• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    1日前

    My mom once told me that, in her youth, you could ask whether smoking weed was okay in an environment by saying “is it cooool?” stretching out the word and making a sort of fish swimming motion with your hand.

    I don’t know whether that’s true, nor - if so - how widespread it was. Probably it’s not still accurate in any case.

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      22時間前

      To give you another data point: It’s what teens and young adults would do in the small ass town in Nebraska I grew up in (80s-90s). Not sure if it’s still a thing as I’m never going back.

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        21時間前

        Well, thank you for the information! I believe she was talking about the 70s-ish, but I don’t really know. No idea where, but almost certainly not Nebraska.