Batshittery that was normal back in the day

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Smoking upstairs on buses

Smoking / non-smoking areas in restaurants

Smoking rooms in hospitals

Teachers going for boozy lunches and teaching afternoon classes pissed (my English teacher was always smashed by 1pm 🤣)

Chopper bikes with that brake thing in the middle that could easily disembowel you if you weren't careful

White van men picking up their underage girlfriends from school

White van men thinking schools were a good place to pull

Little kids being sent to the shop on their bikes for their parents booze and fags, and no law against shopkeepers serving them

the past is a foreign country - they do things differently there

I'm glad some things have changed for the better, but others have become a bit ridiculous.
It's how it is. I think back to the ' clunk click ' ads with the late presenter Savill in the early 70s (the abuser :( and cringe , but it did the trick and I'd say that hardly anyone would drive without a seat belt on these days.
Crossing the road ones might be useful today as I see many meandering across roads without looking or staring at phones.
It's nice to go out and not come home smelling of smoke these days , but was acceptable back in the day.

Smoking was widely accepted everywhere. Employers had smoking rooms. There was even a sitcom called The Smoking Room and it really wasn't that long ago. Theatres and cinemas had smoking sides of the auditoreum as did restaurants. I was younger in the 70s so seatbelts weren't compulsory and I remember having to hire a babyseat to bring my baby home from hospital when laws were introduced making it a requirement for children to be in an appropriate restraint.
There were good things though. New mums got to spend over a week in hospital recuperating, settling into breastfeeding and having lessons in bathing and dressing baby. You'd also have a talk on contraception. Yes, times have changed and some stuff was bonkers but we've also lost out in other ways.

We have fed

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Smoking on planes and in cinemas!

Parents smoking in cars, at home, anywhere

Parents leaving kids outside the pub in a car with a packet of crisps and a bottle of pop

It being acceptable to go and get pissed on a Friday lunchtime and go back to work

Women not being allowed to wear trousers to work, I remember this

Women being expected to stop working as soon as they married

And definitely once they had kids

Married women not having their own taxation but being taxed depending on their husband's income

I know it’s still in the smoking category but SMOKING ON PLANES. I’ve been a smoker in the past and I would not want to smoke on a plane or be on a plane with smokers. Ughhhhh! No wonder so many people used to vomit on flights. Stale smoke air 🤢

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I agree that new mums receiving help with their babies is a travesty. It's sad it's all get you out of hospital asap and not much support around.
A few things haven't changed for the better , but some things have and at least there is the internet now to look things up and get some tips for just about anything. It gets a bad rep , but we couldn't live without it

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Smoking and drinking in pregnancy being encouraged (70's)
Shops splitting a pack of fags to sell lucies

Married women not having their own taxation but being taxed depending on their husband's income

Id love it if this was still true I earn loads more than DH.

The smoking ones are nuts aren’t they? I used to work in a shop and smoke at the counter. This isn’t that long ago I’m only in my 40s

White van men what!? Was this really a thing?

Some things are better now and some things are worse.
It’s just batshittery from the past, hmmm how far back to go?
children pushed up chimneys? In the mines? Children, women and men and ponies in the mines all day long.
Children working long hours in factories with no proper rest, food or safety measures.
Teachers smoking a pipe all the time in a classroom, teachers boxing young ears and clouting young heads.
rigid hospital visiting hours when parents had to beg time off work to go see their sick children.
Casual everyday sexism.

Round our way, it was Jimmy Savile and his roller that was going round collecting young ladies from the high school. At least though he was probably wearing his seatbelt

At primary school I can recall kids getting corporal punishment.
At grammar school teachers used to throw board erasers or bits of chalk, aiming to hit the wall near kids not paying attention.
An entire class of us would pack into a minibus, with kids sitting on the floor, to go to the local college to use their facilities.
My husband's school had a woodwork teacher throw a chisel at a kid.

I’ve recently stumbled upon all the old wife swap uks and honestly how they ever aired it has me in absolute fitssss! Follow Harry Philby on tiktok to see them all literally was howlingggggg 😂😂😂 but I remember watching them at the time thinking it was all normal ahahahaha!!!!

Was going to say Smoking on Planes. Insane fire risk, though damaged lithium batteries are probably much worse.

Smoking on planes. I think the Italians where the last ones to phase that out.
Being able to both get served, and afford to drink in pubs regularly aged 15.
Shops not being open on Sundays, or shutting really early. Or in some towns shops shutting at 6pm every day!
Kerb crawlers, lost their way from local red light district, propositioning schoolgirls in uniform.
Phone boxes. And reverse charge calls.
Prank calling random numbers from the yellow pages or the residential phone directory.
Thinking my life was a scandal as I was only allowed 1.5 litres of coca cola a week.

THIS

My kids are 23 years apart in age, the difference in maternity / post natal care between then and now is like night and day. Its really sad how much things have deteriorated. And they wonder why PND is sky rocketing.. And we all just accept this piss poor care, because its "free"... 🤦🏻‍♀️

@QueenofTheBorg defo remember sitting outside pubs with a bottle of coke and bag of crisps waiting for my parents. Those were the days!

@PossumintheHouse at my school it was 😬 it was sooo bad looking back!

Not necessarily white vans, mine had a motorbike.

This 👆 my mate was with a guy in a Fiat Uno..

I miss Sunday closing and shops shutting at 1pm on Wednesdays.

Classy 😀

Yes my sisters friend had him visit their boarding school one evening and they took turns to go out with him in his car

Pubs open all day on market day. Different towns had different market days so you could actually drink all day long before all-day opening. Licensing laws have changed so much. I worked in a supermarket and we weren't allowed to sell alcohol on a Sunday until 12 noon even though we opened at 10am