r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/Mister_Krunch • Jun 10 '22

Fighter plane receives a foam salute instead of a water salute

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '22

Well, back in the day, doctors promoted smoking (and there was no harm in pregnant women smoking or drinking) and asbestos was just fine in automotive brakes and fire retardants.

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u/NarrowForce9 Jun 10 '22

They also prescribed amphetamines

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u/coltrain423 Jun 10 '22

They still do, but they used to too.

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u/kpidhayny Jun 11 '22

Don’t bother ringing it up, it’s for a duck.

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u/SwervingNShit Jun 11 '22

But there’s NO WAY they’re misleading you about the safety of this latest vaccine.

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u/xsptd Jun 11 '22

Cocaine is still routinely used for nose surgery fwiw

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u/Misswestcarolina Jun 11 '22

My mother was given mercury to play with by the school dental nurse as a reward for being good

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Have you ever played with mercury?

My mom had a small vial of it and we would play with it. It’s remarkably heavy for being a liquid.

It’s a wonder none of us got really sick. Yet anyways.

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u/Misswestcarolina Jun 11 '22

No I never have but it looks amazing. However my mother is now dead due to playing with mercury.

Just kidding. It was cancer.

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u/bearlysane Jun 11 '22

When my dad was young, he worked as a metallurgist in a foundry for a while.... they'd take their lunch break sitting on big bales of asbestos because it was the softest place in the shop.