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To wonder what we do now that will be frowned upon in 30-40 years time

559 replies

Lunar27 · 29/06/2022 07:55

This video is a prime example of how attitudes change. It seems we go just go from stupid to stupid all the time.

digg.com/video/this-1967-british-news-report-that-interviewed-drunk-drivers-before-it-became-illegal-is-bonkers

Another example is passive smoking. Obviously stupid and horrible to think we just smoked freely inside, thinking it was fine to breathe in smoke.

Fossil fueled cars will likely be the next as will idling cars outside of schools but I wonder what else we'll be scratching our heads over in future.

OP posts:
inmyslippers · 29/06/2022 13:52

Two women a week murdered by partners/ex-partners/sons

^ I wish I had your optimism

AnnaFF · 29/06/2022 13:53

BadLad · 29/06/2022 13:45

No kinky sex, no pets, no zoos, no flying, no private cars, no alcohol, no smoking, no gambling, no meat, no sugar, no tattoos, no stuff, no buying anything, no phones, no WiFi, no boxing, no wrestling, no rugby. We won't need to allow euthanasia - people will be topping themselves from boredom long before they reach old age.

I definitely agree with this.

SisterRuth · 29/06/2022 13:54

Putting a man's fiction above a woman's reality.

I hope to god no more women have to be raped in prisons or frightened in refuges or have their skulls fractured in boxing matches for the trans activism insanity to be stopped but at the moment....here we are.

jacintaq · 29/06/2022 13:58

I hope to god no more women have to be raped in prisons or frightened in refuges or have their skulls fractured in boxing matches for the trans activism insanity to be stopped but at the moment....here we are.

Won't this be decided soon? I'm thinking of the Bridges case setting a precedent? In sport at least.

Italiangreyhound · 29/06/2022 13:58

I hope gambling follows smoking as a social no-no.

5128gap · 29/06/2022 14:01

Definitely agree with eating meat and smoking. But if things continue on the current trajectory:
Anything relating to babies that doesn't involve them being kept in a sterile bubble for the first 12 months.
Anything relating to children that doesn't involve putting their wishes front and centre of everything, whether you're their parent or not.
Anything relating to teens that doesn't afford them full rights to do whatever they please facilitated by increasingly servile parents.

RedCardigan · 29/06/2022 14:01

Everything blue or pink. This gênerions is the worst. Let people be who they are rather than telling them to transition if you’re a boy who likes pink or a girl who wants to be a train driver

ElderflowerTonic · 29/06/2022 14:07

I hope that in 30 years time it will be frowned upon that that the people caring for children and the elderly now are badly paid.

VeryQuaintIrene · 29/06/2022 14:11

Not meat, necessarily, but factory farming, I hope.

Brexit :)

RosesAndHellebores · 29/06/2022 14:14

Legalised violence such as boxing.

JanisMoplin · 29/06/2022 14:16

Fake meat, I hope, as others have already listed the more important things. To be replaced by just eating vegetables.

warofthemonstertrucks · 29/06/2022 14:23

Vaping. I predict a big epidemic of popcorn lung in todays teens age vapers in not too long a time at all

pag2020 · 29/06/2022 14:26

Wearing Crocs...

Strawberrypicnic · 29/06/2022 14:39

Cities full of SUVs

BlackeyedSusan · 29/06/2022 14:42

DaisyWaldron · 29/06/2022 08:40

Wood/fuel burning stoves.

Ablism

I wonder which will go first? Sexism or ablism? Currently racism is unacceptable but still goes on I hope all three are in the distant past.

Bighairydogs · 29/06/2022 14:51

I really hope cosmetic ‘enhancements’ will go… injecting/inserting poison/foreign bodies into your own healthy body in the name of beauty blows my mind (and looks pretty shit) The fact that people feel the need to do this to make themselves feel better doesn’t say good things about our society. I would like to live in a world where having crows feet wasn’t considered something to get rid of!

PanicAtTheDisco2000 · 29/06/2022 14:51

Sterilising children because they like toys and activities associated with the opposite sex. I really hope it doesn’t take 30-40 years though. It can’t come soon enough.

Mulhollandmagoo · 29/06/2022 15:10

LaDoIceVita · 29/06/2022 08:31

I sincerely hope it will come to be seen as unaccetable that people were kept alive for years with no quality of life and poor care, rather than allowing them an earlier, peaceful and dignified death.

Me too!!

IcedPurple · 29/06/2022 15:16

MyNameIsAngelicaSchuyler · 29/06/2022 08:42

Definitely alcohol. The only addictive, toxic substance people are positively encouraged to consume (except sugar - hopefully that will be next but I think alcohol will go the way of smoking first)

Alcohol is too bound up in our and other cultures to go the way of smoking I think.

That being said, if alcohol were newly discovered today, it would be treated as a highly controlled and probably illegal drug.

VestaTilley · 29/06/2022 15:19

I would hope surrogacy would be frowned on, and ideally illegal. I think it’s human trafficking, and awful to take a baby from its mother.

But given how backwards the world is going on women’s rights, I’m not holding out much hope.

GoodThinkingMax · 29/06/2022 15:21

I wish I had your optimism

So do I @inmyslippers !

But it was Bertolt Brecht (I think) who said that in order to change the world, we needed to be able to imagine the kind of world we wanted.

OTOH, we tend to think that all change is progress and that things will always get better. I’m increasingly not so sure …

adorablecat · 29/06/2022 15:48

Paying ridiculous sums for bottled water.

TheKeatingFive · 29/06/2022 16:03

But given how backwards the world is going on women’s rights, I’m not holding out much hope.

I know. So depressing.

Clareypoo · 29/06/2022 18:27

Plastic!!! - watch below. Funny cos it's true.

Mangogogogo · 29/06/2022 19:02

oneofthoooose · 29/06/2022 08:08

Nothing will be acceptable anymore. You are allowed no feelings, or it's emotional abuse or clinical depression or some other disorder. It will be a bit like in the film equilibrium. We all have to be the same and think the same, otherwise we are unacceptable to society. It will be fun !

This is what I wanted to say but said perfectly!

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