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"It was alright in the 2020's"
Meat eating?
Owning pets?
Woodburners?
Single passenger cars?
Diesels?
Excess bedrooms?
Airmiles- esp. on food?
So what won't be acceptable in the next decades that we take for granted now?
Using helium to fill balloons will hopefully become a.not.O.K
Having readily available food and medicine.
At the current rate of trajectory, nothing will be acceptable.
Making fun of gingers, but mostly being a white, straight male.
Persistant plastics- not so good.
frequent flyers
2 car households
yeah probably meat eating
Meat eating?
Owning pets?
Woodburners?
Single passenger cars?
Diesels?
Excess bedrooms?
Airmiles- esp. on food?
A good list, probably not that far off with some of them
Driving yourself about could be coming up, hopefully gun ownership
Gravel bikes
Hardtails
Binners
Tons tatties
Having unnecessary kids.
Referendums
Nuts will be bought from behind a flap behind the counter similar to cigarettes for only over 18 year olds only. "100g of dry roasted please" Health warnings and photographs on packets.
"Innocent until proven guilty" and "The right to a fair trial" will become obsolete concepts.
Little Johnny will be lynched on site because it was proven on Facebook that he murdered Matilda by stuffing a packet of honey roast cashews down her throat.
Romantic comedies about besotted men stalking women until the women finally give up and put out for them.
Single passenger cars?
I’d be happy to share my car with someone, in return for them sharing the fuel cost.
Problem is, finding someone who wants to travel from Chippenham to an industrial estate on the edge of Westbury, leaving at 06.15, returning at 16.00 one week, and leaving at 09.15, returning at 19.00 the next.
I would imagine the chances are pretty slim.
So what won’t be acceptable in the next decades that we take for granted now?
Nostalgia.
Single party Governments
Smart Motorways
Single Sex Schools
Cash
TV’s
The food / diet / exercise thing seems to be the big thing that will change as the harm is so obvious and costly. Things like the "golden mile" for primary school kids are getting so much coverage and take up that there seems to be change building already. Things that may go down as "acceptable in the 20s":
Having umpteen takeaways / fast food places per head of population but nowhere to buy proper food
The promotion and normalisation of crazily unhealthy food, particularly to children. E.g. a starter / main / desert sunday lunch in many pub chains could exceed a kids daily calorie intake by a factor or 2 or 3.
Sedentary lifestyles at work / home.
Oh and having hundreds of dogs per head of population and using valuable open spaces for open defecation. See also kids not playing outside.
Threads taking about the "good old days" .
Shower gel
TOMD: I couldn't agree more. Especially about the dogs.
So what won’t be acceptable in the next decades that we take for granted now?
Pedalling.
*ducks and runs*
Using helium to fill balloons will hopefully become a.not.O.K
+1. For two reasons, the litter of deflated balloons and the waste of irreplaceable helium (which not enough people are aware of).
Problem is, finding someone who wants to travel from Chippenham to an industrial estate on the edge of Westbury, leaving at 06.15, returning at 16.00 one week, and leaving at 09.15, returning at 19.00 the next.
It doesn't have to be the same person both ways. Wasn't that what Uber was originally set up to facilitate, until it mutated to an agency for professional lift-sharers.
Using helium to fill balloons will hopefully become a.not.O.K
This one
How far are we projecting? I’m going for 2030:
Dentists
EV cars
Cars that have 0-60 times less than 20s and all are speed restricted to 80kph
Car tyres wider than 200mm
NHS
Collective Pensions
Office working. Manufacturing plants will be robotic and those small one off places will be protected by Law to no more than two people working in them.
Libraries
Local Government
Cancer
A pill to kill yourself with
Aeroplanes powered by fossil fuels, in fact aeroplanes will have long since been defunct
Food with any taste
Beer, the only alcohol you will be allowed is 50%proof
MPs
Container ships powered by fossil fuels
Happy people
STW
guzzling cans of coke.
Pretty much bang on Tomd.
rude banter in an office environment.
Any current bike standards. The ability to have a laugh with work mates. Other than that things will pretty much remain the same.
According to Wikipedia, we might be OK with helium after all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium
Maybe see if the new supply pans out before we go crazy with the balloons.
According to Wikipedia, we might be OK with helium after all.
Say it again in a squeaky voice.
Business travel. Skype you ****ers. (the proposed Oxford to Cambridge Expressway is great. Two high tech centres exporting knowledge needing an expensive and disruptive physical link between the cities? I'm not so sure they are that bright. Lord Melchett was a Cambridge man wasn't he?)
Companies being allowed to employ people who reside more than a specified distance from their place of work - or at the very least paying a substantial environmental tax for doing so.
Access to free nhs services above a specified BMI.
Amount of kids that can be popped out determined by your yearly income. If you can't feed and clothe them, stop reproducing. All straight white males will be used for tests and research.
Casually addressing somebody one doesn't know as buddy.
Companies being allowed to employ people who reside more than a specified distance from their place of work
We already started to do this where I work. If they don't live within our catchment we won't employ them unless they are willing to move.
being a white, straight male.
If you could choose, which other combination would you pick/has it better?
