• saltnotsugar@lemm.ee
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    Photographer: Okay what screams childhood? Hmmm. Pioneer wagon wheel…and MASSIVE cigarettes.

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    calvin harris’ first big song was “acceptable in the 80s” and I think about that phrase a lot

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      Let’s make a list of what was acceptable in the 1980s?

      -Smoking while holding your newborn. -Smoking in your hospital room. -Smoking on planes.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        -Letting a nerd rape your drugged girlfriend. I grew up in the '80s and this one disturbs me the most in retrospect. Like, this seemed totally normal and acceptable.

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          Oh the 80s were full of casual sexual assault that women and girls were supposed to tolerate. This is why I hate the conservative bellyaching about how kids don’t need smartphones; you have NO idea the danger we ended up in as largely unsupervised kids in the 80s.

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      My parents worked together at a Bar/restaurant in the 80’s. from the ages of 3-10ish i was basically raised at the bar of this restaurant. Id snack on cocktail peanuts and maraschino cherries all day and the bartender would make me virgin cocktails whenever i asked. The place was always full of people smoking cigarettes and cigars up front and smoking weed/ doing other stuff in the back. Looking back, im like wtf were my parents doing??, but that was just normal back then. If I wasn’t with mom and dad, id be with grandma and she smoked like a chimney and would drag me to bingo or some other gathering where all her friends were smoking too. Wild times man.

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    I think that sometimes huge props are used in movies or commercials. Maybe this was once used in a Malboro ad…

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    His mother sent him to the store with a note saying its ok that he buy them and that the smokes are for her.