Dumbest Ads In The World

[Luna Bliss]

16 ‘feminine hygiene’ adverts that should never have existed:

https://www.dailyedge.ie/worst-feminine-hygiene-adverts-954732-Jun2013/

[Luna Bliss]

Racist ads...I didn't know so many existed:

[Silent Mistwalker]

14 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

Put good in quotes, there. It wasn't all good. Some of that stuff was straight up deadly!

Pogo sticks (and the more younger child-friendly Pogo Ball) were out to get us ALL!!!!!!!

But no, there were some amazing things that came out of the 70s, too. I'm not even gonna lie - I love some of the fashion, personally. I missed a lot of that. 80s fashion sucks!!! Yes I said it! 

Pogo sticks were around in the 50s. I had one. It was no more dangerous than the human using it. They're still being sold today.

Kids will always do stupid things that hurt them. Parents can't protect their kids from everything harmful.

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A spring stilt utilizing compression springs on each foot was patented in 1891 [2] by George H. Herrington of Wichita, Kansas, "for leaping great distances and heights". This was an antecedent of the pogo stick as well as today's spring stilts.

The modern eponymously-named pogo stick was invented by Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, from Germany. A German patent was registered in Hanover on March 1920[3] for a device they called a "spring end hopping stilt". It is thought that the beginning two letters in these men's last names is where the word "pogo" comes from.

The two-handle pogo stick design was patented by George B. Hansburg[4] in 1957. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_stick

Edited June 8, 2022 by Silent Mistwalker

[Arduenn Schwartzman]

[Ayashe Ninetails]

17 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

Pogo sticks (and the more younger child-friendly Pogo Ball) were out to get us ALL!!!!!!!

I was talking about both.

The Ball version became a fad in the 80s when Hasbro started pushing it.

 

[Madelaine McMasters]

11 hours ago, Persephone Emerald said:

In the late 1920's to early 1930s, my mother's mother had to heat water for their baths on the stove, so the water had to be used sparingly. I'm pretty sure they bathed more than once/ week, but it wasn't every day. The bath tub was in the kitchen. The first bath would be for her baby sister, then her younger brother in the same water, then mom's bath in the same water her brother had just used. She said she used to complain that she didn't want to use the same bath water her brother had just been in. Then her mother would take her bath in fresh water & add more hot water afterward for her father. My mother remembers her mother telling her father to take his bath before the water got cold, but he'd still wait around until it was cold, so then grandmother had to heat more water. She didn't want him getting into bed dirty when she'd just washed, dried and put on fresh sheets, but sometimes he did anyway. He was a wine grape farmer, so he was pretty dirty at the end of the day. Aside from housework, her mother also had to make butter, can food, sew and mend clothes for the family, and cook everything from scratch.

Dad was a city kid, raised by his grandfather, a civil engineer who worked in the field. They showered every other day or so. Weather permitting, they'd take soapy dips in the Mississippi or showers in the rain. During his early years in the submarine service, Dad showered no more often than every other day and, if there was an evaporator malfunction, considerably less often than that.

Mom was a farm girl, one of fourteen kids. Though she got dirtier than dad, there was more competition for the scarce hot water. During summer, she lathered up and rinsed off in the cow shower. The barn had better plumbing than the farmhouse. She probably got one hot bath per week until her teens, when the house was significantly upgraded. She was thrilled to move to Milwaukee where the apartment she shared with two sisters had hot running water for showers. It was rare to find her soaking in a tub after that.

When I was little, I took hot showers twice/week unless I got really dirty or sweaty. The acoustics of the shower in the master bathroom are fabulous, so it was a great place to sing, or practice voices for our puppet theater. I think I spent more time using the bathtub for experiments than for bathing. It was the test bed for the floaty things I made in my various attempts to build something that would float across the lake to Michigan.

My ex-hubby is a daily showerer, so during our marriage, I was too. If the shower was already warm and wet, I might as well jump in it. That took a toll on my hair. (Yes, I know about conditioner, but I'm lazy.) Now that I'm on my own again, I'm back to twice a week (Tues/Fri) unless I need more, usually during summer. By the end of July, I'll be taking soapy dips in Lake Michigan and rinsing off in the yard, just because I can.

