Things People Believed 50 Years Ago That Ended Up Being Totally Wrong

[@GrungeHQ]

What's the strangest thing that people believed in 50 years ago in your eyes?

[@Supatrader]

the strangest thing is that 50 years ago people believed in my eyes, and I was not even born

[@Lakota828]

A bit older than 50 years ago, but the idea that women should douche with lysol.

[@BigUpGliTch]

Ducky Kittn well technically it can

[@BigUpGliTch]

Steve S well I mean you might not be English or know English well but that really didn't make sense and yes I'm an idiot

[@soylentgreenb]

Saturated fats cause heart disease and carbohydrates are the key to weight loss.

[@lukasevert6114]

Once upon a time a cigarette company learned about the dangerous stuff in cigarettes. So they added a filter to the cigarette. The filter was made out of asbestos.

[@TruAnRksT]

I think he meant the very first version.

[@DJBSharpMusic]

Yeah, before they knew better, they used Asbestos, thinking it was safe. That's one of the real reasons Lung Cancer exists, I think. At least that's why the worst cases existed.

[@TruAnRksT]

Asbestosis is a separate malady from lung cancer Beardy. Lung cancer is almost 100% from the chemicals in cigarettes. Not even really the tobacco itself as much as the refining and manufacturing process.

[@georgejob5434]

Mainframe MC .... They knew as far back as 1949 but covered it up! Promoted it telling it was " good for you" !!

[@julienielsen3746]

Smoke is dangerous to breath, no matter what it is.

[@douglasphillips5870]

There are wackos in every generation. This stuff wasn't the norm. You could do a video about crazy things people believe today.

[@julienielsen3746]

That would be a long video.

[@megret1808]

Not wackos really just the state of information at the time. The Romans brewed their wine in lead lined vats. Not that long ago women were still putting lead based cosmetics on their skin. In another fifty years what will be looked back on that we take for granted?

[@danjosephson6910]

@@julienielsen3746 That was going to be my comment!

[@julienielsen3746]

@@megret1808 I was watching a documentary on TV about Campbell's and Hienz and that they sealed cans with lead until the 1910s. Then Hienz came up with the crimping the edges method that they still use today.

[@jenniferhcsmith-5586]

@@julienielsen3746 definitely

[@christinemarie6976]

Don't think that they're not going to be laughing at us 50 years from now.

[@DarkMsStress]

Still waiting for those flying cars they all predicted we'd have now...

[@mikes5637]

DarkMsStress And that base on the moon. And WWIII.

[@Azumaville]

They exist but won't be released to the public anytime soon

[@jessicataylor7174]

All the cool people have them....we just remember to activate our invisibility shield because we know jealousy is bad ;)

[@whydoievenbothertoputthish2199]

There already here in some shape or form only catch is that they cost millions and you need to be able to accualy fly the thing

[@joyr36]

The way people text and drive now days, I'm not sure I want them flying over my head.

[@mikeroby1313]

For a period of time beginning in the '20s, household cleaning product Lysol was marketed and used as a feminine hygiene product. No, I'm not making that up. Yes, I wish that I was making that up.

[@jenniferggreer457]

true, I remember my aunts telling stories of taking a very small amount of Lysol and putting it in water, then douching with it. IN the outhouse. lol. (one aunt made mistake of having very little light and rather over did the amount of Lysol......wasn't a pretty story lol.

[@debrahubbard763]

Ouch!

[@erikswanson5753]

That's crazy. Now we all know it's a cure for COVID-19.

[@megret1808]

So was Coca Cola

[@berniesmith4488]

I lived 50years ago and didn't believe in this nonsense. In fact you should look at the nonsense that some people believe to day.

[@ZombieAttack1945]

You're right. People today people believe that making an area less White via "diversity" will end all "racism" .... what we actually get is an anti-White policy that fits the criteria for genocide.

