Not sure if it was posted on here or not but I think there was another piece, interviews with pub goers, about seatbelts being made mandatory
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nope, I was thinking about the 1967 interviews including breathalyser tests a couple of days before drink driving became an offence
seatbelts in the front was '82
(, Thu 18 Sep 2025, 22:12, Reply)
I met an American dad and his adult son in a hostel in Japan about 16 years ago.
They were friendly enough, and they offered a good primer on what would now be called MAGA talking points: telling me about how Obama was turning the USA into a socialist country, where on the internet I can find out how 9/11 was an inside job, that sort of thing. Thankfully vaccines never came up.
Nothing exercised the dad as much as seatbelts, though. "They're going to legislate to force us to wear seatbelts on [motor]bikes!" he frothed, angrily stubbing out his cigarette. "Let me tell you," he continued, brandishing his stub, "I've been in four car accidents - and in each one, if I'd been wearing a seatbelt, I would have been killed!"
I didn't ask him to elaborate.
(, Fri 19 Sep 2025, 12:30, Reply)