I remember the beehive hairdos. True monuments to structural engineering that would make any architect spiral into a pit of inadequacy.
How old are you? Cause this is Brigitte Bardot in her thirties at most. We’re talking about 1960’s.
For a good while now I just felt old. But not today. Today I feel fucking old.
Two weeks ago I had an MRI to see if I need knee surgery. Tomorrow I get to talk to Ortho about my impending knee surgery-- A lateral tear of the meniscus in the cleft with some degeneration of the joint. I’m sick of walking with a cane and wearing a knee brace.
Saturday I drove 360 some miles to get an MRI to see if I have prostate cancer. No results yet, but I have my suspicions based on my PSAs. The question is: Is it the slow cancer or the fast cancer?
Thursday I need to drive another 100 miles to talk to another doctor about what is now a very minor issue.
So yeah, I’m mother fucking old today…
***Oh, and yes I remember Bardot vividly from my youth. And a host of others you may or not remember. From Marilyn Monroe to Jane Russel to Maureen O’Hara.
I just think they’re neat.
Young people have no idea what it used to smell like. For a decade everything reeked of smoke and hairspray.
You could taste it in the air
Galadriel: Feel it in the water
I feel it in my fingers
🎶I feel it in my toes…
(I got you!)
Christmas is around us,
Come on and let it snow.
Kids these days don’t even know about the hole in the ozone later.
It’s kinda our last big environmental win.
There’s been some conservation wins that I know of. Okaloosa Darter fish came off of endangered status, and eventually off of threatened The Red Cockaded Woodpecker was elevated from endangered to threatened a few years ago.
Controlled burns in the US long leaf pine forests have also lead to a return of the quail population.
Just trying to sprinkle a little good news out there.
The irony of all ironies is how similar the words “conservation” and “conservative” are.
That’s because the root of both is to conserve. To keep things the way they are.
Politics gets in the way of that reality since they don’t actively want to keep it the same, they actually want to regress back to previous times they can exploit personally.
Oh don’t worry, it’s coming back
I just told my kid about how we fixed acid rain through regulation just this morning
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.
I don’t understand, why would it sound implausible? Isn’t that what governments are FOR?
Like most people would change anything about their lifestyle for the common good… It just went out of style.
I am old enough to remember it going out of style.
I just shook my head when I saw this post, scrolled down to find a comment which reflected the truth, and farted
But non-aerosol gel exists for the same purpose. Why don’t they use that?
You can still buy aerosol hair sprays too they just don’t use CFCs
I dont even really remember women actually wearing their hair like this, and I’m old as fuck.
Sadly, you can’t get the proper hold without CFCs…
Is that so? How does the propellant matter?
It doesn’t. As long as it’s non-reactive, it only matters for the people designing the spay can.
I think the GP was sarcastic.