[@HugeWolf1]

How true. And this video only showed the outlandish ideas that were NOT mainstream. If one doctor told you cigarettes were good for you, did the mainstream doctors also agree with this? No. What we need is to document what people believe today. But this time, hold those people accountable for their stupidity, ah... I mean their insight.

[@chaseholstein7083]

Bernie Smith People still believe there's a guy in the sky with a dead son coming back to save us.

[@julienielsen3746]

God is real, sweetie. Someday you will admit it yourself, hopefully before it's too late. Jesus has already saved us. But, not all have received that salvation. And only those of us who have received salvation are the ones that He is returning to take with Him to Heaven. The rest will have to suffer for awhile on this earth in whatever mess it is in without God. Until it is finally destroyed. Then all people will go through judgement day.

[@scouser2010ify]

Bernie Smith today is one word Bernie :)

[@claudia-ob2wv]

dangerdolan, is that you?

[@duckykittn]

claudia I clicked over from a WhatCulture video, and thought I was still listening to Simon, lol!

[@claudia-ob2wv]

i hope that was a joke omg

[@theonetheonlychickenpermis3321]

T R U T H

[@bambel4997]

claudia you're obviously not very familiar with this genre of KZbin content. This trend of presenting information in a video has been around for a long time. Dangerdolan was certainly not the first to do this

[@astridwhomes9724]

claudia omg it sounds like him

[@dexwrecker]

I just ordered a banana split yesterday from dairy Queen. those have not gone the way of the dodo.

[@mook_butt8037]

Thank you! I was going to mention that. I love banana splits!

[@starman6280]

Don't worry, he was not referring to your iconic summer treat. The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was a Hanna-Barbera TV show featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters. The costumed hosts of the show were Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). It ran from 1968 to 1970. It was another of the late 60's crazy Saturday morning shows I grew up watching.

[@ShinKyuubi]

Starman62 It also got a short revival a few years ago on Boomerang by CN, it didn't last very long, hell the RERUNS lasted longer. I remember when Boomerang just became a thing CN done..it showed some AWESOME stuff like reruns of the Swatkats, Centurions, and a bunch of old Hanna-Barbera stuff like Herculoids and Frankensein Jr., kind of a collection of good stuff from days gone by or stuff that people hadn't seen before. One thing they showed was the Banana Splits, it was pretty fun to watch and the cartoons that showed during it were interesting at the least..a donkey that when you pull it's tail it turns into a super powerful tornado..heheh..you don't really see stuff like that anymore. I miss when Boomerang showed old classic stuff instead of just being another CN channel that showed more modern things, I can understand some stuff from a few years ago but they show Teen Titans GO! for crying out loud..you only catch Looney Tunes and classic Tom and Jerry at late night or early morning now..

[@jenniferggreer457]

you guys don't really think he was referring to the dessert do you? it was a show, hence the clip from said show! lol

[@AmyraCarter]

Banana 'splits'. It is an extreme dance move that no one practices because of its' high risk for injury.

[@planesight1142]

wait they had that laser to remove typos in the 50s?? Then Why The F did I have to use lumpy gunnky sloppy 'white out" on the 1980s???

[@reeelord6900]

Abi Eye I still use white out

[@duckykittn]

Curt Christensen And painting an "oh-so-cool" homemade french manicure when you are bored in study hall! XD

[@planesight1142]

Curt Christensen my point exactly! why did they shove that at us when there was a far better alternative. oh wait.... what am I asking??!? duh.

[@mikeroby1313]

The same reason everyone else ever used the stuff : to cop a buzz

[@resourcedragon]

No, they didn't have the laser eraser until the 1960s. It was prohibitively expensive and, as far as I know, never manufactured commercially. Then someone invented liquid paper which solved the problem at a fraction of the cost, someone else invented correction tape (for electric typewriters), then word processors were invented.

[@Nitroxity]

The Banana Splits were amazing though...

