I love the sense of humour of these older people and that lady who'd had her husband for a long time talked just like Kathy Burke! Can't believe 1982 is 40 years ago!
Going back a decade, I did some work in a laboratory for a short time. I was the only man among half a dozen or so women. They did the scientific stuff, I was the gopher. I was asked to washup the cups, beakers, petri-dishes and whatnot one time towards the end of the shift. Basically just the exact same thing as washing the pots at home. When I was about finished, one of them came up with a scowling face to inspect my work. She was obviously anticipating a bad job, but studied what I'd done and was astounded that I'd done it to perfection. The other women then gathered around to witness this astounding feat of male competence. One of them asked "Do you do the pots at home?!" I was like "Er.. yeah.". They just couldn't believe that I did housework. Modern domesticated man must be rarer than we all think, because me washing the pots was somehow a spectacle among that bunch of women I worked with.
Crazy you got to work at a laboratory with mainly women as we get told it's mainly men in those sort of roles (I guess its another of those TIL and to not always believe everything you get told by media moments). Persoanlly I've always had the opposite experience at work (though not in a laboratory scenario) and whenever there was cleaning involved the women would either refuse to do it or if 'forced' would do a bad job and you always got the impression that they thought it was below them. :( There was one girl who left one of my past jobs because she thought that she didn't have to clean while working in food prep areas and that there were a separate team of cleaners that would clean for her, which is just mind-boggling. lol
@@Zauchi Some of the sciences have a huge leaning towards women for some reason, I'm a biochemist and the difference is huge. Generally speaking the sciences are richer for women and engineering for men by my experience.
I've always washed the dishes as an adult, at home with my mum, then living alone, then in a long term relationship. Couldn't just sit there and wait for her to do it all because it would not get done. 🤣
When a couple I knew had children, the husband raised them and looked after the house to school age while the wife worked. The house was always immaculate even with kids and some pets. By the time the kids were at school all day, they'd given the dog to relatives because it was mental. Then she lost her job and he got a job. They swapped over and within a month the house was a complete sh*theap.
@@oki__ It's a bit like being on call for a job. Most of the time, you're chilling but when it's go time, it's go time and you have a lot of responsibility on your hands
True. But we were told that the future would keep getting better, so why appreciate what we'd got when there was better to come? For all the troubles we had back then, there was optimism. Not so much now.
@@Chris-dm1je Very much so Chris . We bought into all the Classical conditioning that we were fed. I feel so sorry for my grand children. They even in their wildest of fantasies, cannot imagine what we had or how happy those times used to be like .
You know these people are a breath of fresh air in comparison to the folk these days. Full of joy and laughter yet they literally had nothing and had to make do with it best they could.
No hurt feelings, just good olde British humour! Got to love it. I can't believe this was 1982. I was 16 and life was so much better then, people could have a good laugh at each other and then move on. Very funny interview..loved it!
@SY-pw6tt Yup, I was a kid in the '80s. It was grim up in Manchester back then. Mass unemployment and a city that felt like you were stuck in a Morrisey song...
@SPY1987 It wasn't great in the 80s, but it seems worse now. We had all the same problems then as now, but we had optimism that things could change for the better. I don't really see much optimism these days.
My sister is married to a man that worked 20 straight days a month in the oil industry, to put her through college, buy them a very nice house, send their kids to nice private schools. Hard, dangerous work he did. For 32 years he worked his arse off, and risked life and limb! When he got home, he slept for three days to recover. Spoiler alert - yeah he expected her to do the housework when he was exhausted, and she did! They both retired (she was a tutor in her house, for ease of childcare) at age 50 with 8 figures in their account. They can finally relax, and enjoy life for the next 40 years or so. Now she makes him do the laundry;)
She was more comfortable at home with the kids 24/7, he was more comfortable working most of the time. A win-win! And they worked together, retiring way ahead of most other couples. They were really wise beyond their years when they got married at 17.
This is how life should be like not nowadays where folk are too scared to ask questions without fear of someone getting offended. Life was so much easier & simpler back then.
When they're saying "make the bed", are they talking about changing the sheets or literally just straightening the duvet and pillows? I didn't know other than children and teens this was a big deal.
Given when this was filmed, and the ages of the people interviewed, I'm going to guess that very few people had duvets. It would have been traditional bed covers on top of bed sheets.
@@rstevens7711 Yeah, we were unusual in having duvets at the time. I remember going to Center Parcs when it first opened in 1987 and being surprised to find blankets and sheets only. For a while we actually took our own duvets there in the car and transported them into the villas.
