Things of past decades that would never be allowed today

mondeo

Just to get started....

Kids holding onto the back of cars on their skates.... I use to see this all the time in the estates as a kid in he late 80's, early 90's, even on main roads.

Going to the tax office and buying a provisional licence and driving off in your car without the foggiest idea how to drive. Completely legal and acceptable.

I remember the Zoo back in the late 80's use to sell Helium filled balloons to kids with these little crystal things inside them. I think they were designed to weigh down the balloon to keep the balloon from floating away on you. The balloons exploded as we played with them in our garden and the crystals inside the balloon shot out and bloodied our legs. You wouldn't see that sort of stuff today lol.

Duckworth_Luas

12 year olds driving tractors

veryangryman

Marrying 14 year olds because you were rich and famous (Elvis comes to mind)

Signore Fancy Pants

Taking sweets out of a strangers pocket.

Fenster

Teachers beating students who forget lessons.

Chips Lovell

Gladiatorial combat.

starbaby2003

Doctors smoking whilst doing their rounds.

SmartinMartin

Drunk driving. Smoking on planes. Smoking in hospitals.

Thelonious Monk

Priests left alone with children

boardlady

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

12 year olds driving tractors

Still happens!

Suckit

Same Sex Marriage.

keano_afc

Responsibility.

TuringBot47

Sexual harassment

TuringBot47

Forcing women to work in laundries.
Religious orders taking babies away and selling them / killing them.

DesperateDan

It's weird seeing a UK TV show from only 2007 where people are all sitting around smoking in the pub

nkl12xtw5goz70

mondeo wrote: »

Going to the tax office and buying a provisional licence and driving off in your car without the foggiest idea how to drive. Completely legal and acceptable.

There are plenty of unaccompanied learners on the roads still. It's only recently that the Gardai have started to take this seriously.

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

12 year olds driving tractors

Happens all the time.

Moreover, an unaccompanied 16-year-old can drive a tractor legally on a public road, with just a learner permit.

TuringBot47

Free speech on boards.ie

is_that_so

Saying someone looks good!
Patting someone on the back!
Randomly taking photos.
Using proper grammar!

Kids going around with pellet guns

Sharp MZ700

Holding the door open for a woman.

SEPT 23 1989

Kids smoking in cars

2lazytogetup

washing machines, microwaves, dryers, lightbulbs etc that last years. Nowadays the likes of whirlpool, beko, indesit would never allow good quality.

Stuff made in Ireland and England. now everything is made in China and of dubious quality.

Be right back

4 or more kids sitting in the back of the car.

Running in school playgrounds.

igCorcaigh

Swingball

2lazytogetup

going onto a building site. used to have great fun as a kid exploring half built housing estates.

is_that_so

Be right back wrote: »

4 or more kids sitting in the back of the car.

Running in school playgrounds.

Nah, that still happens but with a lot more supervision. Mental bunch in school near me.

TuringBot47

The Thunderdome.

Iscreamkone

I loved those sweet cigarettes that shops sold to the kids that were just too young to smoke for real.
They made me look really cool.

Jonny one

Communal fitting rooms in shops like pennys

Mrs OBumble

Jailing unmarried women without trial just because they were impregnated, with no penalty for the man involved.


Oh wait, that last bit ....

Hamsterchops

Smoking on the bus
Smoking in the cinema
Caning (beating) children in school
Using derogatory terms for non white people.

Boredstiff666

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Using derogatory terms for non white people.

You mean like ....you pink b*stard?

Boredstiff666

Selling wives at local market.........I use DoneDeal and ebay now.

Sardonicat

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Swingball

Ahh, memories. Myself and the cousin improvised our own swing ball set by sticking a tennis ball down one leg of her mother's extra support tan tights and tying the other leg round the lamppost that was just outside her front garden fence. Two frying pans for rackets and we were off. I'll never forget my uncle almost collapsing in hysterics when he saw what we were at. My aunt's reaction to seeing her tight leg swinging round the lamppost was a little different.

