Shorty’s ad, 1993

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appetizer@lemmy.today · 47 pts · 47d (3 replies)

I had to search to figure this out. It's an ad for skateboards.

kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 47d

Shorties are skateboard bearings

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 47d

Ahh, I had forgotten about that brand. Thanks. I was just thinking "shortys hardware, huh, must be some Canadian hardware store chain"

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 47d

same

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 47d (1 reply)

93 is vintage. Sigh. I wouldn’t have been old enough to legally drink that beer.

Also someone should probably card that girl.

calliope@retrolemmy.com · 21 pts · 47d

Also someone should probably card that girl.

Classic early 90s edgy advertising.

The target audience is skateboarding in the background; everything on the bed is something an edgy skateboarding teen would want (except weed, not shown. Too edgy).

The fine print says “send hate mail to” 🙄

fox2263@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 47d

God I miss the 90s

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 47d (1 reply)

I thought it was an ad for shorts.

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d

technically, it's for skateboards. but i don't know why.

square@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 47d

Great bearings, I wouldn't use anything else. Ad rings a bell too, I might have seen it.

InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 47d (1 reply)

There is so much going on it's hard to figure out what this ad is for. Pizzas? Those cans on the right?

Logh@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 47d

Or the ones in the middle!

TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 47d (3 replies)

What in christ is on that pizza!?

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d

Broccoli maybe?

edg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d

Spinach? Maybe an alfredo pizza?

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 47d

Some limes i guess

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 47d
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FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 47d (6 replies)

I'm surprised this was allowed in 1993 adverts

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 47d

Check out what Marzocchi's marketing team was publishing for mountain bikers in the 90's/early 00's. The calendar my local bike shop had pinned up was basically softcore porn.

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 47d

Check out some of the video game ads from that period. Pretty wild stuff.

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d (3 replies)

it was a different time

Mpatch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 47d

Man, we got a job to do a demo in one of the old steel mills here. Just remove some framing for the rollers and fill the holes. a few months of work. Got to explore the shit out that plant. It got closed in the early 2000s. There was porn everywhere. You open any door, porn. You open a desk, stacks, and stacks of porn magazines. You open a locker, full sized porn. You open a toolbox, yep there it is titties. You go to the bathroom.... oddly, no porn. You walk into an office porn, hiding.

Like they say, going is a problem these days. Nah, the lads back then did it just as much.

Codpiece@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 47d (1 reply)

It was a good time.

Sergio@piefed.social · 4 pts · 47d

You might even say it was... "U T O P I A"...