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Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now

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  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    Carrying suitcases.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Married men being the decision maker 
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Being able to describe a particularly fastidious fellow colleague to another colleague as ‘being really anal’ without it leading to a full HR investigation 
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    Smoking on the tube
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
     Needing to warn, pictorially, that heavy petting wasn’t appropriate in a swimming pool. 

    I could understand more the modern day ‘sub-tropical’ centres with flumes and jets getting the juices running, but in the 70s did anyone seriously do 6 lengths of Crook Log pool and then had a cheeky finger??
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    Strippers in ordinary pubs being perfectly normal entertainment lunch times & again after work
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    AFKABartram said:
     Needing to warn, pictorially, that heavy petting wasn’t appropriate in a swimming pool. 

    I could understand more the modern day ‘sub-tropical’ centres with flumes and jets getting the juices running, but in the 70s did anyone seriously do 6 lengths of Crook Log pool and then had a cheeky finger??
    Most of the tv presenters did
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    AFKABartram said:
    Married men being the decision maker 
    That was never really true...
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    Getting excited to see what would be in the new year’s Thomson Holidays brochure.

    Travellers cheques. Signing the bloody things one at a time when you picked them up. And you were only going to Amsterdam, and you came back with a load of useless Dutch guilders.

    Oh and working out what  you could bring back in your pathetic duty free allowance. Or whether you could risk the sneaky extra bottle hidden under your used underwear.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,479
    Seeing a policeman directing traffic to alleviate a traffic jam.
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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Gay men being described as a ‘confirmed batchelor’.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,126
    The Prince-e-Paul said:
    When I was a kid growing up, we referred to my next door neighbour as "Auntie Pauline" when she was no relation whatsoever! 
    and her name was Deidre
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Bloke going round the pubs with a basket full of sweets
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Strange old blokes in clubs taking Polaroid pictures of you and your mates for £1
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Buying a Polaroid camera after you and your girlfriends holiday snaps come back from the developers with stickers all over then
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    seth plum said:
    Gay men being described as a ‘confirmed batchelor’.
    Batchelor Boy - Cliff Richard.
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,134
    Cablevision, late 60's. Not sure when that died the death.
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    I remember my grandfather claiming to have freewheeled all the way from Grove Park to Lee Green.  Must have been nigh on a century ago.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,229
    Using the whole bottle of Brut, Hai Karate, Denim because according to the ads women would be falling at your feet.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,623
    edited May 2023
    charltonbob said:
    Strippers in ordinary pubs being perfectly normal entertainment lunch times & again after work
    Pint jugs and not forgetting the glasses they passed around.
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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,105
    bobmunro said:
    Pease pudding, faggots and saveloy van pulling up in the road on a Saturday evening.

    Milkman in a horse drawn wagon.

    Coal being delivered in a hole in the ground outside the front door.

    Scurvey

    Rickets

    Going to the doctor's surgery, taking a seat in the waiting room and everybody moving round one seat when the doctor called a patient in.
    Smoking in the Dr surgery waiting room … it was healthy to smoke in the 60’s
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,105
    edited May 2023
    Red Rover bus tickets - Jumping on a bus, and then another, and another and ending somewhere in London that you’d never heard of.

    Getting chucked out of the house at 9am and told to go out and play but be home for tea at teatime when you didn’t have a watch or no concept of time.

    Somehow, many of us survived the 1960’s
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Local nutters that had some legendary story to them that kids were terrified of
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    AFKABartram said:
    Bloke going round the pubs with a basket full of sweets
    Fella used to up until a couple of years ago do this on a Friday night round the red barn strangest thing is I know his son. 
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    AFKABartram said:
     Needing to warn, pictorially, that heavy petting wasn’t appropriate in a swimming pool. 

    I could understand more the modern day ‘sub-tropical’ centres with flumes and jets getting the juices running, but in the 70s did anyone seriously do 6 lengths of Crook Log pool and then had a cheeky finger??

  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    LiveTV on cable.

    Try and explain that concept to anyone under 40.
  • Brownie12
    Brownie12 Posts: 1,525
    AFKABartram said:
     Needing to warn, pictorially, that heavy petting wasn’t appropriate in a swimming pool. 

    I could understand more the modern day ‘sub-tropical’ centres with flumes and jets getting the juices running, but in the 70s did anyone seriously do 6 lengths of Crook Log pool and then had a cheeky finger??
    Only the swimming instructor with the people he was teaching. 
  • fat man on a moped
    fat man on a moped Posts: 932
    palarsehater said:
    AFKABartram said:
    Bloke going round the pubs with a basket full of sweets
    Fella used to up until a couple of years ago do this on a Friday night round the red barn strangest thing is I know his son. 
    Must have been the same guy who came round the pubs in North Heath. Only once did I ever see anyone buy anything. 
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,105
    Already been mentioned but spending the whole summer at Charlton Lido or Eltham Park Lido or Danson Park lido. Doing Bombs off the side of the diving board, seeing who could get closest to the side of the pool and do the biggest splash. Getting out and asking ‘did it go’ - meaning was there a big splash

    no health and safety in the 1960’s / 1970’s 


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