If you could choose, which other combination would you pick/has it better?
I would say anybody that lives in a first world country and actually tries to make a go of things should be getting by ok.
We already started to do this where I work. If they don’t live within our catchment we won’t employ them unless they are willing to move.
Do you work in a shop in Royston Vasey?
Social media
I would say anybody that lives in a first world country and actually tries to make a go of things should be getting by ok.
Oh, so misogyny, racism and homophobia simply don’t exist in the first world, as long as you ‘make a go of things’?
You really should tell people it’s all in their heads.
Selling cans of environmentally unfriendly PTFE sprays for 5p.
Fireworks .
Open access to porn
Horses shitting on roads and pavements
Firework sales to the public
17 year olds injecting botulinum into their friends' faces
Cannabis
Availability of booze everywhere. A Systembolaget approach will be adopted
Driving licenses for 17 year olds
Thought of another couple :-
Decadent purchase of bits of east asian manufactured carbon fibre (and other materials) shipped around the globe for recreational purposes to replace other perfectly serviceable bits of carbon fibre that are a wheel size or degree of head angle out of fashion.
Also
Fast fashion
Oh, so misogyny, racism and homophobia simply don’t exist in the first world, as long as you ‘make a go of things’?
No all these things exist for white males as well.
Horses shitting on roads and pavements
What’s wrong with that? It’s a pretty rare occurrence, and it’s plant-based and an ideal source of nutrients for you garden. When I was a kid, and a horse-drawn wagon came round, (and there were still a few, coal, milk and vegetables), there would almost be a race to see who could shovel up any equine by-products, usually with the coal shovel.
Religion.
We will all become flatearthists
glowsticks
credit/debit/loyalty cards
lights that stay on when you leave the room
one use plastic bottles and vending machines
non negotiable terms and conditions
Energy drinks.
I got the OP's thread wrong. I thought it was things in the 80's we cannot do now.
classic cars with high emessions. - I hope not though.
Business travel. Skype you ****.
Much as I hate business travel, Skype is a very poor substitute. Also, if you live in Western Europe / USA the business culture makes it more viable. Here you do business with a company, the sales person isn't so relevant. But in many parts of the world, where contracts aren't effectively enforceable, you do business with a person and their reputation is your guarantee; so you have to meet in person and shake hands, go for a beer etc; as otherwise you can't build the necessary relationship to get the business.
thats alright. It won't be long until personality and trust will be verified digitally. Everything else is already known about us.
So we're basically doomed them.
Much as I hate business travel, Skype is a very poor substitute.
Just because it isn’t as convenient to do online meetings it is no reason to carry on ****ing up the world. Get it sorted and make it work.
Much as I hate business travel, Skype is a very poor substitute.
For 90% of Stuff Skype is ideal, I can sit anywhere in the world and have a proper conversation, share content and all the normal meeting stuff except shake hands. Covering Oz & NZ from one location meant you soon got over the little issues and just get on with it otherwise you would spend your entire life in airports - I still did a lot but it cut heaps out. If it can cut out 80% then it's brilliant.
Retirement. DC pensions are not going to cut it. The only answer will be working until you drop. Hopefully by then, we'll actually get some say in when we drop.
Retirement. DC pensions are not going to cut it.
Start early enough and get into the habit and it will. This stuff needs to be taught in school.
But it not taught in school, and there's a whole generation where a large proportion are going to be lost between the old DB and the new DC.
Start early enough and get into the habit and it will. This stuff needs to be taught in school.
Yep, once you have saved for your house deposit and get that in your 40's, deal with wage deflation for decades and another recession, coupled with longer life expectancy I can't see any gap in people's abilities to save enough for a pension
Well this a cheerful thread isn’t it? To add to the overall mood of doom I’ll say **** all will change, things will just get steadily worse for everyone.
Wrapping paper.
Kuco
Companies being allowed to employ people who reside more than a specified distance from their place of work...
Sounds like a good idea on the face of it.
The corollary is that the company should not be allowed to accept work /business from more than that specified distance.
Which may make the idea less popular... 🙂
Yep, once you have saved for your house deposit and get that in your 40’s, deal with wage deflation for decades and another recession, coupled with longer life expectancy I can’t see any gap in people’s abilities to save enough for a pension
While it might not be possible for absolutely everyone there are a large number for whom it is, but it requires setting priorities.
Sales reps.
Companies being allowed to employ people who reside more than a specified distance from their place of work…
Which means a lot of Essex/Kent/Surrey/Hertfordshire/Berkshire will be awash with Commuters sitting in coffee bars or killing time in kids playgrounds.
🤣
Care in the community innit.
Hope, freedom and autonomy.
Onzadog
Retirement. DC pensions are not going to cut it. The only answer will be working until you drop.
The problem is pension pots are irresistible to thieving governments and bankers.
They rob them blind, then talk as if pensions are welfare rather than something people have paid for.
To cover it they start brainwashing the public that the pensioners are a drain on the state instead of admitting the money has been "repurposed".
And of course the dumbos and haters swallow that propaganda, and allow the govt to set new schemes which also will be later robbed blind.