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!

Jesus wept. 😮

Well that's one way to give a child a complex I suppose.

Injecting young women’s faces with poison. If you’re over the age of 60 & feel like you absolutely can’t accept growing older and your natural face as it is then by all
means stick serum in it to see if that makes you happier. But it should not be the norm for young girls and young women. This dreadful craze for lip fillers as well on young women - it just looks awful and it’s so so unnecessary

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 totally with you on that one.

Me too. There was an innocence and freedom back then that has completely gone now.

You're going to get dozens of outraged women insisting you can't tell when people have had lip filler.

What on earth has nappies got to do with infant mortality rates??

I had a Cabbage Patch & a My Little Pony Duvets in the 80's

I don’t think it was a shocking accusation at all.

The other poster wrote like genocide is a new thing and got very snippy when someone said the Holocaust was a genocide

What exactly did you mean when you said “<The Holovaust> also does NOT justify what’s happening now. FFS”? Who has said it is?? And why are you even linking the 2 together? Have a think about wether you’d link the Israeli government with the SA genocide for example

@crockofshite didn’t link the 2. But the other poster did write as if genocide is a new concept conveniently ignoring the worst and most incomparable genocide the world has ever seen. It find it interesting, that’s all

I was at a Kent grammar school early-mid 80s. We had one long row of showers for after PE and we had to walk (or more usually run!) through them in small groups naked - the PE teacher would stand at the exit and throw a ludicriously small towel at us as we emerged.

I didn't particularly enjoy sport when i started at the school, i bloody well hated it there.

Of course these school stories are true, they're not fascinating enough to make up. Why on earth would you think such a thing? Schools were pretty grim places for many, compulsory naked showers is the least of it.

@Runsyd

You're going to get dozens of outraged women insisting you can't tell when people have had lip filler.

People with badly done lip-filler (on the cheap, usually younger women who really don’t need it anyway) always look like plastic ducks to me. It’s so so obvious and they would look much prettier without it! Coupled with the stage-length eyelash extensions - it’s just awful

Teachers running off with 6th formers, teachers coming out with year 11-year 13 kids and snogging them. Teacher putting arm around you in the classroom and then squeezing your breast thinking no one else will see.

PE teacher asking me to sit on his knee in Year 8 and then slapping my arse as I walked in.

we did the car boot thing loads!

It Was when I was at school 77-82. All girls’ school but even so.

we would wrap in a towel run through the shower wetting our hair and shoulders before the PE teacher saw us. I remember Miss W the younger evil cow insisted on naked showers, all communal, but Mrs F the greying middle aged mum turned a blind eye, bless her.

The 'can't believe' over botox / fillers for me isn't 'can't believe we wanted to look that way', it is 'can't believe we didn't think there would be long term consequences of injecting unknown products into our faces'

Quite.

I should think kids were probably worse behaved really, some of the kids at my schools were fucking feral and brutal if they didn't like you. Definitely more physical bullying and less tolerance on the whole I think.

Maybe people's standards and expectations are higher now?

what is safer!

1. 13 year olds seeing unfiltered porn online everyday either via their own phones or friends at school;
2. 1970s80s and 90s kids playing outside all day. We made dens in the woods, played in the parks for hours, had picnics. Not once did I see any flashers, strange men etc. but I look back at the freedom.

I did not get 'pissy' . I do not think genocide is a 'new thing'. What a ludicrous thing to say. Europeans have been committing acts of genocide for hundreds of years. We basically wiped out the indigenous people of North America.

We (in the west) are in an age of hypocricy and denial. We hold up the holocaust as an example and say 'never again'. Yet the west knows full well it is happening year in, year out since the 1950's:
Guatamala, Zanzibar, Bangladesh, Burundi, Uganda, Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Sudan . . . the list goes on.
. . . . and now a new, televised version, the Palestinians in Gaza.

I know you're right BUT as a MotoGP fan I'd have no problem with it, especially 10-15 years ago 😍

Most of the above are completely unacceptable now, thank god, the OP asks what is “acceptable” now that won’t be in 10+ years.

my biggest hope is the gender ideology and the infringement on children’s and women’s rights has been proved to be the biggest medical scandal and biggest abuse of women’s rights in all history and heads have rolled.

that when people ask what a women is, every single person including those currently indoctrinated will be able to answer and everyone will accept that there’s no such thing as trans, gender is regressive and a woman is an adult human female. No ambiguity, zero tolerance.

I’m fucked off with it all.

I remember our shows - just a row of shower heads - the girls point blank refused to shower in front of other girls... and then they put in dividers, but no doors and they still refused, because of other students walking past and anyway in them because other girls would do shit like chuck your clothes in the showers etc.
So there were lots of deodorant and probably a disgusting stink LOL

I'm hoping now they have enclosed and lockable showers??

Men hanging calendars of topless women in their offices. To be fair, I saw it in a portacabin office for builders, but even so.

This made me laugh as my workplace has just done the same!! Plus you can see directly into the showers when someone opens the door from the corridor. Such a great design. No thanks.

Umm why would you care so much about something that is none of your business and doesn’t affect you

When I was a nurse in the 70s hospital patients were allowed to smoke in their beds. A nurse I knew would jump at the chance to attend to a patient who was a smoker so she could have a fly puff herself while the curtains were round the bed ! 😳

Yes and page 3 of the sun. I remember being 16 working in a shop and grown men opening up the newspaper and asking me “what do you think of her?” So disgusting.