this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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For sharing images of vintage magazine ads, fliers, promos, etc.

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[–] Reverendender 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...and your twilight years

[–] Reverendender 5 points 1 week ago

And your teeth

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 17 points 1 week ago

Little & Gamble

Certainly a gamble.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry, when President Musk fucks the FDA, we can have it again!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

We can also eat lead, dispose of oil in gravel pits, and put asbestos back in manufacturing!
Make America Toxic Again!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Memory unlocked:

My grandfather was a chemist who worked for the British government in the post war years researching reinforced concrete. I remember him relating a curious anecdote about a colleague of his who would wash his hands every day with some kind of toxic substance. My grandfather said ‘I told him that he should stop using that stuff to wash his hands, but he wouldn’t listen. Of course eventually he became very ill.’ It would seem odd for a scientist in a government research department to use something like this, but I wonder if it was a similar product that the chap was using. Curious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope they were lying about what was in there

[–] AwesomeLowlander 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I still am too freaked out to wear the radium dial watch I inherited from my grandfather.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This is a case where being dishonest would've been better for everyone

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

They were. It's actually uranium.