Things everyone did 100 years ago but now illegal ⛏️ (and why illegal)

What many people did 100 years ago but now are very illegal 😆
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Chapters:
0:37 8 - Heroin
3:45 7 Corporal Punishment
7:34 6 Radioactive, Arsenic and Mercury Beauty Products
11:43 5 Marriages were often forced or arranged
14:40 4 Child Labor
16:50 3 Eugenics
20:04 2 Seat Belts were rate and hated
22:20 1 Smoking

[@heronimousbrapson863]

My grandfather, born in 1882, left his education and entered an apprenticeship at age 12. In the 1940's, he thought it was disgraceful that 16-year-old boys were still in school.

[@iheartcryptoverse2857]

Grandpa just moved onto trade school and got paid for it. Smart guy.

[@MrDavidBFoster]

@@ohrworminc Thank Google.

[@Tennesseanyankee]

School curriculum varied much more back then. Technically, a child could learn all high school and a college degree by 14-16 IF school were structured year round and minimal fluff.

[@MLBlue30]

@@ohrworminc Conservative pipe dreams and gibberish.

[@thomaswayneward]

He was right. The eighth grade is all most of Americans need, to start with. The smart ones will continue their education on their own, which is the most efficient way to learn.

[@alexstuff21]

can't believe strider went back in time just to do illegal stuff, the dedication to your videos are amazing

[@XJIcequeen]

The viewers voted for it

[@-Ermine-]

Strider is such a great KZbinr for that

[@SPAnComCat]

At Least he took a Risk. Unlike those People who are Neurotic Pussified Content Creators who take a "Safe" Route in the name of Appeasing the Algorithm in Fear of becoming Irrelevant and be Forgotten.

[@guineapiglady2841]

BRING SPANKING BACK!

[@jazzridez]

@@guineapiglady2841 Public and televised.

[@username-mk4qv]

Stories like this do make me empathize with the older generation. I can’t imagine living in a time when drug use, physical assault, and a “suck it up” mentality were rampant. Though I can’t help but to roll my eyes when jaded and self-aggrandizing older people talk about how weak the younger generation is for caring about our health “We were beaten as kids and we turned out great!” Yes, because being emotionally detached and abusive to your own family due to not breaking the cycle of abuse, is the true mark of a well-adjusted adult.

[@alanhilder1883]

It's the twitching that is going on as they say it that really sells it.

[@leslievoice1402]

Funny how human beings can never find the middle ground on anything...so then children were Abused and now children are complete Brats and fall apart at a boo hmmm

[@knightofarkronia9968]

Maybe a followup video could be “Things that were illegal 100 years ago but everyone does now and why!”

[@randomshorts6862]

That's be cool as a future candidate in the USA 🇺🇸 I would love that info 😊😅🎉😂❤😊

[@antoniokontos5677]

My grear grandmother said she was still upset about them banning cocaine gum sayijg it woke you up better than coffee she passed in 2016 at 113

[@BlueFieldGamer]

Morning coke

[@Oysters176]

That does not sound so bad.. Better than snorting or smoking it.

[@bobbyknight3589]

😂😂😂😂 good ole days 😎

[@TheSleepingonit]

That would help me sleep

[@michaelgreene2920]

Sounds like granny likes to get jacked up ...

[@rattus7881]

Correction: romance did exist but if do people wanted to get together they would have to get their families permission. Thing were never as simple as they seem. Some people fell in love while othet just were almost like co-workers

[@joffreybaratheon4904]

There are some parts of the USA that still arrange marriages.. especially when the family is uncomfortably close

[@rattus7881]

​​@@joffreybaratheon4904 i think Phantom should somewhat stray away from historical videos unless he can get more information , history can be complicated and you need more context. There were more things in the video that i felt werent fully accurate but this topic ive done more research on.

[@joffreybaratheon4904]

@@rattus7881 I’m talking about incest.. the sweet home Alabama folks

[@rattus7881]

@@joffreybaratheon4904 ohhhh wait i read it wrong lol i thought it said "when the FAMILYS..."

[@rattus7881]

@@joffreybaratheon4904 wait why is it always alabama? Incest is only legal in rhode island

[@sueelliott4793]

We had corporal punishment at school in the 70's and 80's

[@rogersheddy6414]

When talking about eugenics, not a single word was said about MARGARET SANGER.

[@leslievoice1402]

Responsible for more deaths than anyone can imagine ..evil to the core..took me years to realize my own brainwashing because of her

[@ToastyNoneofyourbusiness]

10:24 actually, companies DID know about the dangers of radiation - they just didn't tell customers or employees that. Look up The Radium Girls - factory workers who painted glowing radium paint on watches for soldiers. They were specifically instructed to make the tip of the brush pointy by using their lips and teeth. So many of them came down with jaw cancer.

[@lillyzola6053]

Also a wide portion of the scientific community said to hold back. Even Edison called these companies wacky for being so liberal with use of radium.

[@AmyraCarter]

Yuck. Guess what? Radium sucks at glowing anyway, whereas *_Neon_* does a much better job, and is inert. But wait, "Neon Girls" would of been way ahead of its' time, like many other things that happened/were given life between 1860 and 1960, like the non-subtle Gibson Explorer, to name one such example.

[@AmyraCarter]

@princesspixel3151 ... Unless you're into a corporate business tactic that will provide nigh infinite wealth...

[@PM-lz5gs]

Sweet of course they did

[@astrowolvez]

And they lets the male employees know about it.

[@corymorimacori1059]

“Modern art looks like a child urinated on a canvas, banned! Jazz music feels like the feeling of needing to fart banned! Your poetry is so depressing, how come anyone in the Soviet Union be depressed? You’re Banned!” Nikita Krushchev

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Lol

[@ashkitt7719]

A lot of the panic about jazz makes me think about the panic about hip hop today.

[@nothing-of5yc]

​@@ashkitt7719 I never heard of that one

[@GameKids2.0]

That's from Oversimplified XD

[@MikeyDew]

Jazz is pretty chill tho...

[@Denali_Rebel]

It’s amazing that a “celebrity” can be on film setting up and covering up a murder while having live ammo on his person and this girl goes to jail.

[@throatwobblermangrove8510]

I'm sure you know that when you quote a life expectancy of 50, you're aware that it's that low because of the high infant mortality rate. If you don't count children dying before age 2, the life expectancy was actually around 65.

[@sunnyday6465]

Many of my ancestors lived into their 90s.

