My wife’s family used to mop the walls as part of cleaning.
It wasn’t until she moved out that she twigged that non-smokers don’t have to do that.
We’d all put on our scruffiest clothes before visiting my granddad, because they’d be going straight into the washing machine the second we got back. No wonder he kept giving us money, he probably thought we were poor as dirt.
I was the same way when I visited smoking family, I’d strip at the door and hit the shower when I got home.
Mopping the walls, my God.
My mum’s got a great anecdote about how the doctor came around about my cough when I was a newborn, and he came into a room full of local mums all fawning over me in my cot and chugging away.
Four out of five doctors recommend Marlboro cigarettes. The fifth one would too, if he weren’t currently in the hospital with all this unrelated lung cancer.
I wonder if the reason I see duplicate memes on All is because a lot of people have blocked lemmy.ml and other large instances
Lemmy.ml is the wayer coming out of a full ashtray when you pour stale beer on it.
This is what my mom drove in the 80s-90s.
This is where i would lie down…
Dang, was your mom single then? (I’m on my way inventing a time machine).
I had a similar experience in the 90s, but with a non-cool car - parents bought a TV & to fit it in a tiny car they had to put the back seats down … which left the trunk for me (in a 5-door car, but still, highway speeds, and when I pointed out the safety issues they just said to hold on to a seatbelt … ?).
The same parents ultra-terrified of me getting in a car accident with anyone (because others are terrible drivers), and to this day terrified I’ll crash my car each and every time Im in it … the patents that totaled a few cars vs me never in an accident and almost keeping up with professional kart racers (well, ““almost””, and even that on my best few laps before ahdh starts fighting me entering a corner).
Oh, and also the same parents I have to buy tires for against their will & have a few fights with to get them changed.What was this car again? I remember this.
87 Mazda rx7
At least you would’ve died in style.
When i grew up, my friends parents owned a farm that was on top of a mountain, it was like a 10min drive up there on backroads. They drove around a beater car, something like a Suzuki swift. Sometimes we were allowed to ride on the hood, like a bunch of criminals in a 80’s action movie. I remember sitting on the roof once, holding on for dear life. I never really thought much about it, but i would never do that with my nephew. Not because i think they are soft and we were such a hard ass generation, because i don’t want to kill a child. It happens so fucking fast
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I don’t remember, for obvious reasons, but I’ve been told that my dad used to put me on the fuel tank of his bike when i was a baby. Like riding a horse through town.
Edit: and for the record, I would also never drive with my kids without their car seats. And will continue to do so until they are big enough to use a seat belt and shoulder harness properly.
There’s all these iconic photos of Walt Disney where he’s pointing at stuff with a two finger point. I’ve heard that some within the company say that this is the example by which their resort employees always use the two finger point to direct guests.
In reality, he was holding a cigarette and the photos have been airbrushed. He died of lung cancer in 1966. Pointing with two fingers is just seen (kind of universally across cultures) as being non-accusatory. Like, say you saw someone talking to someone else and you cannot hear them (or it’s in a language you don’t understand); they’re pointing with one finger in your direction, you may be inclined to think they’re talking about you. If they’re using the two finger point, you’re less likely to think that… it’s the same for airliner flight crew.
I’m a former cast member, can confirm. During Traditions (company culture and job orientation/training), they’re taught to point with two fingers for exactly the reason you point out, and Walt Disney is shown pointing like that in the slides. They don’t tell you, but most people eventually figure out, that there’s a cigarette photoshopped out of his fingers.
Traditions! That’s what it’s called! Couldn’t for the life of me remember.
Where’d you work? I was a monorail pilot down in Orlando.
I was in DAK Dinoland attractions for a while and then I worked in merchandise for a few years in the same park. A friend of mine was a monorail pilot around 2008 or so. Were you in the college program?
College program in 06, seasonal transportation car member for two years after that.
That’s an interesting insight into human behavior that I never thought of.
I remember a long time ago, I was at Boston South Station with my then-girlfriend. We were looking at a monitor on the wall trying to spot when our train home would come in, and I pointed at it to show her.
A nearby homeless woman then informed me that it’s unpolite to point. That always stuck with me. She was standing right in front of the screen…but now I know, I should’ve used two fingers.
Pointing with two fingers is just seen (kind of universally across cultures) as being non-accusatory.
womp, citation needed. not to be a downer but this would be waaaay way too interesting if true to let it be said without some grounds
Sorry, was drunk when writing that. Meant it to be implied that this is what companies tell their employees about why they do it.
That was the “Me” generation after all
What’s Donald Duck doing back there
Yes, this!?!
Just what or who wiped which (curly?) part on the curtains to make that pattern?!
This photo could be straight out of my photo album. This looks just like my dad, in hair, beard, clothes, and ciggie.
Also, car seats in the 70s:
Sliced clean in three
The brand new safety baby yeet-n-slice-inator 2000, get yours now!!
