Young people have no idea what it used to smell like. For a decade everything reeked of smoke and hairspray.
Aerosol
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
You could taste it in the air
FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Galadriel: Feel it in the water
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everywhere you went felt like a bowling alley.
InputZero@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
now that you mention it, cheese burgers taste different than they used to because of this most likely.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It was awesome.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I dont even really remember women actually wearing their hair like this, and I’m old as fuck.
janus2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
When I think ozone destroying hair, I think teased 80s hair that A LOT of people wore
cabillaud@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No wonder you don’t remember. This is Brigitte Bardot mid 1960’s maybe. You should be about 80 yo to remember lol.
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
It only happened on rare occasions like fancy events. We weren’t there. But some photos still exist.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a white man from this era I always preferred the pixie.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ah, I see you’re a man of culture.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sadly, you can’t get the proper hold without CFCs…
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that so? How does the propellant matter?
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I remember the beehive hairdos. True monuments to structural engineering that would make any architect spiral into a pit of inadequacy.
gnufuu@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
cabillaud@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How old are you? Cause this is Brigitte Bardot in her thirties at most. We’re talking about 1960’s.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For a good while now I just felt old. But not today. Today I feel fucking old.
Two weeks ago I had an MRI to see if I need knee surgery. Tomorrow I get to talk to Ortho about my impending knee surgery-- A lateral tear of the meniscus in the cleft with some degeneration of the joint. I’m sick of walking with a cane and wearing a knee brace.
Saturday I drove 360 some miles to get an MRI to see if I have prostate cancer. No results yet, but I have my suspicions based on my PSAs. The question is: Is it the slow cancer or the fast cancer?
Thursday I need to drive another 100 miles to talk to another doctor about what is now a very minor issue.
So yeah, I’m mother fucking old today…
***Oh, and yes I remember Bardot vividly from my youth. And a host of others you may or not remember. From Marilyn Monroe to Jane Russel to Maureen O’Hara.
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Like most people would change anything about their lifestyle for the common good… It just went out of style.
groet@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
No, it became illegal to manufacture the necessary products.
limer@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
If only we could get industrial manufacturing and energy production regulated to evolve in the same way that personal care is.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Work amount.
Generica@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This. I’m a hairdresser and people just do not have the time it takes to create or sit for these elaborate hairstyles any longer. Also, hygiene habits have changed. Most people shower, not bathe, and women would keep these hairstyles for one to two weeks before washing them out and redoing. Most women won’t go one day without washing their hair now.
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Nowadays when women want those hairstyles they just wear wigs. So much easier.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I have family members who work in costume design for TV and film. So many people wear wigs. Men, women, animals.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
But non-aerosol gel exists for the same purpose. Why don’t they use that?
4am@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You can still buy aerosol hair sprays too they just don’t use CFCs
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Most use propane as a propellant now.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can also use aerosol based ones, the propellant just has to be non crazy.
raptir@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Kids these days don’t even know about the hole in the ozone later.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s kinda our last big environmental win.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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
MonkRome@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Tbf, its not even yet a win technically.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah, last. Not latest, last.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I just told my kid about how we fixed acid rain through regulation just this morning
MoffKalast@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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!
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And there was that whole thing about trying to make cars burn a little cleaner so you could actually see from 1 side of a major city to another
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Trump wants to bring it back.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Well that’s because we’re at now, not at later.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’ve had one ozone yes, but what about later ozone?
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Well not to worry, all these internet swarm satellites might cause another one.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
how so?
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
Most don’t know that we have an ozone layer let alone that there is a hole in it.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Oh don’t worry, it’s coming back
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.