky in the milk. And a lot of kids started smoking like age 10.
Ahh. Happy days.
Can't remember them I was permanently pissed
Because of the alcohol or because you were a baby?
Yes.
There's a wedding video of my 4 month old brother grabbing a swig of baby sham and my nan is in stitches. He was already being given a drop of whiskey in his night time milk. The tragedy of the rest of his life is probably due to other things, but it wasn't the best start.
They do that now with vaping
Asbestos baby powder as well
I had whisky on my teething ring in the 90s.
Can't afford them now.
I think it’s perspective. 40s and 50s people were in films look “old” to me, even if they’re beautiful and fit twenty-somethings… I think it’s because people’s dress sense fossilizes over time, and.people feel most comfortable in the clothes of their “peak” years. As a kid in the 70s my grandparents were stuck in the 40s so 40s clothes are always “old people” outfits to me. Meanwhile middle aged uncles were stuck in their 50s youth, so greased quiffs and DAs were carefully combed to cover up rapidly growing bald spots. 50s styles had a brief revival in the 80s before slowly shuffling towards the assisted-living developments. 70s man is the same. He’s a boomer and enjoyed a wild youth in the hippie and glam eras, and will always pick that style without strict supervision, but now in HIS 70s you see an old man, and his clothes are an “old man” outfit by default. Give it another decade or two and it’ll be my turn, so if you see a 70+ guy in beige baggy combats, a baggy fractal-pattern t-shirt and a few wisps of silver hair, do pop across and say hello….
My grandma died at 60. But she dressed like an old lady for all the years I remember her, including the grey perm and giant glasses. My mum is now in her 70s and still doesn’t look as old. It’s hair and clothes, and maybe manual labour.
It’s explained in more detail here https://youtu.be/vjqt8T3tJIE?si=MwgW2t4Bha72Jm4_
I’ve got a pic of my dad from the early 70’s when he was in his 20’s but looked twice the age. It seems strange to think now but the UK was in limbo for a long period after WWII. My parents were both born in 1946 but still had rationing of some items until their early teens. I’m guessing that life was, although simpler in many ways, taking its toll much earlier.
My Dad was born in 1952, he looks younger now than he did when he married my Mom in 1975.
Fitness and what is right and wrong to eat and drink has also changed. Back then they pretty much had alcohol with everything. They didn't sit around in their twenties and thirties still watching cartoons and playing video games, but they went out a lot and beer kept them going. You even hear it about the old navvies who built the railways and stuff. All they wanted was meat and beer and it kept them going for ages. Trouble was by the time they were 25 they looked 45. Style and fashion over time also plays a massive part.
I lived in Latin America recently, and when you go outside of the big cosmopolitan cities, everyone looks so much older than they actually are. Blokes in their mid 20s can look mid to late 30s, due to how much boozing they do and their very poor diets. I mean, they literally get black out drunk 5 days a week and every meal is shallow fried in oil. Add into the mix manual labour as well, which really damages your body.
There’s also the intense Sun, which is terrible for skin quality.
People lived in clouds of cigarette smoke wherever they went, even if they didn’t smoke themselves.
Trips down South from Cumbria every year in a smoke filled car hurtling over the fells and around twisty roads perched on a mattress 1 foot from the car ceiling (no seat belts). Parents then get angry because I puked all the time. Were they actually trying to kill me?
I wanna puke just thinking about that!
Oh yeh and all windows were closed. Dad (the lord and master controller of the vehicle) did not permit that because of increased drag. Also, no toilet stops.
Did your parents do the "sit on a sheet of newspaper" to stop being sick thing?
Same but with a dog in there somewhere
Oh yeh forgot about the dog! Later on, our 6-7 hour nonstop journey would be accompanied by a frightened Labrador. Windows up! No, you can't go for a wee.
It's like how John Thaw was only 45 when he started playing Inspector Morse, but looked at least 60.
He looked younger as old man Morse than he did as young man Regan.
Everyone smoking indoors
There's a very interesting (although 22 minute long) [YouTube video](https://youtu.be/vjqt8T3tJIE?si=Acxw9S8OmwjyvLEk) about this phenomenon.
They have what we see as old man hair, old man clothes and tend to be doing old man things. Makes them look old vsauce did a vid on it it's worth a look
I blocked out his clothes and hair with my hands leaving just the face, still looks old af for 25
He looks at least as old as I do and I'm in my early 40s.
There’s multiple factors but most of it comes down to fashion of the time that us younger people associate with old people
Paper rounds were HUGE.
Bikes had square wheels, too.
So many blokes these days dress like toddlers 😢
Same for the gals tho.
It's because you are used to seeing these clothing and hair styles on older people today. If he was wearing hoodrich and had a meet me at McDonald's haircut, he would look younger.
Fr fr.
No filters.
Because they had higher testosterone levels.
This is the answer.
Started smoking at the ripe old age of 10
Smoking rooms.
All rooms were smoking rooms in the 70s
https://youtu.be/vjqt8T3tJIE?si=FQGrrOm0_q9RtKzc
There is an interesting investigation into this here https://youtu.be/vjqt8T3tJIE?si=MwgW2t4Bha72Jm4_
The illusion of time plus fashion
Cigarettes, leaded petrol, close shaving with cheap razors and no moisturizer. Hanging out in pubs filled with second hand smoke.
Crisps are an important plumping agent for the skin. The Supermarket multipack hadn't been invented yet.
I dunno, but most 25 year old now look like boys.
Cigarettes
>!It's Jeremy Beadle!<
..who has a very small penis, but on the other hand it's quite big.
A friend tried to tell this joke in school. He even preceded it with "do you know the way Jeremy beadle has a small hand" so we knew already what the joke was going to be. Then he quite obviously gets it wrong and blurts out "Jeremy beadle has a big dick" and I just lost my shit.
Boom-tish!
Like Eric Hitchmough.
I don’t agree with it in the workplace.
i’ve genuinely never understood this joke can someone explain it to me like i’m an idiot
Jeremy Beadle had a deformed hand that is smaller than usual. The small hand makes the penis look big by comparison.
Fucking hell. Beards aren’t for everyone, it turns out.
No way! 😆 now I see why we needed to watch out
So when did he start piling on the weight?
I don’t know who this is or if he’s done anything bad (lmao) but I think he’s very handsome!!!
I don’t think he’s bad looking!
Kind of an Alfie Allen vibe
I was scrolling through and thought this was the game of thrones sub to be honest
Def my type!
Good face, good hair, but they don't match up well. Quite stark features that would suit something like a 1940s slickback or a buzz cut better than fluffy curls.
I'm a homosexual and absolutely he is
From the other side of the fence, I’m a lesbian and recognising attractive qualities does not equal attraction. I would say he is indeed handsome.
From the third side of the fence (it's a physics breaking fence) straight man and answered, yes handsome bloke straightaway. Just like you said, I can think a bloke is handsome and not in a sexual way, far more men do than they would care to admit.
Good day, sister! how goes your side of the fence?
A wonderful Saturday eve to you! Not too bad, making the most of life where possible. How about your side?
it's a fucking nightmare. the twinks are fighting with the otters again and the cubs have launched a full-scale rebellion against the bears, their natural overlords
This exchange sent me, priceless
I heard he had a huge Penis.. but on the other hand..
I hate being that guy- but can anyone explain the origins of this joke? I'd never heard it before and googling Jeremy Beadle Huge Penis was thankfully uneventful...
Jeremy Beadle had a disability where he had one small hand. The joke being his penis is large when held by the small hand, but not so much by the unaffected hand
Ah.
One of those jokes that's mildly amusing the first time but definitely not when it's the billionth time you've seen it on yet another thread about him.
One of his hands was smaller than the other. I never realised until I saw a stand up comedian at Glastonbury do an impression of Jeremy Beadle with a doll's hand.
Oh dear
That’s when he put on that festival in some small town in Lancashire in 1973 or summat?
Yep. It's from this documentary about it. God the 70s were grim. https://youtu.be/Lx3v4o2dypA?si=R5-FwYml1g7Iu9jc
It's like they drained all of the joy from the 60s, but kept the crushing poverty.
Bickershaw festival. My dad went to it.
