Bring back public safety adverts!

[sunlovingcriminal]

Following on from another thread about the annoyance that people tailgating brings, made me reminisce about adverts from the 80s, like "only a fool breaks the two second rule"...

Why did they stop I wonder? And would there be any benefit in bringing them back?!

I know twerp drivers would likely remain twerp drivers, but in my head catchy adverts would help!!

And they could bring out new ones, like looking up from your phone when crossing the road... "look up from your screen, or be a has been..." 😂

Any other suggestions?!

Watching them made me realise how easily I could die if I didn’t take responsibility for myself. The trouble is if they were reintroduced and covered the choices that kill people (over eating partnered with lack of physical activity, also rubbish driving, excess alcohol, smoking etc, stress) the Government would be accused of nannying. The current Government simply doesn’t care enough to bother anyway .

I do give credit to 80's PSB's for the fact I have not yet been electrocuted while rescuing my frisbee from a pylon, nor dragged into quicksand.

Bring em back. Danger still lurks.

They do pretty powerful road safety videos in New Zealand. This is a good example:

Miew, miaw, mieeww, miiaw
Charlie says ... "Look both ways before crossing the road".

We'd have to re-cast Rolf in the water safety ones though.

NZ have some great PSAs about road safety. 'The faster the speed, the bigger the mess' is such a powerful slogan.

You could have a character called Mike or Spike who gets knocked off his bike...

"Helmet and neons when you get on your bike
Would prevent you ending up like Mike"

If the UK government want to reopen their campaigns I'm available 😆

Loads of people watch Facebook and YouTube, there'd be a way if the government put their minds to it! Radio ads? Parents do put the radio on then driving kids places still. Billboards...

They managed to get Covid messaging out!

I know it won't happen, but I do think they're effective. I mean being a child of the 80s I won't ever play on railway lines, or with matches!!

With the message bieing, before you fly tip take the door off your fridge.

I disagree with the green cross man, I can remember playing, "pretend to step in the road to see if Darth Vader appears".

Apaches would probably be an 18 cert now.

They should bring back the keep Britain tidy adverts as well. I still am terrified of escalators…..

I’ve spent the whole of my life hugely disappointed that I’ve never found any quicksand in which to lie very flat in.

Maybe they built some new housing estates all over it all.

Personally I’d like a mass campaign about driving in the right lane on the motorway!

Something like “use your fucking brain, stay in the left lane”

I feel like there should be one where too many cosmetic procedures results in exploding lips and needing to walk round in a Covid mask whilst being £££££s down.

maybe with spitting image puppets

Motorways currently have “take your litter home” on their electronic signs. Why not “Keep Britain Tidy”? I still remember those ads and logo. Instill some pride and responsibility for our Country. Probably be deemed triggering/racist/non inclusive🙄

I'm sure I remember one about the dangers of flying a kite near an electricity pylon.

Would love there to be a new keep Britain tidy one.

I remember one film from the 70s (it was 10 minutes or so) from school about not speaking to strangers. Well, strange men specifically. And they had some very strange men it. They were all sitting round the edge of a playground, looking like they were at a dance hall (combing their hair and preening). It was like someone had rung up central casting and asked for an assortment of random paedos.

But there was one in a black leather jacket, chasing the kids around. To emphasise that this was dangerous and you should run the eff away from Mr Jacket, the action paused for a sec and his face went all contorted and purple, his eyes bugged out and he sort of strobed between normal and monster. And if that wasn't bad enough, there was a buzzy "danger sound" for emphasis. Scared the shit out of me as a child.

I was talking about PSAs with a colleague young enough to be my son. He didn't believe me when I mentioned this one and the notorious Dark and Lonely Water, so I sent them to him. He came back to me after lunch with a haunted look and said "fucking hell Kittens...."

Yeah.

I've got the slogan!!

"Crank your windows even when it's cold, would reduce the risk of moisture and mould"

With lots of shots of horrible mould and dripping windows.

I'm going to try and find this.

They were really scarring some of them, but children on the 70s and 80s haven't forgotten them, so they must have been impactful (albeit scarring!)

@MaloneMeadow My sister and I were just talking about these the other day, and how effective they were

"Today Michael's going to hit his girlfriend so hard, she'll have permanent brain damage"

There is a few on the radio usually about doing 30 in a 20 zone. Ditto scam ones on TV from banks about not giving data away.

I think many of us are still horrified looking at a local power station from the 1970s!

The odd few about crossing the road with a mobile woulnt go amiss same with adults talking to children online

@sunlovingcriminal I will see if I can find a link. There's one where it's toned down a bit, but the full Hammer Horror has to be seen to be believed.

@Kittensat36

My carer is 12 years younger than me, I sent him the still dark water one, he said he was traumatised.

OMG this one
%3D

I agree that live TV isn't as popular now so I think the best place for the ad's would be the ones you have to/ opt to watch while playing games on your phone. The type where you "watch this ad to get free coins / extra spin " I reckon a lot of people would see them then instead of the fecking annoying Temu ad's.

Can they be labelled 'school of common sense'

Not just rural! We watched it yearly in our council estate, suburban school - traumatised!