13 Things from the 1970s, Kids Today Will Never Understand! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[@MrDevtun]

The Sears & Montgomery Ward catalogs were the bomb. Loved browsing through the toy, electronics, and sports department especially near Christmas.

[@anthonyramirez9003]

I don't know if you are familiar with the Service Merchandise catalog. But come Christmas time.. that was my go to kid wants this and that under the tree catalog.

[@rodsdmba1571]

Admit it, you went straight to the lingerie section like I did ;-)

[@jp3813]

Got a feeling that kids today would just yawn at a Playboy magazine.

[@peensteen]

The depths of depravity on the internet beggar belief. I've got nothing against people uploading "home videos", but I don't understand how sites can legally show bestiality, or loli porn. I don't give a rat's ass about religious people's opinions on what is right, it's just common sense.

[@scottgraney5275]

I remember growing up in 70 s when it snowed when you where done shoveling you had to help your neighbor shovel until the neighbor hood was clean of snow. Very good video

[@mitchblackmore5230]

1. Flat cotton shoe laces that would always break. 2. Hand me downs from older siblings 3. Bike helmets not invented yet. 4. Sliding down a grassy hill on a sheet of cardboard. 5. Throwing snowballs at passing cars. 6. Riding in the back of your parents Station Wagon (no seatbelts) 7. Smoking allowed EVERYWHERE. 8. Little kids Trick or Treating without parents.

[@jettslappy7028]

If you hung around the house, you would be assigned chores. Best to go find your friends, and not come back until supper.

[@anthonyramirez9003]

Or, how dare you mention to your parents that you are bored. You know the response to that back then. "You are bored huh, well I'll find something for you to do.. The hedges need trimming. The lawn needs mowing".... etc!

[@andirandolph8830]

My mom’s kitchen was completely vegetable wallpaper. Think there were fruits, too, because I remember my older brother licking it and doing the snozzberry Wonka routine lol. And it’s not far fetched that some kids would like Special K. I wasn’t big on sugary cereals as a kid, and my mom bought All-Bran and Grape Nuts just for me, my siblings wouldn’t touch them.

[@Betterthangoldandsilver]

Guys, I was born in 63 and don't recall ever having a pair of Superhero Underoos lol. The Big Wheel though, that I remember. As a kid in the 70s you spent most of the day outdoors playing different sports or building forts out in the woods with your buddies. For me anyway. My Dad had a whistle you could hear a few blocks away, we knew when it was dinner time. Video games weren't much of a thing yet, but it did start creeping in around 1977, 1978.

[@psidvicious]

63 too. Definitely never any Underoos. Playing football in the street ALL day long. My cousin was the fort-king. He was just a natural builder. Out in the morning on either bikes or skateboards and gone for the day. Never did the Big Wheel thing. By the time they came around I was already on a 2-wheeler.

[@Betterthangoldandsilver]

@@psidvicious Same here with the Big Wheel. I remember it though being a big deal for my little bros. Wow, I have to edit that lol. Yes I was too big for it when it came out.

[@Betterthangoldandsilver]

​@@psidvicious We were fortunate to have a park nearby that had EVERYTHING. Tennis, baseball diamonds, football fields. And a basketball court nearby. We would play 7 on 7 football, our street against the other street on the block on an actual football field.

[@blakerh]

I grew up in the 70s. We had a station wagon with the backward facing third row seats with no seatbelts. Somehow we survived.

[@scotchsour]

If your station wagon was like my mom's then it was made of fuckin iron and steel...😂

[@scottdebruyn7038]

Did you Blokes have the game 'Kick the Can' as kids or play with 'Tonka Trucks' in the dirt behind the garage? BTW, you guys made me feel old with this one with your 'born in the 80's' 'born in the 70's' and 'born in the 60's' when here I was born in '59! 🤔🤨🙄😒😏

[@ESUSAMEX]

I went to a wedding a few years ago and the married couple had a photo booth near the DJ booth. Some of the photos were really cool.

