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

Yep they had 'godlike' status in those days..never made a mistake..no accountability 😡🤬

Psychiatrists were allowed to be MAD😜 then, now they'd be booted out (hope)

Some fairs still have goldfish you can win. Stourport, which is a fixed rather than recalling fair, does, and rather handily if you 'win' one they also happen to sell bowls and bits to put it in!

I remember one time a bloke in front of me in the corner shop bought about ten of them. As the guy behind the counter was ringing them through he just stood there implacable. An older West Indian guy clocked him and said "Well sir, that's quite the collection you've got there. You really have no respect for women at all, do you?" I was so glad he chose to take a stand.

Of course now these guys just go on the internet and far worse is there all freely laid out for them, with no public shaming whatsoever.

Totally biased towards the man. thank f**k things have changed 🙏

Being able to swear like a docker hardly compares to the sexual harassment that was considered banter, or the misogyny.

And for the majority conditions and sexual harassment,no prospects were the norm.
My elderly mum told me how she was ordered to fetch the boss his newspaper.
Get his wife's shopping..not a high powered job..an Asda assistant in the 70s

You must have missed the bit where I said they gave as good as they got.

No I didn’t miss that. They did not give as good as they got!

It would be a very special swear word indeed that "gave" 2,000 years of patriarchy.

I imagine most women want to go to work and be treated with dignity and respect. Not have to battle misogynistic 'banter' and 'give as good as they got'.

And sliding neatly away from the past with its sexual 'banter' / terrible misogyny etc....
My first bra (aged about 12) would have done Madonna proud. Sharply pointed cups and circular stitching. And does anyone else remember their father wearing stinky nylon shirts and vests made of string?

After a few mentions of “the slipper” at school, I’ve heard a few older people recalling being punished with the slipper at home, and how their parents would check the “smackability” of slippers when buying them. These same people say that most modern slippers are no good for this purpose, with their plastic soles.

When Factor 6 was regarded as a high spf.

In 1961 MIL had to stop teaching before she she started to "show" too much when pregnant. No job to return to.

So they've tried them, then...?

Yes, I used to go on holiday and use factors 2, 4 and 6, 2 and 4 for normal use and 6 for high burn areas, I also used to use factor 2 oil as it was supposedly more 'tanning' than cream, that's probably why I have BCCs on my legs now.

Oh yes. Probably not on another person, but they say they automatically see how bendy they are, tapping them on their own hand in the shop.

And I’m glad that we no longer see children smacked in public, and hear them howling into the distance.

I've a family member that used to get put under a sun lamp as a child to get her skin ready before a sunny holiday.

Remember going through Soho in the 80s. Business men reading the cards in the phone boxes eg gas mask/rubber boots for sale or French lessons given and the viewers writing the phone numbers down. The Adult book shops that seemed to everywhere like vape shops are now. Do they even sell printed material now?

Nylon shirts and blouses. Bri-nylon as it was advertised. No ironing involved. Everyone then talked about the P word. Going to the P* shop and certain types use it now. 70s particularly. My parents witnessed an influx of people from the sub continent coming here to work. Then we had Ugandan Asians coming here to steal our jobs/benefits. And what about those 'poofs' ready to molest our children? Not like those nice Priests, policemen, TV presenters.Plus c'est change...

Did you invite your 'boyfriend' over for dinner? I'm gobsmacked.

Possibly depended on where you lived. I was at ‘junior’ school in 1962. I remember a heavily pregnant teacher. We had a collection for a baby present and she returned to teach the following year.

Our friends in Glasgow still refer to corner shops as P* shops. I was absolutely horrified. They didn't even know what it meant.