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!

Strictly isn't far off. Got to have 'something for the dads' 🤢

My first husband and I drove to Cornwall for our honeymoon with our six month old in the carrycot, just casually placed on the back! Insanity when you think about it

Puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for mental distress.
Driving cars in city centres
The obesity epidemic
Eating meat maybe?(I do but I could see future generations looking at it in horror)
Love Island
Surrogacy
War

I second love island
It needs to go the same way as Jeremy kyle ... in t'bin

@Ilovebees I was at school in the 70s and we were not made to have communal showers after PE. We didn't have any kind of shower 😀probably because we didn't put much effort into the PE so weren't very sweaty 😅

My father in law taped over half our wedding video...Bergerac !!!

I had my DC at 28 & 30 and by 55 we will be mortage free withno dependants and semi- retired.

At work we had qr codes on every door, including every toilet cubicle that we had to scan so that if we contracted Covid, they could do a deep clean of everywhere we'd been. We also filled out forms when we left the house which had our destination on it so police could check we weren't wandering around. Children couldn't go out at all. Seems bonkers now.

This is exactly what I mean... the horror! I'm sorry that happened to you x

Definitely smoking. I remember my dad in the 90's (I think it was then) collecting the benson and hedges loyalty cards and getting me and my sister sports equipment.
Also when I started doing my nurse training in early 2000's and the mental health hospitals having smoking rooms on the wards for the patients. I remember having to go and sit in there with certain patients who needed constant supervision and finding it really grim in there as a non smoker.

Playing marbles on the street.
Christmas Carol singing around the neighbourhood.
going to the shop with empty pop bottles to get 2p back.

@Lulu1919 😄 Sorry I have to laugh but that must have been upsetting. Not the same but my dad saved the newspapers from the day I was born and then forgot why and used them for painting.

Was this in the UK? Definitely wasn't a thing when I was in school in the 80s and 90s!

So do I. I started work aged 17 as office junior in 1977.
In a hospital payroll department. Nearly all my colleagues smoked at their desks all day.

Christmas Carol singing around the neighbourhood.
We still do that.

Because that was the extent of their worth. Not university, further education, ambition for a career, it was marriage and pregnancy. Then being a housewife.

Did you not see my 70’s reference?

Looking back : Corporal punishment in schools.

Looking forward : Exploitative, wasteful, environmentally destructive throwaway ‘fast fashion’.

It was in my school. We had walk through showers and the PE teachers whipped your towel off at one end and made you shower with everyone else before eventually giving it back.

In the past: liquorice smokers kits for kids.

In the future: the availability of violent pornography.

Was definitely a thing at a lot of schools for boys /girls.
There is a thread about it .. apologies I don't know how to bring up link to the thread.

Watched an episode of the Sweeney recently on iplayer on a random whim.

WOW.

Sounds like a paedo's dream! 😮

In the past: strippagrams in the office 😮😮

In the future: people cutting down healthy, living trees to put in their houses for two weeks at Christmas

Definitely in the eighties, and a , ' period ' register where you could be excused showers...

Definitely covid rules. Being prevented from buying non-essentials when they were in the same shop as the food you were allowed to buy. And the people who would freeze, standing to attention, with their backs to you if you walked past them in the open air. And the pan banging.