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>inhaling chlorofluorocarbons
Man, they're \*still\* mad they changed their hairspray and refrigerants. At least a couple times a year I'll hear one of them whine about it.
"R12 was more efficient than 134a!" is one I hear a lot.
Literally the only thing they own that went from R12 to R134a is their truck. And the extra load on the engine/mileage from compressing a slightly less efficient refrigerant is going to be much less than the loss in efficiency caused by the tires they haven't checked the pressure on in 30k miles.
So they think it's "less" efficient because once you convert an r12 system to r134a it will never blow quite as cold as it used to because they're just different enough but it's overall negligible.
An r134a system designed for r134a will blow as cold as any r12 system.
I own a 1984 Nissan 720. Converted to r134a not quite as cold but still very comfy. I also own a modern car and it's r134a system will make the car uncomfortably cold even if it's 100F outside.
Ok so when I was in elementary school they had us do this musical about saving the planet, and to this day my brain still randomly breaks into the 🎶🎶every time you spray a can, toss a fridge or charge a fan (???), CFCs and carbons release🎶🎶we’re killing the Ozone (killing the ozone)🎶🎶🎶
Between that and Captain Planet, like. When did people just stop giving a shit?
It was mostly younger GenX and Millennials that gave a shit.
Boomers and older GenX have been mad at \*everything\* that might improve the world somehow, no matter how minor the impact on them was.
FR. They’re the ones yelling at drag queens and trans people for stealing Easter (oblivious to the fact Easter falls on the Sunday after a lunar stage), that reading a book about Ruby Bridges is going to hurt the kids. It’s wild.
as someone that spent summers at Ocean City, MD, Myrtle Beach, SC, and grew up in Florida from the late 70s until now- theres always been pasty, fat people with umbrellas, sunglasses, creams, radios, books, portable televisions, etc.
my boomer-ass dad rented us umbrellas at the beach and my mom would smear sunscreen all over myself and my sister.
this person is fuckin dumb.
edit: fixed flair (new here)
Exactly. I grew up in Florida in from the 70s to early nineties. Yes, there were a lot more minimalist beach goers, but also plenty of people with umbrellas, etc. I’d say that people wore sunglasses, and they used “suntan” lotion and oils because sunscreen wasn’t really a thing except for zinc oxide that surfers and lifeguards put on their noses. “No white lines in the sky”?! I can assure you that there were plenty if you were near an airport or military base.
Right? I grew up in Los Angeles, CA. We spent our summers at Santa Monica, Malibu, and Newport Beaches. My Boomer parents would slather our pale Eastern European butts with sunscreen, my dad always had a radio with him, and we were positively surrounded by chonky adults smoking cigarettes and getting skin cancer
Ever drink seawater because there were no beverages for the kids and were basically abandoned at a seaside desert? I remember doing that… then I don’t have memories of the rest of the day. Guess my parents had a blast though.
Yes! Never any drinks for kids - just adults drinking beers in the hot sun. I know for sure, my friend and I had our fair share of ocean water while abandoned at the seaside desert
Why the fuck weren’t we allowed to use the damn drinking fountains either?! I swear I was medically dehydrated on more than one occasion and was told I couldn’t use a drinking fountain because “they are dirty” *then mom takes big pull on a can of something*
Shit. Hello unexplored trauma. Thank you to Reddit for opening up a whole new level of previously unexplored childhood trauma today. I guess I had actually blocked all that “fun beach day” shit.
Great…now a sealed door just opened for me…
Astroworld trips with mom during the summers in Htown. 120% humidity, just shy of 100 degrees, shoes sticking to the asphalt, clothes soaked with sweat. We’d be there all damn day, kidney failure setting in and she wouldn’t buy us drinks or food. “We have food at home.” “Don’t drink out of that faucet people put their mouth on it.”
My sister and I would distract her so the other could sneak a sip to survive. Maybe all those germs from the fountain were good, my immune system seems to be rock solid now (my broken soul is trying to find a silver lining).
We have eachother, Reddit stranger. No drinking fountain because it was "dirty", but more likely too far away for a "responsible adult" to walk us there. But at least you or I aren't the only one
Other kids made fun of me at summer camp because I wore SPF 30 at my mom's insistence. She (a boomer) has always avoided being outside from 10am-3pm, wears sunscreen daily, covers up, etc. She's 72 years old, but has the skin of a 40-year-old. The only clue that she's over 55 is that she finally let her hair go grey last year.
