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EarlG

(21,945 posts)
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 12:47 PM Feb 2022

Good Day DU (February 15, 2022)

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Question of the Day: What is socially acceptable today that you think won't be in 10 years?

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Good Day DU (February 15, 2022) (Original Post) EarlG Feb 2022 OP
Question of the Day: What is socially acceptable today that you think won't be in 10 years? Emile Feb 2022 #1
Congrats DU'ers Ohio Joe Feb 2022 #2
Karening is already becoming socially unacceptable. Aristus Feb 2022 #3

Emile

(22,669 posts)
1. Question of the Day: What is socially acceptable today that you think won't be in 10 years?
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 01:02 PM
Feb 2022

Hopefully wearing face masks to avoid catching the covid virus!

Ohio Joe

(21,752 posts)
2. Congrats DU'ers
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 02:28 PM
Feb 2022

What is socially acceptable today that you think won't be in 10 years?

Hopefully, talking on your phone in public without holding it to your ear... Or some other ay for people to know you are on the phone. The other day, my brother and I were sitting outside a quick stop waiting for my niece to come out. There was a guy that was either a crazy person or someone having an animated conversation on the phone. We really could not tell

Aristus

(66,316 posts)
3. Karening is already becoming socially unacceptable.
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 04:55 PM
Feb 2022

But for decades, we had to put up with these entitled monsters because we had been brainwashed into thinking that "the customer is always right."

I'm thinking in ten years or so, potential Karens will have learned to speak softly, remain polite, and stop making unreasonable demands.

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