Why Did These Strange 1950s Inventions Kill So Many People?| Hidden Killers | Absolute History

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[@grrbear6300]

Pp op op 00pp

[@AquaeAtrae]

Entertaining and informative... but why cover the news clippings with that diffused black spot? The narrations are fine, but I'd prefer to see the clippings unobstructed.

[@blueindigo1000]

​@@AquaeAtrae Excellent question!

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

No.

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

@@AquaeAtrae because in the 50s the newspapers were a bit more.. descriptive than they are today as one that has read some. And they want to stay family friendly and showing descriptive text about a 70% 1st degree burn injury and 3 witness reports also being very descriptive isnt very family friendly. Also they were very racist and seeing slurs in headlines was common (in the back of my head i play the mayhem that would happen if you put the n word in the headlines today, like i literally couldnt believe it.)

[@MrQuijibo]

I now understand why my grandparents unplugged things at night and were generally afraid of technology

[@tubularfrog]

My great aunt unplugged the microwave after heating her coffee because she feared the "rays". Absolute fruitcake.

[@joselimadelgado8513]

@@tubularfrog thats why she lived longer... being a fruitcake helps :)

[@JessieHTX]

I unplug things before bed, and I’m only in my 30s. There are still issues with fire when it comes to that stuff, though it has gotten significantly better since the 50s. How many years ago were people’s cells exploding while charging? Besides, your appliances can still use electricity while turned off but plugged in. Save money on that bill.

[@wednesdaytear]

Relatable

[@juliereminiec4937]

How about leaving the tv plugged in during a electrical storm?

[@patrickchubey3127]

Wages were rising faster than housing prices. Well, they sure as hell fixed that, didn't they.

[@janewashington421]

And then they drove out the unions and CEO’s began making millions and billions and the stockholders did, too. So the profits went to a very, very few 1%’ers who could never get enough money and it just spiraled down. Then the Repubs enacted all sorts of tax reduction so the safety net collapsed and those top 1%’ers got even more wealth.

[@jsphillip60]

And how!

[@johnbockelie3899]

Chemistry set was probably recycled material that's why it's so cheap.

[@SmittySmithsonite]

@@janewashington421 -HA! You forgot the democrats endless taxing and spending that drove our national debt into the stratosphere, and their crippling regulations that decimated the manufacturing industry by encouraging everyone to set up shop overseas. Now we've got moonbatty leftists that want to pay burger flippers $15 an hour, tax "carbon", and destroy the rest of American industry with "green" initiatives. Funny you mention unions - big democrat donors, and just as corrupt. They had their place 60 years ago. Now they're just wings of the democrat party, much like today's mainstream news entities. Ever check out housing costs in CA and MA? Highest in the nation, aside from HI and DC. What's the common denominator between all four of these geographical areas? DEMOCRATS ...

[@agentsmidt3209]

Problem solved.

[@prettyraddad]

As an American I love the “unsurprisingly the American chemistry sets were even more spectacular” and it included uranium because of course it did

[@KhalidAun1]

Same 🤣🤣

[@aguyhere7945]

@@GladeSwope It was the 50s. The 50s were all about atomics. Remember that this was before Chernobyl and 40+ years of anti nuclear propaganda, so it really was a different time.

[@aguyhere7945]

@@GladeSwope Well nuclear tech had just won WWII for America, so building an interest in it was viewed as a positive thing. Also, uranium itself doesn't give you a bomb. It's the refined, and insanely hard to make, isotopes that do that. Uranium is actually fairly common since you can pull it right out of sea water if you don't have any land deposits for instance.

[@herrgodfrey9563]

Uranium is badass

[@ew6641]

Literally that part was so american it hurt

[@jianghan4086]

For every safety standards we have today, there's a tragic story behind it

[@allaboutroofing2]

You should look into red dye 40. At least then it took a conscious effort to cause yourself harm.

[@AlphaFlight]

Where's the one for u being born

[@urieluntevarin9934]

Safety standards are written in blood

[@liebuster9308]

the tragic stories of today are suppressed too, and being even worse! We live in the times of bio weapon jabs and population control.

[@shannoncampbell5421]

Yes there are when you are having to a warning label to “not try to stop a chainsaw with your hands” maybe we should go back to have a survival of the fittest kind of mentality. It’s amazing how dumb society has become- just so sad

[@lynnoneill4294]

I remember my brothers late 1960's chemistry set. He burnt a hole straight through a 1inch thick wooden table top. Dad was not impressed.

[@youngmasterzhi]

How long was he grounded for?

[@lynnoneill4294]

@@youngmasterzhi I think my Dad was probably more upset about giving my brother a gift that was so dangerous. My brother didn't get grounded just had his chemistry set taken from him.

[@MartyBellvue]

Lynn Oneill aw, that’s nice at least :^)

[@rollipollirock]

6:20 just consider it progress

[@depressedhombre3387]

Was it an acid

[@teresaellis7062]

Apparently the 1950's was an excellent time to commit murder. "Oh, it was faulty wiring", "I didn't know the ladder would fall on her", "He really enjoyed that chemistry set.", "He really should have opened a window while he worked with that new glue.", "She liked to fall asleep while watching the telly."

[@christinash2235]

It was very easy to commit murder throughout the Industrial era. The cities, the technology...but lack of communication we have now (internet, DNA testing, etc.) ...made it extraordinarily easy. People commit a lot less murder now even with mass shootings.

[@rjs1jd]

Im just giving everybody a 👍 LIKE!!! Just cus i feel great after my 2 cup of coffee cheers from CORPUS CHRISTI in South Texas !

[@aliceshepherd9965]

It works even today

[@iamjackalope]

@@christinash2235 Back before DNA testing became widely available there were a lot of innocent people getting life long prison sentences and even worse getting the chair. Usually guilty verdicts where reached on nothing more then witness testimony and false accusations. A lot of black men getting accused of rape.

[@LuzMaria95]

Teresa Ellis even better in the Edwardian or Victorian era where you could easily take someone out with arsenic

[@jordanbrewer5008]

Does it bother anyone else that every time a newspaper article is shown it's blacked out.

[@chellybabyme]

Yes, I hate it.

[@umhusam6851]

Why did they put it up just to black it out?

[@annwithaplan9766]

I just paused it before it went black so I could read the article.

[@chellybabyme]

@@annwithaplan9766 you are my hero✌

[@bee3644]

I think the quote they are say was supposed to come up in white text, but for whatever reason they forgot to add it :/

[@ScreamingAllTheTime]

Burnt synthetic fibers are no joke. As a child when playing with some sparklers, I waved it around some stupid way, and I melted the strap of my bathing suit to my shoulder. Between how hot sparklers get, and the suit melting, it was terribly painful. I remember the panic of feeling something burning my skin but there not being a fire to put out.

[@Mushroom321-]

Ouch !!!😬☹️💔

[@heatheranderson4475]

My stepdaughter was burned and her poor hand was terrible from a sparkler. I don't let my kids use them. Gun powder and fire just seem like a bad idea to me.

[@RobertHarner-i9q]

When I was a kid we didn't get limits put on stuff if we burned ourselves we learned to be more careful and avoid making the same mistake again

[@samantharae1822]

@@RobertHarner-i9qgood for you.

[@Soundofwindonsand]

AAAAAAAAAAA...oh Jill just stepped on another burnt out sparkler, maybe we should put them in a coffee can or something... Memories.....

[@arianamartinez7069]

When she said "although the odd girl did walk in" when she was talking About the chemistry set and whispered "look, there's me" idk why but that warmed my heart

[@kd1only]

I missed the point of what she said in that part. Does she mean she is the girl in box's picture?

[@zacharywood9416]

@@kd1only she meant that every so often a girl would be interested in the science kits and that she was one of those girls that was interested

[@kd1only]

@@zacharywood9416 Ah I see. Thank you for explaining it to me 😉

[@robertwalker7010]

Got it.

[@hanginwithlois]

@Rimone Media meaning girls interested in science. Notice only one girl on the box, peering behind the boys

[@stevejensen7891]

It's a fascinating show but maybe don't darken the text on the newspaper clippings when you're focused on them. It's like you've invented negative highlighting!

[@bethanyhanna9464]

I thought the same thing. I'm guessing there is personal information or something.

[@leonidas14775]

Yeah, thanks for redacting what we're supposed to be reading

[@sentelscribbles6583]

Having watched a couple more videos from the series I believe it's an editing mistake. There is meant to be white text over the black clouds but somebody probably forgot to turn the text track back on before exporting.

[@bibasik7]

Highlightn't™

[@JohnSmith-cj9cx]

I found the video at BBC. There is white text over the dark area. I suspect someone made a mistake and uploaded a copy that didn't have the text graphics added.

[@Jordan-hk5ck]

I love how she’s wearing a 1950s inspired dress, it’s such a nice touch

[@Ojja78]

Also her shoes.

[@jolanas.5426]

It's Lady Vintage London dress in hepburn style and japanese floral print. :)

[@jodyross6185]

and her sexy shoes are the style of the time too..so cute..

[@fuffalobuck3248]

I can see from the profile pic that it's your preferred style. Me too. Though I'm 37, I have been trying to style my hair in a feathered pomp-style forever. Can NEVER get it right!!

[@olliefoxx7165]

She looks classy and feminine.

[@tonydabaloney]

I got a set back in 1962. It didn't end well. I can still remember my mom screaming and us furiously running back and forth from bathroom and kitchen carrying water in anything we found to put out the fire. Fortunately, we got it out with damage limited to my desk and wall behind it. My model train on a shelf melted. I was lucky.

[@jasonhutter7534]

Ohhh...had my chemistry set in the 70's and conducted "experiments" on frogs. Imagine a bunch of dead frogs in front the house when the parents came home. Mom was horrified. Dad still laughs.

