Modern Taboos: 8 Things You Wouldn't Do Today! | British Pathé
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- There are many things that we do today that we won't be able to do in the future. Here is a list of the 8 things you could do in the past that are taboos today.
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8 Things you Could Do in the Past that you Wouldn't do Today!
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The good ol days. When I was a child I walked myself to school while smoking a cigarette and eating a whale sandwich.
And went dancing after school.
While wearing a fur coat all along.
And rode your bike bakc home from school without a helmet.
Lol
100 years from now, walking to school wearing a helmet, accompanied by both parents, and a teacher, only allowed to wear clothing you've made yourself to show the world you don't support slave labour. Eating your home grown organic carrots, and drinking your coconut milk, supporting the "I support coconut farmers" logo.
9. A teacher or similar adult hugging a kid back when they express affection.
You're right and that's sad.
Nor pulling your ear off if you were naughty.
Only if you are a man I think.
@@ionpopescu3167 No it's everyone. My ex did some community benefit program for her company where they held these educational games for school kids. When they were done the kids would swarm her because they really liked her, and she just had to stand there like a bloody idiot with her arms in the air while they hugged her.
When I was 9, in Colombia, that wasn't the case. And it has only been five years since (I am now 15 and live in England). I remember we hugged teachers (of either gender) rather casually, as if they were family---despite the fact I didn't even go to a small close-knit village school, I studied in a private school
“Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
- Douglas Adams
Now that you’ve been warned, prepare for the comments section.
@J Hemphill You do realize that Adams was saying that to think this way is absolutely wrong. As I always say, as we age we think the world is past its prime when it's really just us.
@J Hemphill I am very anaolog but not a neo Luddite . I hear you .
@J Hemphill ...but the old folks whinge about the next generation that they brought into the world!
Elon Musk is more than 40 years old and he still looks pretry tuned in to me...
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I delivered telegrams in and around Louth Lincs in the 60’s on a motorbike in all weathers and without a helmet with my long hair flowing in the wind.Great times with even greater memories.
I remember hair too. /sigh/
Did you smoke while driving? :-)
@@veschyoleg No: but the bike did ...
I just know you had some unrepeatable experiences with unique and fascinating organisms
Dancing, polite conversations, logic, the humanities, hand written letters in cursive, elegance in clothes, demeanor, speech, architecture, art, personal responsibility, maturity, stoicism, common sense, basic honesty, etiquette.
Oh boy. Logic and basic honesty is like a alien language to millennials.
It's official: I am old. I remember when almost everything on this list was part of normal life.
LBellatrix Including the job bit?
It’s been official for an aeon. Didn’t you get the telegram?
@Ghostwind1975 Depending on where you lived.
are you still alive?
You are not old it is just that the fun has gone out if life, due to the left-wing idiots.
I can barely focus on what they're saying, because I keep listening to the Nutcracker :)
Yeah I was going to say the music drove me nuts!
@@davemustaki134 Idiotic choice of music
You may have tinnitus?
I think the version of the dance that they have used is really distracting, it got more so the further on it went. By the time we got to the section on whaling I was barely paying any attention to the narration, just focusing on the music.
very jangly
9: Being well dressed.
😅😅
Well dressed is relative. Modern fashion dictates you dress for the situation, you'd look a fool wearing a suit everywhere these days. Gaudy even. Wear well fitting clothes that fit in with the tone and dress standards for the event, which a large number of people still do.
Also worth nothing not everyone was well dressed back then, just the well off middle class who could afford well fitted new clothes. Much is the same today, though I daresay wearing baggy pyjamas in public isn't a sign you're poor more that you're a bit short of braincells.
You’re just still bitter about your fedora being called lame
I stumbled upon a photograph of an Oldham Athletic game from 1976, around half of the supporters were sporting a collar and tie. Since this working from home malarkey I have recently purchased a pair of grey jogging pants, (due to a friend posting a meme about them) I can't say that I will never look back but they are a boon!
@@brygos7436 no boy, you have no idea what a fedora even looks like.If I show you two photos of hats you wouldn't understand which one is a fedora, you would even call both of them fedoras.What you do is copying what popular culture is saying as your own words, like, 'oh neckbeards ahahaha, oh they wear fedoras ahahahaha (which they don't) ' while not knowing a bit of a knowledge of dressing and clothes.
-A gentle warning from a fashion history enthusiast
Things I can add:
1. Travel agents aren't used much anymore, used to be common.
2. TV repair. Now it's too cost prohibitive, just buy a new one.
3. Party Lines: During the Bell monopoly it costed a lot to have dedicated phone lines.
4. Shorthand/Cursive writing. Penmanship is a dying art. Shorthand isn't needed when you have typing.
TV & radio/radiogram repairs were more common, because back then these electronics were relatively very expensive. They could cost a good chunk of your wages, and had less components in them. So it was worth paying to fix if it did go wrong.
