BRITS React to 1970s Things That Are No Longer Allowed!

[@MaxStax1]

OB Daz and Gaynor's conversation really made the video. Fun to watch.

[@pacmanc8103]

I remember as a child piling into our station wagon (Electra 225!😜) dressed in pajamas, with all the seats down in the back and a big bed made up, and going to the drive-in with my mother, aunt, and cousins. My mom would make a huge amount of popcorn and a gallon jug of Kool-Aid. We kids would invariably fall asleep before the double-feature was over. It was magical.

[@garygramling5618]

This was great to watch with you guys. I related 100%. Many might disagree with me that we should return to those times, but to answer the guy's question towards the end: We didn't go to school with bars and metal detectors and we certainly didn't kill our classmates. That's pretty solid proof in my eyes.

[@Cashcrop54]

I graduated high school in 72 so I was a bit older than these kids but still had the same experiences in the mid 60's. At school you worried about both teacher and parents if you really goofed up. The teachers had paddles and you might get a couple whacks and again when you got home with a note for your parents to sign and you had to give it back to the teacher. Happily I never got paddled by a teacher. Great video! Enjoyed that. Wouldn't trade those days for anything!

[@dianebrown8046]

@Cashcrop54 Lmao ..76 grad. Never had paddles in my school, they'd use rulers LOL..BUT my Dad would threaten us with a paddle ( his pledge paddle from Penn State..never got taken down, just threat of it too scary & we were both well behaved nerdy kids..Hell in school I was freaking scared to get a C on report card...Only time I got called to principals office, 7th grade 1st day, French class....been in Quebec summer vacation told French Canadian kid was going to learn French...he told me " Tell your teacher " Mange Merde et Mort " it means Have a Nice Day....I did it...found out later it meant Eat Shit and Die..only time I got in trouble at school..was OK though..parents both had to come, I told story about how I learned phrase & parents and principal laughed like crazy AND Bonus parents took me out for ice cream after 😀😆

[@Cashcrop54]

@ oh wow. That's funny. That pledge paddle is what these looked like. A long and about 4-5 inches wide. I didn't want anything to do with it. Bon appetit!

[@UNDERWOODTRUTH]

Grew up in late 70's and 80's and miss it everyday 🍻✨✨✨✨

[@Mike_For_Sure]

It’s amazing how much of this translates into the early and mid 90’s. It literally all comes down to technology. The pros and cons.. 🍻

[@rg20322]

A helicopter parent is like a helicopter always hovering above their kids and getting involved with everything. I'm older and grew up in the 70's as well and it was very different than today. You would leave the house early in the morning and return when the lights were coming on, and typically no questions asked about what happened in between leaving and arriving.

[@TheAmericanDreamChaser]

In the US we use star 69 to tell us the last number that called😂

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

He is not joking

[@Mike_For_Sure]

And *67 to block your own call. lol

[@pacmanc8103]

Damn - I forgot that!😂

[@helenchappell2632]

I remember if we cut ourselves outside and came in to tell our parents their response was get a band aid and don't bleed on the carpet

[@richleaves]

The sears catalog would show up around August, I use to love that thing. I have always wondered why Santa Claus always shopped at Sears.

[@rmk2336]

You used to be able to dial *67, then add the phone number you want to call. By doing that, it would block your phone number and your name on the person's caller ID on whom you're calling. I haven't used that *67 in years, I heard it still works, but I don't know.

[@colleenmonfross4283]

That was a lot of fun to visit the past! It really is remarkable how much things have changed. Kids really had it good from the 50's through the mid 80's, after that, things changed for them and not for the better.

[@larryfisher2633]

It was so much fun watching this video with y'all! "school pants" LOL

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

When I was a small child, my parents took me shopping at a local toy store to pick my gifts (their thinking was it was easier than finding things I might not like). I was told Santa had to be given a list of three choices and I would only get one. I didn't get electronic games until late 70s/early 80s. I had wanted things that I could play both alone and with a friend (there were no children my age within many miles). One thing (I still have) was a murder mystery game (Electronic Detective). The other major game was a trivia device that you could plug a cart into. Each cart held the answer to 1001 multiple choice questions on a topic. I had maybe 20 carts. In the mid 80s, the Commodore 64 computer dropped to $200 where I lived. Both my mother and myself shared that computer and we learned on it and played games on it (mostly Lemonade Stand which was an educational game and Oregon Trail). As I graduated HS, mom loaned me money for a PC clone and I got a job and paid her back over the course of a year. It was a help for school work. I was slow to the mobile crowd. I never really need to be constantly in touch, but it is helpful to remember a few birthdays and a medical history as I get older. Although my phone has numbers, I carry a short list in my wallet since I don't always carry my phone. There are things I miss from the past, but as I age and my health isn't as good, technology has bridged the gaps for me. I miss sitting in a library that was within short walking distance from my house and reading for hours. Now the library is a bit of distance and I can't drive due to health issues - but the Internet can provide me things to read, audio, and videos to my house (especially nice in both hot summers and cold winters).

[@scottgraney5275]

Good video born in the sixties. It’s all true. Parents never worried where you were just come home for dinner. On our bikes all day miles away. Fun days

[@dianebrown8046]

❤❤ 65YR OLD from USA again ...Had to stop before even seeing whole post...LMAO...Bikes & job..like Daz, was 11/12 ...my 1st out of home paying job...baby sitting..( I was 8 when we adopted my Wonderful brother, was Old Pro changing nappies by 11..LMAO you're young enough for me to have done it for you both 😂😂) ...Will watch rest & KNOW I'll Love ❤️ 😍

[@disoriented1]

In the midwest U.S. in the late 70s, I remember being proud of being Teepeed in high school as part of the uncool 'debate' team..I can't imagine what they did for the football players. My dad was furious the next morning, and of course, it rained overnight, so all the toilet paper and newspaper was hell to get up off the driveway, walkway, and everywhere else. But I loved those hours cleaning up that mess!

[@JonS0107]

In the 60s our "treat" for helping with the shopping was to pick out the latest Marvel Comics. I remember we had a stack that, laid flat, reached a height of about 30". And after being read one time they were carefully stored in a drawer. But like many of us, when we returned home to assess the value of our collections we found that they had been tossed when we left for college.

[@davidcosta2244]

Saturday mornings were the time for cartoons, and I remember watching Bugs Bunny & Road Runner, The Three Stooges, and even Scooby Doo. The Flintstones The Jetsons, Tom & Jerry, and Woody Woodpecker were mainly on during the after school, weekday hours, and on the UHF channels, which were typical worse reception, for where we were located. The Flintstones originally started in the late 1950's as a prime time cartoon like how the Simpsons are today. You can even see this with what the storylines are about, because they were more similar to that of the Honeymooners. The Flintstones were one at the same time as the Honeymooners, and I Love Lucy.

[@RobBrown88]

I had a Land of the Giants metal lunch box. I was so proud of it!

[@AndrewSmith-qw5kt]

I remember my step dad having a soft plastic sleeve that was sold in stores that said Pepsi on it so one can slide it over their beer and safely drink and drive. 😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂 Ah the good ol days!

[@dianebrown8046]

❤65yr old from USA again .had to stop again...VACATIONS...( Oh before that, shout & ❤ to Gaynor)..did Awesome camping travels...station wagon pulled Colman pop up tent trailer...saw 44 states ( 38 before I was 12) and all lower provinces of Canada...FREAKING AWESOME..saw most Major National Parks ( Glacier and Yosemite Favorite in USA...but Top of list Banff and Jasper area in Canada) Got to see Unreal scenery & wildlife...Big LOL There...had LOTS of them..Top 3..1st Glacier..woke up hearing yelling, people in camping site next to us..Mama Bear & 2 cubs ransacked their camping site ( they'd left food out on picnic table)..2nd same trip..driving in Canada ( BC or Alberta?) Cars stopped because 2 Big Horn Sheep fighting in road ( UNREAL they'd hit horns the air and ground would vibrate).. we got dent in front bumper when one kicked us running back to head butt the other again...BEST..actually on East coast Great Smoky Mountains..camping,people in camp site next to us had thing with tent top and net screens down sides over picnic table..one day they were gone, Bear came, walked in through opening of screened tent OK..ripped apart cooler chest and picnic basket && Most Crazy thing at one point it actually sat on the bench at the picnic table like a human while shoving a pie in his face..Big Funny..done eating, couldn't find way out..went through side taking netting, tent, and few other things tangled in net with him LOL 😊😊 Again Hope you don't mind Long overshare ❤❤❤ your reactions ❤❤

[@ESUSAMEX]

My mom would make cupcakes for my entire class on my birthday. Sometimes we had birthday parties at McDonald's. One year my brother celebrated his August birthday that way. McDonald's had special deals for a birthday party. I think there were like 25 kids and 4 adults. All food, drink and cake included in one low price. Pizza parties were also common as was bowling parties.

[@Dandee268]

Daz, you're not alone. I was born early in the 70s. I'm the youngest of 5, and I got all my 4 sister's hand me down clothes, including school uniforms or clothes my Grandma made. 😂

[@AlexKailani]

2:07 in the US you can still press star *67 or 69 to block your number

[@MoodyMarco-vj3oe]

1471 launched in UK in July 1987

[@danabe3220]

I cant ell if Daz is laughing or crying or maybe a little of both when recounting those stories.

[@Blondie42]

A lot of these "back in the 70s" things were still a thing for me when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. As for the cake at school: the schools I worked for in China (2017 - 2020) had that sort of thing. When a child had a birthday on a school day thier parents would have an, expensive, cake delivered. And they would give toys to all of the kids in the class.