[@RaphBlade7]

My maternal grandmother was forced to be sterilized by the government as she was illiterate & my grandfather was blind (he could read braille) & in order to get government assistance, they forced her to be sterilized as they already had two daughters! Otherwise, both of my grandparents were white, so it goes to show that these eugenics programs also affected the families who were poor and/or disabled! My mother & I are both convinced my grandmother had an undiagnosed learning disability which is why she was illiterate, as I myself am on the autism spectrum! Ironically, both my mother & aunt have no disabilities & both graduated from high school (my aunt can even speak Spanish and served in the Air Force)! My grandparents would go on to act as foster parents!

[@ArtieRaccoonReviews]

I'm amazed how well your aunt and mother are doing!

[@dolphincrescent54]

Your mother, aunt, and grandmother are a testament to neurodiverse people.

[@phantomstrider]

I'm so sorry to hear your grandmother went through that. But that's beautiful that she went on to be a foster parent. It's haunting how close some of these draconian policies can be to our families and friends. Also, greetings from a fellow person on the spectrum!

[@FreedomTalkMedia]

Making sterilization a condition of receiving free money from the government, it's not force.

[@guineapiglady2841]

BRING SPANKING BACK!

[@lorddrayvon1426]

To anyone wondering, there’s a reason why the FDA took so long to respond to heroin. Namely, from their formation up until 1913 and despite their name, they weren’t actually formed to regulate food and drugs. They were formed to deal with the sweatshop conditions in Detroit factories. Considering this was before things like the Triangle Waistshirt Fire, that’s saying a lot about how horrendous those conditions were. Side note; none of this is very shocking. Stuff like arsenic and heroine for medicinal purposes is within the same era as the disgusting practices for Hollywood beauty most infamously shown with Judy Garland. Jesus, that woman’s story is disgusting when you look into it.

[@mr-monk273]

Mostly he changed the thumbnail to blur out the word

[@kellychuang8373]

Now that is something to think about.

[@AmyraCarter]

Oh good grief. Poor Judy. ... ♫You should of, never trusted Hollywood...♫

[@bsanchez3563]

Oh man.. I do recall I read for mere amusement and primarily due to boilers and asbestos amusements/interests.. fwiw back in hs or sjortly after I read of a thing known as in history the Groverland/groveland/cleveland shoe factory disaster with a naptha barrels incorrect storage/hazardous nowdays.. placement or whatever naptha is if not mere soap.. and a boiler explosion leveling a 2 or 3 story at least.. building of a shoe factory obviously as name implies.

[@bsanchez3563]

​@@AmyraCarterOh damn man I figured hollywood only makes it awful.. for kids but then was just having to be surely a bettet place for adults behind the scenes to suddenly be opened up to like well hollywood houses and like lwell yeah a in ground pool and all the insurance to protect from lawsuits and stuff related to injiry regarding the pool etc.. and then probably even an in house pool or something idfk but yeah plus the ability to vs child acting be able to automatically have probable ability fire or hire anybodu from a movie set etc.. that you dislike fwiw.. lest ya threaten to quit etc or refuse the role.. and then that would show the other actors/directors and stuff if they did not cooperate/be good actor/directors.

[@susangraham6801]

I'm 55 yrs old. I graduated in 1987. The first 3 years of my high school, we literally had a "smoking section." No lie. 😬

[@mirrorebutuoykcuf]

100 years from now, people will be shocked that we legally smoked cigarettes, could cook meals in our homes, and weren't allowed to marry our cats.

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

'cook meals in our homes'? how could that ever become illegal?

[@StephFrandsen]

And hump trees ✌🏼🤣

[@geoffhipwell2198]

What!..A 'deep breath' & 'stick of gum'?? People may 'choke' to death.!! (Don't you mean ''chewy")? Great 'Aussie' channel. Doin' well too! Onya buddy. 🦘 👍🏼

[@marcusrobinson7571]

And they won't even know that hamburgers came from cows.

[@karlpeterson9334]

@@marcusrobinson7571 Many believed 50 years ago that hamburgers came from Chicago.

[@arkane36]

Hopefully, people know the reason why the Flintstones *stopped* advertising Winston: Pebbles. Once the baby was delivered, those types of ads didn't seem appropriate anymore to the producers, so the sponsors switched to Welch's grape juice and One-A-Day vitamins (The same people behind Flintstones vitamins.)

[@sakunaruful]

Don’t forget Fruity Pebbles and Chocolate Pebbles cereal!

[@AmyraCarter]

@@sakunaruful ... Actually, no; the reason why those exist at all is because Post needed a better advertising mascot for competition sake, but the cereals existed before being associated with the Flintstones, but were not doing well at all in the sales. Almost like how Crystal Pepsi went down (which sucks because I like Crystal Pepsi).

[@sakunaruful]

@@AmyraCarter I see. Thanks for the trivia tidbit.

[@stephanniemorin]

Well, I guess that's a case of a baby character improving a shows image for the better

[@WitchidWitchid]

Fred & Barney having a Winston break.

[@2nkf]

It’s crazy how much the law has changed since then, and basically everything in general

[@Diablo_Himself]

Creating countries of sissies, who now let people get away with law-breaking.

[@futurestoryteller]

People are also weirdly asleep on just how much work and money is being poured into recreating this exact environment for virtually no reason, other than it was the heyday of klan fundamentalism. For example he neglected to mention the sudden rise of corporal punishment and child labor renewals in American red states, as well as their never ending war on women's rights and regulatory agencies. They literally want everything to be like it was a hundred years ago.

[@user-lh3dq4zt7u]

I think a lot of people know the true story of coca cola having a high level of cocaine in it at the time of its introduction.

[@shandon360]

My dad grew up in austrailia is 62 now and vividly remembers that schools had corporal punishment like the paddle with holes punched through it to make it go faster and hurt harder

[@ParakeetStudios3]

R.I.P. to this man’s search history 😔😔

[@AmyraCarter]

Hence, why I don't use Google.

[@VarVarJeg]

@@AmyraCarter brave search is king

[@harpintn]

Duck Duck Go.

[@VarVarJeg]

@@harpintn spyware claiming to be private

[@harpintn]

@@VarVarJeg Lycos is still out there, as sell as several other search engines. You have plenty of options, and you can spread searches around.

[@adriangrtbekklien4105]

as someone who didnt do these 100 years ago i see this as a win

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Lol

[@Redwan777]

As someone who did all these 100 years ago, I am already 3 feet under ground.

