I don’t care how hot the weather is, roller skating in beach clothes is asking for a hospital visit. And this is in the 70s, they were probably using thiomersal or hydrogen peroxide for antiseptics, which hurt like hell.
Lmao all they did was take the mercury out sometime in like the 80s, the mercury wasn’t the part that made it sting, it stung because it was like 48% alcohol.
I don’t care how hot the weather is, roller skating in beach clothes is asking for a hospital visit. And this is in the 70s, they were probably using thiomersal or hydrogen peroxide for antiseptics, which hurt like hell.
Just thinking about the good skating falls/slides I’ve had and imaging them on concrete with bare skin
calling @flakesbongler we need simpsons screens of the old lady with iodine please
While carrying a child??? Or am I misinterpreting the front persons leg positioning?
That person is not skating lol
they’re quad skates, it’s pretty hard to fall down in those
Good old tincture of merthiolate, my grandma’s bottle had a handwritten label. Mmm. Mercury.
One time they started advertising that the new version of merthiolate didn’t hurt. They lied.
Lmao all they did was take the mercury out sometime in like the 80s, the mercury wasn’t the part that made it sting, it stung because it was like 48% alcohol.
I wish I knew this, I could have been getting blitzed on mercury-laced alcohol