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!

Men innocently sharing a bed and no one thinking anything of it....aka morecambe and wise

I'll also add Chris Evans and Billie Piper in there too.

Ugh I really hope so. I loathe that stuff.

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Smoking in restaurants

And Tim L would read out her 'vital statistics' to the slobbering blokes. (All the girls were 36 /24 /36 obviously)

Bleurgh.

I hope Tim and Helen can look back at that and feel a bit ashamed for being part of such sexist shite.

Just watching whatever comes on TV, rather than thinking what you want to watch, then putting it on. My 4yo can't get his head around this, whenever we stay at my parents. I have to keep reminding him "the tele chooses what programmes come on", but he looks at me very suspiciously each time - I think he thinks there's more to it than that. Nope! It's In The Night Garden or nothing.

AND do you remember the "You're thick, you're thick, you're thick you are! You're thiiiiiick! You're thiiiiiick!!" song on SMTV Live when the child contestant lost a round of "Challenge Ant"??! 😂

Or plastic Xmas trees that end up in landfill?

Same.. 15 and 23 😱

I think how some people have just gone a bit 'meh, so what if we are giving thousands of kids chronic illness, let's continue to pretend that's ok rather than do anything about it'.

The (male) boss had his office with his secretary (female) sitting outside. He would press a buzzer and she would get up from her desk with a short hand pad and go into his office to take dictation. Then she would come back outside to transcribe her shorthand into a letter using her typewriter and touch typing.

That if you got accidentally pregnant as a teenager and decided to keep the baby, you would have to leave school.

No seatbelts. I remember as a child being in the back of cars / taxis and crouching down on the floor as there were too many of us. Also as a teen (15 years ago) I would just not wear my seatbelt, a lot of people didn’t and thought nothing of it.

I can’t imagine not wearing it now, wouldn’t go anywhere without it.

How GPs prescribed diet pills that were speed.

If I remember rightly, whoever she was, they couldn't show her nipples on Page 3 until she was 16, hence the countdown 🤮

I thought that too! [But definitely agree with @Georgyporky ]

''Pull ups'' are making it too easy to wear nappies {by another name}

Toddlers used to be out of nappies far earlier- possibly as they weren't so 'comfortable' to wear when soiled, compared to modern nappies.

And the topless photoshoot would have taken place a few days earlier, when the model was still only 15 😔

That was Samantha Fox. I remember Ben Elton writing in disgust about it.

Vaping - I think will be unfathomable in the future. Untested synthetic stuff straight onto your lungs, no one is going to understand that.

Electric cars - controversial but I suspect years down the line the evils in 100 years to decompose batteries will be hard to believe.

I remember my grandfather back in 1969 refusing to let me watch this because he said it was vulgar and disrespectful. So not all people of thar era were massive racists.

Did it make you smoke though, or were we just more trusting?

Agreed...it was barbaric and brutal.

The terrible panic buying, and the self employed who got no support financially.

those who needed to 'shield' should have...the rest of us should have been allowed out.

I got up at 5am to go for a walk, and couldn't see my adult son - the fucking wankers who made the rules caused so much unhappiness and misery while flouting the rules themselves.

FIL died in Lockdown- Not covid, but a disease that should have had a lot more hospital attention- which he was kept waiting for.

I still occasionally have to stop myself calling it a ‘continental quilt’! Some people had duvets in the 80s but in our house it was a modern thing which we only switched to after visiting relatives in Holland. Stripey (or nylon!) sheets and a candlewick bedspread before that!

Bedrooms were so COLD 🥶 when I was a child- there used to be a small electric fire high uo on the wall that was put on only if one was ill- otherwise it would be blankets, frost flowers on the inside of the windows and hot water bottles that were so cozy when hot, but were cold and solid feeling by morning.
Breath pluming in the morning air- Breakfast downstairs was at least warm.
Paraffin heaters in the hall that went ''glug'' and had that classic smell.