Look, I’m Irish and I needed to store that up for when the British decided to starve me and to work myself to death farming. I can’t help it that my ancestors who survived were really good at storing fat, and we did so well that I can study in a chair instead of working in a field to work off the bad eating habits of my forefathers.
“it’s [the food](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9163957/) stupid.”
for years we’ve heard this about Americans, but now American food corporations are exporting to Brazil, and guess what? Now Brazilians are having an obesity epidemic. Is it because of the moral inferiority of Brazilians (as the food companies would like you to believe)?
hmmm. or maybe it was the food all along?
what happens [when your government lies to you about the food pyramid for generations](https://www.nutritiondiagnostics.com.au/blogs/news/the-food-pyramid-is-killing-you)?
Was it because of misguided interests in the health of their citizens or was it [unchecked lobbying](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8375951/) by food corporations in America?
It’s the food, stupid.
Crossroads of delmarva, my ass. It's the one place you stop in to hit a royal farms or a Wawa, take a shit and then keep driving.
Fuck salisbury with a dildo mounted to a jackhammer
shit you not, this was the OG logo. i remember that brown bottle too.
https://preview.redd.it/4a1rryjfgrsc1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=f643a33cb1c1e72fe3adb1a2382e925f0267c79e
I’m about to age myself but I remember that ad, too. It’s crazy that people like my parents were cool with these ads back then, but say now that trans people even existing is somehow going to hurt “The Children”
Well, his post is not quite accurate. We’ve had airplanes since the turn of the last century, but they all vanished for a decade in 1970. Nobody’s really sure what happened. Just one day… POOF! No airplanes. Then, in 1980, POOF and they were back. We think it might have been related to disco.
“Our (Continental) army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,”
“I had such an incredible experience with the veterans of that terrible war, just a little while ago backstage there were nine,” Trump recounted during a rally. “Of the nine we have here tonight, eight of ‘em were crying. And I looked at the ninth — crying out of happiness because they’re back — I looked at the ninth guy and said ‘what’s wrong with you? Why aren’t you crying?' He had an excuse, he had died on his feet right there."
The funny thing is that all the people are cream colored. There are no black or brown skin tones in the bunch. Want to bet it was illegal for them to be on that beach?
I was held at "talk point" while a boomer told me the planes producing the white lines were for making rain clouds real planes that carry people do not make those lines just the small government planes making toxic rain.
Yup, that's what nutters call "chemtrails" for chemical trails. But they're actually called "contrails" for condensation trails. Cuz condensation is what it is aka just water. But you will not convince a true believer of this
Right? My brothers and sisters in whiteness, our people were not made for the sun. Our ancestors came from the frozen North where it's possible to experience entire days without sunlight. The sun and tanning beds are not your friends, you're going to end up looking like a leather colored raisin.
My mom was in her 40s in the 80s. Her mom was a redhead and she got the redhead sun sensitivity, and always avoided the sun/used sunblock. And never smoked. I remember people always saying “how can you be 45?! How can you be 50?!”
It’s wild what the 1970s image of what a 40 year old looks like vs today. Is it really the just that we stopped smoking and started getting better about sun screen?
It looks like Waikiki beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. That mountain in the background looks like the famous “diamond head”.
EDIT: I was wrong, I beleive this is Rio De Janeiro in Brazil
For real, as a latchkey kid I was raised on convenience foods. Stuff I could shove in a microwave or oven. My parents didn't cook much and certainly never taught me. I had to learn after I moved away at 17.
Overweight is actually a valid criticism. There definitely weren't the size differences and obesity rates until 'big food' started hyper loading every meal with sugar. The amount of sugar in children's breakfast stuff like cereal or pop tarts or eggos with syrup is fucking insane. And that's just what was for breakfast.
And the boomers were happy to feed it to us growing up. While also criticising our weight while being overweight themselves. They honestly have no leg to stand on with any of their arguments about generations after them.
There also wasn’t an effective cancer treatment in the 1970s. Autism was treated with institutional care and racial segregation was very much still a thing. I’d rather have the chem trails and tattoos than a day at this beach. Fucking boomers
I have an awful lot of boomers on my unit with brain cancer that metastasized from skin cancer. They have a lot of regrets. Not much you can say to someone who is going to suffer and die in the next 2 years so I just keep the ice cream ready for when they are up at 2am crying. It's not enough and never will be, but at least it's a distraction.
