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!

There’s a difference between being taught not to give your address out or naked photos, and understanding that everything you see on social media is curated and edited at best, or a flat-out lie most of the time. Adults can’t seem to grasp that influencers aren’t your friend, don’t really believe in the products they’re paid to promote, and don’t live the lives they appear to, so how can children not have their growing minds shaped by it.

I think in the future we’ll be staggered anyone under at least 16 was allowed access to those spaces that are solely designed to make you unhappy and buy more stuff.

but the op mentions jeremy kyle, which is already out of date

My understanding of the OP asking about Things that you can’t quite believe were the norm is referring to things in the past that would shock people if suggested now.

yes same here

such as Roy Castle who was an entertainer, died of lung cancer, never smoked, but the audience did!

If i remember rightly, His death and his wife's campaign was one of the things that lead to smoking bans in all workplaces including in the entertainment industry (pubs, theatres, restaurants)

Offices and other workplaces were starting to ban it in the late 90s.

The OP says
‘What’s one of those things you think in 10/20/30 years people will go “WTF why was that acceptable?”
So it can be things we do now.

Almost every proud male feminist, I suspect.
They typically declare they used to be abusive egotists and declare they are now amazing because they stopped being abusive and think they are the greatest of men.

@MrsDTucker

"I think thr constant use of mobile phones and social media. Not sure how they will be phased out though. I use my phone for every aspect of my life (apart from texting and calling) 😂😂 and I'd be lost without it"

Ironically it is now not the norm to phone someone on a work related matter unannounced. 10 years ago you could just call someone internally or externally and if they were unavailable you left a voicemail and they called you back.

Now you either have to email them or email them asking when would be convenient for a call. It's massively inefficient and just slows everything up.

I think we will look back and question how little independent scrutiny is given to drugs before they are brought to market. Vaping, ease of online fraud and scamming, huge scale defrauding of Public Finances will all seem incredulous (hopefully).
The ease with which women’s hard fought rights are being eroded. Cancel culture.

Smoking at the reception desk on the ward when writing patient notes. Gross. **

Flying being so cheap considering the enormous environmental damage it does compared to other transport. I think the amount of flying will drastically reduce in the future as it will become expensive unless some alternative fuel can be found. Cars already are taxed due to emissions, I can't see the aviation industry dodging it forever.

no she quotes jeremy kyle which ended some time ago

Tripe, weed is not safe.

That does not preclude the possibility that some of the answers will refer to things we do now.

alcohol is far too much tolerated..
so much drinking in our culture.
pubs open all day, when i was a teenager they closed in the afternoon, the all day drinking was meant to calm down this culture.

Pretty standard, i was 10 when i was left miles from my home town with my nephews ages 4, 2 and one that was about 9 months. I was left from early Saturday morning until teatime on the Sunday, no phone in the house if anything happened. It didn't bother me.

I agree. Genocide is obviously horrible and wrong. And that is a fairly universally accepted truth. We will not look back in 10, 20 years and suddenly have an epiphany about the wrongness of genocide.

Bringing it up in the context of this thread therefore either suggests that:

1. There have been no past genocides so we did not have the chance to realise how wrong genocide actually is. (=obviously bullshit.)
2. OR that [some] people simply do not object to the genocides of the past or consider past genocides (like the Holocaust...) as upsetting attrocities that should not have been allowed to occur..... Which is why those people may have the above mentioned epiphany about the wrongness of genocide in a few years (when they should have already come to that realisation a long time ago!)

And yes, I do find it telling how some poster reacted to bringing up the Shoah.

Screen time for babies / toddlers and children in general.
Also the impact of parental screen time on children.

Ah, and increased awareness of third-hand smoke!!

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Brilliant post. Absolutely spot on

My childhood GP was a chain smoker and she literally puffed away throughout the consultation in a completely smoke filled room.

@Willmafrockfit

I agree - alcohol costs the economy and taxpayers £27 billion every year but taxes on alcohol only raise £13 billion.

agreed, the reason is that in cloth nappies the child is uncomfortable and so they see the need for using a toilet and they are therefore toilet trained much earlier. It was a dr paid for by pampers that started the whole ‘child led toileting’ fad. Pampers want kids in nappies for obvious reasons. In disposables and pull ups a child doesn’t even know they are wet. Combine that with lazy parenting (from some) and you get large numbers of children still in nappies aged 3+. Hence the move back to cloth nappies. Children in these are naturally aware and ready to use a loo at about 18-22 months. Who wants to be changing nappies forever?