It’s the same old story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Boy uses radioactive condom for virility. Yeah, romance has a shelf life of forever.
In the early 20th century, it was all the rage to add Radium to items. The most famous example was watch faces, where the numbers would glow so you could see what time it is in the dark. You know, in case you had to race to a night-time chemo session.
Some genius thought it would a good idea to add radium to condoms because anything new and mysterious must be good for knocking da boots. Fortunately, you can no longer make your wang glow blue in the dark for pleasure. Now you take a blue pill. [Orau]
Nicholas
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 12:35 PM“Sold for protection against disease”
Lol’d
DarthDVD
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 1:40 PMMaking sure you dont die from desease or virus’s by making sure you die from cancer.
Trevor
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 1:49 PMOh shit I used them all the time when I was younger. They still them at novelty stores and I have one from sexpo a few years back..
Timmahh
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 1:54 PMThey actually used radioactive substances for a hell of a lot of stuff back then. The watch dial thing is even worse than you think, the women that painted it on the dial used a small paintbrush with witch they used their lips to give it a fine point each time they did the next watch! Radiation wasn’t understood then and it was thought to be a good thing!
light487
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 2:08 PMIt was understood enough that the scientists and employers of those companies took precautions against the radiation…
Timmahh
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 5:13 PMWhat’s your point? Or are you saying that these things didn’t happen? Clearly there was a big difference between what they knew and what they thought they knew! There are a plethora of devices that had radiation risks, they just didn’t realise it at the time!
Park Ranger 504
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 11:26 PMThose things didn’t happen. You have no idea what you are talking about.
dave
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 7:29 AMThere was a “Stuff you missed in history class” podcast on September 8 on the “Radium Girls,” a famous court case from the 1920s about women used to paint radium on dials and the cancer they subsequently caught.
Jaezass
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 9:25 AMThis comment has been deemed inappropriate and has been deleted.
Jaezass
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 9:27 AMBugger that was meant for ‘Park Ranger 504′ guess that blew all credibility, eh :)
Jaezass
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 9:30 AMTry googling it, there were possibly hundreds of devices that had radiation as a benefit to humans. Put your brain into gear before engaging comment fingers!
Aperson
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 2:21 PM20 years into the future, Society will be laughing at us saying, that people in the 2011 was using mobile phone that emits Electromagnetic Radiation.
oleary
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 4:31 PMNot as much as they’ll be perplexed by your loose grasp of grammar.
Jaezass
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 6:17 PMYeah why don’t you explain in detail why his grammar is more important than the the gist of the comment! It may not be writ real good, but there is a joke in there somewhere.
Jay
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 6:51 PM^
Nicholas
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 7:28 PMFunny how we can read things, I skimmed his comment, got the message and assumed it was fine. After reading yours I re-read it carefully and it made no sense at all :S
Nicholas
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 7:29 PMAlso; we’re back to moderated comments? Who spoiled it? :(
Virus__
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 9:25 PMI know nothing about this >_>
David
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 7:51 AM*Golf Clap* -_-
StevoTheDevo
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 2:54 PMI guess these were sold at a Premium cause of the novelty factor.
3 for 50c sounds pretty expensive for those times.
jimmy
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 10:43 AMits glow in the dark. cancers worth it. ’nuff said
LGB
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:03 PMWell it casts a light on where spiderman really got his powers from and also why he grew up living with his Aunt and Uncle….
Radio Active spider my ass… it was a faulty Nutex condom all along…