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

You couldnt be more right. Page 3 was summed up by the likes of 80's girls like Sam Fox with a massive pair of knockers and nothing more than bit of a morale boost for the working man on the building site. But it got outlawed for being non-PC meanwhile we now have Love Island with almost every girls face mutilated beyond belief to the point that they don't even look human any more - thats the real batshittery of today!

Block appointments in Outpatients. Six or eight patients being given a 9.00am appt. Doc or Specialist seeing us in order that we arrived. It was considered OK because it meant that Mr (Who was very important) did not wait about. My DH complained one time and Surgeon said "Well, as you are Self-employed you should consider paying for Private Treatment."

I'm 63. Went to an all-girls' school and there were a whole host of girls who would be picked up at lunchtime by their boyfriends in their cars to go and spend the lunchhour having sex on the back seat. At primary I got wacked around the legs with a ruler by a teacher for talking, smacked regularly at home (but at least my parents didn't smoke or drink!). There was the man in the neighbourhood that we all knew not to go into his house because he 'likes little girls'. Being leered at and having sexual remarks yelled at us walking through town in school uniform, being flashed at regularly in the parks. Starting work in an office where EVERYONE smoked all the time and went to the pub in the lunch hour. Not being allowed to wear trousers, either at school or at work, and when I joined a youth club my mum had to write to them to ask that I be allowed to wear trousers there because it was a long walk to meetings in the winter and I got very cold!
None of these are false memories. This stuff was my life, from the late 60's (being hit at primary) to about 1988 (when I left work to have my son, and had to struggle to be allowed to go back after maternity leave).

Talking about battshittery, I looked up Sam Fox. Apparently when she was 16, her mother took photos of her in lingerie and sent them off with her statistics to a competition. She was then photographed by The Sun and became their youngest Page 3 model. The Sun raised the age of its models to 18 in 2004.

We still have it here!

I'm intrigued as to what some people think others are making up, or having false memories about? I'm 62 and remember all of these things except the Guinness for pregnant / new mothers, but I knew it had been a thing.

People should watch ' life on mars' for an idea of 1973 living and how they treated women!

Going to a friend's house at 3pm on bank holiday because the pubs shut drom 3pm until 7pm.

Police stations have "social clubs" and serving bars IN stations!

Office workers going for a couple of pints at lunch

Peanuts and snacks on the wall of a pub, and the cardboard there were on had a topless woman on it (seen once all packs removed)

All booze related, and I'm not even a big drinker!

Further back than you’re thinking, GPs would sit and smoke whilst seeing patients 😮 I was a young kid at the time, but I remember it!

At my first proper job there was a bar upstairs and after we'd had lunch we went and sat in the bar area to smoke.
Smoking at the back of buses was acceptable.
I remember smoking was allowed at the back of the plane..I now find it v a annoying that neighbours smoke and it comes into our house :(
Staff rooms were a smokey haze at school..if had to ask a teacher for help during break we had to knock on the door and it was hideous.. but considered normal. Our maths books came back with nicotine stains on the pages :( 😞

I remember that. It was still believed in the 70s. I was pregnant at 16 in 1975 and on recommendation, I drank a Mackison (similar to Guinness) every day. My daughter was thankfully born fit and well!

GP was a a solo practice, he smoked a pipe, got it stoked up in first patient and kept it going. Grandpa was a mate of his and went to evening surgery, usually had a glass of whiskey with him.

Smoking on planes, cinemas, buses etc.
Driving/passenger before seltbelts were law.
Cane/slipper on kids at school!!

Oh God yes, just remembered my dad lighting up a cigarette to have with a whisky when the plane was taking off. There used to be ash trays in the arm rests of aircraft seats.

Saturday job with animals one shilling and sixpence per hour for a teenager.
10 Woodbine or Park Drive cigarettes same cost. But I loved it. well both actually.

yes, good! me too, and then one of my favourite films !

First job, Sainsburys, 1972. The alcohol aisle had to be supervised at all times, booze could not be displayed anywhere except this aisle. On Good Friday, we could only sell alcohol during the licenced hours, which were the same as Sundays. So we opened the shop at 8.30 with all the alcohol covered in sheeting. Took the sheeting off at 12.00, put it back on at 2.00, all purchases had to be paid for by 2.10. We used to open until 8.00 on a Friday, so at 7.00pm all the sheets came off for the rest of the day.

Seems crackers now, but the open all hours licensing benefits the multiple chains and have helped in the decline of local pubs. A couple could run a pub. Open 11.00 till 2.00. Have a few hours off, golf, shops or just relaxing. Tea with kids. Open again in the evening till 10.00 and repeat. They used to have cover managers who would work an area so the landlords could have a day off. Landlords were well known and respected in a town, and could make a comfortable living. Now, it managed pubs are more common.

I was born in 1954. DF was in the Merchant Navy and was away when I was due, so DM went to her parents for the birth. DGM had a story that one night DM came into her bedroom screaming that she couldn't wake the baby for a feed, and of course it was me being spark out because I was getting the Guinness that she'd been told to drink in her milk.

Never liked the stuff (Guinness, not mother's milk).

And I recall most of the other stuff bar the boyfriends at the school gate (altho I don't doubt they were there as at least one girl in my year couldn't take her uni place because she was pregnant).

I worked on a psychiatric ward until 2009 and they still had a smoking room then. It was awful if a patient was on a 1:1 as staff had to sit in there with them, and probably 6 other patients. The smell was awful and it was hard to breathe in there sometimes.

In the seventies it was acceptable to sit in the back of a car holding your baby on your lap.

My GP was smoking cigars at his desk well into the 1970s.

Last year of middle school I remember the teacher would always have his pipe on his desk. If we were having a test he'd smoke it.

Friends dad beat her mum up and trashed the house but was only arrested for damaging someone's car when he threw the sofa through the front window.

Mum coming to visit me in hospital and being really shocked to find me packed and ready to go home. Doctor had told me but not my mum. I was 5.

Making sure we drank in different pubs to the teachers. Getting served in pubs from 14.

My friends (15) boyfriend(24) had a scirocco. Height of sophistication

Likewise, I think people don’t remember a time before the internet, mobile phones, independent taxation.

Actually those skills are far more useful than just playing football 😉

Local shop selling 'cig and a match' for 10p.
I was 13.
One of my friends had a 'boyfriend' who was 32 and married.
She was 16.
An 8th costing a fiver.
Being served in pubs at 15, and it being well within my p/t job earnings.
Hitch hiking alone to gigs//festivals...what the actual fuck was I thinking?