Page 21 | Things in RECENT times you can’t quite believe we’re seen as ‘ok’

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 2022-11-30T17:45:32+00:00

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!

Ericaequites · 01/12/2022 07:39

@RGinaPhalange Most women don’t look good in very short skirts. It’s much easier to do things in longer fuller skirts. Men will never learn to control themselves.

Nightwear in public

Leggings/jeggings as trousers

Bike shorts in lieu of petticoats or half slips Skirts don’t hang the same way without.

Rice cakes

Grits

Avocados

BellePeppa · 01/12/2022 07:41

AttilaTheUOkHun · 30/11/2022 18:41

Obviously. Society is always evolving. Why would it still be the same in 20 years from now?

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I look forward to all the apologies the woke people will have to make in twenty odd years time for their behaviour and attitudes today.

Sarahcoggles · 01/12/2022 07:46

Lockdown.
I think future generations will be shocked that we were all forced to sacrifice our liberty for a virus that was just a mild illness for the vast majority of us. And that people were prosecuted for sitting on park benches.
In much the same we as we gasp in horror at the brutality of evacuating kids during WW2, so people will be shocked at what we did to our children during Covid.

abcdeg · 01/12/2022 07:47

Ericaequites · 01/12/2022 07:39

@RGinaPhalange Most women don’t look good in very short skirts. It’s much easier to do things in longer fuller skirts. Men will never learn to control themselves.

Nightwear in public

Leggings/jeggings as trousers

Bike shorts in lieu of petticoats or half slips Skirts don’t hang the same way without.

Rice cakes

Grits

Avocados

Things you can't believe are ok in modern times: Avocados and leggings

I think you're looking for the unpopular opinions thread!

Ericaequites · 01/12/2022 07:49

I ear butter, not green slimy goo. Leggings are sportswear, not streetwear.

SleepyHay · 01/12/2022 07:58

Being asked to rate everything:
’How was your Teams call?’
’How was your delivery?’
’How was your shopping experience?’
How about ‘bugger off!’

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 08:03

Blackheath95 · 01/12/2022 01:43

@LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet any legitimacy you may have had with this thread I think you have lost. Why is it ok for you to comment and sneer at the way another person talks? Seems a bit ironic to me that you can’t see that. When you are generating het up about the way others are treated.

Yes screaming at people with LD is exactly the same as posting about a famous person on a forum that they’ll likely never see 🙄

Seriously the faux outrage is sooooooo boring!

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 08:04

Blackheath95 · 01/12/2022 01:51

No my dear, what you are experiencing is your post being turned around back on you. Or are you more of a do as I say not as I do sort of person.

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I’m really not. You don’t have that power, mY DeaR

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VejaVagVagina · 01/12/2022 08:10

Ericaequites · 01/12/2022 07:39

@RGinaPhalange Most women don’t look good in very short skirts. It’s much easier to do things in longer fuller skirts. Men will never learn to control themselves.

Nightwear in public

Leggings/jeggings as trousers

Bike shorts in lieu of petticoats or half slips Skirts don’t hang the same way without.

Rice cakes

Grits

Avocados

You sound like a moron.

Wearing a short skirt does not entitle men to harass women!!!

Peedoffo · 01/12/2022 08:17

Ericaequites · 01/12/2022 07:39

@RGinaPhalange Most women don’t look good in very short skirts. It’s much easier to do things in longer fuller skirts. Men will never learn to control themselves.

Nightwear in public

Leggings/jeggings as trousers

Bike shorts in lieu of petticoats or half slips Skirts don’t hang the same way without.

Rice cakes

Grits

Avocados

This was aimed at me and my post. I was targeted by a boy who didn't change when my hemline moved down. Who used to try smack my arse with rulers and smack it. My head of year victim blamed me I was 14. It wouldn't be allowed now and good.

Dotingmumandgranny · 01/12/2022 08:22

Discoh · 30/11/2022 18:15

Yup to Supernanny, made even worse when you consider that a lot of the children quite obviously were neurodivergent

Funny how she always managed to improve their behaviour, then.

latetothefisting · 01/12/2022 08:33

ShirleyPhallus · 30/11/2022 21:03

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

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'pronunciation' is completely different to 'vocabulary' though?
Having a limited vocabulary wouldn't usually refer to someone who clearly uses 3/4 syllable words frequently and correctly.

Not having a standard vocabulary would mean, for example, she uses words not usually used, or uses the wrong words in context (which is what OP now seems to have desperately grabbed onto as reason for her justification), although I haven't picked up on any glaring malapropisms when I've seen the show, and would consider them to have to be very frequent to be the sole justification for a proclamation that someone 'can barely speak properly'.

BaddogGooddoggy · 01/12/2022 08:36

Parents glued to phones while in charge of their children, even while pushing a pram down a busy road. I’ve seen children literally begging their parents to pay attention to them, to talk to them, to explain the world to them, but no - scrolling wins. It breaks my heart

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 08:55

Wearing such short skirts, yet being annoyed that men harass you

WTAF.

