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The times they are a changing...
So, what is acceptable now but in the future will not be?
I bet tobacco, if 'discovered' today would not be permitted. Glass also, possibly. Discuss.
Imagine if fire was just invented H&S would have a field day.
"So you want to put a hole in the wall and fill it with fire?"
Glass?
How about keeping "domestic" animals in cities? I bet that'll seem pretty weird looking back.
Fireworks.
The motor car.
Cycling without a helmet (probably sooner rather than later), insurance, tax, hi viz,etc 🙁
Driving a car
Paying with horrible dirty cash
Smoking in public places
Trolling because it's "only the internet"
Wage slavery
Pretending capital is more important than production (and impairing production by hoarding capital)
checking phones during conversation
Giving the barmaid/waitress a pat on the arse.
Eating meat - except for the artificially grown stuff
Chinese lanterns.
Not that they're particularly acceptable now, especially where thatched properties are concerned.
almost everything
Sex - look at the diseases
Real relationships with people - hell, why do that when you have FB
Open fires
Using Knives
You name it ....
Excessive travelling.
Whether it be by air or road, commuting or pleasure.
Ties. In much the same way that JFK killed the hat, meetings of heads of state are now conducted by people not wearing ties and I suspect this coming generation will be the first where most people will live a lifetime without having occasion to either own or wear one - not for school, not on graduation day, not for a job interview, not on their wedding day and not at a funeral.
It puts a lot of blokes in a tricky situation currently though as they don't know how to dress without one. Nick Clegg often doesn't wear a tie, but the result is that he looks like he's forgotten to put his tie on.
I bet [s]tobacco[/s] alcohol, if 'discovered' today would not be permitted.
Vaping.
Criticising Dear Leader
...How about keeping "domestic" animals in cities? I bet that'll seem pretty weird looking back
seems pretty weird now really!
Driving in built up areas.
OK, not so much unacceptable as just old fashioned..
Waiting for each episode of a TV series to be aired on Terrestrial/Cable/Satellite TV before you can watch them
The use of Facebook, Tinder etc, in the future we will all have an LED implanted in our forehead showing other people our current status at that moment
some really good thoughts up there eg internal combustion engine/cars, alcohol, glass, pets.
Also:
Working tax credits (by that i mean as a way of helping businesses keep their staff costs down).
PFI or LIFT projects.
Paracetemol in its current tablet/freely available form.
FPTP and an upper house or whatever it is in the furure with hereditary peers in it.
Paper books. 😥
Landfill refuse on the scale we have it now (replaced by better recycling and burning of refuse for energy).
Oh and the Citizen's Band. I am sure that will be sold off too chepaly so we can watch more lolcats on our iphone mk 66's or something.
Cycle infrastructure based on assault courses.
I'm betting that the right-leaning will imagine the future becoming more North Korea and/or Sharia law - and the left-leaning imagine it becoming more US of A with a Teaparty prez
Criticising [s]dear leader[/s] Lord high chancellor and protector Farage"FTFY. May have just signed my own death warrant.
Annual product cycles (ie launching a new model every year with different colour scheme rather than a rolling upgrade)
Leaving people to suffer the agony of a long and painful death in old age
Drunken one night stands
Killing cyclists with automobiles (hopefully).
Heading the ball in football.
Keeping animals locked in houses/cages/fields as human possessions or 'pets'.
Marriage.
Children
Masturbating on an airplane
Flared trousers.
The fact that in spite of being more than 50% of the population women are still in the minority in positions of power in developed countries, earn less etc, and in less developed countries are routinely abused and degraded in the name of cultural and religious practices.
Hollyoaks.
Judging people because of their size.
Riding a bike with 26" wheels
Eating meat.
Human poverty.
Nation states.
Top Gear
Politicians
Religion
bad forum posts
Hels
"The fact that in spite of being more than 50% of the population women are still in the minority in positions of power in developed countries, earn less etc, and in less developed countries are routinely abused and degraded in the name of cultural and religious practices." Calm down dear. 😆
Tolerance and fair mindedness (unfortunately)
Inequality and austerity
Screwing future generations with debt to satisfy current desires
Microwave ovens
Judging people because of their size.
The last bastion of teh bantz??!! look, we already can't use the wimminz or disabled or poofters or the foreigners for much fun because of PC leftie nonsense...what will happen if you take the fatties out of it? That just leaves gingers and baldies? 🙁
Cougar - Moderator
Judging people because of their size.
I dunno, the old "it's how you use it" answer seems to work well.
Urination and defecation.
