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!

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. She is agog. She thought they were just for people who may have had a breast or both removed for medical reasons.
It’s given me a whole new perspective (and I very nearly had one 19 years ago) and have a number of friends who did too 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hitting children
Groping women
Casual racism all over the place

When I was 15 my boyfriend was 23!!
WTF were we thinking.
I’ve got a 15 year old it doesn’t bear thinking about.

disabled people not having equal access

Botox / fillers

I find it disgusting that in early 2000’s and earlier than that girls in school had to have naked showers after PE lesson . No privacy whatsoever , nice way to knock someone’s confidence down , NOT, forcing a girl to do something she would never willingly do if given a choice ! Sounds like a prison . And most likely a teacher watching the girls have the shower too ! Sounds very pervy in my eyes !

😲
He was fit back in the day.

Internet "sleuths". Watched one too many true crime TV shows, that lot.

smoking at the back of the bus, on certain train carriages and on tubes

Very dangerous. Sounds fun though.

I used to love a good boozy pub lunch.

Still miss them.

Sandwich at your desk is not the same.

The reasons back then were not because of bad parenting (mainly) it was crushing poverty, lack of vaccines, lack of neonatal medicine etc etc

The smoking on planes, in the school staff room. A cloud of smoke would bellow out every time a teacher went in or out.

Smoking on trains in the 'smoking carriage'. We all smoked in the college canteen and at our desks at work when we were in our 20's.

Smoking in restaurants whilst people on the next table were eating their dinner!

I loved being able to smoke in pubs though

We must have all STANK (even the non-smokers)

I had a 23 year old boyfriend at 15 as well. Nobody cared.

I'd forgotten that! And /or put the kettle on.

Marriage and pregnancy at 18,19,20
I don't see why getting married when you're a young adult is so shocking. There are tonnes of benefits to having children younger.

I used to watch the Black and White Minstrels show with my Grandad who was babysitting. I loved singing along. I was much too young to be aware of how wrong it was. I don’t think I was even aware they were parodying black people. It just was what it was. My kids can’t believe some of the things we watched in the 60s/70s

Smoking everywhere - even on planes. No seat belts in cars. I remember a neighbours small child died on Xmas Eve in a car accident. Where I lived as a child it was rare to have a car at all - streets were mainly empty and we rode our bikes and kicked balls with impunity. And wandering off for miles as long as we were home by dusk/for meals.

It really was 😂 falling asleep to the dulcet tones of Paul Weller and the yellow street lights flashing past and waking up on holiday 😁

I sometimes still have a boozy lunch on a Friday when I’m in the office! Obviously not to the point where we are incapable of working 😂 but on a sunny day we go to the pub next door, get a load of chips and have a couple of pints, basking in the warmth.
Fridays are the only day I go into the office and they’re usually the best in terms of no meetings or deadlines!

How far back are you going because I started working with children in 1985 and I was definitely checked.

ooops sorry, misread the OP - you mean what's happening NOW that we'll look back on and not believe it was allowed?

erm, genocide?

Cliche but true, I remember going out of the house in the morning and returning as and when. Playing on buidling sites. Being in charge of a 7 year old when I was 9, going on a bus to a large swimming pool. Going to some kids house afterwards.

Looking back:
Smoking on planes!
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Looking forward - perspective from 2050
I really hope that people will be appalled that we:
Allowed private planes
Allowed factory farming
Allowed teens unlimited access to the Internet

Not the norm as such but I always struggle with the test case for rape within a marriage being as recent as 1991 and not specifically spelled out as illegal until 2003.