[@chrisnemec5644]

Another thing from then that turned out to be wrong: in the 1960's, when a child went missing, the police would not act on the disappearance for 24 hours. They would tell the parents that "the kid will just come back home." However, thanks to John Walsh, we know that the first 24 hours are critical in finding a child.

[@t.jackson2613]

Chris Nemec umm let ur teenager go missing and they will still tell u that bullshit Hun. maybe under eleven they have changed but not for teens missing

[@jessicataylor7174]

Jess Hammond ~ in the UK they treat all minors as a serious issue no matter how long it has been, same for ANY adult who they consider 'vulnerable' or even 'potentially vulnerable'. The 24 hour rule only applies to incidents where there is literally no reason for concern and the person is highly likely to be choosing to not be contacted.

[@JDlovescats979]

Jesse Hammond a lot of police officers will recommend to wait 24 hours, but there is no law in existence (in the US) that requires you to wait to file a report, you may have to push them harder than you should have to, but eventually they will file a report and look into it just to get you off their backs.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

@@JDlovescats979 I think if the behavior is not consistent with the person's habits they look more into it. For example, mom and daughter call everyday and one day there isn't a word from one of them.

[@joshhill5932]

The funny thing is 60 years from now everyone will look at this time and think how they could believe what society believes now. Just remember kitties, A lot of what you believe will turn out to be garbage so nobody should be to sure of them selves.

[@DoloresJNurss]

I don't think anyone would argue at all! Problem is, each half of the country would say that the other half believes things that are totally bonkers.

[@UnchainedMelodie92]

"So, if you're feeling a little crazy... " Lol oh man, that was funnier to me than it probably should've been!

[@feliciajenkins5041]

We don't need flying cars we can't get it right on land.

[@shauraanddeanmeservy9330]

Sorry: I was alive and sentient 50 years ago. What people believed about smoking (except in North Carolina and Kentucky, tobacco states) was that it caused cancer and no one, including pregnant mothers, should do it. As for microwaves, way too early. They were prohibitively expensive until the late 1970s and not a typical household appliance until well into the 1980s.

[@tomomo285]

50 years from now this video has a part 2

[@t.jackson2613]

it's scary when u realize fifty years ago was almost the seventies now. Lord I'm getting old.

[@TheAzmountaineer]

I don't remember anyone recommending smoking during pregnancy in the late 60's; by then many of the dangers of smoking were well known. I call BS on that one.

[@MrRiel66]

Love the tom waits ref. Thanks for that

[@macsnafu]

SOME of these were widely believed, but at the same time, not all of them were. This episode is an interesting example of how history is "created". Even people with the best of intentions can misunderstand or misrepresent things that happened in the past.

[@Mockduck2020]

What scares me is what people believe today, despite all evidence to the contrary

[@cobbler88]

If you watched this, marveling at how ignorant "people" were 50 years ago, you're probably too young to recognize what's going on here.For some of you folks from younger generations, consider that this is a far more accurate title for this video: "Things A FEW people believed 50 years ago"Basically, take a group of fringy types today and you could make the same video in 2067. It could include:1) The earth is flat2) Vaccinations are unhealthy3) There are no health concerns linked to dairy4) President Obama was born in Kenya5) Its not fascism to deny people's free speech rights if you don't like their views.Seriously, we all know there are people out there who honestly believe this stuff. And some day your grandchildren will be treated to a video like this and given the idea that these were the predominant points of view in 2017. If we still have freedom of expression, of course.

[@alexshield7532]

i bet nobody back then thought about it, that lazors would be used for a childs tag game to score and count hits ^^

[@DoloresJNurss]

Or that computers would be primarily used for socializing and entertainment. Or that the power of worldwide audiovisial communication that you could carry around in your pocket would be primarily used to share cat videos.

[@bmanagement4657]

And old people say the young today are idiots. Idiocy is legacy.

[@FoidGames]

If a baby is fed, changed and clean and all its needs are met-why can't u let it cry?