[@Andres64B]

I grew up in a rural area in the '70s. We would get up in the morning and have a little bit of breakfast and then not come back until it got dark. We would be out bike riding or playing baseball or tag or out in the woods Etc

[@cindymatthewsarrowdalearts6449]

Daz, your story about your dad locking you out made me LOL, because back in the 80s, I babysat the two little girls of a friend in summer when school was out. They were constantly running in and out of the house, slamming the screen door, driving me nuts, letting in flies. So they were playing on the porch and I had had enough. I snicked the lock on the screen door so they had to give me a reason to come in. The little one had been opening the door to talk to me, instead of speaking through the screen, which was especially frustrating, giving me more reasons to lock the door, when I settled in to watch my soap opera in the afternoon. When my friend got there to pick them up just as that soap ended, she found the girls, one lying on the porch swing, and the other lying on the porch itself, across the broom, both sound asleep - it looked like I'd worked them to exhaustion in the summer heat. We've laughed about that for all these years. :)

[@joelirish]

On Music. I grew up in the rural Oregon 80s, then my parents moved to their missionary position ~phrasing!~ in early 90s central Africa. Fond memories of repairing cassette tapes. A roll of tape. The X-acto knife. Neurosurgeon-level focus. You knew it could be months before getting new American music, or managing to record something fuzzy off VoA's shortwave. After our evacuation back to Oregon, there were the nights I stayed up late to record hip-hop music from KBOO-Portland. (heavy sigh)

[@hrussell9677]

I grew up in the 50s and 60s and we were always outside. Most parents didn’t know where their kids were except somewhere in the neighborhood. We just went from yard to yard, stopping at different friends’ houses and then heading off on another adventure. We knew to be home by dark. I was the youngest and a girl and the only rule was I had to stay with my brothers or be with a group of friends. Even at the age of six it was safe for us. As a parent with our kids growing up in the 90s, I had some fellow parents wondering how I’d let my 10 year old ride his bike two blocks to a friend’s house. The rule was he had to call when he got to the house. It was a very safe neighborhood but other parents were too timid and overprotective. Times changed drastically within two decades. Quite sad! Not sure if it’s the paranoia from all the negative news, but today’s children will never know that freedom.

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

yes remember those photo photos I had four pics taken while I was pretending to pick my nose my buddies thought it was hilarious⚛😀

[@TombstoneBlues]

I grew up in Florida in the 1970's and it was insane, in retrospect. Lots of drugs and dangerous idiocy. I have a picture of myself swimming about thirty feet from a large alligator and just behind me is the space-shuttle blasting off. Dinosaurs and space-age, sums up 70's for me.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

I was born in the '80s, and I remember there was a whole clique in grade school who smoked cigarettes. One of those bastards actually flicked one at me. lol!

[@g0019c]

There was no mention of bikes and what we did on them. It is better to live in the 70's than it is today. We learned more about experiences that they don't today. Cheers

[@mitchblackmore5230]

The pull tabs weren't aluminum, they were tin. Pop cans back then were like soup cans.

[@pandzida98765]

Mike, what was it like in the 70's? Of the three in the studio, you probably remember them the best.😉😅

[@moe92870]

I was born in 77 and I remember being in kindergarten which in the states is 5 yrs old. My school was two long blocks straight shot to the rear entrance of the school yard. I would walk to school by myself and my mom would stand on the end of the driveway smoking a sig, in her robe and hair-rollers and watched me walk the back gate of the school. Though most of the time my older cousin, who lived in the neighborhood on the side of the school would check to make sure I made it to school. Great times.

[@scottgraney5275]

I has born in the 60 s and the 70 s were absolutely lots of fun and crazy times

[@ChuckHuffmaster]

I was born in 1960 and I believe the 70s was the best decade to be a teenager and the legal drinking age was 18

[@jesseuntalan4365]

Drinking from a water hose and not wearing seat belts

[@EatDatBitchAwp]

Kids still do that nowadays🤣

[@jesseuntalan4365]

@@EatDatBitchAwp Good for them 👍🏽

[@chrispavlich9656]

I think it was better back then to be a kid. There may be more opportunities but a lot of things now a days cost money to do where back in the day most things we did didn’t cost us anything to do. I grew up in the late 60’s to early 70’s and 95% of what we did was done outside. I grew up in a cul-de-sac and there was ALWAYS someone to hang around with. I remember on Saturday mornings from 8am until noon we would get one parent to drive 4 of us to a Putt Putt mini golf course to play. 75 cents to play as much as you wanted from 8am to 12 noon. After that we would walk/run across 6 lanes of traffic to the Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop across from the mini golf place and eat doughnuts until we got sick or the designated parent showed up to bring us home. Good times.

