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

At least we werent frying the bacon IN mercury or Sodium or whatever chemical was lying around unsupervised/not locked away. We were just expected NOT to mess about with acids/alkalis/any other chemicals

Are you talking about the white stuff? I thought it was a preventative measure to delay or stop the need for real fillings. I always thought it was a great idea.

The amount of nylon clothes we all wore. Static shocks all the time....

Lead in petrol.

Slam doors on trains.

And nylon sheets...😬

Brentford Nylons were the big advertiser. Easy wash/dry but slippy and yes the static.

Cars with those chrome rings on the steering wheel. These would prob splinter in a crash and stab the driver. Seem to remember we had a Vauxhall and a Ford with that. Late 60s into 70s

I remember late 60s and 70s being given a barley sugar by the dentist if I was good and allowed him to look at my teeth.

Ahh nylon! nylon sheets either silky so you slipped out of bed, or brushed nylon ideal for ripping toenails off. Nylon shirts and dresses plus nylon loose covers for 3 piece suites. Must have made enough static electricity to keep the national grid going!

🤣🤣🤣

I remember my second eldest sister making a hole in a nylon sheet, when she had a nylon nightie. Aged 6, it was the first time I'd heard him say, "Fucking Hell!" in our hearing, not realising that we were there.

The spark left a hole big enough to get a hand through!

Even in the 90s/early 2000s life was really different as a teen than the experience teenagers have now. They’re all bloody obsessed with skincare and hydration now - we rocked about like the cast of Skins. Indie sleaze was the aesthetic when I was a teenager and we used to drink and take drugs and have casual sex - especially when we were at college/university. I think I read that today’s teens have less sex, alcohol and drugs than ever before. In lots of ways that’s good, but I probably wouldn’t go back and change anything from my own experience - it was a real laugh a lot of the time.

Same. A lot of Skins parties, illegal camping trips, dolling ourselves up to buy cheap cigarettes & alcopops. Yeah it wouldn’t meet the mumsnet standard of vanilla living but I really enjoyed it, have many funny memories and I can absolutely see how testing the boundaries develops your brain in a healthy way.

Thinking you had to be serious with someone to want to have sex with them.

My dad had a van in the early 60's, obviously there were no child safety seats and I would roll about on the back seat when my dad was driving. My uncle was an engineer and could make anything. It was decided it would be safer for me to have my own seat. Which in theory makes sense except my uncle designed a " safety " seat for me that went over the handbrake. So I sat in the front between my mum and dad in my own little seat over the handbrake, I mean seriously wtf.😂

Has anyone said hitchhiking yet? I was poor and used to hitch everywhere.

Yes, so did I, we used to hitchhike to nightclubs and stuff like that and when I met DH to be we hitchhiked down to Cornwall and also to festivals, this was in the 70s and 80s, a couple of times I did on my own, it was a bit scary but it was usually with a friend.

We used to hitchhike to the next town for the friday night disco - so down at about 10.30 after the pub closed and back at 2am. But we'd usually be in pairs. This was on a main dual carriageway.

Underage drinking? This has prob been covered - I used to go to the bar as I looked older to order the vodka oranges (blegh) - I remember the police coming in once and when asked my friend moved her DOB one year the wrong way........and had to leave. The rest of us were ok.

Oh God yes. My friends and I frequently got served cider at the bar in the local cricket club (and off licence). And frequently got extremely drunk very quickly from the age of 15. This all ended quite abruptly after about a year when one of us was asked for ID! I lived in a large house growing up so it was quite easy to avoid my mum & stepdad when off my face. My dd (15) would never get away with any of that these days thank God! She has absolutely no interest in alcohol and rightly so. We'd also often rent 18 rated videos from the local video rental place around the same time. I saw Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday 13th, Midnight Express etc from about the age of 13!

Enemas when in labour. remember my mum saying she had one and was sat on the toilet, head on the cool tiles and thinking 'never again'

Agreed. Our DDs certainly seems to lead far more wholesome lifestyles than DH and I did at university. Today they're all about Korean skincare, baking, very expensive loungewear and bullet journaling. At their age I was falling out of clubs at four in the morning and waking up to watch Neighbours eating stale pizza for breakfast lunch.

My parents used to sometimes take my grandmothers and an elderly friend out for a little ride around the countryside or to a beauty spot on Sundays in the summers and made me sit on a cushion on the handbrake. This was probably through the late 70s till around 1980, when I was 12 and adult sized. I hated it!
A little later my parents also used to take all four older grandchildren - my nieces and nephews - out in the car which had no rear seatbelts and no child seats. It used to make me so angry and I wondered why my sisters allowed it but I think the fitting and use of rear belts wasn’t compulsory then, and neither were car seats, and my sisters needed the childcare in the school holidays.
My own children didn’t come along till much later but there was no way I’d have allowed it. I attended too many inquests as part of my job.

I remember well the enemas in labours; as a very young soon to be mum the labour was a terrible shock. First was shaved, then enema finally broke my waters and put me on a fast drip so no wonder I was nearly besides myself! I passed out briefly and when I woke up I heard brass band music, was quite convinced that I had died and was in heaven. turned out was just the local carnival going past!

Cars without power steering - soooo heavy, particularly in town/slow. How I never hit a Woolworths shop window unable to turn the steering....

Yes- enema and shaved before birth - awful -16 months later I had DC 2 and they’d done away with it completely - thanks,I think, to Esther Rantzens tv programme .
i felt like saying ‘ you owe me and several million other women a f*ing big apology!!!!