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Matt GrayFollowing on from the “raw milk” trend, I wonder if any other inadvisable things from the past will catch on. Like lead poisoning.
Add some laudanum to your diet, our research recommends it if you want a plum bum
cleanycloth@mattgrayyes and now I have the phrase “plumb plum plumbum bum” in my head…
@mattgrayyes wanna have a sweetened drink without the calories? Lead might be for you 🙃
kuriko
tetraethyl lead 
Allie@kuriko @mattgrayyes A fun* fact: Thomas Midgley Jr, who played a key role in the development of leaded petrol, then went on to create some of the first CFCs. It's been posited that he may be the single organism in history to cause the most environmental harm. After contracting polio, he designed a series of ropes to lift himself out of bed which he got entangled in and died.
Chloé Raccoon@als @mattgrayyes @kuriko @patterfloof another fun fact is the tech diffs have a citation needed episode on him
patter@kuriko @mattgrayyes ah, lead. It's in my coffee :P
Old house, so some of the last bits of pipe into the house are lead, but water board puts some additive in the water to help
Captain ButtonDeadly Nightshade can make your "eyes bright" hence its other name "belladonna."
Sam Clemente@mattgrayyes I'm gonna go for a leeching later
@mattgrayyes If you've played "Thank Goodness You're Here", there's a street preacher saying we should bring back asbestos. I think it's a parody of the anti-vax street preachers who are still somewhat prevalent
dbenzhuser@als @mattgrayyes And if you haven't played Thank Goodness You're Here, go play Thank Goodness You're Here, film yourself playing it and put it on YouTube 😁
Joe W@mattgrayyes yeah, I'd like a plum plumb plumbum bum 😂
Cyborus@drchaos @mattgrayyes it was said with such aplomb
@mattgrayyes I swear one of our far-right parties had "legalise asbestos" on elction posters, can't find it because they've chosen a common enough political word for their name
instead, there's a national chain called Pound Bakery, who's logo on all their shops is "Pb"
Stoneface Vimes@patterfloof @mattgrayyes I remember seeing a full page ad in a magazine back in the mid seventies, from the associated octel corporation advocating leaded petrol and various other products on the grounds that leaded fuels helped us win WW2. So we should continue using it out of gratitude for saving us from Hitler I guess.
C++ Wage SlaveThere was a suggestion that the White House Chaos Generator woul reverse a planned ban on asbestos:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/epa-asbestos-ban-trump-b2771679.html
But that review was eventually cancelled.
@mattgrayyes use arsenic in your mint drops, it adds a beautiful green colour! As Sir PTerry wrote, "they are to die for! (or maybe of, the handwriting is unclear)"
@drchaos @mattgrayyes a sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich? with arsenic sauce?
@mattgrayyes I'd argue authoritarianism is an inadvisable thing from the past...
Elch@mattgrayyes The UK seems to be having another go at this putting the privy next to the well thing, but on a larger scale
evilstevie@mattgrayyes not sure why but KFC won't let me have medium-rare these days
Emil J@mattgrayyes People are buying and selling cyanide containing "bitter almonds" as alternative medicine, yeahh
Andy Herd@mattgrayyes your post is particularly glorious if narrated in the voice of Cave Johnson https://youtu.be/NyLUU3O4zW8
Portal 2 - Lemon Rant
Pinchy63 🇨🇦@mattgrayyes
Asbestos has entered the chat.
Asbestos has entered the chat.
Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸@mattgrayyes Everything with radiation used to be all the rage.
DavidM_yegPeople do all kinds of wild things, do you know the story of the “Blue man”?
@mattgrayyes One plumb bob for me too please