My mum was born in 63 and when I put the kettle on, my mum will often shout down the stairs "You better not be on a boat!" and I let her know I'm not and she says "Ok, that's fine".
@@tyro244 There is nothing funny about it. Did you not watch the video? Go sticking the kettle on at your own risk, but I'll stay well away, thank you.
@@chillaxe9603 Well, of course you would. That boat was large enough to hold the ground floor of a mid-terrace house and clearly a reasonable garden area.
You could make it sound like an old saying that is vague at best in its meaning. The other person won’t want to seem stupid so they will act like they know it “Your plan didn’t work out? Oh you know what they say; don’t boil a kettle on a boat”
This is no joke. My sister and I became orphans because my parents insisted on having tea on their sailboat. There was a typhoon at the time, but that's another story.
I think it must have been commissioned after the highly successful (but hard hitting) "Don't casserole in a glider" campaign. An early outing for the filmmaking skills of Derek Jarman and, I think, generally regarded today as a classic of the genre.
@@paulmoneill That slow motion sequence of vegetable soup droplets hitting the hammocks and dripping down the walls? The "hooded figure" carrying a bunch of swedes and a Magimix 5000? I agree all that was very powerful, even if it was shocking at the time. And when was the last time you heard of a blender accident on a sub? You cannot say that it did not have an effect.
@@simonjones7727 Too true. Too true. Of course the intelligence services covered up the incident at the time but the truth will out in 70 years or so...Or will it????
@@TheRealist2022 Are you sure? It all happens so quickly in the montage sequence at the end. One minute Elizabeth the 1st of England (Jordan) is being led across the pebbles at Dungeness, the next the magician John Dee (a young Adam Ant) is being struck on the back of the head from nowhere by an orange Le Crueset dish. It is not that easy to follow, really.
Omg…I never knew that. I was on a boat - last year - we boiled the kettle many times for a good old cuppa tea. The danger we were in is bloody frightening…. Thank you for your information.🏴🇬🇧
My goodness, you were lucky! You’re just like that chap who fell out of a bomber without a parachute during the war and landed in a snow drift. Walked away with just a dented kettle… And some people are starting to say there’s no God! I ask you 🙄
They certainly made us very AWARE of danger not like this new lot wandering down the road, face in their phones straight into traffic….thank god they don’t live near a railway line 😂
@@SteveInScotland When out in my mobility scooter, BRIGHT YELLOW, I have people staring at their mobiles and walking straight into my stationary vehicle. I'm thinking about not stopping for the next one andd go for damages and compensation for the trauma.
...to see things get so much worse. I mean, back then the only thing we had to worry about was a nuclear holocaust. Shit. Now, that's barely a middle course, far less then main event.
They were terrifying! I was petrified of fireworks after watching one where a little girl is holding a sparkler and the next thing you see is her whole arm bandaged. I didn't understand what it was supposed to mean so I hated fireworks until I was about 10 🤦
"Don't leave litter on the beach" Ending with a freeze frame looking up at foot of running child about to slam down on large spike of glass. Duly warned, I never let either of my feet leave contact with the ground.
I remember the one telling you not to run round corners in case there were two builders coming around the other way carrying a huge pane of glass. (Of course these days you'd have one for builders telling them not to carry huge panes of glass round blind corners, but when you were a kid in the 70s, all mishaps were your fault).
it also sounds as if children are playing and a dog is barking somewhere in the background, suggesting there are multiple rooms or perhaps a deck large enough for kids and a dog to run around
There were loads of fantastic and wierd public info films in the 70s. One in particular I recall about bike theft “lock it or lose it” with a very camp guy wearing a fedora hat goes to report his bike stolen at the police station… and it included his saddlebag. The police seargeant asks him “what exactly was in the saddlebag sir”? He responds in a super camp voice “ I’d rather not say, its personal”.
If it was in the 70s it was condoms. That is what all the PSAs were about, right? Is that just my memory. Condoms and singing about drinking Coca Cola? They were In the US.
@@addie_is_mecondoms were too risqué for American television in the 70's. The first of the singing Coka Cola commercials did come out in the very early 70's during the Vietnam War.
@@Alsatia28 No,in the 70s there was a Lot about stds. Maybe not specifically condoms. I’ll give you that one. Lol. I’d like to teach the world to sing. They were sneaky, but who didn’t love it? Lol
Ok, you win. That is the strangest public service ad I've ever seen. Talk about a twist ending! I seriously did not see that coming. It's as random as a Monty Python sketch.
I have to be fair here. I think it was a legit PSA regarding how overfilling a kettle without the lid on results in a boiling hot handle. I think this is the original. ua-cam.com/video/bsxIAgvaXYA/v-deo.html
In my younger day before I knew any better,I actually buttered a slice of bread on an airplane. Managed to get butter all over the bread, it was horrendous.
The memories of such films. I remember the man in the factory being pulled into a machine by his unbuttoned shirt cuff. Then there was the child scalded when a pan of boiling water tipped over. I live on a narrowboat and only drink gin and tonic. Too afraid to make tea since seeing this clip.
Then there was the famous advert about not alone walking at night in case you got mugged. I was walking alone the other night and was involved in a violent mugging. On the plus side I did make a few quid.
