Things from the past you would not get away with today....

Things from the past you would not get away with today....

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HHHHHHH

200 posts

152 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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Burning witches

andy_s

19,397 posts

258 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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Alf Garnetisms and certain marmalades.

HD Adam

5,143 posts

183 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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andy_s said:
Alf Garnetisms and certain marmalades.
Living and growing up in a seaside town in the 60's & 70's, you would see signs in the windows of guest houses saying "No Darkies".

Commonplace then but now yikes

phumy

5,671 posts

236 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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HD Adam said:
Living and growing up in a seaside town in the 60's & 70's, you would see signs in the windows of guest houses saying "No Darkies".

Commonplace then but now yikes
The amazing thing is, they understood and didn't knock on the door for a room....hehe

Condi

17,085 posts

170 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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prand said:
16 year old Page Three girls?

I seem to remember they started very young, back in the day...
This. 16 used to be a perfectly acceptable age for a young girl to get her baps out.

Anyway, plenty of things from my youth I shouldnt have got away with then, let alone now!

zb

2,498 posts

163 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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prand said:
16 year old Page Three girls?

I seem to remember they started very young, back in the day...
Didn't the Daily Spurt Sport have a countdown to Lynsey Dawn McKenzie turning 16?

HorneyMX5

5,306 posts

149 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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zb said:
prand said:
16 year old Page Three girls?

I seem to remember they started very young, back in the day...
Didn't the Daily Spurt Sport have a countdown to Lynsey Dawn McKenzie turning 16?
I htought that was Charlotte Church.

zb

2,498 posts

163 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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HorneyMX5 said:
I htought that was Charlotte Church.
Might have been her too, the mind boggles.

johnvthe2nd

1,285 posts

196 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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well my reply was turning into quite a rant, but I think I have it summarised now.



Every fking thing.

ShampooEfficient

4,266 posts

210 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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"After she turned 16, McKenzie continued to model topless for The Daily Sport and The Sunday Sport. She also made Page Three girl appearances in tabloid newspapers The Sun and The Daily Star; posed topless in lads' mags such as Loaded; appeared fully nude in British softcore magazines such as Mayfair[4] and Men Only;[5] and performed in a variety of low-budget softcore videos."

When did it change to 18 to be able to "perform"? >child of the very late 80s<

Mobile Chicane

20,736 posts

211 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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Before the discovery that paedophiles lurked on every street corner, we were told to get on our bikes, disappear for the day, and not come back until dinner time.

That would have people calling the NSPCC nowadays.

As would the sight of a ten year-old girl, alone in a car with a packet of crisps, parked outside a pub while my father went in for a snifter (or three). hehe

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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Alfa numeric said:
You never see kids sat in the boot of an estate or hatchback these days. They're missing out.
This.

We had a Morris Oxford estate around 1969 -70 and we used to call travelling in the boot

the "very back".smile

rumple

11,671 posts

150 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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Blazing saddles, can't see that being made nowscratchchin

The Hypno-Toad

12,249 posts

204 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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When I were a lad...

On a Sunday afternoon myself and a couple of friends used to pack up our air-rifles, wander up to the public woods at the top of the hill and just shoot things. Mainly tin cans and paper targets but the odd bird and rabbit too. People used to just say hello and wander past on their afternoon walk.

These days we'd have the firearms squad making us assume the position.

Mobile Chicane

20,736 posts

211 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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I remember, on a school trip to France aged 13 or so, the teachers allowed us to buy flick knives. (Big ones too.)

This was on the understanding that, if we got caught bringing them back to the UK, they knew nothing about it, right?

Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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Mobile Chicane said:
Before the discovery that paedophiles lurked on every street corner, we were told to get on our bikes, disappear for the day, and not come back until dinner time.

That would have people calling the NSPCC nowadays.

As would the sight of a ten year-old girl, alone in a car with a packet of crisps, parked outside a pub while my father went in for a snifter (or three). hehe
Not to mention the drink driving. Although I suppose your dad could have driven if you had had a few.

66comanche

2,369 posts

158 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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The Nur said:
Smoking a fag in a pub, enjoying a nice pint after work and then driving home.

All within reasonable limits of course. I am not advocating drink driving, just lamenting the demise of common sense with regards to a cheeky pint after work and the ability to partake in a cheeky fag with aforementioned cheeky pint.
Who's saying you can;t have a cheeky pint (or even two dependant on various factors) and drive home after work, in fact if you sit in the beer garden you can even have your cheeky cig.

Flirting in the workplace, seems nowadays even if the object of the attention is perfectly happy, there'll be some intrusive nosey fkwit who'll report it to HR anyway (not me honest guv, seen it happen). In a similar way, swearing seems to be almost outlawed, even at the footy at times, bring back terracing!

Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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I used to go to primary school in the boot of a Mk3 Cortina estate every day

Mobile Chicane

20,736 posts

211 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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Cotty said:
Mobile Chicane said:
Before the discovery that paedophiles lurked on every street corner, we were told to get on our bikes, disappear for the day, and not come back until dinner time.

That would have people calling the NSPCC nowadays.

As would the sight of a ten year-old girl, alone in a car with a packet of crisps, parked outside a pub while my father went in for a snifter (or three). hehe
Not to mention the drink driving. Although I suppose your dad could have driven if you had had a few.
You're not kidding - I was introduced to alcohol practically from birth.

I'm told that when I was about six months old, my father dipped his finger in red burgundy and put it in my mouth. Apparently, I smiled.

Funny thing is that red burgundy is far and away my favourite wine today. Coincidence? scratchchin

Spanna

3,732 posts

175 months

Friday 13th July 2012
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Riding an off-road motorbike on a field without the feds turning up threatening to crush it. I would understand if it was near any houses, a nature reserve or a through path, but it's baron, unkept land next to nothing.