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 agree mostly with you, I'm not a True Crime fan BUT without internet sleuths we wouldn't have had The Tiger King 😆

I read something similarly creepy and disgusting in a posh magazine like tatler or something when the woman journalist was clearly delighted that brooklyn beckham was now 16 and if legal age. I kid you not. I remember thinking if that was my son she was writing about I'd never let him near social media again.

Utterly shocking!!!

A job I had a few years ago entailed reviewing old police files from the 60s and 70s. A few things staggered me - the way child sexual abuse was blithely referred to as 'incest' and one rape file where the IO described the victim as a 'nymphomaniac'. I was also struck as PPs have mentioned by the number of married teenagers - a lot of sad child neglect cases. Made me realise how many shotgun marriages were still occurring in the UK & Ireland in those days. Nothing romantic about the age of marriage being set at 16 - it was to enable families to get the boyfriends of girls 'in trouble' up the aisle. Also tonnes of prosecutions for unlawful carnal knowledge in cases where the girl was under 16.

Boob jobs
hopefully in years to come it will viewed in the same way as Chinese foot binding.
my 12 year old daughter has suddenly understood what a boob job is. And she is utterly dumb founded that someone would cut their breast open and stuff it with plastic just to make men fancy them or look good.

They were never just done as standard though were they-always a choice.

Many of us have always been dumbfounded at surgery for cosmetic reasons.

I absolutely agree.

I hope it'll be seen like sending Vctorian kids up chimneys is seen now.

I actually can't believe this! We mostly don't have swimming as P.E. over here & I hated P.E. anyway so always had a note but this is on another level

I work in early years, it makes zero difference to me if a child under 2 is potty trained or not. I'm either changing a nappy or I'm changing a whole outfit because of an accident.

I don't really understand why other people care so much about when parents potty train their own children. As long as it before they start school it makes no difference to random strangers.

It wouldn't even cross my kind to think about or care when other people's kids are potty trained, I actually find it a bit weird that people who don't work with children give it headspace.

I remember Michael Parkinson interviewing her at only about that age, and asking, not in quite so many words, about her sex life. Not that I’d ever thought him wonderful, but I went right off him then, it was repellent behaviour.

The original Pop Idol. Nigel Lithgoe was vile, and the things he said to the female contestants was shocking

You are comparing pears with brick walls here. Nappy wearing kids that are starting school at five is nothing to do with infant mortality.

Yeah, the good stuff. Standing in a record shop in a little booth listening to the latest record.

I don't get this, as went to school in the early 90's and we weren't made to show and those who did never did naked.

Agreed.
I did it once, a few years ago my 3 yo had an accident that needed A&E. I stuffed my bare feet into trainers then had them on all day in the hot hospital. They were stinking after it.
I can't imagine how stinky they'd be if people did its constantly.

Maybe that's why people bought oder eaters.

I didn’t see it either - just heard the rant and he probably didn’t even repeat her name so I can’t actually say who it was: just a 15-year old with her hands over her nipples.

The TV show Little Britain!

Eurotrash on TV it was porn, literally porn

Agreed I also think even now there is competitive parenting.
Oh mine slept through at 5 weeks (only got up for a quick feed and went back down)

I watched him interview Diana Rigg recently. He was practically feeling himself. She was 40 & he asked her what she was going to do now she was old. Sitting there looking like an old lizard himself. Yuck.

Things in my living memory:

• Page 3
• No seatbelts
• No (or minimal) drink driving restrictions
• People thinking you couldn't even touch people with AIDS/HIV
• Smoking everywhere - I remember coming in from clubbing stinking of smoke, so glad when that ended
• Newspapers celebrating celebs dating underage girls (specifically Mandy Smith and Bill Wyman)

Assuming humans are still on the planet, I think it will take more than 30 years, but I would not be surprised if one day we are shocked that we killed animals and dismembered and cooked their bodies, especially at a scale of billions per year. Many already find animal circuses, seaworld, the grand national, veal, foie gras, tail docking etc unpalatable which were seen as fine years ago.

Please don't be so ridiculous of course not.

same,along with Jerry Springer & Maury

I don't believe the stories about swimming naked anywhere.
Or half the stories about girls in showers, certainly not in the 80s and 90s.

When I was younger, you could just walk into a pet shop and buy a puppy or kitten. Poor things were in cages.