I remodeled my master bathroom nearly two years ago replacing the old tub with a heated whirlpool. I've been in it only once, to test for leaks.

[Luna Bliss]

2 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

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You referenced her somewhere on this thread.  I've seen some of her cards but was not familiar with her. Very funny woman:

https://annetaintor.com/

[Ayashe Ninetails]

Just now, Luna Bliss said:

You referenced her somewhere on this thread.  I've seen some of her cards but was not familiar with her. Very funny woman:

https://annetaintor.com/

I've been a fan of hers for years now. She's so dang funny! If you like her humor, check Bluntcard's website, too. They also do the vintage snark quite well.

[PermaRuthed]

12 minutes ago, Luna Bliss said:

Yeah how convenient -- women's bodies, their sexuality and bodily functions, are frequently viewed as 'bad' by society and then advertising offers a solution.

"Women have long been fed the not-so-covert message that our bodies are something to be ashamed of. This message is even stronger when it comes to our intimate areas, especially our *****s. It’s one of the major sources of gender oppression, and it’s such a taboo topic that it’s become an almost-overlooked kind of misogyny".

https://seawitchbotanicals.com/blogs/swb/a-brief-history-on-*****s-shame-misogyny-and-empowerment

Ain't that wild? Women being shamed for being humans to the point that they're dissociated from their own bodies. Anatomy? What's that?

I'm glad you included a quote from the article so I can google the part of the sentence to find it. Funny how the forum censors the word v a g i n a .

[Luna Bliss]

4 minutes ago, PermaRuthed said:

Ain't that wild? Women being shamed for being humans to the point that they're dissociated from their own bodies. Anatomy? What's that?

I'm glad you included a quote from the article so I can google the part of the sentence to find it. Funny how the forum censors the word v a g i n a .

Funny, I casually noticed the *** and thought I had written sl*t somewhere. Vagigi is censored?  Strange.  What about *****?

* lol yep

Edited June 8, 2022 by Luna Bliss

[Madelaine McMasters]

53 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

Except toys and games. 80s toys were the absolute best (but were far more likely to kill ya than anything else...

As the 70s child of an engineer, I was taught to make my own toys. Dad taught me woodworking and mechanics, mom taught sewing and welding. The earliest of our dangerous toys were kites. We made a 21 foot delta that could lift me off the ground. We'd tether it to the tractor's winch and send it up into stable winds. Then I'd "walk" up the line, hand over hand, until my feet left the ground. Mom had words with Dad after coming outside to find me sitting on a swing seat he'd fastened to the line, placing me at about his head height. I'll never forgive her for stopping him from sending me higher.

Once I'd grown too heavy for the kite, we switched to trebuchets. The first was a pea-shooter I happily aimed at mom (payback!). The last was 16 feet tall and could hurl tomatoes over the tree line and onto the roof of my emergency backup mom's house. It was built specifically to discourage her from overwhelming us with tomatoes at the end of the growing season. It didn't work. She was the ultimate in stubborn Germans.

Edited June 8, 2022 by Madelaine McMasters

[Luna Bliss]

11 minutes ago, PermaRuthed said:

Ain't that wild? Women being shamed for being humans to the point that they're dissociated from their own bodies. Anatomy? What's that?

I've forgotten when all this woman/body shaming began atm, though I did study it in school. I think there are several theories, and I do like to imagine a time when women were free of it....like when society was structured as a matriarchy.

[Ayashe Ninetails]

Just now, Madelaine McMasters said:

As the 70s child of an engineer, I was taught to make my own toys. Dad taught me woodworking and mechanics, mom taught sewing and welding. The earliest of our dangerous toys were kites. We made a 21 foot delta that could lift me off the ground. We'd tether it to the tractor's winch and send it up into stable winds. Then I'd "walk" up the line, hand over hand, until my feet left the ground. Mom had words with Dad after coming outside to find me sitting on a swing seat he'd fastened to the line, placing me at about his head height. I'll never forgive her for stopping him from sending me higher.

