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

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 30/11/2022 17:45

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!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 01/12/2022 19:18

Are you going to give us a clue who you are directing that comment at, @Diggin? Confused

Hellno44 · 01/12/2022 19:19

RealBecca · 30/11/2022 17:56

Buying fags at 16

I brought them singularly at 11 in my school uniform.

00100001 · 01/12/2022 19:27

Liz1tummypain · 30/11/2022 18:03

The show " It ain't half hot mum" . Outrageous racism. They would kick and Insult the Indians , and treated them as less worthy than any white person..

i don't think 45+ years ago counts as recent...

BellePeppa · 01/12/2022 19:28

Landmark2022 · 01/12/2022 18:57

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.

Back in the 80s there was a bar actually at work, a couple of floors up from me. You could go in and find half the work force there. One of the older women was an obvious alcoholic and she was regularly propping up the bar. Seems so odd now.

saleorbouy · 01/12/2022 19:30

I would imagine most Nanny's are childless as they're generally younger people. Once they become parents there's little time to be a nanny.
Being childless does not make you ineffective at your job and is irrelevant.

Diggin · 01/12/2022 19:31

Fisting

Tulipomania · 01/12/2022 19:32

I worked in the City in the 1980s. Lunch was from 12 to 2 pm.
Alcohol was regularly consumed in large quantities. If you'd had a good day it was champagne, with smoked salmon sandwiches at Balls Brothers. A bottle per person.

141mum · 01/12/2022 19:34

My teacher smoked at her desk and her smelly dog was under desk and depending on it’s mood would nip you, this was in 1976
Playboy Mansion………ugh…..dirty old sod
i also got offered the counter manager job for Clarins, when they realised I would not fit in their uniform, I was a size 16, they asked me to loose a stone in a week !, when I couldn’t they withdrew the offer

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 19:48

Landmark2022 · 01/12/2022 18:57

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 worked for the LA in the early 00’s too and I agree this was standard! Lunch at 12, back to the office half cut for 2pm. No one batted an eyelid

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 19:49

Diggin · 01/12/2022 19:15

Says the person with a rudely inappropriate pseudonym handle

Who 👀

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IDidntKnowYouHadDandruffIDont · 01/12/2022 19:50

ShirleyPhallus · 30/11/2022 19:01

Do you remember when Heat did a set of free stickers and one of them was “Help! Harvey’s going to eat me!” about Jordan’s son? They were pulled up on it at the time but amazing it even got to print

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I remember this. It’s absolutely unthinkable, what on earth was anyone thinking

pomers · 01/12/2022 19:51

FlissyPaps · 30/11/2022 18:50

I’m not saying it was normal. I’m saying it was seen as ‘ok’ since most of my family members and their friends would drive around uninsured and without licenses before the 21st century.

I questioned my mum about it once and she said “oh everyone did it back then”.

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They really didn’t. Illegal, irresponsible.

LouDeLou · 01/12/2022 19:54

@JenniferAllisonPhillipaSue visible bra straps? Seriously?

Mumof3PrettyBoys · 01/12/2022 20:00

hennybeans · 30/11/2022 17:59

Permanent, radically altering children's bodies because they feel a certain way instead of seeking therapy.

THIS is spot on!!

Microwaveableteapot · 01/12/2022 20:02

WhenIgrowup42 · 01/12/2022 18:23

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

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Shakespeare is modern?! Jesus, I gues that explains why so many MN'ers are out of touch with modern thinking about racism, gay rights and trans rights.

Flufftc2000 · 01/12/2022 20:05

Avrenim · 30/11/2022 18:19

Currently....

I'm a celebrity

Venal politicians

Rampant nepotism/cronyism even when people are utterly rubbish at their jobs

That it's just fine for the rich to get richer by the second while the poor can't afford decent food/heating/housing/education and are being told subliminally every second that they don't deserve to exist

Pre-Victorian levels of semi-literacy and numeracy

Unilaterally ignoring the UN warnings about poverty levels in the country

Disregarding the comments of the torture committee at Marston (which I'm fairly sure the government will do)

Worship of money corruption and materialism

Jacob Rees Mogg

Acceptance of levels of vicious cruelty that even Thatcher would have balked at

Just for starters

Yep this 👆…totally agree!

TortolaParadise · 01/12/2022 20:14

Not wearing a seat belt - 1980's
Teachers with hot drinks in mugs (no lid) on playground duty

witchesbubblebath · 01/12/2022 20:16

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

hmm yes good point. I've thought this recently.
I think she's good as a whole though.

Jojoe29 · 01/12/2022 20:16

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AmberMcAmber · 01/12/2022 20:17

Im
more confused by the spraying deodorant at your desk over having aerosol deodorant at all…. Sshhhiiiiiit, we all gotta breathe dude and I don’t want a lungful of your Sure/Lynx

witchesbubblebath · 01/12/2022 20:17

IDidntKnowYouHadDandruffIDont · 01/12/2022 19:50

I remember this. It’s absolutely unthinkable, what on earth was anyone thinking

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That was shocking.

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 20:23

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OH THE IRONY of using sexist and ageist stereotypes and calling US nasty 🤣

Another thing to add to my list: overly aggressive ‘progressives’ who are actually the most bigotted, rude and discriminatory hypocrites going.

Sorry (not sorry) not all of us see drag queens as ‘fabulous’ but it’s total appropriation to dress as women and behaved like exaggerated stereotypes

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onlythreenow · 01/12/2022 20:24

I can't help but agree with @Jojoe29 to a certain extent. Some of these posts are just ridiculous! Mind you, this is MN, where if there is anything to be even mildly offended by there will be posters who are.

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 01/12/2022 20:25

AmberMcAmber · 01/12/2022 20:17

Im
more confused by the spraying deodorant at your desk over having aerosol deodorant at all…. Sshhhiiiiiit, we all gotta breathe dude and I don’t want a lungful of your Sure/Lynx

I had a work experience lad a couple of years ago who wore so much Lynx is was making me gag and sneeze all day and one of my colleagues had asthma and it was triggering her breathlessness. I was in charge of him so I told him he needed to wear less body spray because it’s affecting the staff with respiratory issues and his teacher told me I’d really upset him and he didn’t wanna come back 🙄 that’s real work experience I’m afraid - sometimes you get told not to do something. And that is the generation who will look after us in our old age <shudders>

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Itsabitnotcold · 01/12/2022 20:33

MuchTooTired · 30/11/2022 17:50

That marital rape was legal until 1991. Absolutely blows my mind that it was A ok in my lifetime!

This is why I just can't understand when people say "well it's legal" about things. So many things have been legal, it doesn't mean it was ever right. A man raping his wife was never OK, he wasn't a good man because he wasn't breaking the law.

Mine, not taking/using car seat on holiday/in taxis for children that need them. Bonkers.

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