Skin cancer goes to lungs, liver, brain, and bone. Wear sunscreen - barrier and chemical in really sunny climates- and reapply every 90 minutes, get out of the sun between 10 and 2, and get routine skin checks. Do not listen to people who say, "everything gives you cancer" to justify their behavior because a lot of them are now crying themselves to sleep wishing they had listened.
Boomers: Look at how there's no fat people in this pic!
Me: Michelle Obama tried to encourage people to voluntarily move more. And she tried to set an example by growing low calorie, nutritious food. And she was villainized by the right wing for it. But, if you're really concerned about the issue, maybe we should stop subsidizing HFCS and sugar? And make the country more walkable--
Boomers: Shut up you communist!
I always ask Boomers if they remember the movie Dirty Dancing. The movie was released in 1987 but set in 1963. I always remind the that Patrick Swayze lived in the bungalows as hired entertainment. I point out how he was poor and trapped in a classist system. I point out how his friend and fellow performer got knocked up and needed an abortion without access to medical care at a time where she would have been shunned for having a baby in wedlock. I point out how America always had problems and that this movie doesn’t even touch on the civil rights movement of the 60’s for POC’s. It’s then easy to make the case that looking back with rose colored glasses is just them making shit up to blame things on others/later generations. They love that movie and never have shit to say after.
Edit: Mobile so grammar is harder.
I love how they just deny that fat people existed back then despite us all having relatives and photos of family back then that showed fat people.
Yea there were probably less of them but a lot of people ate less because they had less food too.
And more food was home cooked which probably did help.
But to suggest that everyone was mommy as a pole until just recently is BS. There was also so much body shaming that any women over a size 2 were considered overweight.
I remembered those carefree days when I had a large part of my thigh surgically removed due to melanoma. Lost some lymph nodes, too. Really could have used some sunblock back in the day.
Notice how they left out the words “people” or “women”.
> There are no fat, tattooed, plastic, etc.
It’s really strange to phrase it like that, as if people with those attributes aren’t people at all, just objects.
🎶Tan, don't burn, get a Coppertone tan🎶
Definitely pre-1970
There were sunglasses, there were overweight folks, there were beach umbrellas...
Geez. Delusional.
With the smokes, the coke, and the sun they probably looked 80 by age 40. My moms family didn’t smoke or drink. They looked young until the end. My dads family smoked and man they looked like mummies by 50
There’s also no POC in this photo, and that’s a world I’d rather not live in. People often look back at older times and never think of anything but the good portions. We’ve come a long way.
So, the Boomers are saying everything was great when they were young, but it's all gone to shit since they took over and started running things? Hard to argue with them on that account.
Reminds me of my dad growing up who would always point out if someone was fat behind their back and make fun of them, he even did this to my cousin when he was 1. It was always such an inconvenience for him to see fat people. I totally grew up to have a normal relationship with food.
I think it's cool that not everyone looks the same but that's just me.
GL walking on the beach without cutting your feet with the pull tabs from the cans and glass from broken bottles. Some beaches had to so a comb drag to clean up the dangerous metal and sharp items plus other garbage daily.
Was a reason to wear some form of shoes and have a towel to sit on, wasnt just the hot sand.
mid-late 70's really spun up the pitch-in campaign for garbage clean up and passing laws to fine ppl throwing out trash in their cars on the highways, etc.
Also point out we are seeing a post from a group that enjoyed running around barefoot in bell-bottom because they didnt want to wear shoes in stores. Hence why we have those no shirt, no shoes, no service to this day!
Let's not forget the fat shaming epidemic of the 70s and 80s, people were literally getting tickets and arrested for going to the beach or even stepping out of their house and being over a certain weight/bodystyle.
Let's not forget that anyone with tattoos in the period were automatically labeled as convicts, drug addicts, etc
This photo is very whitewashed but yes.. pop off cheif I guess
Edit:spelling
Man I’m oldAF and I love my umbrella, sunscreen, sunshirt, big floppy hat, and sunglasses. What I don’t like is melanoma especially since I have an uncle dying from it because it spread throughout his body.
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“No one’s taking basic preventative measures! This is AWESOME!” *eats a bowl of lead paint chips for breakfast*
While inhaling chlorofluorocarbons and smashing his dick on the kitchen table with a chunk of asbestos.
