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!

with a ‘travel rug’ on the backseat

I was at an all girls school in the UK at exactly those times and we never had to shower at all.

There was very little I did not like about my school, if anything. I didn't realise how lucky I was until I read posts like yours.

My oath! 😧

Some of these aren’t so bad. We tended to go round in twos or groups of four, so we could all keep an eye on each other.

9 year olds looking after a 7 year old, I’m sure DM only did this rarely if we were both off school sick, she couldn’t look after us as she was a teacher, so she’d come back at lunchtime, we could ring the school secretary at her school if there was a problem and a NDN usually knew we were home. Strict instructions to just watch tv, and not mess around and don’t answer the front door. Both my grandmothers worked and my grandad wouldn’t have thought it necessary to g ch come 30 minutes to our house on the bus to mind us. He probably would’ve come if DM insisted.

When I was in primary school we had 3 big tables to sit at. Group 1 was where the children who were preforming the best in tests sat, group 2 were the children who were preforming ok sat and group 3 was where the kids who struggled sat. Sometimes a child would do well in a test and would move up a table and the teacher would make a big deal and people would clap. It was a disgrace looking back at it. Thank goodness that sort of thing doesn’t go on anymore. We were also made to stand in the corner with back facing the wall when acting up in class. I don’t think that did me any harm but I know that practice isn’t allowed anymore either.

Only having 3 channels on a black and white tv with a meter on the back and no video.

I think one day we’ll look back on baby-led weaning and laugh. All of us just watching our babies gag on solid foods for months, even though our parents all mashed up our food and we turned out fine. And I say that as someone who did BLW with both kids!

I think we will look back and wonder why we let men take charge of so much - dd and I were talking about basic code that hasn't been thought through on a human level, safety checks etc. Men do seem to really struggle to think about other people and it puts lives at risk quite a lot of the time.

Today’s:

• violent pornography so easily available
• lip fillers/Botox etc
• economic conditions making it impossible for both parents NOT to work full time
• lack of appreciation for privacy
• shit fake food
• social isolation from living our lives online
• obesity and mental health epidemics

These are all linked of course.

I imagine almost any man couldn’t care less.

Well I CERTAINLY did not link the two.

I think crock of shite did- their comment was also ridiculous and very offensive to read. Way too flippant too.

and I did not read the other person as a denier.

I think we can all agree that it is utterly barbaric past and PRESENT and let’s hope it fucking ends asap .

stain on humanity!!

this was definitely a thing at my school in the 90's

It is actually inserted behind your breast muscle...that´s why the post op is so painful...

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you, the "Soccerettes" chose to be there, it was the "Nuts" age, I'm sure they were hoping for a break & possibly a career? literally all they did was walk up & down with Tim Lovejoy, the middle aged men in team shirts are the ones to be pitied

Yes the social isolation problem is really real. I wonder how many hours first worlders spend online. Will it affect even how we dream? How we invent? I wonder if it will halt human creativity somewhat.

I feel bereft for today's kids missing out on option 2. I wouldn't trade in my childhood for all the world, even though my parents were awful.

Nope, it's quite rare for implants to go under the muscle (at least in the UK) - usually only when a woman has a high breast cancer risk and doesn't want the implant to obscure breast tissue in scans.

Our local (over 18s) nightclub used to run a back2skool themed evening in the late 90s. We were all in fact, still at school so just used to rock up in our uniforms with a few freckles drawn on in eyeliner .(we’d wear different ties though obvs).
It was common knowledge that if you flashed your tits at the bouncer on the way in you’d get free entry. We were 14 😭 . The men were not 14 as you can imagine.

I used to do something similar, go out in the morning with my swimming things in a duffle bag (remember them?) some spending money from my mum, call for my friend, go to the local outdoor pool, have a long swim, mess about at the vending machines, walk back with my friend to her house, then walk back to mine. Out for about 5 hours, no adults, we were about 12 I think. No phones of course and nobody able to check if we had arrived at our various destinations, we were off radar.

Pub lunch and a pint is still a fixture at my school, if you are not on lunch duties and better still have a free after lunch it is a tradition for a few of us to pop next door to the local hostelry for some pub grub and a pint.

Very well said , I am baffled that you very accurately pointing out that in the future we will look back at this horrific moment - of live streamed genocide- in absolute horror and confusion.. has lead to someone accusing you of denying past genocides.

how the fuck did they read that into it?!

let alone looking back at the insanity of covid and the cruelty of separating folks from dying family members.

now we have to contend with desperate people live-streaming the slaughter bestowed upon them.

Utterly horrendous!! Ptp

'Naked Attraction' among the lowest levels of bad taste on a mainstream TV channel. It's still here too!

Page three, as a hetero man I can report that it was for me as titillating and sexually arousing and a cold bath.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · Today 09:27

9 year olds looking after a 7 year old, I’m sure DM only did this rarely if we were both off school sick...

I got knocked down by the Wall's Sausage van, when I was two and a half. We were out in the close and my 5 year old eldest sister was watching us, God knows why our mam thought that was OK.

She belted her all over. I got put on a cushion on my mam's lap and a neighbour drove us to hospital. I have scars on either side of my head, you can still see them through my hair, as I found out when my daughter was playing with it.

I really don't think that will happen. Humans beings are biologically designed to eat meat - we've done so for millennia.

however, I do think meat consumption (at some point) will drastically reduce - to maybe having it a few times a week, instead of every single meal which some people think is their birth right or something (just look at the horror expressed by some guests at being invited to a vegetarian wedding on MN for example) - and we'll look back on how they were mass farmed and be shocked.

I’m old enough to remember my parents having a caravan in the Lakes and taking us as a special treat to Morecambe to see The B&WMS - they would be in their thirties, in the days of Dansette record players and Kathy Kirby.

Whilst I didn’t know it was ‘wrong’ aged 10, it made me uncomfortable especially the dancers who looked really old to me, kicking their legs up high and Mum gasping, their gusset? was narrow as a belt, we were in the front row. Special treat for little kids.