A disappointingly tiny number of children died in fridges in the 1970s
Or from messing with fireworks, playing in abandoned factories, or retrieving footballs from electricity sub stations.

From the public information films you'd think it happened all the time.

In fact, I think statistically you were more likely to be kidnapped by a woman who looked like your Auntie Lilly and tortured to death on the moors by her psycho boyfriend.

Happier times.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 5 Mar 2014, 16:52, 3 replies)

You forgot the slurry pits
and throwing rocks at trains.

*wasted youth*
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 5 Mar 2014, 17:00, closed)

We used to play in an ICI explosives factory.
Never did us any harm.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 5 Mar 2014, 17:24, closed)

It was a safer time, before paedos had been invented.
We used to light fires in a nearby alleyway, to frighten off glue-sniffers (the then bogeyman du jour, they'd make you sniff glue so you'd become one of them and make other kids sniff glue - probably the dullest apocalypse imaginable) - in retrospect, local residents were probably more annoyed about kids lighting fires, than they were about glue-sniffers.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 5 Mar 2014, 17:39, closed)

Still, those public information films must have done the trick, because they were still showing them in the late 90s/early 00s.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 5 Mar 2014, 17:07, closed)

I like the fact Grange Hill were trying to tell us to 'Just Say No' to drugs.
but no-one told Roland he should 'just say no' to Cakes.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 5 Mar 2014, 17:14, closed)

That's because cake is a made up drug.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 5 Mar 2014, 17:21, closed)

You know what, fuck you all, that was probably the funniest thing I've ever posted.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 5 Mar 2014, 22:22, closed)

Yah but it's in a thread I posted
on QOTW.

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 6 Mar 2014, 0:27, closed)

an obscure joke lifted from a tv show
bravo
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 15:44, closed)

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 16:09, closed)

Running with scissors.
You didn't mention running with scissors.
And hiding under a milk float.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 5 Mar 2014, 22:10, closed)