[@jasonhutter7534]

@DE VANOV I feel really bad about the frogs now, trust me. Im an animal lover.

[@daylehudson6810]

I got one when i was ten years old.I mixed some things together. It exploded a made a huge red spot on the ceiling

[@prettyytrash]

⁠@devanov3103 when I was little I put my hamster in an Easter egg and it died of suffocation and then another time I slept w my hamster and I crushed it😭 (I was like 5)

[@amyashley3182]

“I’m going upstairs to the first hidden killer, the child’s bedroom” Oh so the kid did it

[@Sparks68]

Yup - but was it with the knife in the conservatory or with the wrench in the library? That we still don't know!

[@MrButternutsprinkles]

Sounds more like the bedroom did it.

[@areyousureyouenteredyourna85]

No, Professor Plum did it, in the kitchen.... ...with yo momma.

[@bee2022]

@@Sparks68 no it was with the chemistry set in the living room

[@georgelowe3452]

And notice how I am climbing these stairs in high heels 👠,

[@HoneyBoom]

old people: back in my day we didn't need warning labels! oh but you did

[@bcgibson22]

Nah, one just got sick.....or died

[@unklekrappy]

The ones who did, generally got et up in the thresher (died in childhood). Nature tends to take out the stupid.

[@pookatim]

Today we are awash in warning labels that no one reads. So.....

[@pookatim]

@@101Volts If someone is willing to use a hair drier in the shower, warning labels will be of little merit.

[@desijrichert]

Right? It was like today, you need to practice a bit of common sense at any point in history. Stupid in the fifties is the same as stupid today.

[@teetheatersanonymous]

The family that DIYs together *Dies together*

[@S0lidState]

....at least they saved !

[@carlosiiideespana3712]

omg yes

[@sarahlyons1012]

DIY or die hard trying XD

[@BTW...]

DIY electrical wiring installation ! This is why I DREAD working in domestic installations [yes, licensed electrical worker]. Far too much DIY layers of dangerous work hidden away that won't test as dubious, yet I could be held responsible for not identifying and making safe, even if that is disconnection. Frankly, it's far safer working on electrical equipment in a Heavy Industrial and High Voltage level equipment, because there is a higher level of respect afforded to the very real dangers. We have a saying here: DIY = DIE

[@Serenade2461]

As soon as she started getting into how badly all the DIY's went wrong because of zero skill, I just kept seeing articles flash behind my eyes decrying how Millienials don't know how to do anything for themselves when their parents and grandparents were amazing DIY-ers. I know a Millenial who built his own home. He told me of a crafty lil trick he used to make it seem like his grounding line was the proper depth into the ground when it wasn't. Wired the place himself too. I would legit be worried to live there. Please call a professional if you're doing anything electrical and ya know, maybe if you can't be bothered to build things up to code yourself.

[@lucyflorey9152]

My parents built a house in the 50s. The heating was in the ceiling...warm air rises. We were so cold in the winter. There was no carpeting...only hardwood and tile.

[@2yearoldeastercandy935]

My grandpa is blind in one eye because of those chemistry sets

[@greatleader4841]

my grandpa is blind in both eyes because he's dead.

[@tubularfrog]

Why was your grandfather using a kids chemistry set?

[@dianag6415]

@@tubularfrog maybe he used it when he was a child? Dumb question.

[@yourinnerlawyer4035]

@Unkwon Malaysian Guy yaass 😂

[@lassipls]

that's why you have 2 eyes; doesn't matter if you lose one!

[@C.R.W]

The editing choice of a black blot over written materials and during quotations was really annoying. Seriously, who says "Here's a picture of some text, I'm going to cover it up so you can't read it. With a cataract simulation." ?

[@kahvipaputyyppi]

Exactly! That was so annoying, what's the point of having the text if they're going to hide it?!

[@danylozkyn]

In some of these videos they quote the spoken lines with white letters over the smudgy bit. I have no idea why these ones are empty.

[@anxiousanalyst]

was LITERALLY about to post the same comment.... I'm pretty sure I've seen other videos of theirs that do the same thing

[@AlexthePanda]

Yes! What is the opposite of "highlighting" text? Besides annoying?

[@rebelrot9398]

@Edan Robertson but it's done every single time in every video

[@hannafathi2623]

For anyone wondering about the black spot on the screen- it is an editing mistake in FCP. The intent is to zoom in on a piece of an image, and blow it up. The tool chosen requires you to then select the spot to lighten, which didn’t happen here. It’s definitely frustrating! I had this issue and was very annoyed. I can’t imagine being the editor and having to leave it in there.

[@romansroad2007]

I thought maybe it was to cover up personal names or something like that. Or maybe it was a silent killer thing. Lol. Thanks

[@corrigandavidson2356]

Thank you for explaining that!

[@WooShell]

They do that in every video in all their channels, and they added this later to some videos that I've recently rewatched. I'm pretty sure it is not "an editing mistake" but rather deliberately done - I can only guess after a copyright claim by the newspaper whose clippings they used.

[@mel816]

I was thinking they were supposed to scroll the (retyped) text from the newspaper across the dark spot in white (or light colored letters), but somehow got left out in the final edit.

[@clcnj5365]

Thanks for the explanation I figured it was some form of error

[@honeyyb]

Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s I always wondered why adults were so concerned with appliances catching fire, I know it can still happen now but I never realized how prevalent it was back then.

[@zendonreyland1298]

Because electric shop wasn't required in middle school and high school. That's why we have so many dimbulbs here in the US who have no idea how to wire a wall socket.

[@OutragedPufferfish]

I'm 34 and I'm still worried about appliances catching fire.

[@chelseaaddams5076]

I was raised by my grandparents and I still have a habit of walking around the house and unplugging things before I leave the house... It's not anxiety, it's just how I was taught! lol

[@DragonsREpic]

"Science is never evil except in wrongly used by man" that's some deep shit Toys back then didn't fuck around

[@becca5100]

Ask hitler

[@jameretief8327]

I had mostly " dangerous toys " back then. Good times. Good times. Now we have safe fat sissies.

[@hwwwarrior90]

@@becca5100 ...Ask Robert Oppenheimer

[@SEFSQklOR0VS]

@@jameretief8327 at least we don't identify as fucking Mr. Burns

[@kanyewest2729]

@@SEFSQklOR0VS Rather be a mr burns than a part time he/she

[@KaaneDragonShinobi]

"Two in hospital after attempt to make *liquid oxygen* " What the fuck kinds of equipment were in these chemistry sets

[@Zinkolo]

Lmao

[@janruudschutrups9382]

Uranium for starters. XD

[@aurelie8220]

I don’t know, but I ate some of them. Found my dad’s old chemistry kit in the basement as a kid 🤦‍♀️😂😭😭😭

[@Waff1es]

Not enough equipment to make liquid oxygen that's for sure

[@nargacuga05]

Dr. Waffles ummm, obviously not

[@danrook5757]

Guy is wearing a tie doing brick work, now that’s classy

[@bmay8818]

Reminds me of some old movie where Jimmy Stewart was grilling in the backyard. He was wearing a dress shirt and tie!

[@danrook5757]

B May : greatest generation ever.

[@bmay8818]

@@danrook5757 I don't know about that, but they were pretty well-dressed often.

[@frenchyroastify]

Alas, many carpenters died in the 50's doing the same while using the table saw.

[@bobbofly]

Hopefully it was a Colin Furze approved safety tie.

[@Enyavar1]

What I don't get is why the newspaper texts are censored instead of highlighted.

[@davi.medrade]

I imagine they were going to use the darkened area to re-write the newspaper texts, in modern graphics and/or highlighting the parts being narrated, but just forgot about it.

[@goodiesguy]

@@davi.medrade I think this is an early edit that's been uploaded accidentally, the final edit would've had the text from the papers there.

[@Chaziltasm]

I still can't believe I can watch these amazingly made documentaries, for free, online. It is so fascinating.

[@Griselda_Puppy]

*Right? They're so well done for the most part, high quality productions!*

[@sepez]

@@Griselda_Puppy They didn't make them. They just license them from the company that did.

[@idiotically-everything]

@@sepez it's still free

[@Griselda_Puppy]

@@sepez *Um, well, I never said they actually made them, or just liscenced them, or whatever. I dont believe the other commenter did either. I was just commenting on what good quality they are, and the other person (and I as well) were finding it amazing that they're **_FREE_** for all to watch. Thats it.* 🙂

[@laurahall5218]

I understand now why my English mother in law was so afraid of the gas and electricity in her house. I don't blame her. None of this crap in America. Back when lawyers worked on the side of the angels.

[@lewisdoherty7621]

The flammability of children's clothing was addressed by treating them with flame retardant chemicals, which were later determined to cause health and cancer problems.

[@lewisdoherty7621]

That was poor drafting. I should have said "...cancer and other health problems." @BornToRunBarefoot

[@thhseeking]

Treating children with flame retardant chemicals was never popular :P

[@bethanyhanna9464]

I believe this would be covered in a different era episode. In the 50s, they didn't know that yet.

[@lewisdoherty7621]

Yes. That was in the 1970's. The U. S. government started to mandate more flameproofing of children's clothes in the early part of the 1970's. Then in the latter part of the 1970's there were discoveries of the hazards of some of the treating chemicals and they were banned. I would think it would be similar in Britain, NZ, Aus, Canada, Ireland, Iceland and European countries, since the ideas and study results tend to heard responses.@@bethanyhanna9464

[@ReflectedMiles]

@HEREWARD THE WAKE No need to YELL and the MSG scare was just a hoax based on a letter someone wrote apparently trying to scare people away from Chinese restaurants, blaming the MSG. It has never been shown to be harmful except to rodents with concentrations of the stuff injected into their abdomens. Presumably that is not how normal people have ever used it. Lots of public scares are overblown or completely imaginary because media profits depend heavily on viewership and viewership depends heavily on sensationalism and drama. Just watch the opening of any evening news broadcast on even the most boring of news days. "Breaking news!!" said breathlessly.

