Following on from the “raw milk” trend, I wonder if any other inadvisable things from the past will catch on.

[wall_e@ioc.exchange]

@mattgrayyes wanna have a sweetened drink without the calories? Lead might be for you

[kuriko@wetdry.world]

@mattgrayyes tetraethyl lead
tetraethyl lead

[cptbutton@dice.camp]

@mattgrayyes

Deadly Nightshade can make your "eyes bright" hence its other name "belladonna."

[countablenewt@mastodon.social]

@mattgrayyes I'm gonna go for a leeching later

[als@alico.nexus]

@mattgrayyes@chaos.social 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

[drchaos@sauropods.win]

@mattgrayyes yeah, I'd like a plum plumb plumbum bum

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@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"

[drchaos@sauropods.win]

@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)"

[cyborus@social.cartoon-aa.xyz]

@drchaos@sauropods.win @mattgrayyes@chaos.social it was said with such aplomb

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@mattgrayyes what's the point of brushing your teeth if your toothpaste *doesn't* have radium, anyway?

[cyborus@social.cartoon-aa.xyz]

@drchaos@sauropods.win @mattgrayyes@chaos.social a sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich? with arsenic sauce?

[cyborus@social.cartoon-aa.xyz]

@mattgrayyes@chaos.social I'd argue authoritarianism is an inadvisable thing from the past...

[als@alico.nexus]

@kuriko@wetdry.world @mattgrayyes@chaos.social 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.

[capnthommo@c.im]

@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.

[dbenzhuser@freiburg.social]

@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

[als@alico.nexus]

@chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk @patterfloof@meow.social @mattgrayyes@chaos.social @kuriko@wetdry.world ah, that'll be how I first heard of this!

[dimllychlyngarw@troet.cafe]

@mattgrayyes The UK seems to be having another go at this putting the privy next to the well thing, but on a larger scale

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@kuriko @mattgrayyes ah, lead. It's in my coffee

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

[evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net]

@mattgrayyes not sure why but KFC won't let me have medium-rare these days

[the_art_of_giving_up@mastodon.social]

@mattgrayyes People are buying and selling cyanide containing "bitter almonds" as alternative medicine, yeahh