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

I have just had a PERFECTLY nice, sympathetic post DELETED! What the hell? I’ll repeat the gist of it here and see if that one gets deleted…
I said that in the 1960s my mum insisted we showed respect by referring to black people as ‘coloured’, Jews as ‘ Jewish people’ because we are all the same inside…
what the hell was wrong with that!!

⬆️ Any ideas why my post may have been deleted will be gratefully received. I also said ‘ not everyone was a rampant racist’.

Did you say the P word? Many people find that very offensive.

I assume it was deleted because you used the term 'coloured', despite the fact that - as here - the word was placed in quotation marks. The term is now considered offensive, to the point that even historical usage can bizarrely be deemed at best insensitive and at worst 'racist'. It is curious that, within a few decades, a term that arose out of an attempt to be polite and 'inclusive' has switched to having the opposite meaning to that intended. The situation with the former slur 'queer' is another recent linguistic oddity, albeit in reverse 🤔

BAME is verboten now, as well.

Who came up with it in the first place, is what I'd like to know.

@Ilovecleaning I was similarly taught/brought up in the 60s when the word was considered more respectful. Your post has been deleted out of context imo. I also say that as someone whose father was Jewish, rather than a Jew. Strange how people don't have issues with the use of Jew.

Thank you for that. I appreciate it. Ridiculous that a word can be taken out context. Especially as I was explaining that my mum brought me up not to be racist. thank you anyway 🌺

Thank you for responding. My husband is Jewish (not strict otherwise we wouldn’t be married lol). When I started seeing him I heard that one of my relatives said ‘ I hear ilovecleaning is seeing a Jew Boy’ - ouch! What an idiot! I reduced contact to virtually zero as I realised there was a side to her which was awful.

thank you! 😊🌺

Concrete tunnels in the school playground that kids would regularly smack their heads open on.

Slides in the park that usually had broken pop bottles underneath.

It was cool to have an older boyfriend, preferably with a car!

Nightclubs from the age of 14. High heels, big hair, chest out (and aforementioned boyfriend paying😁)

A glass of orange juice listed as a starter in restaurants.

Brylcreem as suntan accelerator.

@Lalog

The women who pose for these magazines have no respect for themselves either.

And people applying cooking oil on themselves to get a tan .

It must have been very difficult for people who were genuinely offering French language tuition back then - especially if they were French nationals living in the UK and thus likely less familiar with the 'euphemism'.

Soome upthread mentioned bri-nylon, for me it was all my mum's 'wash & wear' crimplene dresses, which really held the sweat smell
Bri-nylon was for the sheets that made sparks as you slid into them!

For me it was the dodgy wiring: where appliances didn't come with plugs, you could wire 2 together into the same plug. Our xmas lights needed some real love each year to work, as there were about 6 sets running off the same cable & plug.

Yes, I remember sitting in the footwell or boot when we went out with friends in the late 70s/early 80s. Nobody wore a seatbelt until they had to.

Further back, my dad was in hospital for 2 years as a kid during the war. Visiting was the first and third Saturday in the month for 2 hours for his mum - his dad was in the army so was allowed to visit at any time. His little sister was only a baby when he went into hospital so it was hard for his mum to visit. My dad was very accepting of this - wouldn't happen now! They also slept outside once a month, even in mid-winter. No wonder Dad is still with us at 89.

My 1st teaching job in the mid 90s had a smokers' staff room before the main one. It was gross having to walk through the smog to get a drink. I also worked in a pub prior to that and hated the smoke and having to clean the ashtrays.

I don't think we've had Bronco and Izal toilet paper yet, have we? As seen in most schools and other commercial premises too in decades gone by.

Bog roll that actually smeared the stuff everywhere and left you in a far worse state than if you'd never used any at all!!

Or used as tracing paper in primary school.

I heard a lot of stories from elderly folk when I was a home.care years ago.
One lady told me that as a child she and her friends used to play with a little boy. He didn't like playing with the boys as they were a bit rough and used to tease him . The parents of the girls banned them.from playing with him, saying he was gay (using the word they used to call gay back then., Poor little kid ended up with no friends. Same lady told me that another friend, as soon as she turned 12, her father used to come into her room every night. Apparently the mother had gone off sex, and knew all about what he was doing, but turned a blind eye as long as her wasn't bothering her. It seems it was known all around the neighbourhood but nobody acted on it. Another lady who had a much older sister who was married. When the lady was five her BIL took her into the potting shed and assaulted her. She told her parents and was thrashed for telling lies.
It must be noted though, that the parents always made sure she was never alone with him again.
Changing the subject, me in the early 90s, 2 young babies. Called the police as my abusive ex was smashing the house up and threatening me. 2 male police officers attended and basically told me they can't throw exh out of his own house, and basically left me to deal with him.
So glad things are different nowadays!!

Men going to the pub Sunday dinner time while the wife cooked Sunday Roast .

Pubs also opened at lunchtime on Christmas Day for this reason

Pubs shutting at 10.30 in the week and 11pm weekends

A board full of nuts or pork scratchings in pubs and underneath was a photo of a topless woman every time someone bought a bag more would be revealed,

Some pubs sold sandwiches at lunchtime and their was a jar of pickles or pickled eggs

People actually waited outside for pubs to open in the evening and did a good trade , mainly from darts , skittles .

@CreamStick "Men going to the pub Sunday dinner time while the wife cooked Sunday Roast"

And the kids going to fetch their dads when dinner was ready! 🤣

@abouttoturn50

And the wives who used to march into the pub with their dinner and throw it over their husbands. 😂 Some even put the dinner on the bar with a knife and fork at the men sat theirs and ate it being cheered on by the other men .

Remember crimplene well, my Mother made me a stripey trouser suit from it☺️ was nice looking until I got the flared trousers all mangled up with oily gears on my bicycle 🚲 😌

omg awful😮😢