[@mikebailey783]

Oof, it's a shame that the pull-quotes were left out of the edit; leaving the dark vignette alone on top of the newspaper clippings!

[@josugambee3701]

Is that why those are there? It's really annoying.

[@mikebailey783]

@@josugambee3701 I believe so; if you watch other episodes from the series, the snippet of text appears in front of the dark shadow, highlighted as normal.

[@salmonjanet]

It's a shame!

[@fucku3460]

Yeah they don't want people to see how the real news used to be written. Proper.

[@klilinoklire4403]

I believe it's a faulty effect - The masking (speaking in static photoshop terms) should create a transition from "transparent" in the centre to "almost intransparently covered in black" at the edges, thus smoothing the edge of the article roughly cropped article. Someone must have forgotten that it should be inverted the other way around, thus turning the mask into a transition with an almost intransparently black centre area.

[@maddie8415]

It doesn't surprise me that those chemistry sets were the first item mentioned. I remember my dad showing me some boxes like that many years ago when he found them at my grandparent's house. He was saying how unbelievable it was that they were sold as a kind of "toy". Also, how wild it was that he was actually supplementing these sets by ordering even more hazardous substances from catalogs...obviously pretending to be an adult. The "experimenter today, scientist tomorrow" did hold true for him...but luck would have been on his side.

[@Switzer1234]

Grandparents' house: More than one grandparent. Grandparent's house: One grandparent.😊

[@MalikaBourne]

Well, my Dad was excited to buy his girls a chemistry set. I'm surprised I didn't blow up and thing.

[@isiso.speenie5994]

You said it ! Posing as an adult to order chemicals ! If you're that smart, You're taking your chances with eyes wide open !

[@richardvoogd705]

I was given a chemistry set as a present. Even with the instruction book, I didn't have a clue.....

[@isiso.speenie5994]

My chemistry set came with a microscope. I wanted to take the chemistry class at the local pharmacy but Dad said I was to young at 10 years old. By the time I could take chem class in high school I was no longer interested because of sex, drugs, and rock and roll ! Never put off your motivated kid until it is to late after the media has a grip on them.

[@Laudanum-gq3bl]

My dad was a firefighter in the 60s-90s, and one of his unbreakable rules was that they NEVER smoked upstairs. And all ashtrays were put into the kitchen sink with a bit of water at the end of the day. not dumped into the trash. It didn’t fix everything but it helped.

[@HadleyCanine]

It's amazing just how effective all the fire prevention work in terms of community outreach, school events, PSAs, etc has been. Anytime I saw someone doing something unsafe with fire, even as far back as a kid in the 90s, someone (often multiple people at once) would immediately speak up and put the Fear of Fiery Death into whoever was being irresponsible. Even the people with zero personal experience with fire would speak up, often being the first to do so, which if you think about it really is incredible and shows just how effective the outreach has been. Not that it stopped any of us from playing from fire, of course, but at least we were safe about it. When one kid told us he found some random spray could be held in your palm while on fire pretty safely, nobody there was willing to be the first to test it. A few people went as far as verifying they knew where the nearest extinguisher were in case his demonstration failed. Even when everyone else wanted to try it, they always started with the tiniest amount of spray. On the other hand I get the impression that if you went around in the 50s and offered to set people's hands on fire after you sprayed something on it, a lot of people would agree on the spot and wouldn't even think to check the label of what's in the spray.

[@poppyfield1619]

My Grandparents emptied their ashtrays in a sand bucket at night

[@kennethhandschuh3306]

rule in our house was they were emptied into a metal can and the can was filled with water then tossed out in the burn barrel every couple of days, NEVER INTO THE DRY TRASH CANS ALL ASHTRAYS WERE PLACED ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER OVERNIGHT.

[@lorimiller4301]

Jack Cassidy, David's Father died from being drunk and passing out with a cigarette. He set the whole place on fire. Extremely sad situation.

[@drydesert8036]

@@lorimiller4301 Thank you for your informative comment. Jack Cassidy's untimely death was a great loss to me and others. Damn cigarettes are a real killer no doubt. Jack's way of comedy was just fine. He brought out smiles and laughter. R.I.P. Jack...

[@AENock]

"Uranium isn't exciting; it doesn't explode or cause puffs of smoke" Oppenheimer: "Hold my apparatus"

[@abcsandoval]

A.E. Good catch! That irony went right past me. "..doesnt cause puff of smoke or explode." hahhaha

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

If you DO see a chunk of uranium giving off smoke, you are in BIG trouble.

[@WitchidWitchid]

Most chemistry sets in those days were not capable of producing an explosion. If they were making liquid oxygen or explosive compounds then they were using things well beyond what was available in the typical children's chemistry set.

[@michaelangel6201]

LMAO!!!!...Yeah, because lmma about to blow some shyt up.😂😂😂

[@anthon7518]

If There's Was uranium They couldve Fited Some Explosives in there to Top it off.

[@bethfurry7461]

I grew up in the 50’s and had two older brothers and a lot of these toys and products. All my life I have been annoyed by my “over-protective” mother. She seemed to have a sense of the danger about many of the items portrayed here. I’m thinking now she probably saved us from injury or death. My mom had only a high school education, but she was one smart cookie.

[@anabaird3835]

High education/I.Q. level...very different than WISDOM. What a MASSIVE to have had such a mom! (Mine too🤗).

[@Gail1Marie]

​@@anabaird3835 I came across my father's HS report cards (graduated 1933) and can attest that he took subjects that today would be taught at a community (2-year) college. Back then, the vast majority of students ended their education at twelfth grade (or earlier). His older sisters left school in ninth grade to go to work to help support the family; only the later-born children finished high school.

[@alienvomitsex]

@@Gail1Marie Remember that the 1933 body of knowledge was still small and simpler to grasp, except for math, of course.

[@Gail1Marie]

@@alienvomitsex You'd think that, wouldn't you? But the classes he took were more advanced than those offered in high school today (how many high schools offer Latin?) As I recall (I don't have his report card in front of me), he also took philosophy and blacksmithing! Since most students' education ended at high school, I think classes covered what might be found in the first two years of college. It was actually more advanced, not simpler.

[@charleslewisanthony6471]

Now go apologize for giving her a hard time.💯

[@campmerricat]

This is a great video that I’ve come back to several times but I never understand why whoever edited this decided to blackout all of the newspaper clippings. Why even include them at all if you’re just going to black them out one second later?

[@spoiler9112]

Most of what is blacked out is being read.

[@karenwilliams4152]

Indeed, it is very irritating!! I may not even finish the video.

[@theknifedude1881]

Maybe if shown they would have to pay or acknowledge someone/something.

[@ES11777]

Video editor’s first day on the job? It would look nice if the black smoke effect was more transparent, but someone clearly messed up here.

[@EmSArcade]

I'm late to the party on replying, but it was definitely an editing mistake! My guess is there was text meant to appear on the screen over the black effect that somehow got removed before export (likely a whole layer was disabled), and they didn't notice before it was uploaded. Shame as adding all that text was probably quite a chore and the end result would have looked great! The editor is likely kicking themselves for letting this video get uploaded in its unfinished state (I know I would be, in fact it happened to me once or twice in the beginning of my editing career lol!)

[@kc3014]

🛑Time Stamps🛑 what she talks about and when! 3:02 - 11:10 - Kids chemistry kits 11:11 - 19:48 - Plastics (flammable clothing/furniture) 19:49 - 21:50 - T.V sets ~ 21:51 - 30:40 - D.I.Y house building (knocking down walls, enamelling a bath, plumbing, table lamps etc) 25:51 - 26:49 - continuation⬆️ ladder dangers 26:50 - 30:40 toxic adhesives (asbestos) and power tools (electric drills) and electric wiring. ~ 30:41 - 40:56 - food poisoning (salmonella and germs on hands.) 40:57 - 50:29 - air pollution and the dangers of gas boilers in bathrooms 50:30 - 57:31 electric item dangers (vacuum cleaners, gas cooker, fridges and washers, kitchen appliances)

[@solidsperzz6380]

Thank you that's very helpful!

[@ari3lz3pp3lin]

Wow. Thanks.

[@CorrineMcClendon]

People like you are true heroes

[@alkatraz706]

Thx.. you gonna go far kid!

[@smolbeen3723]

🙄

[@klasina55]

It is a bloody miracle that I survived , being born in the fifties. I remember many of the warnings about furniture, nylon pyjama's and the chemistry boxes

[@CassidyStarke]

Did you have a chemistry set yourself?

[@popzstudios6358]

Meth labs: *Levels entire apartment buildings* 1950's kids with chemistry sets: Hold my asbestos and uranium 238

[@iamjackalope]

Those chemistry sets where the inspiration for many a meth cook. Not even joking.

[@GenePoolChlorinator]

*hold my beaker.

[@doryy9360]

Hold my uranium Would have been so much better

[@ajfink12]

I was born in 1957 and I had one of those 'dangerous' chemistry sets. That got me interested in the sciences. It was invaluable at teaching me to be careful around chemicals and things that I didn't understand. I wasn't allowed to play with it alone. My dad made us take appropriate precautions. That was how it was with all of my friends when it came to doing adult things. When I mowed the lawn at 10 years old, he was nearby. When we launched model rockets, there was an adult present. Responsible parents didn't allow their children to put themselves in danger. Where were the parents when these children got hurt? The pendulum swung the other direction with overkill.

