I was born in the UK and remember most of these, were they shown here too
Each one a very bad ass way to die. Especially getting blown up by electricity. Would make me and the last want to see who can take the most volts
Yes I do. And now I wonder how I managed to avoid becoming a serial killer!
All classics. Disappointed not to see the “where’s grandad?” Advert.
Each and everyone of them deserved atleast 4 Grammys and an Oscar!
Death used to be fair common back in the day.
Was people trying to crab power lines a big issue at some point because it seems like this was real concern for a lot of these clips?
The electricity pylon with the kid getting electrocuted I remember to this day l, there was one near me growing up and I never went near it as a child because of that ad
Was wondering why my wife was so protective and anti-fun … no need to look further
A kid in our town went into the electricity place near where he lived to get something that was thrown in. He survived but lost a leg and got some nasty burns.
“phone wreckers are idiots”
That looks like an old time final death movie trailer
Christ we were fairly morbid 😄
One of those ads must’ve been around the same time as Take On Me
u/savevideobot
So a better story than passing in your sleep
I want to see the water safety one with the kid banging the Castrol can who drowns in the water butt and…
‘Where’s Grandad?’
I thought Pat Shortt flashed up there for a second and they’re scary enough without that.
I wanted to see the nightdress one too.
What did the girl grab that hurt her hand?
So… did y’all have serious issues with kids climbing high power lines? That’s an oddly specific problem to be concerned about…
Back when kids used to play outdoors, death lurked on every corner!
I wonder why we have more confidence in the world these days. My parents definitely have that generalised fear, which I know is innate in some people no matter what the generation, but it definitely was a dominant thing at the time in a way it doesn’t seem to be now.
Great tune for the compilation TBF
I was there, man. The 70s. I lost a lot of friends. You people know nothing about what it was like.
No content warning back then
Wonder how many people died by pylon that they needed to make the ad
These were before my time. But those car crash ads were brutal growing up. Couple sitting on a wall. Kid playing in the garden. Fuck me.
This is why us kids of the 70s ended up doing drugs in the 90s.
But we created all the good music – so you’re welcome.
Fuckin hell! Was about to pop out to the shops next to that pylon at the side of the canal by the busy road. Think I’ll stay home instead.
In fairness those adverts certainly were effective, and no doubt saved many lives,I still remember some of them, they were vivid! Children played outdoors a lot more back then, and hazard safety wasn’t of the same standard as today. I remember a few child casualties in my local area; children falling into open slurry pits on farm, children getting caught in PTO shafts on farm machinery, children falling into country wells etc. There was a lot of hard lessons learned
My husband has been traumatised by an Irish safety advert from the 70s with a little boy walking around banging a toy drum and then being found head down in a bucket of water, drowned to death with his little wellie clad feet sticking out.
I always ,incorrectly I see now, thought his memory was wrong as I couldn’t believe telly, even back then ,would be so graphic and disturbing and he had to have mixed a movie and a public warning advert up.
Fuck was I wrong.
Off to go apologise and get us both in for therapy(as watching these fucked me up too).
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I was born in the UK and remember most of these, were they shown here too
Each one a very bad ass way to die. Especially getting blown up by electricity. Would make me and the last want to see who can take the most volts
Yes I do. And now I wonder how I managed to avoid becoming a serial killer!
All classics. Disappointed not to see the “where’s grandad?” Advert.
Each and everyone of them deserved atleast 4 Grammys and an Oscar!
Death used to be fair common back in the day.
Was people trying to crab power lines a big issue at some point because it seems like this was real concern for a lot of these clips?
The electricity pylon with the kid getting electrocuted I remember to this day l, there was one near me growing up and I never went near it as a child because of that ad
Was wondering why my wife was so protective and anti-fun … no need to look further
A kid in our town went into the electricity place near where he lived to get something that was thrown in. He survived but lost a leg and got some nasty burns.
“phone wreckers are idiots”
That looks like an old time final death movie trailer
Christ we were fairly morbid 😄
One of those ads must’ve been around the same time as Take On Me
u/savevideobot
So a better story than passing in your sleep
I want to see the water safety one with the kid banging the Castrol can who drowns in the water butt and…
‘Where’s Grandad?’
I thought Pat Shortt flashed up there for a second and they’re scary enough without that.
I wanted to see the nightdress one too.
What did the girl grab that hurt her hand?
So… did y’all have serious issues with kids climbing high power lines? That’s an oddly specific problem to be concerned about…
Back when kids used to play outdoors, death lurked on every corner!
I wonder why we have more confidence in the world these days. My parents definitely have that generalised fear, which I know is innate in some people no matter what the generation, but it definitely was a dominant thing at the time in a way it doesn’t seem to be now.
Great tune for the compilation TBF
I was there, man. The 70s. I lost a lot of friends. You people know nothing about what it was like.
No content warning back then
Wonder how many people died by pylon that they needed to make the ad
These were before my time. But those car crash ads were brutal growing up. Couple sitting on a wall. Kid playing in the garden. Fuck me.
This is why us kids of the 70s ended up doing drugs in the 90s.
But we created all the good music – so you’re welcome.
Fuckin hell! Was about to pop out to the shops next to that pylon at the side of the canal by the busy road. Think I’ll stay home instead.
In fairness those adverts certainly were effective, and no doubt saved many lives,I still remember some of them, they were vivid! Children played outdoors a lot more back then, and hazard safety wasn’t of the same standard as today. I remember a few child casualties in my local area; children falling into open slurry pits on farm, children getting caught in PTO shafts on farm machinery, children falling into country wells etc. There was a lot of hard lessons learned
My husband has been traumatised by an Irish safety advert from the 70s with a little boy walking around banging a toy drum and then being found head down in a bucket of water, drowned to death with his little wellie clad feet sticking out.
I always ,incorrectly I see now, thought his memory was wrong as I couldn’t believe telly, even back then ,would be so graphic and disturbing and he had to have mixed a movie and a public warning advert up.
Fuck was I wrong.
Off to go apologise and get us both in for therapy(as watching these fucked me up too).