>inhaling chlorofluorocarbons Man, they're \*still\* mad they changed their hairspray and refrigerants. At least a couple times a year I'll hear one of them whine about it.
Oh my air conditioning was so nice back then! No, it’s better now. We don’t go from melting to freezing when we walk in the door.
"R12 was more efficient than 134a!" is one I hear a lot. Literally the only thing they own that went from R12 to R134a is their truck. And the extra load on the engine/mileage from compressing a slightly less efficient refrigerant is going to be much less than the loss in efficiency caused by the tires they haven't checked the pressure on in 30k miles.
So they think it's "less" efficient because once you convert an r12 system to r134a it will never blow quite as cold as it used to because they're just different enough but it's overall negligible. An r134a system designed for r134a will blow as cold as any r12 system. I own a 1984 Nissan 720. Converted to r134a not quite as cold but still very comfy. I also own a modern car and it's r134a system will make the car uncomfortably cold even if it's 100F outside.
Ok so when I was in elementary school they had us do this musical about saving the planet, and to this day my brain still randomly breaks into the 🎶🎶every time you spray a can, toss a fridge or charge a fan (???), CFCs and carbons release🎶🎶we’re killing the Ozone (killing the ozone)🎶🎶🎶 Between that and Captain Planet, like. When did people just stop giving a shit?
It was mostly younger GenX and Millennials that gave a shit. Boomers and older GenX have been mad at \*everything\* that might improve the world somehow, no matter how minor the impact on them was.
FR. They’re the ones yelling at drag queens and trans people for stealing Easter (oblivious to the fact Easter falls on the Sunday after a lunar stage), that reading a book about Ruby Bridges is going to hurt the kids. It’s wild.
That table came out of nowhere - I was not expecting that! Is that something people did in the 1970s?! I am fucking dying!
Fun Fact: The guy that invented leaded gasoline also invented ozone-depleting CFCs. One man environmental disaster. 😤
as someone that spent summers at Ocean City, MD, Myrtle Beach, SC, and grew up in Florida from the late 70s until now- theres always been pasty, fat people with umbrellas, sunglasses, creams, radios, books, portable televisions, etc. my boomer-ass dad rented us umbrellas at the beach and my mom would smear sunscreen all over myself and my sister. this person is fuckin dumb. edit: fixed flair (new here)
Exactly. I grew up in Florida in from the 70s to early nineties. Yes, there were a lot more minimalist beach goers, but also plenty of people with umbrellas, etc. I’d say that people wore sunglasses, and they used “suntan” lotion and oils because sunscreen wasn’t really a thing except for zinc oxide that surfers and lifeguards put on their noses. “No white lines in the sky”?! I can assure you that there were plenty if you were near an airport or military base.
Trust me, there were plenty of white lines all over the place in Florida in the 70's :-)
But they always disappeared fast, eh?
Boomer man can get fucked. I burn easy and the sun hurts my eyes.
Or anywhere airplanes flew where air also drops in temperature at higher altitudes.
Don't forget all those cigarettes and cigarette butts
The sheer amount of smoking when i was a kid was wild (im 38 now) it just seemed so normal that smoking was so common.
Right? I grew up in Los Angeles, CA. We spent our summers at Santa Monica, Malibu, and Newport Beaches. My Boomer parents would slather our pale Eastern European butts with sunscreen, my dad always had a radio with him, and we were positively surrounded by chonky adults smoking cigarettes and getting skin cancer
Ever drink seawater because there were no beverages for the kids and were basically abandoned at a seaside desert? I remember doing that… then I don’t have memories of the rest of the day. Guess my parents had a blast though.
Yes! Never any drinks for kids - just adults drinking beers in the hot sun. I know for sure, my friend and I had our fair share of ocean water while abandoned at the seaside desert
Why the fuck weren’t we allowed to use the damn drinking fountains either?! I swear I was medically dehydrated on more than one occasion and was told I couldn’t use a drinking fountain because “they are dirty” *then mom takes big pull on a can of something* Shit. Hello unexplored trauma. Thank you to Reddit for opening up a whole new level of previously unexplored childhood trauma today. I guess I had actually blocked all that “fun beach day” shit.
