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

[Shuggie]

Open the ****ing window

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Perk up the bonfire with a good squirt of lighter fluid.

Edit: Own a tin of lighter fluid

Edit edit: Light a bonfire

 

[Weststander]

Cement in broken glass on top of outside walls (Goldstone Ground) , or have outward facing barbed wire.

Then, was it in the 80’s?, the courts and H&S jobsworths set about making the UK a better environment for burglars.

 

[Sorrel]

Play with fireworks down the rec while drinking spirits.

 

[maffew]

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.

Sadly a friend from primary school died aged about 10 from accidentally drinking some of the contents of a chemistry set having grown a "crystal garden" and mistaking it for a drink in the night. Was so sad. I think it was not long before they were stopped being sold

 

[Nitram]

Ride a motorbike without a helmet. Oh for the feel of wind in your hair.

 

[maffew]

Smoking on the aeroplane

 

[Creaky]

Have concentrated acids and alkalines in bottles on each student’s bench - safety equipment consisting of a white cotton lab coat with holes in where splashed with acid in the previous lesson.

 

[maffew]

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[Lower West Stander]

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

When I started work in the City in the early 90s, the bank I worked for had a subsidised bar open to all staff on the lower ground floor next to the canteen. It was absolutely packed every day.

Hard to imagine now.....


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[ArfurW8]

Go down the park with your mates and try to swing the witches hat hoping to knock it off the pole.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Buy rook scarers from agricultural shops as a 12 year old with no ID or proof you needed them for their intended purpose

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Ride a motorbike without a helmet. Oh for the feel of wind in your hair.

They still do that up my road.

 

[Dick Head]

 

[sams dad]

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.

**** me Easy, you knew how to live life on the edge.

 

[Lethargic]

Smile, take risks (it was my fault if it went wrong)and actually have fun.

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[JC Footy Genius]

As a kid having the freedom to buy a range of 'toy' guns and other interesting weaponry ...




... it only lasted a few weeks before the barrel snapped off due to over-eager bayonet use

 

[Horses Arse]

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

Many many more on a Friday

 

[Guinness Boy]

Take out the lighbulbs in the first class compartments of trains

Get special trains home from away games without having to book 18 different split tickets three months in advance, pray Sky don't change it and organise the whole thing on whatsapp.

These two things are totally unconnected

 

[Horses Arse]

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

Smoking on the tube! The sodding tube! Absolutely stupid and insane. What were we thinking....