[@williampennjr.4448]

this is total BS. My mother knew not to drink during pregnancy and avoid cigarette smoke. People even knew second hand smoke was bad for you. You would have to go back about 80 years to find a time when people didn't think alcohol and smoking wasn't bad for pregnancy. Even in the 20's doctors advised people not to smoke when they were sick or in a fragile state.

[@jenniferggreer457]

I disagree. back then no one thought about, or had heard of second hand smoke. Maybe they knew not to do it during pregnancy, but even in the 70s, it wasn't condemned during pregnancy.

[@davidlewis1787]

It's amazing and crazy to believe this now, but 50 years ago, people all over the world believed in ostensibly the same, but slightly different deity, and then killed each other over it, because the small differences made them really angry..... oh, wait a minute...

[@Belzediel]

So, fully half of this video is listing one man's demented ideas? Quality show you have there, quality.

[@duckykittn]

Admiral Belzediel If that one man's ideas influenced a large enough portion of society, then it is worth mentioning, is it not? And if it is worth mentioning, then maybe it is worth a bit of detail, in order to convey just how much "one man's demented ideas" can affect and damage so many lives. Just one man, who is blindly believed by others, can influence and inspire a lot of pain and tragedy by their careless words.

[@Belzediel]

If.

[@clintdavis5722]

Just one man started the cult that ended up being Jonestown.

[@AprilSnowEvilPrincess]

mugabe=still one man

[@clintdavis5722]

A S You are right.A charismatic person at the right (or wrong)place and time can be a game changer.

[@remandstimpy]

The ice pick in the brain guy looks just like Leon Trotsky. Coincidence or conspiracy?

[@brianarbenz7206]

This was nun to watch!... OOOPS, let me put my laser to that -- This was fun to watch!

[@julienielsen3746]

I think you had it right the first time. It was none to watch. Wasted my time watching it.

[@khalil9611]

50 Years ago: 1. Better Fashion 2. Better Men and Women 3. Better vehicles (design wise) 4. Better society...

[@Chelaxim]

Eric Cartman better Society? Yeah got to love how somebody got assassinated every two weeks back in the sixties and for the case of better fashion unless you're looking at the through the rose color tinted lenses of Mad Men no 1960s fashion was horrible just what the Carrie Diaries and Everybody Hates Chris did for 1980s clothes Mad Men has deceive people and thing that the 1960s clothes look good.

[@Scripture-Man]

This video wasn't really what was promised. The baby doctor and labotomy doctor weren't really "what people believed". And a couple of people thinking videogames were boring wasn't really "what people believed", nor was the invention of laser ink removal "what people believed".

[@julienielsen3746]

I thought Pong was boring.

[@ericmichels6158]

I was born in 69.Explains why I'm soooo messed up!!!

[@ericcook1201]

Most if the beliefs about pregnancy were NOT commonly practiced. I think this video is only pointing out the more drastic advocates of it. My mother spent most of the 60's pregnant and said her doctor always advised her to quit smoking which she did....then started again....then got pregnant....and repeat.

[@talonmader4377]

holy crap people I just saw an ad for Soylent Foods do you member Soylent greens

[@nunyabiznez6381]

I remember that movie. Soylent Green is people!

[@coen360]

Oh don't know working 50 years and getting social security....THANKS FOR PLAYING

[@cyclenut]

50 years ago people thought News Papers would always be. Public transportation many thought would also never go away.

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

I find that promoting cigarettes during pregnancy in 1967(the year I was born so yeah,I'm kinda old) rather difficult to believe. Dr. Spock (no,he wasn't a Vulcan,look him up..)was much more widely read & highly doubt he would endorse that. Also,they started putting warning labels on Cigarette Packs around that time.

[@rozchristopherson648]

My mother was born in 1929. When she was a child, she had difficulty keep food down and had stomach cramping after eating. Seems like she had a problem similar to Kurt Cobain's stomach problems. She was given various treatments that did not work. At age 9, my grandmother consulted a doctor who made a house call. Noticing my grandfather's cigarettes on a table, the doctor told my grandmother to permit my mother to take a few puffs of a cigarette after eating meals and that this would settle the child's stomach, avoiding cramping and nausea. My mother developed a smoking habit until she quit for good when I was 14. Unbelievable but 100% true.