Pay phones on every street corner.
Office job when there was no internet.
TV repair? I still get my 10 year old plasma repaired every couple of years. Fifty quid a pop seems good value. It's there if you want it.
I still use cursive and will continue to do so until I die lol
@@carterdc3576 cursive is still widely used here in the Philippines. I guess it depends on the country.
Having a smoke while whaling
Without a helmet.
Wearing a fur coat
Whilst dancing
And being able to afford to buy a home without an elderly relative leaving you the deposit in their will
And possibly having a smoke while whaling without wearing a helmet, wearing a fur coat, while dancing, *for a lifetime job*
Even in the last 10 years things have changed considerably if you think about it.
The only constant is change. If someone can find an absolute outside of that please show me.
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 I don’t think anything can be faster than light. Someone pls correct me if I’m wrong
@@gregerfulgerman7802 there is a theory showing that it might be possible to warp space itself and thus speeds faster than light maybe possible but again, it's just a theory.
Boarding schools were more common
Absolutely. I walked to school as a kid, by my mid 20s the school was a complete jam of parents and cars not allowing their children to walk alone/with friends
Something that's going away: being anonymous on the internet.
It's for the best, I'm afraid.
You could have picked a more anonymous username TBH. See?
That will never fully go away, but it will become harder as the years go on.
4chan is the last bastion of anonymity
Vineet Pande it's actually not, like at all. There is no such thing as anonymity on clearnet platforms.
I work in aged care, when you read the residents’ histories so many of them met their life partners at a dance. Bring it back!
Righttt this is so sweet. I really wish it came back
@Queue Kumber Such a cynic. Sucks to be you.
@Queue Kumber Not calling them old people is what I do.
Dance still happens but is less common. Salsa dancing is a pretty popular pastime in London, plenty of millennials attend as well as other age groups, and Ive met lots of great people there!
@Queue Kumber cant see the real problme in that. People had sex, got kids, got jobs cars and mortages.
Couples used to have clothes to glam up to go to dances,theatre,etc.i think the younger generation miss out on that,living in denim and sports gear 24/7.
Having your Sunday best.
I mean it depends. Personally I'm not much of a clothes guy, so I'm glad I don't have to worry about all that. Sounds expensive too
I was born in 2000, about 40 year after Denim started becoming popular outside of manual labourers. If I am going to a "glam" occasion (maybe not the cinema or a dance, but certainly if I'm going too see something at the theatre) I dress smart, and most people who do those things do. Perhaps meet people who belong to the social group you are criticising before making blanket statements about "the younger generation"- all 4 of them.
@@hamishwhitehenderson5197 It was an observation rather than criticism.
Honestly, given how bad they fit, I prefer use jeans and denim 24/7
I remember when you could watch a tv program without a 3min section at the beginning that tells you everything that's going to happen in the show.
i remember watching a tv show without interruption by commercials
@Владимир Путин I remember when it was just 't'! They hadn't invented the 'v' yet! We didn't even get the Capital 'T' until I was finished my Chimneysweep apprenticeship!
@Владимир Путин yes, that's right! I remember now, I was in Yorkshire, they called it, t'radio. It all becomes clear. Sitting on t'sofa listening t'radio.
@Kris Chandler you really shouldn't drink so much Kris!
My doctor used to smoke as he did his exam
My grade 5 teacher smoked in the classroom back in 1972. Some of the parents complained but there was no law or regulation against it.
I'd stop seeing that Dr.!
Did he blow smoke at your balls during the genitourinary exam?
@@johnnyangel9163 That was in the 1960s...It was the norm.
@@gregorymalchuk272 This was in the 1960s. He would come to our house. Sit have a cigarette and then look me over a take a puff now and then. The world has changed a lot since then.
I like Tchaikovsky, but not when he's drowning out the narrator.
Plus the music didn't really match the subject matter.
In the future this will be banned.
@@kingspunkbubble what will ?
People don't understand the concept of BACKGROUND music anymore, nowadays, sadly.
I can't stand music put over talking. I don't understand why people think it's helpful.
In Germany kids still go to school by their own. Maybe not from the first class on, but when theyre around 8 years old they do go alone.
they call it latch key kids in USA
I don't know who compiled this but most kids over 7 go to school on there own in Britain.
Same thing in the Netherlands. From 7 on went to school on a bicycle.
