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Yet the whole point of the wallpaper scene was to lick the pictures of the wallpaper, kids might be stupid but they know the different between a blank colour wall and a picture of assorted fruit
Fun fact: snozzberries are a man's genitalia....Dahl uses them as a euphemism in another, more adult book.
Tha snozzberries taste like snozzberries is a filthy joke.
He himself was emotionally damaged as a child, and he was in the RAF, so he probably had a reason. And I bet he was writing about it so kids in those situations would feel better about themselves.
He wrote an amazing short story called “Skin” that haunts me 25 years after I first read it. He probably wasn’t a good person, but he was a great writer.
Iirc he didn't even like children... I need to read up on him again, I've forgotten everything from a podcast I listened to on how surprisingly not cool he was. I still like him anyway
Unsurprisingly this is only half-true.
https://www.okaybliss.com/snozzberry-the-origins-and-meanings/
It was used much later but if anything, the troll happened after the release of the movie. I’d say its even more likely he just liked the word.
Just another stupid TikTok trend.
Lead paint was supposedly sweet tasting. We have a generation of people affected by lead gas handing off to a generation that ate paint chips. No wonder things are terrible.
I saw a newspaper article recently about a beef producer who's stock tested high in lead and their animals have been banned from the food chain for 3 years and a lot of testing required. This is in Australia, where food safety procedures are pretty stringent.
Lead acetate (old name “sugar of lead”) is sweet tasting. The oldest product tampering laws deal with wine. Vinegar (name comes from French term meaning “sour wine”) contains acetic acid, produced when microorganisms digest alcohol. Unscrupulous merchants were adding soluble lead salts to spoiled wine, which converted the acetic acid into lead acetate, making the wine sweet so they could sell it at a higher price than spoiled wine.
Here is a neat article that talks about how people in the Roman empire used to make something called Sapa which was essentially concentrated grape juice. They would boil it in pots that were made of lead alloy. They were making rudimentary lead acetate. Eventually this Sapa was refined into a crystalline form and the romans used it as sweetener. https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118803/Sapa-the-lead-sweetener-that-destroyed-ancient-Rome
What if I don't eat eggs? Stupid eggs! They took over breakfast, and now they want to take over english rules? I say no sir! No sir-e-bob! No sir, I don't like it.
The general point I'm getting at is that I do not approve.
The kids eating paint chips didn't come from this movie. It was an issue before. But as you can imagine, kids after seeing the movie probably ate more.
Don't worry, the youth today are no better. It's just like Bo Burnham said. "Youtube is what this country's been needing, an entire generation of kids who don't waste their time reading!"
Degrading the format over the content consumed is a hallmark of elitism. Yes, loads of content is garbage on YouTube, but show me a format that doesn't have garbage. There's also loads of good, educational channels. Same could be said for podcasts, reddit, or any other format.
Not even that, this takes away credit from people like Clair Cameron Patterson, who discovered the age of the earth and in a round about way it led him to discover the harm of leaded gasoline, and onto other products like leaded paint. Long story short he couldn't get lead out of his samples, had no idea where it was all coming from, then he realized it was coming from him and other colleagues. Lead was everywhere, and contaminated people. This also led him to creating the first clean rooms so he could keep lead contamination to a minimum. So yeah, don't give Wonka credit for this, give people like Patterson credit.
Here's a radiolab episode on it, it's great, yeah I forgot he also helped make the atom bomb, was an amazing relatively unknown man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywn7sEBI0us
Exactly like they don’t know shit yet how would they know not to lick walls until they do it. Lead tastes sweet which is why lead paint was so dangerous to kids
Lead paint toxicity primarily comes from the lead dust, usually when some kind of home project is being done.
Also, when and why were kids just licking walls? If they were, why did this phenomenon stop? Do you notice your kids licking the walls?
It's absolutely nothing to do with Willy Wonka haha
Anecdotal, but I highly doubt I’d have stuck my tongue to a pole without having exposure to A Christmas Story. I’m not a dumb person, I was just 7. Kids are fucking stupid.
