My mom told me she broke a thermometer on purpose to play with the mercury in school
2026-10-22 23:12:00
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gypsylux18 :
My mom and her sisters used to use CRISCO shortening to tan in the 70s
2026-10-22 23:18:12
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lila :
my dad BROKE AN ETCH A SKETCH and ATE THE INSIDES as a kid. what the hell man, sure
2026-10-23 00:55:38
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Ryanxiety :
Microplastics aren't good, but they're nowhere near the level of lead, asbestos, and whatever else we were stuffing into everything some fifty years ago
2026-10-23 00:06:55
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sjmac130 :
One time I told my mom about the boomer lead paint stare and her response was “I remember starring out the window as a child waiting for my dad to come home from work and I would naw on the window seal and paint would come off” she quite literally consumed lead paint
2026-10-23 03:41:52
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amwheel :
My mom played in the neighborhood asbestos pile
2026-10-23 00:39:40
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😎 :
NOT THE PESTICIDE TRUCK
2026-10-22 22:54:59
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court :
my mom got made fun by her friends for NOT going out when the pesticide truck would come by
2026-10-23 02:41:54
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alison :
My dad used to follow trucks carrying asbestos on his bike and pretend the asbestos flying off the truck was snow
2026-10-23 11:30:50
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pumpkin bitch :
my mom would play in the oil fields and would make “rainbow pancakes” w the oil mud
2026-10-23 01:36:11
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sophiekaton :
My mom used to tan with MOTOR OIL
2026-10-23 02:06:47
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~*.*~ :
My grandmother remembers playing in an xray machine that was put in a shoe shop as a gimmick
2026-10-23 02:35:08
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stinkley_b_stalking :
my grandparents gave my mom hypodermic insulin needles to play doctor on her cabbage patch doll😭
2026-10-23 01:21:48
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Alaire :
humans are simultaneously ridiculously fragile and incredibly resilient
2026-10-23 04:04:45
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Sabrina Cozine :
remember my grandpa telling me that they'd pick the tar from the edge of new roads to chew like bubble gum
2026-10-24 07:29:45
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barbie expert :
my mom & her friends would go play in the oyster ditch. a retention pond lined with razor sharp oyster shells. “the hepatitis came outta nowhere” 😭
2026-10-23 01:49:06
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The Sorg :
Evidently the pesticide truck was one of the reasons why there were less bedbug issues then...
2026-10-24 01:11:18
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marta :
my mom would literally lie on the car floor while they drove like hello
2026-10-26 09:39:11
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mandypandy03 :
My mom said her and her siblings would eat the paint "chips" that were peeling off of old houses.
It's shocking but also incredibly sad that no one was watching these babies.
2026-10-23 09:41:46
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Kan :
My mom: “Now don’t do this, but you get the BEST tan laying out in baby oil for 25 minutes. 10 minutes on your back, 15 on your stomach. Do that three times in a week and you’re tanned and ready for any occasion.”
2026-10-22 23:57:01
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Kk :
my mom and her friends would ride their bikes on the freeway
2026-10-23 02:02:46
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500ft :
They used to fill cavities with mercury and once my mom was left alone in the room and took the mercury out of the container played with it put it in her mouth then spit it back into the tube.
2026-10-24 18:31:02
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Aries Crashout :
my dad said they would break open the thermometers to play with the mercury. not to mention the lead paint on everything and the asbestos IN everything.
2026-10-23 02:05:10
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sara :
They will barely let go of the round up 😭
2026-10-23 02:54:45
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