[@recoveringnewyorker2243]

4.26 I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!

[@augustadelzotto2002]

This was 1965. My teacher called my mom into her office accusing her of "child abuse". I was bringing to school lunches of fresh fruit, nuts, cheese and veggies. She actually showed my mom the "benefits" of canned, processed foods to set her on the right path to "proper nutrition".

[@Papahoody]

I was told by a coach years ago that smoking will increase lung capacity.

[@community1949]

The cigarette thing is pretty accurate but babies did not eat pork chops or the same thing that the family was eating. I remember my mom giving us baby food out of those tiny jars right up until we were about 2 or 3 years old. She was extremely careful about our intake and she limited our drinks later to just one Coke a day. She was always cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all of us and the food back then was to die for. Unlike today where stuff just doesn't taste the same as food back then. Everything was real - no fillers or GMO so we didn't snack inbetween meals. And we got out and played outside morning, noon, and evening. I spent thousands of hours outside playing, climbing trees, riding my bike, swimming in the pool, skate boarding, roller skating and having squirtgun fights.

[@TheJenipherz]

Love that you used Tom Waits as an example! Also a great, weird, sad book that is definitely worth a read is called, My Lobotomy written by Howard Dully, who actually received a Lobotomy when he was 12, from the guy that invented the "ice-pick" method. Creepy. Thanks for all your cool videos.

[@QueenOfUnimatrixZero]

We have improved in the last fifty years. Today we believe in a flat earth and that our smartphones we carry everywhere make us smarter. Our children will have a lot to laugh at!

[@jb888888888]

I turn 50 in 5 days. Hmm, I thought I'd have something more relevant to say than that.

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

the last one spot on the list actually become the technology for laser printers.

[@Eguzzisme]

Wait a minute..."thankfully went away like the Banana Splits?" Ummm they were freakin awesome! I watched them all of the time when I was a little girl. The Banana Splits were the best! How could you say such terrible things I can still remember their names. Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snork I even remember their theme song...Don't worry, I won't sing it. LOL 😂😂

[@johng7410]

The laser typo is pretty similar to tattoo removal though.

[@wesleyalexander7455]

Shit on that! Turd head out first! hehehe!

[@AntifoulAwl]

...and here comes the icepick in the forehead..

[@txgunguy2766]

That laser gun the kids were playing with at the end was actually an early version of a cordless TV remote. What command you gave the TV depended on which corner of the screen you "shot".

[@orlock20]

More things they got wrong. 1. The brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. The bones found were actually from two known types of dinosaurs. 2. Pluto was a planet even though it's smaller than our moon. 3. Christopher Columbus was the first European in the Americans. Viking graves on the East Coast predate the arrival of Columbus. 4. The next war would be a nuclear war. 5. 3D and Smellovision would be the next big things in the movie industry. 6. The nervous system is structured like a tree with branches and the signals go to a larger structure known as spinal cord which goes to the brain. The system actually works like fiber optic cable where each nerve cell is separate from other nerve cells.

[@mikeg4972]

Some ideas from today will be silly in the future.

[@hellshade2]

i'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy...

[@marielcordero2625]

My aunt tells me they used to leave their kids cry when they were babies because people believed they shouldn't be too cuddled or they would cry on their first day of school.

[@LadyVoldemort]

5:14 That's very disturbing...those hairy hands...slide the knife out like magic! 😨

[@matthewjosephharrington6773]

0:54 Can you _count_ to fifty? In 1967 you couldn't turn on Saturday cartoons without being terrorized about cancer.