[@berneyvonk1]

I had a chemistry set but no one looked over my shoulder. I guess I was lucky.

[@SuperDave-vj9en]

I had one of those chemistry sets and I went on to make more explosives than most people can only dream about. It started my career in chemistry which I majored in and love to this day.

[@tanikokishimoto1604]

I didn't get a chemistry set, but grew up interested in sciences anyway. Perhaps I didn't even know about them at that time, being a girl? But my brother never had one, either. Maybe Dad, a chemistry major himself, simply just already knew better than to expose his children to these kits??

[@ajfink12]

Responsible parents give their children the tools that they need to assess situations for safety. Necessary ingredients are time, love, patience, understanding, expectations, consequences, boundaries, teach them the skills they'll need in real life, and give them enough leash to practice those skills on their own. Parents should teach children to ask questions & encourage original thought based on their own observations and investigations. The one thing that we should not do is shield them from exposure.​@@tanikokishimoto1604

[@newtpollution]

I got salmonella when I was 23 and it was one of the most miserable experiences of my life. The idea that people were suffering from that in droves because no one was washing their hands is madness.

[@stephaniecruzado384]

Are you ok

[@lorimiller4301]

I got it from not washing lettuce. It was horrible. Luckily in the basement was a very small bathroom with the sink directly across from the toilet. I really appreciated that design at the time. I was 33 and in fairly good health. I suffered severely for a good 4 days straight. Please wash your lettuce even if it says that it's washed already.

[@kristopherguilbault5428]

@@lorimiller4301 look at it this way.."Your troubles were BEHIND you" lol my elderly Grandfather used to say that to me all the time when we had "bathroom" issues . Or the runs lol. Your troubles are behind ya ;)

[@bluenosemassmedia2996]

I think I went to high school with Sal Monella

[@Merlin3189]

I wonder how old you are? If you are less than 60, it was your own fault: everyone knew about hygiene by the 70's. I know, cuz I was there.

[@bigred3694]

"the post war home is the most dangerous place you could be" people coming home from the war must have been tickled

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

Imagine getting a PTSD flashback because juniors Christmas gift starts exploding and burning people

[@fresherturtle1154]

@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero the way you detailed that made me snicker

[@lyndarlehane582]

This ludicrous statement sets the tone of the video. Mostly hysterical nonsense.

[@jimmyduncan7650]

Slap and tickle even.

[@charliemartin-k7m]

I love how they call them the most dangerous and yet they still stand and outlast most new houses.

[@Angie-GoneSoon]

Kids like me, who's parents couldn't afford that stuff, were luckier than we'll ever know.

[@merceduslong4486]

Yeah I had metal Tonka trucks. It's a wonder I didn't end up needing a tetnus ( spelling could be wrong) shot. But they lasted till I outgrew them. By then they were made of plastic

[@lexivigil787]

Yes u were

[@potat099]

@@merceduslong4486 *tetanus

[@merceduslong4486]

@@potat099 Lmao thank you☺☺

[@Nemamka]

That's what I was thinking. Even now it's always beneficial to just wait to buy some new innovation until, well, the "bug fixes" are done.

[@billybarnes9208]

I remember my grandfather unplugged stuff before going to bed. Even to the TV back in the 70s. May God bless all!

[@ubeuonly]

Belief in a silly Sky fairy should have left you in the 1950s as well

[@ltraina3353]

My husband was born in 1957 and had several hand-me-down chemistry sets from his dad or uncle. They all had vials of mercury and his favorite thing to do was empty them all out into a small bowl and play with it, rolling it around in his hands, pouring it over other toys, etc. I’m surprised he didn’t seriously poison himself! Whenever he says something dumb or does something crazy, I always say it must be the Mercury has gotten to his brain!

[@WonderfulWorldofAwesomeness]

My mom talks about playing with balls of Mercury also

[@annwithaplan9766]

Loraine A - I was born that year, too. I remember when a thermometer broke and I let the little mercury balls roll around in my hand. I recently learned that something needs to be added to it in order for it to actually get into your skin.

[@freedomwatches2454]

Eating some mercury is fun too..🥴

[@richardbonfiglio1765]

@@annwithaplan9766 Liquid Mercury has such a high surface tension it tends to stay as it appears and doesn't poison Children as one might think. On the other hand, heat it up and create Mercury Vapor your lungs will die, and so will you!

[@richardbonfiglio1765]

@@freedomwatches2454 Down at the morgue, they got characters who sneak around and harvest gold teeth and Silver Fillings from the dead. To get the silver separated from the amalgam they heat it up to melt the silver out. This vaporizes the Mercury and the fumes turn delicate lung tissue into tough rubber. I thought that was pretty interesting.

[@aleatorias9550]

-Here’s a chemistry kit with uranium!! -I’m not going to buy that -you’re right it’s probably too dan... -It doesn’t even explode or smoke what’s the fun in that?

[@nanami_akumudeadchannel7115]

-..I beg your pardon?

[@itsthequenchiest5072]

@@nanami_akumudeadchannel7115 _keep b e g g i n g_

[@snailsaredumb9412]

@@nanami_akumudeadchannel7115 if it can't kill me, it won't thrill me

[@nanami_akumudeadchannel7115]

-If you say so Lisawati Goh...

[@SJ-ni6iy]

I love how they talk about the dangers of the children’s chemistry set and just when you think it can’t get crazier they introduce the Americans set. We Americans always have to be bigger and better to our own detriment 🤣

[@somethingreal5042]

Try not to die: house edition

[@Positivemotivation662]

Lmfaoooo I'm GOING TO HELL

[@user-neo71665]

Only if I can play as Hugh Laurie

[@lauracook8203]

I was a kid in the 60s and we had some pretty dangerous playthings. I had an E-Z bake oven that had a light bulb so hot that it baked little cakes. Creepy Crawlers were little bugs that we made by pouring 'goop' into a metal mold set into an implement that was plugged in and heated up hot enough to turn the 'goop' into rubber. Oh, and Click Clacks. Those were brightly colored golfball sized solid plexiglass type orbs. There was one on each end of a 10 inch string with a plastic ring in the middle. You held it by the ring and flapped it so the 2 balls clacked together. A lot of heads got whacked by this toy.

[@PuffKitty]

Sounds just like my childhood 🤗

[@bonniehowell9206]

I'm an 80's kid and surprised how long the Creept Crawler maker stuck around. I had one growing up and it was a family/supervised activity "making bugs" because my mom realized how dangerous the thing was and worried we would get burned.

[@kross199]

@@PuffKitty we had all the same "toys" back in the day too, LOL!

[@usa91787]

Wasn't it great!!!! Don't forget wood burning sets! Had one when I was 7. That was fun!

[@lauracook8203]

@@usa91787 and chemistry sets! And no creepy parents following us around all day. A "playdate" in summer was basically running outside after breakfast and seeing who all we could rustle up. Then lunch, back outside on bikes, at the pool or lake, dinner, then back out until the lightening bugs came out. We played with the danger toys on rainy days. It really was an awesome childhood back then. And we're still here.

[@CujoSmileDog]

Imagine surviving the war, only to pass away from your own house.

[@tubularfrog]

Almost poetic. Your house as a big coffin.

[@jamespfitz]

That's worse than...a heart attack? Car accident? Diabetes? Not one breath is guaranteed.

[@Nesterou]

*BOOM* a child.

[@UrielX1212]

This video is a giant hyperbole. The chance of anyone deing from asbestos in there house or a tiny bit of radiation from uranium in a chemistry set is virtually nil.

[@101Volts]

It was worse when the Pandemic of 1918 - 1919 showed up, right after World War I.

[@illailla5813]

When I was a kid in the 90s, I remember sometimes when I picked out pajamas, they would say “not flammable “

[@cheesethekoala8756]

illa illa Omg I remember that in the 2000s and I always wondered and laughed it off. Oh the reality

[@CarynCode]

I believe that they still do

[@mysticallyintense]

They still do.

[@PoseurGoth]

It was a huge problem with baby products in the past as well. They used to be highly flammable, and it took a while for regulations to fix it.

[@TerryB751]

I'm 65 now but when I was 10 or so, I had a chemistry set. This was in the U.S. at the time. The burner operated with Sterno Canned Heat which was a flammable gel. Luckily, I didn't have any injuries. My cousin, did suffer some burns about the same time with his set and I believe they were serious.

[@wayneperry7077]

I love the styles, furniture and automobiles from the 1950's. Omitting the deadly appliances, of course.

[@IvanKosta-dv5mw]

Yes ! The 50’s designs were cool and sleek, but then everything got klutzy and boxy. The space ship designs went from smooth and curvy (as in Star Trek) to angular and cluttered in later Sci-fi, designs also reflected in auto making. Home design also lost it’s innovative quality.😒

[@suemoenius5619]

And I feel I've been running away from these hideous (to me) colors and styles my whole life! 😂. The only thing I can remember as cool was my grandpa's ash tray, which was on a post about 30 inches tall, and had a lighter and space for a pipe and supplies in a "bowl"in the middle. Finally, a grand handle to pick it up and move to another chair. Somewhat dark wood column, brass feet and handle, and amber glass for the ash tray. It went away once I discovered where the lighter lived-

[@DraperStan23]

Forget calling the ambulance, you must SUMMON it

[@Claubuza]

With all these accidents there's plenty of blood available for the summoning ritual.

[@troyevitt2437]

A pentagram with 5 little Match Box/Hot Wheels ambulances...or the OUIJA planchete just keeps going over 9-1-1?

[@kennashan]

@@troyevitt2437 Accio Ambulance!!!!

[@AugustTheStag]

It means the same thing.

