Could then - Cant Now !

[CharlieH]

This is just for fun and no serious debates or arguments please.

 

Inspired by the heated debate on smoking laws.......

 

What can you remember that was perfectly fine to do when you were younger but is outlawed now ?? 

 

Smoking was the norm for most adults ! permitted everywhere.

 

Parrafin heaters 

Seatbelts werent compulsory

Eating whilst driving

Racial remarks commonplace

Riding any size motorbike you like

No "written" driving test.

Air-rifles

Crossbows

Bonfires and bangers ! 

 

 

Just a few that come to mind,

What can you think of ??

 

 

(Keep it light-hearted please)

 

 

 

 

 

[johng]

Could (in the 1970,s)  bend my legs so  feet  where behind my head    can't now.

[pgrahmm]

Drive in movies with a gal, blanket, & a back seat........

[OneMoreFarang]

Long time ago in a civilized country I could:

- Tune my small motorcycle and get away with it.

- Drive fast and no speed cameras everywhere.

I am sure I can't do that "at home" anymore - but I can still do it in Thailand ????

 

 

[Justgrazing]

Getting a clip 'round the ear off the old man for putting bricks on the railway line to watch 'em getting crushed by the train  .. 

Edited November 7, 2018 by Justgrazing
Sp

[marko kok prong]

Robbing banks,it used to be much easier.

[1FinickyOne]

Asbestos walls and lead based paint... 

 

not outlawed but out of date: 

My transistor radio was cool.. 

Families portrayed as normal people, Ozzie and Harriet, Father knows best... 

Duck and cover in the hallway at school

[Chassa]

19 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Getting a clip 'round the ear off the old man for putting bricks on the railway line to watch 'em getting crushed by the train  .. 

 

 

and pennies............

[Muhendis]

56 minutes ago, Chassa said:

 

 

and pennies............

+ farthings but is that now illegal?

[HHTel]

The good old days:

 

 

[theoldgit]

One for the road

Scrumping

[tifino]

thirty years ago; buy 2 bottles of Mekhong;

 

take a glassful from one bottle, and all seemed normal

Take but a smll sip out of the other bottle, and you are off your face, and your are seemingly legless from the knees down (there was no Govt regulation in how the stuff was produced back then)

 

 

Drinking it for long enough, and you face (eyes) take on

'the Mekhong Look'

    those were the days...

[PerkinsCuthbert]

Walk to school without fear of molestation, sauntering on the way, play conkers without helmet, full-face protection and body armour.

Edited November 8, 2018 by PerkinsCuthbert

[Suradit69]

1 hour ago, kenk24 said:

Families portrayed as normal people, Ozzie and Harriet

But Ozzie never had a job.

[HAKAPALITA]

Butter in blocks and cut for you.

[HAKAPALITA]

Say what you believe in. 

[Nanaplaza666]

Leave a thread hanging out of your mail sloth in the door for when your children didn't have a key , do it now and half of syria or marroko will be living in your house or all your belongings will be gone. I mean in holland . 

[1FinickyOne]

11 minutes ago, Suradit69 said:

But Ozzie never had a job.

He was a sweat-shirted actor on the show... wealthy people don't work... his job was sheltering his family as behind the scenes he managed to keep Eddie Haskell of the show and relegated to Beaver... He was a busy guy, he just made it look easy... 

[1FinickyOne]

29 minutes ago, tifino said:

thirty years ago; buy 2 bottles of Mekhong;

 

take a glassful from one bottle, and all seemed normal

Take but a smll sip out of the other bottle, and you are off your face, and your are seemingly legless from the knees down (there was no Govt regulation in how the stuff was produced back then)

 

 

Drinking it for long enough, and you face (eyes) take on

'the Mekhong Look'

    those were the days...

Ghostly...

[pgrahmm]

Go to the Soda Fountains

Phones stuck to the wall

Typewriters

Mimeograph machines

99 key manual adding machines

Listen to records in the booth in the local record store.....

Stick a quarter in the juke box & get 3 plays

Street drag racing - as well as at the local drag strip

 

Can't get your tits caught in a wringer anymore....Guess I never really could have - but the visual still holds....

[HAKAPALITA]

Let Dogs hunt Vermin.

[CharlieH]

Getting money back on bottles returned to the Pub.

 

Going Upstairs to the "circle" in Cinemas. Had 2 films A + B movie.

 

Having 2 after school jobs Aged 11

 

Jumping on and off the platform of a moviing Bus !

 

 

[Vacuum]

Women knew their place.

[Caine]

Calling a spade a <deleted>

[HAKAPALITA]

Understand all Americans, Canadians, and Australians.

[Ron19]

Rotary Clothes Lines - good fun. ????

 

[HAKAPALITA]

 Cheer when the Dam Busters blew the Dams.

[HAKAPALITA]

Just now, Ron19 said:

Rotary Clothes Lines - good fun. ????

 

Australia only original invention

[Burma Bill]

2 hours ago, Chassa said:

 

 

and pennies............

and halfpennies, three-penny pieces, sixpences, shillings, florins, ten bob notes, crowns and half crowns, sovereigns. 

[Ron19]

Drinking out of the hose. 

 

Parking for free at the beach.

 

Buying cigarettes for 3 and 6 pence per packet.