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what was a massive deal when you were growing up that isn't now?

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learthebear · 03/10/2023 00:28

or you thought was

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NumberFortyNorhamGardens · 07/10/2023 00:13

XenoBitch · 04/10/2023 00:50

quicksand, pylons, rail way lines, farms.

The Bermuda Triangle... what has happened to that now? Has anyone heard anything about it in the past 10 years?

I think the Bermuda Triangle shipwrecks are pretty much agreed now to be a result of the regular hurricanes, storms, currents and all-round filthy weather which that part of the ocean is prone to.

TeenMum87 · 07/10/2023 05:34

Tilllly · 03/10/2023 03:56

Catching fire

We even practiced stop drop roll at brownies

That’s hilarious!

Nuclear war.

Bermuda Triangle.

Sinking mud.

ExpatAl · 08/10/2023 09:24

As someone has already mentioned, piranhas. I have also not seen or counted for myself sharks teeth or swam with KILLER WHALES. Altogether, a disappointing outcome.
I supppse my daughter will be wary of giant peaches.

43ontherocksporfavor · 08/10/2023 09:51

Lots of you must be 45-60 I reckon.
pylons- the tv advert with the frisbee and shouting’Jimmy!!!’ used to terrify me.

Hummingbird10 · 08/10/2023 10:21

Poison in general

Hummingbird10 · 08/10/2023 10:33

I hated those videos.
we had them all on one day. There was one where about 10 kids run on axrailway line through a train tunnel snd only one comes out and the rest are dead and / or maimed. I was in such a state. I complained to the school about trauma. Said they’d gone mad. I like to think I was ahead of the curve with all that trains talk. 😄

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 08/10/2023 10:34

MariePaperRoses · 03/10/2023 09:04

I still use one! It's a thing of beauty.

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I have a beautiful fuschia pink one my dad gave me,I love it 😍

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 08/10/2023 10:59

Boring Sundays, definitely. Everything closed except churches (and paper/sweet shops), weekend homework hanging over you, the smell of everyone’s Sunday dinner cooking. Washing DF’s car for the 7/6d (35p) he’d pay me, since it was a lot more than my pocket money.

We weren’t at all a religious or churchgoing family, but I actually signed up for confirmation classes, because it meant meeting up with half a dozen schoolfriends late on Sunday afternoons.

SheerLucks · 08/10/2023 11:45

HappenstanceMarmite · 03/10/2023 00:49

Spontaneous human combustion

Oh gawd - this!! Completely freaked me out for about six months!

Thmssngvwlsrnd · 08/10/2023 13:07

Anyone else got Barry Manilow in their head while they are reading this thread? "Bermuda triangle... take a look at it from my angle... don't go too near.."

eastegg · 08/10/2023 13:45

LittleBrownJug · 03/10/2023 06:40

I can tell some people my age are here! Yes to nuclear war - I thought it was about to happen throughout my entire childhood. My mum had the Raymond Briggs book When The Wind Blows - & I read it because it’s a cartoon. Why in the ever loving fuck just why - terrified me.

AIDS - don’t die of ignorance. I remember the leaflet with the iceberg on thumping onto the doormat.

I remember seeing the film of the Raymond Briggs book! Terrifying. I seem to remember it was on at Christmas!

Ilovegardens · 08/10/2023 13:59

Getting blown up by the IRA - DDad was in the British army.

Yettisrus2 · 08/10/2023 14:48

Stranger danger

never walk across a train line/climb a pylon to get your kite/take sweets from strangers and never go with a man that asks if you want to see his puppies in his van!

UsefulSmartPrettyHappy · 08/10/2023 16:33

Going to "the pictures" was a big deal to me as a child. Ds is 9. He has been to the cinema 4 times in his life, but it's just not a big deal to him. He isn't bothered. It must be because of more variety on tv and a big selection of dvds.

toadasoda · 08/10/2023 23:20

Acid rain
Who said mass?
Keeping clothes clean
No.1 song of the week
Did anyone win the lotto?
The fear of falling into a slurry pit (I didn't even live on a farm)
The cost of a phone call.

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