I’m American and I walked from my home to school with my older brother who also went, then we took the bus in middle school, then took a car in high school
Lmao I was walked to on my first day of school, after that I went on my own, i was not even 7 at the time
"Many things you can do today, you won't be able to do in the future." Yeah, like speaking to others, going to the bar, sports, getting anywhere near anyone or basically anything interesting. Gotta love 2020/21.
@@kisstheworldanddie not when everything is closed:)
@@kisstheworldanddie parties now? Sure, it comes with a 500 bucks fine
Frankly, people quit communicating with one another prior to 2020.
We need Number 2 back. Children used to have strict boundaries set but also be allowed to grow, explore and mature. Nowadays children are not disciplined but also coddled. The result is grown-ups (man-babies and woman-babies) that struggle with opposition and who feel the need to call in an authority figure (a teacher, employer, policeman etc) whenever they are offended. They are not able to shrug these things off and move on. They need their feelings validated by an authority figure because they've never grown-up out of that prepubecent phase.
The rate of child-abduction was actually higher in the '50s. Parents began to fear it because of media hype.
It's very irresponsible and dangerous to let your children go to school on their own. Kidnappers are everywhere and just wait for a chance to strike. These days the world is a lot more dangerous than in the past. We need to keep our children safe, no matter the cost.
Although I would agree to let physically matured teenagers to go out on their own since their bodies should be developed enough to protect themselves.
@@HattieMcDanielonaMoon Sounds a bit like "Reds under the bed".
@@mjribes What do communists have to do with keeping your children safe?
@@HattieMcDanielonaMoon The irrational fear that an enemy is hiding under your bed. There the enemy was the communist. For your it's kidnappers
i remember when you could smoke in a hospital bed, on a passanger plane etc..... no joke
😍😍😍😍
Thank God those days are gone.
I always hated walking into a smoke-filled restaurant. Everything smelled and tasted like ashes.
When you could smoke on planes the air had to be changed much more frequently, the oxygen content of cabin air was higher and Deep Vein Thrombosis didn't exist.
The airlines quickly jumped on the no smoking band wagon because changing cabin air costs fuel so banning smoking increased their profits.
@@glenncordova4027 I hated going on coach trips because smokers in the seat behind would blow smoke through the gaps in the seats in front. It was awful. And when I left school at 16 in 1977 I was looking forward to going to college when by chance I overheard some classmates saying it was going to be great at college because you could smoke in the classroom and use the big communal ashtrays in the middle of the tables. I was horrified! and quickly changed my plans. Other people smoking has really affected my life choices tbh
First grade children still go to school on their own in Japan. They even commute by train and bus alone. No problem, sahib.
I walked home all the time in middle and highschool, but not elementary.
Children walk to and from school on their own just about everywhere else, even in war zones.
You are also hired for life in Japan, can smoke indoors (sometimes) and enjoy the local whaling industry. This video is really about western cultural norms
Japan is civilized and homogenous. The US is a huge dump
@Therese A. Judith Izzo-Davis it is. Because their culture still teaches discipline and respect to their kids. And the country is almost all Japanese. They don't bring in refugees and have multiculturalism
I wish I could have spent more time away from my parents when I was a child too. My 2000s childhood experience was suffocating and lonely, and I never took a bus by myself until I was 16. No wonder so many people in my generation are anxious and socially awkward. Thanks Gen X, you did a great job raising us!
Also getting a job for life is literally my dream, it's sad that we live in an era where stability is such a luxury.
When you have these weird-ass parents born in the 60s of free love and experimentation, ofc you'd get sub-par parenting.
@mike smithbeing born in 99 but in a town that was slightly behind, I witnessed the shift as well. From experiences I've heard from other people as well as my experience of the tail end of that transition, I would say the best time for kids to get brought in the UK was between the 20's and the early 2000's. Meanwhile the best time for the mental health of adults was the fifties to the eighties. While we have progressed in some ways like medical etc however, we have gone severely down hill otherwise since then.
You’re an adult now, time to take responsibility for yourself and quit crying that mommy and daddy provided luxuries they didn’t have. A lot of those GenXers had the lovely experience of if you missed the bus, you walked the 4 miles to school in -10°F weather or along icy roads.
And my genZ nieces and nephews ride the bus to school alone, they are 6 and 9 in a large metropolitan area.
Don't blame GenX, blame your own parents. Imagine holding a whole generation responsible for the actions of 2 people.
I wouldn’t say sending a telegram is Taboo, nothing wrong with it, you just can’t send one anymore.
The commentary talks about 30 or 40 years ago when the supporting film is mainly of the world 60 years or more ago.
2016.. We live in a very selfish time. Once, things were simple and everyone looked out for each other, had respect for each other. Those times have perished...
I wish they could kick me back to the 1970's - life was so much easier to deal with back then.