[@troyevitt2437]

@@AugustTheStag No, it's not. "Calling" an ambulance uses a phone. "Summoning" requires a sum-total of human energy and if Saturn in is Virgo, the congregants must be sky-clad.

[@kristenblount8422]

When we were getting my late grandmother's house ready to sell, we were delighted to find hardwood floors under the carpet & I mean under ALL of the carpet. The entire house (except for the kitchen and bathrooms) had gorgeous hardwood floors. They had been protected for decades under all that carpet padding. It made the value of the house go way up. My mom wanted to gut the 50s kitchen too but I convinced her to leave it. I knew someone would love that mid-century modern look. The people that bought the house said they weren't going to change a thing.

[@kristenblount8422]

@@brittanyclark7484 One of the bathrooms had a pink tub, toilet & sink. That's about as far from neutral as you can get 😉

[@EdGiacobbe-n4i]

yes, up until about 1975, it was typical to install 1/2" plywood subfloor, then run the 3/4" hardwood flooring perpendicular to the joists, which added strength to the floor. My dad was a building contractor and i asked him one day why do they install hardwood floors then cover it up with carpeting.. Was not long after that they went to 3/4" plywood and then you can put whatever flooring you wanted on top. IF you were installing a 1/4" vinyl floor, or tile, in the kitchen/baths, you would add a layer of 1/2" to bring up those floors to teh level of the carpeting (3/4")

[@mikepez]

This is why I live naked in the middle of an empty field.

[@blimjones]

😂😂😂😂😂 WTF? dude

[@ahmedessa1364]

good for you

[@fxjh21]

😂 😂 Yo if its true it'd actually lit

[@garyfrancis6193]

You too?

[@snelson2418]

Completely chemtrail exposure!

[@XenusMama]

I loved the tiny cake mixes , but hated the oven. My mother let me use the big oven ( unattended!!) when I was 4. I was the last of 8…. My parents weren’t very concerned by the time I showed up. My older (12 years) sister #3 wasn’t even allowed to walk down stairs by herself until she was 6. 40’s kids were apparently more precious than late 50’s kids.

[@The_A_Cast]

What makes me sad is watching genuine 1950s videos of these types of houses all over KZbin and how happy everyone looks in them, not knowing the dangers that awaited them.

[@hannahbg1852]

@@timmyotoole7312 Exactly. Not all houses were dangerous.

[@Ojja78]

The birth of advertising.

[@unknownperson3691]

Future generations will view exploding mobile phones as a threat. It just wasn’t significant enough.

[@penzorphallos3199]

The kids born in the 50s now get sucker punched from the back by 'youths' while grocery shopping, just for fun and worldstar clout. I guess the dangers and threats change uh

[@traekas7228]

Ah, yes! The Happy facade of the Upper/Middle/Lower Class American Families, circa 1950s/1960s.

[@jackfrost2146]

I always hate it when my tie gets caught under a brick that I'm laying!

[@mhrgall]

-----or a chick that you're laying! hahaha!!

[@zacharywood9416]

@@mhrgall haha sex, am I right?

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

I saw dick get's caught under brick, not sure how that happened.

[@maryjoyspohrer256]

This is where bow ties come in luv!

[@mandc20022]

Then boy are you in luck, I have just the product for you!

[@Ray.Norrish]

Ah! The 1950s, when builders wore a suit and tie to work and you immediately became 45 as soon as you were 21.

[@masher3618]

Well, no trainers and jogging pants.

[@mhrgall]

you basically just described the character William D Foster from Falling Down, lol

[@71050505]

And you could smoke a cigarette while you get operated on.

[@spacechimp3199]

I wish that were still the case

[@techrvl9406]

@@71050505 With the medicine of those days, you'd need it.

[@matthewkaler823]

This video reminds me of when my college physics professor once held a gieger counter to an orange dinner plate from the 50s it went off registering radiation. Mineral that made the orange color was radioactive. Progress!!

[@Colonel_Obvious]

Orange or red Fiesta dinnerware had uranium oxide in the glaze. Some other colors had it at lower levels.

[@takohamoolsen2432]

My elderly neighbour was a young nurse in London during the pea-souper fog. She remembers joining hands with 5 other nurses in a long line with one of the doctors holding a lantern in front and them following him to the hospital. Back then, they still had their WW2 gas masks, so they were worn going to the hospital in the early morning. She also said the hospital standards for nurses were strict - white uniforms, white stockings, black shoes and starched nurses' caps. Everything had to be perfect and Matron would be there every morning to inspect them before work. Even now at 88, my neighbour has her clothes perfectly ironed and shoes cleaned and shined.

[@nibornnyw3185]

My mother was a nurse in the 70s. No lipstick, earrings, or bright fingernail polish. No bracelets, and only wedding ring. Absolutely no perfume.

[@krmccarrell]

How fascinating!! Thank you for sharing!!

[@greengreen4616]

@@nibornnyw3185 I was recently a patient overnight in a hospital. One of the nurses came on shift and she had a lot of some type of scent on (it was not exactly perfume but didn't smell like commercial deodorant either?). It immediately made me nauseous in my post op state, so I understand that rule completely!

[@nanabluect1]

The modern feminist loves to make the claim that women were not allowed to have careers until the rise of feminism saved us all. For generations before feminism, women did work if they wanted to or had to. Nursing is one of the hardest professions and it has always been primarily female led positions. Previous to the rise of feminism there was a high code that nurses had to obey... in the way they dressed and their actions. Today... these standards are almost inexistent. Nurses have multiple piercings, their hands are often filled with rings and many wear hideous perfumes. Uniforms are often wrinkled because ironing is a thing from the past and shoes are often scuffed and dirty. Sneakers are the most common footwear and there is no longer a uniform dress-code in most hospitals. How can anyone believe that women have come a long way, as the commercials love to say. Decades ago women were all well dressed, neat and clean... regardless of income. Today most women look as if they only comb their hair once a week. It really is a shame.

[@yoursafeplace8476]

@@nanabluect1 Thankfully your mindset is a dying breed and will be forgotten in time unless it's brought up in conversation about how ridiculous the world was at some points. Women did work but they were limited in their options, they were also limited in their rights. We have much more advancement to make as a species, let's not regress when there's much more room for progress. I'm not a feminist btw, not even close, I'm actually a mens rights advocate, there's plenty of people out there fighting for women and their causes.

[@ZepG]

Every time I started reading the newspaper article a black cloud of doom appeared out of nowhere. Why would you do that?

[@fedos]

To emphasize the deadliness?

[@alzychoze6591]

Yes, probably to shield from lawsuits? Maybe?

[@fedos]

@@alzychoze6591 In other episodes, they highlight the text being read.

[@MariaSanchez-zf9cs]

@@alzychoze6591 maybe relatives of this family are still alive, and could sue if their names were used without consent.

[@GenePoolChlorinator]

It's to simulate that everything was on fire- they're char marks.

[@felixuchies4688]

War vet: *Gets home from war* TV: The post war home is the most dangerous place you can be

[@redforest9269]

"Alright, I'll invite that Nazi across the street." *German neighbor waves hello* *Vet waves back* "And while he's waiting, I'll sneak out a window and wait for him to die!"

[@rickwrites2612]

@Newfriend wow, way to stereotype 50% of people on earth because of a handful.

[@ataarono]

@@rickwrites2612 WRONG its only 48.9% of the people on earth. check your facts

[@mcintosh1346]

@Newfriend 🤗👍

[@ataarono]

@@ivyblack21 Woah slow down there buddy, that number doesn't jump as dramatically as your distaste of pedantic people. a difference of over one percent in such a large sample size is not down to randomness like you wish to imply.

[@alrightyru]

My mom's story was leaving England in 1946 and emigrating to New Zealand Auckland where they at first lived on the beach. So by 1950s mom was running around barefoot surfing and sailing. Carefree of the toils of London left behind and their gadgets for better living. Her dad did make things by hand & we still have his art here today. I'm a '67 special and had to hear about all the dangers to household items, now I know where it's from!

[@JOHNSMITH-if9jr]

?? mom i thought in New Zealand Auckland you say mum

[@jordannik7328]

How about old fridges closing on kids . Trapping them in the fridge

[@Tubularvalleydude]

That happened to my neighbour in 1961. He was completely blue when they found him.

[@ixionn563]

@@Tubularvalleydude Happened to my brother's cat, luckily he went to get something out of the fridge and found his cat freezing his ass off.

[@iamjackalope]

Yea that was a problem as I remember. Washers and dryers too. The original washing machines from way back in the day where really dangerous because all of the mechanical parts that moved where out in the open and didn't have guards to keep you safe. If you got your hand or arm caught up in the laundry in the machine while using it it could rip your arm off. But no matter how dangerous they where it was still better then beating your cloths against a rock in the yard or taking them down to the rivers edge.

[@jaspalmer1730]

@Bethlehem Eisenhour great childproofing though!

[@bonniehowell4259]

Yep. Reminds me of that South Park episode where Cartmen hid Butters in an old fridge at the dump in a part of his plan to go to Casa Bonita.

[@darkfoxfurre]

Dealing with caustic and flammable chemicals. Puts on goggles. Doesn't wear labcoat or gloves, or use a fume hood. 10/10 safety.

[@morgie4378]

I was like wait, just the goggles though???!!

[@SDChick]

Yes. I’m a laboratory technician. Big safety fail there.

[@miladeg4161]

you don't wear nitril gloves around flammable substances because if they catch fire it'll be really bad

[@darkfoxfurre]

Well, you're right to the effect that you wouldn't wear nitrile gloves. You'd wear flame retardant gloves when working with flammable substances.

