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.

Same where I went to school in Maryland. Only canceled school in winter if you could not find your car in a snow drift. Had to wear dresses. Wore pants under them on the bus but those pants had to come off in the cloak room and be hung up with your coat. I think we finally were allowed to wear pants in 7th grade in Texas. Then it was double knit pant suits that had to cover your rear as not to distract the boys. Not kidding.

Grew up in South Africa in the 80s and 90s. Although it never gets below freezing at ground level, central heating is uncommon there, and the school uniform for girls was skirts or dresses only. We wore opaque tights UNDER our woollen stockings. And were still cold. I was thankful to see from recent photos that my alma mater seems to have relaxed the uniform rules to include a warm, comfortable tracksuit option.

School uniforms. Ya. Glad kids can dress as they want now. Yet it still amazes me, some will will wear shorts in a blizzard.

Girls at my school still have to wear skirts past the knees 🙄

We couldn't wear boys jeans to school. If we wore pants, they had to zip on the left, not the right. I actually got sent home from school for wearing jeans that zipped on the right. School in the 70s. Whar a bunch of prudes.

We didn't have a uniform but when I wanted to wear a skirt for school I just wore warm pants underneath it and took them off when I entered school. That was very common. Russia, 2001-2011.

I lived in Minnesota and we could wear pants under our skirts but had to take them off when we got to school.

In elementary school we could wear long pants under our dresses. In 67-68, in college, we could not wear pants, only dresses and skirts, even in the winter.

We had to wear dresses, but when it got really cold we could wear pants under our dresses. I so very love leggings.

You all rock, it's because of people like yourselves that people like me suffered only a few years having to wear skirts or dresses. By the time I hit 4th grade we (girls that is) could wear jeans to school

What kind of pedofile s**t was this?

F**k skirts

We wore snow pants under our skirts.

Dang "dress code" (and other two-bit rules) back in the days (60s for me). How stupid! The VP/counselors were drunk on their power to enforce stupid rules. An, they did not accomplish their true job -- guide students to ready them for post high-school years.

Went to a private school, we could wear pants under our jumpers until it became a pain for the teachers to monitor all the girls in bathroom while we all took off our pants...soon after we could wear pants in the colder weather

I went to a Catholic school in the fifties. We walked to school in the snow, uphill. lol We were allowed, after parents protested, to wear pants under our uniforms. The nuns were pissed.

Yes this! One girl decided to see if she could wear a maxi skirt and her mother had to come pick her up

Never was able to wear pants to school until I went to college. Oddly enough, skirts were always warmer provided there was no stiff wind. As an adult, I wore skirts always to work but in freezing cold windy days I wore snuggies underneath (long legged stretchy underwear). I was always toasty warm and the few times I wore slacks or jeans my legs were so cold. The cold air is right against a thin layer of cloth. Skirts create a bell-shape layer of warm air that keeps your legs warm.

We had to wear pants to school four days a week, shorts only on Wednesday. In the summer, In Florida

In 7th grade my friend and I made a petition to get girls allowed into shop class - not just home-ec. The year after we left (and we successfully submitted the petition), the policy was changed.

I remember this. It was 1971 when it ended in my school system and it didn't end until parents started complaining.

Good for you.

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!

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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

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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