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

[learthebear]

or you thought was

Lovely. Part of the non-tech rennaissance and environmentally better than buying a diary etc every year

Petrol stored in soft drinks bottles, found some in my nan's shed, aged 11 and took a mighty swig, it was perverted.

I think they're fun and interesting.

In fairness you should have asked before drinking your granny's carefully prepared petrol bombs.

Crop circles
bermuda triangle
sinking sand
aids
mad cows disease

Eggs

Police rocking up at the house . A massive show up in front of the neighbour's. Not any more , in some places it's actually a badge of honour.

You’re probably right!

Fun faxes

Getting pregnant outside of marriage.

Nutella (it wasn't sold in the UK when I was a child so we only ever had it while on holiday in France...it was practically the highlight of the holiday and my mum used to bring the jars home to use as glasses)

Forgetting to set the VCR to record your favourite programme if you were going to be out. If you didn't record it, that was it - no catch-up!

Australian soaps (Neighbours, Home & Away) - everybody I knew watched them and each episode was earnestly discuussed at school the next day. Because the whole country watched the same episode on the same day, it was a unifying force, a national obsession, in a way that TV isn't now. Same with the The Thornbirds.

Half day closing.

Every Wednesday afternoon. All shops shut.

Body Shop (anyone know any dupes for their Oceana scent?)

Going out with wet hair = getting a cold

Skipping ropes and French skipping in the playground, and British Bulldog!

Quicksand and the Russians. Although the Russians are still a problem!

Lady Di haircuts

I work in the entertainment industry overseas and people are always shocked to find out I have never done any drugs. I always maintain it’s because I was the exact generation in the U.K. who were young teens when Leah Betts died, and as such, a lot of people I knew as a teen didn’t ever tried drugs and still haven’t.

@Regularoldme same as me, I can still see that image of Leah betts so clearly, I was 11 and it had a huge impact

The ozone layer!

Being told not to put too much butter on my bread. Not for health reasons - that science was way in the future - but economy. Now several times a week I have it slathered on toast.

The danger of Falling off pylons.
Heroin chic. People used to go bananas about that and the influence it was having on young girls. It seems benign now compared to some of the stuff that's out there.

The Word and TFI Friday. We would actually talk about who was going to be on it on Fridays and then talk about it on Mondays!

Leah Betts? I had to watch something on her at school in a ‘special lesson’ as it had just happened. Also, I LOVED East 17 as a child and my nan banned me from listening to them after Brian Harvey told the papers he ‘loved taking E’ 🙈

Head bags for school. Does that brand even exist anymore?
Swatch watches.
Sun in

I was Also very impacted by Leah Betts. And I have also never done drugs, not totally as a result but that was deffo part of it.

For me it wasn't the Russians that were the scariest. It was the Libyans.

Accidents on railway tracks

Those danger of death keep out signs