These are the things you really needed to know in the seventies. I believe they banned kettles on boats. In fact they banned all hot drinks on boats. Oh, and cooking anything on boats. In fact I don't think you were allowed to eat or drink on boats. That's why scurvy and rickets were a real problem in the seventies.
Fortunately, I had Jimminy Cricket singing "I'm no fool, no Sirree, I want to live to be 103! I take safety seriously, 'cause I'm, no, fool!" when I was growing up.
I always knew about "never use a toaster in a tractor" and "never fry an egg on a Friday in a fort," but never this. Will have to let all my seafaring friends know, if only I knew of some seafaring friends.. maybe that's why I have no seafaring friends. They all succumbed to a boiled kettle explosion on their boats.
As the Titanic's great bow finally slipped beneath the waves and into the icy grip of her Atlantic tomb, one last voice was heard from that doomed leviathan: " I do apologise most sincerely! I was gasping for a cuppa!"
@@addie_is_me Rose. Rose? Is that you, Rose? I'm freezing my nutz off here, Rose.🥶 Budge up a bit so I can on that huge door with you, too, Rose. Go on, Rose, there's loads of room, don't be a selfish bint, Rose! Wait... what are you doing, Rose? No, not... not my fingers... Rose. Why, Rose, why? Glug... glug... you were a crap shag, anyway... glug... glug. 🐟😵🐟🐟 _No one gets in the way of ol' Rosie enjoyin' 'er lovely cuppa char!_ 🫖🍵
I boiled a kettle to make tea on a narrowboat and nearly got away with it but then a Swan mugged me for my rich tea biscuit just as I was about to dunk it, causing me to spill hot tea all over myself.
There were really eleven Commandments, but Moses got writers’ cramp just before “DON’T BOIL A KETTLE ON A BOAT”…humanity has been paying the price ever since…
Even 22 seconds of Mr Spicer is a treat - and the random way they drop is like getting a surprise gift. Mind you, I'm mad - so what do I know about anything?
Script writers: "Do you think the averagemanorwomanonthestreet will understand that the kettle is called 'Crooked' ? If only we had the budget for an engraver."
Lol, I'm from NZ and in the late 1970's and early 1980's, we had Government funded public announcement ads on TV for things like, "have a go", to encourage you to try new things and then it showed someone going off hiking! The other one had a jingle that went "don't leave town till you've seen the countreeeeee.....". That one was because NZers were big on overseas travel and they were trying to encourage you to travel around NZ first. Not exactly fear mongering ads - they were more like, hey do cool stuff NZ citizens. 😊
I've heard NZ is getting overrun with Americans who 'discovered' your fine island country - and too many are of the 'ugly American' variety, of course - I apologize, if me and the old ball and chain came down we'd be gracious newcomers, blend right in. So much has gone wrong here, for once people are actively talking about leaving, unheard of until recently...the whole trump nightmare has folks fearful, disgusted, frustrated, afraid to speak with one another, totally sucks...btw - Scott Dixon is a hell of a talented good guy, friendly with his many fans over here, great ambassador! 🍻
Just like to say Ive had 3 boats (not bragging) and I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have cold drinks. Thanks so much for reviving this very important public information film. You may just have saved someones life today, Michael
@dogsquadindia the kettle was to full and the lid not on tight. When the kettle began to boil it spilled out and put out the flame. The gas was still on so it spilled into the cabin till it reached the engine compartment an either a hot engine or a spark caused it to explode. It was an actually problem at the time people were making more money and many bought small boats going out with little to none water safety knowledge
Yeah , the T v detector van one would be good , " There's a set on at number 16 , and they are watching Columbo " says the guy in the van , whose actually an actor 😅😅
Puffling wrote this on Canalworld: "Boiling water overflows pan and extinguishes gas flame. Without a flame failure device the gas continues to pour out and lines the bilges, eventually igniting as a gas-air mixture."
Then there was the famous advert about not alone walking at night in case you got mugged. I was walking alone the other night and was involved in a violent mugging. On the plus side I did make a few quid.
Not a laughing matter. My mother had a friend who had a bad kettle experience on a boat. She (the friend) moved to Ilkley and wouldn’t let a kettle in the house…
@@chrismoule7328 LOL she hasnt see the video Don't send asylum seekers to Rwanda! It's ILLEGAL! Trying to send asylum seekers to Rwanda causes massive court battles and wastes taxpayers money. Its YOUR JOB to think of a better solution!
I have massive respect now for my kettle and where it's safe to boil it. Turns out I have been somewhat cavalier in my use over the years. It's quite by chance I am still here.
Ah, the companion ad to 'Never accept lifts from strangers .... in kipper ties, trench-coats and goucho moustaches.' A whole generation owes its preservation to that one.
I boiled a kettle in a field once and my head literally fell off, clean off I tell you. Oh, how we laughed. Well, I didn’t because my head had fallen off.
@@chrisf1600 He learned that skill after the decapitation incident as a teacher at our school. In fact he wasn't just a teacher, we called him the head.
Wow! While American children were watching Smokey the Bear, a crying American Indian, pigs at a beach, and eggs frying in a pan (your brain on drugs), British children were seeing exploding boats, a child with third degree burns from a fireworks sparkler, and a child about to impale her foot on a shard of glass!?! Of course we had already endured "Reefer Madness" and visions of mushroom clouds while children hid under desks...sooooo... even???
