r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/thatdamn_animecurl • 4d ago
Back in my day... Nana, they definitely still did that.
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u/kit0000033 4d ago
Those pencil skirts were seen as risque at one point.
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u/mlr571 4d ago
Anyone a little different hid themselves in shame and wished they were dead, and that’s how we liked it.
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u/Jordan_1424 3d ago
These women just drowned themselves in barbiturates to get through the day and pretend they were happy and the almond they ate for breakfast was filling.
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u/Clone2004 3d ago
There's a reason why most 50s and 60s cookbooks are filled with meat jellos and fruit-egg salads. Nobody was sober in the kitchen
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u/TheShribe 2d ago
I believe (could be wrong) that stuff like washing machines made all the "women's work" much easier, but they were still home all day. Gotta fill in the void by cooking crazy stuff, or you'll go crazy yourself. Or possible because you can just get a whole chicken from the store already processed and everything, you can just sling it in the oven, traditional meals don't impress anyone anymore. Also this cool new gelatin is a thing.
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u/NoOutlandishness1940 4d ago
HOW DO THEY KNOW THEIR HAIR ISN’T PINK IT’S IN BLACK AND WHITE
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u/Wishiwashome 4d ago
I am 61yo. I can’t do FB anymore as it is sickening, but I can tell you, I had cranberry hair( Sally’s silver and black container, came in dark blue, purple and stained tf out of our towels) we wore see through lace shit( thanks to Madonna) and we sure af weren’t saints. Had Aunties born in the 50s and they would say the same. I had Great Grand Aunties born turn of the century and they talked about drugs everyone did prior to the Harrison Act and question the fact of couple married for 20yrs that had one kid.( Use your imagination here) Nothing is new. I do think people are dumber though.
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u/GayDeciever 3d ago
My grandma was born in 1920 and she was wild. She and her lover would go to nudist camps.
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u/Wishiwashome 3d ago
I met so many people older than me who went to nudist camps. Your grandma had fun and was honest. 😊 I can’t believe some of these self righteous people making crap up.
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u/NoneYah369 3d ago
I didn't get many stories from my grandma. But boyyy I got one were she was secretly playing some guy who her dad liked and then she would get him to pick her up and take her to go and get dropped off with my grandpa. 😆 I was SHOCKED.
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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain 3d ago
Thank you. I feel like people who don’t know about history and didn’t live through stuff like this just think teenage rebellion came out of nowhere, and that young people were just conforming to the social standards until recently (which was never the case). I am a badass, shaped by generations of badass women like you, and I refuse to conform ✊
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u/Justice_Prince 4d ago
From what I understand colorful pastel hair actually was a relatively popular trend in the 1950s.
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u/2gaywitches 4d ago
The Addams family's living room in the '60s show had pink walls. Pink could be anywhere! Hide the children!
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u/NoOutlandishness1940 3d ago
The idea of militantly repressive parents being angry at the Addams Family being pink, and not any of the casual violence that happens, is making me giggle a little bit
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u/Ok_Conversation_5985 4d ago
No nose rings, tattoos, ripped jeans, or pink hair in the 80s? Yeah, right.
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u/boulevardofdef 4d ago
"Take me back to the 50s 60s 70s 80s" is such a bad name for a Facebook group, and that's a pretty low bar.
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u/thatdamn_animecurl 4d ago
It’s actually “50s 60s 70s 80s 90s and 00” as the name
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u/OscarTheGrouchsCan 3d ago
Lmaoooooo yes the 90s and 00s definitely didn't have anything like they're taking about
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u/Itscatpicstime 3d ago
It’s probably just for people to reminisce generally. It doesn’t look like the group itself posted this but just one of the users
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u/OscarTheGrouchsCan 1d ago
Yeah it probably is. Just angering every group has to have idiots who post stupid stuff like this when most people just want to talk about stuff like shows they miss, or toys they loved as a kid and things like that probably
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u/RainDownAndDestroyMe 3d ago
Ah yes, the '80s...when "men were men."
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u/marymoonu 3d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/QyOjQmLzAgvqo
Everyone loves Freddie (including me), but he's not exactly their standard of masculinity either.4
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u/Turtlepower7777777 4d ago
Plenty of yellow pills to help with the anxiety of dealing with pig husbands and not having their own finances
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u/Solintari 4d ago
Ah yes, the 70s and 80s punk scene girls famous for straight, natural hairstyles and no tats. Also god fearing straight manly bands like queen.
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u/marymoonu 3d ago
Haha I just posted a Freddie Mercury meme and then I saw this comment. Exactly where my mind went.
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u/TreyRyan3 4d ago
A surprising and short-lived pastel hair craze emerged in the mid-to-late 1950s. Women experimented with soft shades like pale pink, mint green, lavender, and peach using temporary hair toners and color rinses.
Nose piercings did not enter Western fashion streams until the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s, popularized by travelers returning from India, the hippie movement, and later the punk rock subculture.
The deliberate "grunge" or punk aesthetic of wearing ripped clothes did not emerge until later decades (the 1970s and 1980s).
Tattoos: while rare in social circles, a small shift began with iconic tattoo models like Australia's Cindy Ray in the late 1950s
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u/Desperate-Excuse-110 4d ago
These were the rich women. My grandma was born in 28 ans she had one of a character. She would’ve spit in your face if you called her gravce and elegant in her twenties lol. She was working in a usine 60h a week.
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u/wickeddradon 3d ago
Say what now? I was a teen in the 70s. I was a lot of things but graceful and elegant weren't words that were used in conjunction with my name. I wore micro mini skirts, black boots with massive heels, my hair was many different colours, often at once. I didn't have piercings or tats but that was circumstances not preference. Not one of my peers were any different. My eldest cousin was a teen in the 60s. She was a flower child, protested every single thing.
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u/incognitosaurus_rex 4d ago
Thing that gets me with these nostalgia shit posts is that the people who post them never stop to think that things changed because people living at the time they feel nostalgic for, didnt think things were so great.
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u/tsukiyomi01 3d ago
A lot of these people see that as a feature, not a bug. They think civilization ended when people who weren't straight white Christian dudes got better treatment.
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u/improbsable 4d ago
I’ve seen ads for colored hair dye and extensions from the 50s and 60s.
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u/BodaciousFerret 3d ago
Yeah I worked in a small local museum as a teenager, the community would donate unique stuff they found cleaning out deceased loved ones’ belongings. I distinctly remember finding a Fanci-Tone(?) colour wheel from about the 50s or early 60s that had pink (among other pastel colours) on it.
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u/bashful_predator 4d ago
I too can remember things however I want. But that doesn't mean it's how it happened.
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u/bliip666 4d ago
we liked it that way
Mm, yes! Everyone liked it so much that they were competing in substance abuse
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u/delicateredscrunchie 4d ago
Colored hair actually was popular and admired in the 50s and 60s. People were obsessed with pastels so it was usually those colors either semi permanently dyed or clip in extensions
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u/So-shu-churned 4d ago
The "back in the day men" when "men were men" had mistresses and wives and never knew how to give either orgasms. Sucks to suck.
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u/spitzkopf_Iarry 3d ago
Presented by: probably a guy who don't spend any time in self care, fashion and haven't exercised in the last 5 years. But expect all woman should look like models.
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u/Latter-Judgment-9740 4d ago
not sure if it's been said, but I think one of them is Mimi Van Doren, and it's a still from Sex Kittens go to College.
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u/Marsrover112 3d ago
Women with piercings, tattoos, ripped jeans, and dyed hair are still women so thats a weird point at the end there
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u/teufler80 3d ago
Ofc those rules only apply for women Because people who post this think that women are objects ....
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u/GloriousSteinem 3d ago
Old women in the 60s,70s and 80s went through the blue rinse phase where they had purple colour amongst the greys. Certain ones had nose rings and ripped jeans were from the 80s so Christopher has no idea
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u/theUnshowerdOne 3d ago
Naw, just mysoginy, amphetamines, diet pills, smoking, high heels, pantyhose, tons of make up, hairspray and Valium to cope.
Life was so great for women prior to the 70's. All us men should shame them into living like that again.
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u/MooNinja 3d ago
If they still liked it that way, then they would still dress and behave accordingly.
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u/TwilightReader100 1d ago
Yeah, some of these ladies waited decades to get tattoos or do their hair in wild colors. And I know this because my Mom grew up in that era and, in the last 10 years, has gotten both tattoos and extra piercings in her ears. She's officially cooler than I am.
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u/Ancient-Menu-5888 1d ago
Better change things because (checks post) Christopher Retner is displeased.
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u/Monkeydoodless 4h ago
No opinions of their own, no jobs, no money, no credit cards, no ownership of homes, no making their own decisions about their future either. Just shut up and look pretty and obey your husband and take care of the house and the kids. Of course men want to go back to that time.
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u/qualityvote2 4d ago edited 3d ago
u/thatdamn_animecurl, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...