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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] DamonSeed 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...and your twilight years

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

And your teeth

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Little & Gamble

Certainly a gamble.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (2 children)

I hope they were lying about what was in there

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

They were. It's actually uranium.