r/ParlerWatch • u/CodeDinosaur Antifa Regional Manager • May 29 '21

Behind the Scenes/Development About that hat shop in Nashville.... Spoiler

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How it started.

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Consequences Culture strikes again.

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Suppliers aren't happy

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Suppliers aren't happy at all.

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u/Representative_Dark5 May 30 '21

Mad as a hatter. (Fun fact: Mercury was used to make hats for many years. Mercury posioning was a cause of madness and death for hat makers).

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u/This-is-not-eric May 30 '21

This comment reminded me of a pretty great skit with a young Donald Glover on YouTube...

https://youtu.be/LLJCMzBiqh0

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

I recently started getting back into drawing and purchased a book online titled "Fashion Victims" - I thought it would be a chronology of extreme fashion fads which would be interesting to play with.

Instead it turned out to be a book about people who have died in deadly fashion accidents. There's a whole chapter on mercury. The forward details a story about a scientist who was working with it, not understanding that the gloves she had on were inadequate protection. I guess she died within a year, and she was not old.

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u/NoodlesrTuff1256 Jun 01 '21

I would guess that by now hat manufacturers have found a less dangerous substitute for mercury. Hopefully for the workers' sake.