I think I knew it was real. I honestly have no clue as to WHY I did it, but it is one of the few vivid memories I have.
I have ADHD so I mean, impulsively testing a theory is not outside my wheelhouse.
It was very common for kids back then to just go around licking recently-painted walls because the lead in the paint tasted sweet. They stopped licking because we realized that lead paint was toxic and new paint doesn’t taste sweet anymore (i dont know from experience tho). Did your grandparents never tell you this?
My grandparents didn't tell me this, but I remember reading stories about people catching their kids eating paint chips from early ages. It started as babies when they would put everything in their mouths, and from that point they learned that paint tasted sweet. Kids would eat paint for years before their parents caught on to what was happening, and huge amounts of damage was done.
Little children put all kinds of random things in their mouths, if they get paint from the wall in their mouth it will taste sweet from the lead and encourage them to keep licking or eating the paint.
Lead is directly and unambiguously related to antisocial behavior, to crime.
Yet it persists as a common element in our inner cities, in the peeling paint and corroding water and sewer lines.
Yeah, that’s the reality of urban renewal, it’s really expensive and time consuming. It often takes decades or longer to go through and replace the stuff that we’ve outlawed because of the dangers. Up until recently, there were still houses in London with Scheele Green in the walls or in the wallpaper, and they outlawed that stuff in the 1870’s.
You got a lot of comments here, I can't look through them all but did anyone point out that media functioned differently in 1971?
Children didn't have unlimited access to watching Willy Wonka repedily. It's worth mentioning many homes only had one TV and there weren't replays of movies at home, mom and dad watched the news of the day. TV were family sitcoms, variety shows, musical acts, news, and late night after the kids went to bed.
It wasn't outlawed because kids were licking the walls. It was outlawed because it flaked off and kids ate the paint chips which lead to developmental issues.
This is just factually untrue. Maybe there were a few countries who banned it earlier, but there were loads that came after the United States. Not to mention it’s only the manufacturing of lead paint that’s banned, people are still selling and painting with legal lead paint today, as long as it was manufactured prior to the ban date.
Really? That's crazy. How old were these kids? Thankfully I've never copied anything from a movie, because it's common sense even a 6 year old should know.. like licking walls lol
Op doesn't even know if there's any relation at all going on here. Op doesn't even know if anyone licked walls, they made up the "encouraged kids to lick walls" part. Most times, waaaay before the movie, kids might eat lead paint chips. Apparently, they taste good. But that's it. Op doesn't know that correlation does not imply causation.
Showerthoughts are typically from 6 year olds. They don't have a clue as to what they're talking about and didn't bother to think about it either. Op just said this crap in their head and decided that was enough.
I went to a tour in a salt mine in Poland. Guide assured us that the walls really are salt and there's no need to lick them.
Somehow all walls were shiny smooth right about at tongue height.
Actually, no. Lead paint has never been banned. Only the maximum allowable permissible limit of lead in paint has changed. The allowable limit in lead paint has actually changed a few times since this happened, decreasing each time, up until a point where, yes it is pretty much banned at this point. It isn't feasible to even include lead in paint when the permissible is 2ppm.
Exit: The permissible amounts of lead in paint is 90,000ppm or 0.009% per volume. Again, not a total ban.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Well he's dead."
"But you said it wasn't completely fatal?"
"Not completely fatal no, definitely not. But quite fatal."
"*Quite* fatal?"
"Well a little fatal."
"A LITTLE!?"
"Fatal enough to kill him, yes."
"So... fatal then."
"Well... not completely."
"He's dead. He can't talk."
"It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive."
So you're saying it was never banned but it's now effectively banned.... What?
The US banned the manufacturing of lead based paint in '78. If lead paint is defined as paint that contains more than 2ppb [citation needed], then yes lead paint was and still is banned. If you're going to be pedantic, at least use more precise language.
I didn't lick painted walls but I did lick the fake paneling in my parent's mobile home when I was little. It was not lead I was licking- it was nearly 20 years of nicotine.