Love this. I was 7 then but how the world has changed…although the new intake of old people carried on wearing brown and beige for many years and decades after these lovely lot had moved on. Wonder when you start doing so? As an aside, the younger woman at around 2:35 has definitely appeared on another similar vid from these time. Maybe they went to same area and she just happened to be passing twice. I won’t suggest any conspiracy theories that she’s someone’s mate.
It was a street market that was easy to get a camera team to. Some people did appear more than once. Most notably an old lady named Annie Mizzen who became a sort-of celebrity for an unfortunately short time.
🤔Guy in glasses with black suit. Who thinks he has more important things to do than housework as he has a wife for that. What important things. Golf maybe? He looks the type.
@@BOZ_11And what does he do at the weekend?. She is probably working all day at home looking after the kids washing his clothes making his dinner so he has it the minute he walks in the door etc. The other men seemed to have no problem doing housework, but this guy acts as if its beneath him.
@@Greenwillow she doesn't do housework for 50 hours a week. She can take 4 hour breaks in the middle of the day, I don't think his employer would allow that. If you think of mothering as being analogous to salaried work, you should not be a mother. Stop moaning
Women were never oppressed. 🤷♀️ Most of these women are happier then modern day women. How come they never go around asking “does your wife EVER change a tire? Or change oil?” Why do we view housework as demeaning? Men fix things and no one complains about how wrong it is!!!
No, because most couples both have to work these days. I worked in an office with mostly women, and a surprising number of them said they'd prefer to be housewives. Although that might be because the job was bogging awful.
The young lady at @2:58 appears in another of these BBC interview segments about edible knickers: ruclips.net/video/cC2quwArNGM/видео.html She’s wearing what appears to be the same outfit in both as well. Wonder if these were all staged. Edit: the last lady in this video is also is in the edible knickers segment (at 1:34).
These segments were filmed at a street market that was convenient for the production team. Quite a few people popped up more than once. An old lady named Annie Mizzen became a familiar face as she, like a lot of old people then, would spend a few hours at the market every week.
If i had to guess, they asked them multiple questions and then segmented the show by question asked. Thats at least what a lot of youtubers that make similair content do.
1. People are much easier to understand because they use ACTUAL words (that's coming from a non-native English speaker) 2. They have great sense of humour 3. Who knew people could look like people - without paint (makeup) on their faces?! 4. Everyone in 1982 is SUPER concerned about making their bed.
Nowadays, men can't get jobs as much as women so I'm the house husband in my relationship with my wife. I prefer doing housework instead of mentally draining job applications.
Now days, women just work. That’s it. Nothing else. I do all the cooking cleaning maintenance. Etc. in our home, even tho she works less hours, my wife is like one of the children. Society is F’d
No because when he comes home from work (if he comes home at all, he might be dead) he is completely destroyed. People that try to take the rol of the victim while they are not make me sick.
I love the bloke who says his incentive for helping out is a biscuit!
1:40 You can see how much she loves him, very touching.
I thought that! Still laughing at his jokes!
"I'm more than a pretty face, you know!" 🤣
That was my favorite😂
@@earlwright9715 Mine too. The way she was serious at first, but he managed to make her crack up laughing.
Proper love right there.
Aye he lit her face up
I love the sense of humour of these older people and that lady who'd had her husband for a long time talked just like Kathy Burke!
Can't believe 1982 is 40 years ago!
When people had a sense of humour
Indeed - & I can't believe 1972 is now half a century ago.
@@robinvanags912 1982
In my Experiance many stop have the same sense of humor haha
@@robinvanags912 I wasn't born decades later but even to me 1972 sounds about 30 years ago..
Going back a decade, I did some work in a laboratory for a short time. I was the only man among half a dozen or so women. They did the scientific stuff, I was the gopher. I was asked to washup the cups, beakers, petri-dishes and whatnot one time towards the end of the shift. Basically just the exact same thing as washing the pots at home. When I was about finished, one of them came up with a scowling face to inspect my work. She was obviously anticipating a bad job, but studied what I'd done and was astounded that I'd done it to perfection. The other women then gathered around to witness this astounding feat of male competence. One of them asked "Do you do the pots at home?!" I was like "Er.. yeah.". They just couldn't believe that I did housework. Modern domesticated man must be rarer than we all think, because me washing the pots was somehow a spectacle among that bunch of women I worked with.
Crazy you got to work at a laboratory with mainly women as we get told it's mainly men in those sort of roles (I guess its another of those TIL and to not always believe everything you get told by media moments).
