1982: Do MEN do any HOUSEWORK? | That's Life! | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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- That's Life! reporters took to the streets of London to ask - in our forward-thinking 1980s society - how many men actually do any of the housework?
Originally broadcast 21 November 1982.
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"I'm more than a pretty face, you know!" 🤣
That was my favorite😂
"Well why doesn't he make the bed?"
"Oh well.. the poor old sod." 🤣🤣
Some people prefer to have their own beds because they cannot sleep well with someone else in their beds. There is nothing weird about that
@@Holland1994D if anything its better because you can have varying weight duvets
1:40 You can see how much she loves him, very touching.
I thought that! Still laughing at his jokes!
I love the sense of humour of these older people and that lady who'd had her husband for a long time talked just like Kathy Burke!
Can't believe 1982 is 40 years ago!
When people had a sense of humour
Indeed - & I can't believe 1972 is now half a century ago.
@@robinvanags912 1982
In my Experiance many stop have the same sense of humor haha
1:35 what a character 👍
One pair of socks he says😂😂
"So what are you grumblin' about?"
the butcher had it right. if one partner didn't work and was home all day you'd expect them to do housework but if you both work it's 50-50
Very true
“What are you grumbling about?” Love it!
When a couple I knew had children, the husband raised them and looked after the house to school age while the wife worked. The house was always immaculate even with kids and some pets. By the time the kids were at school all day, they'd given the dog to relatives because it was mental.
Then she lost her job and he got a job. They swapped over and within a month the house was a complete sh*theap.
I agree completely.
It wasn’t as one-sided then as people today think.
The butcher was absolutely spot on!
Hard to believe that was 1982 and not earlier!
No it's not, actually very believable
This video is so charming and the people in it are wonderful, and great perspectives too!
"I'm more than a pretty face" XD
Oh I did enjoy this and the humour of these wonderful people especially the last lady renting out her other half of bed priceless
We’re happy aint we ? ( 1.56 ) i feel really envious of this pair ! There’s much love respect and humour there .
She's uncontaminated by radical feminism.
These clips are the funniest the BBC have ever filmed.
Sadly ,we young people back then didn't realise just how good life was truly like. I miss those happy times so very much .... 😢
True. But we were told that the future would keep getting better, so why appreciate what we'd got when there was better to come? For all the troubles we had back then, there was optimism. Not so much now.
@@Chris-dm1je Very much so Chris . We bought into all the Classical conditioning that we were fed. I feel so sorry for my grand children. They even in their wildest of fantasies, cannot imagine what we had or how happy those times used to be like .
People seem so much jollier back in the early 80s! We are all so miserable now. hahaha
"We fight the wars". Well..he is not lying about that is he
Used to love That's Life! Brilliant show! 😄
Love the comments from the woman at 1.11 where she refers to her furniture, her windows etc. !
The biscuit guy lolll. Not much has changed. hah.
What lovely people
My sister is married to a man that worked 20 straight days a month in the oil industry, to put her through college, buy them a very nice house, send their kids to nice private schools. Hard, dangerous work he did. For 32 years he worked his arse off, and risked life and limb! When he got home, he slept for three days to recover. Spoiler alert - yeah he expected her to do the housework when he was exhausted, and she did! They both retired (she was a tutor in her house, for ease of childcare) at age 50 with 8 figures in their account. They can finally relax, and enjoy life for the next 40 years or so.
Now she makes him do the laundry;)
That's fine for each of them to have their own tasks. It can work very well
She was more comfortable at home with the kids 24/7, he was more comfortable working most of the time. A win-win! And they worked together, retiring way ahead of most other couples. They were really wise beyond their years when they got married at 17.
Ah! Bless them all!
These are beautiful time capsules, showing again and again the truth in the statement, “the past is another country”
Great clip! 😆
The good old day kind original beautiful people ❤️
No hurt feelings, just good olde British humour! Got to love it. I can't believe this was 1982. I was 16 and life was so much better then, people could have a good laugh at each other and then move on. Very funny interview..loved it!
I was 15
Same age as me, damn, I wish I could go back.
@@JohnHonda101 i was born in 1993 so i have no idea about this. but why was 1982 a better time?
@@SY-pw6tt Yup, I was a kid in the '80s. It was grim up in Manchester back then. Mass unemployment and a city that felt like you were stuck in a Morrisey song...
@SPY1987 It wasn't great in the 80s, but it seems worse now. We had all the same problems then as now, but we had optimism that things could change for the better. I don't really see much optimism these days.
