I remember the beehive hairdos. True monuments to structural engineering that would make any architect spiral into a pit of inadequacy.
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I just think they're neat.
Work amount.
Young people have no idea what it used to smell like. For a decade everything reeked of smoke and hairspray.
Everywhere you went felt like a bowling alley.
Everything you touched had a thin sticky layer of cigarette smoke gunk on it. Hell I remember doctors casually smoking in examination rooms.
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Kids these days don't even know about the hole in the ozone later.
Trump wants to bring it back.
in australia they absolutely do
we take skin cancer very seriously down here
Cancer is probably the least dangerous living thing in Australia.
Cancer is living? I gotta get outta here
Wait till you hear about the guy who caught tapeworm cancer from his cancerous tapeworms
We managed to dial things back a bit, so that became a smaller problem.
We used to see regular news reports of actual rivers on fire. Things are still way too bad, but we forcefully throttled some things as we saw how quickly the damage was compounding.
Women’s hair doesn’t defy gravity without lots of help.
Oh my god I needed your comment for it to finally click, I was thinking "they stopped putting their hair up to protect their shoulders from the increased UVs"? But of course, it was referencing the sprays!
I just told my kid about how we fixed acid rain through regulation just this morning
I think the only reason it worked was because there were cheaper alternatives to CFCs already available. So it didn't cost them money.
Well it's understandable, the concept of being able to actually cooperate and do something about the environment on a world scale instead of just blindly pretending it's not a thing until it kills us all is a bit hard to believe for younger generations for obvious reasons.
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