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I'm a big James Bond fan. In several of the original novels, when he's in a jam and hasn't slept in a while or is generally unwell, he takes an asthma inhaler out of his first aid kit, cracks it open, and eats the paper inside. Yeah. This is never explained because it's the 1950's so of course you know what all this means, person reading this 70 years in the future. I had to look this up. Prior to the discovery and marketing of Salbutamol in the mid 60's, the most popular asthma inhalers were tubes of spiral paper that you inhaled from to deliver powder that was held within. The powder was amphetamine. **It was speed**. Amphetamines were originally discovered and marketed as a cure for asthma, and by golly people loving LOVED them. Everybody suddenly has asthma. Benzedrine inhalers were sold without a prescription. They were selling out in stores. People could not get enough of asthma inhalers. This was one of the first marketed drugs people did for funzies. It became an actual societal problem. So that's fun but let's get to the movie version of Casino Royal from 2006. In the novel, the villain Le Chiffre uses an asthma inhaler during the baccarat game. This is mentioned very specifically. We (the reader in the 50's) know that he doesn't have asthma, he's doing drugs to stay on top for the game. He is a bad man doing naughty things. In the modern movie, he has a regular steroid inhaler that is fancy and platinum that he uses because he has asthma and smokes too much. That doesn't make sense. He should be jamming handfuls of adderall or doing coke in the bathroom, that's the modern equivalent. The inhaler in the book is about drugs, not asthma. The movie producers have been asked about this, and their excuse was they wanted a nod to the book without involving drugs. My take- he is a movie bad guy, he can do drugs. After reading their answers my assumption is the people making the movie didn't know why he was using an asthma inhaler either. Scudworth fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 16:42 |
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Your slap fight over a haircut is totally worth making GBS threads up a cool thread over, thanks
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# ¿ Oct 29, 2019 19:12 |
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inokichi posted:Maybe also the SMS tone being in morse code? what sms tone?
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2019 00:16 |
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Cessna posted:? I am sorry to tell you you're not an entire country
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2019 22:20 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:The fact they even had a car seat probably made them progressive. ?? Car seats for children were normal in the 60's, safety standard regulated in the 70's, and mandatory by the 80's.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2019 00:32 |
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Guy Axlerod posted:Yeah, the kevin james bit about unlocking the door while the other person is pulling on the handle is obsolete too. I had this happen in a 2019 model car literally yesterday?
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2019 22:32 |
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Guy Axlerod posted:Yeah, I guess you could have this problem still if you didn't have a remote unlock on your car, but my 2000 model had it. Unlocking the car before anyone could reach the handles and gently caress it up was a revelation. It's not about the remote unlocking + two people walking to the car together, but i see this happen just as much (if not more) in current model cars because of the doors automatically locking when you start to drive. Then driver goes to pick up someone, forgetting the doors are locked, person getting into car pulls handle, and the scene plays out exactly as it did in 1998.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2019 23:01 |
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empty baggie posted:Do they do that with aspirin? It’s usually paired with acetaminophen. you can get both codeine + tylenol or +aspirin and the OTC version is always mixed with caffeine. And it rules. But I don't think this has to do with misunderstandings of these being sedatives on their own.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 09:22 |
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In the Mr Plow episode of the Simpsons, the business phone # is KL5-3226, and said as "Klondike 5, 3226", this being a reference to how phone numbers in much older media had that exchange because its good old 555, the fake exchange for media numbers in north america.
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2020 00:04 |
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tinytort posted:modern cars, you can drive right away if you have to, but it's better for them to warm up first. No, it's not better, idling more than 30 seconds in a modern car with modern oil is doing nothing but wasting gas if it's anything above -40. Cars warm up by driving or block heaters, not idling. https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a19086/warming-up-your-car-in-the-cold-just-harms-engine/
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 14:47 |
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Leperflesh posted:How does this not get insanely massively exploited? Look what living in a hosed up country with a hosed up antiquated tax system has done to your brain and thought process. The public and government aren't locked in a grift vs grift system elsewhere.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 06:59 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:Wait, other cities did the whole 'It's 10pm do YOU know where your children are?' commercial PSA's also? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_you_know_where_your_children_are%3F
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 14:33 |
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Shut up Meg posted:
hello old friend
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2020 21:11 |
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Platystemon posted:Audiences will know what a radio is for a long time to come, but the aux cord has gone the way of the eight track. You mean the thing I use almost every day in sound systems I can't / won't pair my phone to?
