Young people have no idea what it used to smell like. For a decade everything reeked of smoke and hairspray.
Aerosol
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mycodesucks@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
You could taste it in the air
FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Galadriel: Feel it in the water
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Everywhere you went felt like a bowling alley.
InputZero@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Everything you touched had a thin sticky layer of cigarette smoke gunk on it. Hell I remember doctors casually smoking in examination rooms.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
now that you mention it, cheese burgers taste different than they used to because of this most likely.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
It was awesome.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I remember the beehive hairdos. True monuments to structural engineering that would make any architect spiral into a pit of inadequacy.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 9 minutes ago
How old are you? Cause this is Brigitte Bardot in her thirties at most. We’re talking about 1960’s.
gnufuu@infosec.pub 4 hours ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Work amount.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I do remember people complaining that the new hairspray didn’t have any hold.
I also remember punks resorting to egg whites and Elmer’s, but I can’t say that I know that’s related.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I also remember punks resorting to egg whites and Elmer’s
Punks actually just did that anyway, even back when the good hairspray was still plentiful. Everyone just had their own “best” method that they swore by: egg whites, school glue, Knox gelatin, I even knew a couple of gutter punks who put their mohawks up with spray paint. I used to use an extra thick hair gel that you could only find in places where they sold hair care products for black people. I think most people probably preferred the hairdryer and AquaNet method though. It was cheap, relatively easy, and it worked.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
My secret was simple: hairblower with the cheapest maximum hold spray.
I would start at the base of my scalp and spray some hairspray and then with a comb, raise a spot of hair at a time while blowing hot hair on that spot.
In less than 5 mins, my mohawk was ready and strong.
When I wanted to go the extra mile, I would then cover the mohawk in hair gel and blow dry it just like I did with hairspray. My mohawk would stay straight for a few days and it was quite easy to wash. Good times
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
As a white man from this era I always preferred the pixie.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Ah, I see you’re a man of culture.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I dont even really remember women actually wearing their hair like this, and I’m old as fuck.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
No wonder you don’t remember. This is Brigitte Bardot mid 1960’s maybe. You should be about 80 yo to remember lol.
janus2@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
yeah these look like 1+ hour styles that most people are only going to bother with for special occasions, unless they’re an actor with a staff stylist and/or filthy rich
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
When I think ozone destroying hair, I think teased 80s hair that A LOT of people wore
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sadly, you can’t get the proper hold without CFCs…
Eheran@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Is that so? How does the propellant matter?
marcos@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It doesn’t. As long as it’s non-reactive, it only matters for the people designing the spay can.
I think the GP was sarcastic.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It lifts and separates.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
It has what plants crave.
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like most people would change anything about their lifestyle for the common good… It just went out of style.
groet@feddit.org 5 hours ago
No, it became illegal to manufacture the necessary products.
limer@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
I am old enough to remember it going out of style.
I just shook my head when I saw this post, scrolled down to find a comment which reflected the truth, and farted
Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If only we could get industrial manufacturing and energy production regulated to evolve in the same way that personal care is.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 hours ago
But non-aerosol gel exists for the same purpose. Why don’t they use that?
4am@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
You can still buy aerosol hair sprays too they just don’t use CFCs
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Most use propane as a propellant now.
Eheran@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You can also use aerosol based ones, the propellant just has to be non crazy.
raptir@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Kids these days don’t even know about the hole in the ozone later.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s kinda our last big environmental win.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
There’s been some conservation wins that I know of. Okaloosa Darter fish came off of endangered status, and eventually off of threatened The Red Cockaded Woodpecker was elevated from endangered to threatened a few years ago.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Yeah, last. Not latest, last.
MonkRome@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
iirc ~1/4 of the worlds energy production is renewable. More than 90% of all new electricity capacity worldwide came from renewable sources in 2024. Doomers want you to believe it can’t happen again while we are in the very decade that is likely to change the world. Public policy doesn’t even matter at this point, renewable energy is cheaper, so nearly all new investments are in renewables.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
The thing is it kinda isn’t. The ozone layer still needs about 20 years to get back to 1960 levels and the number of problematic states for this increasing again
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Tbf, its not even yet a win technically.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I just told my kid about how we fixed acid rain through regulation just this morning
MoffKalast@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Well it’s understandable, the concept of being able to actually do something about the environment on a world scale instead of just blindly pretending it’s not a thing until it kills us all is a bit hard to believe for younger generations for obvious reasons.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
I think the only reason it worked was because there were cheaper alternatives to CFCs already available. So it didn’t cost them money.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Trump wants to bring it back.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
We managed to dial things back a bit, so that became a smaller problem.
We used to see regular news reports of actual rivers on fire. Things are still way too bad, but we forcefully throttled some things as we saw how quickly the damage was compounding.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Oh my god I needed your comment for it to finally click, I was thinking “they stopped putting their hair up to protect their shoulders from the increased UVs”? But of course, it was referencing the sprays!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 23 hours ago
Well that’s because we’re at now, not at later.
someguy3@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
We’ve had one ozone yes, but what about later ozone?
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 19 hours ago
Well not to worry, all these internet swarm satellites might cause another one.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
how so?
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 19 hours ago
Most don’t know that we have an ozone layer let alone that there is a hole in it.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
One of my coworkers insists that the hole in the ozone layer is an iris that expands and contracts for regulation. When I asked him what it was regulating, he just shrugged and gave a look that said “I don’t know, you tell me”
He also claimed that believing that humans were capable of changing the global climate was pure hubris, despite the USSR deleting the Caspian sea decades ago.
And he thinks the wind turbines that have been installed in the past 10 years are making tornadoes worse, contradicting his claims that humans can’t change the climate
Flyberius@hexbear.net 23 hours ago
Oh don’t worry, it’s coming back
jaybone@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
I thought the aerosols that affect the environment refer to the tiny aerosol particles at higher levels in the atmosphere.
Everyone in the 80s seemed to confuse the with aerosol hairspray, which wasn’t really a huge contributor. Still aren’t most sprays today generally not this so called aerosol style anymore?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
It was the Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that were used as the primary propellant in aerosol sprays. More commonly known by the brand name Freon. Notice that basically every aerosol can manufactured today has a “CFC Free” badge somewhere. Refrigerant systems also moved away from using actual Freon, and now use alternative refrigerants.
CFCs were actually invented by the same guy who invented leaded gasoline, Thomas Midgley Jr… He is probably the single most environmentally destructive chemical engineer in history.
marcos@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Late 80s hairsprays and other canned aerosols were a sizeable contributor.
They were an easy fix, and stopped being a problem almost as soon as people decided to do something. That was way before the problem reached mainstream media, so when people started talking about it, they weren’t a problem anymore. But they surely were a problem for some time.