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!

We had the walk through showers at school too!

like others, I had a 23 year old boyfriend when I was 15. Made worse by fact he was a teacher, and everyone was thrilled as they hoped it would make me better behaved 😳

I don't think anyone is horrified that those things were on tv?

My mum smoked when she was in labour, she used to tell the story about how the nurse snatched the fag out of her hand because of oxygen being on nearby.

There was a smoking room in the hospital when my sister gave birth, they allowed smoking at toddler groups until the council banned smoking in community centres.

Teenage pregnancy, I know it still happens but it is less common now. I had a friend at school who had a baby at 13 and nobody batted an eyelid. There was a massive cluster of girls in my year who got pregnant at 15/16.

Something I hope is different from the present day is babies and toddlers having phones and tablets and parents being so busy on their devices they ignore their kids.

• So much plastic packaging. I just can't work out why things have so many layers.
• People driving for journeys under a mile.
• It not being economically viable to repair something as opposed to buying new /built in obsolescence- I hate that 90% of the time when something breaks it costs me less to replace it than to get a bloke out to fix it. And perfectly serviceable tech suddenly not supporting software updates.

Magazines such as 'Heat' having a "circle of shame" page where they'd take pictures of celebrities and highlight their flaws (fat bits, cellulite, spots etc) with a circle for readers to have a laugh at! 😳

Slam door trains... people used to open the doors before the train had even stopped!

Topless young women posing in the Sun, yes its unacceptable. Are the same people who are outraged that this used to be the norm the same ones who happily allow their prepubescent and young teenage girls to dress in crop tops and leggings so tight you can see what they had for breakfast?
Will we look back in horror at this in a few years time?
Will we look back in horror in a few years time at allowing young children to access anything and everything on their smartphones?

Smoking on planes!

Vaping
Botox / fillers
Baked on nails
cosmetIc surgery
Stinky chemical smells in the house
single use plastic (much, much worse in the US than UK)

(Whoops, I answered are the norm, not were the norm)

@Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon

At my primary school in NE Scotland in the 70's the girls and boys were taught both sewing/knitting and what they called handwork (making things)

At my secondary school in the 80's the whole class were also taught woodwork/metalwork and sewing/knitting.

I hated sewing and knitting, enjoyed the woodwork and metalwork but my mother who is very opinionated wouldn't let me carry on with them after the compulsory first two years in secondary

We will look back in 20 years and realise how people wanted to look like ducks with lip fillers , lips so big that it just looks so unnatural , very sad that people aren’t happy with their natural looks and feel like they have to do such things to fit in and look perfect in their eyes 🤯natural all the way , doesn’t matter how you look , someone true will find you perfect the way you are naturally .

Looking back: My dad (who grew up in a rural area) walking a mile on his own to and from the school bus stop every day from the age of four. I think his mum walked the route with him the first few times, then he was on his own!

Looking forward: a lot of reality TV, including Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor. These set up some vulnerable, unsuspecting people for ridicule on national TV - it’s really quite horrible. The programmes are also contrived and allegedly edited in ways that mislead the viewer.

I work in insurance and boozy pub lunches are still a thing.

Being blacked up to play one of the wise men in the Sunday school nativity. Another kid was given ‘yellow’ skin and had oriental shaped eyes drawn on. I shudder now but in our little town where there were no people of any ethnicity other than white, no one bat an eyelid.

Some people are just getting home from their night shifts and watch TV to wind down.

I think we will look back on ‘dog friendly’ culture and realise how wrong it is. It’s cruel as majority of dogs want to be on walks , in nature, fresh air etc not in John Lewis or a cafe. Second to that it’s massively unfair on people with allergies and unhygienic (and people will say oh but some humans are dirtier worse behaved and smellier than dogs but when do they have their bare a holes on a cafe sofa then grab someone else’s croissant off their plate and bark at everyone !)

The whole COVID debacle

I mean, come on!

It’s weird to see repeats of the episode of Some Mother’s Do ‘Ave ‘Em when baby Jessica is born.

When Frank and Betty drive home from the hospital, neither are wearing seat belts and Betty is in the front passenger seat holding baby Jessica on her lap.

The episode is from 1973.

Smacking or slapping children as discipline. And punishing them when they start being violent at school. I wonder where they learned that from never came to mind 🤔

That males used to be allowed to participate against female athletes just because they claimed they felt female.

Was it my memory has got it all muddled. That's disgusting .

Barbaric wasn't it?

In the first office I worked in, after 5pm, people used to pull ashtrays out of their drawers and quite often a bottle of gin. 🤣🤣

Under 18s nights in nightclubs! We used to go (aged 14) dressed in short skirts, high platform shoes and little tops! White lighting before we went and I think it used to finish about 10.30pm and no one cared how anyone got home. You'd just walk with your friends half naked (coats were not cool) home.