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[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

New Thread. - Hello.

@NothingIsWrong

The one where a boy got his feet chopped of by a train. And I'm sure there was one where someone flew a kite into overhead power lines?

The one where the child climbed up the electricity pylon to get their frisbee.

Tonight's going to be a long night, given that none of us are going to be able to sleep.

I’ve always had a fear of getting locked into a discarded fridge such was the fear induced by 1970s health and safety films.

@Nihiloxica yup that was it. A frisbee. Terrified me as a child.

The public information that haunted me was the nuclear attack one. I was terrified when someone said do not worry you will probably be vapourised anyway.

www.hse.gov.uk/resources/videos.htm

The Construction Industry has bravely continued the tradition...

The railway one freaked me out and the farm one - apaches, where I think the final child attended his own funeral tea!

@ibake I've never seen anyone using one in real life. They'd be handier if they had a bottle opened for those alfresco beers we were having in April!

WANTED

Dementor Producers to create series of extremely frightening videos of scary but rare dangers to scare the bejaysus out of people.

Full time position. All Dementor energy must be exclusively focused on this project.

@ineedaholidaynow

The railway one freaked me out and the farm one - apaches, where I think the final child attended his own funeral tea!

The railway one didn't work on me. I spent a lot of my teenage years walking along railway tracks to get to the good swimming spots (away from the flocking Brummies).

Maybe Stand By Me neutralised the terror.

My most-feared public information film was the one about placing a rug on a highly polished floor : "You might as well be putting a MAN-TRAP on the floor!"

BogRoll you may be right about those films & horror stories of the times influencing the current generation of parents. Although I suspect the internet has a big part to play too, information & scarey tales are easily accessible and in-your-face all the time now.

I think it's that thing about the perceived risk appearing to be far bigger than the actual risk. Yes, you could get eaten by a tiger on the way to the shops, but how likely is it that a tiger has escaped from the zoo and is hanging around near the local Tesco?

I think this is one of the reasons why I'm frustrated by covid-world.

I wasn't even born until the 80s but I also have a fear of being trapped in fridges/freezers. All of the walk in ones have buttons on the inside to stop being people trapped but I'm convinced that one day they won't work and I will be forever trapped so I never let the door close.

Good news about the eating out thing, every little helps to protect my job (and all the other jobs in hospitality too!!) Being back at work is really helping my sanity. I think I've broken the rules by making too many trips to clear things instead of leaving them but I figure I make them anyway by taking them stuff and I have to wear a visor. Nobody has complained I'm too close, everyone is happy for me to stand and chat.

Hoping the good weather might coax some more people out, time drags when it's so quiet.

[quote justasking111]The public information that haunted me was the nuclear attack one. I was terrified when someone said do not worry you will probably be vapourised anyway.

[/quote] I lived close to where they filmed threads - now that was scary

BogRoll you may be right about those films & horror stories of the times influencing the current generation of parents

I just suggested that to my 70's born DH and he got very defensive 😄Apparently it was totally proportionate. I guess kids can't throw frisbees high enough these days to warrant producing a video..?

So many fabulously funny posts. You just keep the entertainment going, well done. Too many to highlight.
Yes the 70s Government films were quite terrifying. Fuck you Charlie, you manky crappy cat.
The cheese in tea is true. A poster had said that she needed to buy bread and milk, a Dementor said that bread and milk were not essential purchases and if the op wanted milk for her tea, she could just put cheese in it as apparently cheese and milk are the same thing.
I remember the Ds name but I won't repeat it here. Might do on FB though.

That freaking cat was scarier than any safety film😲

I guess kids can't throw frisbees high enough these days to warrant producing a video..?

It's those weedy arms from suing Fortnite.

Also they wouldn't have the strength to climb up a pylon.

Or open a freezer door and they are too fat to climb in anyway from childhood obesity.

Best to keep them nice and safe at home with their Mammies.

Fridges and freezers can now be pushed open from the inside. The way they used to lock shut meant that they couldn't be opened from the inside at all. AND in the early days of home freezers, chest freezers were a big thing as they were much bigger and cheaper than upright ones and were easier to get inside. Companies now HAVE to offer to take away old appliances (although I think they can charge) back then they would not take them away - so people just paid others to take them away and dump them as nowhere would take them

I think it's that thing about the perceived risk appearing to be far bigger than the actual risk

This. This is what drives me insane. So many people have NO concept of relative risk. (or how percentages, or growth rates, work).

deep breathes

I am aware I am especially anal about these things, and a numbers geek, and it's always been a peeve; people simply don't assess risk at all well in general life full stop. But now we are on another level, and even when it's explained, some still think you are trying to fool them.

"If the internet had existed the feral kids would all have been safely indoors playing fortnite ;-)"

No, if the internet had existed in the 70's we'd have taken it outside to play with it, & there'd have been at least one kid trying to set fire to it, and the rest of us trying to fix pram wheels to it to make a go-cart to ride down the Dangerous Hill (the hill where that kid lost all his teeth & half-died, & our mums said not to ride down, but we did it anyway).

It's late. In the chilling words of Nick Ross off Crimewatch, "Don't have nightmares...."

Not on your nelly?
Can I come in lol

I wanted to be vapourised @justasking111 because the prospect of being left alive in a Z for Zachariah world was just too horrific.

When I was early teens we went on holiday to Portugal and it was when all the nuclear videos and leaflets were everywhere - that booklet that told you what to do? Anyway we were in a late night market and the nuclear siren went off. I was absolutely hysterical thinking we had only 4 minutes to live. And then the fire engine came zooming round the corner, with its fucking nuclear siren alarm instead of a bloody nee-naw nee-naw. I have genuinely never known terror like I did that night!

[quote PatriciaHolm]If anyone would like to see what plagued the nightmares of 1970s' kids.
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www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/view_all_films.htm[/quote]
FFS I got my careers advice in the early 70s.

According to the 'advice' on that site, I should get advice so I didn't end up in a dead end job.

My careers 'advice' was hairdresser or secretary or (if very bright) nurse or teacher. END OF.

What I have just realised

70s kids

1970 I was 15 so I was a 70s kid.

My children were born 1977 and 1978 so they were 70s kids

So how old is a 70s kid?

40-50 are the 1970's kids now.