[@adriangrtbekklien4105]

@@Redwan777 whAaAaAaAaAaAAaA WeALlLlLllllY?!?!?!

[@guineapiglady2841]

BRING SPANKING BACK!

[@seditt5146]

@@guineapiglady2841 Bro, what kind of weirdo are you? Ya in multiple comments here making this statement completely off topic? WTF is wrong with you? Did you get spanked in the head too much as a child?

[@daveyhodge]

The phrase "spare the rod, spoil the child" originates from the Bible, specifically from the book of Proverbs 13:24 in the King James Version, which states: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes." The "rod" in this context symbolizes guidance, discipline, or correction, rather than physical punishment. It suggests that proper discipline and guidance are essential for a child's development, but it doesn't necessarily advocate for harsh or abusive treatment. Much like a rod was used to guide the ox.

[@leslievoice1402]

Very well said the extreme either way is sad

[@JohnAnderson-rl3im]

as a 60 yr. old kids today are far more out of control and disrespectful in general but when parents use Foul language towards those same kids it's no wonder as to the continuing fall of our morals and social cohesion

[@leslievoice1402]

Smack

[@kieravermeal9127]

Apparently my grandpa was physically punished by a nun in his Catholic School whenever he wrote with his left hand. So, yeah, I'm glad corporal punishment is illegal

[@FurKid_the_Gg_roo_99]

Damn. That's mean AND stupid. 💀

[@watchtime8760h]

My coworker had the same thing happened to him. Early 50s age wise

[@JaneDoe_123]

Yeah, same thing happened to a friend of my mum, and this friend is only 50. She still writes with both hands.

[@lighbuldchannel8131]

Oh my god, i cant think how miserable my life whould be at that time

[@kameronharrington5478]

I also have a 70-ish coworker who was terrorized by the nuns.

[@Tim2716]

3:40 fun fact: it is illegal to chew gum in public in Singapore.

[@am2382]

"So how was your trip to Singapore?" "It's crazy, I got arrested while visiting the resort" "Must have done something bonkers, what did you do?" "I chewed gum" "Oh, ok"

[@agentkmr]

Cinnamon lollipop.

[@Craxin01]

If memory serves, there was an incident where someone spat their used gum out and it ended up in a subway's door mechanism causing some serious grief and so they decided to ban gum altogether instead of punishing people for spitting it out somewhere other than a trashcan.

[@Latreylantras]

I honestly wish they would make it illegal here. Nobody seems to bother throwing it away properly, it just makes everything disgusting.

[@Craxin01]

@@Latreylantras If we're making wishes, might as well wish people were more responsible with their used gum instead of wishing it banned.

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

I remember a story from my mother's childhood. There was a mentally disabled girl in her elementary school class and she was physically punished several times a day for basically no other reason than existing as a mentally disabled child.

[@leslievoice1402]

So sad

[@stevensiferd7104]

You mentioned mercury being used in cosmetics. It was also used as a treatment for syphilis. Bichloride of mercury came as little coffin-shaped tablets. You ground up a tablet, added some water to turn it into a paste, then applied it to your lesions. Yayy!

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

Today mercury is put in almost all shots given to infants. It's also in the bulk flu vaccine.

[@user-ck8yo8kg4c]

And my FAVORITE Mercury for dental fillings in CHILDREN!!!

[@inny74]

And another thing for #2, Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the modern 3-point seatbelt we see in every car today. Instead of patenting it and profiting off it til the end of time, Volvo opened up the patent so that any car manufacturer can use it. The reasoning for this was that the patent was too significant not to share, according to Volvo, and their instincts were right. Volvo has saved millions of lives by doing this.

[@phantomstrider]

I had no idea of that. That's really respectable of Volvo.

[@RNS_Aurelius]

There's a huge misconception about dress in the 20s and historical clothing in general. Most men did not wear suit jackets. Most men who would be photographed did. Remember photos were still pretty new and pretty expensive. It was a special occasion to have a photograph taken and something people wanted to look their absolute best for and many people simply could not afford to have them.

[@TristenSarelvun]

Yeah, I often see people saying stuff like, "_This_ is how folks dressed in the 1400s!" and show pictures of wealthy, powerful lords and ladies because they're the ones who could afford having portraits made. Of course I feel like people generally have a decent idea of how the average late Medieval person dressed, but maybe that's my bias. It probably is, actually. Now I'm wondering how common, say, powdered wigs really were in the early Colonial Period, or if I actually know how common people in the Warring States dressed. And all that's without mentioning that different people dress differently even in the same time and place. I'm not sure not every woman in the 20s dressed like a "flapper," even if it was a common trend.

[@BlueMonkey23rd]

Probably why it was also common (especially late 1800s) to have deceased individuals in the photos as well…

[@isaackellogg3493]

@@TristenSarelvunpretty much only rich women in their twenties (and in The Twenties) did the flapper thing. It was only THE most fashionable and ultramodern girls who did it. The approximate equivalent today would be Instagram Influencer (but only if you had more than a million subscribers).

[@daffers2345]

We have a copy of a photo my great-grandparents who had a short honeymoon at the beach. It's clearly posed, both look stiff and formal and my great-grandfather even looks a little uncomfortable, with his straw hat at a jaunty angle. I love that old photo, but I don't think they went around dressed to the nines all the time -- especially at the beach!

[@jameskrell4392]

@@daffers2345 They did, as late as the 1970’s my grandfather would wear flannel trousers and a sports jacket to go to the seaside. My grandma would wear a dress and cardigan. I have a photograph of them on a beach in Cornwall dresed as I have described. I was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. I was a child in the 1960’s and I remember everyone coming onto the beach in the same clothes that they wore during a normal day. Casual wear as we know it now didn’t exist.

[@langreeves6419]

Spare the rod is a quote from the old testament The OT is much older than the unknown poem you mentioned.

[@davidmontgomery9570]

"Customers weren't always satisfied... or alive" lol that had me rolling!!😅

[@ianwilkes435]

Could be intresting to do another video like this but the opposite, like things that were illegal 100 years ago but aren’t now

[@greywolf7577]

If you go back 110 years, you could say "voting for women in the USA in many states".

[@bowlr9794]

I like that you’re trying out new topics for videos

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Same

[@JeffMolles-ui5kl]

I definitely liked the cartoon videos but it's fun to see, say, dangerous rollercoasters, and banned toys, and banned legos even thought it's still fun watching the videos about cartoons.

