• Salvo@aussie.zone
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    14 hours ago

    We used to put sewing pins in cigarettes so the ash wouldn’t fall off.

    Burning the chrome was probably very toxic, but hey, they were cigarettes and we were also breathing in Tetraethyl Lead fumes and lead paint particles in the 1980s.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 hours ago

      That reminds me of seeing this “neat trick” but with a bent paper clip instead of needle.

      It was printed in a children’s comic book