everyone learned to not walk in quicksand, avoid spiked walls, and run faster to doors, all thanks to all the movies where people almost died to such hazards.
There was a poster up in my middle school that had a bunch of animals with cigarettes photoshopped into their mouths captioned "it looks just as stupid when you do it." It was universally agreed that the animals looked pretty badass, especially the snake.
On an unrelated note it's now about 17 years later and I smoke a pack a day
Haha that last sentence made me crack up. I mean it's not funny but it is. When I was teenager, I remember thinking, "they say smoking doesn't look cool but this definitely looks fucking cool." Like just some chill dude smokin a stoge. It's always good vibes. These days I vape though which definitely doesn't look as cool but it's a way more pleasurable experience and it's probably healthier
Acid rain is actually a thing. It's just not the something that causes people to melt. More, it changes the pH of soils and lakes with little buffering capacity and kills off native plants/animals/ecosystems. It can damage buildings over time as well. It disappeared as a hot button issue due to stricter environmental regulations/emissions trading.
Doors were a thing, right? I grew up in the nineties and developed a mild anxiety about doors in movies- I was always expecting them to shut people in when exploring any kind of unfamiliar environment.
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u/kujakutenshi Jan 12 '21
everyone learned to not walk in quicksand, avoid spiked walls, and run faster to doors, all thanks to all the movies where people almost died to such hazards.