Now I have to go look up why I shouldn't boil a kettle ( um, actually, its the water inside the kettle that boils you don't boil a kettle. ) on a boat.
Because the water that spills from it kills the flame, but the propane (or gas oil) won't turn off automatically and will build up in the cabin. I guess explosions didn't happen every day or anything, but it wasn't wildly unlikely either. All in all, it's the tone of this video that's weird, not the message.
I was almost over the major disappointment of not getting my order in on time to have a shipment of sausage orphan for holiday dinner. Scarfolk council blog has a lot to answer for.
But we were all so stupid back then. We desperately needed a reassuring voice to keep us safe. Thankfully, in these enlightened times, we can all be as stupid as we like. And we can make videos of each other doing stupid things. We don't need a nanny state!
Oooh, oooh, do _The Spirit of Dark And Lonely Water_ PIF; that one was *really* scary! It's the one with Mr Creepy himself, Donald (not so) Pleasence, who said _"I'll be back"_ over a decade before Arnie did. _AND_ it had Benny from Grange Hill in it. 😎
That voice is the late Roddy McDowel. A very one of a kind guy that fit the 70’s tv like “Corinthian Leather”. Guess stared in everything! Love boat, Fantasy Island etc.
Well ! It was like someone had an understanding of ancient symbolism. (Wayer nymphscan drag you under- which is symbolic of how people can ‘go under’ the spell of mental illness- the water has always been a symbol of the unconscious mind in all sorts of ancient cultures, ypu see), But the person who made this narrative unconsciously has put this in as a literal phenomenon. Its not. It’s symbolic. It makes you wonder- what was the frame of mind of the actual filmmaker?!! Loke, truly, i have seen people imagine stuff like this OUTSIDE of themselves and it is a clue that they themselves are breaking down INSIDE. (But they don’t know that). I work often with people who are mentally ill, you see. And i know a bit about the psyche. So- thus is madness. Id love to have been able to meet the filmmaker and just quietly check out his/her state of mind. Making this literal, us insane on a kid’s mind. The things we unconsciously do to children! I can only imagine the effort upon you. It would create a primitive mindset that existed thousands of years ago- where people saw these spirits outside rather than inside-and i think i would never have gone swimming again! And i would have likely also concluded -(knowing me)- that if there are spirits in the water waiting to get me, then where ELSE are they? Id have been a wreck. Im glad i never saw this one. (Im 61, so i might have- thank heavens for small mercies).
You may laugh but statistics show a marked population increase in seaside towns after this film aired. I went to Scarborough shortly afterwards and noted it was very crowded. Clearly full of people who weren't killed because they didn't boil a kettle on a boat.
@@christosyal5883 Durrr, Hot chocolate comes from brown cows kept in the oven for 30-35mins at 70°c, Vegan hot chocolate comes from the earth, you just have to fish the worms out first.
@@johnnyfiveiron PLEASE tell me you are being sarcastic! Even if not, at least tell us how we got from "lid is crooked" to "boat go bang" because I'm pretty sure there's room for some explanation in between. 🙄
If only I had known this back then, I'd be alive today...
How's the afterlife for you? Nice, I hope.
@@edricaldones9639 It's hellish.
🤣
It killed me once but I got better.
😂😂
Such good advice. I had a friend who microwaved strawberries on a surfboard. Sheer madness!
Lol 😄
When my kids microwaved some frozen raspberries to defrost them, it went a bit crazy and made that zapping noise!
Why do kids insist on doing that? They need to bring back the birch to knock some sense into them. 🙄
Strawberry tip comment 🤣
Had a friend who suffered a similar demise, got tangled up in the extension cord and drowned.
My mum was born in 63 and when I put the kettle on, my mum will often shout down the stairs "You better not be on a boat!" and I let her know I'm not and she says "Ok, that's fine".
😂😂
Hilarious
Omg, how i love the Spicer comments section! ❤
A funny mum is a blessing.
@@tyro244 There is nothing funny about it. Did you not watch the video? Go sticking the kettle on at your own risk, but I'll stay well away, thank you.
My Dad boiled a kettle in a caravan and sure enough 40 years later he had a heart attack
Well there you go!
Was he vaccinated?
Oh jeez that’s funny. This video has opened up everyone’s latent genius
"Correlation is not causation", as we are constantly reminded.
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My mission today is to get "Don't boil a kettle on a boat" into casual conversation.
My mission today is to buy a boat so I can escape the modern madness! To be honest, I'd rather be on the boat in this video....
@@chillaxe9603 Well, of course you would. That boat was large enough to hold the ground floor of a mid-terrace house and clearly a reasonable garden area.
@@Tao_Tology looked like that was true! The kettle boiler must have left the galley and put the feet up in the front room!
You could make it sound like an old saying that is vague at best in its meaning. The other person won’t want to seem stupid so they will act like they know it
“Your plan didn’t work out? Oh you know what they say; don’t boil a kettle on a boat”
Come on: the public need to know.
This is no joke. My sister and I became orphans because my parents insisted on having tea on their sailboat. There was a typhoon at the time, but that's another story.
A Typhoo, eh?