[@newmarketdispatch4830]

asbestos gloves

[@piplup0120]

this really makes me appreciate all the "common knowledge" we take for granted nowadays- e.g. don't stick knives in sockets, always wash your hands before cooking, keep electric wires away from water, etc.

[@texasktea]

Your picture n name is cute!

[@Coasterdude02149]

I came damn near close to electrocuting myself as a child when I took one of my mothers hair pins, was going to stick one prong in each slot of the power point by the sofa. She caught me just in time 😂

[@swcooper]

@@Coasterdude02149 Would have just as likely blown the fuse as harmed you.

[@martinmacphee3262]

electrical injuries and deaths continued into the 60's and 70's. The solution was the now ubiquitous ground fault circuit interrupter (GFI, and other nomenclatures in various countries). This industrial device was first 'miniaturized' and then turned into a mass produced product that in combination with the 'circuit breaker' replaced fuses in modern homes. It was developed by my Father at FPE in Toronto, and then widely spread around the world. He also made the very first portable GFI unit, which we used at our house for years to make our corded electric lawn mower and hedge trimmer safe from ground fault accidents, years before anyone else could do so! This was further reduced in size until it could fit inside a wall socket, or the power cord of things like hair dryers and extension cords. he was inspired to begin trying to solve these problems by the near electrocution of one of our neighbors who lived across the street in Montreal. When he was in Hospice care, half a century later, he took great satisfaction knowing he was responsible for saving untold millions of lives around the world, and pointed out to the nurses and doctors that the only reason they could safely hook him up to the various electrical devices so ubiquitous in hospitals today, was his own inventions, tucked tidily away from view, silently standing guard over his life, just like everyone else's.

[@Tsch6373]

Greatly appreciate what your father has done in creating the GFCI that has been saving the lives of countless people over the past, what, 50 years? Thank you for sharing this.

[@sophisticatedPJs]

"The post WW2 home is the most dangerous place to live" Victorian era homes: I beg to differ

[@missmelodies52]

Yeah the lead and arsenic in everything is hard to beat

[@diceroll2843]

@@missmelodies52 lead and arsonic where posh because you could do things like kill cockroaches and paint the walls which was still common in the 50s but in the 70s some jealous parents blamed the neighbors because their kids ate paint.

[@Rigiroony]

Tudar homes be offended

[@diceroll2843]

@@Rigiroony Tudor homes don't have internet because they are located in rural England unless they have satellite but that would be pretty expensive for the hippies living in a Tudor homes.

[@piercehawke8021]

Not sure if Dr L was behind the KZbin about poorly designed stairs, it was a epithany for me. I 'assumed' that what's now basic common sense for said steps had been a thing for maybe 1,000 years, NOT 150, as in ca 1870

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

After watching this, I'm beginning to understand why most toy collectors tend to focus on toys primarily released from the 1960's and up and tend to ignore the vast majority of PRE-1960's toys.

[@j_c_93]

Why? The only toy they mentioned was chemistry sets.

[@Kipperlab]

@@j_c_93 The pre-60´s toys had lead on its paint which is dangerous to even touch them as paint cracks and falls on your fingers when the toy is touched or handled. The plushes also had dangerous products to keep leather soft and on its place for a long time in daily playing

[@jimmyduncan7650]

Sad because the 1940 "Box-O-Glass" was quite sparkly.

[@lesjones7019]

Where is batman and Robin lmao.

[@sfcmp7005]

@@jimmyduncan7650 Don't forget Irwin Mainway's Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk, with 2 real switchblades at the push of a button. Oh and I almost forgot, the Bag O' Nails, and the Bag O' Vipers.

[@andrewvernon4664]

This makes me wonder what potentially dangerous things may be in our homes nowadays that we don't yet know are dangerous. *edited for minor grammar mistake

[@kevinatspeed]

There are tons. First of all....there is the computer. It can make you a victim of thieves and more. Then there are things like the Amazon Alexa...which can tell on you and you can lose your freedom. Then there are wireless security cameras which those looking to do you harm can acually monitor. Your cellphone, which stuides have shown if were tested as you actually use it...does emit more radiation than is acceptable (not all cell phones do...but most do). Next....consider your cleaning products. Mix anything with ammonia with anything containing bleach and now you have a deadly gas. Next.....one of the most amazing products which we all have access to but hardly anyone usese it for what it can truly do. Lye....drain cleaner.....caustic soda.....8 pounds of it disolves not just a clog in your pipes...but will dissolve a human body, bones and all. You can literally get away with disposing of someone.....down the drain. Yet look at how many people go to prison every year when the solution to their problem is at Target..or Walmart..or Home Depot around the corner.

[@ari3lz3pp3lin]

In California many homes (apartments for rent) have big mold issues, toxic mold growing in the walls and no one does anything because the poor that live there can't afford to fight the wealthy owners in court. Same goes for old unsafe gas stoves. I'm sure there are other things as well.

[@devdawg22]

Well with the amount of class action lawsuit commercials,I'm gonna say ALOT

[@qajalia]

@@kevinatspeed Yes, unfortunately, our laptops, & other devices, are able to be easily stolen, which is why people should try placing setting trackers on them. Devices usually have a set of numbers on them, you could write them down for your insurance company if they cover stolen items. The Amazon Alexa is so creepy, but I wouldn't just buy it. I hate the idea of being spied on, but these liberal big companies aren't doing anything to change their violation of our rights. Again, I wouldn't buy a wireless camera, there's other ways to protect yourself. Cell phones don't emit ionising radiation, the type of radiation that can give you cancer. A Swedish study concluded that. Although that's that, in this study, mobile phone users were 30% more likely to develop gliomas. Those who used phones for 25 years or more were 200% more likely. These effects are enormous, although they are still small in absolute terms. The chance of developing a brain tumor of this type every year is about 3 in 100,000. Yeah, I agree, it's crazy about the basic properties can harm anyone, but you can't do much about it. If you ban it, people are going to find a way to get them, just like guns or cigarettes.

[@BallistaBomber]

Well most homes in the us still have asbestos...

[@elainebmack]

My parents were very much safety conscious people. As kids in the 1960's, we were instructed to look for the "UL" insignia of Underwriters Laboratories on all prospective gadgets before bringing them into our home. Safety Glass was in automobiles, and the magazine "Consumer Reports" laid on our coffee table and kitchen counter along with Life, Look, and Ebony magazines. I am really grateful to my parents for instilling safety awareness into all of us kids. They were born and reared in during the Great Depression, yet they had respect and awareness that a lot of other people did not have.

[@youknowme8578]

One can buy those stickers, most of Chinese products have them on the cord. Yet.. I wouldn't believe in it now a days.

[@saryahfish]

My parents always used to make us unplug the tv. Now I get why

[@julienelson6506]

I was thinking of the 3 foot rule. We thought it was for our eyes, but it sounds dangerous if you were close

[@themoongoddess1190]

@@julienelson6506 Hey, that does make sense now that I think about it.

[@esppupsnkits4560]

Conserving electricity and preserving your existence

[@andreahl3494]

They also made us turn it off durong storms or when there are thunders

[@dustintroxel6044]

Now that you mention it.. My folks used to do that too, but that was in the nineties. The TV we had would sometimes spontaneously turn itself back on for no reason other than it being an old brick that was just better off unplugged when you were done watching. I look at our flat screen now and think, damn, that feels like such a long time ago...

[@AgathaDrinksTea]

After having watched all these “hidden killers of the (insert era here) home” videos, I’m astonished humans are still on this planet tbh...

[@dunxy]

Was actually a good thing, kill the morons that we now protect!

[@CurmudgeonExtraordinaire]

I'm an old fart and I would have to say that based on my vast experience, DARWIN SLEEPS ON THE JOB...

[@ahstiasummers5583]

I like to think maybe 1-5 people realized the dangers and found working solutions, then used word of mouth to spread the safety knowledge. To friends, family, and coworkers who would then go on to share it with others.

[@rclrd1]

I never realized as a I lived through the 1950s that I was in such deadly danger!! 😳 😱

[@desertweasel6965]

I was nearly killed by a chemistry set that used to be sold back in the 70's and early 80s. These chemistry sets were the real deal. They had dozens of real laboratory chemicals and a book came with the set that gives you a few experiments to try. The experiment that almost killed me was called Green Nerve Gas. You mix about 3 chemicals in with a bowl of bleach and ammonia. When I added the last chemical, it began to fizz. My friends all started choking and ran out of the room. However, I could not smell the chemical, so I stuck my face down close to the bowl and smelled. I immediately stopped breathing. It was absolutely horrifying.

[@noprofile]

im so sorry this happened to you but I started imagining the scenario playing out and couldn’t help laughing thinking abt your mates running off and you just sitting there with your face down to the bowl plopping to one side😭

[@CoeurD_Amaris22]

Wow, thats crazy. Glad you're still here!

[@desertweasel6965]

@@noprofile no i actually panicked and ran through the house. It was like breathing through a coffee stirrer. My next door neighbor was an old woman that was a nurse. She put my in front of an oxygen tank and the breathing was slowly coming back. She even had activated charcoal she made me drink. I think she saved my life.

[@meowjakk]

@@desertweasel6965 imagine if she wasnt there.....that wouldnt be a good thing

[@zwozoa5630]

@@desertweasel6965 that sounds terrifying. My chemistry teacher in school almost suffocated from the gases released in his experiment. He did the same thing as you, he tried smelling the chemical but obviously there was no oxygen. What a guy.

[@patriciaschuster1371]

I had a series of these kinds of kits in the early 60's as well. I learned how to make invisible ink....was afraid of the stuff, yet fascinated at the same time.

[@johncase1353]

Science kits back in the 50's - How to make explosives. Science kits today - How to make slime and the joy of salt.

