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[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

New Thread. - Hello.

It's no wonder cars have got bigger and bigger is it, as now they have to fit in official seats for all passengers!

I just wanted to say I don't comment often on these threads but I do read them all. My dh has slightly dementor is tendencies and this is my escape. For example mum from youngest dc's school organised paintballing last weekend and 3/4 of year group went. It was fantastic to see the kids together and doing something normal, quite emotional actually especially as several are leaving this year. At the end they posed for a photo and when dh saw it seemed shocked that they weren't social distancing. The mum who organised is a dr and one of the other parents I spoke to and neither of them were frothing about lack of social distancing outdoors.

You must be getting into my head because I dreamt that I was watching BBC and there was a news story taken from here daily mail style about Loki's child confusing malakas with maracas, and in my dream I rushed to post here to tell you all!

PS I'm a child of the 70s and I vividly remember my birthday party 1977 being taken to the ice rink with 10 piled in to a Morris Marina Coupe! 6 in the back, 3 on the passenger seat and my dad driving.

Interesting about the Dr parents as I too have seen local GP with her DC not social distancing either with friends in the local cafe and park. Maybe it gives them some perspective. But that one posted that mask meme as well so not all..

Analogue childhood, digital adulthood - good way of putting.

M parents did get a ZX 81 - though I remember nothing about it.

Born late 70, 80 childhood and teen and young adult in 90's and still saw those safety adverts.

One place we lived with the children there was a walk to out of town lesuire park with cinerma which had overhead pylons everytime the kite one poped into my head. It was worse when we went to nearby bird scantuary near a power station and the walk went under some huge humming pylons - both DH and I were thinking about the kite safety program.

Didn't see train one - think they were more worried about us being crushed to death by the gaint hay rolls.

For me it comes down to good old assessing risk, there are very very few cases now locally so risk of one of those kids being infected is absolutely tiny. So IMHO no need to stress about that situation. Whereas DH seems to not think it through like that.

In the late 70s our official school to home taxi ran with 2 squeezed onto the front passenger seat and 4 across the back. Neither parents nor teachers blinked an eye.

Born late 60s so a 70s kid here. I had a rather odd childhood as mum and dad were in their 40s when I was born. It wasn’t the menopause . I some ways they were very free and I roamed all over on my bike. I can remember her going nuts when I was about 10 and she found out a neighbour took us ice skating and I travelled in the boot.

We used to get herded into the school hall to watch the PI films. I’m still scared of railway lines. There’s a foot crossing over the Hartlepool line on one of the dog walks and it terrifies me. Dh doesn’t get it but then he can’t remember them!

DH is a 70s child and talks about being afraid of some man kidnapping him due to some safety film? Mind you if he misbehaved his parents would get one of their mates to ring from a phone box and say they were the police and DH was going to be arrested So that's nice for a 7 year old, especially after you've beaten the crap out of him anyway.

I shall stop now as we want to talk about funny things (loved the Go Cart thing as we did this in the 80s when weren't spraying our hair with hairspray ). You all need to keep being funny or I really will flounce over your lack of mask wearing Don't you care that Giant Doctor is judging you all as well as me PS not talking about people with genuine exemptions just you irresponsible rebels selfishly trying to resurrect your dead nans

On the subject of killing dead Nans, DH and the DC are going out out tonight (I have wimped out of going due to the shielding, I actually know I'm being a knobhead ) and are very much looking forward to it.

So many emojis!

Does anyone remember This Life where going out out was a code for taking lots of drugs? My DH and DC aren't doing that, just to be clear

because I dreamt that I was watching BBC and there was a news story taken from here daily mail style about Loki's child confusing malakas with maracas, and in my dream I rushed to post here to tell you all!

@110APiccadilly

I was born in the late 80s. I remember having four people in the back seat of a Volvo, plus 2 on the seats in the boot when I was little. And child seats basically being an optional extra as long as the child could actually sit!!

Even in the 2000s I remember a trip where, having squeezed grandparents into the car, toddler sibling had to sit on granny's lap.

I'm not sure whether my parents were a bit more laissez-faire than average though - we were allowed out on bikes over half of North Wales from the agree of about 12 and so on. (Amazing childhood and taught us to be very independent, but of course I suppose there were risks, the highest probably being a road accident on our bikes.)

We often managed to hitch legally dodgy lifts at the end of long hikes in the more remote corners of the UK. No taxis, fewer police to catch you. A couple of the drivers lying down in the back of an open truckto knock a couple miles to fetch the cars.

I'm not even sure how many were on the 4x4 we used to get to the Nepal- India border. About 5 on each bench (10) another 5 down the middle (15) 3 by the driver (18) probably another 5 on the roof (23) and another 3 hanging off the back (26) It was a squash!
Getting onto a train spontaneously in India meant cattle class. It wasn't too bad, but it was the first time I saw people traveing in luggage racks. People budge up better than in the UK.