[@guineapiglady2841]

BRING SPANKING BACK!

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video phantomstrider,fantastic job.

[@joemuncie9187]

Seatbelts were required in American cars in 1965. I had a 1964 Impala which had none from the factory. I also remember my doctor smoking in his office while he was talking to my mother after examining me. That was the late 1950's.

[@Logitah]

Astrid Lindgren wasn't a fan of corporal punishment. In fact, she once wrote about a pastor's wife she had met. The lady's little boy had done something bad and for the first time in his life had to go find a switch for his mother to punish him with. After being gone for a long time the little boy came back crying with a rock in his hand and said: "Mama! I couldn't find a switch, but here's a rock you can throw at me!" EDIT: The lady and her little boy had a cry together and she gave up corporal punishment entirely. Realising that your child thinks you WANT to hurt them is a rather horrifying experience.

[@humbleebumblee]

Eeeeyiiiikes!

[@itsamichanbitch]

As a mom this hurts to hear. So awful😢

[@Atlasworld2005]

Oh... Oh, my god. Wow. That just breaks my heart reading that. I could never hurt a child. I could try and try, but in the end, I would never be able to bring myself to bring real harm to one. Children are supposed to be cared for, nourished and given affection through their lives, not harmed, neglected and with an empty belly.

[@Print_H3llo_W0rld]

That's a bit extreme... Like actual abuse.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Pavlovian treatment in its logical extreme.

[@JaneDoe_123]

Oh schools in Portugal had something similar to Australia! Except they used a small metal spoon-like instrument, it had the handle and then a circular "head" - the part that was supposed to hit the hand of the child - with 5 holes in it. Or they used wooden rules. It was used to "correct" misbehaviour, or as a punishment for wrong answers, bad grades, not having homework done, etc. My mum still caught this "method" in school, thankfully I never did.

[@ginaidoma5925]

Lack of physical discipline for children has led to Astronomical crime rates here in America, lack of accountability and lack of morality.

[@Thesaurcery4U2C]

I have said before that add entered the classroom when the paddling left it.

[@Mialikesthings]

So beating kids is good?

[@SuperMrHiggins]

Along similar lines, not with what you said. But Portugal saw rates of heroin addiction fell, drastically upon decriminalization. Portland didn't because it's a single city. It turned into a destination.

[@SuperMrHiggins]

BTW - beating people is immoral

[@ginaidoma5925]

@@SuperMrHiggins No it isn't. Some people don't learn to respect others and their property without physical deterrence.

[@dannylittlebit1574]

In less then 40 years I believe most of the social media will be on this kind of list.

[@renstammer2759]

When you discussed Radium usage in products, it reminded me of the story of Eban Byers who was a socialite who consumed Radithor (radioactive water) many times a day for several years. Soon, his jaw fell out and he would soon pass. Later, they checked his grave and learned that it would be radioactive for centuries. The image of him without his jaw is online and honestly, it gives a terrifying representation of health in the 1920/30s

[@fan_girl99]

Josh mispronouncing Spanish words is more hilarious than it should be

[@MaoRatto]

I agree! As Spanish is phonetic or very graphemic! There are visual aids aka. H like in Ha! It serves to be a visual aid as who wants to confuse A with Ha?

[@lighbuldchannel8131]

La tos desapares

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@MaoRatto Plus Spanish in general is much easier to learn than the incomprehensible insanity that we call "English".

[@michaelandreipalon359]

As the Latin letters are nicely readable. In Japan, Korea, China, and so on, you have to also learn reading what may sometimes be nutshelled as kanji/hiragana.

[@MaoRatto]

@@ExtremeWreck The problem with English is that... You are dealing with a written language with no improvements in using diacritics at all. So from a Germanic language point of view. This is what we call " beyond stupid ". The Germanic vocabulary itself has problems as you are left with silent GH's, but the way English rises vowels when conjugating vowels leaves you with a problem of ɛ -> ɪ or i a -> /ej/ wtf With some accents like mine where that vowel count of 14 in the standard is a 20 due a sound shift. :X Due to the accent already having unround vs. round happening leading to rhoticism. Leading to all words with OO a guessing game. Hoop, goose, book, took, foot, or wood! Don't really rhyme, the oo's all have different quality ( length) and wrong vowels galore! >:X So when I see "oo" I can't help but curl or say " Just use the IPA to describe English vowels you tongue-tied son of a gun! " I cringe when I see it. So more than 2000 years of sound changes! French influence by removing æ and two ð and þ from the alphabet. This was one part of the problem as you lost a way to tell if a sound is voiceless or voiced except memorization. The names of English vowels are butchered beyond belief of the great vowel shift and also should mention the Germanic language part again? That means you are forcing more than 14~20 sounds in "diphthong graphs" and "monophthong letters" to play double duty, triple duty, or worse! English has no need for QU, C maybe, due to absurd amounts of romance vocabulary, but QU is useless when it could be simply KW! Learning to read Spanish, Italian, and even Portuguese is more straight forward. Portuguese has the problems of being a stress timed language, so reduction of sounds is fairly... Predictable and clear, thanks to being mostly graphemic, a spelling reform, but left with just an irregular X! Like in "exacto" vs. "xisto". Z acting like S also. English's vocabulary also kind of puts it in a really bad position, the worst position for any language. So unlike Swedish or German or even French... English uses too much Latin vocabulary and too little Germanic. So word irregularities are beyond spot on. Leading to you have words with proto-umlauts being written clashing with French words. This can be seen with words like beet vs. beat... The beet vegetable is "betan" in Swedish, but in English the sound shifted! Also the early writing of Germanic languages had an E over the letter before it switched to umlauts. Also English takes from NORDIC and WEST GERMANIC cores of vocabulary, literally like sandwiched with words from both sides of the Germanic family tree. Leading to even worse spelling, and how those once -ig endings becoming simply /i/ as Swedish doesn't seem to pronounce it, English's pronunciation reminds me more of Nordic languages than West Germanic except /z/, and voiced sounds beyond common. Though the written form's biggest sin is etymological spelling and history in the same script. CH being very irregular, with 4 sounds, but 3 common! Lichen, Lich, chivalry, arch ( ch = /k/ ) WTF Silent GH's or /f/, maybe /p/ A's being irregular as the price of losing one letter leads to confusion! No digraph for french sounds in words! NO LOGIC TO E'S THANKS TO FRENCH BULL**** English lost most inflection due to sound mergers! I swear a new common mistake is confusing A for AN, Or speakers of English saying Woman, and Women the same? WTF Spanish speakers have it easier learning their language's written form than English, Italian is logical. English grammar is basically simplified nordic grammar with some flavor notes of West Germanic, and the occasional latin. Most speakers got the benefit for having a handfull of loan words, ENGLISH is plagued due to French invasion BS. So one working with their own language's core vocabulary doesn't save from illogical silent letters or confusing spelling. All of this could be avoided with logical digraphs, accent marks for both letters and vowels to deal with historical BS, and have umlauts and rings. Double vs. Single letters! Know when to schwa and reduce ( lots of content vs. I am content )To know when a sound becomes fronted, rounded, unrounded, and nasal. As nasal happens in my accent when reducing verbs in their past participle on average or just reducing words like won't. With some even worse stress-timed language problems. Leaving some vocabulary an absolute nightmare that don't resemble the standard.