@@jackspringheel9963
I got that joke 👍
I got that reference! 😂😂
Not suitable advice for young children, but great PG tips
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I think it must have been commissioned after the highly successful (but hard hitting) "Don't casserole in a glider" campaign. An early outing for the filmmaking skills of Derek Jarman and, I think, generally regarded today as a classic of the genre.
Don't forget the excellent Never use a blender on a nuclear submarine campaign. Saved thousands of lives that one did
@@paulmoneill That slow motion sequence of vegetable soup droplets hitting the hammocks and dripping down the walls? The "hooded figure" carrying a bunch of swedes and a Magimix 5000? I agree all that was very powerful, even if it was shocking at the time. And when was the last time you heard of a blender accident on a sub? You cannot say that it did not have an effect.
@@simonjones7727 Too true. Too true. Of course the intelligence services covered up the incident at the time but the truth will out in 70 years or so...Or will it????
@simonjones7727 I think you'll find it was a HANG glider...it's PERFECTLY in order to casserole in a glider... sheeeesh.
@@TheRealist2022 Are you sure? It all happens so quickly in the montage sequence at the end. One minute Elizabeth the 1st of England (Jordan) is being led across the pebbles at Dungeness, the next the magician John Dee (a young Adam Ant) is being struck on the back of the head from nowhere by an orange Le Crueset dish. It is not that easy to follow, really.
My uncle was a fisherman and he died after boiling a kettle on a boat. He choked on a bit of squid but even so.
Underrated comment. 😄😄
"The squid that came to tea"?
"I love my wife, but oh you squid!"
Couldn't have been a professional fisherman then, he'd of known not to boil a boat kettle.
Ya really can't rule out the possibility of a connection.
I remember the Boat Kettle Code man. He would turn up at school assemblies to talk to the kids.
He scolded them if they were naughty
...untill the police caught up with him.
What is that happens? Explain the physics please
Wasn't he the runner up to the Green Cross Man, David Prowse (RIP), aka Darth Vader? How different his life would have been had he been chosen.
The Green Cross Man came from Bris tol like me. Grew up not far from where I live now!
I once boiled a kettle on a boat. Fortunately, the boat hit an iceberg and I got away with it.
RIP Titanic.
Just after that they enacted a law against hot plates in ships cabins. It’s saved countless lives
Must be hard being that stupid!
Every cloud and all that…
...so it was *YOUR* fault !!!
There's no justice in this world. Poor Jack got framed for nicking a diamound and didn't get away with it.
🫖🚢🧊📉 underrated comment
Omg…I never knew that. I was on a boat - last year - we boiled the kettle many times for a good old cuppa tea. The danger we were in is bloody frightening…. Thank you for your information.🏴🇬🇧
Did you die at all? Mustn't get complacent
Now there is an auto cut off if the gas is put out by wind, or a kettle boiling over.
@@andrewbeaumont5492 We had to have our auto-cutoff due to wind bypassed. It kept erroneously triggering, especially after a vindaloo and a few pints!
You obviously don't make your tea with boiled petrol like this daft bint!
My goodness, you were lucky! You’re just like that chap who fell out of a bomber without a parachute during the war and landed in a snow drift. Walked away with just a dented kettle… And some people are starting to say there’s no God! I ask you 🙄
The advice is only reason I've survived since the 1970's.
They certainly made us very AWARE of danger not like this new lot wandering down the road, face in their phones straight into traffic….thank god they don’t live near a railway line 😂
@@SteveInScotland When out in my mobility scooter, BRIGHT YELLOW, I have people staring at their mobiles and walking straight into my stationary vehicle. I'm thinking about not stopping for the next one andd go for damages and compensation for the trauma.
...to see things get so much worse.
I mean, back then the only thing we had to worry about was a nuclear holocaust.
Shit. Now, that's barely a middle course, far less then main event.
Don’t cook with gas on a boat AT ALL.
@@eldermillennial8330 So, how do you get hot food?
One of the greats along with "Stop, don't poke that rabbit!" and "Smoke, for goodness sake"
Or today's version:
"Stop! Don't poke that bird."
@@Alan_Stinchcombe Especially without a condom.
Never eat bananas while standing in a puddle- you'll regret it.
This is the-best one. - I’ve nearly fell off me chair The comments are better than the show.
😂
You should also do a whole series called "public information films that traumatised children in the 80s"
Oh yeah! There were plenty! Charlie says...rail tracks...pylons 😳
They were terrifying! I was petrified of fireworks after watching one where a little girl is holding a sparkler and the next thing you see is her whole arm bandaged. I didn't understand what it was supposed to mean so I hated fireworks until I was about 10 🤦
I remember a carpet on a polished floor that changed into a bear trap?!?
"Don't leave litter on the beach"
Ending with a freeze frame looking up at foot of running child about to slam down on large spike of glass.
Duly warned, I never let either of my feet leave contact with the ground.
@@yippee8570 Good to hear it worked! 👍
I remember the one telling you not to run round corners in case there were two builders coming around the other way carrying a huge pane of glass. (Of course these days you'd have one for builders telling them not to carry huge panes of glass round blind corners, but when you were a kid in the 70s, all mishaps were your fault).
I had a huge sheet of glass chase me down the street! Always be aware.
True - Benny Hill would be there though, ready to make it a joke, chased by pretty girls in underwear and stockings!
