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 love people’s optimism that somehow society will keep advancing and look back on earlier times and be appalled.

we could say that people will look back at women’s rights, or overt displays of racial harmony and be appalled.

We should never be complacent. Television, writing, art in general, it reflects society. A future society may judge us for being liberal, just as we sit here judging earlier times for their prejudices.

We had the exact same !
Lying in the boot in sleeping bags and covers. With zero safety catch on inside of the boot door etc . Just told to go to sleep for the journey ( also Devon / Cornwall !)

I think it will be vaping, and a generation will be paying the price in years to come.
And fillers.

1987 sorry.

That parents spent money to send their children to the Boarding schools of the 70s and 80s to be abused. 😱

TWAW
GENOCIDE IN GAZA
SMART PHONES FOR KIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
COVID RULES

all to be regretted bitterly in the near future. With the repercussions being felt deeply.

I expect you were thinking that a 23 year old man is hotter than a spotty 15 year old boy. 😀You are right though, I have a 23 year old DS and a 15 year old DD2, and the age gap between then seems immense. Luckily neither of them seems inclined to date much older/younger.

VAPES

sexism,
no women's footballers or boxers

Oh, NOW? sorry I misread.

I hope things like temu, shein etc

Having access to unlimited unhealthy food at the tap of an app

Daily mail

I live in hope

Others have said it & I have to agree that the biggest wtf of our lifetime will be the madness we all went along with during covid
You can go for a walk but don't stop for a rest on a bench or someone's Nan will die!.
You can go shopping, but only if you walk around in the direction of the arrows or someone WILL die. Bonkers!

We used to smoke in class when we did our A Levels!

pan's people, legs and co, the leery camera men on TOTP

I got the belt six on each hand, right hand so bruised I couldn't hold a pen.

This is still very much a thing isn't it??

All bundling into the back of a work van to go somewhere - usually a festival or a gig. Sitting on the spare tyre and amongst loads of crap

It's always seemed weird to me. Having something inserted into your body...under the skin....just no.

Smoking in enclosed spaces
Multiple racist shows on tv
No seat belts while driving
Page 3 girls
Teachers being allowed to hit pupils

In the future I think we’ll look at many of today’s young women, with lip filler, Botox, fake tan, false eyelashes, fake eyebrows, fake hair, etc. and wonder what the hell is going on that so many of these beautiful women all try to look like the same drag queen?

In cafés safe sitting down,mask on standing up ...what a load of bollocks.

The 1950s were shortly after WW2, when everybody had more immediate and pressing issues to address. Thank God they did so and be grateful you are here and can live in freedom and peace.

Haha too right they were way hotter, but all parents knew and everyone was fine with it, and I’m only in my 30’s so not “that” long ago. I would not be ok with this for my DC.

You’re right there.
maybe the question should have been what was he thinking?
or what were my parents thinking to let it go on?

To be honest, I feel like I went through the seventies and eighties just accepting that at regular intervals something embarrassing or vaguely humiliating would happen. PE showers definitely fit the bill.

I had a colleague who had three children by the time he and DW were early 30s. The idea was by the time they were mid 50s DC would be grown and off their hands. Seemed like a good idea to me and still does.