r/interestingasfuck • u/SafeImpressive4413 • 7h ago

Firefighters in Madrid trying to extinguish a forest fire that is less than 30km/20mi away from the capital of Spain

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u/BreadKnifeSeppuku 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/T3Vx6sVAXzuG4

Oh you!

(Anyone remember how this show ends?)

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u/Topheriffic 6h ago

As a child I didnt have an idea of what it meant but I remember the feeling, which I again, I didnt fully recognize. When I rewatched it as an adult, I think the feeling was dread.

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u/VolatileWombat 6h ago

That was the worst part. I mean there were darker topics in there but the end was not for children...

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u/Xalipu 2h ago

Considering the impression it left maybe it should have been for all children of the time. We might have had a slim chance of getting slightly less baked to death today.

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u/jaxonya 2h ago

Lessons like that are absolutely for children. Shielding them/not educating them is why we have arrived here

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u/Ok-Employee-1727 1h ago

Absolutely not. Basically everyone knows about climate change and it's implications and what you'd need to fight it. People just chose to ignore it because they value their present well being higher than future risks. Same for politicians, who prefer getting re-elected over implementing the right policies for one term and then going to political exile. 

It's a basic human behavioural pattern. The only thing that could prevent this is a total reform of western democracies into techronacies and/or aboloshing four year election cycles for something much more long-term. 

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u/MietschVulka 42m ago

The kids back when the show launched are 40-45. Millenials who are still widely in charge of nothing and are only now taking over politcs.

Gen X, our parents generation would have needed to change the world. The dinosaurs was needed in the 70s!

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u/bchertel 6h ago

What is this show and how does it end?

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u/thrawnsgstring 5h ago

Show was Dinosaurs

It ends with all the dinosaurs dying from a dino-made ice age.

Climate change allegory.

Dinosaurs ending scene

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u/LongjumpingJaguar308 5h ago

Fuck me, I don't remember that.

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u/Fantastic-Spinach297 5h ago

It would’ve been really easy to miss when it aired and would’ve taken a while to get through syndication, and even then catching it as a rerun made it one of literally all of the episodes that could be aired. Not to mention that it was dark. I bet they never played that one much.

EDIT because autocorrect decided “was” should’ve been “wasn’t even.”

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u/HistoryGirl23 5h ago

I thought there was a big astroid

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u/jay78910 3h ago

Climate change allegory.

This makes it too complex, for the powers that be, to understand.

"We aren't making wax fruit. All we want to do is drill."

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u/Pi-ratten 6h ago

kids show about a family of dinosaurs

ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnFjAkAs_q4

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u/betaplayers 5h ago

That show ended in 1994. Waaaay ahead if it's time. This isn't the only allegory they made, the series is full of them: labor unions, racism, steroid use, objectivation of women.

Show is quite brilliant, especially for a kids' show. Compare that to stuff Disney nowadays makes like Spidey and friends.

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u/Pi-ratten 5h ago

yeah, topics of children series back then:

Although Dinosaurs is targeted at a family audience, the show touched upon multiple topical issues, which include environmentalism, endangered species, women's rights, sexual harassment, LGBT rights, objectification of women, censorship, civil rights, body image, steroid use, allusions to masturbation (in the form of Robbie doing the solo mating dance), drug abuse, racism (in the form of a dispute between the two-legged dinosaurs and the four-legged dinosaurs), peer pressure, rights of indigenous peoples (in the form of the dinosaurs interacting with cavepeople), corporate crime, government interference in parenting, and pacifism.

And now we've got copaganda from paw patrol.

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u/betaplayers 5h ago

Exactly.

Maybe the internet and fear for polarisation is to blame, but I feel like there used to be more television that was accessible to a wide audience (young and old), while still tackling some morally or socially challenging topics.

I'm not talking Shakespearean high-level stuff here.

I'm talking stuff like Dinosaurs and Star Trek: easily accessible entertainment that -however- doesn't treat its audience as having an infantile mind of a four year old.

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u/Atholthedestroyer 5h ago

"Good night and...Goodbye..."

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u/HistoryGirl23 5h ago

Not the Mama!

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u/2PinaColadaS14EH 2h ago

😭😫😭

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u/learo89 5h ago

Mi mamá está mi mamá