Old social rules

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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?

There was indeed a Cool for Cats milk advert. I liked the hedgehogs cross the road safely campaign. The crash test dummies ones terrified me but not as much as the ones showing people’s horrific burns from fireworks including shell suits melted into skin.

They still do them - there was a horrific one in the last five years or so with a class of very young children being taken for a picnic in a field and a car speeds down the road, flies over the hedge and squashes the whole class flat - you see the car in midair above them starting to come down and then it cut to the same picnic blankets with just all their little raincoats laid out empty where they had been sitting. That was a 'pay attention when driving' one I think.

managedmis Fri 07-Feb-20 01:23:12
Clunk click every trip.

^^

What does this mean?!
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Hows about this then guys and gals?

Is that a pub(l)ic service announcement, Alisalisa?!

Apache - a film about farm safety for children. A group of 6 children and all but one I think dies in some sort of farm accident. Very traumatic, and I still remembered it years later - I've rewatched it on YouTube, and I'm still a bit surprised that they showed it to us, but I guess it was effective as it really stuck in my mind. I was the youngest year that would have been shown it though, was just for Juniors (KS2).

Is Apache the one where the boy drowns in a slurry pit? Amongst various other fascinating ways to get yourself killed in the country?

I remember the fire service coming to our infant school and the rhyme they taught us - "Matches, matches, never touch. They can hurt you very much".

Also remember the Green Cross Code, still think it to myself automatically now!

Don't play with matches (a boy and a cat?).

Don't have fog lights on in the rain! Wish they'd bring that one back...

Drunk driving ones

Yes, Apaches was where one boy drowned in the slurry. Another girl was poisoned by drinking something they found in a shed. Another was crushed by farm machinery, one was hit (or impaled?) on a gate, etc. There are various scenes showing empty school desks or cloakroom pegs without name tags, to make it obvious that the children were gone.

@damekindness yes the fridge one. There must have been a lot of abandoned fridges around, my Dm drilled that one into us. Also not climbing into wardrobes in case they toppled over onto you. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe always puzzled me.