British Humour at its best 👌
ABC asked the same question on the streets of Sydney in 1960......most men said yes they do housework.
Talking about tidying the house but did you see the amount of litter in the street with people just walking into it.
This is how life should be like not nowadays where folk are too scared to ask questions without fear of someone getting offended. Life was so much easier & simpler back then.
Rose tinted glasses.
Was it easier for black people? Def not.
@matthewfairchild3846 Oh shut up!
When people had humour and perspective 😢😂😂
I have other stuff to do besides housework too. I live alone, I just don’t do it if I don’t want to. I never make my bed ever.
1:46 look at that hair, the death knell
What? He’s got a cap on ?
@@handsoffmycactus2958 behind him, with the cascading rats tails
Charming british people
If there's one place that will make you make your bed and iron your shirt properly,I would have thought it's the army (and all of HM Forces).
It still is women’s work
How wonderful to see how it was and sad for what we lost sad
Love this. I was 7 then but how the world has changed…although the new intake of old people carried on wearing brown and beige for many years and decades after these lovely lot had moved on. Wonder when you start doing so?
As an aside, the younger woman at around 2:35 has definitely appeared on another similar vid from these time. Maybe they went to same area and she just happened to be passing twice. I won’t suggest any conspiracy theories that she’s someone’s mate.
I was 10 years older than you,and I haven't started wearing any much brown or beige yet!
@@rjjcms1 ha ha, keep me posted :)
@@andyt8216 🤣
It was a street market that was easy to get a camera team to. Some people did appear more than once. Most notably an old lady named Annie Mizzen who became a sort-of celebrity for an unfortunately short time.
4:00 is this Michael Kane in disguise?
Might be, not a lot of people know that
@@garryleeks4848 Not a lot of people know that you know that
@@T--xk3hf I know nothing, nothing at all 🙄
When they're saying "make the bed", are they talking about changing the sheets or literally just straightening the duvet and pillows? I didn't know other than children and teens this was a big deal.
Mostly it would mean just straightening it up.
Given when this was filmed, and the ages of the people interviewed, I'm going to guess that very few people had duvets. It would have been traditional bed covers on top of bed sheets.
@@rstevens7711 Yeah, we were unusual in having duvets at the time. I remember going to Center Parcs when it first opened in 1987 and being surprised to find blankets and sheets only. For a while we actually took our own duvets there in the car and transported them into the villas.
I don't it needed to be a Hospital Corner.
Weren't duvets still called quilts back then?
Sad that all these lovely people are probably dead now.
Why sad?
That’s Life!
2:10 Ford Escort van?
Yup
@@maqui1814 Cheers, thought it was. 😀
Brilliant clip 😂👍👏❤🇬🇧 back when comedy was allowed & honest speaking prevailed X
Was this in Portsmouth?
Monte Carlo I think
Happy times, when tv reporters could have a laugh and a joke with people without fearing that they may upset people with their questions.
The video wasn't diverse enough for my liking
That hasn't changed as much as you think it has
@@footballmint good job too
Got to love the men’s attitude of the past( although they weren’t all bad)😂
None of them were bad.
🤔Guy in glasses with black suit. Who thinks he has more important things to do than housework as he has a wife for that. What important things. Golf maybe? He looks the type.
@@Greenwillow he's working outside she works inside. Not rocket science
@@BOZ_11And what does he do at the weekend?. She is probably working all day at home looking after the kids washing his clothes making his dinner so he has it the minute he walks in the door etc. The other men seemed to have no problem doing housework, but this guy acts as if its beneath him.
@@Greenwillow she doesn't do housework for 50 hours a week. She can take 4 hour breaks in the middle of the day, I don't think his employer would allow that. If you think of mothering as being analogous to salaried work, you should not be a mother. Stop moaning
imagine earning enough money to pay for 2 grown adults and kids by yourself
imagine having an inside bathroom with a tub toilet and a shower not just an communal outside bog and yesterdays newpaper to wipe your arse, imagine not having to make the fire up every morning, imagine being able to run to HR every time someone misgenders you.......... imagine having a pain blocker before the dentist shoves that big needle in your gums..... imagine having not to be held responsible for your own stupidity, imagine sitting in the street blocking ambulances and people trying to get to work because your feelings matter more than fact, imagine throwing soup on a priceless artwork, imagine a man having a baby.. imagine a man being woman of the year..... children should be seen and not heard...go to bed...no you cant have a bedtime story it might trigger you
The young lady at @2:58 appears in another of these BBC interview segments about edible knickers: th-cam.com/video/cC2quwArNGM/w-d-xo.html
She’s wearing what appears to be the same outfit in both as well. Wonder if these were all staged.