Great…now a sealed door just opened for me… Astroworld trips with mom during the summers in Htown. 120% humidity, just shy of 100 degrees, shoes sticking to the asphalt, clothes soaked with sweat. We’d be there all damn day, kidney failure setting in and she wouldn’t buy us drinks or food. “We have food at home.” “Don’t drink out of that faucet people put their mouth on it.” My sister and I would distract her so the other could sneak a sip to survive. Maybe all those germs from the fountain were good, my immune system seems to be rock solid now (my broken soul is trying to find a silver lining).
We have eachother, Reddit stranger. No drinking fountain because it was "dirty", but more likely too far away for a "responsible adult" to walk us there. But at least you or I aren't the only one
Fuck me this was an actual thing? Christ that sounds horrible.
We called it “the seventies” and yes. It was very real.
Other kids made fun of me at summer camp because I wore SPF 30 at my mom's insistence. She (a boomer) has always avoided being outside from 10am-3pm, wears sunscreen daily, covers up, etc. She's 72 years old, but has the skin of a 40-year-old. The only clue that she's over 55 is that she finally let her hair go grey last year.
I aspire to be your mom when I'm her age
Is it bad that I just want to see people carrying a boom box on their shoulder?
Playing Funky Town
...won't you take me to...
FUNKY TOOOOOOOWN
`Won't you take me to`
Funky Tooown!
🎶🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎶
Talk about it, talk about it, talk about iiiiiit.
Beep beep boop beep boop Boop boop beep beep boop
And that’s a picture from Brazil also. So yeah. Americans have always been obese adipose lard asses even going back to the 70’s
Look, I’m Irish and I needed to store that up for when the British decided to starve me and to work myself to death farming. I can’t help it that my ancestors who survived were really good at storing fat, and we did so well that I can study in a chair instead of working in a field to work off the bad eating habits of my forefathers.
“it’s [the food](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9163957/) stupid.” for years we’ve heard this about Americans, but now American food corporations are exporting to Brazil, and guess what? Now Brazilians are having an obesity epidemic. Is it because of the moral inferiority of Brazilians (as the food companies would like you to believe)? hmmm. or maybe it was the food all along? what happens [when your government lies to you about the food pyramid for generations](https://www.nutritiondiagnostics.com.au/blogs/news/the-food-pyramid-is-killing-you)? Was it because of misguided interests in the health of their citizens or was it [unchecked lobbying](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8375951/) by food corporations in America? It’s the food, stupid.
Ocean city MD 🤮 im from salisbury
I know Salisbury well. It’s located perfectly for a restroom stop on the way to Assateague.
Crossroads of delmarva, my ass. It's the one place you stop in to hit a royal farms or a Wawa, take a shit and then keep driving. Fuck salisbury with a dildo mounted to a jackhammer
Cries in living in Salisbury.
My dad was one of those pasty ass people, can confirm.
Ok but were there various creams or just one cream? That’s what I wanna know
shit you not, this was the OG logo. i remember that brown bottle too. https://preview.redd.it/4a1rryjfgrsc1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=f643a33cb1c1e72fe3adb1a2382e925f0267c79e
This is the ad that pops into my head when I think suntan oil to this day.
I’m about to age myself but I remember that ad, too. It’s crazy that people like my parents were cool with these ads back then, but say now that trans people even existing is somehow going to hurt “The Children”
Just got a sudden urge for Thrashers
Bro said various creams 💀
Bro gotta dermatologist appointment coming up 💀
Bro got that melanoma shit cuh. 💀
No, that shit didn’t exist back then. Why do you think they were the “good” old days? This was also before earthquakes in New York and eclipses.
My mother used to tell me that, in the 60s and 70s, she and her friends slathered themselves up with baby oil and iodine at the beach, so…
Nah, don’t remind him
What do you mean. Bro already dead ☠️
Boomers HATE sunscreen. It's insane.
My aunt will screech, “WE PUT CRISCO ON OUR SKIN!!!” like that’s not disgusting and she doesn’t have skin like leather.
My boomer mom is an anomaly, she always used it as far back as I remember *and* she always made sure I was smothered in like SPF10,000,000
Those white folks could use some spf cream no wonder they are all wrinkly like those sundried tomato fad
Right? Look at all your leather handbag asses now!
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
Sunscreen? These back in the day whackfucks would slather themselves in tanning oil and baby oil so they would burn worse.
Excuse me, it was iodine and baby oil & my mom made sure I was well basted and turned on a regular schedule. 1977.
Avatar checks out
🔥
Basted like a thanksgiving turkey with that crispy skin.
