What was socially acceptable when you we're young, but now it's not.

@FreddieUK I recall a somewhat similar conversation, in a mixed group.

At the time it was becoming unacceptable for solo male motorists to stop to offer assistance to lone women drivers whose cars had broken down. More accurately, becoming dangerous to do so. All we men present agreed we would somehow fail to spot the stranded driver, and the women in the group did sympathise with us.

I think a lot of this was being stepped up partly by the tiny number of serious attacks that do happen; but also by certain politicians and others, notably Harriet Harman (MP, and married) and her pal Roz Hepplewhite. Hepplewhite came over as a very cold-hearted, arch bureaucrat socially unfit to run the non-political Child Support Agency she was paid to oversee. These two women helped foment a widespread myth that all men are dangerous to all women and children. Never the other way round.

@ArishMell yes i remember talking to someone at that time, now in his mid 80s, he told me whereas once he would have stopped to help a stranded woman driver now he would drive on until he could find a convenient parking place and then call the police by mobile to say he had passed a stranded woman driver at "X". Of course the police might then take 2 hours or so to go and investigate .....

@exexec didn't you move? North or something?

@WowwGirl Yes, we moved to Texas, but by then, most things I mentioned had changed in my hometown.

@exexec that's crazy. 90% of things mentioned on this page still happens were I live. Dang

@JimboSaturn do they just take your word for all that?

@WowwGirl I think the fire department may come in some instances and check out you property. Of course it's also a way for your municipality to make money lol. I think having to go through the formality of getting a permit, will make you think about what your are doing a little more.

@JimboSaturn yeah no way, that sounds like a lot

@ArishMell I remember the stubbers! Stubbed-out cigarettes seemed to be everywhere when I was a lad.

@SpudMuffin They were. Now it's discarded single-use "vapes"; and the sale of these will soon be illegal because they are so much trouble.

I miss smoking in bars

@JimboSaturn Until you mentioned the last three, I had forgotten them. It goes to show just how normalised those behaviours are now to the point that I don't even think about them as issues. But the transitions to each position (probably can't speak authoritatively about the last) were fraught with arguments over personal freedom.

@FreddieUK I remember being flabbergasted that you wouldn't be able to smoke in a pub or bar!! That's all we did was smoke and drink! I thought the world had gone mad lol.

I knew people who would litteral drink while driving; they claimed it actually made them a better driver.

@JimboSaturn Yep, I remember that too. I guess most of them are dead now...one way or another. 😕

@JimboSaturn that’s what I remember. Many of the cartoons I watched had some blatantly racist images. And the N word was somewhat common to hear during normal conversation.

Or did the suburbs move out to the country?

@HumanEarth At some places definitely.

@Gangstress @JimboSaturn

What I mean is. Back when I was young it was common you use them terms against someone and not think twice about.

Same with spankings and such