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Maya S. Trojan@piefed.blahaj.zone

Shared in 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 days ago

Songs about Rule-ing

Someone was requesting more hornyposting. Old spinsters get horny too, love.

But seriously if you don’t love Golden Girls what’s your problem?

Also Big Black’s “Songs About Fucking” is one of the best albums in existence.

0/2000

adhocfungus@midwest.social 13 days ago

Does she have shoulder pads in her robe? What a different time it was.

manmachine@lemmy.world 13 days ago

Albini continues to be missed dearly.

Malica@lemmy.zip 13 days ago

One of the best shows of a generation

LillyPip@lemmy.ca 13 days ago

Shut your mouth. Bea Arthur was a bombshell. Did you see her in the Star Wars Holiday Special? Seductive as fuck. Chef’s kiss.

Maya S. Trojan@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 days ago

Honestly, I agree. I only wish I can age as gracefully as Bea.

LillyPip@lemmy.ca 13 days ago

Have you seen photos when she was just starting out? Stunner.

Jo Miran@lemmy.ml 13 days ago

It still blows my mind that in the 80’s being 53 (Blanche) qualified you as geriatric, “golden years”, age. 53 year old ladies today would absolutely scandalize 80’s Blanche and 90’s Samantha (even though she was in her 40’s).

Maya S. Trojan@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 days ago

If I recall correctly, there were a bunch of advances in medicine, especially in relation to heart problems, in the 1970s, so the long-term effects of that had not been seen yet.

That seems to be reflected in this graph here:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-visualization/mortality-trends/index.htm

Prior to antiobiotics in the early 1900s, between war and disease, life expectancy was less stable. It stabilized post-war and antibiotics, but then there’s another spike in the 70s. So they were still used to a world where 50 was 20 year until average lifespan death, not 30 years, it’s literally a whole ass extra decade. Also our understanding of health has grown, people have stopped smoking and drinking so much.

Anyway, I think they all lived in a world that life expectancy had been and mostly was stable and the benefits of medical solutions being developed in the 10 years before that just hadn’t been around long to manifest that extra decade of life into existence.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 12 days ago

people also smoked to a heroic degree back then, which seems to make you age like twice as quickly…

ummthatguy@lemmy.world 13 days ago

A lot less lead being ingested these days. The plastic, on the other hand…

Anyway, love the Golden Girls!