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 21:05 |
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:I don't know if lighters even have those things, They did. There was a lot of different kinds of child proofing when that was becoming a thing back then, some companies used laughable plastic bits like he rips off, some made the metal wheel so painful to use that a child wouldn't bother to try (nor would adults), and the most logical one still in use today is a metal strip bridging over the wheel that's too hard for little kids but easy for adults. And you need pliers or a knife to take it off.
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2020 08:22 |
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LifeLynx posted:I think big indoor concerts, packed bars and restaurants, etc. aren't going to be a thing for so long that society might adapt to other ways to provide that level of entertainment, to where even after a vaccine the old ways will be left behind. What past examples suggest this for you? Polio went through north america seasonally for entire generations and public pools are still here. Spanish flu, same. Again- a virus that killed or deformed children in waves for decades didn't change poo poo afterwards.
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2020 21:27 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:American's dont care about dead kids is why This didn't just occur in America, pools came back after the vaccine and polio eradication to the point where you'd never know this happened anywhere. Public pools were used afterwards no problem by people who saw their friends and siblings suffer or die. A couple years of covid isn't going to change bars or restaurants or concerts post-vaccine, that's not how people have ever worked.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2020 03:31 |
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Ah yeah you’re right, I went back and checked - he gets a full test done while he’s there but the required one is just blood. It still struck me as really odd and archaic. And they lied about the reason? So weird. My parent's wedding album (mid 1970's) has their result letters in it, not just shoved in, there is a page specifically to put them along with other paperwork and the marriage licence. They forgot about it, and found themselves having to explain all this to me when I found the album as a kid. There was no lying here anyway, the letters specifically say SYPHILIS TEST.
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 08:08 |
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Moo the cow posted:Why would you want to display this? It's was a legal requirement, so it's not like it was something to boast about. I think it's exactly that, and as the thread title suggests. It was such a normal and mundane part of the wedding paperwork that everyone had to do and didn't think anything of it. It was a total afterthought. Definitely not something anyone would imagine struggling to explain 20 years later after the tests stopped and the std was nearly eradicated. (and it's the only part of the album I'm interested in keeping now. I'm framing those weird papers when they die)
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# ¿ May 7, 2020 13:45 |
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Greg12 posted:
Did you actually read this because Dexter Holland says, in that thing you just linked to prove your point, that the song and video is mostly directed at boy bands of the time appropriating hip hop culture. Disco was also a mainstream white culture theft n' bleaching clean up of the funk movement sooooo
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# ¿ May 8, 2020 01:43 |
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Jeza posted:This is the second reference I've seen to this on SA recently. When exactly did it become the norm in the US for kids to generally be disallowed from roaming around? This is also happening outside the US (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/children-spend-only-half-the-time-playing-outside-as-their-parents-did) and there are many reasons and many articles on the reasons for this shift, which I can't link to you easily atm because any search involving relevant terms is all covid safety tips right now.
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# ¿ May 10, 2020 14:01 |
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A White Guy posted:As funny as it is to think of this, cheque writing in grocery lines may actually finally become completely outmoded in our lifetimes. My children might not have any idea what that actually means. I used to see it all the time when I was a kid in the early 2000s, but the number of times I've seen someone write a cheque in a grocery line has become fewer and fewer as the years go by. The last time was six months ago. In a decade, I might go two or three years before some positively ancient codger writes a check for groceries. Much of the world is already there my friend, in Canada using cheques for regular purchases was phased out by our national debit bank card system in the mid 80s. I was a child then, so I have never seen cheques used in a store, so the scene where the Dude uses one to buy milk in the Big Lebowski seemed like the joke was that he was using a cheque at all, you can't use cheques in stores haha he's so high.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2020 02:41 |
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i think of demons posted:This may be slightly antiquated verbally but is still commonly used in writing, at least partly due to economy of text in obit pages and other lists in which maiden names might be relevant. Do people under 60 read obituaries, you need a newspaper for that, or to look it up specifically on your local news... website? I don't even know. I submit this as part of the thread topic.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 14:28 |
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It is clear to me now I have to set a google news alert for everyone I hate.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 14:31 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:A shake? Milk and ice cream? Yes those are the ingredients for a milkshake
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2020 01:06 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I have no idea what any of this means. Email? Spam emails? An email system incorrectly marking something as spam?
