things you once thought socially acceptable which now horrify you to remember

Yeah during WWI, wine was necessary to get the poilus going... basically the equivalent of speed for the germans during WWII !

i remember sitting down for that Thursday night NBC block as a kid, Cosby and A Different World and Family Ties and Wings and Dear John(!) and Cheers and Night Court and Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, I think those were the shows that ran during that period of time.

i don't have the patience for watching more than one episode of TV per night now, usually once per week. it's not even a "i don't even watch TV thing", it's just overwhelming. everyone's saying "you have to watch this show!!!" and everyone saying this is talking about a different show.

I was very much an asshole to my mom when she kept trying to guilt me into visiting home and I would say "why, so we can sit around at night watching shitty tv while not speaking to each other?"

Hey don't knock sitting around watching shitty tv while not speaking to each other, it can be good times.

I won't travel 8 hours to do that.

Meatloaf b-side

Heh.

LOL I wish my parents did that, mums idea of a visit is "sit around with the TV on and promptly talk over the top of it all very loudly non stop and complain when I dont listen/reply".

that is one acceptable way to watch tv

Early retirement (on a voluntary and non-health reasons basis) is another area where attitudes might move towards being 'socially unacceptable' here in the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/17/renting-millennials-homelessness-crisis-retire

On a minor thread diversion, the article shows that quality of housing is a major issue for older people now:

“Our research has shown that the lives of too many older renters are blighted by insecure tenancies, woeful living conditions, dealing with unscrupulous landlords and constant financial stress.”

“On top of being notoriously expensive and unstable, too many privately rented homes simply aren’t up to scratch either – condemning older people to live out their retirement in places which are cold, damp or infested with mice.”

but the Guardian loves its millennial headlines.

I just thought of one:

- leaving school at year 10 instead of finishing thru to year 12.

This could possibly be an australian-specific thing but in the 80s and earlier, it wa sperfectly acceptable to finish school in year 10 (age 15) and go on to a trade or apprenticeship.

Course now theres no fucking trade colleges or apprenticeships and they want you to have a bachelors just to work at fricking McDonalds, so.

ha - you should visit Tasmania where the recent (2015) push to modernise the school system includes having high schools go to year 12! Imagine that! In the last 5 years there has even been a push for schools not to call the year 10 dinner the "leavers' dinner".
I wonder why 50% of adult Tasmanians have literacy difficulties.

A week or two ago in the LA Times there was a story about the woman who inspired the Gidget movies, and when explaining the name Gidget they said it was a combination of "girl" and "a word for a short person."

(PC gone mad, etc)

Matthew: but is that because they have yr 11-12 colleges? Thats how they do it in the ACT and I dearly wanted to go to a College, and not a shitty NSW 7-12 high school.

Yeah there are 11-12 colleges (my daughter is at one!) but a too-large fraction of students are finishing at year 10, so there is a push to have years 11 and 12 in the same schools as 7-10 so that students feel it's natural to go on. The minor downside is that 11-12 colleges are like "university light" with a young-adult vibe which my daughter really enjoys.

Yeah that why I wanted to go to one.

The talk of ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ upthread made me think of this which came to the same view of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNa5DUIzjiM&list=PL1eX22N4mg0xQyyHOpephOZdRvawuWOtE&index=9&t=0s

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GNa5DUIzjiM&list=PL1eX22N4mg0xQyyHOpephOZdRvawuWOtE&index=9&t=0s

One day we will be able to add “standing on the walking side of the escalator” and that day will be joyous and glorious

Although that varies from country to country which complicates things

True, which is why I worded it that way.

Just like smoking and marijuana laws and giving wine to children...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-everyone-should-stand-still-on-an-escalator

One day we will be able to add “walking on the escalator” and that day will be joyous and glorious

the needs of the few people in a hurry outweigh the needs of the many lazy bastards.

number of things in history that mattered that were affected by someone walking or standing on an escalator: possibly a jackie chan chase sequence, but thats it id say

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/escalator-lad.gif

i am an unrepentant escalator climber btw

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I can count things that I thought were socially acceptable even if no one else ever did, right? because this thread reminded me that in high school I gave each of my friends unbidden a printed out copy of my CD wishlist prior to my birthday. (god bless the one friend who actually bought me something on it.)

things you once thought socially acceptable which now horrify you to remember

AKA "things I lie in bed thinking about having done in the past month or so"

When I was in high school, a lot of people listened to Howard Stern while driving in the morning. My best friend's parents would often talk about his show. One time when I was having dinner at her house I started talking about the porn star who was trying to set the record for the biggest gangbang ever that he had just interviewed And I totally thought this was completely normal dinner conversation since it was obvious we all listened to his show.

To this day, my friend still refers to the time I brought up gangbangs to her parents.

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good threads, better times

yeah there are definitely a handful of specific ILX posts i would like to un-post or have the username anonymized or something, was trying out certain forms of performative or oversharing online whatever-ness and they are gross to me now. kinda feel like someday someone is going to track them down and hold them against me.

is there another thread for stuff that's considered socially acceptable now that will be unbelievable in 20+ years?

off the top of my head:

cellphone radiation
factory farming
vaping

crypto mining maybe

oh yeah giving info to tech 100%, that probably won't take 20 years though

likely a lot of necessary retraction for environmental band-aids: end of plastic water bottles, less air conditioning everywhere, red meat becoming a shameful luxury item

otm, tho I feel like AC will be the last to go

i think red meat will be last! lots of lobbyists and murrican jobs, plus multiple decades of people brainwashed into believing red meat is TRUE FOOD and a sign of casual wealth. would not be surprised to see NIMBY state legislature blocking federal mandates to reduce red meat consumption in the 2040's

Ideally I’d like to eat only expensive red meat but there’s so much of the cheap shit available

Not recycling your kitchen waste, which most people (in the UK at least) don't seem to do

or care about

I do wonder if we're going to face some reckoning with cellphones like people did with cigarettes. It'll take another decade or two to see right? I'm thinking wild new cancers

everybody dies according to the vices of their time maaaan

think a separate thread for lecturing everyone about the things you personally dislike about 2019 tho tbf

Watching this episode of The Golden Girls last night, this scene reminded me of this thread. Even on a largely queer-positive (and queer-beloved) series, 1980s were often indistinguishable from the 1930s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlpVaRyit84

gregg turkington: the early years

the pilot episode of the golden girls had a gay houseboy character called coco which i don't think would fly today