‘What was unimaginable 10 years ago, but we’re now totally used to?’ 17 mind-bending ways times have changed
10.
‘Diseases that have been dormant for decades coming back.’
-SituationalRambo
11.
‘People being able to live a long life while being HIV positive.’
-JamesSmith1200
12.
‘Grocery pickup in our cars.’
-Eclectic7112
13.
‘Two very uk based ones:
Brexit – I was a final year politics student in 2014 and no one thought we would vote for Brexit, let alone a hard Brexit as that would be economic madness.
The normalisation of the far right – UKIP were on the rise but very much a fringe minority. The Conservatives were dogmatic in austerity but socially they had legalised gay marriage, promoted the big society, and were at least performatively tolerant. Worlds away from the culture war nonsense now.’
-cheezus-rocks
14.
‘The government no longer denying the existence of UFOs.’
-BigD4163
15.
‘That in 2024 we would be fighting about the abortion issue.’
-Curmudgeon_I_am
16.
‘Going to the store to buy marijuana legally.’
-agomorphed
17.
‘Maybe not 10 years ago (more like 20), but according to my grandma, everyone having tattoos. She said not a lot of people had them and even less would show them proudly, but now if you go to a waterpark or any place where lots of skin is exposed, you’ll see so many people with tattoos.
My grandma is very against tattoos, it’s so funny to hear her rant about them. I have a small one that I’ve been hiding from her for 2 years now lol.’
-sirona-ryan