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2020 02:49 |
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HopperUK posted:I was watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure for the first time in a while, and a plot point revolves around Ted forgetting to wind his watch. I wonder how immediately understandable that is to kids today. I was 9 when that movie came out and didn't know wtf that meant, watches had batteries. I may have only learned about winding watches from that movie. So what I'm saying is it was already dated for children.
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2021 12:45 |
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If I'm at the point of asking directions at a gas station, you can be assured I no longer know where north is
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# ¿ Jan 3, 2021 01:06 |
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wesleywillis posted:I hate to shamelessly quote myself, but ummmmm ...............Anyone? You're assuming that Cobras in stand by me was a reference to something, but it can also just be a non-reference that dumb kids think is a cool badass sounding gang name.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2021 23:16 |
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One of the more misinterpreted songs of all time, word was that "Turning Japanese" refers to the Asian facial features people get at the moment of climax during masturbation. In a VH1 True Spin special, they asked The Vapors about this song, and they explained that it is a love song about someone who lost their girlfriend and was going slowly crazy. Lead singer Dave Fenton said: "Turning Japanese is all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn't expect to." It was inspired by Fenton's relationship problems.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2021 00:19 |
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I wanted to learn about Trinitron so I went to the best nerd for the job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFhzGEBQlk
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2021 22:00 |
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barnold posted:I'm certain this has been brought up itt but I was watching an old TV show on DVD with a few preroll period ads intact and AOL Keywords have got to be up there on the list of things modern audiences will have no knowledge about. For a while it seemed like everything had an AOL Keyword you could punch in to find stuff, then everything started to break off into individual websites Anyone who had the internet but didn't use AOL in that time period didn't know wtf was up with that either. I still don't.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2021 01:44 |
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I see Rolodexs in construction/contractor offices all the time. Someone would have to go through and put it all into a computer and they don't have time or inclination so it's still there from the 70s or 80s, just gets added on to. Old established businesses that aren't computer-based don't care to do the data entry involved in changing that.
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2021 01:05 |
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Anne Whateley posted:Stenographers might be the biggest one recently They use digital keyboards now but still very much exist?
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# ¿ May 1, 2021 23:05 |
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the Brooklyn Museum site has a photo of the Tunnels of Love @ Coney Island , and it reminds that "dating" as we know it today (being alone with the person) was not a thing back then and this gave couples perhaps their first chance to be alone even for a few minutes without being in a group/with chaperones/in public/at their parents house. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/181502 When these rides were introduced at the turn of the twentieth century, social etiquette often still made relaxed communication difficult. Remember that prior to the norm of single people having their own apartments in big cities, dating was rarely a private activity.
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# ¿ May 12, 2021 00:39 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:I’m very proud of my 3 months as a hall monitor. I got a sash to wear and everything. How did that work? I didn't understand the concept on TV because it seemed like the student doing it was somehow not attending classes.
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# ¿ May 13, 2021 02:50 |
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:She took out the bottom of the pool and the whole thing emptied out into the rifle range. She didn't get into a lick of trouble either, because her dad was a teacher at our school. This rules
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# ¿ May 16, 2021 06:25 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Consider all the jobs -- warehouse, factory, cleaning, and so on -- that are ill-paid and where employers don't allow time spent wandering around with your kid. I never realized how incredibly classist this idea is until just this moment. This was already mentioned but in Canada it's super organized, you only go once when you're in gr9, and any medium+ size employer has stuff set up for the students to do since they're all 14-ish and aren't wandering around. This includes mines, factories, and warehouses. You can go with any adult who agrees to take you anywhere, not just with your parent specifically. Kids go to factories and sometime they have too much fun at the factories - https://www.safetyonline.com/doc/grieving-father-defends-take-our-kids-to-work-0001
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2021 06:32 |
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Sweevo posted:The other sitcom thing I always wondered about was the one where they pair off kids and make them look after a fake baby. Because if that's real then it's pretty hosed up. In my highschool they got individual electronic babies (with the key, as mentioned) and it was only for a very small group of students in a super remedial program called "life skills training" which I can only describe as being for anyone who was barely going to graduate or was just not going to. My science teacher banned them from his class, the robot babies.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2021 13:20 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 16:42 |
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Drafting tables still exist
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