Also, house seats in the 20s:
My boomer bitch ass parents used to complain about us needing a few minutes to strap a car seat into a car in the 2010’s.
“We didn’t need car seats when we were babies and we survived.”
They were fucking obnoxious.
Survivor bias right there.
Survivorship bias. The ones that died aren’t there to contradict them.
Did you point out that they have brain damage from lead poisoning and it might be compromising their ability to think?
Some people are beyond reason. Last year i bought a broken lawnmower from some lady, because i thought it’s a fun project to fix it. The lady was probably in her 60es. And one of the forst things she said to me was: no offence, but my generation in absolutely useless. Useless i thought, that’s pretty rich coming from someone that is close to morbidly obese, racist as fuck, lives on an absolute dumpster of a house that her husband probably bought for 300 dollars 40 years ago. She was the most useless person i have seen in a long ass time.
What a dumb thing to say honestly. My sisters boyfriend bought a old stupid pickup truck that doesn’t have seatbelts. He’s so proud of the fact that he doesn’t need seatbelts. I think it’s the main reason that he wanted that car. He drives around his children in it, and the previous owner had it all prepared that you could put in seatbelts, but he would rather die than use seatbelts. Same with helmets. They bought ebikes to go on rides, and everyone wears a helmet except for him. Hy sister tells him all the time to wear one. She has him as far now that he takes a helmet with him, but he’s not wearing it. A almost 50 year old man doesn’t want to look uncool on his bike.
Not wearing a helmet on a bike isn’t that unreasonable though. I’ve seen studies that show a positive relation between a cyclist wearing protective gear and cars driving more aggressively around them. So you might actually be less likely to have an accident than when wearing safety gear, since the vast majority are caused by car drivers.
A almost 50 year old man doesn’t want to look uncool on his bike.
Have you noted to him how fucking uncool it is for a grown man to think safety (especially of children) is uncool?
Takes just one slipup of someone, not even them, but just someone in traffic, and he will never forgive himself his shitty attitude.
It’s weird. I mountainbike my whole life, i feel super weird not wearing a helmet. I wear a full face helmet on every trail. I ride sometimes on a lift where one of the best riders in europe practices. He wears a helmet from the car to the lift. But somehow he thinks he’s too good to wear a helmet. I often see people with child seat on their bicycles and the children wear helmets and the parents don’t. Where the hell is the logic there. If you ever drop on your head, your child sits in a puddle of your blood and waits until someone finds them?
People like this drive me crazy.
It’s always fun when a relative admits they don’t care about your child’s safety.
“Get in the boot, granddad”
I remember being maybe 6 and napping on the “shelf” between the back seat and rear glass if my parents’ boat of a Cadillac. Not like there were seat belts to keep me in place.
You didn’t need much since your car was 6000 pounds of solid steel that would go right through a house without you even feeling it.
That, or you’d get crushed alive since the car wasn’t designed to actually protect you…
The car will survive any impact.
And the passengers too?
The car will survive any impact.
The last thing you want in a car accident is one whole baby flying into the front seat area.
As if anyone used car seats. Most people didn’t use the seat belt.
Your parents didn’t just stuff you in the back window?
Why is he holding his leg on the table like this
Dad’s elbow is on the table to keep the cigarette away maybe. Baby is just tearin up the bobba.
“Clevon Little voice”
That’s not his leg…
I remember the first time I was at someone’s house and they asked a visitor who who was about to light up to take it outside. It seemed so.odd. My mom, grandmother and aunts would sit around the dining room table with a thick haze. Nobody thought nothing of it
Like Plato allegedly said: “The unexamined life is not worth living”
People are still doing “Nobody:” memes? They don’t even make sense. This would be improved 100% by removing the “Nobody:” line.
Imo they are trying to set the tone.
I would go with “meanwhile” personally
Meanwhile… decades in the past? Still doesn’t make sense.
Meanwhile… at the Hall of Justice…
Yeah I guess this post would be the one situation where nobody would work better
Nobody:
I’m not going to upvote you, but that is an excellent troll
People want everything to be reddit so hard.
Still that way when I was a baby in the 90s, and when my niece/nephew were coming up in the early 2000s their mom would smoke while nursing them
Ah, yes, the beekeeper pacification technique.
Image won’t load for me and I desperately want to know what it was lol
The direct link from that: https://media1.tenor.com/m/DzphccF2s5QAAAAd/dance-bee-keeper.gif
(I’m not saying it’s worth the click, just providing an answer - the joke relates to a device called bee smoker that average beekeepers use to pacify the bees before robbing them, tho a lot of them don’t use it)
Ha! Nice.
Yeah, my buddy’s a vegan bee keeper who won’t use smokers
What on earth is happening with the leg(?) ??
That’s a baby getting fed! 😂
It took me way too long to see that. Thank you 🙏