Things that you can’t quite believe were the norm

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What’s one of those things you think in 10/20/30 years people will go “WTF why was that acceptable?”

For me - the Jeremy Kyle show. I’m so pleased it’s off air - awful poverty porn hosted by a nasty little bully and enabled by god-complex shit stirring producers. Also who wants to watch so much shouting and arguing at 9.25am!

I loved the show at first, he just got more and more vile as the years went by. Thought he was untouchable I think

"Also who wants to watch so much shouting and arguing at 9.25am!"

Who watches TV at that time anyway ? Or switch off.

Page 3 😳

Smoking in restaurants, public transport and cinemas.

Boozy pub lunches at work.

Wearing nappies after age 2 ?
Sometimes the old ways are the best.

Yes, especially as they used 16 year olds 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Me! It’s the staple remedy to a sick day to watch daytime TV

Young teens having boyfriends old enough to drive, when I was 14/15 my bf was 19 🤢

Tbh most of the berserk rules of Covid years.

Is it just me or did the Daily Star now have a countdown to 16?

I remember being allowed to smoke at your desk at work

Smoking in offices - somehow worse than on public transport.

Acceptable racism in sitcoms - Alf Garnett, Rising damp.

Student grants and no uni fees.

The acceptance of inappropriate behaviour from male teachers and boys.

Having to rush to the loo during an ad break... having to make sure you were on time to watch whatever it was you wanted to watch or miss it! Or risk taping over the family holiday video 😬

Not having criminal records checks for childcare workers.

Yep this.
Bet most men would love it back too 🤢

My parents had an estate car in the eighties, we used to get up in the early hours they'd line the boot with duvets etc and dB and I would sleep on the drive down to a friend's caravan in Cornwall. No belts, no car seats, just laid out in the boot in a makeshift bed, while they drive and smoked

Yes 16 year old page 3 models, use of the term child prostitutes.

Hope you’ve got your hard hat on!!

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If we’re thinking of the future and things that we won’t believe were acceptable that we do now, I hope giving children unsupervised access to the internet i.e. smartphones before the age of 16.

It was for Sam Fox and I'm sure it was The Sun.

I can't believe they belted kids in school they were still belting when I was in high school.

Buying dad's tobacco aged 9.
No seatbelts in the backseats of cars.
10 kids squashed into one car with the back seats down.

The old ways really were the best, weren’t they. Let’s ignore that infant mortality was 32 in 1000 in the 1950s compared to 4 in 1000 in 2021. After all, who cares that the old ways meant many infants died unnecessarily. Let’s just get them out of their nappies asap! We will focus on that!

Yes I used to buy my mum and grans cigarettes, sent to the shop with a note and a fiver!

1970’s. Domestic violence and hitting kids to punish them.
Everyone knew about it, no one did anything or raised an eyebrow.

No sun cream.
No car seat belts.
Smoking in a hospital bed. Fag burns in blankets.

Marriage and pregnancy at 18,19,20. Totally the norm for young women.

Wood work or metal work for the boys, cookery and craft for the girls.

parents in the pub while children sleeping in the back of the car
or not sleeping, just eating crisps

drink driving
no seat belts.