[@amberdeyuliis7886]

Except the 50's kits were actually good

[@dave8599]

many of these chemistry sets had very small quantities of the chemicals. pretty safe, safer than fire crackers, or riding a bike. now a recall a friends brother decided to make a flame thrower with a Windex bottle filled with gasoline, and a Bic lighter. He caught fire, no dangerous chemistry set needed.

[@shaulgrantz9077]

They make it sound a lot worse than it was. I received a chemistry set for a (maybe 10th) birthday. There were a lot of interesting experiments and it engendered a lifelong interest in science.

[@MrEh5]

@@shaulgrantz9077 i loved my chemistry set. Stuff sold today is a joke.

[@keithrempp1081]

It would be neat to mix the sets up, exploding slime going everywhere and then my wife coming home and me sleeping on the couch for a week.

[@Tacosunfolded]

Why black out half of every newspaper clipping?!

[@andrewlane4854]

Bugs the hell out of me. Love this series but the black blobs are supposed to contain quotes

[@Lanayrulian]

I don't think it's for copyright reasons, because around 41:40, it pops up while she's stating a quote over just another random bathroom photo.

[@inchw0rm]

i was wondering that too but then i watched another of these videos and it seems like the black blobs shouldve been white with black text on them showing the quotes , pretty big editing error lol

[@nikolinastoykova5439]

I know right! I was wondering the same. They put it over the quote and to me it seems that they are covering it up because it doesnt 100% match what they are reading, and it's on every video of their that I've seen, not a mistake imo

[@inchw0rm]

@@nikolinastoykova5439 I don't remember which video it was but I definitely saw one that had instead of a black blob it was white and with the quote they were reading on it, what confuses me most about the ones like this is that it's slightly transparent which shows it was done in the original editing and idk why they wouldn't do the same as the other video I saw ,, it wouldn't make much sense to choose this since it doesn't serve enough purpose to leave it in when it looks that bad but who knows lol

[@aliciab8890]

Me a week ago: I love the style of the 50’s! I’d love to have a house full of things and clothes from that era! Me after watching this: ya know maybe modern things that LOOK like that would be nice instead

[@Ranc1d_G0th]

@@THETalesFromTheAbyss calm down, there bud

[@THETalesFromTheAbyss]

@@Ranc1d_G0th I can't. I need it badly

[@Ranc1d_G0th]

@@THETalesFromTheAbyss lol well i'm not sure youtube is the best place to get that

[@THETalesFromTheAbyss]

@@Ranc1d_G0th no no this is fine

[@Ranc1d_G0th]

@@THETalesFromTheAbyss aight, you sure? Just sayin, you might not have much luck here, my guy.

[@DreamingCatStudio]

I had a chemistry set, and can still smell whatever the white powder was. No explosions though. My dad taught me-a girl-how to make a rubber band gun, and we mixed up goo to “bake” it in insect-shaped molds in a low heat oven. The stuff smelled bad! My dad also made lead soldiers and let us kids play with mercury with our bare hands.

[@joycebrewer4150]

When I broke a fever thermometer, I was allowed to play with the beads of liquid mercury. No long, but bare hands pushing the beads around.

[@xminusone1]

We also played with Mercury with our hands. It was a more innocent time. When everything wasn't dangerous and forbidden.

[@amg9163]

As long as you washed your hands with Comet after playing with mercury, you should've been ok! 😆 My brother has lice in the late 60s and my mom put gasoline on his scalp, before washing him 😳 No wonder he turned out to be a jerk. 😁

[@joycebrewer4150]

@@amg9163I think I used Lava 🧼 to wash after mercury play. We had some for dad to use getting heavy machine grease off his hands before eating.

[@melissalcd]

My friends dad gave us a huge bottle of mercury to -lat with. We would dump it on the floor and slap it to make little balls fly everywhere

[@TheRetroGuy2000]

I feel like the black spots added to the newspaper articles were supposed to be highlights, not shadows. It's like the editor didn't know how to use the tools.

[@easeyll]

The Retro Guy yes. Something went wrong there!

[@davidthedictator]

If you watch any other videos from this channel text appears on those black spots. I'm pretty sure it was just an editing mistake.

[@THETalesFromTheAbyss]

@@easeyll spit on me

[@nyuchu]

yea its highly irritating because someone clearly didnt proof the editing

[@nyuchu]

@@THETalesFromTheAbyss whats Millie gonna say

[@solidsperzz6380]

So basically everything was on fire Great

[@solidsperzz6380]

@evakatrina a How could we ever forget about the poisonings~

[@mackereltabbie]

Well not the asbestos.

[@solidsperzz6380]

@@mackereltabbie that was probably the only good thing about asbestos xD

[@Sparkle8205]

That was pretty much the 50s though so.... yeah.

[@jeaniciasparkles]

People in the 50’s: *everything is on fire* *tHiS iS FiNe*

[@CraigChristopherSEI]

Great video. But, please skip the "charred paper" effect. I would love to read the articles myself.

[@isaacbailey3681]

From what I can tell there was supposed to be white text over that in turn, and the lack of text is an editing mistake.

[@iamjackalope]

I thought that myself.

[@seaturtlepoppy7679]

The black got added. I remember watching this and being able to read along a few months ago.

[@winning3329]

Probably copy right's issues?

[@seaturtlepoppy7679]

Miss Kitty - that’s what I was thinking but apparently it’s probably just an editing mistake, according to other comments.

[@Kha0sTek]

Imagine telling your camera crew, "Hey, I need you to take really menacing pictures of this chicken carcass."

[@topkek996]

Being professionals, they already knew the perfect angles to use

[@therockafire]

Yea. That was scary!

[@zendonreyland1298]

It's no joke, back in the 1970s when they wanted to photograph a turkey to make it look like it was hot from the oven, they'd hide a lit cigarette behind it for the smoke.

[@joem3009]

Was anyone else thinking “A family that DIY’s together, DIES together?”

[@samsibbens8164]

I thought she was gonna say that, I'm surprised they missed out on it

[@jennierose4736]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MrHitchikerOz]

People in that era were actually capable of performing these DIY tasks. From the 70's on, people began to consider these tasks beneath them, and only 'trades people' were supposed to do these dirty tasks. We lost a lot of common sense and capabilities when this happened. Nowadays commentators on these programs actually condemn anyone who tries to learn these skills as 'dangerous'. What a poor, lost lot of souls you are.

[@yagikidd2300]

😭 omg yes 😳😭😧

[@JamesBiggar]

@@MrHitchikerOz Absolutely agree. Most people are all but useless and incompetent beyond the bubbles created for them at their 9-5. Refacing a door becomes apparently dangerous enough to make a tv program warning against DIY. I'd almost feel sorry for them, if it wasn't willful ignorance.

[@ijhsa7452]

come on using a electric drill in water like thats just natural selection at that point

[@dinoflagella4185]

IJH SA lol, this was probably before they started using GFCI outlets. Most homes today have GFCI outlets that keep you from electrocuting yourself.

[@afranca1825]

@@dinoflagella4185 I agree but you still should practice good awareness of your surroundings at all times when using equipment of any sort, even if you do have GFIs and other danger inhibitors

[@shesaknitter]

Ha! So true!

[@SquishyZoran]

I bet the drill was all metal and ungrounded as well.

[@shesaknitter]

I guess they had to send his Darwin Award to his surviving family members.

[@christiekitchens]

I was born in 1953 and vividly remember the chemisty sets, the little electric iron, the Easy Bake oven, cap guns, bow and arrow sets, you name it. The skates that clamped on your shoes were deadly too! It's amazing any of us got out alive. Fortunately I was into horses and art so didn't get in TOO much trouble.

[@dunxy]

I was born nearly a 1/2 a century later and i had a chemistry set, flimsy test tubes and all! Cap guns are still around this neck of the woods & i live in super nanny Australia!

[@lorimiller4301]

I was born in 66 and as a little girl I really wanted a bike with big handle bars and a banana seat bike. They were so cool. My horrible Father bought me a stupid ugly white folding bike. I rode it a bit but didn't like it much. Then one day we were going down the hill and then around the corner and over the speed bumps on the rode. This one time I went over the first bump and the handle bars came out. I was still moving fairly fast and hit the second bump while I was still in shock about the handle bars. Bam the stupid thing hit the bump and closed right shut on my leg. Thankfully I hung out with a guy who liked me and he stopped and got it off my leg but he laughed so hard he could barely do it. I'm still mad about not getting the bike I wanted. I got a 10 speed instead that was too big for me. My Dad's excuse ? He didn't think the banana seat type bikes were safe. I'm still mad about it. And him.

[@Find-Your-Bliss-]

Fun times! Me, too.

[@Shango]

Anyone remember Jarts? They're still around today but they are made much safer now. I remember when they had a steel spike that stuck into the ground when they landed. I remember playing with them trying to get them to stick into my aunt's banana trees.

[@paulabrooks9316]

I was born in 1951. The things we did and our parents took it all with a grain of salt.

[@pageribe2399]

My grandparents raised me (born 1899 & 1902). To this very day, I unplug everything at night! It's just ingrained in me.

[@swimmerkat3965]

God that model house looks rad. That bathroom in particular looks amazing. I love the pink and green

[@bonniehowell4259]

It reminds me of the "Future House" that used to be on display at Disney World/Land that showcased plastics.

[@vaderladyl]

Beautiful ain't it?

[@tubularfrog]

Barricaded in the UK as a death trap. Look at it cross eyed and you'll burst into flames.

[@elisakuperus]

You have to look out though, some is the green plastic of that time, some is radioactive because that was a hype back then

[@craftpaint1644]

My grandparents house has a pink bathroom with black and pink wallpaper and a yellow bathroom with white and yellow wallpaper. No art deco fixtures but the pink bathroom had Flamingos on the walls.

