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!

That the government can provide "warm banks" but can't fix the housing crisis

Social housing being sold off and not replaced

I loathe Political Correctness in all its forms.

I was with you till Supernanny…I’ve got three of my own kids…three grandkids….I’m a general and paediatric nurse….and she is excellent. Doctors the world over who are men, have managed to deliver babies with no experience of doing so themselves. Marie Curie nurses help cancer patients, most never had cancer themselves. Same with rehab officers and people with sight loss. You don’t need to have your own kids….you need to have trained to be a nanny….how many parents do you know who have any training in bringing up kids before they become parents?

This. And that supposedly intelligent women go to see it.

Drinking on your lunch hour and drink driving. Calling people/ inanimate objects gay as an insult. The Simpsons is terrible for it.

I worked in a working men's club where only women were allowed behind the bar. No women in the bar area either, only the lounge or other areas. Pool tables were only set up in the bar. After closing time we'd all sit and have a drink and a toastie but we weren't allowed to play pool, even when everyone had left, because the committee wouldn't let us. The only time we could go into the bar on the outside was to collect glasses. This was about 20 years ago. I think it might have changed more recently.

RuPaul’s drag race!

Racism.
And look on MN. It is still pretty acceptable.

@FlissyPaps my other Nan learned to drive buses in Ww2 as a 19 yr old as the male drivers went to be soldiers; but she wasn't given an actual driver's licence.

Same with her younger sister who also drove the buses.
Nan gave up driving her car in the late 80s / early 90s I think and still didn't have a driving licence, nor did my great auntie.

I think plenty of people from that wartime generation didn't get licences.

Plenty of TV personalities with zero qualifications in what they do, and if Ms Frost was mostly unsuccessful, I'd understand it - but she's not.

Absolutely this. I just can't get my head around it.

…or handfuls of sweet Spanish Tobacco🤔😱🤔😱😳😳

I remember being 15 in 1992 in hospital on an adult ward without my mum staying with me and being offered a ciggie in the day room by a 60 year old lady, luckily I didn't smoke.

Oh, and apparently, it's the same in school admissions, you can't work there if you don't have kids - it's one of the first thing 'angry parent' usually asks you when they've been refused entry (usually by a school that you're not even the admissions authority for) "HAVE YOU GOT KIDS, EH, EH ? WHAT DO YOU KNOW"

Because no-one without kids can ever know the true horror of being allocated a bog standard comprehensive, or even have an opinion about it.

When Jo Frost started as a nanny most nannies did not have qualifications. Only those working with under fives used to have qualifications as nursery nurses.

My school had such a room. You could smell the smoke as you walked past in the corridor!

Toddler and young girls in Pageants in America dressed like 20 somethings (and not very classy ones at that).

Drinking alcohol on your lunch break. First couple of professional jobs I had in the early 2000s it was absolutely normal for everyone to decamp to the local pub and have a pint or two on fridays over a long lunch. There was a pub next to one local authority office I worked in that did a lunchtime meal deal for council workers of burger and a pint for £5 and it was packed full of council staff in their uniforms openly boozing. Outrageous really, and productivity was definitely slower on Friday afternoons.

I used to work in a nursery and I can remember going to the pub and drinking at lunchtime!
Many people were outraged when no drinking at lunchtime policies were introduced.

Mmm, I miss lunchtime drinking. Can we collectively decide that one’s actually OK, and bring it back?

Lunchtime drinking- oh I worked in a great bank office in the 90s where flexi time meant 2 hour lunches on a Friday were a thing. Happy days…

We had staff smoking rooms at the three hospitals in my trust until at least 2008. Possibly 2010. Clouds of smoke would billow out into the corridor every time the door was opened.

Working as a manager running a pub ( with my then partner ) in 1990’s; told by area manager that the owner would prefer to see women in dresses or skirts and DEFO no trousers on his once a year drop in … !

Says the person with a rudely inappropriate pseudonym handle