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!

Same!! 1990. Addenbrookes

Personally I see a lot of these things just getting more acceptable and normal sadly.

Botox
Fillers
Astroturf
Whole lives on screen

Oh, . so the massacre of 6m Jews and other undesirables was okay then?

• oh and my late great MIL , a senior nurse, remembered giving 'depressed' women gin and pregnant women Guinness... for the iron
• also a hospital near where I live, being the London hospital for 'delinquent' children. Sends a shiver down my spine. There's an area of unmarked graves. Those were young pregnant women whose families sent them away and children who were ND. Thank fuck it closed. It's now a posh housing development. No way would I live there.

Think newspapers would be a thing of the past as only the older people read them. Plus getting more expensive. Local rag is £1.80 every day (no paper on Sunday) and sometimes the headlines was on the website 2 days before.

Plus they are out of date before ink dries. A classic example is Diana, Princess of Wales’ death.

@Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon I de woodworking in the 70s! And the boys did sewing. Basically six weeks each of sewing, cooking, woodworking, etc we all did it.
@TheSnowyOwl what has potty training got to do with infant mortality?

I can't quite believe that one person earning a middling salary was enough to buy a nice house in a decent area.

I also can't believe how smoking was sold as a good way to diet and promoted by doctors to 'soothe the throat' and as healthy for pregnant women!

Putting plastic in microwaves

That tobacco companies were allowed to lobby, have a seat at the table In government spheres, lie and co-opt medics to hide the known harm their products do, in pursuit of profit. For years.

In the future it will be the oil companies we feel the same about who have used the tobacco company play book to do exactly the same but with even worse consequences for us all regardless of individual choice.

Similar with the ‘food’ industry.

I remember myself and a few other girls wanting to do football instead of boring hockey. Headteacher was walking past whilst my class were playing football.

PE teacher got a right telling off for letting us play a boys game!

Trying to reason with a tantrum-throwing 2 year old. One day someone will realise that telling them you 'understand their frustration' and to 'try and use your words' while they, like adults in a rage, are incapable of hearing much, let alone interpreting and acting upon the 'advice'

Wow. That’s dreadful. Good old privatisation working well then. Increasing standards and saving us money?

Not for the children though. My teen parent mother (17 when I was born) was nothing like.emotionally capable of nurturing. Add in that she didn't want children but was raised (conditioned by religion) that it was 'just part of life' so felt compelled to get on with it.

In the 70s basically the message was very much no control over wanting kids and who cares children are being raised by unstable.pwople who never wanted them. Is it any wonder smacking and beating was the norm.

I agree with vaping. It seems insane to me now, yet alone in the future.

EVs I think there has been loads of progress in that already. But even without that progress, over the lifespan, lower carbon footprint than ICE. But not perfect, for sure.

I do think some of you are confusing victorian times with the 1970s and 80s. My son was born in Canada in 1974 - he was driven around in the car in a rear facing child seat, I always used a seat belt when I returned to the UK as he did while sitting on a booster seat!

I can see that the law did not make these things compulsory in the UK until much later but the front seat belts/car seats were available from an early date.
When I was a child in the 1950s - we did pile into the back of cars but journeys were shorter, traffic was less and no seat belts were available!

I do think a lot of 'things that were allowed which you are so horrified about' were not so much that they had not been made mandatory but they were available and people just decided not to use a better way because of ignorance or lack of education.

Laws would not be needed if people used their 'common sense' (e.g. allowing children to have access to smartphones and the internet is just the current version of parental neglect)

When I was a student, we hired one for three months at a fiver a week and used to keep it in the spare room in our shared house for us all to use

That makes me one of the intelligent amongst us. Thanks

it was definitely in the Uk. I know a couple of women now around 50 this happened to as teens. Absolutely awful and in some cases traumatising

The acceptance of groping of women even of children in the 80/90’s.

Lot of women (and probably men!) I know who were 11-18 at that time were groped by teachers, driving school teachers, uncles and really it was acceptable. An older male family friend felt my breasts when I was 12 at a family party and I was told ‘oh he does that to everyone’!

Sun beds and no sun screen. My dad brought a sun bed for the house and I remember laying under it - I can still smell the warm bulbs.
rarely had sunscreen applied - we used to get blisters on our shoulders from days spent in water parks in Florida with no sunscreen. We are pale and freaky too. I once had a huge growth removed from my foot as a child and my parents still didn’t use sunscreen after that!

being called “jail bait” was a compliment shudders

In the 80s this was a thing in my school with the very cold and harsh gym teacher looking on. She was a tyrant. Miss G if you are reading, you owe us all an apology!! You put me off exercise and sport forever!

Yes! We did this!

I'm 37 and was made to shower naked in secondary school along with the rest of my year. Two teachers, one at each end of the block of showers, one whipped your towel off and threw it to the other and you had to go through and make sure you got everything wet or they'd make you run through again.

Horrific, cruel and completely unnecessary as nobody ever got actually properly clean, it was an exercise in humiliation.

Rape within marriage was not a crime until 1992.