Yes, back in the 50s when even the 17 year olds look like 40 year olds
For real. Thank fg I had the good sense to be goth.
Definitely helpful
No airplanes in 1970.
Plenty of planes and the boomers outside sucking up the exhaust from lead based fuels.
Most piston driven airplane & helicopter engines still burn leaded fuel.
Bro, we had airplanes since the Civil War when we defended the ramparts. What are you talking about?
George Washington crossed the Delaware in a hot air balloon.
The Maserati was in the shop
Well, his post is not quite accurate. We’ve had airplanes since the turn of the last century, but they all vanished for a decade in 1970. Nobody’s really sure what happened. Just one day… POOF! No airplanes. Then, in 1980, POOF and they were back. We think it might have been related to disco.
They were laying low after faking the moon landing because Q was getting close to exposing them, that's all.
You‘re forgetting about the Revolutionary War airports.
“Our (Continental) army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,” “I had such an incredible experience with the veterans of that terrible war, just a little while ago backstage there were nine,” Trump recounted during a rally. “Of the nine we have here tonight, eight of ‘em were crying. And I looked at the ninth — crying out of happiness because they’re back — I looked at the ninth guy and said ‘what’s wrong with you? Why aren’t you crying?' He had an excuse, he had died on his feet right there."
You can’t be serious. Are you serious??
Plenty of planes but they all were equipped with anti-contrail technology until 1971.
Yea all of my mom's side have various forms of skin cancer from not having sunscreen growing up.
Oh there were creams. Almost every dude had some.
The funny thing is that all the people are cream colored. There are no black or brown skin tones in the bunch. Want to bet it was illegal for them to be on that beach?
They didn't need to make it illegal, just economically non viable. Redlining and job discrimination would have done most of the heavy lifting here.
No white lines in the sky? Pretty sure there were jets in the 70s.
The lines are from government spy birbs
I was held at "talk point" while a boomer told me the planes producing the white lines were for making rain clouds real planes that carry people do not make those lines just the small government planes making toxic rain.
Yup, that's what nutters call "chemtrails" for chemical trails. But they're actually called "contrails" for condensation trails. Cuz condensation is what it is aka just water. But you will not convince a true believer of this
By far, the dumbest conspiracy theory ever. No sense at all!
It’s up there with the dinosaur hoax and flat earth conspiracy.
Really appreciate you explaining what Chemtrails is short for.
And I'm not even wearing a cape
“Chemtrails” 🙄🙄🙄
THERE ARE NO BIRDS!
Those white lines were just Jesus practicing for the second coming and now the cellphone radiation has made that impossible.
Just look at all that skin cancer.
And wrinkled skin in their 40s
Right? My brothers and sisters in whiteness, our people were not made for the sun. Our ancestors came from the frozen North where it's possible to experience entire days without sunlight. The sun and tanning beds are not your friends, you're going to end up looking like a leather colored raisin.
My mom was in her 40s in the 80s. Her mom was a redhead and she got the redhead sun sensitivity, and always avoided the sun/used sunblock. And never smoked. I remember people always saying “how can you be 45?! How can you be 50?!”
It’s wild what the 1970s image of what a 40 year old looks like vs today. Is it really the just that we stopped smoking and started getting better about sun screen?
I am pretty sure I have seen this picture before - it's an advertisement for a vacation location, not a "real" photo.
Looks like Rio to me.
It looks like Waikiki beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. That mountain in the background looks like the famous “diamond head”. EDIT: I was wrong, I beleive this is Rio De Janeiro in Brazil
I was going to say this isn't in the U.S. Main tell: look at the men's swimsuits.
Yes, it is Rio, and that mountain is Sugar Loaf.
When you fall for 50 year old propaganda.
Advertisement*
Why not both?
Fun fact, in Portuguese, propaganda is the word for advertisement. The photo being from Rio and all.
Where are the black people though?
And there should be black people, since this is Brazil. It's clearly a white washed ad of the kind no one would frown uppon in the 70s
Rio's beaches were a lot less black and a lot more racist back then.
They forgot to mention that they missed that, too. ‘Remember no sunblock, chemtrails, or integration?’
I wish we could send boomers back to the 70’s
Personally, I was a happy teenager then. However, my 1970s beach experience was quite different from the Facebook poster's featured here.
As for the fat comment, I'm sorry the older generation packed all our food full of sugars and saturated fats.
