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

[learthebear]

or you thought was

People pleasing

Top of the pops Christmas number 1

And sinking mud!

Catching fire

We even practiced stop drop roll at brownies

Sunday Mass

Triffids

Showing your bra strap or underskirt.

Scorpions

Bull bars on cars and vans. Massive campaign against them because apparently they were lethal. They're everywhere now.

Getting pregnant without being married.

Waiting till after 6pm to make a (cheaper) phone call
hanging up and calling someone back if a call was going to last over an hour
Character limit on text messages
The little buzzing / interference sound just before you received an incoming text message
9 o'clock watershed
Remembering people's phone numbers
maintaining a paper address book
keeping an up to date copy of the yellow pages plus local directory
Football pools
The TV schedule (and paper guide - highlighted by everyone each week with choices they wanted to watch) and arranging your life around the time something was going to be on TV
phoneboxes and reversing the charges to call home
grapefruits

I genuinely thought piranhas were going to be more of an issue in my life than they have been.

The Filofax. Remember them?

They're still alive and kicking! I own several...

Re-folding the newpaper page that had the day's TV programmes listed.

Missing the first five minutes of your favourite programme.

Waiting for the TV to warm up!

The millennium bug

Non retractable seatbelts.

Deaths from ecstasy overdose are currently higher than they’ve ever been. But, yes, it’s not mentioned much. I guess it’s sadly become normalised, whereas the drug was a novelty when I was a teenager.

Saturday night television!!!!

The Fortean Times. So many mysterious happenings in the world.
Impulse body spray!

@GreenCereal i had that book! I got it from a service station and I still have it! It’s probably my most read book, it was terrifying

😆
same!

Illegitimacy

Russians

Oh….. hang on a minute!

The Sunday evening top twenty, cassette in ready to tape favourites