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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsYou ever see something from a bygone era and your first reaction is not the excitement that the advertisement intended
Screaming Pectoriloquy
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you ever see something from a bygone era and your first reaction is not the excitement that the advertisement intended to elicit but, rather, amazement at just how far inflation has gotten?
movie poster for The Taking of Pelham One Two three with tagline we are going to kill one passenger a minute until New York City pays us 1 million dollars
ALT
10:24 PM · Jun 14, 2026
@caulimovirus.bsky.social
you ever see something from a bygone era and your first reaction is not the excitement that the advertisement intended to elicit but, rather, amazement at just how far inflation has gotten?
movie poster for The Taking of Pelham One Two three with tagline we are going to kill one passenger a minute until New York City pays us 1 million dollars
ALT
10:24 PM · Jun 14, 2026
you ever see something from a bygone era and your first reaction is not the excitement that the advertisement intended to elicit but, rather, amazement at just how far inflation has gotten?
— Screaming Pectoriloquy (@caulimovirus.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T02:24:51.739Z
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mahatmakanejeeves
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Morbius
(1,200 posts)1. That was a damn good movie.
And yeah, I remember when a million dollars was a lot of money.
It's still more than I'll ever see, but it isn't such a large sum anymore.
murielm99
(33,149 posts)2. Bruce Wayne was a millionaire originally.
That was back when a million dollars meant something...1939.
nuxvomica
(14,368 posts)3. Reminds me of this: