Things in RECENT times you can’t quite believe we’re seen as ‘ok’

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The Jeremy Kyle Show. Middle class man shouts at poor people who aren’t terribly bright, for not being perfect humans. So pleased it ended.

On X Factor and BGT when they used to show ‘funny’ auditions of people who believed they had talent but really didn’t so got laughed at. They then brought them back for the final to do a humiliating routine live so they could be laughed at more.

Supernanny. Childless woman who can barely speak properly pulls lemon faces, tells parents they’re shit and Instills sudden and sharp changes in the child’s home where actual camera are focussing on them when they’re distraught and upset

Sun sea and suspicious parents. Mum and dad spying on their adult children from a rooftop in Greece whilst said child gets off with a stranger. CREEPY!

And everyone smoking all day every day!

She doesn’t have a “standard vocabulary”, she’d use words like ezzzzzakaly (exactly) and uneseppebel (unacceptable)

2000 apparently. I remember flying to Japan in 1997 on a school exchange and being sat in row the in front of the smoking section. They just pulled a curtain across.

sending your 12 year old to get a multi pack of cigarettes (my dm use to send my sister or me to do this - neither of us have smoked throughout our lives so it turned out well)
Using your phone in the public loo doing a selfie film to send to your followers with aim of upsetting women who use them. Invasion of privacy and possibly, if they film a child under 13 which is blinking illegal.

I vouch for that. Smoking on planes was definitely still a thing in the late 90s.

This comment says way more about you then it does the people who choose to have aesthetic treatments.

Sad life when you have to negatively describe other peoples appearances.

@Puffalicious I started teaching in 1991 and the male head wouldn’t allow female teachers to wear trousers. Unbelievable when I think about it now. We also had to call him Mr Surname and were never allowed to use his first name.

This.

That people still think that girls and women should be 'modest' and 'dignified' rather than that men should take responsibility for not being sexually aggressive.

Not knowing the difference between personal pet peeves/prejudices and actual systemic issues

Blacking up - not that historic at all as it was in programmes like little Britain/come fly with me

My lecturer at Cambridge sometimes talked about some of the success she had on the show

I was driving in eighties. It most definitely was not seen as OK to drive without a licence or insurance and I don’t know anyone who did!

She was right though, Gillian McKeith. I had 2 of her books (still got one of them) and her approach was solely about cutting out all processed foods (which was rediscovered by the Van Tulleken twins recently and heralded as revolutionary). I followed it for a few years and it was the healthiest period of my life, I felt and looked amazing. I wish I could find the discipline to get back to that way of doing things.

I do on the other hand accept that her tv show treated people awfully in the name of entertainment and she is no more medically qualified than I am. The Van Tulleken's do at least have the decency to be qualified and engage with proper research.

"Oh she's sweet but a psycho", awful use of disablist language in a song.

Also that David Walliams psychiatric patient character from little Britain, ? Anne. That sketch is hugely disablist and God knows how anyone found it funny.

MPs in jungles instead of doing their proper jobs.

"Prince" Andrew, hiding behind the Queen to escape justice.

Cutting the tails off dogs to fit a breed standard. Similarly overbreeding dogs, so the poor things can hardly breathe. And as for cropping ears 😒

The openly misogynistic culture of the 90s and early 20s. Charlotte church turning 16 and it being a countdown. Same with Sam fox and other girls. Openly taking the piss out of disabled people, particularly people with learning disabilities. The stickers about Harvey that someone mentioned makes me feel sick to the stomach. Lockdown and the ability of government to be able to stop people leaving their houses, all whilst they were having parties. I think everyone that was fined for leaving or going to a party (not including government in this) should be refunded their money. The attitude of healthcare staff even now with deaf people. Refusing to lower masks to help people who are lip readers even when more than 2ft distance. Disgusted that the government didn’t insist on clear window masks so that deaf people weren’t excluded and isolated.

My old work place didn’t allow women to wear trousers until 1996

I want allowed to play football at school because I was a girl

Rape was legal in marriage until the 1990s

we regularly had to leave school and go to the designated safe meeting place because of IRA bomb threats. And the fact that Gerry Adams wasn’t allowed to speak on TV and they used an English voice for a voice over, which is just so random!

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smoking- in pubs/clubs etc. going home from a night out stinking of smoke. Smoking around children. Our house must have stank as my dad smoked despite my mum being a clean freak. Yuck.

This meme came to mind..

Definitely wasn’t banned in 1988, May 98 in the UK. I was definitely smoking on planes in the 90’s.

This case was badly mis-reported and that reporting did terrible damage to the poor couple. It's explained more fully here if people are interested transparencyproject.org.uk/capacity-to-consent-to-sexual-relations-obscurity-illuminated/

Naked Attraction. Wth???

Jeremy Kyle show… always thought he was a bully.

All the abusers who could hide behind their fame/ money and power and be protected the duration of their lives, while having unlimited access to vulnerable people … jimmy Saville for example…

And the fact that a certain popular TV morning show presenter can groom young men with no consequences (and we don’t know what age he was when the grooming started).

I think a time will come when smoking will be unheard of and we will wonder what on earth people were thinking.

Also women’s healthcare will (hopefully) improve and the contraception we have like coils and intrusive hormones will seem really bad. Also that conditions affecting women will (hopefully) get more research, better treatments and faster diagnosis from GPs (like endometriosis, menopause)

Mental health care will hopefully improve too, and we will be shocked at the lack of services during this time.

I wonder if there will be long term side effects to common procedures like Botox and fillers… Will these chemicals/ toxins injected into our bodies have any negative effects on us later on. Will we one day look back on these cosmetic procedures and think wtf…

Haha I love this show 🤣

That some children are entitled to a better education simply because their parents can afford it.

I find that shocking.