Missing from this picture, blacks/minorities getting a raw deal.
i still cant get through my day without a shit ton of drugs tho
Yeah, but you could also buy a shotgun at the same place you picked up your amphetamines and Quaaludes
i'm generally not into GABAergic drugs much, but i still have to wonder if Quaaludes had any quality besides the funny name and the ability to randomly kill housewifes really dead that makes it such a household name till this day. Apparently South Africa even has a clandestine Quaaludes industry
Isn't polio making a comeback right now? Along with all the rest of them.
removing my organs and placing them in canopic jars so that the males can sexualize a 360 degree view of my lumbar spine
"wow look at that lumbar it sure has curves :grillman: " they say as i wither and die
The woman in yellow
That's it new eldritch horror concept just dropped.
Okay, so feminists like to talk about how unhealthy is is to be model thin, and how unlikely it is for normal people to be slimthicc. That's good and important. Can we talk though, about how your lumbar spine is not supposed to bend as much as it does in the waists of modern sex symbols?
Plus no one had air conditioning, cars rode like shit, and everything smelled like cigarettes.
everything smelled like cigarettes.
Honestly one of the biggest qualitative improvements of my lifetime was banning cigarettes from damn near everywhere.
I was born in '92, and growing up my dad had an Oldsmobile that looked like one of those shitty, small, boxy 2-door cars from GTA 3.
Anyways, I think they may have still had TEL gas in the cheaper pumps where I was living because anytime we'd go on a long trip (like when he had to pick me up for weekend visitation), I would get severe headaches & feel nauseous the whole time. Either that or it was just how many cigarettes he smoked in that goddamn car.
My grandmother had a strict "No smoking in the house" rule and I often forget how nice her house was compared to everyone else's.
Every time I see that stupid "we didn't have seatbelts" I remember this dude I went to school with. Was in the bed of a truck. Horrible accident. His whole face is skin grafts. Whole. Face.
Yeah, their generation invented a toy that was basically just heavy metal spikes you threw into the air
Killed more than a few kids before they realized that making them less heavy and sharp was probably a smart idea
Just looked original lawn darts up :jesus-christ:
Then again I did take a dart to the foot once while playing beer darts so I probably don't have room to talk :shrug-outta-hecks:
Gonna go back to 1955 & start selling period-accurate Pompeian Gladii as "Lawn Paddles".
Old lady that lived across the streets when I grew up lost her son and daughter cus they were doing doughnuts in the school parking lot and the thing flipped. No seatbelts just dead af, including the other passengers
Jesus. What a senseless tragedy. I mean touch grass etc but save the car shit for GTA or actually take a racing class so you can learn how to react and what signs to look for.
For sure. It happened to him after 8th grade. He was in the bed in a sleeping bag with his best friend coming back from an overnight camping trip. Dad had a fatal heart attack. Truck hit a tree and engulfed in flames. Both boys survived. He was an athlete with promise, probably would have gone to college over it. It was like a punch to the gut of the whole class. He was a really nice kid. Just a fucked up situation all around.
I don't have anything against people who smoke, but for some reason I cannot get through an episode of Mad Men because the ungodly amount of ciggs they smoke.
Mad Men worldbuilding is just "what if the doctor blows cigarette smoke into pregnant Betty's face?"
Most TV shows weren't filmed in color until the late 60s lol. And even then, color TVs didn't outsold b/w TVs until the early 70s.
When I hear people and comedians say stuff like "When we were kids parents weren't afraid of disciplining their kids. My mom hit me and I turned out alright..." I want to respond with "Look at me, one time when I was 7 I was goofing around and bumped up against my mom while she was ironing clothes. She held my hand up against the iron for like 5 seconds, you can bet I never did that again and I turned out fine. "
That specifically never happened to me, its just part of super dark comedy act I'm working on for an open mic.
Yeah stand-up is full of fucked up people. Their rate of suicide is pretty bad.