Imagine being able to apply for a job without the ridiculous application forms and ridiculous interview questions. My first job at sixteen my boss was smoking a cigarette while giving the interview.
After university seems painful. You have to have trillions of volunteer hours, somehow have experience in NASA, solve world hunger, become president, just to apply to be a Walmart janitor. Shits so stupid.
@@honkhonk8009 Exactly, in most countries getting an IT diploma also mean unemployment or a job that requires a lot of work hours, many hours working at home and not getting paid enough to make a living. Most people eventually quit and do a normal trading job.
Child safety: it wasn’t really safer decades ago
What has changed is we only ever heard of the very occasional tragic incidents of crime against kids in our local press. Even more unusual was national news coverage.
Now? With 24 hour news channels and social media the perception of danger is far more than the actual threat. We hear about incidents from around the globe not just the next town over. And it terrifies us all
Yep, the fear greatly outmatches the actual risk. It's maladaptive.
Now news is getting bored and talking about people bring being racist in twitter
“Diversity” is what makes our countries dangerous
We used to have a cigarette while walking to school.
Now they just vape...
I was class of 2015 I think I was maybe the last class to still smoke cigarettes I would puff while walking to the bus stop lol. Vaping was just starting to become popular when I graduated
Me too. And in between classes. In the “lavatory”, in the smoking section, everywhere except in the classroom.
Dont diss the vape! That sweet cool menthal and warm nocotine coating your lungs with a breath of fresh morning air, thats a treat
No telegraph office? How will I contact the Prussian consulate in Siam, and am I too late for the 12:30 Auto-Gyro?
+Phil Wood They still have telegrams.
***** Wrong. Telegraph services are still available in parts of Australia, Bahrain, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Switzerland, and in the U.S. In some of these countries, telegrams are only used by businesses or for special occasions.
But can I contact the Prussian Consulate?
+Barndancer61 The above can be done by carrier pigeon, in certain regions. Just dictate to the housemaid, and she'll transfer the shorthand to the pterotype, then give it to the negro boy, who will run it on down to the letter office before he fetches your water for the evening. After a good whipping, both he and you will be ready for bed, and another bright day tomorrow!
@@vrinda5303 In the USA, Western Union stopped their telegram service many years ago. You can probably send a pseudo-telegram "message" of some sort (and perhaps even get it hand-delivered), but you can be sure it will ACTUALLY be TRANSMITTED via the telephone lines, the Internet, or satellite (and not any sort of teletype on dedicated wires).
When I was five (in 1954) I walked a mile to school, crossing two main roads on my own, admittedly there wasn't much traffic around. I made the same journey a few years ago and it was quite scary.
There was a case recently about real fur being used to make counterfeit fur coats.
2020-2021 Travel, go to restaurants, have people round, go to work, go to the beach, leave your home. Breath without a government permit, maybe that one is next.
Another proof that late 1950's to early 2010's is the fime to live for.
@@Jon-tt9bf Lucky you. Many around the world aren't so lucky.
Or have your freedom,without the "Mark of the Beast" system, welcome to the new world order my friend!
@@richardstorier6172 Or having your rights remove by a Pseudo-Fascist regime that span from China to Brazil.
Another thing going away soon, according to the World Economic Forum: Owning things
We must stomp on those bastards. Thankfully, don't think Boris would do that. If he'd call black kids piccaninnies, don't think he'd accept that in Britain.
Thank God , I am so tired of owning things
@@yaearmeow lol right?? Such a burden.
Get a grip
The Great Reset haters do not know it is an idea not a implementation yet. How do you propose post Covid 19 life?
(Speaking from the perspective of late January 2021) When this pandemic is over I'm going to go out dancing romantically as often as I can. The plague of 1918 and the end of WW1 put a longing into people, and the 20's will roar again.
It will be a spectre haunting us all for the rest of the decade, along with everything else that's falling apart. The only roaring the 20s will do is the roar of the riots and violence.
I hope you’re right!! We really do deserve an awesome decade.
Wishful thinking. “Pandemic” is here to stay.
This “pandemic” will never end.
It will probably be a crime to hold hands in public, forget about dancing.
I’ve always found the growing racial tension and sobering atmosphere of uneasiness between whites and non-whites to be far more threatening than the virus. The violence will most likely stem from such a conflict, as opposed to anything else.
I sent the last telegram in 1984 - to my late father, saying that I was coming home.
And... did you make it to home?
@@User-jr7vf Yes, I received the telegram myself at home.
Nearly all grown ups smoked in the 50s and 60s. When you went to the cinema it was like being in a fog. When you came out your clothes and hair smelled of cigarette smoke. When you went on a bus the air was foul. Teachers smoked in front of the class. My mother and father both smoked very heavily. I never smoked, I didn't need to I was inhaling the smoke from everybody around me. It's a wonder I've got any lungs left.