Persoanlly I've always had the opposite experience at work (though not in a laboratory scenario) and whenever there was cleaning involved the women would either refuse to do it or if 'forced' would do a bad job and you always got the impression that they thought it was below them. :(
There was one girl who left one of my past jobs because she thought that she didn't have to clean while working in food prep areas and that there were a separate team of cleaners that would clean for her, which is just mind-boggling. lol
@@Zauchi Some of the sciences have a huge leaning towards women for some reason, I'm a biochemist and the difference is huge. Generally speaking the sciences are richer for women and engineering for men by my experience.
If they really believed a man was incapable it would be a bit mean to be so scowly if you did a bad job. Like judging a child. What’s their logic?
I've always washed the dishes as an adult, at home with my mum, then living alone, then in a long term relationship. Couldn't just sit there and wait for her to do it all because it would not get done. 🤣
1:35 what a character 👍
One pair of socks he says😂😂
What a lucky women, he seems so delightful and loving
"Well why doesn't he make the bed?"
"Oh well.. the poor old sod." 🤣🤣
Some people prefer to have their own beds because they cannot sleep well with someone else in their beds. There is nothing weird about that
@@Holland1994D if anything its better because you can have varying weight duvets
The butcher was absolutely spot on!
These are beautiful time capsules, showing again and again the truth in the statement, “the past is another country”
"So what are you grumblin' about?"
What a sweet man lol
the butcher had it right. if one partner didn't work and was home all day you'd expect them to do housework but if you both work it's 50-50
Very true
“What are you grumbling about?” Love it!
When a couple I knew had children, the husband raised them and looked after the house to school age while the wife worked. The house was always immaculate even with kids and some pets. By the time the kids were at school all day, they'd given the dog to relatives because it was mental.
Then she lost her job and he got a job. They swapped over and within a month the house was a complete sh*theap.
I agree completely.
It wasn’t as one-sided then as people today think.
Oh I did enjoy this and the humour of these wonderful people especially the last lady renting out her other half of bed priceless
This video is so charming and the people in it are wonderful, and great perspectives too!
We’re happy aint we ? ( 1.56 ) i feel really envious of this pair ! There’s much love respect and humour there .
She's uncontaminated by radical feminism.
@@shaneduffy7829 What's the kind of feminism you're okay with?
Hard to believe that was 1982 and not earlier!
No it's not, actually very believable
The victorian era only ended in 1901
They have more common sense than now
These clips are the funniest the BBC have ever filmed.
"I'm more than a pretty face" XD
Used to love That's Life! Brilliant show! 😄
"We fight the wars". Well..he is not lying about that is he
Only for a few years every few decades. So that hardly contributing to getting anything done in between.
@@oki__ It's a bit like being on call for a job. Most of the time, you're chilling but when it's go time, it's go time and you have a lot of responsibility on your hands
What lovely people
Sadly ,we young people back then didn't realise just how good life was truly like. I miss those happy times so very much .... 😢
True. But we were told that the future would keep getting better, so why appreciate what we'd got when there was better to come? For all the troubles we had back then, there was optimism. Not so much now.
@@Chris-dm1je Very much so Chris . We bought into all the Classical conditioning that we were fed. I feel so sorry for my grand children. They even in their wildest of fantasies, cannot imagine what we had or how happy those times used to be like .
@@harmoniefaerielove Times now are pretty good too
Love the comments from the woman at 1.11 where she refers to her furniture, her windows etc. !
My thoughts exactly. He is hired help!🤣🤣🤣
3:39 "So what you grumbling about" 😂
You know these people are a breath of fresh air in comparison to the folk these days. Full of joy and laughter yet they literally had nothing and had to make do with it best they could.
'Literally'? And it was 1982, not 1882.
No hurt feelings, just good olde British humour! Got to love it. I can't believe this was 1982. I was 16 and life was so much better then, people could have a good laugh at each other and then move on. Very funny interview..loved it!
I was 15
Same age as me, damn, I wish I could go back.
@@JohnHonda101 i was born in 1993 so i have no idea about this. but why was 1982 a better time?
@SY-pw6tt Yup, I was a kid in the '80s. It was grim up in Manchester back then. Mass unemployment and a city that felt like you were stuck in a Morrisey song...
@SPY1987 It wasn't great in the 80s, but it seems worse now. We had all the same problems then as now, but we had optimism that things could change for the better. I don't really see much optimism these days.
My sister is married to a man that worked 20 straight days a month in the oil industry, to put her through college, buy them a very nice house, send their kids to nice private schools. Hard, dangerous work he did. For 32 years he worked his arse off, and risked life and limb! When he got home, he slept for three days to recover. Spoiler alert - yeah he expected her to do the housework when he was exhausted, and she did! They both retired (she was a tutor in her house, for ease of childcare) at age 50 with 8 figures in their account. They can finally relax, and enjoy life for the next 40 years or so.
