42 Things That Used To Be Normal In Society But Are Illegal Now

Only if you're a woman!

Basically the disappearance of women's rights in general. Extreme political and religious groups are dangerous.

Thanks, religion!

Well, can't let the Shayṭān provoke men to whip "it" out and commit a sin because they saw a woman's hair...

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Every Saturday, when I was 12. I used to walk in the bank, withdraw money from my dad's account, buy his cigarettes, and place bet for gramps in the bookies. All just by carrying his bank book.

Can confirm. I was that kid.

Ah, popping down the shops to get my parents cigs, fun times.

Yep, when I was young, maybe 8 or 9 I regularly used to pop over to the corner shop and get my mum 20 St Moritz cigarettes, I can remember licking the tips of those minty cigarettes on the way home...

Cigarette vending machines were everywhere.

And smoke a cigarettes right there at the gate.

On hot summer evenings back in the day, people would drive out to the airport and park in a spot right by the runway, because there always seems to be a steady breeze at an airport. People would bring their kids. We’d all sit on the hoods or roofs of our cars and watch the planes take off and land. It was great entertainment, totally free, the kids all loved it as much as their parents, and the breeze would cool us off. I have great memories of doing that, alone or with friends. It was fun, and kind of a communal thing too, because there were a lot of ex-military and airplane fans who were regulars. Conversation would flow, even between strangers. I was told (or overheard) so many great stories about their experiences, and learned quite a lot about how planes work. Can’t do that now, unless you pay to go to an airshow, because the f*****g terrorists just had to go and ruin everything, and make everyone paranoid. (I’m American, and 62 now, so these memories are from when I was a young adult in the eighties and nineties.)

For domestic airlines in Australia, you can still meet people at the terminal gate. Few people do, because it's now a bleedin' long walk from the entrance.

It's coming back. Detroit Metro is among airports that recently started allowing people through security to meet a plane. Just scan your ID at a kiosk.

My kids have zero concept of this. It hit me the other day when we went to pick up their aunt and said it would have been nice to be there at the gate to help her. They had no clue what I was talking about

This is still perfectly legal in most places. Just not on the interstate.

But can we talk about the ladies on the left's spider leg.

In the town I live in you can still do this.

We rode in my friends mom's and she didn't even have a tailgate. Just a single rope from one side to the other. Lol. I should seriously be dead.

"OK" on the "rez" ... in AZ, anyway

When I was in college, in the 90s, we smoked right inside the buildings. Didn't even have to go outside... I've quit, since then, and I could not live in a smoke friendly environnement. Nasty.

When I was in school in the 2000 the teachers had a break area where they could smoke.

Smoking EVERYWHERE school, hospital, plane, restaurant....

and no one was upset about it. it always amused me how in restaurants and airplanes you had to walk through the smoking section to get to the non-smoking

I'm old enough to remember going to see the doctor and he would offer you a cigarette as he was lighting one up.

Not gonna advocate for coke 😆 but I need a kick this am too

They used to put cocaine in everything including toothpaste and you could buy opium off the shelves

Morphine was also legal in USA and Germany. LSD was legal until 1966 in USA. Marijuana was legal in USA until 1937. Of course, now it is legal in many states. Ironic that Holland, which was the first to decriminalize cannabis for personal use, still considers it quasi-legal today.

Is cocaine this common?

Just remember that coke is processed with Kerosene that in turn dissolves your nasal cartiledges. How self destructive is the use of this dangerous drug? ABSOLUTE !!!!

This needs to be voted higher. Pollution is down to about 1% of the level that it was in the 1970s, in most countries of the world. Anti-pollution legislation is made tighter and tighter every five years or even more often than that. "On June 22, 1969, an oil slick caught fire on the Cuyahoga River just southeast of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The image that the "the river caught fire" motivated change to protect the environment", throughout the world.

People still sometimes use motor oil on their gravel driveways here because it's great for killing grass and weeds growing through the gravel apparently. But yeah, pollution will always remain a problem until the government stops allowing legal and illegal bribery from corporations. An example, a company can use an unlined hole in the ground to dump their toxic chemicals for decades and when the EPA finally gets around to stopping them and fining them, the fine is so tiny that the company saved so much by dumping in the hole and they get a slap on the wrist. I think corporate fines for environmental crimes should be equal to at a minimum 50% of each year of company profits during the years they were committing the crimes and the actual humans responsible for making the decisions should be held personally accountable as well. Then, maybe, corporations would think twice about committing environmental crimes.

And yet, after all that, most people still don't know how (or just won't) recycle.

While not illegal, it is greatly frowned upon, and doing this can get the cops and or CPS called on you. What is interesting is kids are actually safer than ever and there are a lot less incidents of being kidnapped by a stranger. What happened is the Internet. What would have been local news, now is national news thanks to the ability to share news on a much larger scale. Now people know about everything that happens, and it makes it feel that things are less safe, so the pendulum swung to being overcautious. I am a xenial (a sub generation between 1977-1983) and I grew up watching shows like Americas Most Wanted which had a lot of Kidnappers because the creator's sin was kidnapped, Adam Walsh. We watched the Polly Klaas kidnapping happen in real time, and missing kids faces were plastered on milk cartons. Being kidnapped was a very real threat to us, even though rare, and it has greatly effected the way we raised the next generations.