I was born in 72. My mum had a mini, the proper tiny sort not the on steroids version of today, which we’d regularly squeeze a group into. I remember proudly boasting we’d had eight people and a dog in it once. Some family friends had some kind of large citron, iirc it looked like a much bigger version of a 2CV, the good old tin snail. It had a bench seat in the front rather than separate seats and all the kids always wanted to squash in there.

I had the fear of god put into me about trespassing on railway lines by a notorious public information film called “The Finishing Line”, although that is a genuinely dangerous thing, doubly so in my area because we have electrified third rails as well. Other than that I was quite a fearless free range child, very much a product of that time.

I loved This Life. It started my Jack Davenport crush

DH is a 70s child and talks about being afraid of some man kidnapping him due to some safety film?

Think I may have seen similar though DMum did that thing of threatening us with some man taking us away if we missbehaved in public kind of like the child catcher in chitty chitty bang bang - we were shy kids anyway but she was then often exacerbateby us being very shy around stangers.

The explicit safety films are still out there. As part of the induction to a new job last year, I had to watch a H&S video about forklift trucks and someone gets their foot sliced off because she walks in front of the forks....

That's all quite mild compared to the safety training DD1 has done. She's a trainee high voltage engineer and apparently the films in the 1970s are true. Don't dick around near pylons. They've had talks from real life survivors of hideous accidents and she's still traumatised.

My hands are sore from so much sanitizer over the last couple of days. I've tried to support the economy by going shopping but I'm having a couple of days off to recover.

I’ll admit we did the too many people in a car thing a couple of years ago. We had a big family holiday in Cornwall, fifteen of us staying in a huge house. We’d been told by the owner it was a ten minute walk into the nearest small town so some of us decided to do it. It was more like a thirty minute walk, very hilly and on a blazing hot day. The children (and my stepmother) were all grumbling about having to walk back and the poor dog was on her last legs as she doesn’t cope well with heat. DH being the helpful sort he is walked back and got his car, we put my stepmother in the front, four hot and grumbly children in the back and my sister and the dog in the hatchback. My abiding memory is of my sister valiantly attempting to keep the dog away from the bag of Cornish pasties we’d bought for lunch. It was absolutely like a blast from my childhood.

The new trampoline park has a video for the children which shows legs crunching and snapping if the cartoon children jump at the ends of the trampoline rather than the middle

Oh great now the food police have started on the losing weight for covid. Flipping Jennie Harries. She looks nearly dead herself. (sorry but she does)

She's a trainee high voltage engineer and apparently the films in the 1970s are true. Don't dick around near pylons. They've had talks from real life survivors of hideous accidents and she's still traumatised.

Didn't think they weren't true and the safety film with plyons and kites did its job as our children have been told how serious they can be and never to have anything in air near them.

The new trampoline park has a video for the children which shows legs crunching and snapping if the cartoon children jump at the ends of the trampoline rather than the middle

Used to be one near us that did that - our children were fine with the film and really enjoyed the park - then it changed to some thing less dangerous probably due to insurance and staffing number costs least that's what staff claimed.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

She's a trainee high voltage engineer and apparently the films in the 1970s are true. Don't dick around near pylons. They've had talks from real life survivors of hideous accidents and she's still traumatised.

Didn't think they weren't true and the safety film with plyons and kites did its job as our children have been told how serious they can be and never to have anything in air near them.

I always thought they were exaggerated - I remember being shown them in the 1980s and although I was frightened enough not to go near pylons, I didn't believe electricity could jump.

I've always struggled with "invisible" concepts - if I can't see it, I struggle to understand it. Algebra, electrons, viruses...

Anna from this life was basically my 20s role model.

Blimey @SeaOtterFluff nobody showed me THAT video while I was wandering round a factory fill of folk on forklifts whilst 9 months pregnant. The only h&s going on there was a polite request to stay the fuck at my desk whilst we were having inspections!

My son came back from a birthday party a couple of years ago telling me that I might be a bit cross. It was an outdoor activity and it started raining torrentially and rather than them walk back 20 minutes to the boy's house, the parents crammed them into their car, including the boot, 1970s style. I thought it was hilarious and I remember mentioning it to someone else (don't think it was dementor dh this time) who was absolutely horrified. Again, for me, it comes down to risk assessment- yes if they had crashed it would not have been pretty but realistically it was a less than 5 minute ride in slow traffic so really a risk so small to be off the scale in my opinion.

@SeaOtterFluff, if you find anything that works let me know. Mine are awful, cracked and bleeding and I’m sure the sanitiser has triggered it. It really flared last week after using the one in Primark. Trying to use a mouse and type is no fun today. Not that work is fun anyway but I can’t log out because my hands hurt. Although I can’t possibly cook in this state. Nor clean the kitchen. Sorry Dh