+Sloopy .Dog I used to get bacterial throat infections at a rate of 3 or 4 a year from inhaling 2nd hand smoke. Antibiotics and a week off work followed. Eventually my bosses got narked and I almost lost my job.
+Terry Shulky Same for me. I drove buses in the 70s, when I got home at night my clothes and hair were stinking of stale tobacco. I was always suffering from sore eyes and throat. It was like a fog on the buses as nearly everybody puffed away. I used to drive with my window open but it didn't help much. When you go on a bus now It's great and you can enjoy a trip to the cinema. You can't beat fresh air!
When I listen to older generations tell their childhood whaling stories, I feel like I missed out
@Armin Tanzarian: Same.
Oh you did me hearty! Sailing yonder on the big blue sea, it would be days until we saw a whale, but when we did it was worth it's weight in gold.
Why do I felt a sudden urge to write a diary by reading this comment
Yes. I used to walk 3 miles to school in the morning, and back again in the afternoon. On that return journey I'd buy a big chunk of pink chewing gum at a small shop, walk through a big park where I'd try to build a dam across the narrow part of a river which flowed into the park and crated a lake on its way through. Carefree days, and it never seemed there was any danger.
sheer bloody luxury .When i were t ĺad , my school was at Lands End and ilived at John o Groats , took me 6 weeks to walk to school , never did me any harm .
Six weeks?
You were lucky.
Our school were in t'Antartic and it took us 6 MONTHS to get there in us bare feet and wi' out any food, apart from a crust o' stale bread.
@@northamericanpillow-biters3563 In t’Antarctic?
You were lucky wi’ all that cool, fresh air.
Our school were 3 mile daen in t’earth. On t’day we left they gi’ us a pick and we started diggin’ coal. Never saw t’light o’ day agin till retirement. But we were ‘appy.
@@sirronnorris3343 You were lucky. When I were young we daren't have legs what could take us ta school. On t'day we was meant to leave we's just sat on da porch . Still there. But we was 'appy
@Antonio Medeiros Aye, and you tell the youth today that and they wouldn't believe ya. Why, when I was a lad we'd sleep in a bed of hot coals, then me own mother would whip the skin off me bones every six minutes until breakfast, we'd eat a handful of stale sand, chop off our legs, crawl to school (which was on fire), burn alive, crawl back home and die. Never did us any harm. Youth these days don't know how good they've got it.
I used to wake up half an hour before I went to sleep
Number 11: Support yourself financially.
A very good addition.
Wages haven't held up with inflation since the 1980s (atleast in america)
Number 12: Receive an education without going bankrupt
@@johnm7611 and work is difficult and dull.
@Therese A. Judith Izzo-Davis plandemic. And we're all at war amongst ourselves, all according to plan.
We are definitely not better off today. Too much government interference with every day life.
Except that basically all of these originated with grassroots social change? Only exception I can see is the compulsory motorbike helmet, and let’s face it that’s hardly an unfair request on the government’s part.
@@tgb-vf4es Except it was the parents that chose to drive their kids to school. Not the media. They made the decision. Nobody else did.
Ahh yes, walking to and from school without parental supervision, it was wonderful. I remember back in the mid 1960's walking to and from school and I was only 6 or 7 and I lived in a small city called Weehawken NJ, it was across the Hudson bay from New York city. I also remember playing after school for hours until mom called us in, again no adult supervision. We had secrets, hide outs, or just busy hanging out. We had street games like Johnny on a pony and bottles cap. We had caps from bottles and my dad would make us our own special caps. He would take crayon shavings put them in the cap, whatever color or colors we choose and he would take a match light it melt the shavings until it was all melted in the cap and there we would have it our own special cap. The playing board was drawn on the sidewalk with chalk, we would play for hours.
Smoking, when my daughter was born you could actually smoke in the hospital rooms with the baby there, thank God you can't do that anymore.
There is so much more we could do. It was a wonderful way to grow up
*Back in the day, sending a telegram or writing a letter meant you were serious about conveying the message. Nowadays an email or text message is throwaway*
Telegram today we can edit or delete the message even after sending it. Telegram app btw. Lol
You can still write a letter if you really want?
Sending a hand written letter to confirm my Pizza is being delivered, is a little excessive.
It all went wrong in the eighties. But I agree with the whaling ban.
In my home country, Russia, fur coats are still the norm. There’re two reasons for it - in the USSR, having a fur coat was considered a symbol of high fashion and prestige, and very few people could afford let, and even fewer could actually buy one. The second reason is due to harsh climate conditions, obviously
Smoking during a movie, at a restaurant, at my office desk at work, in the HOSPITAL!! Aah, the good old days.