[@brendencarlson5220]

Mr. Strider needs to read more. Shakespeare; Louisa May Alcott; Laura Ingalls Wilder; Jane Austin; Emily Brontë; The Song of Solomon… My friend, romance has always been. Just because there were economic constraints that made things necessary but not “romantic” in an agrarian society, doesn’t mean these marriages were as rare as hens teeth. Stick with SpongeBob.

[@jeffzebert4982]

Sadly, corporal punishment, most commonly in the form of paddling, is still both legal and prevalent in many of the Southern U.S. states. *Paddling:* A spanking in which a flat piece of wood with a handle on one end (which is called a paddle) is used as the implement. Named after being shaped in a similar way to various sports paddles such as ping pong paddles and paddleball paddles. Because NO teachers' supply shops sell spanking paddles, nearly all paddles used by school faculty members were built by high school students in wood shop classes; the remaining paddles are old fraternity or sorority paddles.

[@karlpeterson9334]

I was also told by a native of North Carolina that if you did something bad, you were made to go out and cut your own switch, and one that did not break upon striking you. That got the message home to behave yourself and mind your elders.

[@warrenmfouapon]

Man, it's being a while. It's good to have you back Josh🙂🙂👍👍

[@TheobaldLeonhart]

"Smoking was advertised by doctors" Ah, so that's why one of my uncle's, says his doctor told him to keep smoking

[@Tornado1994]

In the 1940s and 1950s, Doctors smoked like Chimney's.

[@RobHorrorLive]

He needs a new doctor.

[@I_am_Irisarc]

In the 1920s, doctors advised pregnant women smoke. They thought it helped with anxiety.

[@GaryAa56]

I've been meaning to watch this video, I finally did. Entertaining and informative, well done!

[@phantomstrider]

Thanks for taking the time to give it a look :)

[@dreamsofparis5535]

I find it amazing that you are expanding your horizons, Strider! Fun story from my father's side of the family: When Prohibition went into law in 1920 (prohibiting the sale of alcohol), my great grandparents and their neighbors made moonshine in a bathtub! My great grandmother lived to the age of 102 when she passed away in 2007 and to be honest, I wished I stepped into her shoes and experience what it was like to be in Prohibition America.

[@warrenmfouapon]

If you were my history teacher, I will do summer school.😅😅

[@MikeyDew]

History Teacher Strider: Howdy! Today's lesson is about the crisis of the 3rd century! Nin darling care to explain to the students what the crisis was? Nin in the voice she uses for KZbin: The crisis of the 3rd century, was a destabilizing event for the Roman Empire. It started when Emperor Severus Alexander was killed by his own troops, and ended with the establishment of the Tetrarchy. 😊

[@maxmeidl4909]

You learn something new from Phantomstrider every video.

[@aerialpunk]

I think re: physical punishment, there are actually a lot of nuances that get lost. Like, my mom would spank us; it didn't scar me in the least but it sure did tell me when I had crossed a line, cos she only did it over bigger things, and she always told us why we're getting spanked - it was never just "do what is at it I'll hit you". She almost never hit us hard enough that it actually hurt. I was fine. My youngest sister thought it was hilarious and would waggle her bum at my mom when she'd threaten a spank - so my mom stopped spanking her and did other stuff to get her in line. My nephew got so depressed for throat time he was spanked, my sister never did it again. My youngest brother refused to listen to anything as a small child and would run off so often it was actually dangerous to him, and we tried everything to no avail - but one light snack on the behind and he never did it again. And in contrast to how we did it in my family , my aunt would sometimes hit my cousins with a wooden spoon and they all hated it. My mom got whacked with a ruler in school too, and hated it - both those things are way harsher than what she herself did. But there's so much variation in how this is done, and in the response of kids as individuals, that I really think just lumping it all together isn't a great way to study it.

[@BlueMonkey23rd]

The “spare the rod” quote was in the Bible long before that poem was written… “Those who spare the rod hate their children, but those who love them are diligent to discipline them” (Proverbs 13:24).

[@daffers2345]

I've heard, however (and it makes perfect sense) that the "rod" wasn't meant as something with which to beat someone, but rather referred to the "rod" used by shepherds to gently guide sheep away from something ("They rod and thy staff, they comfort me"). In other words, a child left to him/herself without GUIDANCE would surely be spoiled, but guiding a child properly (also mentioned in the New Testament) will help the child behave properly. Of course, I could be completely wrong; you can make the Bible say anything you want if you misuse it. Still, this is the best explanation I've ever heard.

[@Zak-bv4qm]

The quote itself isn't in the Bible tho.

[@beetrootmcguillicuddy4185]

With a lot of these content producers its irritating to sit through the BS/no research then once the propaganda is ignored (a good chunk of this video) there is really nothing left.

[@jackm6307]

​​​@@daffers2345“He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him” (Proverbs 13:24) Once we read the scripture, it's pretty clear it means punishment. A staff just doesn't fit in there. I love believing the bible because when it comes to something like this, the choice is easy, I just believe it in spite of these stats that supposedly speak negatively of corporal punishment. Then I look around at how the youth acts today over how it was say 60 of my 70 years ago, and I believe that bible even more.

[@XperimentorEES]

@@jackm6307 Gotta agree on both fronts, He has a track record of being a strict parental figure for our own good. A century ago when nuclear families were the societal norm there were things such as common courtesy and common sense; but now with a generation of single parents all I'm seeing is ungrateful entitled idiots.

