It was just a matter of time until ...

[Tim Marlow]

I remember the one about the dangers of water. A creepy voice and a bloke in a long black cloak. Children falling into ponds and rivers left right and centre.
It was Jimmy Saville who did the seat belt one, Clunk, click, every trip.

Who would have known at the time that Saville was the real danger in that one :flushed:

There are a great many of these, yet we are supposed to live in the “Nanny state” these days…..personally I think that the fact that we remember them still means they did their job well…..the Reginald Maudlin one would have been better targeted if parallel parking had just been added to the driving test though……

[Dave Ward]

The National Archives hold all the PIF files, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/..._all_films.htm and you can play them!
'Lonely Water' was the creepy one - voiced by Donald Pleasance...............
Dave

[Guest]

the phone held to her ear

At least she wasn’t holding her phone horizontally, screen upward and microphone towards her, some distance away from her face.

[Guest]

A few months ago I was witness to a very upsetting event involving a mobile phone. Walking ahead of me was a young lady holding her phone in one hand and pushing her toddler in his pushchair with the other. She was holding a conversation with someone. Because she had only one hand on the pushchair she had poor control, the front wheel of the pushchair went off the kerb and the pushchair toppled over into the road. Luckily the driver of the approaching car was driving slowly and had quick reactions. It must have really frightened him though. The lady quickly righted the pushchair, the child seemed unfazed by the whole event, and continued on her journey.
Now believe it or not but she carried on as before, pushing her child with one hand and the phone held to her ear with the other.

Now has a parachute fitted for the next occasion....

[Guest]

That’s not just the phone generation. When I was a little kid there was a public information short cartoon on TV with a mother pushing a pram into all sorts of risky situations. It ended with the baby saying “this is where I get out and walk” after the latest near miss. It was also extremely common for woman to leave the pram and baby outside on the pavement while they went in shopping.
Can’t just tar the newest generation with similar careless acts that our own mothers were also guilty of

My mother once left me outside the shop and went home, she forgot she had a new born, came back and there I was sound asleep.

[Guest]

Pulled up to a junction in the truck and looked at what the traffic was doing, and there she was in the opposite junction in the 4x4 Chelsea tractor, cup of coffee in one hand and phone in the other while admiring the makeup.....
Another driving in the fast lane (overtaking lane) phone in one hand and putting on the mascara with the other...
And I will not tell you about what another was doing but she had her head in the males lap..... later found out to be a big tv soap star.....

[Tim Marlow]

My mother once left me outside the shop and went home, she forgot she had a new born, came back and there I was sound asleep.

Mumsnet would go into collective outrage at that these days

[Dave Ward]

came back and there I was sound asleep.

Those were the days when kids played in the street. and walked to school by themselves!
Dave

[Guest]

My mother once left me outside the shop and went home, she forgot she had a new born, came back and there I was sound asleep.

Wibble
No wonder you are mad

[Guest]

Mumsnet would go into collective outrage at that these days

Oh! Please - Mumsnet. Went on there one day to see if it was as true as they say.
"Hi Mums, Can anyone tell me how a screwdriver works...."
I kid you not :rolling:

[Guest]

Those were the days when kids played in the street. and walked to school by themselves!
Dave

Yes, no matter the weather it was walk, and walk home in the dark during the winter.. The only tractors you saw were the ones gritting the road.
Kids today are not taught, they are indoctrinated that when they get a job they will start at the top, they are not taught that first you have to get a job...

[Guest]

Wibble
No wonder you are mad

You've been talking to my analyst again....

[Dave Ward]

I can't really remember what age I walked to school by myself ( 20 mins walk for a kid ), but it must have been 6 or 7! When I was 13/14, I used to go for 10/15 mile bike rides, with a couple of mates - parents had no idea of where we were & It wasn't consideredout of the ordinary.f
One thing from that era, that you don't tend to see now, was the number of loose dogs ( not strays ) , but not that many cats! That may have been peculiar to the local area
Dave

[boatman]

Pulled up to a junction in the truck and looked at what the traffic was doing, and there she was in the opposite junction in the 4x4 Chelsea tractor, cup of coffee in one hand and phone in the other while admiring the makeup.....
Another driving in the fast lane (overtaking lane) phone in one hand and putting on the mascara with the other...
And I will not tell you about what another was doing but she had her head in the males lap..... later found out to be a big tv soap star.....

WELL Mike i took jen shoppin the other day an left her there for a couple of hrs as goin to see a mate an as i was drivein through a fairly tight street with cars parked on both sides an oncomin traffic as well i see the women just step out in front of me as i was drivein at the speed limit of 30mph an she just walked along the side of her car from the rear an without lookin back at to see my car approatchin she just opened her car door to get in an boy did i have to hit the brakes as with cars comin up i would have knocked her door off an she dint even bat an eyelid when i was along side her an she just looked at me with out any thought at all BOY OH BOY talk about put the wind up me just as well ive got good brakes on my car if no ABS i would have knocked her door off oh dear what is up with people today ?
chrisb

[Mickc1440]

Go anywhere today and it’s like a scene from a zombie film, heads down focussed on whatever device then give you a filthy look because you stop dead in front of them. We’ll end up with a generation or two of hunchbacks