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

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

incidentally played by that actor who died this week, the guy who played the mohel on that ep of seinfeld

flappy your cell phone cancer trutherism is one of your more endearing quirks

lol im just spitballin here!

I’m still suspicious of cancer from office microwave ovens tbh

Stand on both sides of the escalator. The others will follow. Counterintuitive as it may seem

“Block anyone from walking and people will stop walking,” what a galaxy brain revelation from someone who has never seen a married couple use an escalator

WS threads

I'll go one better, WDYLL underwear threads! What were we all thinking.

More like how much were we all drinking

brb having a few and stripping down

Remember the Luna pic

No

Wtf ppl posted pics in their underwear?!

it was the oughts

there were no rules

the only rule was to be hot, or not

We really screwed the world domination stately there. Once upon a time ilxor was mentioned in the same breath as Reddit and Metafilter (by the guardian at least). If only we'd worked a bit harder a positing in our underwear we could have overtaken reddit and cornered the market in Nazi,s Flat earth's, anti vaxxers and people with there bits out.

ILX: Like Metafilter, without the pizzazz.

Wtf ppl posted pics in their underwear?!

I don’t know that there’s any evidence Andrew ever had underwear on in his pics, tbh

There were a few full montys IIRC?

phrase that will forever haunt my waking hours: Tuomas sundae

cellphone radiation

this is seriously not harmful at all

I had a more serious contribution but now I can't stop lolling at Tuomas sundae

Ken C doing a flip over Tuomas sundae

That's the one that sticks with me the most.

just another tuomas sundae

(woah woh)

Wish it were Finnday

I still say the phrase in my head, notably when there's a sports Super Sunday.

if I posted a nude WDYLL photo would you FP (Flag Post) or FP (Fap Posthaste)

Only one way to find out.

ilxor nude selfies wouldn't really truly be nude as the glasses and beard would still be in play

cellphone radiation

this is seriously not harmful at all

― Vape Store (crüt), Friday, July 19, 2019 9:27 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Go on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfgT6zx4k3Q

just plopping down and watching whatever is on tv, or making plans to watch a block of sitcom shows on a specific night is kind of dead
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, July 16, 2019 5:12 PM

I think loads of people still do this. Mostly non-internet people.

guys fucking each other
― Οὖτις, Monday, July 15, 2019 10:12 PM

You used to find socially acceptable? I'm assuming you meant to say you used to be homophobic?

He was responding to the post immediately preceding his

A more interesting discussion might be “behaviors you thought would never become socially acceptable and then they did”

Gah, sorry! Don't know how I missed that!

Iranian news agencies apparently reporting they have taken a 2nd tanker.

lol wrong thread

Capturing tankers will never be socially acceptable.