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Nurses in white dresses…
Hobos with their belongings hanging off a stick…
Doctors with a mirror on a head band…
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Submitted 10 months ago by _ONRYO_@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months ago
whaleross@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I remember nurses in white and doctors with a mirror on a headband when I was a kid in the 70s.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I guess I’ll own up to it. I remember soda fountains. The ones at Woolworth’s would sometimes have a string of balloons above the counter. If you ordered a banana split you would pick a balloon; the soda jerk would pop it and you paid the price on the slip of paper inside the balloon. According to a search the stores lasted until 1997, but they were gone from my area long before that.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The technical term is “stick and bindle”
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Bindlestiff can refer to the person or the luggage.
hperrin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Head mirrors were a thing.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My mother still has her white nurses hat and I took my father’s mirror headband. It’s out of style, but it was once normal.
roguetrick@kbin.social 10 months ago
Nurses in white dresses…
You can still find that in some pinning ceremonies, particularly in the South.
DessertStorms@kbin.social 10 months ago
Nurses in white dresses
The Towering Inferno was on the other night and there was a nurse, not at the hospital, but one at the scene in a white mini dress, having to bend down to care for people on the floor. That shit is so impractical, but gotta feed that male fantasy I guess.. 😂🤦♀️
Doctors with a mirror on a head band
I have seen doctors use them, but never keep them on unless they are.
Hobos with their belongings hanging off a stick
does me running away from home as a toddler count? I actually did this because I saw it in the cartoons.. 😂
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I did an image search an apparently short nurse dresses were a thing back in the 1970s. According to my unscientific poll, dresses started being replaced by scrubs and pants suits around the mid 1980s. Anecdotally it was older nurses who were the ones who were most resistant to the change.
ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
The bag suspended from a stick is called a bindle was also real. I suspect these were just replaced by backpacks that were cheap/ubiquitous enough.
moistclump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lump sugar is very much a thing! More sugar in packets now but still at work stuff there’ll be a bowl of lumps.
Or is there. Yknow now I’m doubting myself. Look at what you’ve done!
melisdrawing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How about a bag with a big dollar sign on it? I even worked at a bank for years and never saw one.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol, my dad was so disappointed when he took out a large sum of cash for a large person and asked if they had a money bag. She said yes, then handed him the plastic bag that they give to the Brinks trucks. He had the image in his mind of a burlap sack with a $ on it.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
People smiling in corporate pictures, tf are they happy bout?? Never seen that shit
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“they paid my ass to smile, and I’m smiling about the money”
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s less about being happy and more about not wanting to be bothered about it later. If some corporate big shot sees that you’re the only one scowling in the picture then you could be passed over for a promotion later, or even worse someone might actually come ask you why you weren’t smiling. The best strategy for any kind of corporate gathering is to just smile and get it over with so everyone can stop pretending they want to be there and hopefully go home early
tslnox@reddthat.com 10 months ago
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Oh trust me I’m the god of fake smiles. By sister calls my ability to fake laugh eeire.
fidodo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A lot of this stuff is just outdated imagery that became tropes from when they first reached mass media in the 50s and kept getting repeated.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Never seen anyone slip on a banana peel in my life.
Hugin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Banana peels were used as a visual euphemism for dog shit for so long people stopped realizing they were a euphemism.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
horse shit was everywhere until the car.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 10 months ago
Oh I’ve done it, caught myself before ending arse up but bananas are slippery as all fuck.
Fogle@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It depends what they’re on. On a tile floor yeah you’ll probably slip. On a sidewalk? Very unlikely unless it’s rotting and mushy
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Mythbusters did that in an episode and concluded that banana peels aren’t actually slippery like they had been portrayed in cartoons. The only way they got the full comic effect of a slip was to use industrial artificial insemenation lubricant.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Want a different kind of movie fuckery. The typical Eagle cry that is used universally in all Hollywood films is actually the call of a red-tailed Hawk. Which was chosen for being more imposing, dramatic and majestic, unlike Eagle’s actual sound which is more like this.
alehc@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Wow I’ve been bamboozled real bad with this one…
EatATaco@lemm.ee 10 months ago
TIL! Thanks
hppylttlhrb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One of those train things where you basically propel it using a sea saw, often in cartoons.
subignition@kbin.social 10 months ago
clearleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I used to think all my problems would be solved if I had one of those.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months ago
iirc there’s one in “Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?”
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 months ago
It’s called a hand car. (I learned that from a crossword puzzle.)
theedqueen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Never seen a sandwich topped with an olive in real life
Chobbes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is definitely a thing.
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
They probably stopped it because people would impale their mouth on the toothpick somehow and sue
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t think I ever say them in ice cream comes, but rather sundaes.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Put a maraschino on top of your ice cream.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You never actually need to use as much toothpaste as is commonly depicted. A fraction of that will more than get the job done.
Spherical cartoon bombs… kinda existed, but went out of style in the 19th century.
I suppose there might be rare instances at livestock shows where you might see fluffy white cloud sheep, but most sheep I’ve ever seen in person are about as filthy as any other outdoor dwelling livestock, which is to say, fairly.
ethman42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Whales spouting water. Not blowing a little bit like they do when they surface. Blowing copious amounts of water out of their blowhole like squirtel
Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A happy family
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I’m sorry for you. But you can be the change you want to see. Break the cycle.
funkajunk@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Why is this being downvoted?
Empathy and encouragement are not bad things, unless y’all want to stay toxic. 🤔
alehc@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Friendly remaining that absence of kids (if you don’t want them of course) counts as breaking the cycle.
Rosco@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A perfectly coiled poop. 💩 People at the ice cream shop struggle to make a decent one most of the time, so I can’t imagine trying to do that with your asshole.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
You’re confabulating memories of ice cream cones and ice cream sundaes.
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I don’t know if this counts but I was always disappointed that real life pea shooters and water pistols were nothing like their comic representations, that worked like machine guns and hoses respectively. I suppose the closest we ever got was the Super Soaker.
Oh, and I’ve never seen a catapult made from a Y shaped stick.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have literally never seen any pictures of an ice cream cone with a cherry on top in real life. But I’ve seen and had plenty of milkshake and sundaes (and cocktails) with a Maraschino cherry on top though.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
I’ve never seen an ice cream cone with the cherry on it, but I’ve had plenty of sundaes that looked exactly like the images of ice cream in cartoons and such.
moistclump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Anyone discuss quicksand yet?
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I never saw a sugar cube personally in my entire life.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Baskin Robbins sells a banana split that looks like what you’re talking about I think.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website 10 months ago
You could make one, but yes I have never seen a ice cream parlor selling cones ice cream with a cherry. I also hate cherries in my ice cream, so I would just toss it…
clearleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This kind of bee hive isn’t real. It’s an old fashioned type of man-made bee hive but I spent a large portion of my life thinking there was a species of bees out there somewhere making these.
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Talaraine@kbin.social 10 months ago
Haha those are hornet's nests.
DharmaCurious@startrek.website 10 months ago
Well… The world is a lie.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Some kinda do. And I could see how an artist would cartoonize that into what you showed.
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s_s@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Or paper wasps’ nest
s_s@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Those are called Bee skeps