“All mishaps were your fault” LMAO
But so many times it turned out to be a false alarm. The two "builders" were just mime artists.
... with "Yakkity Sax" playing on e soundtrack.
@@Beatlefan67
Remember that film The Towering Inferno? - Remember how the fire started? - They lied - Someone boiled a kettle!!!
... on a boat!
Wow that boat looks SERIOUSLY bigger on the inside than the outside.
I want one of those boats with plumbed-in mains water and gas!
it also sounds as if children are playing and a dog is barking somewhere in the background, suggesting there are multiple rooms or perhaps a deck large enough for kids and a dog to run around
It's Britain, their phone booths are the same way.
It belongs to Dr Who.
@@joepettit8437Maybe she was actually on the Titanic!
There were loads of fantastic and wierd public info films in the 70s. One in particular I recall about bike theft “lock it or lose it” with a very camp guy wearing a fedora hat goes to report his bike stolen at the police station… and it included his saddlebag. The police seargeant asks him “what exactly was in the saddlebag sir”? He responds in a super camp voice “ I’d rather not say, its personal”.
If it was in the 70s it was condoms. That is what all the PSAs were about, right? Is that just my memory. Condoms and singing about drinking Coca Cola? They were In the US.
Gimp suit, lube and extra strength condoms, at a completely random guess
@@addie_is_mecondoms were too risqué for American television in the 70's.
The first of the singing Coka Cola commercials did come out in the very early 70's during the Vietnam War.
@@Alsatia28 No,in the 70s there was a Lot about stds. Maybe not specifically condoms. I’ll give you that one. Lol.
I’d like to teach the world to sing. They were sneaky, but who didn’t love it? Lol
@@addie_is_me i am talking about the UK
Ok, you win. That is the strangest public service ad I've ever seen. Talk about a twist ending! I seriously did not see that coming. It's as random as a Monty Python sketch.
Yessss
It probably was.
I have to be fair here. I think it was a legit PSA regarding how overfilling a kettle without the lid on results in a boiling hot handle. I think this is the original.
ua-cam.com/video/bsxIAgvaXYA/v-deo.html
Neither did she
Good advice. Don't butter bread on an airplane has also kept me in good stead
In my younger day before I knew any better,I actually buttered a slice of bread on an airplane. Managed to get butter all over the bread, it was horrendous.
The memories of such films. I remember the man in the factory being pulled into a machine by his unbuttoned shirt cuff. Then there was the child scalded when a pan of boiling water tipped over.
I live on a narrowboat and only drink gin and tonic. Too afraid to make tea since seeing this clip.
Then there was the famous advert about not alone walking at night in case you got mugged. I was walking alone the other night and was involved in a violent mugging. On the plus side I did make a few quid.
What about the one with the boy getting electr ocuted on the pylon? 😳
And who can forget the immortal Reginald Mole - Husband? I think he's still trying to park that car 😁.
It's better for your health.
Cheers
I remember that scalding one 😆
traumatised the shit out of me
That tone of weary resignation in his voice...
“I’ve given my whole life to this, and for what? The fools will go on boiling kettles on boats, to die horribly without exception.”
He’s had a gutfull
Never have. Never will. I've seen things.
I see dead boiled-a-kettle-on-a-boat people
The horror
I remember this being right up there with "Don't invoke Satan at a bus stop."
All these years I've thought that it was "Don't flash Satan at a bus stop". My bad.
Wait, what? Can't invoke Satan at a bus stop? Why weren't we warned about this??
Wait, what? Can't invoke Satan at a bus stop? Why weren't we warned about this??
Wait, what? Can't invoke Satan at a bus stop? Why weren't we warned about this??
Wait, what? Can't invoke Satan at a bus stop? Why weren't we warned about this??
These are the things you really needed to know in the seventies. I believe they banned kettles on boats. In fact they banned all hot drinks on boats. Oh, and cooking anything on boats. In fact I don't think you were allowed to eat or drink on boats. That's why scurvy and rickets were a real problem in the seventies.
Banned everything but the boats, yet the deaths continue, blindsiding goverment fools!
😂
Can we still breathe on a boat?
@@TallSilentGuy No, breathing contributes to global warming!
Then some jackass tried piloting a boat 'round inside his boat, & they had to put the kibosh on the whole thing
Fortunately, I had Jimminy Cricket singing "I'm no fool, no Sirree, I want to live to be 103! I take safety seriously, 'cause I'm, no, fool!" when I was growing up.
I always knew about "never use a toaster in a tractor" and "never fry an egg on a Friday in a fort," but never this. Will have to let all my seafaring friends know, if only I knew of some seafaring friends.. maybe that's why I have no seafaring friends. They all succumbed to a boiled kettle explosion on their boats.
Stop it !
Im back looking at this video, ‘never fry an egg on a Friday in a fort”. I fell off the couch-again
As the Titanic's great bow finally slipped beneath the waves and into the icy grip of her Atlantic tomb, one last voice was heard from that doomed leviathan:
" I do apologise most sincerely! I was gasping for a cuppa!"
That was so touchingly written I felt I was there, in that freezing water, hearing that shout and thinking, I hope they had time to drink their cuppa.
@@addie_is_me
Rose.
Rose?
Is that you, Rose?