This just makes me incredibly depressed
@Cass R: Except the whaling, maybe . . .
Why? Most things are bad on the list
We live outside Oslo city, 6 km from my sons school and from he was about 9 (in 2011) he took the subway or bus on his own back and forth with 1 km walking distance from the subway to our house. Most parents drove their kids to school, even when the distance were less than a kilometer. Some of the parents was shocked I let him travel alone and had completely forgot their own childhood and the freedom the parents gave us.
I pick my hat off my head when i greet other people. I do wear a hat you know..
3:03 My mother still has many (10+) fur coats. She's got it all from her mother!
Make sure you keep them safe and well cared for! They're an investment and will last a very long time.
Love my furs.
Your mother's mother was very furry
Wow your grandmother must have been rich!
@@ٴٴٴٴ_0 She came from a wealthy family yes, but I have no idea how she got the coats. I don't even know how expensive they were back then. My mother never wears them and they're all in my wardrobe (because hers is full lmao).
Summary: Times are getting worse
True.
This is not really the summary of that video.
1980
Here are the main points again: Stay in your own homes, and if you live in an area where a fall-out warning has been given stay in your fall-out room, until you are told it is safe to come out. The message that the immediate danger has passed will be given by the sirens and repeated on this wavelength. Make sure that the gas and all fuel supplies are turned off and that all fires are extinguished. Water must be rationed, and used only for essential drinking and cooking purposes. It must not be used for flushing lavatories. Ration your food supply-it may have to last for 14 days or more.
We shall be on the air every hour, on the hour. Stay tuned to this wavelength, but switch your radios off now to save your batteries. That is the end of this broadcast.
I wish there was more dancing! I love to dance!
11: Drinking beer at work.
At least here in Germany that was normal until quite recently.
I think it is good, people do not drink that much alcohol anymore.
Ah, Germany, 2012 they removed the Lager from the work vending machines, such is progress.
Especially in urban areas, children still walk to school. That's a great way to ensure your child gets enough physical activity for the day.
+alonzo9772 And get a chance to get hurt.
***** In a house.
***** No, I, not us.
***** But it's fuuuuunn.
+aboomination He live in the Paradise, that's why.
Having a fry-up in a cafe, where the cook would be dangling a cigarette out of the corner of his mouth, watching in dread the growing ash starting to tip precariously toward the sizzling pan...
Ah yes! Well remembered 👍 I suddenly feel very hungry for a fry up and a cuppa! 😊
People had more freedoms in the past
Agreed.
And syphilis
@@wobblybobengland Syphillis are harmless than Covid19.
Yes we're ever-more precious about our health, safety and propriety; this piece illustrates very well that we're losing freedom whilst gaining liberation.
It’s not that it was more dangerous now than back then for kids walking to school, it’s just mean world syndrome + paranoia. Kids back then went missing too, it just wasn’t widely reported like now
There was more of a community back then.
Less people of a certain colour coming to the country
I remember teachers smoking in class when I was at primary school! 🤣
Remember the time when we used to socialize, exchange hugs and kisses, travel anywhere freely and don't have to cover our faces?
I think we need to reclaim this first from the past before anything else!
Ah....the good old days of bringing back of dying young/low lifespan and high mortality rates.
Sorry just wanna survive this once in a lifetime long summer vacation! XD
2:39 It's interesting because here in Russia we don't have such prohibitions. My mom and many woman around wear natural fur coats and that is absolutely normal today.
@Владимир Путин ещё советы Пыни слушать мне не хватало...
#11 go to the library to look up things on an Encyclopedia that weighs as much as a toddler
"Many things you do today you won't be able to do in the future"
We should collectively reject this "inevitable" control being imposed on us.
Not being able to do or having to do some things in the future could be a good thing
@J Hemphill Before long they will try to stop that, they will all become designer kids, artificially inseminated!!
Nuts, I meant to send at least one telegram in my life before I died and I forgot. Now I will never be able to. I did however, use "travelers checks" several times back in the 70's and typed many papers using a "typewriter".
"Many things that are available today you won't be able to do in the future". Like freely speak your mind in public.
Speaking ones' mind in public has hardly ever been completely accepted. What _has_ happened rather recently is that certain opinions that used to be common are now unacceptable or controversial, and now a modern person most likely has opinions that were polemical in the past.
I'm sorry if my English isn't great, I'm afraid it isn't my first language,
Luckily that’s only a problem for Nazis. Everybody else seems to be doing fine.
@@babaghannoush1156 Is "Nazi" the new "racist"? You know, a knee-jerk over-used cancel moniker applied to anyone even slightly right of your political or social views? I rest my case.
