Yay! This! It’s like Stranger Things

Trawling through the library index first to find the right encyclopedia / reference publication then building your footnotes / bibliography to support your submission. Roughly 30 minutes for per reference...

well then...

We made those for our dads, for mom we made potholders.

I remember when there was only BBC and ITV

This was "normal" in the UK in the 80s and 90s. Uniform was a skirt for the girls. In winter they simply wore woolly tights, which was also part of the uniform and had to be a certain colour. Boys wore trousers and it was only if it was really hot we could wear shorts and very occasionally it would be declared a "no tie" day.

You think that's bad. When I was a university, I didn't have a phone and used the public call boxes at the end of the street. Doesn't sound too bad until I say that I lived in the red light district and got propositioned whilst on the phone to my mother! LOL

The amount of times I would burn my hands on the monkey bars from the hot Aussie sun 😤 the blisters! But my god was it fun!!!

My English teacher could have thrown a board rubber for the olympics

Ha. There was one bus stop in the entire village. Apart from the one and only school bus, the remainder of the bus service flipped between one an hour to two busses a week! I walked to primary school, including on my own from about aged 7 or 8, and cycled to secondary school which was 3 miles away in the nearest town. This is probably why I have such little patience with the Chelsea tractors (SUVs) doing the "school run".

Smoking “sections” on airplanes!!

Exploring outside for hours on end was the best.

The one I remember was mostly a toy: molded plastic seat, one inch plastic strap with a buckle, and a plastic steering wheel with a squeeky horn button.

That was a student prank. Our chemistry teacher had some mercury in a beaker and we stuck our hands in it. Not sure that touching it is a big deal, but you don't want to ingest it.

Thank god!

Hamburger jail was awesome!

AND you could pick up the phone and listen in on their conversations!

Probably because they were hunting rifles, used for hunting and not assault rifles, used for God knows what.

Whiskey on teething baby’s gums

Omg the warning notice is full on

Wow! Look at the leg room.

" I Thought He/She Was With YOU ! "

There is one of these near my sisters, in a park, it is 3 feet wide. Spin on that fast and you will vomit and feel ill for the rest of the day.

Fortunately, the jet injectors do no use a needle, but instead use a high pressure spray that penetrates the top layers of skin to deliver the vaccine. They used to be used for mass vaccinations, but now only a fraction of people in the States use it for insulin.

Well at least the nurse tried to calm her down, though a newborn should not be near smoking!

Buying smokes for my grandpa. 43 cents a pack! Now almost $20 here.

"most" :-(

We had Nitty Nora the head explorer. You were treated then and there. The shame of going back to class was dreadful.

I'm also from Raleigh. My second grade teacher's wooden paddle was made by her husband and he'd even done fancy burn in lettering to put her name on it. Good times

The holes in a wood paddle are to reduce air resistance so you can swing them faster, and harder.

My elementary teacher refused to give my my ADHD medicine during school, and when I'd fail to listen or follow directions, she'd throw a glass of water in my face in front of the whole class so I'd have to sit there wet and be reminded all day of how I misbehaved.

We had a wooden paddle (like a big table tennis bat - but no rubber) and the teacher would put a big cross on it in chalk before wacking you, so everybody could tell who had had the 'padda bat'!

They still do this to the men at my high school in rural Texas. Swats or detention you pick. The girls didn't have that option.

I remember there being a paddle in school, even in middle school.

I'm 43. I got paddled for fighting in school. Never fought in school again. Wouldn't do the same to my kid now, though. We learn from what was done to us and try not to repeat those mistakes with our own children.

My 3rd grade teacher put girls over his knee, up with the skirt, and used a slipper on our backsides. Boys got the cane. Pervert!

We had that at my school too. My mom about lost her mind when she found that out. Went to the school and told teachers they do not have permission to put their hands on me.

I got 5 licks for extra credit in Algebra I. The teacher was sone of the coaches. Sadistic bastards, all of them with us chubby, non-sports kids.

In 1st grade (catholic school), I was hit across the knuckles with a wooden ruler. The kind with the metal strip in it. Ouch!

OMG!

Elementary school. 7th grade. Just moved from VA to GA. I got sent to the principal's office. (don't remember why.) He was supposed to paddle me. I told him No. No one spanks me but my mother. Made him call my mom. She backed me up (thanks Mom!) I was never paddle in school. But my mom at home... Belt in the closet. Got my share of sore bottom.

We had the "BIG" paddle with numerous holes drilled into it. It didn't sting it hurt like ........

The holes were meant to decrease wind resistance.

I grew up in Raleigh- some of the paddles were some kind of thick plastic that had holes and kind of bent, a little, too (Martin Jr High, I'm lookin' at you...). This was back in the '70s. I think they could make them (wooden and plastic) in the shop class.

Getting licks with the paddle in the principal's office always resulted in more licks with your father's belt when you got home. I don't understand why we abandoned corporal punishment. There is a big difference between discipline and abuse. Personally I think it is abusive to the child not to spank them when they are doing something they shouldn't do. Pain is negative feedback that teaches you not to do something because it hurts. It has been perfected over millions of years of evolution. But the "intellectuals" seem to see it as abuse. Their "revelation" con-insides with the rise in things like teachers getting beat up and school shootings.

Wish we had this now.

90s, Florida

Used to happen a lot at my school (South Africa), but on one occasion I refused. Teacher had no idea what to do. Bluster, red face, nada. "Nope."

I grew up a few hours from Raleigh during a time when the furniture industry was big in NC. One of the local factories built sturdy paddles with a beautiful furniture finish (just like a high-end coffee table!!) and gave them to all the school principals.And, they were stingers!

We had the same wood (oak) paddles in a private school in the ‘80s. Our paddling’s were done privately hands over the desk at the parents office. Our parents had to sign a consent form which my parents did. I remember realizing on the last one that it didn’t hurt but I was afraid and embarrassed. That fear of the very few I ever had were, generally speaking, enough to keep me in line the rest of the time. I really don’t have a problem with it as no real harm came of it. I felt then as I do now, that deserved what came to me as I broke rules willingly with known consequences if caught. I remember one time thinking to myself that it wasn’t hurting as much as I feared. I wanted to laugh but was a fraud he would hit me harder. Ha! Anyway, my point ways, I experienced something similar and I think having a physical punishment is not necessary a bad thing if applied fairly and not excessive.

I had a teacher that let you sign her paddle after you got a whooping. It was an honor to sign it, so we cut up in class so we could sign it.