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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