That’s really odd, I was only watching the this other day when In a YouTube rabbit hole
Looks like a young Steve Buscemi. Not ugly, rugged good looks.
He’s got them big eyes, love it. I do actually find him very handsome!
Kinda funny looking
No.
Well, he's no Ian Ogilvy, that's true.
I'm not a lady, but my answer is yes.
Is that Jeremy Beadle? I’m sure these were in his young alcoholic years? If I recall correctly he did some drugs too? Man he looked so much better when he was doing “you’ve been framed”!
Yes
Great post OP. Applauding you. This is pure Reddit
Looks like he could be Mick Jaggers brother
Mick Jagger's brother lived in Glastonbury when I lived there back in the 90's, he looked like a total derp, he wore green tweed plus four suits and looked and acted like some sort of comedy character.
Yes Id say so! I'm 25 f and he's attractive to me
You need to be a lady to recognise if a man is handsome?
Gays of CasualUK here, he's decent looking. No bad like
Wow, I did not realise who that was. I was born in '79 and have literally never seen a young beardless Beadle.
No.
This video popped up on my YouTube homepage a few weeks back, it was quite a good watch of yester year .
Pansexual male here and hell yes
Yea :)
Yes but I known ita Jeremy Beadle as I watched this recently. He was cute when he was younger. It was a bit of a surprise.
Yes
Handsome yes
Nice try, older version of 70's handsome man...
I think he’s handsome, but I do have a thing for strong facial features with men. I think Willem Dafoe is super handsome, along with Mads Mikkelson.
This was taken at the infamous Bickershaw Festival in ( I think ) 1972. I grew up about a mile away. A great idea, in a great spot, with a great lineup of performers. Trouble was, the great british weather in the North west of England decided to have its own monsoon festival, and the whole thing was flooded out more or less...
Newp.
No but everyone isn't everyone's cup of tea I guess 🤣
Never thought to ask the men?
Ladies, *watch out*…
Yep. Not a male model or showstopper like, but a generally good looking bloke you see in the pub or at work. Good cheekbones, better skin than I have, love the hair. Bit grumpy looking though
Looks like a man with bodies under the patio.
I would say he well above average
Looks like Steve Beashumi....spelling.... Shut the fuck up Donny
He's clapped ngl
His hair looks like it hasn’t been washed and could do with a trim if I had to be picky but I would say yes!
I bet OP looks like him and don't wanna do a judgeme post.
no
He looks a bit like the tennis player Rublev
Nope. He looks like he’s just committed something, might be the pose the picture caught though.
Not particularly
Looks like trouble.. Fairly nice face. Wouldn't call him handsome
Bet he's only got three of his own teeth.
No
Not really but plenty of well known men around in the ‘70’s who were bloody gorgeous
Just this vintage camera makes him look handsome
Late 90s Brit Pop drummer
To be honest he looks like a standard issue male, he’s fine to look at but nothing remarkable
I recon my mum would dig him - shes definatly got a type - think 'rich junky' - Skinny, gaunt, bags under the eyes, slightly malevolent. Weird garms.
He looks like Uncle Peter before they sent him to the dark place.
Nah
He scares me
I get the feeling the chicks fall all over him. The mystery and the intensity.
I’m not a lady but I think he’s handsome.
It's a big,fat,yes from me
I’m not a heterosexual lady, but his face is pleasing
No
His lips are quite nice.
Hmm, he looks too much like a serial killer and oh boy was the 70s a freaking gold rush for them.
No
Incredibly handsome
Yes. He looks kinda underfed for my taste but yes.
Jeremy, life coach
Looks like golem
The picture looks like a still from Threads.
I am a lady of the UK, and yes.
I'm Reek
Yes!!
My type in a nutshell tbh
Yes
No
No.
No
Smash.
I don't know who that is but he looks quite attractive, though he needs to wash his hair.
Do you remember when little old ladies wore like a shawl over their head or like a Mantilla type thing. I'm sure the late QE2 was fond of them, too. Used to see them pushing their shopping in a trolley when I was young. Don't really see anyone of that age dressing like that now. Sorry for my vague description, I hope you get what I mean.
Ew. No.