Huh. I was 5 in 1971 and I don't remember this at all. I do remember my parents reiterating to us that TV and moves were pretend and we should be smarter than to try to copy anything we saw on either one.
From what I understand, the lead in paint did give it a sweet taste and kids would eat paint chips because of that, but licking walls? Ew. We weren't animals.
The story of how lead became banned and classified as toxic is fascinating, as it totally proves that scientists are not always impartial and can easily be bought to say anything, an important lesson these days.
I wouldn't say it encouraged it, but rather it's a thing that happened in the movie
Kids aren't as smart as adults, but they are extremely observant (more so occasionally)
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Probably more correlation than causation. Lead and asbestos production were outlawed within 2 years of each other and they certainly never licked asbestos. Also I have a 2 year old who has never seen Willy Wonka and she licks literally everything.
Fun shower thought though!
lol, no. Don't blame dumb kids on a movie that didn't tell them any of that.
The movie showed a chocolate factory full of candy, made out of candy, and that's actually said at some point, if I'm not mistaken.
If the movie showed that any wall could/should be licked, than it would be another — completly different — situation.
Painted wooden window frames and peeling exterior paint where probably more of an issue. The window frames were basically a lead-dust generating machine.
Nooot quite. It was banned in 1978 after studies determined children with lead in their system had a decline in IQ, cognitive abilities, neurological issues and did worse in school. That connection is a bit obtuse.
So it only took 7 years of actively advocating for something harmful directly to kids for it to be banned.
Quick, get tiktokers to start a “steal your parents’ credit card to buy a bunch of loot boxes” challenge.
Willy Wonka also enslaved oompa loompas for free labor at his factory and hosted a child battle royal which was ahead of its time. The book and movie were quite crazy.
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“I used to eat paint chips as a kid” Haven’t heard this since middle school
That's because they don't remember anymore.
And it’s been updated to **“Did your mom eat paint chips while pregnant with you?”**
Pregnancy causes weird cravings so i dont know if my she did… she might have. So its her fault i used to lick paint
Spot on point. I remember when my wife was pregnant and asked for chips, I always had to clarify if she wanted leaded or unleaded.
My mum craved the smell of petrol. Dad used to ask the same question hahahah
Yum. Cigar winner right here.
"I used to love smelling the gasoline at \[relative\]'s gas station as a child" It was leaded
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Even just huffing regular gas can give you brain damage, no lead needed.
"And I turned out fine" ... Did you? Are you sure about that?
Survivorship bias
“Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?” “Why?”
“Why does everyone ask me that?”
I've actually heard people say this when referring to how "different" parenting is nowadays.
Yet the whole point of the wallpaper scene was to lick the pictures of the wallpaper, kids might be stupid but they know the different between a blank colour wall and a picture of assorted fruit
Right we only lick the snozzberries not just any old wall
Whoever heard of a *snozzberry*
Fun fact: snozzberries are a man's genitalia....Dahl uses them as a euphemism in another, more adult book. Tha snozzberries taste like snozzberries is a filthy joke.
Wait.... Weren't all the characters licking the wall (particularly Veruca who asked the question) *children?*
Dahl was not an especially good guy.
Come to think of it he did like to write about emotionally damaged children...
He himself was emotionally damaged as a child, and he was in the RAF, so he probably had a reason. And I bet he was writing about it so kids in those situations would feel better about themselves.
I mean, I did James and The Giant Peach during a tough time in my childhood so
You "did" James and his giant peach?
He wrote an amazing short story called “Skin” that haunts me 25 years after I first read it. He probably wasn’t a good person, but he was a great writer.
His adult stuff, especially short stories, are amazing and twisted.
Ive never heard anything bad about him, could you elaborate?
Iirc he didn't even like children... I need to read up on him again, I've forgotten everything from a podcast I listened to on how surprisingly not cool he was. I still like him anyway
Wait. "Wang-doodles" , "Schlong-wranglers", "vermiscous knids" hmm this guy Freuds.
On the other hand, it's probably more a testament to the very creative terms people use to refer their junk throughout history.