I'm freezing my nutz off here, Rose.🥶
Budge up a bit so I can on that huge door with you, too, Rose.
Go on, Rose, there's loads of room, don't be a selfish bint, Rose!
Wait... what are you doing, Rose?
No, not... not my fingers... Rose.
Why, Rose, why?
Glug... glug... you were a crap shag, anyway... glug... glug.
🐟😵🐟🐟
_No one gets in the way of ol' Rosie enjoyin' 'er lovely cuppa char!_ 🫖🍵
"And boiled a kettle - I should have listened to the advert!"
I boiled a kettle to make tea on a narrowboat and nearly got away with it but then a Swan mugged me for my rich tea biscuit just as I was about to dunk it, causing me to spill hot tea all over myself.
You had a close shave, they can break a man’s arm you know 😳
"Don't slice beets in a hot air balloon !"
Never use a pizza peel on a raft.
There were really eleven Commandments, but Moses got writers’ cramp just before “DON’T BOIL A KETTLE ON A BOAT”…humanity has been paying the price ever since…
I always wondered why sailing enthusiasts never drank tea and why they were pissed all the time.
Even 22 seconds of Mr Spicer is a treat - and the random way they drop is like getting a surprise gift. Mind you, I'm mad - so what do I know about anything?
Every one of those 22 seconds is a treat
The water safety one Lonely Water (1973) is still an adult certificate horror film in some countries.
Donald Pleasance voice over and the hooded figure....the stuff of nightmares
"And now the lid's on crooked."
*CrookedLY* ffs!
Is it any wonder we're all illiterate, when the Home Office presented us with this?
Script writers: "Do you think the averagemanorwomanonthestreet will understand that the kettle is called 'Crooked' ? If only we had the budget for an engraver."
Lol, I'm from NZ and in the late 1970's and early 1980's, we had Government funded public announcement ads on TV for things like, "have a go", to encourage you to try new things and then it showed someone going off hiking! The other one had a jingle that went "don't leave town till you've seen the countreeeeee.....". That one was because NZers were big on overseas travel and they were trying to encourage you to travel around NZ first. Not exactly fear mongering ads - they were more like, hey do cool stuff NZ citizens. 😊
"Hey man - you know where the Victoria Falls are?" - "Somewhere near Taupo, aren't they?"
fucking hobbits
I've heard NZ is getting overrun with Americans who 'discovered' your fine island country - and too many are of the 'ugly American' variety, of course - I apologize, if me and the old ball and chain came down we'd be gracious newcomers, blend right in. So much has gone wrong here, for once people are actively talking about leaving, unheard of until recently...the whole trump nightmare has folks fearful, disgusted, frustrated, afraid to speak with one another, totally sucks...btw - Scott Dixon is a hell of a talented good guy, friendly with his many fans over here, great ambassador! 🍻
@@carlsaganlives6086most tourists are fine. Get a few that aren't potty trained but overall no real issues.
I think that's beautiful!
Just like to say Ive had 3 boats (not bragging) and I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have cold drinks. Thanks so much for reviving this very important public information film. You may just have saved someones life today, Michael
What.... exactly.... Happens that makes the whole damned boat explode?
@dogsquadindia the kettle was to full and the lid not on tight. When the kettle began to boil it spilled out and put out the flame. The gas was still on so it spilled into the cabin till it reached the engine compartment an either a hot engine or a spark caused it to explode.
It was an actually problem at the time people were making more money and many bought small boats going out with little to none water safety knowledge
He didn't say he bought them..... 🤣@@aliceberethart
He won the jackpot on Bullseye 3 times , got a speed boat every time .😂
I've had 8 boats and always have hot drinks (especially a lovely cup of char). Tosh.
There seemed to be no end of those films then, with a man speaking in a clipped RP voice. Spot on. Please do more of these.
SPLINK!
Yeah , the T v detector van one would be good , " There's a set on at number 16 , and they are watching Columbo " says the guy in the van , whose actually an actor 😅😅
How is this so nostalgic for me?? I'm an American millennial but gosh darn if this didn't take me right back to 1970s england
The power of a powerful PSA! 😶😶
Maybe you’re the reincarnation of a 1970s British exploded boat person?
@@chockergram truly the only explanation
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@@LimeyRedneck Or satire
@@chockergram Lord Mountbatten?
Puffling wrote this on Canalworld: "Boiling water overflows pan and extinguishes gas flame. Without a flame failure device the gas continues to pour out and lines the bilges, eventually igniting as a gas-air mixture."
Ah, thanks. I was wondering how boiling water could cause an explosion.
This is why steamships never replaced the horse.
Yep no-one ever had any problems boiling a kettle on a horse.
This is so spot-on, if I were a Gen Z kid, I'd assume it was real.
Love the withering tone at the end - just a shade of The Day Today. 🎉
It is real! My childhood memories have told me so!!
Where's Mandela!?@@deedooley3307
😆 yes to the withering, Chris Morris-esque, undertones....
I hate it when that happens. I've lost at least twelve friends that way.
Come on Jesus, it was you who was lost
I think that ressurection has effected you more than you realise.
Once I fixed an entire thanksgiving dinner in my pool, I drowned before I got to taste anything.
