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!

Around the same time as Mind Your Language there was Take A Letter Mr Jones, a vehicle for John Inman where the entire "comedy" revolved around the absurd concept of a female boss having a male secretary.

Ugh I remember those showers, I used to wish I was Muslim because they got to use the private cubicle with the curtain. The rest of us were in a line like cattle. This was in the late 90's.

Was this common? I was in secondary school at this time and all the girls, bar one or two, would skip the shower and just douse themselves in deodorant and Impulse body spray. No teachers forced anyone to have a shower.

Men are such vile creatures, right?

Votes for leaving the EU.

YY to school girls dating men. I was a teen in the 90’s and was soooo jealous of the 14yo girls who got into their 24yo boyfriend’s cars after school.

I now often think of them and hope they’re ok, absolutely disgraceful that this was acceptable

I can relate to a lot of these, as i grew up in the 80s. Albeit some things seem highly questionable now, those years for me were the best times ever. ! .... oh yeh and going to the corner shop to buy a single 🚬 for 50p

Parents hitting kids and not wearing seat belts 😬

Don’t we look back in horror at the worst genocide in history already??

Zero hours contracts. Imagine turning up at work and being told to go home - with no pay - because they don't need you today. It is dehumanising.

I’d never even thought about the sixth form common room. It was all smoking and it was so smoky I hated it me and my friends never went in. My teen at sixth form won’t believe me!

Agree! A few of us did say on MN at the time that we were deeply concerned with how mad it all is and the ones who had a bit of a hard on for lockdown called us granny killers 🤣🤣
Perhaps the ugliest part of lockdown for me was it was the busybody’s time to shine. My SIL shared a horrible post saying if you don’t get vaccinated you shouldn’t be entitled to a ventilator if you need one. Quite ironic coming from an overweight smoker with COPD who is constantly treated for the effects of her weight really

Thought of another recent-ish one - the treatment of Royal women before they’re hitched. Kate Middleton got called a slag by the press when just shopping in the street (to get a reaction), she got up skirted, she could barely move outside her own home.

Sexist P.E teachers…I can remember ours saying ‘You girls are running like you’re in heels, holding your handbags’ he’d then do an impression of this

Another teacher in physics would laugh and say that all the pretty girls should sit at the front and come and feel my balls..they were big, metal, magnetic ball things in front of him.

Thinking back how wrong this was-early-mid 90’s in highschool

Definitely remember doing PE in school in just knickers and plimsolls 🥴 I have a 6 year old and it's just insane to think how different it was for us at that age.

Fast fashion and all the influencers promoting it. It will be akin to promoting smoking.

Of course. Yet it still happens. Over and over again.
This time it's televised.

I attended a girls school from '82 to '89. We never had showers, just sprayed Impulse all over ourselves after PE.

Being shouted at by a bossy man in a reflective jacket for daring to sit on a bench in a park during covid.

Agree smoking indoors wtaf.

Pretty unusual to have duvets in the 80s, in fact.

Smoking on the bus. I remember when it got banned my mum was really upset because she used to have her morning cig on the bus taking me to school.

This has just reminded me of when I was 21 and went to the family planning clinic (do they still exist?) to have a coil removed.
I was laid on the bed , legs akimbo while a young male doctor (or nurse?) rooted around up my flue to find the coil. Sat at a desk directly facing my fadge was a middle aged female doctor loudly barking instructions while puffing on a cigarette in a very long holder 😲😲

50p? Around here a single fag was 20p. I used to buy 10 lambert&butler for £1.01 on my school lunch break in the mid 90s😂.

Also in my sleepy little valley town some independant shops are still closed for half day on a Thursday.

Or will it be that we didn’t allow it when they were 1?

Nope. Not at all. Very common from mid 70s. I went to uni in 1979 and had a new one to take.