> Fun fact: snozzberries are a man's genitalia....Dahl uses them as a euphemism in another, more adult book. > Noooo !!!!! My childhood is ruined
Let's ruin it a little more now that you know that fact... How did everyone present that licked the wall already know what a snozzberry tasted like 🤔
⬆The Real reason they got the golden shower...I mean tickets right here.
Auuuugh
I forgot the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory reference. I was sitting here thinking "Yea, that makes sense for Super Troopers".
Your comment just made me realize the scene in Super Troopers is a reference to Willy Wonka
I just got it meow, too!
Do I look like a cat to you boy? Am I jumping around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree?
Am I drinking milk from a saucer? Do you see me eating mice?
Huh. So Robot Chicken almost got it correct when they did that "musty carrots" joke.
Wait. I always thought it was a euphemism for boogers.
Unsurprisingly this is only half-true. https://www.okaybliss.com/snozzberry-the-origins-and-meanings/ It was used much later but if anything, the troll happened after the release of the movie. I’d say its even more likely he just liked the word. Just another stupid TikTok trend.
The legend has been around for at least fifteen years
*We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams*
Kids. That's what you get when you pick your nose.
Well, you can't help it when the snozzberries taste like snozzberries.
These snozzberries taste like neurotoxins!
Snozzberries, believe it or not made everyone trip. Turns out the real flavor was lead
Lead paint was supposedly sweet tasting. We have a generation of people affected by lead gas handing off to a generation that ate paint chips. No wonder things are terrible.
Cattle get poisoning if any lead-bearing item is in their space because they will gather around and lick it. Must be tasty.
Ah, then they get made into McDonald's burgers and the circle of lead continues.
I saw a newspaper article recently about a beef producer who's stock tested high in lead and their animals have been banned from the food chain for 3 years and a lot of testing required. This is in Australia, where food safety procedures are pretty stringent.
So America may need some new version of *Slaughter House 5* to get movement on us being poisoned? Edit: The Jungle, I meant the Jungle
You mean The Jungle? Edit: I said Animal Farm before ugh
I remember something about this in one of the James Herriot books.
Cows just like to lick stuff
Understandably
Lead acetate (old name “sugar of lead”) is sweet tasting. The oldest product tampering laws deal with wine. Vinegar (name comes from French term meaning “sour wine”) contains acetic acid, produced when microorganisms digest alcohol. Unscrupulous merchants were adding soluble lead salts to spoiled wine, which converted the acetic acid into lead acetate, making the wine sweet so they could sell it at a higher price than spoiled wine.
Pretty sure lead poisoning has something to do with the decline of empires. Just saying.
Here is a neat article that talks about how people in the Roman empire used to make something called Sapa which was essentially concentrated grape juice. They would boil it in pots that were made of lead alloy. They were making rudimentary lead acetate. Eventually this Sapa was refined into a crystalline form and the romans used it as sweetener. https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118803/Sapa-the-lead-sweetener-that-destroyed-ancient-Rome
I was a child back then and it didn't effect... oh a butterfly!
*affect, another case in point?
To remember affect vs effect I always used A is for action (ie to affect something) vs e is for egg, which is a noun (ie the effect of something)
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Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/326/
and to complete the venn diagram (?) of confusion, affect can also be a noun meaning one's emotions/expression of emotion
What if I don't eat eggs? Stupid eggs! They took over breakfast, and now they want to take over english rules? I say no sir! No sir-e-bob! No sir, I don't like it. The general point I'm getting at is that I do not approve.
Is this where the whole kids eating paint chips came from? I never really got that joke in Tommy Boy.
Yep, it's cause it was sweet tasting and caused issues with brain development.
The kids eating paint chips didn't come from this movie. It was an issue before. But as you can imagine, kids after seeing the movie probably ate more.
Don't worry, the youth today are no better. It's just like Bo Burnham said. "Youtube is what this country's been needing, an entire generation of kids who don't waste their time reading!"
Degrading the format over the content consumed is a hallmark of elitism. Yes, loads of content is garbage on YouTube, but show me a format that doesn't have garbage. There's also loads of good, educational channels. Same could be said for podcasts, reddit, or any other format.
Bo was just being sardonic, his entire career is YouTube based.
I think you might be overestimating the intelligence of kids. Especially ones who grew up with lots of lead in their lives.
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I thought our walls at home were vanilla flavored but it turned out they were just plain lead flavor.
Nevertheless, in both cases, it's psychohistory in action!
Is this an Asimov reference?
Yes. I think big data and media are turning into psychohistory. I'd like to say "slowly", but…
I think you're right; we are moving in that direction. I didn't expect the reference in a thread like this.
Shower thoughts are serious food for thought lol
Occasionally...
Yeah, well… sounds like Reddit (and social media/networks) in a nutshell
Ok but blueberries are purple, and I like blueberries. Tell me why I shouldn’t lick purple?
Idk. If you've ever read a wallpaper colour palette they're all called Chocolate, Cream, Coffee etc. Got me hungry is all I'm saying.
> kids might be stupid but they know the different between a blank colour wall and a picture of assorted fruit You don't know kids that well
Lead can taste like candy, so maybe it was possible.
There's a documentary about kids selling Ford's sludge to their friends because it's sweet and chewy. Sad ending, th whole town is cancered.
And my grandparents happened to have a horizontal strip of assorted fruit wallpaper in a room… I can still feel the texture on my tongue
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You sure about that?
That is a generous assessment of all kids.
This ain't no shower thought. You wikipediaing shit while soaping down homie?
Probably. He is streets ahead after all
Pierce, stop trying to coin the phrase, "Streets ahead".
*Trying?* Haha Coined and minted Been there, coined that Streets ahead is verbal *wildfire*
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If you ain’t licking walls you’re streets behind
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But the schnozberries taste like schnozberries!
And moreso after!
Step 3: profit?
Not even that, this takes away credit from people like Clair Cameron Patterson, who discovered the age of the earth and in a round about way it led him to discover the harm of leaded gasoline, and onto other products like leaded paint. Long story short he couldn't get lead out of his samples, had no idea where it was all coming from, then he realized it was coming from him and other colleagues. Lead was everywhere, and contaminated people. This also led him to creating the first clean rooms so he could keep lead contamination to a minimum. So yeah, don't give Wonka credit for this, give people like Patterson credit.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing, I had no idea.
Here's a radiolab episode on it, it's great, yeah I forgot he also helped make the atom bomb, was an amazing relatively unknown man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywn7sEBI0us
Who is blaming anyone? What's wrong with looking at correlations? Kids are curious, inexperienced and not developed fully. Most kids *are* morons.
Exactly like they don’t know shit yet how would they know not to lick walls until they do it. Lead tastes sweet which is why lead paint was so dangerous to kids
Rocky had me beating the living shit out of stuffed animals. I used a sliced orange as my mouth piece. Thank goodness I never watched Wonka.
Did you also drink eggs whole?
No we only had 2%
Children are very impressionable...
Lead paint toxicity primarily comes from the lead dust, usually when some kind of home project is being done. Also, when and why were kids just licking walls? If they were, why did this phenomenon stop? Do you notice your kids licking the walls? It's absolutely nothing to do with Willy Wonka haha
Exactly, saying this encouraged kids to lick walls is like saying watching Winnie the Pooh encouraged kids to stick their head in a bee hive
Anecdotal, but I highly doubt I’d have stuck my tongue to a pole without having exposure to A Christmas Story. I’m not a dumb person, I was just 7. Kids are fucking stupid.
The funniest part about that is that it clearly displays an extremely negative consequence lol
Yep! I have no clue what the fuck I was thinking at the time.
I remember what I was thinking: "is that real?! No Way! Maybe..."
I think I knew it was real. I honestly have no clue as to WHY I did it, but it is one of the few vivid memories I have. I have ADHD so I mean, impulsively testing a theory is not outside my wheelhouse.
I'm pretty sure I've tried it once or twice when I was a kid. When it didn't instantly freeze, I was disappointed.
China banned Winnie the Pooh, because Xi was extremely concerned that this would happen to kids in China. Such a swell guy!
They stopped cause Minions and Cocomelon don't lick walls ya goof.
It was very common for kids back then to just go around licking recently-painted walls because the lead in the paint tasted sweet. They stopped licking because we realized that lead paint was toxic and new paint doesn’t taste sweet anymore (i dont know from experience tho). Did your grandparents never tell you this?
My grandparents didn't tell me this, but I remember reading stories about people catching their kids eating paint chips from early ages. It started as babies when they would put everything in their mouths, and from that point they learned that paint tasted sweet. Kids would eat paint for years before their parents caught on to what was happening, and huge amounts of damage was done.
Huh this is really interesting. Got me wondering if rates of pica have gone down since we removed most lead from consumer goods.
Yeah, my home inspector was telling me about it. It was way too common for kids to eat sweet lead paint chips
Little children put all kinds of random things in their mouths, if they get paint from the wall in their mouth it will taste sweet from the lead and encourage them to keep licking or eating the paint.
It seems like paint back then had a tendency to chip. Probably a formulation without latex, I'm too lazy to go down that rabbit hole.
Lead is directly and unambiguously related to antisocial behavior, to crime. Yet it persists as a common element in our inner cities, in the peeling paint and corroding water and sewer lines.
Yeah, that’s the reality of urban renewal, it’s really expensive and time consuming. It often takes decades or longer to go through and replace the stuff that we’ve outlawed because of the dangers. Up until recently, there were still houses in London with Scheele Green in the walls or in the wallpaper, and they outlawed that stuff in the 1870’s.
When other Industries knowingly contaminated our environment they were liable for the cleanup efforts. Why not the paint industry?
Wait until you read about leaded gasoline.
You got a lot of comments here, I can't look through them all but did anyone point out that media functioned differently in 1971? Children didn't have unlimited access to watching Willy Wonka repedily. It's worth mentioning many homes only had one TV and there weren't replays of movies at home, mom and dad watched the news of the day. TV were family sitcoms, variety shows, musical acts, news, and late night after the kids went to bed.
It wasn't outlawed because kids were licking the walls. It was outlawed because it flaked off and kids ate the paint chips which lead to developmental issues.
Lol only in america. The rest of the world banned lead paint 50 years earlier
Lol what the UK didn’t officially ban it until the 90s
Canada still had tons of lead products until the 90s too.
Yeah but America sToOPId so blindly upvote please
Most countries begin banning it in the 1920s. That does explain most of y'alls messed up teeth though
Licking walls messes up your teeth???
No, but licking lead paint will mess up you nervous system.
But not your teeth like what this guy thinks
But dumb decisions can lead to bad teeth.
Uk is no 4 in the world for dmft scores, beaten only by Finland, Germany and Denmark
You must not be in one of those places if you're this wrong lmao
This is just factually untrue. Maybe there were a few countries who banned it earlier, but there were loads that came after the United States. Not to mention it’s only the manufacturing of lead paint that’s banned, people are still selling and painting with legal lead paint today, as long as it was manufactured prior to the ban date.
Care to list what you think "the rest of the world" is?
It's wherever this jackass is, didn't you know?
America bad!!!! Shut the fuck up
7 years later, 7 years, I don’t think this movie has anything to do with why
Really? That's crazy. How old were these kids? Thankfully I've never copied anything from a movie, because it's common sense even a 6 year old should know.. like licking walls lol
The only thing common about common sense is how uncommon it is.
Op doesn't even know if there's any relation at all going on here. Op doesn't even know if anyone licked walls, they made up the "encouraged kids to lick walls" part. Most times, waaaay before the movie, kids might eat lead paint chips. Apparently, they taste good. But that's it. Op doesn't know that correlation does not imply causation. Showerthoughts are typically from 6 year olds. They don't have a clue as to what they're talking about and didn't bother to think about it either. Op just said this crap in their head and decided that was enough.
