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; unbelievable to think that it was allowed and treated as normal

Also, I too had a great time being undepervised and out on bikes all day with all the kids on the street.
I was also raped by a teenager when I was 8 and I guess this wouldn't have happened now.

But I don't take back the freedom I guess

But in both those examples, the joke is firmly on the lead character, it's taking the mick out of their prejudices and showing them to be the fool.

In rising damp, Leonard Rossiters (comedy genius) Rigsby is a fool, and a failure, whereas Don Warrington's Philip is intellectual, smooth and puts Rigsby down at ever turn, always getting the upper hand.

Can we dump all the ghastly 'reality' programmes from various hot-spots around the country in that bin too, although the purveyors of fake bits and tanning stuff would be out of business pretty sharpish.

Boozy pub lunches were the best!
Classic Corrie shows the factory machinists downing pints at lunchtime, then going back on the sewing machines ……

I know this isn't addressed to me, but, no, I don't dispute for one moment that many girls were forced to take communal showers at school. I've read and been appalled by the threads detailing this. It's made me thankful that it never happened at my (private , girls) school in the '80s. We didn't need to refuse, as it was never even suggested to us by anyone that we should shower at school.

Hitch hiking ! has anyone said this? we did it all the time in pairs,
thought nothing of it, accepting lifts from strangers.
Smoking everywhere

Boys doing metalwork or woodwork,chemistry,physics
girls doing Domestic Science or dreaded Needlework
school ‘careers officers’ offering limited choices
how would we know, we were 14/15, how about further education?
limited expectations from school AND parents

all night parties

Spinster
illegitimate
bastard

the Beatles!
and
The Rolling Stones!

tempered with
Dusty Springfield
Andy Williams Show
Morecambe and Wise

in amongst a sea of dross

I remember this. I think about it sometimes and how horrific it was. I used to spend waste so much money on those magazines.

I DID NOT SAY THAT
WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THAT FROM
?!!!

stop schooling the wrong person
btw I am a Jewish and pacifist and totally against the barbarism and I am fully aware that religion and that country are not the same thing.. so what the hell are you talking about !

have you confused me ?

This made me laugh. My 5 year old is like this. Oh I want to watch Bluey...ermmm LittleKatie it isn´t on until six...she doesn´t believe it. She says you put it on, search for what you want to see and hit play...That´s Netflix, love.
She heard yesterday that there were no mobiles when I grew up in the 80s and that there were no pizzas when her granny was a kid. She was utterly shocked!😂

I hope in the future people find it hard to believe that dog shit on the street was commonplace, it seems like something out of the middle ages to me that there is poo lying around, but I also don't know how this will change.

In the 70s, I used to walk to my local swimming baths, have a swim, and walk home again for tea, all on my own. I was seven, eight, nine (I turned ten in 1980)... It was a different world.

Completely. The numbers of children in nappies older than this is ridiculous. Who wants to keep changing nappies for years on end!? All of mine were out of them by two. Girls at 18-20 months, boys at 20-24 months. Sorted…

The Special K diet in the 2000s where people were urged to eat 2 bowls of cereal a day only and lose weight.

Page 3/ Nuts and similar. I remember Page 3 used to run some kind of competition where young girls in their bedrooms would send in topless photos taken on their phone cameras in a bid to get famous. Grim.

TV shows like Fat Families with the presenter insulting and mocking people for being overweight (saw a clip on YouTube and forgot how bad it was).

Dinner ladies forcing kids to eat things they didn’t want to. I remember being about 6 and choking on a hard roast potato that I was forced to eat. I spat it out because I couldn’t breathe. The dinner lady said ‘you’re disgusting’ in a really angry voice in front of the whole table.

Also agree about what others said about young teen girls having much older boyfriends.

I wonder if Georgyporky had girls. At 2 years old some boys just don’t get it at all.

My 2 could talk and understand well at 2 years old. It’s just that when they got the feeling of needing a wee it was usually on its way out and no time to make it to the toilet.

We used pull ups which meant they could change themselves and they understood they were for big boys.

Er, isn't this entire thread about commenting on things which don't necessarily affect us? I love how defensive some get about the current perceived wisdom that potty training can only happen when the child is 'ready', ie can write a note asking permission!

Yep, let's have a righteous rant about something unrelated to nappy wearing. 😀
Op chose to mention nappy wearing, it doesn't mean that anything else is being 'ignored'.

For a bit of balance
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17896980

you're right, but young girls are not the demographic, I like the option,I love Botox, it's not THAT big a deal, you just look fresh.. Lips you need to be careful

Children as young as five or six walking themselves to school.
Ditto allowing said children to play out in the street with all the other local children and no adult supervision whatsoever.
It being the norm to smoke in the house/around children/whilst cooking.
These things werre completely normal in the1980's.

Well I suppose things like smoking in public places directly affect everyone . If someone chooses to potty train at 3 instead of 2 it has no impact on my life whatsoever. I don’t think I will be thinking of it in ten years time at all. Does it matter so much to you ? If so please explain why.

I really bloody hope that in 20/30 years time, we will be shocked at:
*How governments (this current one in particular) are allowed to behave. Siphon off public funds, get government funded contracts for family and friends etc, etc. I hope this is something which is looked into properly.
*I really hope in 30 years time the press is only allowed to print factual stuff. I hope we're so horrified at what shit they're allowed to spout these days that everything is fact checked.
*Following on from previous...I hope we are horrified about the power we have given to the press all this time (Murdoch etc).
*Also, I hope we're horrified about the amount of power billionaires have/want to have. Can never be a good thing.

I don't hold out much hope about it.

I suppose it depends what is meant by after age 2. I initially thought two was very young but if it actually means by age three then that would not have been controversial until very recently.

I completely agree with this. I don’t think it will happen though.

when we were young (so long ago) there were nowhere near the number of dogs or vehicles about, dogs on leads were trained to go in the gutter - if they looked as though they might stop on the pavement they were lifted or dragged to the gutter.
We lived in Chelsea when my children were young, it was a minefield, disgusting, one regular pile you would think was from a woolly mammoth, in M£ houses, shit outside their doors