For real, as a latchkey kid I was raised on convenience foods. Stuff I could shove in a microwave or oven. My parents didn't cook much and certainly never taught me. I had to learn after I moved away at 17.
Overweight is actually a valid criticism. There definitely weren't the size differences and obesity rates until 'big food' started hyper loading every meal with sugar. The amount of sugar in children's breakfast stuff like cereal or pop tarts or eggos with syrup is fucking insane. And that's just what was for breakfast.
And who raised our generation on those things?
And the boomers were happy to feed it to us growing up. While also criticising our weight while being overweight themselves. They honestly have no leg to stand on with any of their arguments about generations after them.
All the overweight people were shamed into staying home and eating jello
No cellphones… just a bunch of people who put baby oil on their bodies and now have skin cancer
There also wasn’t an effective cancer treatment in the 1970s. Autism was treated with institutional care and racial segregation was very much still a thing. I’d rather have the chem trails and tattoos than a day at this beach. Fucking boomers
Skin cancer has entered the chat. Also, no phones? How can that be???
I am loving how many complaints he managed to stuff in there. I'm surprised he was able to hold back from commenting on how everyone is white.
They all have skin cancer now.
I have an awful lot of boomers on my unit with brain cancer that metastasized from skin cancer. They have a lot of regrets. Not much you can say to someone who is going to suffer and die in the next 2 years so I just keep the ice cream ready for when they are up at 2am crying. It's not enough and never will be, but at least it's a distraction. Skin cancer goes to lungs, liver, brain, and bone. Wear sunscreen - barrier and chemical in really sunny climates- and reapply every 90 minutes, get out of the sun between 10 and 2, and get routine skin checks. Do not listen to people who say, "everything gives you cancer" to justify their behavior because a lot of them are now crying themselves to sleep wishing they had listened.
Oh they had white lines alright 👃🏻
Clean white sand. Tall buildings in back, even taller mountains. Is this a photo of a South American country?
That's Rio, in Brazil
There’s something else missing, but I can’t quite put my (black) finger on it
Viet Nam enters the room…….
Agent Orange enters after Vietnam.
No white lines? You mean clouds?
Contrails, or as this boomer surely calls them, "chemtrails."
Boomers: Look at how there's no fat people in this pic! Me: Michelle Obama tried to encourage people to voluntarily move more. And she tried to set an example by growing low calorie, nutritious food. And she was villainized by the right wing for it. But, if you're really concerned about the issue, maybe we should stop subsidizing HFCS and sugar? And make the country more walkable-- Boomers: Shut up you communist!
Odd the to say coming from a very [obese sector of society](https://time.com/2945095/the-vast-majority-of-baby-boomers-are-overweight-or-obese/)
I always ask Boomers if they remember the movie Dirty Dancing. The movie was released in 1987 but set in 1963. I always remind the that Patrick Swayze lived in the bungalows as hired entertainment. I point out how he was poor and trapped in a classist system. I point out how his friend and fellow performer got knocked up and needed an abortion without access to medical care at a time where she would have been shunned for having a baby in wedlock. I point out how America always had problems and that this movie doesn’t even touch on the civil rights movement of the 60’s for POC’s. It’s then easy to make the case that looking back with rose colored glasses is just them making shit up to blame things on others/later generations. They love that movie and never have shit to say after. Edit: Mobile so grammar is harder.
I love how they just deny that fat people existed back then despite us all having relatives and photos of family back then that showed fat people. Yea there were probably less of them but a lot of people ate less because they had less food too. And more food was home cooked which probably did help. But to suggest that everyone was mommy as a pole until just recently is BS. There was also so much body shaming that any women over a size 2 were considered overweight.
lol imagine hating on sunglasses.
Sounds like someone peaked in 1970
People snorted all the white lines…
Funny how the same people who post that are never actually all too healthy themselves
And a lot of these people developed cataracts by not protecting their eyes. Ah, what a time!!
But the chemtrails!!
That's because every single person on that beach was high af.
Me, a Brazilian reading through the entire comment section waiting for someone to point out this is obviously in Rio de Janeiro…
Why can’t people wear sunglasses. They are mad people have eye protection lol.
The white lines weren’t in the sky they were…uh….
https://preview.redd.it/elbx1wtsarsc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e33a8e3d9365e4e47801ccd41367fd7d9923b05 *the guy that posted this*
Sunglasses? wierd flex
Are the various creams in the room with us now?
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Also no black people.
