The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2022

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

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[sneakypete]

@Kamaji

I agree.

You need to work somewhere where a sense of humor in a basic requirement for hiring.

[sneakypete]

@Kamaji

A man that can think quickly while under pressure can go far in the bidnez wurld.

[sneakypete]

@Kamaji

Well,ya gotta admit,those wimmins NEVER had so much incentive to swim quickly prior to that event.

I would be shocked if a new world speed record wasn't set.

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[sneakypete]

@Kamaji

PLEASE tell me you are kidding!

Although that DOES go a long ways towards explaining why so many children of the elites are morons.

I seriously doubt many blue collar kids got these as gifts. I grew up in the 50's and never even heard of one,never mind knew anybody that had one.

Which is probably a good thing because back then I like making things explode and was a HUGE fan of buying chemicals from the drug store to mix together.

My mother put an end to this when I blew up the sidewalk in front of our house and they had to pay to have a new one installed.

So ended my experimental days at the public library and the drug store.

Had to wait until I got in the army to blow stuff up again,but for some reason my enthusiasm seemed to scare people,so they wouldn't let me mess with demo and made me a weapons and radio guy instead.

NOBODY messes with a SF demo man.

[sneakypete]

@Kamaji

"Comfort cat" or "Domineering cat"?

[DB]

@Kamaji

PLEASE tell me you are kidding!

Although that DOES go a long ways towards explaining why so many children of the elites are morons.

I seriously doubt many blue collar kids got these as gifts. I grew up in the 50's and never even heard of one,never mind knew anybody that had one.

Which is probably a good thing because back then I like making things explode and was a HUGE fan of buying chemicals from the drug store to mix together.

My mother put an end to this when I blew up the sidewalk in front of our house and they had to pay to have a new one installed.

So ended my experimental days at the public library and the drug store.

Had to wait until I got in the army to blow stuff up again,but for some reason my enthusiasm seemed to scare people,so they wouldn't let me mess with demo and made me a weapons and radio guy instead.

NOBODY messes with a SF demo man.

Radioactive watch dials and clocks were pretty common then:

https://www.gearpatrol.com/watches/a324890/watch-lume/

They glowed continuously without having to be put under a bright light to recharge.

[Kamaji]

@Kamaji

PLEASE tell me you are kidding!

Although that DOES go a long ways towards explaining why so many children of the elites are morons.

I seriously doubt many blue collar kids got these as gifts. I grew up in the 50's and never even heard of one,never mind knew anybody that had one.

Which is probably a good thing because back then I like making things explode and was a HUGE fan of buying chemicals from the drug store to mix together.

My mother put an end to this when I blew up the sidewalk in front of our house and they had to pay to have a new one installed.

So ended my experimental days at the public library and the drug store.

Had to wait until I got in the army to blow stuff up again,but for some reason my enthusiasm seemed to scare people,so they wouldn't let me mess with demo and made me a weapons and radio guy instead.

NOBODY messes with a SF demo man.

@sneakypete

Apparently, these toy kits were real:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory

[Kamaji]

Radioactive watch dials and clocks were pretty common then:

https://www.gearpatrol.com/watches/a324890/watch-lume/

They glowed continuously without having to be put under a bright light to recharge.

The government was pretty blase about the risks from uranium back then.  Obviously, the concentrated U-235 stuff was verboten, but uranium ore was considered non-dangerous, and the government basically encouraged all and sundry to mine for the stuff the same way one would mine for gold or silver.

[Cyber Liberty]

The government was pretty blase about the risks from uranium back then.  Obviously, the concentrated U-235 stuff was verboten, but uranium ore was considered non-dangerous, and the government basically encouraged all and sundry to mine for the stuff the same way one would mine for gold or silver.

Those ingots were incredibly weak. Painted dishes from Mexico gave my Geiger Counter much, much more of a rise.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

Apparently, these toy kits were real:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory

@Kamaji

They are soooo obviously dangerous you honestly have to wonder how ANY adult thought buying one for their child was a good idea.

[Kamaji]

@Kamaji

They are soooo obviously dangerous you honestly have to wonder how ANY adult thought buying one for their child was a good idea.

People didn't appreciate the dangers back then.  Remember, people used to use an x-ray machine at the shoe store to check to see if their feet fit in a new pair of shoes.

[sneakypete]

People didn't appreciate the dangers back then.  Remember, people used to use an x-ray machine at the shoe store to check to see if their feet fit in a new pair of shoes.

@Kamaji

Never heard that one before.

[Kamaji]

@Kamaji

Never heard that one before.

@sneakypete

They were used up until the 1970s in some places:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

[240B]

It is worse than that. In 1930s women used radioactive makeup.

When beauty products were radioactive
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/when-beauty-products-were-radioactive/index.html

And there was radioactive medicine.


Also, the people involved in manufacturing those radium clock faces and dials, mostly female factory workers, kept dying. And nobody knew why for a decade.