Why would you need to speak your mind in public anyway?
Exactly liberal thought police don't allow to speak against immigrants and Islamic jihads
What's the point of British Pathe if it doesn't feature a man with one of the plumbiest, hoity-toity British Empire voices ever conceived?
The commentary is definitely not original. The young man speaking has a very 21st century upper middle class South East English accent.
@@routeman680 Upper middle class? They must have come down in the world then.
@@routeman680 I agree routeman680 and at least it was not one of those robot voices but a real actor!
Narrator sounds like a twerp.
I love that voice. 'That Cheeky Chappie Mr Hitler's at it again, he's only gone and invaded Poland'.
I long to go back to these times!
Especially the dances, the world would be so much happier!
Everything is dangerous, today we are becoming over sensitive!!!
I mean breathings dangerous now, Try quitting see how long you can keep it up
Ahhh my grandparents kept dancing together till their dying days. The closest you'll get to ballroom these days were those school dances during a slow song in school. I think party music of the past deaded the "paired up" dances to a more individual style; I suspect the swinging 60s, the rock & roll era, the Twist, and the overall change of music contributed to the end of formal social dancing. The disco scene of the 70s probably had some social aspects of that, but the nightclubs of the 80s, the rave scene of the 90s, or the EDM scene today....none of them feature partnered dancing, it's just a bunch of people packed together jumping up & down to a beat.
Here's something to add to the list: not going bankrupt after receiving medical care.
this is the *british* pathe channel - we still don't
That's mostly just the USA.
Only in the USA.
lol,it's the USA only , my sister got a infected birthmark and she got laser surgery free of charge by the government. btw ,we are a third world country.... Malaysia to be exact
Thanks to government intervention in the economy.
I remember having to go to the hospital smoking room when my parents came to visit me, the door to the ward was always open to stop the thick clouds of smoke irritating people’s eyes.
In good ancient hotels , there were the so called smoking lounge or the smoking saloon for those who wanted to smoke ; a great place to have a drink , a conversation , read the newspapers or catch a lung cancer !...
The hospitals made their own cancer-patients.
You could smoke everywhere in the 90s. I remember when that changed. It actually changed kind of suddenly. I remember a cigarette ad that said “well, at least you can still smoke in your car. “
Nanny state and big brother are on full power.
@@affirmationaffirmations7456 Our dorm rooms had ashtrays
@@patrickmurphy8327 love that
I’m 60 years old and I still have the telegram my Irish Nana sent me, the day l graduated from high school, from County Cork, Ireland to Brooklyn, NY. Nowadays, my four-year-old grandson loves to FaceTime me during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Thank goodness the novelty has worn off slightly, he was calling me up to 34 times a day! 👵🏻♥️👦🏻
Dancing my way to school by myself wearing my fur coat and smoking a ciggy. Ahh the 80s.
Number 11: take responsibility for yourself.
Number 12: not being able to accept reality.
What happened to 9 and 10?
@@theflyingdutchman167 They didn’t pay attention Justin. That must have been number 9, critical reading.
Number 12: stop being a victim
No. Society and community were much more important then. It's the curse of individualism that is tearing the fabric of civilization.
My uncle went to employment office the day after he graduated high school (Canada) in 1979. He found a job and went right there for an interview that day, he got the job and started the next day. He's still at that job in 2020. I've worked 7 or 8 jobs and I'm not 35 yet.
I wonder why? I don't understand why some people think staying for long on a job is a bad thing, so I would love to know why these back in the old days people find a way to stay for so long.
@@gabrieleduardo504 The ones who stay for a long time are unemployable. I went for an interview after working for the same employer for years and was told I did not have enough outside experience
I remember people smoking in the mall during the 90s.
Me too. I remember the mall food courts had smoking sections all through the early 90s right up to around 1995 or so.
Life far better back then. Wasn’t perfect but on the whole it was far far better ❤️
Not if you were a woman, or Black, or gay, or disabled, or or or....
Hi, I am so pleased that I found your channel as I like watching Pathe videos. They're so interesting!
Please someone invent a time machine! I want to go back!
Nick Doe Well............................YES...............You say it as if it's a bad thing..Snickers.
CEOkiller Romantizing a time that would have brought you nothing but disillusion.Than you would want to get back in that time machine,and hurry back to this time period.LOL.
CEOkiller Until you remember the past was filled with less medicinal breakthrough, racism still rampant, no tolerance toward different sexual preference and you can go to mental asylum for different radical way of life.