Once I'd grown too heavy for the kite, we switched to trebuchets. The first was a pea-shooter I happily aimed at mom (payback!). The last was 16 feet tall and could hurl tomatoes over the tree line and onto the roof of my emergency backup mom's house. It was built specifically to discourage her from sending us tomatoes at the end of the growing season. It didn't work. She was the ultimate in stubborn Germans.

I used to wonder about kites a lot as a kid. I was tiny, and some of them were massive, and I would always think...can one of these carry a kid off, orrrr?

[Madelaine McMasters]

11 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

I used to wonder about kites a lot as a kid. I was tiny, and some of them were massive, and I would always think...can one of these carry a kid off, orrrr?

Man-lifting kites have been around forever... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-lifting_kite

We routinely sent things aloft on the kite string (not on the kite, that degrades stability). At summer parties or public kite festivals, we'd do candy or teddy bear drops...

Eventually, we started lofting cameras... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_aerial_photography

We lost that 21 foot delta into the lake long ago, but I still have my 14, a few soft kites used for camera lifting, and several two and four line stunt kites. A few years ago, I watched a young man riding on a little "buggy" being pulled around by a four line power kite. That looked like great fun. When the winds were right, I used small kites to pull my bicycle down the road. Pedaling back was a challenge, as it was both difficult and prone to send the kite looping.

Edited June 8, 2022 by Madelaine McMasters

[Love Zhaoying]

1 hour ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

Yeah. All the good stuff came out after I graduated high school in '77.

My brother was of the same class - being 6 years younger, we had almost nothing in common. 

[Love Zhaoying]

20 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

29 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

I used to wonder about kites a lot as a kid. I was tiny, and some of them were massive, and I would always think...can one of these carry a kid off, orrrr?

Man-lifting kites have been around forever... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-lifting_kite

We routinely sent things aloft on the kite string (not on the kite, that degrades stability). At summer parties or public kite festivals, we'd do candy or teddy bear drops...

Here in FL, "kite surfing" is a thing.

[Lindal Kidd]

1 hour ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

Looking at you, Lite-Brite and Operation!

Etch-A-Sketch! The safe, Safe, SAFE toy for all ages!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Here in FL, "kite surfing" is a thing.

I have a new kayak.

I might need a new kite!

[Arielle Popstar]

1 hour ago, Luna Bliss said:

Yeah, as Maher says, some who consider themselves 'woke' likely are tolerating things that will make them cringe in 25 years. This only means they need to wake up more!

Be interesting to try to predict which sort of commercials and ads that are acceptable now, won't be in the future.

[Lindal Kidd]

You should christen it the Kiteyak!

[Love Zhaoying]

9 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Etch-A-Sketch! The safe, Safe, SAFE toy for all ages!

"Will my laptop run Second Life?"

[Lindal Kidd]

43 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

The earliest of our dangerous toys were kites.

I did kites too, but never managed to make one that flew at all well. Instead, we used commercial paper or plastic ones. I had one that would fly almost vertically overhead in very light winds.

Then I graduated to rockets. One time my brother and I set a field of grass stubble on fire, and the Fire Department had to be called out.

[Ceka Cianci]

11 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Etch-A-Sketch! The safe, Safe, SAFE toy for all ages!

I remember playing with one of those..

I used get all the stuff off the screen as neatly as possible, one line next to the other until I could see everything inside.. hehehe

[Love Zhaoying]

1 minute ago, Lindal Kidd said:

I did kites too, but never managed to make one that flew at all well. Instead, we used commercial paper or plastic ones. I had one that would fly almost vertically overhead in very light winds.

 

I had a "Tetrakite". They were quite strong. (Didn't use it much, but the ads were pretty cool..)

[Madelaine McMasters]

9 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Etch-A-Sketch! The safe, Safe, SAFE toy for all ages!

Though it was a bit of a dud, we did make thermite with aluminum powder from an Etch-A-Sketch and some magnetite obtained from the beach.