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Gill returns once again with another look at why life expectancy used to be a whole lot shorter. You may or may not have asked for it, but from moldy bread for infected wounds to a junk shocker belt here are some more treatments to make you thankful for the 21st century. 1 Moldy bread …
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And now, Gill would like to take a second to recognize Black History Month. You’ve probably heard of those challenges on youtube, it seems there’s one every five seconds. Now imagine it’s 1896 and your a person of color trying to patent your device to improve farming or get a loan for your business. Sadly …
Gill, who has been cranking out lists like crazy lately, has made another one to help you get to know her better. I have talked a lot lately about things people frown upon, and you might be asking Ms. Gillie, what makes you happy? What do you love? Well from curries to cheater snacks I’m …
And now, Gill is here to remind us of the good old days, A.K.A. that time when children were still allowed to and wanted to do things. With most traditional activities for kids frowned upon due to safety, kids are shying away from the bigger elements of fun. With the obesity pandemic this will be …
Because way too many adults are determined to be fun vacuums, Gill has returned with a third list of things frowned upon by the educational institutions that are supposed to be in charge of churning out functional human beings that are capable of coping in the world. Here we are again, yes I’ve found more …
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It’s time once again to take a trip with Gill down memory lane and look at some toys that somehow didn’t kill us. Well, not most of us, anyway. From lawn darts to the world’s hungriest cabbage patch doll I am here to talk a bit more about unsafe toys. 1 Gilbert Atomic Energy kit …
And now, Gill returns to make us simultaneously cringe and feel grateful to be alive now. From Sheep livers to find out what’s wrong with you to radiated toothpaste, we talk more old-timy medicine. 1 Sheep’s liver as an X-ray – In what is now Iraq physicians didn’t have x-rays to tell whether you had …
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Gill is back once again to open the lid on the toybox of death. From slingshots to kite tubes here are some more unsafe toys. 1 The Bird Of Paradise Slingshot – Somehow with its razor sharp parts this toy that not even Denis the Menace would play with made toy shelves. It also earned …
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As you’re reading this or at least at the time it posts itself, I’m at the dentist. I will come home from this excursion with a headache from hell. I always do. I don’t know why, but it’s been happening as far back as I can remember. Perhaps one of these old medical treatments Gill …
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You know what’s sad? That there are enough school administrators banning ridiculous things in the name of safety and poor little feelings that Gill felt the need to send along a part two to something she wrote up earlier in the week. Depending on when you went to school or where you attended you might …