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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 91 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll take "What's classy when you're rich but not when you're poor?" for $100 Alex

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

Given the monarchy is the top class in a class system then yes: by definition.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is that a cigarette in his hands? He was 12 years old in 1955.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the princess is downing a bottle of fortified wine, so it would seem that's just par for the course.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was 14, my parents ordered a bottle of wine in a restaurant and asked, if I wanted a glass. Nobody thought twice about it.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

In 1955, basically everyone smoked. Like 65% of Europe were smokers, and I do mean 65% of living humans of all ages.

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was smoking at 12 in France in 1999, I told tobacconists I was buying them for my mom. Pulled the same thing off in the states when I moved there 2 years later. And I was far from alone. These are far more recent (terrible, obviously) habits than you might think.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Started smoking at 12 too, also in the 90s. Quit in high-school.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My dad was smoking at 6.

Rural Canada, 75 years ago. Still alive.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Cancer is nothing you can count on. For the bad and for the good.
Hope your dad stays healthy.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yah, my uncle lived to 94, smoked for 89 of those years. Pretty sure if we'd had a nuclear war in the 60s, that fucker would have still made it into his 80s.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 26 points 1 year ago

I'm sure they grew up to be normal, well-adjusted and down to earth kids.

[–] Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Looks like someone wanted them to pose as such to make a funny photo

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amateurs. I started my cocaine addiction at 5 years old when the Fleetwood Mac album Rumours came out.

Edit: again I need to learn doing correct grammar in English.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

again I need to learn doing correct grammar in English.

It's pretty decent for someone nearing a half century coke habit.

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 9 points 1 year ago

I am getting all emotional, "snif".

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This photo became the notorious cover image of Dinosaur Jr.'s Green Mind, as us older folks well remember.

[–] exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were these plastic cups already standard back then?

[–] ylph@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think those might actually be frosted glass cups.

Here is the best copy I could find, and the flared edges do not look like plastic cups - also the shiny inside and matte outside looks more like glass frosted on the outside.

PP was not in commercial use until 1957 (not sure when it was first used for cups), PET disposable cups weren't a thing until the 70s. Disposable cups in the 50s would have been wax paper.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

13 going on 30

I come from lower class but tbh reminds me of my early teens too. Booze and smokes.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can you still be prince from a county that has ceased to exist for centuries?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read this as a non-rhetorical question, in a Nigerian accent

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Me too, especially due to the use of the word 'ceased'. Reminded me of this video where a reverse scammer convinced the Nigerian scammers to record Monty python's dead parrot sketch, as he combines then he could get them a BBC grant.

https://youtu.be/awtAKa22AVk

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Those sure were the days

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

Fun fact because I've lived in that region for a while: Count Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn ist still alive and inherited the family's castle, which he successfully renovated. It had been a ruin after WW2. He also has a Harvard Business degree. The castle is an event location now and one of very few castles in Germany that are still owned by the original aristocratic family. There is also a butterfly house next to the castles.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think even Euronobility stopped the practice of marrying their kids off THAT young a few centuries before.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why the ring on the finger then?

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good point! But you can also just wear rings on any finger whenever you fancy

[–] Pingudiem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

In Germany usually the wedding ring is on the right hand not on the left.