[@robblequoffle8456]

As someone who grew up in the 21st century, the fact that seatbelts are a newer trend is insane to me. My mom says that they weren't really the norm back in the day. With that said, one thing I've always wondered is why school buses don't have them. I'd always get jostled and tossed around on the bus, however I have fortunately not been in a school bus accident.

[@crankychris2]

School buses are exempt from NHTSA and EPA regulations. Here in Miami we used leaded fuels in all our gas bus fleet until the 90's because it was cheaper. "Schoolies" are not recommended for RV conversions because they have little or no crash protection.

[@phantomstrider]

I always wondered that too. The best answer I got was that buses are so huge that they generally take out other cars and don't have to stop suddenly. But I never found that a very satisfying answer 😆

[@thexdatabase]

dont forget that marx was also pro eugeincs

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Yep

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

And racist Margaret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood, which has so many of their locations in black neighborhoods.

[@michaelmurray6197]

I can agree with the idea that corporal punishment was used far more than it should have been. But at the same time there are some situations where corporal punishment may be a good thing. Usually something very severe, for instance safety related. Sure it leaves a mark on the child, but that is kind of the point, it's effective at changing a behavior drastically in a very short time. But using physical punishment often reduces the impact of it when it's actually important, also it doesn't need to be severe at all to get the point across, it's only valuable because of it's shock value. For instance if your child keeps on running out in the road and you have tried other methods to get them to stop then physical punishment may be what you need to resort to, it's better than getting hit by a car.

[@itsROMPERS...]

If you need to strike a child, you suck as a parent. There's no excuse for using violence against anyone, least of all a child. I raised a kid and never hit him, and I taught him to not do dangerous things non-violently.

[@MrDavidBFoster]

I liked how the gangster dude on TV put it: _"They have to believe you'll hurt them!"_

[@Loverofcats101]

I don't think it'll be long b4 smacking lessons come out in parenting classes there's a difference between smacking and beating just look how they're not children just bullying bratty lil' turds over intitled mistaking themselves 4 something important when not even any proven worth at all smacks are no difference between a good momma cat nipping the kittens ear. And we are only part of the animal kingdom. Ain't it funny when even a cat is better than some humans with their "soft parenting"

[@Loverofcats101]

Stop deleting my comment stupid thats only taking my rights 2 free speech away and thats an all or nothing thing

[@QoraxAudio]

Yes only for very severe things. It's not a coincidence that entitled Karens have been popping up everywhere in the past two decades!

[@renamon5658]

happy easter phantomstrider. hope you and your wife have a fun day

[@sjmhadsock4586]

Even in the 80s and 90s there was smoking area's in restaurants

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Damn

[@yoanamariakrasteva3392]

Back in December 2023, I saw a smoking room at the Vienna airport.

[@jonsworld5307]

should still be but it should be a complete deferent room

[@gbzorro]

And there were smoking seat sections in commercial airplanes in the 80s / 90s. These divisions of spaces for smoking and non-smoking were as effective as saying, "In order to keep the water clean, you can only pee at one end of the swimming pool."

[@Diablo_Himself]

As late as the 2000s, there were dedicated smoking rooms in many English pubs. There was the Bar area and the Lounge area. One would be smoking, the other not.

[@Air_Serpent]

13:26 that’s the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. Most couples either can't even consider a theoretical situation or joke about it to the point you wonder why they're still together. But that was a mature and sweet way to speak of it.

[@user-nx5kk5ho7j]

Taking away the spanking of kids, is what one of the worlds problem is.

[@Loverofcats101]

Yep funny 2 think a good momma cat is a better parent than some humans a smack is no different 2 momma cat nipping naughty kittens ear

[@JacobMKeeneAKADrPepperKing]

I’ve also heard voice actor Maurice LaMarche testify that he used to be a smoker, and although he quit smoking, it limited his range, where eventually he couldn’t do higher pitched voices anymore.

[@Tornado1994]

LaMarche quit smoking in the mid 80s after he replaced Paul Frees as the Voice of Toucan Sam.

[@josephrowe849]

8. Drugs are bad, mmkay? 7. This one's a pain in the ass. 6. So it was beauty that killed the beast... 5. An arranged marriage doesn't have a nice RING to it. 4. Gives the song 16 Tons a whole new meaning. 3. Moving on... 2. Seat belts everyone! -Miss Frizzle 1. This entry is SSSSSSSMOKIN'!!

[@BeegDongLeFleur]

Not all of us are squares.

[@wattsink2009]

7:08 I’m a little surprised Strider didn’t dive more into the Bible verse that kept appearing through this section. 🤔 As a practicing Catholic, I am familiar with this passage, and I feel that it’s important that I clarify the meaning to that passage and the story preceding it is NOT to promote physical punishment. Rather, the purpose is to illustrate the consequences of failing to teach children that misbehavior comes with consequences that will outweigh whatever immediate gratification they get from it (thereby inadvertently encouraging such bad behavior).

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Regardless, goes to show that there are so many times people ignore the rest of a paragraph so to prove their fallible points.

[@Tornado1994]

@@michaelandreipalon359 King Solomon was a Tyrant a Well known tyrant. And his son Rehoboam was even Worse.

[@wattsink2009]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Sadly true! 😅

[@Blazdragon34]

Yes that’s true

[@memyname1771]

Did you read the words in the Bible? It is a shame that God's words have been misunderstood for around 2000 years. Amazing how various stories in the Bible took on different meanings in the 20th and 21st centuries. Perhaps God is not as good at presenting his his guidance as some religious leaders would have us believe. Are all the people who accepted the classic meaning of the stories in the Bible condemned to hell for eternity?

[@davehardenburg2924]

Thanks strider . Always appreciate y'alls light hearted content.

[@ItalyClay]

I love the Lego movie clips included. Thank you.

[@stephanniemorin]

13:25-13:30 Aww, I hope that never happens, Josh, but you and Nims happiness will always be our concern, even if we can't see it! 😊 16:10 - 16:14 Considering they leave Timmy alone with a sadistic babysitter on a regular basis, the coal mines would be a pleasant thing for Timmy and something that his parents would do.

[@fan_girl99]

13:25 Almost ended me... It was super unexpected

[@toshirodragon]

When I started school in 1970, it was still legal to paddle children in my part of the US. I remember watching a boy get paddled by my teacher and being horrified. This was the same teacher who made me walk around school all day in just my shirt because Mother sent me to school in pants and girls weren't allowed to wear pants in 1971 in school. (The shirt covered my panties but just barely, I was beyond mortified.)

