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!

Smoking in the staffroom at school.
Allocated smoking room for students to smoke at 6th form.
First teaching job in 1988. Primary school. It was compulsory for all members of staff to go to the local pub on a Friday lunchtime.Everyone drank alcohol then we took the whole school swimming. Always thought that would look really bad splashed all over The Sun if a child had a tragic accident

Er, no. Like the one we are fully aware of and watching on tv from the very beginning

Naked Attraction.

Definitely all the covid crap, not being allowed to see loved ones was horrific. My dad died alone in hospital because we weren't allowed to go and see him, was the worse time of my families life and I'll never forgive the scum that made up those rules

Went to interview at a school. No panel, just the head. He was male and 40 something. I was 21. Asked me if I'd like to go out for a drink with him after I'd got the job. .

Smoking on an aeroplane. Not sure boozy lunches are completely finished.

When I worked in an office aged 16, male co-workers, including senior to me, would regularly make sexualised comments to me.

We did this but in the '70s, Coventry fortnight summer holiday, heading for Anglesey tho. Happy, carefree days even the sun shone then 😁

Flytipping

Water companies allowing human excrement in water

The sheer amount of plastic waste

Battery chicken farming

America's next top model (would like to watch it again and see ot with the fresh eyes tho)🙄

Going to the seaside as toddler/child just pilled up in the back of the car with no security whats so ever😱

Defrosting big chunks of meat on the counter over night/24h during summer 🤢

Slapping the hell out of children as normal part of having them 😭

That and at the other end of the scale....young women being encouraged to have their healthy breasts removed. I sincerely hope this is something society looks back on with horror and disbelief. All unnecessary surgery and medical intervention which does not actually have a purpose to cure a physical ailment should not be happening.

One of the doctors at the practice used to smoke during consultations.

This post.

We had this at our school. This was late 80s and early 90s.
A big communal shower, and a few cubicals. We had to get permission to use a cubicle with a curtain if we had our periods.

In primary school we had to do PE in our vests and pants

Things that I think are accepted now and we will look back at and wonder why in 10/20/30 years are:

being allowed to smoke at home or in cars when there are children there

being allowed to hit children

i think there will be much greater awareness of the emotional damage caused to children by repeated yelling and denigration

I think (hope) there will be more restrictions on ultra processed foods and especially marketing them to children and suggesting that they are a healthy option or a timesaver

I think that there will be more awareness and less tolerance of polluting the air and water and also greater awareness of the damage caused by noise pollution

My mum was asked by substitute GP if he can take me out for a lunch.

I was 15 and she asked if I am dangerously underweight.
I was not, but under BMI healthy weight by few kg and she was worried at it was at the time when eating disorders were recognized.

The fetishisation of dogs will seem incomprehensible to future generations, especially the keeping of XL bully dogs and others capable of killing a human being in a home where children live.

And this post.

Are the two on the thread that I think most pertinent and worth reflecting on.

We labeled new things as progress, rather than actually reflecting on what things are better.

At Primary school in the mid 70s, I remember that some of the teachers would smoke while on playground duty and one male teacher used to smoke his pipe in class.

The world being a mainly good place and having optimism for the future (sorry!)

Aside from that…we also were chucked in the back of a Volvo estate as kids, few pillows, no seat belts-happy days though

Sitting around watching tv at peoples houses, everyone smoking…can not even imagine it now

Dancing with a cigarette in your hand in a club

Going out for hours on end with no contact with parents

Calling for friends, just walking up and knocking on their door-no texting, calling etc

I immensely enjoyed all of the above

I was a nurse. In the late 80's and 90's nurses smoked in the patient bathroom, staff room and hospital canteen sofa area. We also had siderooms set up wirh alcohol and food at xmas. 1

that hospitals provide such unhealthy meals, for example even someone in for diabetes complications will still be offered something like a sandwich and treacle pudding and custard. And as a visitor if you want a snack there are often only unhealthy and expensive choices. Costa sausage bap anyone ?

“Mind Your Language” being family friendly early evening entertainment. Genuinely appalled that this was mainstream and acceptable in the seventies.

(for those too young, it was basically a “comedy” set in a language school where every nationality had a xenophobic caricature, from sexy french lady to Indian guy who wobbled his head with praying hands when he spoke. Eye wateringly awful!)

Men putting on some lippy and a wig and being told what stunning and brave ladies they are.