What about men? If they wear tight tops can gay men harras them?

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TinkyWinkyRainbowHead · 01/12/2022 08:55

That homosexuality was illegal until 1967. More crazy though is that homosexual people have only been allowed to serve in the U.K. forces since 2000.

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 08:55

Confusion101 · 01/12/2022 04:08

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

Sorry but your reason in your OP doesn't really focus on your disgust at the "exploitation of kids" at all

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Sorry about your poor reading comprehension but it quite clearly does.

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Blackheath95 · 01/12/2022 09:11

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 08:04

I’m really not. You don’t have that power, mY DeaR

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It’s so easy to give, not so easy to take HeY ! 🙄

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 09:12

Sarahcoggles · 01/12/2022 07:46

Lockdown.
I think future generations will be shocked that we were all forced to sacrifice our liberty for a virus that was just a mild illness for the vast majority of us. And that people were prosecuted for sitting on park benches.
In much the same we as we gasp in horror at the brutality of evacuating kids during WW2, so people will be shocked at what we did to our children during Covid.

I agree and I thought it was an OTT response at the time.

MN went mental though. People calling for MORE restrictions and prosecutions and calling people cunts for taking the dog for a walk.

And then they allegedly get triggered when they see Matt Hancock. And bang on about how they couldn’t see grandad for a year when I’m pretty sure the same posters were telling others that milk and washing powder wasn’t an essential buy and they should weld their front door shut

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 09:14

Blackheath95 · 01/12/2022 09:11

It’s so easy to give, not so easy to take HeY ! 🙄

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Happy to ‘take’, just don’t agree with you at all

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Dotjones · 01/12/2022 09:18

TinkyWinkyRainbowHead · 01/12/2022 08:55

That homosexuality was illegal until 1967. More crazy though is that homosexual people have only been allowed to serve in the U.K. forces since 2000.

Or until 1980 in Scotland, and 1982 in Northern Ireland. Or 1993 in Ireland. Or the 2000s in some US States.

Also I found out recently that mixed race relationships were illegal in much of the US until 1967. As in, mixing pure white people with anyone else. I knew it was frowned upon but didn't realise it was actually a criminal offence.

ohyouknowwhatshername · 01/12/2022 09:20

Rosscameasdoody · 30/11/2022 20:22

I have a physical disability and well remember being called both of these. One name that used to cause hilarity was sp*ic on elastic !! Children can be cruel. I think my contribution to the thread would be that this kind of bullying was allowed to continue unchecked when I was in junior school in the 1960’s. Life was miserable a lot of the time and I actually remember being made fun of during a class and the teacher sniggering at what was said. It’s unthinkable now, and schools have procedures in place to nip it in the bud.

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so sorry this happened to you.

Different subject, but in the 80s I was mocked by male teachers for being unattractive. They joined in with the boys (and girls) bullying me. I like to think it wouldn't happen now, but I'm not really sure.

ImprobablePuffin · 01/12/2022 09:27

"Wearing such short skirts, yet being annoyed that men harass you."

Lovely bit of victim blaming there @Ericaequites

I think you meant, men still thinking it's ok to harass women when they are just living their lives in clothes that make them feel nice.

Rosscameasdoody · 01/12/2022 09:28

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 09:12

I agree and I thought it was an OTT response at the time.

MN went mental though. People calling for MORE restrictions and prosecutions and calling people cunts for taking the dog for a walk.

And then they allegedly get triggered when they see Matt Hancock. And bang on about how they couldn’t see grandad for a year when I’m pretty sure the same posters were telling others that milk and washing powder wasn’t an essential buy and they should weld their front door shut

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I’m sure those who lost loved ones to Covid will appreciate these comments.

Eleusa · 01/12/2022 09:51

www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/02/gender.uk

This happened in 2001.

Milkandhoneybees · 01/12/2022 09:57

MooFroo · 30/11/2022 18:19

twerking and ‘modern day’ dance moves in secondary school performance with girls in crop tops and some in very short shorts - older teenage pupils.
lots of men in the audience.

why not have a dress code that preserves modesty and dignity?

I remember seeing my Dsis’s dance performance (she wasn’t in this particular dance, as she did ballet) and for the “older” girls (13-15 years old), the dance school dressed them in lacy underwear/basques, stockings, feather boas and heels and had them dancing to Moulin Rouge, doing drops and the whole nine yards.

I also hasten to add that there was also a “comedy” performance of pupils’ dads in tutus etc not long beforehand, and the dressing room was open plan so they would have seen all of these girls in that underwear backstage beforehand.

This was less than 10 years ago…

I remember being gobsmacked! It also means that the parents happily went out shopping for these undies with their girls, knowing they’d be wearing them on stage. The mind boggles…