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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I believed it. Sadly it's not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz

[–] paddirn 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/style/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html#:~:text=Women%20painting%20alarm%20clock%20faces,brush%20and%20ingesting%20radioactive%20radium.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn't great at all.

From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter

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

A department store still had one of these when I was a kid, but it wasn't used. It was, however, in occasional use when my brother was very little in the early 80s. My mom has pictures of him with his foot in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thanks, Woke.

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 1 month ago

They want to cancel bananas now.

[–] rockSlayer 8 points 1 month ago

To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn't tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.

[–] Arbiter 8 points 1 month ago

Sadly??

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

Phew.

I came to the comments for this hope.