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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago

If you are above a certain age, you can smell this photo.

It smells like Dennys used to smell.

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 19 points 6 days ago
[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

Back to a world where everything smelled like cigarette ash. While its nostalgic, I don't miss it. Its crazy how much people used to smoke.

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Yeah and if you miss it you could always pop into a casino. At the doors I was like, “oh wow. That’s interesting.” Then I hit the interior, “ugh, god. It’s everywhere.” Yuck

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Smells like Reno.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 13 points 6 days ago

Second cigarette after you order brings the waitress out with your Moons Over My Hammy and some more coffee.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 days ago

Or any other restaurant where you had a smoking and non smoking section

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

I just don't think the younger generations can understand how saturated diners and bars were with cigarette smoke.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Used to love pretending that the cigarette vending machine was a nasa control center while waiting to be seated though. Every once in a while a plunger would work and my parents would take the pack out and throw them away.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Some may be wondering how this scheme worked. Well, it didn't. As someone who waited tables during those times, this really only mattered for seating and where you could light up. In reality, every section was the smoking section since the second-hand smoking experience was practically everywhere, including the kitchen.

There's a special level of hell where your hair and clothes smell permanently of old cigarette smoke and fry grease, and it never washes out.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Yep, as a kid my eyes would hurt when we went out to eat and the whole place stank. The whole family was non-smokers and so we'd go out of our way to get an outside table if possible. It's nuts that that was a thing for so long

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago
[-] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

Did they have a non-smoking section?

/s

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

So Dennys used to smell better?

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

I remember this smell.

I also remember that once I went to a Denny's and my dad drove us home during an unexpected blizzard. I don't go to Denny's often but now, every time I do, even if it's in the middle of August, I hope for snow.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Well, what are the latest results?

Everything tastes like shit now and I can't smell anything. Also, my lungs hurt a little.

Excellent. Ship it!

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Sore lungs, you say? Hmmm...

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Oh, so just smoke more? Ok, doc!

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago
[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Okay, the photography in that one is just :: chef's kiss :: perfect.

[-] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago

Or buy those asbestos-filtered cigarettes!

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Kent, with the Micronite™ filter!

[-] jestho@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

To shreds, you say...

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 5 days ago

That's a lifeshort career choice.

[-] jestho@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I mean... my grandma smoked like a chimney for like 70 years, and only quit because of the covid lockdowns. Then she died at the ripe old age of 95. Guess she got too much blood in her nicotine system...

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 5 days ago

My maternal grandma smoked enough that she developed emphysema in her old age and it's the most disgusting goddamn thing.

[-] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Cool old Ronson table lighter

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

fucking quarter gallon of lighter fluid in that bitch

[-] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

My dad invented the phrase "dollars to donuts". Every time he got a dollar, he bought a donut.

He died at 34.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago
[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He died in 1962 at the age of 70.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That would have made him either 99 or 100 if he had lived that long. He actually died on March, 31, 1962 at the age of 70. Which actually means that he beat the average by 1- 1.5 decades, since the average age of death for men in the 1960s was 55-60 years old.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

You're right, the info I saw had the date wrong! Fixed.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago
[-] kindenough@kbin.earth 12 points 5 days ago

1892-1962, about 70

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

34, was 28 here

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

There are actually cigarette testing machines, and have been around for decades apparently. I've learned of them from a blogger back in the 2000s, when he told of his cigarette factory tour and said he felt like one of those machines thanks to the chain-smoking habit. Well apparently this dude is in fact a manifestation of such a machine in flesh.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

There are plenty of examples of the tobacco industry telling on itself, but the mere existence of "automated cigarette QA" has to be one of the wildest.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

What a freak on a leash

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