Old social rules

[BuckingFrolics]

I'm nearing 60. Looking at all the litter in the streets -nice rural area - i remembered when back in my youth, there were tv campaigns along the lines of don't be a litter lout.
Then I remembered adverts on tv about how to cross the road. Learn to swim. Clunk click every trip.

It seems these "social" rules or norms aren't being promoted anymore, or maybe it's because I don't watch (much) tv.

Does anyone else remember these campaigns? Is it a good thing they've stopped?

It was mostly a long series of Tory govnts then, so they were hardly a promoter of the "nanny" state.

What "social" campaigns would you want the government to push?

I remember the anti smoking campaigns that were around when I was a child. I’m scarred for life and have never touched a cigarette. I’m not sure it’s a good thing from an individual freedom perspective but it’s definitely good for my health.

There are a lot used in schools, lots around social media and sex and both

Yes I remember them very well, I'm 55.

But back then we only had three or four TV channels so you could catch most of the population with a campaign on the BBC or ITV, the world is a different place now

Don't be a Middle Lane Malcolm/Mandy
(and fucking move back over to Lane 1.)
To the drivers who pull put to overtake someone and then stay where they are! For mile after mile after mile.....
It made headline news a few months ago when the police actually prosecuted someone for this but i suspect this was a vanishingly rare occurrence.
I remember the ‘Dip don’t Dazzle’ road safety campaign about headlight use, and also the ‘Be Safe, Be Bright, wear something Light at Night,’ aimed at pedestrians.

Keep Britain Tidy
The Tufty Club
Green Cross Code
Last out, lights out
Clunk click every trip.

I can’t remember any more. But there was one about children not going with strangers

Oooh I've been pinched!

Let your body breath- she’s got a mind of her own. Anti smoking one from when I was a young teen.
Charlie says.., the pylon one?!

Stop, look, listen

Milk mill milk everyone’s favourite drink!

Watch out there's a Humphrey about!

That Chevron thing about not driving too close to car in front

I don't think the ones you mentioned in your OP would be much use. They are things everyone knows about. If you're the kind of person inclined to drop litter, an advert isn't going to stop you!

I think that goes for most things for which you could have a public service advert tbh. Besides, most 'nudging' of public attitudes and behaviour probably now happens in more subtle ways through social media, not on scheduled tv.

“Charlie says always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere” I remember this well. I’m 42.

I think they would be less useful on TV now as people stream stuff for viewing or record it and then skip through the adverts.

Them bones, them bones need....calcium

Loved that one.

Loads of anti speeding ads. Clunk click. We still have lots of safe driving ones here in NI though. And anti litter campaigns.

there were a series of information commercials about Aids

Kids don't watch TV in the same way anymore. It all YouTube and social media now.

I came second in a poster competition run by the AA, it was called 'Lock it or Lose it', 70s public information campaign.

amore light hearted one (In Australia)
Wear a yellow raincoat when you go in the wet

I remember winning a road safety poster competition when I was about 10. I had to go to the Town Hall to be presented with it. I think there was a jingle we all sang about it, to the tune of The Lambeth Walk.
Wonder what happened to that certificate? T'was my proudest moment

Second? elephant
Loser!

Late 50s here and remember public information films. I'm still irrationally afraid of fridges

Am I imagining it or was there a milk one with Cool For Cats playing in the background?

That AIDS tombstone one.

More recently (as in, 10-15 years ago), a Scottish driving one that had a driver's view travelling down a country lane and the voiceover "think you know the roads like the back of your hand" followed by a jump scare of them turning a corner into a tractor. Think there might have been other driving-jump-scare ones in the same series.

The Green Cross Code one particularly sticks in my mind, but that's probably because the Green Cross Code man (aka Dave Prowse) lived around the corner from my primary school and would come into school to give road safety talks.

I remember:
My one piece of litter won't do any harm.
Don't play on railway lines.
Aids - don't die of ignorance.
The tufty club, crossing the road.
The drowning one- that was terrifying.

'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases'? Or something like that, I also remember the 'Charlie says' (they were weird when you think about it).

Oh and Nic-o-tine (sp?)