[@beatleme2]

As a doctor and a smoker myself, I prefer the smooth taste a a Winston Cigarette , Winston tastes good like a Cigarette SHOULD !..but 50 yrs ago was 1967 and people didn't advertise cigarettes to smoke and warning labels were already out, BUT so as of Today " 2017"..buy that beer on the ice when you buy your gas ..pop it open and drive down the freeway, buy one get one Free !!

[@erindonato1518]

beatleme2 they did indeed advertise cigs on t.v. and in magazines. They did through the seventies as well. In fact, my daughter was born in 1986, and the smoking section was just down the hall right in sight of the nursery.

[@Dunning.Kruger]

50 years ago ??? Majority of americans still believe many of these things.

[@MrDalewin]

In 60 years, I wonder if there will be videos titled "stupid things people believed in 2017."I hope I live long enough to see that video.

[@ascenbach1]

Fifty years ago, dermatologists would use sun ray heat bulbs to burn acne patients' skin as a cure. If you had a bad case of acne you would be walking around all the time with a sunburned face. Needless to say, it didn't work.

[@sburns015]

wow! it's amazing we're all even here lol

[@mstheroff]

Quotes one guy and says "things people believed." That's like in the future, people thinking we believed in the flat earth because a handful of people say they do now.

[@bellz9113]

loved the rugrats reference

[@denmock]

hard not to consider lobotomy's as straight up crimes against humanity

[@PILOSOPAUL]

why not include the # of items on the title of your videos?

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

You know what's crazy? The world today. I think people were smarter 50 years ago.

[@julienielsen3746]

We sure were. Sad and scary the way things are now.

[@artistradio]

Nah, it's just that stupid people now can publish their stuff and get reblogged.

[@jessicataylor7174]

George Vreeland Hill ~ speak for yourself ;) People are living longer and the standard of basic living is much improved, that is not a bad thing. People are better educated and information is more easily available than ever before....so when one person doesn't know something they're mocked for being ignorant instead of it being understood that it is not their area of expertise. :)

[@inquisitorchristopher8527]

Brown Wolf ---- Tumblr brainwashed the youth into believing in all this crazy radfem / otherkin / nonbinary / special snowflake shit.

[@kakashi101able]

Yeah, low attention span, self-absorbed narcissist generation that we have today...

[@MargotDarby]

In 1967, no doctors advised anyone to smoke cigarettes.

[@jenniferggreer457]

actually...they did ..but to people who were stressed, etc. they claimed then that smoking benefits out weighed the risks because stress was bad for you, and smoking relieved stress. (pretty ironic) but not to pregnant women1 tho there were probably a few doctors who did, it was not the norm.

[@JesusisJesus]

My doctor smokes, He was about 20 years old in 1967.

[@amandasamson4513]

So glad I got to be pregnant in THIS era. lol

[@whispermcgaughy7251]

😳 A 9mo old on coffee..😮 Everytime you said laser I did the hand gesture..🤣 I'm mad that houses aren't like they predicted in the cartoons and we still don't have flying cars..😐

[@QueenLaCheefa]

The world has always been a shitty place

[@sack36]

Fifty years ago they were putting warnings on packs of cigarettes. I think you mean 65 or maybe even 70 years ago. That one book going against the grain of the times may have colored your timeline a bit. Where are you getting these? My mom had 8 kids. I was in the upper half and never did she think she should feed her kids solids that early! I was born in 1951. When I was 11 months old she was getting a bit frustrated that I hadn't started eating pablum, but at the time she said normal was 6 or 7 months. I remember the event where she told me "If you don't start eating you're going to shrivel up into a little ball of nothing! I'm going to sweep you up into the dust pan and throw you in the garbage." Later, in my 20's I told her about that time. She was astounded I remembered it as she didn't think to tell anybody so there was no way I could have picked it up through the years. I had to have remembered it from the original. I was 11 months old, not 11 days old! It would have been much better if this guy left the remembrance of yesteryear to the people who lived it!