Now she makes him do the laundry;)
That's fine for each of them to have their own tasks. It can work very well
She was more comfortable at home with the kids 24/7, he was more comfortable working most of the time. A win-win! And they worked together, retiring way ahead of most other couples. They were really wise beyond their years when they got married at 17.
Everyone is so articulate and humorous !
People seem so much jollier back in the early 80s! We are all so miserable now. hahaha
not many distractions back then x
The good old day kind original beautiful people ❤️
Great clip! 😆
Charming british people
British Humour at its best 👌
Happy times, when tv reporters could have a laugh and a joke with people without fearing that they may upset people with their questions.
The video wasn't diverse enough for my liking
That hasn't changed as much as you think it has
@@footballmint good job too
Epstein was only reprimanded a few years ago so you have greater chances than you’re betting on
There's literally a point in this video when the crowd got offended lmao
Ah! Bless them all!
I have other stuff to do besides housework too. I live alone, I just don’t do it if I don’t want to. I never make my bed ever.
When people had humour and perspective 😢😂😂
look at how much litter is in the street!! wowzers!
This is how life should be like not nowadays where folk are too scared to ask questions without fear of someone getting offended. Life was so much easier & simpler back then.
Rose tinted glasses.
Was it easier for black people? Def not.
@matthewfairchild3846 Oh shut up!
Sad that all these lovely people are probably dead now.
Why sad?
That’s Life!
When they're saying "make the bed", are they talking about changing the sheets or literally just straightening the duvet and pillows? I didn't know other than children and teens this was a big deal.
Mostly it would mean just straightening it up.
Given when this was filmed, and the ages of the people interviewed, I'm going to guess that very few people had duvets. It would have been traditional bed covers on top of bed sheets.
@@rstevens7711 Yeah, we were unusual in having duvets at the time. I remember going to Center Parcs when it first opened in 1987 and being surprised to find blankets and sheets only. For a while we actually took our own duvets there in the car and transported them into the villas.
I don't it needed to be a Hospital Corner.
Weren't duvets still called quilts back then?
ABC asked the same question on the streets of Sydney in 1960......most men said yes they do housework.
If there's one place that will make you make your bed and iron your shirt properly,I would have thought it's the army (and all of HM Forces).
Amazing to think these people were all in their 20s in these clips.
Talking about tidying the house but did you see the amount of litter in the street with people just walking into it.
Maybe it's time to bring out the whole cabinet.
Brilliant clip 😂👍👏❤🇬🇧 back when comedy was allowed & honest speaking prevailed X
Love this. I was 7 then but how the world has changed…although the new intake of old people carried on wearing brown and beige for many years and decades after these lovely lot had moved on. Wonder when you start doing so?
As an aside, the younger woman at around 2:35 has definitely appeared on another similar vid from these time. Maybe they went to same area and she just happened to be passing twice. I won’t suggest any conspiracy theories that she’s someone’s mate.
I was 10 years older than you,and I haven't started wearing any much brown or beige yet!
@@rjjcms1 ha ha, keep me posted :)
@@andyt8216 🤣
It was a street market that was easy to get a camera team to. Some people did appear more than once. Most notably an old lady named Annie Mizzen who became a sort-of celebrity for an unfortunately short time.
Got to love the men’s attitude of the past( although they weren’t all bad)😂
None of them were bad.
🤔Guy in glasses with black suit. Who thinks he has more important things to do than housework as he has a wife for that. What important things. Golf maybe? He looks the type.
@@Greenwillow he's working outside she works inside. Not rocket science
@@BOZ_11And what does he do at the weekend?. She is probably working all day at home looking after the kids washing his clothes making his dinner so he has it the minute he walks in the door etc. The other men seemed to have no problem doing housework, but this guy acts as if its beneath him.
@@Greenwillow she doesn't do housework for 50 hours a week. She can take 4 hour breaks in the middle of the day, I don't think his employer would allow that. If you think of mothering as being analogous to salaried work, you should not be a mother. Stop moaning
4:00 is this Michael Kane in disguise?
Might be, not a lot of people know that
@@T--xk3hf I know nothing, nothing at all 🙄
crazy to think that they people in their 70s in this clip would've been teenagers in the 1920s 🤯
Back to a time when us Brits had a twinkle in our eye. That's all gone now.
No it’s not, you just know boring people.
@@davidlewis1787 those peole that still do are financially ok to well off.
2:10 Ford Escort van?
Yup
@@maqui1814 Cheers, thought it was. 😀
You can say what you want about us English, but we’ve always had a cracking sense of humour ☺️
What about Roe? Light duties..
Gran - "No, never."
