Nostalgia

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• switcheroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Good God that kid looks like me. I had that same atrocious bowl cut.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    there were thousands of us.

    the 70s were a cruel time.

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    • Doom@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      70s? That look held on until the early 80s. If you know you know.

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• SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember that. It was so annoying. Her brand smelled awful. The ones I smoked were way better.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Taking a drag off it when she isn’t looking.

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When I was a kid my parents didn’t let me use a lighter to light fireworks so they gave me a lit cigarette instead.

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I once found a full pack of cigarettes on the ground at age ~10. I quickly figured out that lighting it on fire and using the cigarette to set off fireworks was so much easier than using a lighter. I didn’t even think of smoking it, I just left it lit on the ground and used it as a lighter.

    I didn’t understand why my parents were so worried when they found out lol.

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  • gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It lasts a lot longer and isn’t nearly as dangerous since it isn’t an open flame.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They sell punk for this. They look like incense sticks without any scent. Just a smoldering slow burning stick, used to light fireworks with.

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They do now. For those of us that still speak the old magic, we know that a lit cigarette was the original punk.

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    • Canajan@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Mosquito coils work excellent as well.

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  • Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think I just remembered something similar

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• TomMasz@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I was second-hand smoking two packs a day until I was 13 (when my mom got lung cancer). But back then, every kid I knew was doing the same. Now, seeing people smoking is a relatively rare occurrence.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    And smoking in bed 🛏️ 🚬

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      smoking in the car with the windows rolled up because it was cold, hot, or raining lol. used to get such wicked headaches from the car jfc

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  • medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ‘A relatively rare occurrence’?? I envy you, may I ask where you live? (definitely not in central Europe or the Middle East).

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    • TomMasz@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      US, New York state. My county banned smoking indoors before the state did. For a while you would see groups of people outside smoking but now it’s the often just one or two if there’s any. Of course, the smell of weed is everywhere now, so there’s that.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We Americans have many, many faults, but one thing we’ve actually been pretty good about is cutting back on smoking. When I was a kid everyone smoked, and now it’s pretty rare.

      I think part of it is actually an unexpected benefit of capitalism. Restaurants and bars used to fight indoor smoking bans tooth and nail because all their cust6were smokers and they didn’t want to lose them. But then when the bans would happen, business actually increased - especially for bars. Turned out lots of people wanted to be able to grab a drink after work but didn’t want to go home smelling like cigarettes.

      So now business groups other than big tobacco support the bans, which has resulted in a huge decline of social smoking.

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  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh god that must have sucked and sorry about your mom.

    Man, to a non-smoker the world must have smelled like ass back then.

    My dad was made to quit by my mum in 1973 when they had their first. By my birth in 77 I was really only around smokers at parties or friends houses.

    Still didn’t stop me picking up the habit mind you, but I course corrected lol

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where I grew up you could smoke in bars when I was in high-school. Not only was I allowed to go in but the place was also absolutely full of cigarette smoke. Many of those basement bars shut down completely after one caught fire a few years ago. It was a huge scandal

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bars? You little whippersnapper. There was a time when every table had an ashtray. Every table everywhere: restaurants, stores, the checkout line at the gas station, public transportation…

      And I am not talking about smoking sections, that came later. I’m talking about people with lit cigarettes being as ubiquitous as people on cellphones today.

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  • lukaro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I was a grown ass adult before I knew how awful cigarettes smelled simply because I was always surrounded by smoke I just thought that was how the world smelled.

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    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I knew it stank, hated that shit growing up. But I know just how fucking godawful it was until I moved out. My stuff reeked for months, or years if it was stored.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a school bus driver and a majority of my colleagues smoke. Some things will never change.

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    • StabbingSky@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At least switch to vaping. It’s 95% less harmful, especially if you go with an open mod and not sketchy gas station liquid.

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• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I like how they have the same haircut

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  • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Dorothy Hamill cut:

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was one of six you could choose from back then. That was it. Only six haircuts to choose from. /s

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• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That leather coat mom is wearing is fucking fire. Wonder how much a real leather jacket like that would cost today?

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• Viridian@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  🎶 It was acceptable in the 80s 🎶

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  • StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Still acceptable in Vietnam. Shocking to me, a tourist.

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• Ninja876@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I remember @ 7-8yo going to the local convenience store with a note to buy my mom cigarettes.

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I imagine any adults with poor handwriting did not benefit from this cigarette home delivery system

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When I was a kid in the '70s there were cigarette vending machines everywhere. If you wanted to smoke, you could smoke.

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    • saimen@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In the 90s they still were there

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Same. Hell I remember wearing a Benson&Hedges sports cap (oxymoron if I heard one…) up until the age of 16, despite having never smoked

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• Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  those things ppl use to quit vaping?

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• gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Back before cigarettes were bad for you. See? No warning labels.”

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hold the smoke deeply in your lungs – it’s the best thing for you!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=485Em2JF34M

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And then your fingers stank for an hour.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But at least she never got a yeast infection

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• mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  cute mom btw

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That Dorothy Hamill cut was the shit.

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• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m old, the most offensive thing about this is that indestructible percolator.

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  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    On the stove? I believe that is for gravy.

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    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I like the cut of your jib.

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• Fishnoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How the hell could someone smoke cigs in the 70’s and not be able to grasp it in their lips while using both hands?

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  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not lady like. That’s old man smoking.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      All the cool kids held their cigarettes pinched between thumb and second finger. None of this first and second finger V-shape weakness

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• sqauffle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wish I had a mom

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