[@Mikeological]

6:35 Remember kids, if someone is on fire, don’t just tell them to stop drop and roll. Bust out your karate moves and kick them onto the floor yourself

[@twistedyogert]

They might be panicking though. I've never been on fire, but I'd imagine that it would be pretty terrifying.

[@lickmyfuckinnuts]

They said we were too young for love

[@cebruthius]

It's actually great advice

[@nicolebarnett8702]

That was my favorite part 😂

[@greenaum]

They're going to hospital anyway, so why not kick the shit out of them while they're down? Make it worth the trip in the ambulance!

[@monicapyle]

It's 4am and I cannot stop watching these videos 😲 anybody else?

[@dgls4202]

Deaaad asssss

[@qook1543]

Yo😐

[@water9892]

5 am for me

[@mijaumijau916]

Same lol

[@kimberlysh88]

I'm on a roll!

[@julieroyce4497]

I remember my brother having aCreepy Crawlers play set and I had a Fun Flower set that came with liquid plastic that you poured into metal molds and cooked in little steel electric stoves that heated to about 350 degrees that we played (ages 7 - 12) with no suggested parental supervision. My other always monitored us - but because she thought we would spill the fluid and make a mess - not for possible burns or fires. Lol

[@paulne1514]

Just think! You and your brother could have been millionaires. Just add a fishing hook in the worm before baking and $$$$ in the bank. Pretty much what we have today!

[@Cricket2731]

​@@paulne1514, I still have some of the fishing lures I made!

[@mysterylovescompany2657]

I do remember when I was a little girl, my Mum would only let us wear wool in the Winter, and when I asked why, she told me a story about a friend of her Mum's who got horribly burned from the combination of synthetic clothes meeting heater in the 60s. And I didn't quite get it, how you couldn't "just get it off in time and put it out!" until my Dad sat me down and told me all about napalm. I think I was maybe 8.

[@lunayoshi]

Now I'm curious because I never got a Napalm talk. Why _can't_ you just take the burning clothes off and put the fire out?

[@sonjastarr1364]

lunayoshi. The material melts onto and then INTO your skin as it burns. You literally can't take it off.

[@lunayoshi]

@@sonjastarr1364 Holy SHIT! Thanks for letting me know.

[@robsinternationalmusicbox]

Wearing napalm

[@jalapeno1119]

Your mumther?

[@riseofthethorax]

My father , who later became a laser/nuclear physicist said that when he was young he would pour molten lead into some molds he had to create toy soldiers . He also said that at the shoe stores, for fun they would use a xray device to permit children to see the bones in their feet to move. Another thing he had found out was during the war, radio technicians would put their hamburgers on the radar dish to expedite their cooking.

[@alienvomitsex]

Lead is pretty harmless until you're eating it or inhaling it.

[@chris2790]

@@alienvomitsex lead vapor when heating it.

[@Gail1Marie]

@@alienvomitsex I'm surprised they didn't mention the "shoe x-ray machine" here. Maybe it wasn't prevalent in GB? I make leaded glass, so I use lead and lead solder a lot. The trick is to work with a small fan blowing across your workbench while you're soldering to blow the fumes away, and to scrub your hands thoroughly when you're done (especially before eating that sandwich!)

[@meganleslie9069]

@@alienvomitsex molten lead isn't

[@hydrolito]

Used it for his microwave oven how many of those microwaves got him?

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I grew up in the 1950s. Seeing this, I count myself as very lucky that my father had been a carpenter as a young man and knew about many of these situations that could cause hazards. He made certain that we knew about (and respected) most of them, too.

[@MEQUPWER]

did you eat "Cheap Chicken meat"? @ 33:09

[@miriambucholtz9315]

@@MEQUPWER Possibly, but my parents knew how to cook properly. Nobody ever got sick from food from my mother's kitchen. BTW, if you want to eat meat that has fewer bacteria, try Kosher. It's salted during the kashering process; salt kills gram-negative bacteria like Salmonella.

[@davidolie8392]

My father was a professional contractor and built the house I grew up in with the help of his employees. This was in Nova Scotia in 1961. So for the time it was very safe, but my mother worried about the sharp corners on the living room tables if one of us kids fell. It never happened, but I still have one of those tables and I can imagine it puncturing a skull in a worst-case scenario.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

@@davidolie8392 I don't know about puncturing a skull, but I do know that hitting the corner of that kind of table can cause a cut. It happened to one of my daughters when she was small and could have been more than a minor injury if I hadn't forbidden running inside the house in the first place.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS We lived for a few years in a town in Fairfield County, CT where most of the men boarded the train to NYC to work in advertising and the like. I'll take a good, old manual laborer or skilled tradesman any day to that bunch.

[@1n5tant_Ar50n]

My dad (who was born and raised in England), gave me the chemistry set he had when he was a kid; from the late 60's. A lot of the chemical bottles were empty, but still had the labels, and even though I was only 10 or 11 at the time, I still remember being shocked by a ton of the dangerous chemicals that were in it! I asked my dad about it (he is a biochemist professionally now), and he was like "Oh yeah, I guess that is pretty dangerous." He said he didn't think about it when giving it to me, because he was about my age when he'd gotten it himself. Craziness. He ended up safely disposing of the dangerous substances and properly cleaning or disposing of the containers as necessary, but we do still have the kit somewhere at my parents' house. He did end up buying me a modern chemistry set as well, which I really enjoyed as a kid!

[@kaldiz]

Year 2100: "The horror's of the 2020 home"

[@lassipls]

"Cellphone screens were actually the main culprit of spreading the coronavirus"

[@diceroll2843]

@@lassipls No it's the damn Facebook video face software ad that which caused suicide!

[@thebitlot]

Bruh that's assuming society still exists by then LOL

[@diceroll2843]

@@thebitlot Society will exist in 2100 but under communist rule where everyone is forced to think happy thoughts elts they be taken for re education

[@mashy712]

2020 would be like. Kids played with plastic blocks called Legos. They hurt your feet. And have choke kids.

[@duffharris9295]

Oi mate you got a loicense for that chemistry set?

[@t-55am2b5]

Duff Harris *Oi u cheeky wanker, is that asbestos?*

[@TheBoostedDoge]

*YOU DO NOT HAVE THE LICENSE TO READ THIS COMMENT*

[@nineh9739]

don't be a louse bin that house.

[@fartmerchant762]

I scroll down a few inches and this is the first thing I see. Faith in humanity doubled

[@Senyrar]

u wot m8, do you have a lencense for that comment ?

[@jow.6605]

Now I know why my parents never let me have a chemistry set in the 1950s.

[@filledvoid]

@@aliyahislam1728 What's your story? May we know?

[@fxjh21]

@@filledvoid yeah. Would be interesting to know how it was.

[@PumpkinHoard]

@@fxjh21 They probably thought he would try making explosives, like basically every kid given access to the materials to do so would, and wind up blowing themselves up.

[@skirk9184]

Growing up in Florida before air conditioning mosquitos and gnats were a problem. A truck would go up and down the streets to try to alleviate the outbreaks. As kids, we used to run behind the mosquito truck to play in the smoke....while parents watched. Nobody thought a thing about it being dangerous. But, we were breathing insecticide! We also would put a Pic coil in our car at the Drive-In or our bedrooms at night to ward off mosquitos and gnats. It would burn and emit smoke. We breathed that almost daily. When my mother was having anxiety issues trying to be the perfect housewife and mother...the Dr recommended she start smoking. Lol Those were the days!

[@loisruthstrom8143]

I was watching an old episode of Ozzie and Harriett that l have on DVD. There's a guy in a commercial for Sucrets throat lozenges. He has a sore throat and you feel sorry for him. Then, the narrator says. "...and you can even use them while smoking" as the guy lights up a cigarette. Riiigght, like smoking is going to help that sore throat!

[@thecatatemyhomework]

You are still alive, aren't you?

[@amusingmyslf]

Same here with the mosquito fogger going through the neighborhood! Yikes! 🤪

[@therockafire]

Hey! I was born in 1953. I remember the mosquito fogger. Maybe my family was smarter than the average bear, but we knew not to play outside when the truck came down the road.

[@hyphontypool5526]

"you mean lighting this flame would produce a deadly gas?" "yes" *lights anyway*

[@sbcinema]

you have forgotten one important point, the fatal consequence of mixing different cleaning products

[@bearcatben4762]

I love to mix ammonia and bleach changed my life forever

[@katerinakiaha6925]

Bearcat Ben lol

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

n o i c e

[@sbcinema]

Bearcat Ben ;-)

[@jeodee]

True, and here I was thinking my Mother was passed out from drinking. Oh, the good old days.

[@clayfoster8234]

I’m a 46 yr old American and the part about chicken and salmonella I found most interesting. Because there’s never been a point in my life where I didn’t know that whether it be chicken or a turkey you needed to wash your hands thoroughly after touching it (and before touching anything else) and cooked through was the only option of how to prepare it.

[@traekas7228]

Chicken, yes, cook thoroughly. But steak, even hamburger, doesn’t have to be cooked to gray & dried out. One can prepare red meat rare to well done. I usually enjoy it medium rare. Oh, but no matter the meat, for goodness sakes, wash your hands both before touching AND after! Please! PS. I’ve gotten to the point in my life where I don’t even LIKE touching raw meat @ all, anymore.

[@clayfoster8234]

@@traekas7228 that’s true for steak because the inside, assuming it hasn’t started to rot, is still sterile. However, with hamburger the outside has been ground up with the inside. So perhaps it doesn’t need to be cooked through but to an internal temp of 160°F, or whatever temp they recommend.