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

[essexplumber]

Spanna said:

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.

Yes but engines are evil.



I can remember when an adult was someone to be trusted not feared. Traffic Wardens were there to assist you with finding a space not just grunting at you in a West African accent and looking at you as though you had just shot their Dog.

Ah the 80s, when did it all go wrong? I reckon 1997 was a bad year for freedom.

[Condi]

ShampooEfficient said:

"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<

2003 according to my research. You have to be very careful when researching issues like that. I was only 15 at the time.

[h0b0]

HorneyMX5 said:

I htought that was Charlotte Church.

Charlotte Church won rear of the year at 16 and 2 weeks. They used a picture of her at 15 to publicize this. Always seemed wrong to me.

[John D.]

obob said:

Sump said:

Having a laugh in the work place.

More elf nf safeti related.

You are there to work not laugh etc. etc.

Or break yourself etc etc.

[Lemmonie]

As a child in the 70's we were regularly left in the car (triumph vitesse) with a bottle of coke and a pack of Worcestershire crisps in the pub car park for a couple of hours.

[hondafanatic]

Talking to a teacher near retirement, he's seen a lot of changes. Nowadays, if two lads are constantly at each others necks, then everyone sits down with parents and various teachers and have a meeting and plan a progress report and constantly monitor the situation.

The older teacher used to give the boys a set of boxing gloves and sort it out on the agreement that it ends there and then.

I remember being a pupil and having books and board dusters being thrown at pupils that were chatting. Kneeling in the corner of rooms, being made to stand up on chairs, playing British Bulldog etc.

School really does show the changes from now and then.


Edted becaus mi speeling chequer waz swiched of

Edited by hondafanatic on Saturday 14th July 08:44

[croyde]

Getting Cholera on a cheap Spanish holiday. Getting Polio at home.

[dabofoppo]

When I was younger 3-5ish my dad would sit me on his knee and let me steer the car.
Also walking home from primary school my little brother lives accross the road from his child's school and they'r not allowed to walk home unaccompanied.

[Teamsreth]

Mobile Chicane said:

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?

My dad gave me some whiskey when I was 6 months old. Very smiley and slept brilliantly.

It's all I drink now.

[AndyBrew]

hondafanatic said:

playing British Bulldog etc.

British Bulldog them were the days, I remember practically the whole school lining up at lunchtimes, nose bleeds, twisted ankles, fisty cuffs, brilliant fun!

[Fishtigua]

AndyBrew said:

hondafanatic said:

playing British Bulldog etc.

British Bulldog them were the days, I remember practically the whole school lining up at lunchtimes, nose bleeds, twisted ankles, fisty cuffs, brilliant fun!

Ah, B.B.

First day at Big School. The whole school turned out on the rugby pitch to play, new boys in the middle. On the first pass I managed to take out the 6'3" captain of the 1st XV Rugby team with a flying tackle. He went down like a sack of spuds. That was it, nobody bullied me that first term.

[hondafanatic]

AndyBrew said:

hondafanatic said:

playing British Bulldog etc.

British Bulldog them were the days, I remember practically the whole school lining up at lunchtimes, nose bleeds, twisted ankles, fisty cuffs, brilliant fun!

The good news is that the boys still try and get away with it despite it being against the rules...it's genetically engineered into them.

[simer553]

Learning to drive on either the council carpark on a Sunday morning (yes, they were empty) or on the local trading estate.

I was taught at 14 in Grandad's Mk3 Cortina and drove on the road (accompanied) from 15 onwards in Grandad's Mk 1 Cavalier. Allways Sunday mornings when there was no traffic.

This was in the days of it being illegal for shops to open on Sundays and the pubs shut at 10.30PM!

[vixen1700]

Mobile Chicane said:

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?

Flick knives were a must on foreign school trips. We all had them.

[hondafanatic]

vixen1700 said:

Mobile Chicane said:

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?

Flick knives were a must on foreign school trips. We all had them.

With matching flick combs for us real hard nuts that took care of our appearance.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Drinking and driving was a big thing in my early youth... that 'I had 17 pints and still drove home' kinda thing and leaving the baby in the pram outside the boozer on a Sunday afternoon.

[ShampooEfficient]

Condi said:

ShampooEfficient said:

"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<

2003 according to my research. You have to be very careful when researching issues like that. I was only 15 at the time.

I couldn't think of how to Google it without the feds turning up

[OdramaSwimLaden]

Having to sit at the back of planes as Mum & Dad were both heavy smokers. Mum made me sit next to Dad as Dad often fell asleep with a lit cigarette; can you even imagine that today!!

As far as i'm aware no planes fell out of the sky though.

Watching comedians, such as Jim Davidson, go on stage and tv telling shockingly racist jokes.....

[944fan]

OdramaSwimLaden said:

Having to sit at the back of planes as Mum & Dad were both heavy smokers. Mum made me sit next to Dad as Dad often fell asleep with a lit cigarette; can you even imagine that today!!

As far as i'm aware no planes fell out of the sky though.

Watching comedians, such as Jim Davidson, go on stage and tv telling shockingly racist jokes.....

IMHO not having Jim Davidson on TV any more is a very good thing.

[McHaggis]

h0b0 said:

Charlotte Church won rear of the year at 16 and 2 weeks. They used a picture of her at 15 to publicize this. Always seemed wrong to me.

Indeed. No doubt with a big story on the opposite page about hunting down paedophiles and perverts.