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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What was it like growing up in Finland in the 1980s:

Just a random misfired Soviet SS-N-3 missile. And Santa Claus trying to liven up the situation.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is Santa in shorts and thigh high boots? Noice.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Dunno about shorts, but folks in Lapland make thigh-high boots of reindeer leather. Seems appropriate.

[–] androidul@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

wtf, was that taken close to a nuclear bomb testing facility?

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Smurfs love a mushroom cloud.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don’t remember those two other smurfs growing up…

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

Those are the Slufette twins, great addition to the VHS one could get on that backroom

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Those are just your average 80s moms

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Needs more cigarettes; In hands, on the ground, in the kids hair. They were everywhere.

Edited: I'm not great with grammar whilst inebriated. Cheers.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They used to have cigarette vending machines. An underage person could buy cigarettes from a machine, because it had no way to check your age.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn’t even need to use the machines, because most people didn’t care. When I wanted to walk to the store in my teens, my mother would give me extra money to pick up cigarettes for her. Cashiers always sold them to me, no problem.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yep, I witnessed a mom send her 7-year-old child to the corner store with a permission note to buy cigarettes in 1984.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah the street gutters used to be full of butts. They were flattened all over the sidewalk.

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[–] Zagam@piefed.social 58 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I was tbere. This is accurate. It smelled like cigarettes too.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Omg smoking sections...

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And incomplete vehicle internal combustion. You could smell that a car had driven by for a good few minutes after it left. Walking beside a road just always had that smell.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Mmmm, lead!

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Men were real men, women were real women, and smurfs were real smurfs.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

And snozberries tasted like snozzberries

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're not smurfing there. You could smurf a smurf right in the smurf and nobody would give it a second thought.

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[–] dgbbad@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Papa smurf, can I lick yo ass?!

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck me, the early 2000s newgrounds flashbacks!

[–] dgbbad@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

The peak age of the internet.

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dgbbad@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PAPA SMURF, CAN I LICK YO ASS?!

Yeah! Lick my ass, bitch!

[–] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My mother loves to tell the story about taking me to meet Papa Smith at Hardee's. I lost my shit because Smurfs were supposed to be tiny, not 6 feet tall.

[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Smurfs were 6 foot. The mushrooms were just fucking huge.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And Azrael was the actual archangel

[–] richardmtanguay@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I guess Papa Smurf was a very lucky Smurf at that time!!! ;-)

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Sky elephant is disappointed.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

there was nothing innocent about it 😏

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We were totally smurfed in the 80s.

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[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 16 points 2 days ago

Looks '80s enough...

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Surely that smoke plume and aircraft are edited in. They are crisper than the objects in the foreground lmfao.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My highly technical internet search confirms the plane is fake.

[–] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

We sure this isn't an AI image that someone edited after the fact? Cars parked erratically, girls look like dolls and their hands are weird, the hi res smoke plume, and what is going on with the guy in the back right.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reports on shudder Reddit claimed the bikini clad women are AI. I find this entirely plausible:

  1. Compared to the little girl they frankly just look AI.
  2. I grew up in the 80’s; Women’s swimsuits of the day were usually one-piece, with high cut thigh openings. Bikinis like this were not a thing I recall ever seeing back then.
  • Here is an example that appears accurate to me. There were bikinis of the day if course, but the picture clearly shows how differently they were cut:
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

This is not a comment. This is a cry for help.

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