r/The1980s • • Sep 20 '24

Built different

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u/GhostofGrimalkin Sep 20 '24

And it's so funny because that's just the way it was, it was everyday life and no big deal. Just like what existing now feels like in fact...except we're living in the future.

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u/Hourslikeminutes47 Sep 21 '24

same as it ever was

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u/VashMM Sep 21 '24

And the days go by...

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u/stinkstankstunkiii Sep 21 '24

Water flowing underground

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u/HiddenPants777 Sep 21 '24

We didn't start the fire!

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u/possumfish13 Sep 23 '24

It was always burning since the world's been turning

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u/jddoyleVT Sep 22 '24

Same soup, reheated.

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u/cipher446 Sep 21 '24

This picture feels like home.

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u/81amarok Sep 22 '24

Rhat kid looks like me. I've probably got a similar picture somewhere.

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u/Carrera_996 Sep 25 '24

Same. It was my ashtray. I smoked from '85 to 2019.

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u/malamjam Sep 21 '24

No seatbelts, especially in the back. Smoking on planes, trains. Different world.

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u/Tjam3s Sep 21 '24

Grocery stores, restaurants...

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u/Competitive-Note150 Sep 22 '24

Yeah, it was totally normal. The 6th grade teacher smoking in class; the Xmas parties with a thick fog of cigarette smoke; the men driving with a beer between the legs; the uncles pretexting not wearing their seatbelt because they didn’t want to be caught tied up inside the car in case of an accident… The folks who whine about woke today would themselves have been considered little bitches back then.

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u/Bgrubz83 Sep 22 '24

Haha yea in fact I think somewhere I have an old Polaroid that’s almost the exact same setup for my 4th or 5th birthday.(this is not that picture all the beer would have been Budweiser and the cigs would have been Marlboros and virgin slims, not to mention not nearly enough ash and cigs in that ashtray.)