The chauvinism, the bigotry, the day drinking, the chain smoking...
I can almost agree, but I don't know about day drinking, I'm not sure it was that bad. I never drink during the day, as one glass of wine in the evening is all I can handle, but still... must've been fun!
Like you, I'm only now watching 'Peaky Blinders' and in every single scene there's someone drinking whiskey, at all times... and they seem to be doing just fine... just like the 'Mad Men' crowd...
Haha, yeah sometimes day-drinking is okay. I remember how some of the older execs at the insurance company I used to work for reminisce about the "martini lunches" in the 60's and 70's. That kind of freedom would have been fun, within reason. I'm sure there were plenty of people who couldn't show restraint and ruined it for everyone. I'm not familiar with Peaky Blinders. I'll have to look that up.