Edit: the last lady in this video is also is in the edible knickers segment (at 1:34).
These segments were filmed at a street market that was convenient for the production team. Quite a few people popped up more than once. An old lady named Annie Mizzen became a familiar face as she, like a lot of old people then, would spend a few hours at the market every week.
If i had to guess, they asked them multiple questions and then segmented the show by question asked.
Thats at least what a lot of youtubers that make similair content do.
I like the man in the chemist's coat
He might be a butcher
The man at the butchers?
@@JulieWallis1963 cockney butcher, corr blimey
I make the facking beds!!
Not much hanky panky back then i suppose😂😂😂
1:18 BASED
what are you grumbling about..
Proper times .
Most of these women/couples were happy with the ways things naturally sort themselves out.
F😩minism made women unhappy
I love this'No I don't do housework I have a wife to do it'...Splendid answer straight to point Sir Marvelous.....Not many men like him nowadays 😮😮
No, because most couples both have to work these days. I worked in an office with mostly women, and a surprising number of them said they'd prefer to be housewives. Although that might be because the job was bogging awful.
I miss those days
0.54 , I bet he’s fun to live with, makes he’s wife unblock the bog
maybe she blocked it!
@@annother3350 uuu nice 😬
They sleep in separate beds?!?
For centuries married couples have slept in separate beds. Sometimes in separate rooms and would only sleep in the same bed for coitus.
Have you seen the dick van dyke show
I’d settle for another house.
Older people tend to gravitate towards it more as well.
My parents live in different houses at 65 and they are still married
1. People are much easier to understand because they use ACTUAL words (that's coming from a non-native English speaker)
2. They have great sense of humour
3. Who knew people could look like people - without paint (makeup) on their faces?!
4. Everyone in 1982 is SUPER concerned about making their bed.
i do no housework at all inside the house. thats why my missus has a ring on her finger. we have a traditional marriage.
No because when he comes home from work (if he comes home at all, he might be dead) he is completely destroyed. People that try to take the rol of the victim while they are not make me sick.
Eh?
Look everyone is British born
Imagine having all your needs met and then complaining you have to do a tiny bit of work around the house.
Now days, women just work. That’s it. Nothing else. I do all the cooking cleaning maintenance. Etc. in our home, even tho she works less hours, my wife is like one of the children. Society is F’d
When England was England before hammus entered uk
Ah bless you.
Nothing wrong with hummus, I could have it with anything savory
Do you pay the bills, no I have an husband who does that.
do WOMEN do any factory work ? thats my question.
or did they expect the man to do both ?
Factories were full of women
What's the point in getting married if your wife doesn't do all or most of the housework depending on whether sge works.
crazy thing called love
no one marry sim6699. yikes
Really? Wow. Well, my husband and I both work full time so the housework is split about 50/50. If I worked and he didn't, then I would expect him to do more/most of it. If he worked and I didn't, I'd expect me to do more/most of it. The only things determining how much housework someone does should be how much other work they do and what their physical and mental capabilities are that might limit how much or what tasks they can or can't do. Whether you're male or female shouldn't come into it.
Wow I think 🤔 hope things moved on from old days mmmmm #buzzofftoxic
I think the butcher at the end seemed pretty reasonable
Let’s have perspective, millions of men fight to protect everyone. Any event the women an children are protected first…. All we expect is for domestic jobs to be taken care of, is that a bad deal? Let’s swap round then
how many wars have you been in?
@@Emily-xr6ny that’s not a great question to ask me Emily, would rather not but can elaborate and make you feel silly if you like
@@jamiejosh96 if a woman is also working full time and there are no wars to fight at the time it is only fair that both do half the work. If the woman stays at home and the man works then of course she should do the housework as that’s fair. In the 21st century men don’t tend to be going off to war in the UK and women are also working full time
I miss the days when men went to war and never came back.
@@akaNOCTURN ahh you revealed yourself as pure scum. Thanks for that
back when the people's voice had a laugh track. python's fault, people hear a british accent and think it's a skit. course it was then really. still is, just worse writing.
2:47 what is she on about? Why would you have to wash the socks just put them in the washing machine, you barely have to touch them? Weird
A lot of people still wouldn't have had washing machines at this time. In fact a lot of people still don't, which is why laundrettes exist.
😅😅😅