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re: What is something normalized now that you believed was a scam when implemented?

Posted on 3/19/25 at 12:55 pm to
Posted by Dizz
Member since May 2008
15535 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 12:55 pm to
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Smoking in-doors ban -Seat belt laws


What was a scam about these?
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
34055 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 12:58 pm to
That is not possible. You're much younger.


Posted by Honest Tune
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
18208 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 12:59 pm to
Text messages.
Posted by olemc999
At a blackjack table
Member since Oct 2010
14516 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 1:15 pm to
quote:

You thought smoking bans was a scam? How so?


There was “science” out there that claimed second hand smoking was bullshite. A show I used to watch called bullshite by Penn and Teller did an episode and then had to retract it when it was proven that second hand smoke can cause lung cancer. Back in the day smoking was associated with the rich and the young. People that wanted the smoking ban were looked at like old evangelicals trying to remove sin from the public. Smoking wasn’t viewed as the white trash thing it is nowadays.
Posted by Slinger16
Not Louisiana
Member since Jun 2007
21884 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 1:40 pm to
Bottled water
MPEGs
Drive Thru Oil Change
Posted by RaoulDuke504
Member since Aug 2023
2905 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 1:41 pm to
quote:

What was a scam about these?


I was just listing things that was seen as radical at the time that are normal now
Posted by Ricardo
Member since Sep 2016
5723 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 1:46 pm to
Smartphones. I never thought it would catch on with the mainstream. Then, social media happened and it was all over from there.
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
137873 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 1:57 pm to
Bitcoin
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
74934 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:01 pm to
quote:

Credit scores are probably considered even more of a scam now
I'm not certain where I gave permission for my personal information to be collected by 3 companies i wasn't familiar with so that they could be hacked and expose my numbers.
Posted by holmesbr
Baton Rouge, La.
Member since Feb 2012
3531 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:05 pm to
quote:

The bigger scam IMO was the "smoking section" separated by a partition that was only 4 feet off the ground that people just rolled with for years.


When I was a kid there was no partition. Just this 4 ft aisle separates smoking and non smoking.
Posted by Gravitiger
Member since Jun 2011
11510 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:06 pm to
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I'm not certain where I gave permission for my personal information to be collected by 3 companies i wasn't familiar with so that they could be hacked and expose my numbers.
Every time you didn't read the fine print when opening a credit account or taking out a loan.
Posted by LCA131
Home of the Fake Sig lines
Member since Feb 2008
75007 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:09 pm to
Wearing underwear
Posted by WhiskeyThrottle
Weatherford Tx
Member since Nov 2017
6438 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:21 pm to
Toll roads are a scam.
Posted by Pork Que
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2010
838 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:22 pm to
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The Dewey Decimal System…what a scam that was.


The biggest scam perpetrated on the American public since one hour martinizing.
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
74934 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:30 pm to
quote:

Every time you didn't read the fine print when opening a credit account or taking out a loan
I suppose so.
Posted by cbree88
South Louisiana
Member since Feb 2010
7952 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:31 pm to
Women farting
Posted by wesfau
Member since Mar 2023
1137 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 2:42 pm to
Honestly it doesn't matter if you read it or not. It's a take-it or leave-it scenario.

That used to be called adhesion, but we've seemingly abandoned that as a legal concept.
Posted by OlGrandad
Member since Oct 2009
3995 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 3:46 pm to
Crazy checks.
Posted by Lake08
Member since Jun 2023
1783 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 3:49 pm to
And a camera gonna help you??? Funny
Posted by 3deadtrolls
lafayette
Member since Jan 2014
6333 posts
Posted on 3/19/25 at 3:51 pm to
Subscriptions for everything, especially stuff in vehicles. Damn you Onstar and XM radio for starting it.

eta: Also photography and everyone having cameras everywhere. shite is dystopian.
This post was edited on 3/19/25 at 3:52 pm
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