“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.

@rene59 “.. mostly being a white, straight male.”

You can discuss this at your next Gillette BBQ

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 ****. (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?