I can just imagine her sitting there cluelessly with a classic cartoony burnt to a crisp look and trying to figure out what she did wrong.
Like Wiley Coyote :)
Maybe she was boiling the kettle to make Oxo gravy - she went on to do those adverts so she must have survived! 😄
I was about to boil a kettle on my boat. I'm bloody glad I watched this first! Now I'm off to drink bleach in a car...
From a lemonade bottle
Use a coaster when you set the bottle down.
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As hard hitting and informative as the classic 'Don't Spit Roast a Whole Sheep for Henry VIII on a Rollerskate' campaign.
Then there was the famous advert about not alone walking at night in case you got mugged. I was walking alone the other night and was involved in a violent mugging. On the plus side I did make a few quid.
You are responsible for me having spat tea all over my computer desk with that punchline at the end! 🤣
So, we need a new PSA video “Don’t spit tea on your computer”.
@@tiepup 🤣
It’s the judgey tone that got me….just needs…..you idiot, at the end. 😂
I hope you weren't on a boat at the time
Not a laughing matter. My mother had a friend who had a bad kettle experience on a boat.
She (the friend) moved to Ilkley and wouldn’t let a kettle in the house…
"Charlie says........."
Now see what you've made me think of !
The only Charlie I remember said “Love my Good & Plenty”
This and the advice to never scuba dive from the balcony of your apartment are the reasons I'm still alive, today.
Don't let the Home Secretary see this.
It'll only give her ideas.
That might not be such a bad thing. She hasn't had any ideas so far...
@@chrismoule7328 LOL she hasnt see the video
Don't send asylum seekers to Rwanda! It's ILLEGAL!
Trying to send asylum seekers to Rwanda causes massive court battles and wastes taxpayers money.
Its YOUR JOB to think of a better solution!
Needs a whole episode of Mythbusters dedicated to this.
LOL, genius. I remember being traumatised enough by the original, adding a boat to the equation is mind bottling.
"Don't boil a kettle on a boat"
- George Woshington, Husband of Lady Gaga
Thank you for explaining this so clearly
I can see this being shared seriously, touted as history and as sound advice. Oh my.
Just wait until TikTok gets hold of this
Don't sit down with a light bulb in your back pocket...that one used to scare me!!!
Yep that's not a bright idea
I have massive respect now for my kettle and where it's safe to boil it. Turns out I have been somewhat cavalier in my use over the years. It's quite by chance I am still here.
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What was she thinking trying to warm the teapot with tap water.
Wait....where do you get tap water on a boat anyway??
Ah, the companion ad to 'Never accept lifts from strangers .... in kipper ties, trench-coats and goucho moustaches.' A whole generation owes its preservation to that one.
I want to know what a kipper tie is!
@@sarahcourtney8066 It's a classic 1970s neck tie, the size of a large flat fish, very popular at the time among groovy hipsters. 😀
Good advice, the last time I boiled a kettle on a boat we were attacked by a plague of locusts who ate the sails!!
I boiled a kettle in a field once and my head literally fell off, clean off I tell you. Oh, how we laughed. Well, I didn’t because my head had fallen off.
Wait a second. If your head fell off, how come you were able to see the keyboard to type that comment ?
@@chrisf1600 He learned that skill after the decapitation incident as a teacher at our school. In fact he wasn't just a teacher, we called him the head.
That particular information film goes hand in hand with 'women, know your place' campaign.
Noooo, darls. Its just kooky not mean (im a 61 year old woman writing this by the way- so im not doing a patronising )
Oh the fear that shot through my spine with a jolt - flashback! 😵
This is up there with the " don't smoke a cigar in a frogman suit" one.
Buster Crabbe and the school of hard knocks.
I regret that I can only “like” this video once. I’m wheezing with laughter.
Wow! While American children were watching Smokey the Bear, a crying American Indian, pigs at a beach, and eggs frying in a pan (your brain on drugs), British children were seeing exploding boats, a child with third degree burns from a fireworks sparkler, and a child about to impale her foot on a shard of glass!?! Of course we had already endured "Reefer Madness" and visions of mushroom clouds while children hid under desks...sooooo... even???
Our rowing coach would often shout this warning at us through his loud hailer as he cycled along beside the river we were on. We owe him our lives.
Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few by not boiling a kettle on a boat.
I remember one from the 60s warning kids not to play with blasting caps.
Was that the one with Willie Mays?
I remember a tv public information film warning astronauts not to masturbate on a space shuttle - but they never listened. (Challenger)
She might as well have set a man trap!
I remember the roar of that poor bloke well as he set foot on that slithery rug.
Now I have to go look up why I shouldn't boil a kettle ( um, actually, its the water inside the kettle that boils you don't boil a kettle. ) on a boat.
Because the water that spills from it kills the flame, but the propane (or gas oil) won't turn off automatically and will build up in the cabin. I guess explosions didn't happen every day or anything, but it wasn't wildly unlikely either. All in all, it's the tone of this video that's weird, not the message.
Last message received, via ship-to-shore radio, from Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma: " Send digestives. urgent."
OMG! I swear I almost peed a little laughing at that; thanks! 🤣😂
Too soon...too soon.
I am the spirit of dark and lonely kitchen appliances.