[@elizrebezilmadommdo1662]

Unfortunately, it's still legal in some states. 😞

[@FederalBurroOfInvestigation]

Still common in Tennessee, at least the part I'm in

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

Girls might not have been allowed to wear pants in your school, but not school in general. Girls wore pants to school sometimes when I was in high school from 1967 to 1971.

[@toshirodragon]

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 Aaaaaaaaaaand that changes my experience how?

[@alanhilder1883]

So the teacher was promoting the "miniskirts" as worn a few years later. ( The hippy time )

[@albertwells8503]

As a little kid, my dad used to blow smoke in my face and laugh. I remember my mom fixing a tossed salad with a cigarette in her mouth, or standing over a skillet on the stove and smoking. And dad would use his hands when he talked, and often times I got cigarette burns on my arms if he wasn’t careful. I always had to ride in the car full of smoke, and the house was constantly full of smoke. I probably smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, without smoking. If I complained, I was punished for being disrespectful. Today, I have COPD. Thanks Mom and Dad!

[@user-gt3km8jk3z]

It's a scientifically proven fact, if u don't get up n move, ur not expanding ur lungs n u can get copd. Me n my husband smoked n none of our kids have any breathing problems but they were n still active. My grandson has asthma n copd. N he has never been around cigg smoke. Go figure

[@astrowolvez]

I had asthma as a kid directly because of my dad and grandparents smoking, and now after my mom knows this her new husband chain smokes in the car and when they take me to work he still smokes and I’m coughing in the back, but it’s okay! The window is open!

[@watchforever1724]

Oh boy I never expected you to do a video like this

[@deniseboldea1624]

My Mother had this large thick wooden Trivet that she used to set hot dishes on, one day when my older sister's really acted up, she got the idea of calling it a super paddle. All she had to do was threaten to pull it out if any of us misbehaved.

[@ladylestranj]

Trivet, a divet is a small hole or dimple.

[@deniseboldea1624]

@@ladylestranj auto correct strikes again.😞 Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

[@ladylestranj]

@@deniseboldea1624 Thank you for understanding I meant no judgement, just being helpful.

[@Sarge23]

My parents didn't believe in physical punishment but I guess they were lucky since I barely did anything to warrant it anyways

[@StarWasTakenWasTaken]

The blurring in this video is crazy, I understand some of it, but even a clip of Mathilda got blurred. SHE DIDN'T EVEN HTI A KID IN THAT SCENE!!!!!

[@cesarjimenezanimator]

8:38 "...destroyed red blood cells." (shows a clip of a WHITE blood cell being destroyed 😆)

[@logenvestfold4143]

I’m from the USA, and my aunt died in 1977 when she was hit by a drunk driving truck driver. Her car did not have seatbelts, and drunk driving was not federally illegal at the time. This was before I was born so I never got to meet her.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Well that's just sad

[@albihysenaj5997]

Actually drunk driving has been illegal since 1910

[@logenvestfold4143]

@@albihysenaj5997 not federally. It was a state by state decision up until the 1980s.

[@logenvestfold4143]

I believe the very first state to outlaw it was Illinois.

[@rebeccamount50]

Bayer is also the company that made the gas for the camps.

[@mikebrower8450]

I the US, installation of seat belts were required in cars starting in the 1960s. The USE seat belts became mandatory by drivers and their passengers in the 1980, earlier in some states. Both of these advances were pushed by insurance companies.

[@s.d.g.global4582]

Companies still sell whatever they want, no matter the dangers, and the "punishments" are so light that they are pointless

[@Spongeboyking]

20:11 you know the guy who actually invented the seatbelt could’ve packed in it and made millions but he made it mandatory and law to have a seatbelt in your car doing so he saved millions of lives

[@DiamondKingStudios]

If only he was a pharmaceutical inventor/executive.

[@Brianna-eo8nu]

Wild how people refer to some of this stuff as the “good” old days. Just goes to show how nostalgia (and a bit of historical revisionism) can blind some people…

[@johngreek0424]

That's why the term "looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses" exists

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

I mean to be fair our biggest Problems were dealing with right now is the advancements in Technology. And how It’s effecting people

[@snazzyjovialwyrm3314]

Lead poisoning from that time also made those people partly braindead.

[@whatevr99]

"Say not, 'Why were the former days better than these?' For it is not from wisdom that you ask this." - Ecclesiastes 7:10

[@Air_Serpent]

at best they just like the stability. But it's mostly mysoginy, racism, and glamorization.

[@robertburgess1070]

Not disciplining a child is the problem today and why the generation coming up has no respect. I was spanked plenty of times. I never feared my parents. I respected my parents and learned right from wrong .

[@TheGs4_4449]

I have a comment about the seatbelts thing. My mom said that no matter what, when she was a kid, her grandma would put on her seatbelt, and tell everybody in the car to buckle up, even in the cars of other kids’ parents. She eventually got in an accident, but her seatbelt saved her life, further proving her point.

[@GooberGM25]

The thing about "smoking being a sign for women's independence" during the 1920s was likely due to smoking in public being seen as a traditionally masculine activity so the tobacco companies targeted their products towards women who wished to break gender norms.

[@AnnoyingSquib]

"This heroin is a menace to American society! We must abolish this hideous drug! Ugh, I have a headache. Where are my cocaine pills?"

[@thebandit7623]

The going thru window of the car was too funny. Cannot wait another 100 years someone else making a video like this. And i wouldn't them calling us dumbasses.

[@tombruner9634]

Not only that, you could give a Red Rider BB gun with a compass in the stock to an innocent 8 year old boy who had been begging for one since Thanksgiving, and those things are known to put your eye out!

[@TeruteruBozusama]

22:28 back in the 90s I remember there being small glass rooms in restaurants in malls for those who didn't smoke. Then during the early 2000s smokers were stuffed in there instead. Then restaurants were built near the garage so the smokers would smoke there instead, then banned in malls all together.

[@Ashtar2594]

My pet peeve is when people refer to life expectancy averages through history as people dropping dead at an early age. When instead those statistics reflect progress in reducing infant mortality rates which is what causes the life average expectancy to drag down to a lower number than it is in modern age.