CEOkiller They did, it's called a Kalashnikov... You need one o' these to turn back the time.! btw, I'm with you.! :)
fairybits ... Spoken like a true sheeple... Who gets not a Godd damm thing.!
ah, the good ol days
How about the shared single "party line" with your neighbor at the infrequently used lake cottage or beach house? If they picked up while you were using it they could listen in on your conversation. They even made a board game out of it.
That is something that I had never heard of before.
😳😳😳
We had a party line in our home for several years in New Jersey from at least 1964 to the mid-1970's.
Prophetic. In 2020/21 I'm not permitted to visit my family or my friends, nor them me.
Hello Chaps at British Pathé:
One thing that we Yanks try to do now, but will NOT be able to do in the future, is to rule the globe.
***** That's racist.
+explosivefreak666 Awww, did someone need a nap?
Jerry Mores You made no sense.
Yup.
Yoo-ess-aay, you're goin' down.
This is probably the most heartbreaking video on RUclips. Well, except for the whaling part.
It was people speaking up who got rid of cruelty to whales and reduced the hellishness of dying of lung cancer. So let's speak up about climate change so we can continue to live on this planet. We need to rebuild wilderness areas. They are the lungs of our global ecosystem. They will prevent us choking on our own fumes.
Ok, 1:08 and that music drove me away.
Well done!
My friend’s mom used to send him to the store to buy her cigarettes and beer. He was 13 years old. All she had to do was have her son hand the store owner a signed note
the world has become a boring place compared to just a few decades ago.
A suffocating place.
Buying cigarettes at the store for your parents with a note, as I used to do, would be one more thing that is a bit frowned upon these days.
Or buying cigarettes for the school bus driver lol
I just finished Coddling of the American Mind. And the one about kids walking to school is very relevant.
#2 still happens in Japan. Like four year olds walking to school. Very safe there.
In Japan they walk to school alone and then have whale for lunch.
10. Get mad at foreigners when they refuse to adapt to tour society
So true.
11. D1 e 1p 1o1 r 1t. C r i m i n a l. Illegal a1 l1 i 1e1 n1 s to their country of origin!
12. Allow actual free speech on RUclips without an algorithm that bans language that is not politically correct.
Agree. RUclips is t r a s h
@@karlheven8328 Yes, I hate this PC society we have lived in increasingly over the last 15 to 20 years in most western English speaking countries. 'Do gooders' have the whip hand in the BBC, universities, the press - a generation of liberal middle class people mostly under 45 who have a sense of entitlement - and have been brought up being brainwashed to belief the do-gooder view of the world.
@Midorima Shintaro You are wrong.
I do support market based economy but not free of laws!
And in German law platforms like RUclips have to follow basic constitutional principles so RUclipss Contract Conditions have to be interpreted in a way that is compatible to Freedom of Speech, particularly in regard of the statues in the conditions of service that are often applied arbitrarily.
@@karlheven8328 You have free speech. You can go outside and shout your xenophobic slogans at strangers in the local park but you can't go into someone's home and expect the right to do it, or somebody's business. In this case it's RUclips's business.
I always travelled alone to school since the first grade.
Same
Stopped riding motor bikes when the helmet law came out , did 42 years in the same job, had to walk to school on my own and was not allowed to wear long trousers until I went to senior school aged 11.
Winter time was interesting my mum would dress me in thick duffel coat, a scarf,wool balaclava and mittens but i still had to wear short trousers my legs used to freeze.
God, how could you move!
Same here, I used to get chilblains on my inner upper legs which required lots of Vaseline being rubbed over them to ease the soreness. I don't think it could happen today, as the winters aren't as cold now as they were sixty years ago. However, after I tripped on the garden path and gashed my right knee open very badly at the age of ten in 1957, my parents bought me a pair of long trousers for protection and I've worn long trousers or jeans ever since.
Same here and I loved it. Even stopped off on the way home for a cherry limeade. Never even thought about any kind of danger
"Or are we just more careful today?" No, people have become scared of their own shadow and unprepared to take any risk which is a step backwards
I miss old times!!
One of the things we won’t be able to do is have free speech!
And no drinking, eating meat, smoking, or have fun in general
hahaha! they said last telegraph service was shutdown in 2013 in india: Russian state telecommunication service Rosstelecom still sends thousand telegrams every day
Maybe they meant the last telegram service in the British Empire. This is British Pathe aftet all.
you missed paperboys and girls. Sending children as young as 5 or 6 out in the dark in winter to cycle the streets without a helmet or lights delivering papers for up to 2 hours before school! let alone the child abduction fears of today! This is the thing that, now, looks most shocking then. And, young people, nearly everyone did it. It was the standard way for children to get pocket money. Not everyone all the time, but everyone at some time or another had a paper round. Except me, because i was learning disabled and religious and thought money was evil and didn't want things in shops (sadly, that's changed!)