The dad was probably also alcoholic, or otherwise addicted to drugs, because he was either dealing with war experiences or the trauma of living through the depression and having his dad go to war. It's no wonder most boomers are fascist given they had great material wealth and opportunities and also just had emotional horrors piled up on them.
for some reason i see pics of old 1950s american food often, and man so much of it just sounds SO gross and cursed. ham banana mayonnaise sundaes? JellO with the hot dog chunks? do the good ol days include terrible 1950s food right??
It's because people could afford refrigerators iirc and just went ham with cold foods
It's because the industrial processes to produce ready-to-use gelatin came about, so what was previously something weird that only rich people could afford (before that producing gelatin was a long and grueling process that required considerably skilled labor) and which occupied a prestige place as a result suddenly became cheaply available to a bunch of nominally-upwardly-mobile suburbanite weirdos who wanted to present themselves as wealthy.
Those weird Jell-O meat/veg abominations were during an era where many people had no teeth or bad teeth.
no dentistry was pretty close to where its at now if a little less accessible.the fluoride in the water making the frogs gay has in fact very much improved dental health since the 50s see cawsby's comment belowabominable jelly is resultant of the company Jello going out and publishing/giving away thousands of recipes in an effort to implicate their product in as many situations as possible
Dentistry has radically changed since the mid 20th century in America. Tooth loss in America has been declining steadily almost everywhere except rural areas.
Fluoride toothpaste did not become widely available until the mid 1950's with Crest, and then the ADA required it. With more and more water systems adding fluoride in the late 20th century tooth decay slowed dramatically.
Before that people were scrubbing their teeth with all sorts of crazy shit like penicillin, ammonia, and even radium.
Dental caries and periodontal disease are the major causes of tooth loss.22,23 Until roughly the 1970s, virtually all children and adults in the United States had dental caries, and almost all adults developed periodontal disease.24,25 As shown in Figure 1,in the 1950s approximately 80 percent of children thirteen to fifteen years of age had gingivitis. Peri-odontitis was observed to begin in the late teenage years and to increase almost linearly until early middle age after which close to 100 percent of the adult population under sixty years was affected.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7844870_The_Oral_Health_Information_Suite_OHIS_Its_Use_in_the_Management_of_Periodontal_Disease#pf2
i went to askhistorians to get a handle on it and it was pretty unhelpful, and i didn't really know where else to go for hard stats. i kinda gave up cause my point was less about dentistry than the ad campaign
i'll slap a correction on the bottom this is neat info
Also, gelatin was finally affordable to regular people, and the industrial processes could remove all of the meat taste so now it could be used in sweet dishes as well.
I tried a peanut butter and mayo sandwich from the 50’s. Actually not that bad
Same way they killed Elvis, it's a drug more addictive and dangerous than cocaine.
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just kidding. Peanut Butter is really dense and
sugaryfatty, and Elvis famously loved PB&B until he died of a heart attack at 46 which his terrible diet undoubtedly contributed to.Is this a thing where US peanut butter, like US bread, is a completely different sugar-pumped thing to everywhere else?
Hmm, the major brands do, but looking it up it's a pretty small amount. The calories in Peanut Butter almost all come from fat even when they add 2 or 3g of sugar to it. Describing it as "sugary" instead of "fatty" was my bad.
I tried a peanut butter and mayo sandwich from the 50’s.
It was still edible?
This ur brain when u think Italians are not white and have yet to have had a single interaction with a Mexican.
Hey, this isn't related to the post, but I was thinking about you earlier - did you ever settle on anything to decorate your classroom with? I got the idea for maybe like a cheap fake license plate that says something like "AES 1917." If you know, you know, and if not you can pass it off as "haha that was from my favorite car that I had a while ago/family member memento/whatever"
Ah, im glad you found this, and glad you got some stuff in there!
what classroom lol im not a teacher? or is this like a joke or a reference im a bimbo so
Alright, i am definitely misremembering who the OP of that thread was a few weeks ago. Apologies!
Also not pictured: genociding Koreans, Vietnamese, and others at an unbelievable scale.
“Can’t get through my day without a shit ton of drugs” is still relevant
Missing the Good Old Days of the Bonus Marchers burning down Washington DC.