[@rontheoracle]

The background music is not loud enough ... :-(

[@sonimbetterthanyou]

I can tell you one thing 50 to90 years ago America was a much better place. People think technology is making the world better it is health wise curing things. People however can't live without there phones and internet. Its dumbing done America and making people overweight because people do nothing.I wish I could live post ww2 era

[@susanschaefer325]

Man, I could still put a laser eraser to work. In art, White-Out isn't always the best answer.

[@julienielsen3746]

Don't use white out on your computer art.

[@susanschaefer325]

Or your makeup.

[@willhaynes3505]

That the world would actually get better

[@littlefeet7295]

The clip at 1:47 scared the life out of me lol

[@rossbagley9015]

In France and many other first world countries, pregnant women who drink are advised to continue drinking alcohol in moderation. The thinking is that completely cutting out alcohol would be more stressful on the mother, and maternal stress is harder on the baby than a few drinks per week. Bonus, the French have almost identical rates of fetal alcohol syndrome than here in the US. I will refrain from speculating as to why that is.

[@ev1558]

However far fetched, life was simpler in many ways years ago. Seems we make 2 steps forward 1 step back.

[@andytaylor5476]

The belief that world peace was possible.

[@riphihe]

wow!! lobotomies are still practiced today?!?!

[@user-hx5xq6tl9f]

Yes, it's called The Kardashian show 😋

[@cDayz]

I'm guessing that Danger Dolan has filled in for the original narrator as a favour to boost subscribers. That reminds me I haven't seen a DD vid in few months.

[@desireewolf9458]

I'm glad I live in the future.

[@shadeburst]

Misleading, I was expecting a list of things that we all believed in so that I could laugh at myself. Instead these are mostly fringe opinions that few believed in.

[@firstcynic92]

So where's my flying car?

[@RCbeastly]

The Banana Splits were awesome!

[@kingfurious8525]

I'm 53 this answers so many questions. Thank you i needed another excuse for being messed up

[@trinar.s.6550]

Man the 60's were strange...

[@srazaq1978]

Thats consumerism for you

[@rentslave]

LBJ thought that money could cure poverty.

[@suechurchill7128]

I quit smoking 152 days ago and for the first four months I couldn't shit to save my life. Ironically, when I had started smoking I started having IBS for the next 29 years till I quit smoking.

[@cleopatra199392]

ok what is that song at 1:48 cuz i wanna hear the full song.

[@nightmareoracle]

don't forget heliocentrism!!!! ;)

[@DoloresJNurss]

Craziest thing I recall was the assumption that women couldn't be astronauts because A) we supposedly couldn't master the science B) we were too delicate for high G forces and C) menstruation in zero gravity would do us in. Yet they had no problem with chimpanzees in space.

[@faithfulforever6331]

Oh please, people weren't that stupid back then.

[@ProudKansan08]

I'm going to ask my Mom about some of these things. They just sound so ridiculous and made up. My Mom didn't smoke, period, and she wouldn't let us drink coffee at all and used to get mad when we tried to sip her's or my Dad's when they were drinking it. She was worried about us stunting our growth, but, now I wonder if she was worried it would make us more hyper than we already were. Yeah, I'm going to ask about some of this. She was a nurse, so she would know about doctor's prescribing all this poppycock. Now, I'm pretty sure, she probably drank a beer or two while pregnant, but, then again, who knows? My Mom is pretty prudish on some stuff during pregnancy. I'm pretty sure, even back in the late 50's and 60's and the last one being born in 73, that she was all about care of the baby while it was being developed inside of her. My late mother in law chain smoked when she was pregnant with my brother-in-law and husband and my husband was born without tonsils and has an extra vertabrae. Now, I don't know if the chain smoking had anything to do with it or not, but, I like to blame the smoking on it. LOL!

[@oinkards1143]

Makes you wonder, if what we believe in now, is Totally wrong 40 years down the road.

[@JustinEvitable80]

What about people believing everybody would have a robot servant by the year 2000 or anyone going into space as common as going on a bus/train etc like it'd be a regular daily thing.