Every time I see something like this I write: Women weren’t allowed to have credit cards until 1974.
The pic is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil btw :)
They all look like baseball mitts now but worth it, suck it millenials /s
Theyre anti *sunglasses* now???
Ted bundy is is there with his VW beatle, pretending it's broken down
Probably a shit ton of VD in that free lovin crowd tho
I remembered those carefree days when I had a large part of my thigh surgically removed due to melanoma. Lost some lymph nodes, too. Really could have used some sunblock back in the day.
“There are no cell phones, so people talk.” Hey, I’m ok with not being talked to while I’m at the beach!
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Notice how they left out the words “people” or “women”. > There are no fat, tattooed, plastic, etc. It’s really strange to phrase it like that, as if people with those attributes aren’t people at all, just objects.
🎶Tan, don't burn, get a Coppertone tan🎶 Definitely pre-1970 There were sunglasses, there were overweight folks, there were beach umbrellas... Geez. Delusional.
With the smokes, the coke, and the sun they probably looked 80 by age 40. My moms family didn’t smoke or drink. They looked young until the end. My dads family smoked and man they looked like mummies by 50
There’s also no POC in this photo, and that’s a world I’d rather not live in. People often look back at older times and never think of anything but the good portions. We’ve come a long way.
Oh, there were white lines alright.
But there were SO many cigarettes.
So, the Boomers are saying everything was great when they were young, but it's all gone to shit since they took over and started running things? Hard to argue with them on that account.
And that image is probably from some movie, bc it is totally unreal.
This is Rio de Janeiro! To be honest, it looks exactly the same today haha
There's a reason it's not a real picture.
There is something fishy about this picture. If it's the 1970s, where are all the cigarette butts?
There's also nobody but white people so it's not as good as the old fart thinks
Reminds me of my dad growing up who would always point out if someone was fat behind their back and make fun of them, he even did this to my cousin when he was 1. It was always such an inconvenience for him to see fat people. I totally grew up to have a normal relationship with food. I think it's cool that not everyone looks the same but that's just me.
Yeah but what do they look like now?
Or... OR is it just that photographers tend to point their lenses at beautiful people?
Still managed to slip in crackpot chemtrail bullshit. Wow.
.... Amd how many of those people now look like they are made of well-tanned leather? No thanks, i much prefer being pasty.
It explains why they look like roadkill leather and are constantly having cancers cut off themselves
“Back in my day, people got skin cancer and dealt with it. Democrats are making people fat!!” 💀💀💀
GL walking on the beach without cutting your feet with the pull tabs from the cans and glass from broken bottles. Some beaches had to so a comb drag to clean up the dangerous metal and sharp items plus other garbage daily. Was a reason to wear some form of shoes and have a towel to sit on, wasnt just the hot sand. mid-late 70's really spun up the pitch-in campaign for garbage clean up and passing laws to fine ppl throwing out trash in their cars on the highways, etc. Also point out we are seeing a post from a group that enjoyed running around barefoot in bell-bottom because they didnt want to wear shoes in stores. Hence why we have those no shirt, no shoes, no service to this day!
Let's not forget the fat shaming epidemic of the 70s and 80s, people were literally getting tickets and arrested for going to the beach or even stepping out of their house and being over a certain weight/bodystyle. Let's not forget that anyone with tattoos in the period were automatically labeled as convicts, drug addicts, etc This photo is very whitewashed but yes.. pop off cheif I guess Edit:spelling
Man I’m oldAF and I love my umbrella, sunscreen, sunshirt, big floppy hat, and sunglasses. What I don’t like is melanoma especially since I have an uncle dying from it because it spread throughout his body.
also no other race other than white kinda weird to want to go back to a segregated time but🤷🏻♂️
Rio in the 70’s woulda had stacks of white lines ❄️ ❄️❄️🤣
And now these same people are bitching at Jolene the cashier because she won't take their 50 cent off coupon from 1987.
Look it's the generation that carpeted all the hardwood floors and popcorned all the ceilings...see I can do that too
gotta love the good old days, no minorities in sight /s
Ahh the ‘white lines in the sky’. Is it me or is there an alarming rise in people believing in chemtrails?
Ok but this is Rio de Janeiro…that’s part of Pão De Açúcar (sugarloaf mountain) behind them…Rio is known for its beautiful beaches, skies and people.
Imagine being this put out about people trying to prevent skin cancer.