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

School coach drivers openly indecently assaulting and leering at teenage girls on their coaches, also making comments on their bodies.

It happened to me and it was disgusting.

@Babsexxx Loved that show thanks for the tip

Always remember an ep with a hippy-type family who had a dairy goat, and the daughter threw a tantrum because her new fake mum refused to get the goat's milk flowing by sucking on its teats 🤢blerrrrr still cringes me out 🤮🤣

You still can't buy alcohol in Scotland until after 10am even if the shop opens earlier. Anyone would think the nation had a drink problem
Page 3 girl posters in offices is the one that stands out to me from doing work experience and temp jobs as a student

Dogs shitting in the streets

Pubs closing at 3 and not opening again until 5. Think it stopped about 1990.

Hospitals have certainly changed; at one time you could smoke in your bed.
longer stays, maternity aside ops like hysterectomies you had 14 days in hospital at least when you got home you felt like you were on your way to recovery.
sadly not all good, if a child went in hospital it was felt that parents were disruptive so they were only allowed to visit twice a week which must have been awful for the child.
as has been said the maternity was brilliant; you had a good rest, you learnt how to bathe baby, feed them all you needed and went home much better

@Fieldsofgold1 thats disgusting im so sorry you went through that xx

Pyramid building and hunting bears.

The smoking stuff rings true for me but not the rest of the op. My parents didn't smoke or drink and they didn't go to the pub, neither did any of my friends parents. Some of the more mature girls in our school were going to discos and pubs before the rest of us, but they didn't have blokes picking them up at school, in fact I was the only girl in my school who was picked up regularly by her boyfriend on a motorbike, but he was the same age as me. This was in the 70s/80s. None of our teachers drank at lunch or dated any of the pupils it absolutely wouldn't have been tolerated. I often read on here too about boys sexually assaulting girls in school and it shocks me to the core, no way would they have got away with that in our school, there was some bullying at times but it was clamped down on very quickly.

Naaaaa I must of missed that one 😂😂😂 the one that had me in fits was the new wife couldn’t stand the party life of there home and was in tears the little girl set out snacks in letter bowls ready for the party spelling out “PRAT” I was cryingggg 😂😂😂

I had my son in 1976 and several of my friends also had babies around that time. Absolutely nobody was encouraged to smoke or drink during pregnancy. It was as much frowned upon as it is now. Even Victorian women weren't encouraged to drink alcohol during pregnancy, let alone in the 1970's!

My mother certainly was encouraged to drink stout when pregnant in the 50s and 60s, even though she never drank when not pregnant.

As kids (1970s) we would go and get cigarettes for her from the corner shop, and would also take a jug to the off-sales hatch at the nearby pub for them to fill with beer for dad. We always had to 'tell them Mrs/Mr Fluff sent you'.

Seeing flashers was considered a normal part of growing up, and no-one ever reported it.

Smoking carriages on the tube. It was like walking into a stinky fog 🤮 The floors were made of wood with narrow ridges, just wide enough to hold the discarded fag butts. Not a fire hazard at all…

Leaving your ddog tied up outside the shop..
Or just opening the back door and telling them to go have a wee... Ddog wandering around the estate then coming home!!

9 of us piled into my friends cortina estate. I think the under carriage was scraping on the road 🤣🤣

My GP used to sit chain smoking at his desk, lighting one off the other. I was 3 and asthmatic, this was in 1980.

We used to go to the pub at lunchtime and get served in our school uniforms, as did many of 5th/6th year. Nobody batted an eyelid. Also went to nightclubs every weekend from being 15.

Our parents genuinely never knew where we were most of the time my entire childhood. School holidays we'd be out from 9am til 9pm, went back for tea that's it. The "being raised on hose water and neglect" adage is 100% true 😅

I work at a university and a couple of weeks ago I came across some plans for the library that was built in the 90s. There was a smoking room on every floor. I also recall back in the 70s where even the shopping trolleys in the supermarket had ashtrays on them.

Re the smoking on planes. My aunt emigrated to Australia on the £10 Pom scheme in the mid 60's. She came back to the uk in the early 1990's for good.
She had emphysema from smoking and had decided that as she arrived in the uk she would stop smoking which she did but there was one flight a month from Australia that still allowed smoking on it. She came back on that one and said it was the most popular flight ( for smokers) and was booked months and months ahead , she didn't say if it was any more expensive but I'm sure it was as it would be a captive market wouldn't it?

I was still at school and had a boyfriend in the army....and nope I wasn't in 6 form. He had a blue Cortina 🤣
Things like that were normal in the 70's and early 80's

Being chased around his desk by the sales manager at my first job at 16 because he wanted a kiss. The salesmen thought it was really funny 😞

Hitchhiking to concerts and festivals alone and with a mate was also common

The ice cream van outside the school that also sold single cigarettes (and cigarettes containing wacky baccy).

At school,I often had the lads putting their fingers between my legs and pushing 'upwards' if they thought they had the 'right spot'
Fuck all happened-it was just 'lads being lads' and 'stop being so wet-he likes you'

I remember a young lad (couldn't have been more than about 5/6) coming into the corner shop and asking for fags for his mother
The shopkeeper laughed and said 'I shouldn't really johny,but as I know your mum...' and gave him them

My mother-she learnt to drive (no seatbelts) and we where going out for the day with my aunt and cousins
Me,my 3 brothers and 3 cousins-3 crammed into the back,one in the boot,one between my aunts legs in the footwell and one between my mother's legs (she was driving)

On holiday,they'd put us to bed and fuck off to the pub (over a mile away) and come back pissed

Older siblings taking younger siblings home from school

Me,walking to school alone (aged 4/5) and to my grandads house (over 3 main and busy roads) 2 and a half miles away (aged 4 onwards)

At school lunchtimes,two young teens (aged about 13) would walk down the drive and get in the car of a bloke who looked about 30+ and they'd drive off
They'd come back 5 minutes before lunch ended,pulling their clothes back into place and smoothing their hair back down
The teachers knew and did nothing apart from suck their teeth and mutter that 'if they get themselves pregnant.. '
The parents where fully aware and didn't do anything to stop them either

Leaving your ddog tied up outside the shop..
Eh? You mean while you nip in to buy something? People still do that. What’s wrong with it? You can’t bring a dog into a butchers or whatever.

Smoking rooms in maternity units, full of pregnant or new mums, mid 90's.

It's wrong cause it's an open invitation for people to steal dogs but yes unfortunately it's still common.

While I think smoking is vile, and would not wish to travel in any vehicle with someone smoking (eg. as my parents did - I used to get SO car-sick...), you were less likely to catch an infection (such as Covid) on a plane in the smoking days because the cabin was better ventilated.