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!

😮My school was so different (and it was a girl's school run by nuns)! Most girls had at least 2-3 "periods" per month to get out of swimming and the P.E. teachers never cottoned on.

Watching Little House On The Prairie
Starsky And Hutch
Bagpuss
Why Don't You

My mum drove me and my 4-month old baby from Leicestershire to Manchester with me just sitting in the back holding him - not even any seat belts in the back. My blood runs cold when I think of it now. When we got home that night there was a documentary on about what happens to unsecured children and babies in the back of a car. We watched in horror and the next day Mum booked her car in to have rear belts fitted and then we went and bought a car seat. My children are a similar age to Princes William and Harry and I remember Diana taking them home from hospital just on her lap in the same way.

That was his plan. He was an FX trader so by mid 40s he'd have been looking for something less stressful anyway.

Oh god yes I remember this! None of us liked it at the time – why was this even a thing? WTF

Tried to do this when I went to secondary school. I refused to walk naked in front of others and told the teacher if she tried to make me I’d have her prosecuted for assault. My father was a copper, I knew the terminology if not the letter of the law. Shortly after school stopped the communal showers and installed cubicles. PE teacher hated me till the day I left.

It was very much the situation in my school in the 80s.

Good for you! It never even occurred to me to complain. 🤐

we had showers late 70s early 80s,, thank god for veruccas. sadly i missed out on swimming due to said verrucas though

The showers were a thing at my school. Our bitch PE teacher also used to note down when we had our periods so we couldn't use it as an excuse every week.

I was oh so proud when asked what school my leaver’s ball date attended, as he was 22 and and working. What a wally.

So many things.
Youth club holiday -we used to pile into a van with wooden side bench seats, no seat belts. Just loads of primary school aged kids sliding around in the back of the van laughing when we fell off onto the floor.
Same with all the kids getting in to a parents estate car to go to the park. We were in the boot, on the floor, on laps.
My mum and aunts using foil to reflect sun onto their faces to tan. Not a hint of sun cream anywhere.
Going to the shop with a note from a parent to buy cigarettes/cigars/booze.
Smoking absolutely everywhere including offices.
It being openly acceptable for older men to molest young girls at the pub or social club. Pulling onto laps etc. Gross.

I really really hope that we will look back at the treatment of pigs, chickens, dairy cows and be absolutely horrified

The fact that I, as a child (and my siblings / all of my friends back in the 80s / early 90s) was allowed to play out, unsupervised, and my parents had no clue where I was / who I was with. I have children and I just cannot understand the older generational thinking of “oh they’ll be alright playing out, goodness knows where”. It was a predator’s day dream!!!

Hitch hiking to nightclubs, must have been about 16

Definitley not and not the case everywhere I never had a shower at school in the nineties and teachers were never in the changing rooms!

It was for Charlotte Church (which is weird now to think about it!)

And mine! It was torturous

I agree looking back we will be disgusted about:
Fast fashion and Temu/Shein type waste
Disposable everything
People ‘going for a drive’ or driving less than a couple of km regularly
Smoking/vaping
Social media and the impact on young people.

overall I think younger generations will be agog at this time where we are well aware of climate change and the impact of our behaviour as a race and yet people seem to be…doing nothing? Eventually our hand will be forced but it’s sad it’s taking so long.

Your dad shouting to you “ who’s paying for that call” after just 5 mins sat on stairs in hall with the wired house phone

…and annoying siblings listening in to said calls

or maybe just dropping round at people’s homes unannounced to see if they were in and fancied a chat (or play as a child) cos it cost too much to call them and you had legs.

Driving around without kids in car seats. Absolutely bizzare thinking back.

Sam Fox was a complete unknown when she first posed (aged 16) and was fully supported to do so by her mother.
No countdown there although it seems to have entered MN folk law that this was the case.🤔

There WAS a countdown in the Sun for Charlotte Church's 16th birthday.
She was very much in the public eye in her early teens and when she was 15 she was seeing a very undesirable chap (older than her) and the paparazzi were always getting shots of them together. The countdown was for them to be able to consummate the relationship legally.😖

I think there are recent tv shows we’ll look
back on and wonder how they were ever made. Little Britain is one of them.

And the pan banging.

I did feel like a twat banging a pan I must say.

No-one ever seemed to know when to stop, and didn't want to be the first to stop

For the future
Botox, fillers, implants, vapes, ozempic, vitamin pills...
Children eating "treat" food like crisps and a chocolate bar in their lunchbox - every day (instead of stuff with actual vitamins, minerals and nutritional value),
fizzy drinks every day.