[@Bozemanjustin]

6:24 I loved my underoos and they started making them like 10 years back for adults

[@retrosonghits]

Born in '62, grew up in the best era! No seatbelts, played outside all day, didn't have to lock our doors, best music, thankfully no internet/social media jazz.

[@jrhackman7414]

Now I feel like I need to listen to Bucky Covington sing, A different world.

[@ellinganderson5434]

We used to ride in the bed of a pickup truck. Now days that would get your parents arrested.

[@willvr4]

I was born in '89 so me and Dave are still "technically" Millenials, but I can't relate to most them. Facebook, texting, social media, online dating...all of that didn't exist growing up. For perspective, I graduated High School in 2007, the same year the very first I-phone was introduced.

[@pandzida98765]

I was born in 1990. When I went to school, not many people had a cell phone and a computer with Internet access. But I think those were better times than now.

[@Zhiperser]

You have the same experience as most millennials. The always connected to the internet generation is gen Z. Millennials are from 80-96. We were older teens and adults for smart phones, apps, and social media.

[@m1t2a1]

Pull tab. 16:06 Stepping on a pop top made Jimmy Buffet even more popular.

[@seansimms8503]

Glad to be born in the 70s, we were still a society based on natural physical happenings, we had electronics but most of our life was physical where as today most interact with their phone more than a people, social media is killing society and the 1970s was the last decade where most things were like that still, we play board games in the 70s, badminton, can hockey, you name it, by 1986 we had a home computer and Intellivision game console and cable.

[@Uhhhh826]

I wish I could’ve been there in 70’s seems cooler than other eras expect 80’s seem cool too…

[@rickalexander2801]

I was a kid in the 60's and a teen in the 70's. Those were the best of times.

[@bohicagaming4462]

"Running I to weirdos was part of the fun"...maybe in the UK certainly not in the US when there was something like 300 active serial killers and who knows how many serial rapists preying on young prostitutes and hitchhikers. On the plus side you could buy full auto rifles out of a magazine.

[@AndrewSmith-qw5kt]

My childhood heroes from the 70's were Muhammad Ali, Evil Knievel and the Six Million Dollar Man.

[@psidvicious]

And all those great Ali championship fights were aired free on tv. Usually on ABC with Howard Cossell.

[@MOS650]

@@psidvicious Cossell and Ali together were everything, Ali always pretending to snatch Cossell’s toupee off…., so much fun.

[@psidvicious]

@@MOS650 My dad (very old school), refused to call him Ali or Mohamed. He always called him Clay (from his real name, Cassius Clay.)

[@Hokieredneck]

"stepped on a pop top" rest in peace jimmy

[@ChuckHuffmaster]

Lawn darts playing war with BB guns clackers metal slides riding in pickup beds never heard of a seatbelt and the legal drinking age was 18 it's amazing I survived

[@danmayberry1185]

UK war rationing only ended in 1954. US ads since the '60s targeted young peoples' disposable income .

[@garyi.1360]

Daz, safe sounds a lot like dull.

[@johnglue1744]

Musis enthusiasts at the record store he says? Hahaha right. Most of those guys were elitist pricks that scoffed at anyone that didn't listen to the crap they deemed good music.

[@lincolngarces9987]

Humans are decided period but when it comes to problems it's like humans lost the ability to go out side and chop wood down now kids are doing things different but humans we've improved over time but also as a whole and different generations in the next ways of living are more advanced then before when it comes to health and protection and over improving

[@drobichaud1000]

The Underoos thing was cringy ...

[@casey4602]

Ikr

[@betsyduane3461]

There were 7 channels of TV in the US usually. TV remotes have been around since the 50's. This guys videos are mostly crap.

[@w.e.m9800]

You mean you didn't have super hero "knickers"? What's wrong with you?