• TwattyMcTwatterson@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 个月前

    This was my grandma man. She died at 98 smoking until the very end. She used to drive a 1972 Lincon Continental I would ride in the back seat with no chair or seat belt as she chain-smoked filterless Camels and spit dip into a Styrofoam coffee cup.

    Edit: I called Camels “cowboy killers” but those were Marlboros and that’s what my mom smoked. Grandma didn’t dig filters because “that’s how you get cancer.”

    • Bassman27@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 个月前

      To be fair back in those days I believe filters were made containing asbestos. Your grandma was a smart cookie!

      Edit: This was actually the 50s

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 个月前

      Grandma didn’t dig filters because “that’s how you get cancer.”

      That was true for a time. I think it was the 50’s when cigarette companies were using asbestos for their filters.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      I had an uncle that smoked like it was a cure for cancer and would sit over a sprayer tank pouring chem in there with a smoke hanging out the side of his mouth and no gloves on. Washed his hands with gasoline to get the grease off.

      Lived to 95.

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
    3211·
    2 个月前

    People are still doing “Nobody:” memes? They don’t even make sense. This would be improved 100% by removing the “Nobody:” line.

  • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 个月前

    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.

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 个月前

      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.

      • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 个月前

        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.

        • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 个月前

          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?

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 个月前

    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

  • Illogicalbit@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 个月前

    A friend of mine tells a funny story about how shortly after seatbelts became mandatory, he was jumping around in the front seat of his mom’s car while driving and she asked him several times to belt up.

    Being a kid, he refused and finally she tapped the brakes. He does this hilarious impression of eating the dashboard and needles to say he started wearing the seatbelt from then on.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 个月前

    I remember my mom pushing me into the footwell when we were about to hit the ditch in a snowstorm, of course I wasn’t wearing my lap belt, I mean, who did?

    I wouldn’t ride with her for a week after that, she was quite offended.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 个月前

    This photo could be straight out of my photo album. This looks just like my dad, in hair, beard, clothes, and ciggie.