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  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    The smell of leaded gasoline.
    The smell of a fine cigar: I quit smoking 14 years ago but I miss that.

    And I’m 200% sure they were awful.

    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      Are you sure you’re not just thinking of the smell of carburetor engines? I think I know the smell you’re thinking of and its the exhaust of a vintage carburetor engine.

      Was there really a different smell for leaded gasoline?

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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        9 days ago

        No, it’s the smell at the pump. Nothing to do with how the engine feeds itself. Yeah, leaded gasoline smelled different. “Sweeter” or something. Maybe it wasn’t the lead, and maybe whatever replaced the lead inside modern gasoline is what smells different, but it definitely isn’t the same.

        It’s not like gasoline smelled better, it’s just that I remember smelling that smell when the entire family went on summer holidays and we kids were allowed to stretch our legs while our dad gassed up the car. Good times and good memories!

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 days ago

      this might shock you, but I have never smelled leaded gasoline. I’m too young, it got banned before I was born.

      what did it smell like?

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      leaded gasoline

      Few memories trigger a nostalgic response in me than this. Ahhh, I’m in heaven

    • Nikls94@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      That 5 minutes of smoking where you don’t do anything but think and enjoy a pieceful smoke… I miss that as well. I quit smoking 4 years ago.

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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        8 days ago

        Sitting on the porch with my morning coffee and first smoke of the day during the summer was always a wonderful experience. Doing the same in 30F in the winter, not so much.

        • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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          10 days ago

          Don’t.

          Because what he left out is that for those 5 minutes of peaceful enjoyable smoking, you have to endure the rest of the day craving, smelling like dog shit, getting an earful from your supervisor at work because you’re constantly out for a smoke, spending your life’s savings at the tobacconist, and driving 20 miles in the middle of the night to find a pack of smokes in a convenience store in the middle of the night when all the other stores are closed. Not to mention long term health issues of course.

          That’s an expensive 5 minutes of enjoyment, trust me on that one.

          • Nikls94@lemmy.world
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            9 days ago

            Totally. You’re stressed out if you can smoke at your destination, so you smoke more at home, then one before you get going, one when you arrive, and one before you know if you can smoke there, one again after you realize that there’s a smoking area.

            And while it is scientifically proven, that smoking lowers anxiety and stress, the anxiety and stress the abundance of being able to smoke, or even not smoking for some time, causes, is waaaay worse than not smoking in the first place.

          • superkret@feddit.org
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            10 days ago

            Also, you get the exact same effect of 5 minutes relaxation, just by stepping outside, concentrating on your breathing and being in the moment.

            • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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              10 days ago

              You don’t. If it was as simple, no one would smoke. If tobacco didn’t give you something extra, your body wouldn’t crave it.

              • Valmond@lemmy.world
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                10 days ago

                Cigarettes is like forcing yourself not going to the toilet, so that when you do, it’s “so nice”. All the rest of the time you just crave shitting/smoking.

              • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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                9 days ago

                The only thing it’s giving you is a craving until the next smoke. That’s it. Those five minutes of “peace” are just a few moments of relief from withdrawal, and 20 minutes later the cycle starts all over again.

              • superkret@feddit.org
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                10 days ago

                My body hated it when I started, but peer pressure was too strong. Then the addiction took over.

  • CaptainThor@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Original recipe shamrock shakes. They must be awful to my palate now, but I wanna know what the original tasted like

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Windows XP.

    A security nightmare, had more unfinished backends than a plexiglass gloryhole… But goddamn could that machine run

    • Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org
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      9 days ago

      People remember Service Pack 2 as the definitive version. Base and Service Pack 1 XP was awful.

      Service Pack 3 refined it a bit better.

      • Pechente@feddit.org
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        10 days ago

        That was my first Windows and it was unstable as hell. Barely had anything installed on that PC and yet it had random blue screens and crap like that. Really scared me as a PC beginner.

  • Drekaridill@feddit.isÍslenska
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    10 days ago

    All my friend’s parents smoked when I was younger, but mine didn’t so I always associated the smell of cigarettes with meeting my friends. I absolutely hate the smell today, but I still get a flash of nostalgia when I smell cigarette smoke.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      I used to loathe the smell of ciggies, especially when it lingered in fabrics and on surfaces. My parents didn’t smoke and I knew it was bad for people.

      Now I like the smell of fresh ciggies :/

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    I miss old PC Games from the early 90’s.
    I’ve reinstalled all that I remember and they sucked, but back then, they didn’t.

    • blargle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Worms!

      Although I just looked that one up and they have been making new versions of it continuously so I don’t know if it really counts as an old 90s game anymore.

      • superkret@feddit.org
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        8 days ago

        It counts as a 90s game, but not an early 90s game.
        Games really started to get much, MUCH better in '94 and '95.

    • Matriks404@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I don’t know about early 90’s, but games from mid and late 90’s are bangers.

      From early 90’s it’s probably just Wolfenstein 3D and Doom that were very good.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      One of my friends found his old Gamecube with a copy of 007! So of course we had to have all the boys over to have a little tournament complete with 2 liter sodas and chips and cheap pizza.

      Man I forgot how rough around the edges those earlier FPS games really were. They were super bare bones, with janky at best controls, and mediocre hit registration. At least the maps were still good.

      • superkret@feddit.org
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        8 days ago

        Oh god, those old adventure games.

        Where doing things in the wrong order (which was explained nowhere) would lead to permadeath, or worse, getting stuck with no way to progress and no hint what you missed in a previous area you can’t return to.

        All I remember from police quest is getting killed or fired for missing a step at a routine traffic stop, or forgetting to check the tire pressure every time you start driving.

        In Leisure Suit Larry 1 you straight up get killed without warning if you step onto a street (run over by a car) or into a back alley (mugged and clubbed to death), or take a cab with wine in your inventory (cab driver takes it, drinks it and crashes).

        Fun times!

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Working in a bar

    I love people. I’m a people-person, but I kno know that I am remembering it through rose-tinted lenses

    Most customers were average, a few were great, a fair number we’re dicks

    But the hours, the late nights, the cost to my own social life, the lousy pay, the inability to eat normal meals at normal times, all of that shit takes a toll

    But I still have some fond memories and occasionally think about opening a bar with my woman

    Oh, and I was running a place with a long-term partner. Doing that shit was the final nail in the coffin of our relationship, so fuck that…

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I was an 80’s kid, and we had the best Saturday morning cartoons.
    Transformers, GI Joe, Scooby Doo, Thundar the Barbarian, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, Superfriends, Hurculoids, etc.

  • Acamon@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Only knowing small TVs. Step by step, displays have inarguably improved massively, and I do love my giant OLED flatscreen. But watching TV was still great fun in the before times, people still watched the hell out of it, so can we say it brings people more joy now? Or is it just technically and visually better?

    I think if you’re the kinda person watching beautiful premium shows, that’s an experience you couldn’t really get before. But I like TV that I can have on in the background, while I’m doing the dishes, and now we’re expected to pay attention to details on screen. Back when half the audience had tiny, grainy or monochrome displays, shows were written to suit listening as much as watching. And it’s not just scripts, shoddy visuals allowed costumes, sets and design that was evocative but cheap, in a way that cannot pass muster today.

    And by comparison, it’s reduced the justification for going to cinema, and even kinda made the real world look bad. It used to be worth going somewhere in person because it would look infinitely better than seeing it on a screen. But now, it can actually be a disappointment, as the carefully composed filmed version with post production actually looks more impressive than irl. It’s the Connoisseurs Paradox, has it really deepend my pleasure, or merely raised my standards so much that I’m actually less satisfied?

    • mahin@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 days ago

      I think the same can be applied for personal computers and smartphones. Mundane things were so fun on those devices.