Unsupervised playing. Kids using their imagination and initiative to entertain themselves. Where's that gone?

2lazytogetup

2lazytogetup wrote: »

going onto a building site. used to have great fun as a kid exploring half built housing estates.

... and hitting the jackpot by finding some Hilti shells (used for nail guns, basically they were [are?] .22 cartridges without the bullet tip) - which meant the obligatory mini-bonfire to chuck them in.

Riskymove

veryangryman wrote: »

Marrying 14 year olds because you were rich and famous (Elvis comes to mind)

Elvis?

are you thinking of Jerry lee Lewis?

Certain type of rag doll made in the likeness of a minstrel, from a character created by Florence Kate Upton. Everyone had one when I was growing up, never thought of it as resembling any human, more of an alternative to a teddy bear.

partyguinness

Correct use of the apostrophe.

Be right back

is_that_so wrote: »

Nah, that still happens but with a lot more supervision. Mental bunch in school near me.

And higher insurance?

TuringBot47

Deleted User wrote: »

Certain type of rag doll made in the likeness of a minstrel, from a character created by Florence Kate Upton. Everyone had one when I was growing up, never thought of it as resembling any human, more of an alternative to a teddy bear.

Ah yes, a "gollywog".
And HB had the "Golly bar", an icecream with a black-faced minstrel on the label.

TuringBot47

I don't think the movie "Blazing Saddles" would've been made today.

RhubarbCrumble

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Priests left alone with children

Hmmm, username checks out

Hamsterchops

Boredstiff666 wrote: »

You mean like ....you pink b*stard?

It was usually aimed at people with darker skin!

is_that_so

Be right back wrote: »

And higher insurance?

Schools would be covered by the government so probably not relevant. Sorry state of affairs that some schools don't allow it.

is_that_so

TuringBot47 wrote: »

I don't think the movie "Blazing Saddles" would've been made today.

Only by Spike Lee!

ILoveYourVibes

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Sexual harassment

happens today

vektarman

The TV series 'Love Thy Neighbour' wouldn't be allowed today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1dakp4FT0w

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

12 year olds driving tractors

That still happens. I still see them careening past my parents’ house in big tractors in the summer. :eek:

decky1

heard lately that if beer etc was invented now they would not get permission to sell it.

cajonlardo

I grew up in the 70s but I still find that recent TV show "it was all right in 70s" hard to believe

for instance theres a clip where a woman joyously proclaims "I'd like to raped on a day this.." I don't believe many found that funny even back then but it speaks volumes that it was aired on prime time.
Another clip has Terry Wigan interviewing a 16 year old beauty pageant contestant and he refers to her as being " a big girl"

We used expressions like "work like a n***er"
"n***er in the woodpile" and even "n***er brown" to describe a shade of brown.

Have to admit my own transgressions were pig ignorant - genuinely didn't know better and when I was old enough to think for myself I sincerely regretted using certain phrases. Grew up with sisters and a very strong mother and grandmother's - so at least I did have a healthy respect for women

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

cajonlardo wrote: »

I grew up in the 70s but I still find that recent TV show "it was all right in 70s" hard to believe

for instance theres a clip where a woman joyously proclaims "I'd like to raped on a day this.." I don't believe many found that funny even back then but it speaks volumes that it was aired on prime time.
Another clip has Terry Wigan interviewing a 16 year old beauty pageant contestant and he refers to her as being " a big girl"

We used expressions like "work like a n***er"
"n***er in the woodpile" and even "n***er brown" to describe a shade of brown.

Have to admit my own transgressions were pig ignorant - genuinely didn't know better and when I was old enough to think for myself I sincerely regretted using certain phrases. Grew up with sisters and a very strong mother and grandmother's - so at least I did have a healthy respect for women

I used to say ‘half caste’ until I went to college at 18. It wasn’t a slur in my part of the country, it was used the same as ‘mixed race’. I struggle not to say it to this day because it’s part of my formative years vocabulary.