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• downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had just gotten fired from a job, was in the elevator going up to a Gym with my sister in NYC, and Peter Jennings got in, I was telling my sister my tale of woe, and Jennings turns to me and says, "don't worry about it, I've gotten fired from plenty of jobs". rip pete.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even though he quit for 2 decades, his days of heavy smoking still got him in the end. Lung cancer got him in his 60s.

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  • SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He started smoking again after 911 iir.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• HKPiax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone knows the context of that picture?

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    just about as many people smoked as didn’t, back in the day. if you didn’t smoke, you still had ashtrays in the house, for when people came to visit.

    when they first tried to have control smoking on planes, it wasn’t “no smoking at all” it was “let’s at least have a non-smoking section”–it was seen as absurd that there even be a corner of the plane where one couldn’t smoke.

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    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve read that aircraft mechanics were sad when smoking stopped because the nicotine smears on the aircraft were such a good visual clue of where air was leaking and it made theirs jobs a lot easier.

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    • TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was on a plane in the very early 90’s, and I remember being about 10 years old and the second the ‘smoking okay’ sign came on, a WALL of smoke rolled back through the curtains that separated the sections.

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  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    youtu.be/AVz0fx1lO0k?si=stOZKmdIRsDoQML5

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nothing shook me more than watching Tom Brokaw continuously fighting to keep his composure and struggling to find his words during 9/11.

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• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’d need a blunt to deliver the climate change section these days

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dabs.

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ayeeee

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• the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You think you do, but you don’t.

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “and the British discover the child abuse hotline”

  … They sure did. Well done, Andrew.

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nowadays we have memes for that

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