[@SPAnComCat]

As a Autist; I find it Disheartening that Malignant Eugenics was used to Commit Genocide against Neurodivergent people all those years ago... and it still breaks my heart that those poor innocent neurodivergent people...😢💔

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

I was bullied all through school, even by some of the teachers. Asperger's was discovered over a dozen years before I started school, but no one in education had heard of it even when I finished college. So I never got any help or extra attention. I figured out by 3rd grade that everyone else had a secret rule book that I didn't have a copy of. So here I sit at 70 watching videos and making comments. Almost a complete waste.

[@SPAnComCat]

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 I feel sorry for you, you didn't Deserve that kind of Dehumanising Treatment and no one should Suffer like you. you Deserved Better, I Hope you're doing Better now.

[@leniere309]

When I was in my early teens I got into a bit of a mess at school (a nock down braul) and was sent to the head master (that is what he was called back then) and received five strikes on each hand with a thin cane, it was known as the cuts when you got it on the hands, if you got it on the back of your legs or your butt it was just called the cane. Cheers from South Oz.

[@Jennithebaker]

Family lore has it that my dad's great uncle or great great uncle was a Hatter, which required mercury, and he did in fact go quite mad. I'd laugh react, but it's more of a shock response.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Damn

[@Scorbunzx]

Fun fact: the fda was created because of poor meat creation back in the 1900s. Please fact check this in case I’m wrong.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

More specifically: the FDA was created because some guy wrote a book that got everyone concerned about poor meat creation. _The Jungle_ is quite a read.

[@Scorbunzx]

@@DiamondKingStudios yeah food history was changed all because of one book!

[@SEGASister]

Upton Sinclair, what a legacy.

[@SebastianPerez-zp6mf]

so if corporal punishment was illegal, does it mean that Baldi would might get fired?

[@user-tz3yx8dr1j]

"Spare the rod and spoil the child" was not the illustration of a cause-and-effect relationship. It was a directive.

[@TheRockSocietyReviews]

So many people wanted this in the poll.

[@white_knuckle_jorkin]

The heroin on the thumbnail just had me laughing for like 15 minutes and I have no idea why-

[@ToddHofer]

In the mid 70s, I was in school in Pasadena and Deer Park Texas. They still used corporal punishment there. It was call getting "Pops". I do know that between that and getting my butt whooped from my parents, whatever the reason was, I never did it again. Then again, I only had that happen when I did something particularly bad. Didn't turn me into a serial killer or bully. It did however, make me into somebody who doesn't cross the line between right and wrong.

[@mchenrynick]

Just a fact Phantom Stider: When Marriage first came into law, it was mainly to bind property and assets between 2 individuals. Love was only an afterthought...

[@Yamezzzz]

Pretty much all drugs of any kind were legal 100 years ago so we can start with that lol Not that they were necessarily "Things everyone did" but sure

[@WickedDragonArtistry]

I got into a car accident when I was 18 years old and it absolutely would have killed me if I didn't have my seatbelt on. I'm really glad it's now mandatory to have them on even if people find them annoying.

[@Tornado1994]

I'm an 80s Baby. Seatbelt Safety became WIDELY advocated during the 1980s. I was there. Very Very FEW people complained about Seatbelts. Back then, We called them "Safetybelt" and had TONS of PSA's about Buckling Up and Drunk Driving. As well the "Baby On Board" Bumper.

[@WickedDragonArtistry]

That's pretty cool. I was born in the 90s so it was already a big thing while I was growing up. It definitely saved my life

[@Tornado1994]

@@WickedDragonArtistry So grateful to hear that it did!

[@KlodFather]

It is a good idea but it should not be the law. I am happy to report that many states have no helmet law and some have repealed it. Seat belts and air bags are not appropriate in all situations. In some accidents they kill people. I wear my seatbelt but I have unplugged the air bags in my car. I will not have a bomb in my steering wheel or in the car I am hauling my grandchildren. As an engineer I understand the dangers and damage the bags can do. They have killed children. One cut and burned me. I could have lost my eye. No thanks.

[@lord_wyran]

and in the accident i was in, if i hadnt been sent thru the windshield i would have died when my car rolled off into the ditch and crushed the cab area like a pop can.

[@travist.7279]

#1 Back in the 1920's, the average smoker only consumed about one pack per week. It wasn't until the1950's, when people started smoking like freight trains, that the health risks really became noticeable.

[@leslievoice1402]

My mother smoked but never during the day when caring for us kids..she would have one or two in the evening..I thought she was very different from other smokers..I believe the addition to so many chemicals in cigarettes is what made them so addictive..not the tobacco itself

[@FurKid_the_Gg_roo_99]

It's kinda funny that seatbelts used to be lime masks w/ how certain people were hating on these devices that are legit saving people! 💀

[@user-uc7vv3gv7e]

Hi

[@WolffenBreon]

Seatbelt: I hold onto you preventing you from crashing through your windshield when your vehicle crashes, you're welcome Mask: I'm supposed to like protect you from these particles that you literally can't see but I can't actually keep them from getting to your body and infecting you, but I can prevent your particles from going outward and infecting others but be careful when you take me off because I'm literally covered in the things that I'm supposed to protect you from and just might be the future reason why you'll end up getting sick anyway

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Brings into mind combat helmets on WW1 and WW2. Lots of soldiers sorely complained about receiving head pains and injuries wearing them... and yet dutifully ignore the fact that said pains and injuries are the result of lethal bullets and shrapnel being successfully shrugged of by said helmets.

[@elizrebezilmadommdo1662]

Same with helmets. I remember parents in the 2000s getting triggered over being encouraged by the media to have their kid wear a helmet when riding their bike, skateboard, roller skates, etc. outside, claiming it, "Ruins the fun for the kids." which made no sense. It's not like wearing a helmet makes it harder to ride a bike or it impacts the experience enough that it makes kids not be able to have fun. From what I've seen, the only time I've seen kids get upset over having to wear a helmet was either when they were afraid of getting made fun of or thought they looked "uncool" (it probably has a lot to do with their parents' negative attitude towards it). Wearing a helmet didn't ruin the playing experience for me. Then again, it's not like I wore it EVERY time I rode my bike or scooter, so... Or these parents at the time would claim the helmet "makes kids soft". Yes, because cracking your skull when you fall definitely makes you stronger. 😂 Sure... Pretty sure the kids who didn't wear a helmet and were unlucky enough to hit their head really hard on concrete ended up with a head injury, not a tougher personality or whatever. 😭