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!

No, we had the same! Almost all the duvets in the house would be piled on us in the back seat, then my father would drive through the darkness to our destination. It’s such a comforting memory.

The only time I came across non-duvet beds (blankets, quilts and sheets) in the 80s were at my grandmother’s house, and they seemed very old fashioned even then.

Really? This would've been late eighties and we were not well off, far from it. I remember my gran bought me a duvet cover with rainbow on it and I loved it

If you are looking to the future - I’d say fake nails, fake eyelashes, fake boobs.

Social media - will become all adverts and people will socialize again.

The smokers carriage at the end of the train, which you had to fight your way through, coughing and spluttering, if you jumped on in a hurry, to get to a "clean air" carriage with "No Smoking" stickers on the windows.

Stopped overnight following the Kings Cross fire, after which all carriages became non smoking throughout.

Legal marital rape
The whole of society turning a blind eye to 'domestics' DV
Section 28
Widespread racism, sexism, homophobia etc in comedy and tv and life in general
Being expected to tolerate and laugh along with sexual harassment in the workplace
Smoking everywhere
Driving whilst drunk
Driving without seatbelts
Religious bigotry in everyday life (west of Scotland)

Vaping, Botox and fillers, junk ultra processed food.

Can I recommend that you read Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation?

The fact that I, as a child (and my siblings / all of my friends back in the 80s / early 90s) was allowed to play out, unsupervised, and my parents had no clue where I was / who I was with

Still completely normal today where I live in Scotland and I let my kids play out

Maybe in 20/30 years time people will look back in horror at the idea that some of us thought shoving lip filler and botox and god knows what into our faces actually made us look nice? Or was even harmless.

We swapped from blankets in 80s my mum called them continental quilts not duvets. My grandparents still had sheet/blankets and a candlewick bedspread.

Insects squished on the windscreen after every drive at night in the summer. Not being able to leave the bedroom window open at night with a light on without the room filling with insects.
Every street light at night surrounded by a small cloud of Insects.

Actually I don't think this really fits the OP's original post... but it's something I can't quite believe was the norm given you just don't see them now like this.

I was in high school early 00s and this didn't happen at my school. I've never heard of anyone having to do this. I suspect there was a pervy teacher. It probably needs reporting as they may still be teaching.

My sister and I had 'continental quilts' in the 70s. They were horrible nylon things that you didn't put a cover on, we just put them on top of s sheet. We then graduated to 'proper' duvets in the 80s. My lovely mum made me a duvet cover out of patterned sheets, cos I liked that particular pattern so much!

Failure to make sure that school leavers had proper life skills. I know so many adults with no idea how to budget, cook, maintain their living space or do a simple repair to clothing ie sew on a button

Totally agree.

Smoking indoors anywhere
Jimmy Savile "joking" on tv about his vile antics 🤢

We had duvets in the 80’s, my grandparents had the proper starchy sheets with a sort of warmer, slightly scratchy blanket on top, all very tucked in, usually in brown. Gosh I can smell their house thinking of that 😢

A lot of people on this thread have forgotten that we didn’t know how COVID was transmitted at first. Information was changing what was recommended every day.

I think this will be true.

I had a mini breakdown the other day about my finances. I have hidden my SM and this week I felt so much better. I read a whole book this weekend I haven't done that since a hiking holiday when there was no signal.

So much of it is advertising with that shame twist ... you should have this, this is my life ..... even friends' posts are about showing off, even mine (travelling pics).

In these times…definitely some of the covid rules, phones for under 16’s..18 actually, big lips and messed up faces.
I would hope internet porn and the vile things that can be seen, how they’d ever get rid of it though, I don’t know

I was telling our office junior (female, 22 years old) the other day how when I worked in offices in the late 90s probably up to at least 2008, men who needed to get past a woman would put their hands on the woman’s hips from behind as they squeezed past. She was horrified. I used to find it annoyingly pervy but it was completely accepted behaviour everywhere I worked and nobody ever thought to complain about it. When I went back to office work after a 10 year break (so around 2018) I was surprised to discover that stuff like that had stopped and that there was generally a lot less flirting and sexist banter. It was so refreshing.

Ugh, I remember men doing that. And if you dared say anything about it they'd start insulting you and telling you were making a big thing out of nothing "I was only trying to get past, what's the matter with you?"

I actually treasure the freedom I had as a child in the 70s, all before I turned 10 (in September '80) . Walking the mile to and from school, dawdling on the way home, once exploring some undergrowth, and encountering a homeless man asleep, who I was convinced must be Doctor Who. Climbing trees in the park, and playing pitch and putt. Spending ages in the local library reading Asterix The Gaul books. All of course without a mobile phone to tell my mother where I was, just the understanding that I be home for tea. Parents then must have been very chilled.

Late 90s/early 2000s secondary school I was occasionally subjected to the showers after PE by the teacher. We hated it. I remember us all standing in a line clutching our towels about us, and it was a long line of showers with curtain in between. The teacher would shout for us to throw our towels over the top to check we had taken them off, then we had to stand there for about 10 seconds before we could put the towels back around us.

Might have already been posted but, Soccer AM when they had the “Soccerette” of a young woman/girl wearing a football top and hot pants parading around infront of a group of Middle Aged men. When they said they’re ages, if they were 18/19 all the men used to cheer and shout “Great Age!”

Vile.