[Misc] Things you used to be able to do before "Health & Safety" took over

[herecomesaregular]

In view of this poor chap who stuck his head out of a window on a train ...... and lost it.

As per title, things that you used to be able to do before "Health & Safety" took over - in lots of ways rightly so but in others just some common sense is surely enough??!

Me, I'm amazed when I first flew you could smoke a fag at the back of a plane. Crazy! (both as a fire risk and for secondary smoking).

And I used to damn love that microwave popcorn that also came with a slab of toffee to melt in the bag. I guess some div killed themselves with it and it was withdrawn.

You?

 

[Crennis]

Breakfast was so much better when you could get a box of cereal with a toy in. (RIP all those who choked on bright purple Boglins and plastic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which looked just enough like a cornflake that you couldn't possibly notice it on your spoon)

 

[Seagull]

How about not wearing car seat belts? Then you had to wear them in the front but not the back for a while!

 

[Goldstone1976]

Buy chemistry sets with mercury in an openable tube.
Buy leaded petrol.
Chop your fingers off in slam door train carriages.
Eat food prepared by BR.

 

[blue-shifted]

May I be the first to get in a cheap jibe about flasks?

 

[wellquickwoody]

How about not wearing car seat belts? Then you had to wear them in the front but not the back for a while!

Having a couple of pints at lunchtime on a work day.

 

[banjo]

Buy a packet of peanuts without a warning. “May contain nuts”

 

[Easy 10]

Slides in 70's/80's and some eastern european playgrounds.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Jump on and off moving buses.

 

[Easy 10]

Go out all day on your bike as an 8 year old, and come home when the streetlights came on.

 

[mothy]

Smoke on a plane / train / bus, or in a car with kids in, pub, restaurant etc.

 

[mothy]

Jump on and off moving buses.

& trains

 

[schmunk]

Calling [MENTION=34997]Your Mum[/MENTION]

 

[mothy]

Drink drive

Stand up at football matches & drink in the stands

 

[mothy]

Meet in public places with friends, listen to music & dance - without needing a license

 

[vegster]

Buy a packet of peanuts without a warning. “May contain nuts”

Buy a packet of crisps knowing it was 99% potato, today you buy Pringles with 42% Potato !

 

[Easy 10]

I picked up a box once, and didn't even bend my knees. And another time, I stood at the front of the bus and spoke to the driver...WHILE HE WAS DRIVING.


Crazy days.

 

[vegster]

Throw aerosol cans on an open fire, get killed while playing on building sites, have Air Bomb firework duels.

 

[happypig]

Give your missus a slap for being lippy without some do-gooder lesbian going off on one.

 

[daveinplzen]

Having a couple of pints at lunchtime on a work day.

or several on a Friday