Being told where you can or cannot go based on which side your ancestors were on at the Battle of Hastings.
Free will and being allowed to have your own ideas
House of commons and House of lords
Out dated twaddle
Definitely private motor cars.
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Definitely private motor cars.
Disagree. As driverless cars become the norm, I reckon cars will become even more of a status symbol - effectively a home on wheels so those who spend lots of time in them or who want to show off will be pimping them up with all sorts of crap inside - home cinema on wheels?
The use of energy/natural resources will either be very different or we will have slipped into some sort of Waterworld/Mad Max apocalypse scenario.Either way we'll look back on how we behaved now as very naive.
Living on state pensions, whilst consuming state provided healthcare & expecting 'the state' to look after us 'free' in our dotage. The sums don't add up - too many of us are going to live on in a physical condition not conducive to life sustaining employment and with ever spiralling health bills for all the new wonder drugs available but not doing the decent thing and actually dying to clear a bit of space for the next generation.
too many of us are going to live on in a physical condition not conducive to productive employment
Interesting. But what percentage of jobs in the future will require any physical activity whatsoever except for moving maybe one finger? Once we've tackled Alzheimer's related illness then why retire anyone? We can fixed to one screen or another screen until our working lives are cut short only by that other screen with a flat line on it?
Once we've tackled Alzheimer's related illness
I reckon that's going to be some way off - at least as I understand it from friends in the medical profession, while we're making huge strides in terms of keeping people alive and working to some level, things like Alzheimers continue to occur at roughly the same age/rate.
Interesting. But what percentage of jobs in the future will require any physical activity whatsoever except for moving maybe one finger?
True - but by 'physical condition' I guess I also included mental condition. - a bit of dementia or just good old fashioned fatigue. Assuming they could be trained on the IT systems required how many 80 odd yr olds today would be considered valuable employees in sedentary jobs? edit to your edit - and like nemesis I see science fixing us to make us physically sustainable long before we are at the same position with mental longevity.
+1 for politicians.
Lunch, and other non-work related activities.
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Walking to school, or has this already been superceded?
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Relating (outside of anonymous forum banter)
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UKIP
Shooting fishing etc
Retirement.
I'm not sure a lot of the H@S bs is actually real HSE The it's more of nobs overthinking than the actual real HSE guidelines...
I'm not sure there's much more than can actualy be deemed unacceptable other than smoking/drinking and that makes too much money....nearly everything else has pretty much been sown up....
I do find it funny thou that what was unacceptable a while back ... 24 hr drinking,24 hr online gambling and mental apr payday loans is acceptable
Pursuing a woefully counterproductive 'war on drugs'.
Christmas
There was a programme on TV the other night called the 12 Drinks of Christmas. It was Alexander Armstrong and Giles Coren getting gloriously pissed whilst making all sorts of potent concoctions. Really funny but I thought at the time this is going to be on one of those clip shows in 20 years time when shocked people look back on our irresponsible behaviour, just like we look back at shows like Mind Your Language now.
I remember "mind your language " it was as funny as Miranda .....
Ultimate classic is probably "love they neighbour " for bad taste ..
(Edit : I dont find Miranda funny )
Stupidity
Using internal combustion engines?
smelly old people
Wearing gender specific clothing.
Intelligence once the flynn effect has gone into reverse.
Belief in a religion, with any luck.
[quote=ninfan ]Annual product cycles (ie launching a new model every year with different colour scheme rather than a rolling upgrade)
Good point. Advances in the supply chain will presumably allow them to do work on a biannual or shorter product cycle.
[quote=Malvern Rider ]Relating (outside of anonymous forum banter)
People still do that? 😯
Glass also, possibly.
I'm still racking my brains trying to work out how, exactly, glass could be unacceptable.
Unless, of course, the intention was to put the word Google in front, in which case it's a moot point, as Google have themselves torched the whole project because it became one big cluster***.
Allowing belief in an imaginary friend to encourage hideous behaviour.
Textspeak.
Poor spelling in tweets.
The use of the word "stoked" for anything other than stove related topics.
Using public parks as dog toilets
Social media will seem quaint... as will smartphones.
Possible that English as the dominant global language will seem old-fashioned. 'What you weren't all taught Mandarin?'
Buying pre-manufactured goods of all kinds from a central maker somewhere the other side of the world, rather than downloading the design and printing it yourself or popping down to your community print shop.
Being able to take the train to London instead of going to see it in a tourist submarine after global warming's done it's thing 🙂
Owning a 29er.
****ing on buses