Oh god, that one was the stuff of nightmares. Donald Pleasance. Couldn't show it now - it would be considered too frightening 😃😃😃😃
Fifty years from now, there will be a UA-cam video about the bizarre Safe & Effective public service ads on TV in 2022.
That's how long it will take for them to admit it. 😏
Unsafe and ineffective....
@@srvntlillyYes, like they didn't want those Pfi zer docs in public domain for 70 years.....
@@janec1489 Exactly, lol.
Oh man, we had some serious stuff to worry about back then.
Thank you for reminding me to not do something I had no idea I would do if I wanted to do it.
I was almost over the major disappointment of not getting my order in on time to have a shipment of sausage orphan for holiday dinner. Scarfolk council blog has a lot to answer for.
But we were all so stupid back then. We desperately needed a reassuring voice to keep us safe. Thankfully, in these enlightened times, we can all be as stupid as we like. And we can make videos of each other doing stupid things. We don't need a nanny state!
This reminds me of the time I lit a cigarette while on my submarine.
Wow! Did not see that coming! 😂🤣😂
I guess nor did she 😥
I'm sorry to admit that you had me going for about a minute before I was sure this was a spoof.
Lost my entire family the same way, still though, great times!
Oooh, oooh, do _The Spirit of Dark And Lonely Water_ PIF; that one was *really* scary! It's the one with Mr Creepy himself, Donald (not so) Pleasence, who said _"I'll be back"_ over a decade before Arnie did. _AND_ it had Benny from Grange Hill in it. 😎
I'm alive today because of this.
DON'T toast a bagel on a blimp.
(Oh, the humanity!)
I was certain that was Linda Bellingham about to make gravy for an appreciative family, but now they're dead... ALL DEAD!!
Yes me too! She obv survived to go on to make the Oxo adverts tho!
Just can't stop laughing, bit too loud, waking the whole family!
That voice is the late Roddy McDowel. A very one of a kind guy that fit the 70’s tv like “Corinthian Leather”. Guess stared in everything! Love boat, Fantasy Island etc.
Sublimely disconcerting and spectacularly strange - both of which I love.
this accurately describes the process of my anxiety haha
Originally broadcast 26 March 1970, Coldhaven Television.
Phew 😥 this has just reminded me never to wear wellie boots on the escalator in Tesco…
First time you made me laugh. Well done & thanks.
Excellent sketch right there. Brilliant 😂🤣🤣
The spirit of dark water was definitely the most traumatic.
Right.! Im going to see it right now
@@NudePostingConspiracyTheories imagine being 6 years old like I was, while watching it. Let me know what you think.
Well ! It was like someone had an understanding of ancient symbolism. (Wayer nymphscan drag you under- which is symbolic of how people can ‘go under’ the spell of mental illness- the water has always been a symbol of the unconscious mind in all sorts of ancient cultures, ypu see), But the person who made this narrative unconsciously has put this in as a literal phenomenon. Its not. It’s symbolic. It makes you wonder- what was the frame of mind of the actual filmmaker?!! Loke, truly, i have seen people imagine stuff like this OUTSIDE of themselves and it is a clue that they themselves are breaking down INSIDE. (But they don’t know that). I work often with people who are mentally ill, you see. And i know a bit about the psyche. So- thus is madness. Id love to have been able to meet the filmmaker and just quietly check out his/her state of mind. Making this literal, us insane on a kid’s mind. The things we unconsciously do to children! I can only imagine the effort upon you. It would create a primitive mindset that existed thousands of years ago- where people saw these spirits outside rather than inside-and i think i would never have gone swimming again! And i would have likely also concluded -(knowing me)- that if there are spirits in the water waiting to get me, then where ELSE are they? Id have been a wreck. Im glad i never saw this one. (Im 61, so i might have- thank heavens for small mercies).
😂omg i really didn't see that coming. Mouth full of whisky and coke was the best move.
You may laugh but statistics show a marked population increase in seaside towns after this film aired. I went to Scarborough shortly afterwards and noted it was very crowded. Clearly full of people who weren't killed because they didn't boil a kettle on a boat.
As Churchill once said “Never in the field of human conflict has so much being owed to so many by so few who never boiled a kettle on a boat”
As someone who lives on a boat I feel truly lucky that I haven’t been vaporised every time I’ve boiled a kettle to make vegan hot chocolate.
Chocolate ia from a bean. Isnt all hot chocolate vegan?
@@PolishBehemoth no. Most hot chocolate products contain milk
About the vegan hot chocolate, could it not also be called just hot chocolate?
@@christosyal5883 Durrr, Hot chocolate comes from brown cows kept in the oven for 30-35mins at 70°c, Vegan hot chocolate comes from the earth, you just have to fish the worms out first.
How do you know there's a vegan in the comments? Well don't worry they'll soon tell you their there! 😅😂
This has been my morning mantra for the last 40 years. Still here.
Was it a gravy boat..? When I see her I suddenly crave gravy and a moustache for some reason.
Am I missing something? HOW did that kettle cause an explosion? 🤔
Weren't you watching? The lid was on crooked
@@johnnyfiveiron PLEASE tell me you are being sarcastic! Even if not, at least tell us how we got from "lid is crooked" to "boat go bang" because I'm pretty sure there's room for some explanation in between. 🙄
Flame go's out
Gas fills boat
She was boiling the water on a boat!