LizzieMaine
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Oppression is a function of economic and cultural power, not simple population.
In June 1941, Nazi troops invaded the town of Lviv in western Ukraine. Upon discovering evidence of mass killings carried out by Soviet troops, German occupying forces had organised “revenge” pogroms against the city’s Jewish population.
There was a time when I and millions of kids loved the smell of Ethyl Gasoline! Mmm, I can almost smell it now, with what's left of my brain cells!View attachment 47932
It amazes me that at one time exposing small kids to lead was seen as a positive thing.
This new-fangled unleaded stuff just doesn't have the same bouquet, does it? *sniff**sniff*There was a time when I and millions of kids loved the smell of Ethyl Gasoline! Mmm, I can almost smell it now, with what's left of my brain cells!
This new-fangled unleaded stuff just doesn't have the same bouquet, does it? *sniff**sniff*
Alongside the benzene, Amoco also used toulene, which was the active ingredient that made glue-sniffing so appealing to a generation of slack-jawed wall-eyed postwar teenagers. Quite a wallop for a "safer alternative" product.
Which generation? I don't remember all the teenagers of my generation sniffing glue! I heard on the news that there were kids doing it, but not the entire generation! That's like saying all teenagers in the 80s were high on cocaine.Alongside the benzene, Amoco also used toulene, which was the active ingredient that made glue-sniffing so appealing to a generation of slack-jawed wall-eyed postwar teenagers. Quite a wallop for a "safer alternative" product.