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[–] 25 points 2 years ago

Photographer: Okay what screams childhood? Hmmm. Pioneer wagon wheel…and MASSIVE cigarettes.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And in the 80s if a kid asked to bum a cig, people would give him one.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    When your stepmother smokes Camels and you get used as a subtle jab in the divorce.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    calvin harris' first big song was "acceptable in the 80s" and I think about that phrase a lot

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    -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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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*
    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Joseph Gribble

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No decade since then has had such a personality as the 80s did. They were truly a magical era of child neglect and poor parenting.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    At least there was Atari/Nintendo and home computers already, as primitive as they were. I'd hate to have been born in the 70s and earlier. Sounds boring as fuck for a kid.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was born in the 70s but I don't really remember much of it, like it didn't have a personality the way the 80s did. Everything was burnt orange and the TV really sucked.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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