fvcking hell! I'd forgotten how grim some of them were. :hehe: It's no wonder we grew up too scared to let our kids go outside. The government spent a decade or so scaring the sh1t out of us.
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fvcking hell! I'd forgotten how grim some of them were. :hehe: It's no wonder we grew up too scared to let our kids go outside. The government spent a decade or so scaring the sh1t out of us.
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Gosh. They are a bit strong.
Tufty Club was gentler, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JgaId8o9Jo
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Originally Posted by Burney
The Finishing Line scarred me. The made us watch this at school...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slJyhOEo-SY
It's where they cut back to the tuft of hair, skin and blood after the kid's beaned himself and is about to drown in a puddle. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
And the bit where the kid's drowning in slurry. :-(
I remember one where a kid died after playing in a grain silo and had several dozen tons of grain dumped on him. It wasn't a big problem growing up in Croydon, of course, but it still got the message across.
Yeah, it was a bit conceptual that. Unless they were specifically warning people not to hold school sports days that involved the participants running across a high-speed train track, of course...Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
I seem to remember being repeated warned about the dangers of abandoned fridges. I never really encountered that many abandoned fridges, but clearly the warnings worked, since I didn't die in one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I bought this a few years ago. A nostalgic watchQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
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I tell you what. I've never mixed my crossply and my radials since
Yeah. At no point did it occur to them to suggest to manufacturers that perhaps they could introduce a mechanism whereby someone stuck in an abandon fridge could get out, of course. Or, indeed, tell local authorities not to leave old fridges lying about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Naaah, fvck it. Let's just terrify the kids instead.
It's rabies I remember. I was terrified of rabies as a kid and entirely certain that every foreign dog or cat was riddled with it.
You don't hear much about it these days, do you?
Is that Sir Jingle Jangle top right telling us to do our seatbelts up so we couldn't escape from his Rolls-Royce?Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
HomosForLife, more like. Where I grew up, all that sort of thing was just known as "going out to play" :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
IUFG "I bought this a few years ago. A nostalgic watch"
Good to see that even back then were couple of warnings to steer clear of Jimmy Saville
:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmwBLln_VdM
Yep. Also Rolf. In a swimming pool. With kids :yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Well yes, of course. And splendid fun it was, too. Lots of potential for nasty death/life-changing injury, of course, but even so.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I was scared of rabies too - there was a B movie on the telly with a rabies theme that freaked me out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Of course when, a couple of years ago, I petted a stray cat in Zanzibar and it scratched me, I should have gone for a course of rabies shots, but my memories from the film were that such injections went into the stomach and were terrifically painful, so I bottled it, preferring to die, hydrophobic and foaming at the mouth.
IUFG "I bought this a few years ago. A nostalgic watch"
6-Down appears to show our new Manager under the wheels of a car
How does this tally with the theory that the kids of yesteryear weren't indulged and mollycoddled like today's youth?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
That’s right. Huge needles straight into the solar plexus, wasn’t it? And you had to get them straight away. If symptoms had started to develop, you were royally fùcked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I don’t blame you. I remember a programme where some bloke got it off of a fox and then gave it to his girlfriend with a love bite.
It illustrates the point. The reason those films were required was that we were out there, playing in electricity substations and farmyards. It was fúcking carnage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
:shudder: Yes, fúck all that. Tie me to a bed and let me die shrieking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
We weren't mollycoddled, but we were bombarded by terrifying government propaganda to stop us taking risks. Then, when we grew up, we transmitted that terror to our kids.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Kites and powerlines, gave up on kites after seeing that one. Proper terrifying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
To this day, I get the fear crossing railway lines - even when I know there's no electricity and that a train isn't going to come and cut my fvcking feet off.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Throwing bangers at your mates was great fun though. I can still remember my mate setting off a load in a phone box, not getting out in time, massive bang and him staggering out with his hands over his ears :hehe: His mum wasn't too happy though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I think it's more to do with my own inherent personality than any outside influence, but I literally can't lose sight of my kids for more than 5 seconds without my heart starting to palpitate and images entering my head of me on the news sobbing while viewers at home mutter "he blatantly did it".Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Isn’t that one of your chat-up lines?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Remember all those things you said about poor Maddie? :-( Do you ever wake up in the night sweating with fear that karma might be a thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
You've just turned Herbs onQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
My efforts to mitigate against that involve speaking equally appallingly about my own children.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Well that's going to do fúck all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
God sees into your soul, m. He sees the blackness there and it pleaseth him not. He prepares a place of eternal torment especially for you, infinite years of the Devil himself raping you with hi9s enormous, forked devildick. Yea, thus was it written and thus shall it come to pass. Amen.
Right. Parents deliberately stopped doing any actual parenting a long time ago, allowing the government to step into that breach. A mutually beneficial arrangement. Or a Catch-22, depending on your view.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Get a grip man.. One of the main reasons kids are terrified of spiders and bees is attributed to infant recall, growing up with poncey, flakey parents who leapt, screaming and flailing their arms at the first sight of one..
Of course we now call those kids 'scrotes'Quote:
Originally Posted by 71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat
It's funny, my missus was complaining that the self-appointed functionaries who communicate between a school and its parents are always called Class Mums instead of Class Parents, thereby perpetuating gender stereotypes and discouraging women from pursuing more meaningful things such as a career.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
The irony of this is of course that the implication is that being a Class Mum is somehow demeaning and not something to value, thereby perpetuating the very stereotypes they claim to be railing against.
Of course, their response to this will be that women who claim to enjoy playing stereotypical roles are simply suffering from false consciousness :rolleyes:
Yes, that's why it's best to let dollies take charge of all that; they have the stronger stomachs. And anyway, if anything goes wrong, they sob more convincingly, and garner more sympathy, on the news than blokes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Have you ever cried Red ?
(Apart from when HE left of course)
Well, the whole scam is designed to allow women, mothers, off the hook, isn't it. Regarding raising children, I mean. Anything which allows them to feel less guilty about that is fair enough, so far as they are concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Which is why I never get involved; I'm a father, not a parent.
It was John and Tony Podesta. Deffo them in the police sketches. :nod: #PizzaGateQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Pop out for a few days and all hell appears to have broken loose in the swamp #ImpeachBHOQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash