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Hanging out with my nieces/nephews I now understand most the discipline I received as a child was most likely because I was being annoying and nothing to do with right or wrong. (lemmy.world)
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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's why they say 'it takes a village to raise one child.'

Kids don't have a brain filter. If they hear opera, they'll sing opera. If they hear cigarette commercials, that's what they'll sing.

edit = I picked the most obnoxious songs I could think of. Didn't think I'd start a nostalgia/mandala effect thread

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Cigarette commercials? This man is straight from the 60s.

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh bless your heart. We had cigarette commercials into the 90s.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Talking radio? I dunno, I don't remember them and according the the magic box in my hand legislation banning them passed in the 70s. I'm no expert.

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Interesting

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is that a radio jingle?

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh sorry I was clicking through before I saw your comment, I must have clicked off the Winston one when I copied the link https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zw3ss

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apparently there’s a whole glitch in the matrix deal around this, because other people remember seeing them too (I saw a post on reddit) and I wasn’t born much before the 90s. I definitely remember Virginia slim commercials like back to back with RC cola ads during the daytime. I wonder if it was maybe from recorded vhs tapes or something because I can legit picture seeing these ads on tv in my childhood home.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I share your recollection, and I'm thinking VHS recordings may be the explanation.

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

It’s the only reasonable explanation I can come up with. The weird part is (it must just be tied to when I saw them?) they were decidedly in like a late 80s early 90s style. I’m mystified.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I made the original comment.

I picked 'cigarette commercials' because that seemed like the most obnoxious thing a kid could sing.

Wasn't expecting to get people focused on that.

Who knew?

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

Apologies haha. Let’s get back to blaming the children!

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Speaking as a former child myself, I can say that they are in fact terrible people with absolutely no boundaries.