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    22 days ago

    He knew. He probably referred to it as a documentary to get you all spun up.

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      22 days ago

      This. My dad is also Silent Generation and my sister and I discovered one day in the 70s whilst snooping that my parents were hiding their weed from us.

      e: oh, also if you could ‘fool’ a wwii vet/survivor during the 70s by saying a weed smell was ‘American cigarettes’, he was definitely ‘fooling’ you. XD

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        22 days ago

        Silent Generation people had incredibly good poker faces, if I recall correctly. Like, “find out their actual opinion ten years after they died and understand the humour” good.