I do the diy, but not much housework.
Women were never oppressed. 🤷♀️ Most of these women are happier then modern day women. How come they never go around asking “does your wife EVER change a tire? Or change oil?”
Why do we view housework as demeaning?
Men fix things and no one complains about how wrong it is!!!
How wonderful to see how it was and sad for what we lost sad
Oh the good old days 😂😂😂
Most of these women/couples were happy with the ways things naturally sort themselves out.
F😩minism made women unhappy
I like the man in the chemist's coat
He might be a butcher
The man at the butchers?
@@JulieWallis1963 cockney butcher, corr blimey
Every British person is hilarious whether they want to be or not. Every person made me laugh. Every one.
0:44 So are we happier now?
NOPE. !
Back when people had social skills instead of social media!
imagine earning enough money to pay for 2 grown adults and kids by yourself
Was this in Portsmouth?
Monte Carlo I think
I love this'No I don't do housework I have a wife to do it'...Splendid answer straight to point Sir Marvelous.....Not many men like him nowadays 😮😮
No, because most couples both have to work these days. I worked in an office with mostly women, and a surprising number of them said they'd prefer to be housewives. Although that might be because the job was bogging awful.
@@Chris-dm1jewell most jobs are really
@@mark9294 Aren't they just? So much for the 21st century life of ease we were promised 50 years ago.
This was crazy😂😢😂
It wasn’t so bad then , things made sense .
The young lady at @2:58 appears in another of these BBC interview segments about edible knickers: ruclips.net/video/cC2quwArNGM/видео.html
She’s wearing what appears to be the same outfit in both as well. Wonder if these were all staged.
Edit: the last lady in this video is also is in the edible knickers segment (at 1:34).
These segments were filmed at a street market that was convenient for the production team. Quite a few people popped up more than once. An old lady named Annie Mizzen became a familiar face as she, like a lot of old people then, would spend a few hours at the market every week.
If i had to guess, they asked them multiple questions and then segmented the show by question asked.
Thats at least what a lot of youtubers that make similair content do.
Great characters, not like that today
I miss those days
Does he do a 40 hour week??
1:46 look at that hair, the death knell
What? He’s got a cap on ?
@@handsoffmycactus2958 behind him, with the cascading rats tails
Never seen a person of colour before?
Londoners were so funny
Proper times .
what are you grumbling about..
Not much hanky panky back then i suppose😂😂😂
I make the facking beds!!
1. People are much easier to understand because they use ACTUAL words (that's coming from a non-native English speaker)
2. They have great sense of humour
3. Who knew people could look like people - without paint (makeup) on their faces?!
4. Everyone in 1982 is SUPER concerned about making their bed.
Laugh track on this is dreadful
When Brits are funny - they're very, very funny! 🤣👏🏻
0.54 , I bet he’s fun to live with, makes he’s wife unblock the bog
maybe she blocked it!
@@annother3350 uuu nice 😬
1:18 BASED
Look everyone is British born
It still is women’s work
❤ good times before London was stolen and broken
Hi l am from Australia and people like we are seeing here were the minority when l visited.😢😢😢
You will never get London back. It's too late.
Nowadays, men can't get jobs as much as women so I'm the house husband in my relationship with my wife. I prefer doing housework instead of mentally draining job applications.
Now days, women just work. That’s it. Nothing else. I do all the cooking cleaning maintenance. Etc. in our home, even tho she works less hours, my wife is like one of the children. Society is F’d
How the uk has change for the worst 😂
I was about to say the same thing. This is when England was English. 😢😢😢
Test
They sleep in separate beds?!?
For centuries married couples have slept in separate beds. Sometimes in separate rooms and would only sleep in the same bed for coitus.
Have you seen the dick van dyke show
I’d settle for another house.
Older people tend to gravitate towards it more as well.
My parents live in different houses at 65 and they are still married
All these people are in their 30s.
No because when he comes home from work (if he comes home at all, he might be dead) he is completely destroyed. People that try to take the rol of the victim while they are not make me sick.
Eh?
😃😃😂😂😁😂😃😃😄😄😅😅
When England was England before hammus entered uk
Ah bless you.
Nothing wrong with hummus, I could have it with anything savory
Incredible footage, before we got invaded by smelly people
i do no housework at all inside the house. thats why my missus has a ring on her finger. we have a traditional marriage.
do WOMEN do any factory work ? thats my question.
or did they expect the man to do both ?
Factories were full of women
@@racs9606yes while the Men were busy fighting Wars!
Do you pay the bills, no I have an husband who does that.
Everyone has to do chores. It’s weird since people push women into work aggressively, now children are being used for medical experiments.