Binge drinking: 1728

I don't wonder why young people do so much binge drinking, but why it's only young people involved. Generally speaking, if historical people had a bunch of alcohol lying around, they'd take every opportunity they had to get drunk with it.

Stop thief!: 1730

Nor is thy flaxen wig with safety worn;
High on the shoulder, in a basket born
Lurks the sly boy; whose hand to rapine bred,
Plucks off the curling honours of thy head.

Wig theft was a specialized form of robbery. But fear not, because the juvenile criminal justice system had ways of dealing with such crimes:

Breathless he stumbling falls: Ill-fated boy!
Why did not honest work thy youth employ?
Seiz'd by rough hands, he's dragg'd amid the rout,
And stretch'd beneath the pump's incessant spout:
Or plung'd in miry ponds, he gasping lies,
Mud chokes his mouth, and plasters o'er his eyes.

--From Trivia: or, The art of walking the streets of London--

Survival of the fittest: 1730

Oh happy unown'd youths, your limbs can bear
The scorching dog-star, and the winter's air,
While the rich infant, nurs'd with care and pain,
Thists with each heat, and coughs with ev'ry rain!

--From Trivia: or, The art of walking the streets of London--

I suppose if all the sick people in a population die off quickly, because no one can survive if the smallest things happens to them, a passerby might wonder at how healthy all the survivors seem. They might see the sickness-free society as "healthy", but in reality some sickness would be a sign of health.

Privacy: 1730

--From Trivia: or, The art of walking the streets of London--

Google blurs out faces and license plates in Street Views, but we never think of having it make names unsearchable, and it seems like it would be a lot easier.

(I wonder what that person's name was.)