Rockposting

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• Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Actually after Pebbles is born Wilma becomes a journalist for the Daily Granite. Get your Flintstones lore right

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Womenfolk in the workforce? These are strange times, my fellow Water Buffalo!”

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  • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    she also occasionally worked as a Cigarette Girl. “Cigars! Cigarettes! … Cigars! Cigarettes! …”

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    • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That was before she married Fred. In fact, that’s how they meet, he was a bellhop in the same resort.

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• NoneYa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not to mention it was a smart home with all kinds of AI minus the “artificial” part of AI.

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  • Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even more accurate is to say that he paid the salaries of a large number of animal “house workers” hence their catchphrase “It’s a living!” They all earned their living off of that one guy’s income

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was he actually illiterate? That might have went over my head when I watched it as a kid.

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• Battle_Masker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  do remember that Reaganomics hadn’t been invented yet, so wages, income, and all that were MUCH better

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• ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Was he actually illiterate? That might have went over my head when I watched it as a kid.

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  • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember seeing Fred read the news on his stone tablet.

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Plus being able to drive implies at least some degree of literacy

      Unless Fred was raised by some of those middle of the woods car wizard redneck types that are dangerously close to keeping their vehicles together and running through Waagh energy

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    • cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He was just looking at the hieroglyphs

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  • RandomStickman@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I'm pretty sure he's read and chiselled stone tablets before

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, he read stuff all the time.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Flintstones was based upon 1950 suburban US culture

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  • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On the one hand, you can read it as a parody of late 20th century life - like, haha imagine a caveman clocking into work

    but on the other hand, Flinstones and its far future counterpart Jestsons kinda suggest an inability to imagine anything different. Automobile-ized suburban development frequently gets presented an the human ‘default’. As though we just default to this, rather than it being one of many ways cities and society could be organized.

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    • thirteene@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I tried watching the Jetsons last year and it was pretty painful. The story moved really slow, the mother was claiming to be overworked pressing a button. Everything was a mildly linear improvement from the 1950s and it had very old ideas. It did not age well

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• VelvetStorm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And they had a large pet that ate just as much as the people

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• ssj2marx@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shout out to the comic where Fred introduces some hunter-gatherers to Bedrock and after one day they decide to leave because it sucks.

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• NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And you could afford a rack of ribs big enough to tip over your car.

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s a conspiracy they he had help making ends meet, in the form of a little green alien friend/slave.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Heavy equipment operators are actually paid pretty well

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And yet he couldn’t afford shoes

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not to mention all the fancy modern appliances he’s got

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  • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    like some kind of stone-aged George Jetson?!?

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