I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
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.
Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all.
From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter
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.
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Thanks, Woke.
They want to cancel bananas now.
To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
Phew.
I came to the comments for this hope.
Sadly??
I believed this was real until I searched for it 😂 To be fair to my own credulity, Plutonium Jazz would not be the most insane thing people did with radioactive materials back then. The “medicines” alone make Plutonium Jazz sound pretty tame.
Since “Geiger” is German for “violinist”, you can replicate it with a guy who counts how many violinists are present
147282793856…
[jazz plays]