[@margaretsimmons1598]

Here in the US Saturday morning was always cartoons on just about every channel until around noon

[@dianebrown8046]

❤ 65yr old from USA again...school bus..took them every day of school life..Bless the bus drivers that don't lose it!! ...Only had one that lost it....was in 2nd?3rd grade..for about a week every kid was singing Herman's Hermits I'm Henry the VIII(8th) ..driver pulled over one day Yelled "Shut Up " left bus, came back then said if we sang song again he'd call our parents...😂😂

[@johnwarner6858]

When I was eleven or twelve I started skating a mile to and from school when lake St. Clair froze. By the time I was thirteen my friends and I were sailing Iceboats at speeds of over sixty miles per hour with no brakes.

[@danmayberry1185]

Out all night without calling home - no change for a pay phone, or couldn't find a phone at all.

[@OldStudentNS]

Daz is cracking me up on this one.

[@Greg29]

I was a kid in the '70s, I had a neighbor who'd give me money to go to the corner deli to buy cigarettes for her, was no big deal back then lol.

[@hrussell9677]

Many of these activities are still common today-like having kids do chores, going on summer road trips, snacks in the cars, the outside play. O as much as life was different, much of it is still part of today for many families, but obviously different with safety regulations and social media. Parents have more responsibility to make sure their children are safe. And there are things that are better-more diversity and acceptance of difference, equal opportunities for girls in sports and pursuit of careers.

[@thesuncollective1475]

Standing up to eat?😊 I guess I was spoiled then😂

[@margaretsimmons1598]

My lunchbox was the Beverly hillbillies

[@jrhackman7414]

I remember when I was real young I found out if you dial zero on the phone, a lady would answer. So I started dialing it and making animal noises. Then the lady told me she knew who I was and she would tell my parents if I do it again. I never did it again and my parents never found out. I didn’t know at the time I was calling the one person that knew who was calling without caller ID.

[@LaughingAtCats71]

People would've been appalled at toilet papering houses in 2020 during the Great Toilet Paper Apocalypse. 😂

[@frankrotondo3771]

Yes it was great time

[@jerzeyguy71]

Daz, Helicopter parenting is the parent hovers over their child for anything the child does, so its like a helicopter over head, just staying over the one spot..

[@hrussell9677]

In the U.S., we could dial *69 and get the last phone call received. But just a number, not a name.

[@TobyBaker-hz3rw]

So much freedom lost.

[@michaeldunlay9587]

Helicopter parents mean they are like helicopters and just hover over you.

[@lowprofile513]

Gen X👍

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

My mom used to send me with a note to get cigarettes. I dunno what's wrong with that..

[@mycocorleone4771]

A helicopter parent is a parent that constantly "hovers" over you. constant supervision wont let you go out because its "too dangerous, over controlling etc.

[@charlesgentry3758]

Bro I did most of this up to 2012 lol

[@ryanwoolsey6972]

Daz never having a sleepover is sad…

[@limeygaynor]

He had one at mine when he was 19 😂

[@dandan1818]

1471 started in uk 5th November 1994

[@davesnothere8859]

about 3/4 of the things haven't actually changed

[@TheAcgtrs]

Damn Atari ruined everything… 🤣

[@INDYANDY4C]

Can you imagine that smokes were free to be bought by children at 12? We fought communists at every turn! We didn’t play games!

[@INDYANDY4C]

You 2 don’t realize the 70s or 80s over here! Same, but different. 4:24

[@mylaughinghog]

School lunches in the 70's were cooked from scratch by kindly old warted lunch ladies.

[@bobbimccain2385]

A helicopter parent is always hovering over their children.

[@margaretsimmons1598]

Helicopter parents, our parents that hover over their kids and I have to know what they’re doing at every single second. They’re over involved or excessively involved in their children’s lives.

[@bob1653]

My mom would give me $1 and I would get her two packs of cigarettes and me a piece of candy.

[@indowneastmaine]

1974.

[@ESUSAMEX]

Helicopter parents hover over their children's lives and do not allow their kids to grow and experience life.

[@taunteratwill1787]

How come you "Office Bloke" looking older as the years pass and your wife looks younger ? 😋

[@bryanwilliams1366]

helicopters hover. So meaning parents that hover over their kids.

[@mylaughinghog]

Calling numbers from selected from a phone book and telling the poor slub that answered that a particular church is giving away free leather bound Bibles the next Sunday might have been a prank of some friends of mine.

[@imamisfit445]

Man. That 34 min video could've been 15 minutes. 😅. Should talk after the vid. Love the channel though.

[@officeblokedaz]

Original video is like 20 mins so maybe not.

[@DonMckee-n7w]

You talk toomuch