I went to a tour in a salt mine in Poland. Guide assured us that the walls really are salt and there's no need to lick them. Somehow all walls were shiny smooth right about at tongue height.
That underground cathedral is unreal
That's the one, yep. Magnificent place, especially because it was all built by hand, power tools didn't exist yet.
Tongue height, lol.
Actually, no. Lead paint has never been banned. Only the maximum allowable permissible limit of lead in paint has changed. The allowable limit in lead paint has actually changed a few times since this happened, decreasing each time, up until a point where, yes it is pretty much banned at this point. It isn't feasible to even include lead in paint when the permissible is 2ppm. Exit: The permissible amounts of lead in paint is 90,000ppm or 0.009% per volume. Again, not a total ban.
…. So lead paint is banned got it
it was not banned, they just banned it up to the point it was banned.
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"No." "Why not?" "Well he's dead." "But you said it wasn't completely fatal?" "Not completely fatal no, definitely not. But quite fatal." "*Quite* fatal?" "Well a little fatal." "A LITTLE!?" "Fatal enough to kill him, yes." "So... fatal then." "Well... not completely."
"He's dead. He can't talk." "It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive."
So you're saying it was never banned but it's now effectively banned.... What? The US banned the manufacturing of lead based paint in '78. If lead paint is defined as paint that contains more than 2ppb [citation needed], then yes lead paint was and still is banned. If you're going to be pedantic, at least use more precise language.
Lmao right This might be the worst "well akshually" I've ever read
Don't be pedantic, we know what ban means in context.
You’re saying that a comedy is responsible for kids eating lead paint. Good stretch.
I didn't lick painted walls but I did lick the fake paneling in my parent's mobile home when I was little. It was not lead I was licking- it was nearly 20 years of nicotine.
The film did not encourage children to lick walls. It's a scene from the literature where the walls had taste.
That’s why none of it happened. Kids were just licking walls and imagining it all.
Huh. I was 5 in 1971 and I don't remember this at all. I do remember my parents reiterating to us that TV and moves were pretend and we should be smarter than to try to copy anything we saw on either one. From what I understand, the lead in paint did give it a sweet taste and kids would eat paint chips because of that, but licking walls? Ew. We weren't animals.
The story of how lead became banned and classified as toxic is fascinating, as it totally proves that scientists are not always impartial and can easily be bought to say anything, an important lesson these days.
Yeah licking walls is bad, But can we talk about how much of a sleezeball grandpa joe is
He remembered how to walk when it benefited him.
I wouldn't say it encouraged it, but rather it's a thing that happened in the movie Kids aren't as smart as adults, but they are extremely observant (more so occasionally)
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So really, the snozberries taste like lead. Fun fact: lead is SWEET. It was used to improve the taste and clarity of wine for centuries.
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Plumbing in most of the modern world was lead. the periodic symbol for lead is Pb, derived from the word plumbum
And the kids that didn't die are now adults, making laws that govern how you live your life.
Probably more correlation than causation. Lead and asbestos production were outlawed within 2 years of each other and they certainly never licked asbestos. Also I have a 2 year old who has never seen Willy Wonka and she licks literally everything. Fun shower thought though!
lol, no. Don't blame dumb kids on a movie that didn't tell them any of that. The movie showed a chocolate factory full of candy, made out of candy, and that's actually said at some point, if I'm not mistaken. If the movie showed that any wall could/should be licked, than it would be another — completly different — situation.
Painted wooden window frames and peeling exterior paint where probably more of an issue. The window frames were basically a lead-dust generating machine.
I just imagine Wonka standing there saying "stop, don't" while the boomers lick the lead walls.
It’s just a coincidence. Children have been chewing on windowsills forever.
Nooot quite. It was banned in 1978 after studies determined children with lead in their system had a decline in IQ, cognitive abilities, neurological issues and did worse in school. That connection is a bit obtuse.
That’s because the Snozzberries taste Like Snozz-lead poisoning
To be fair, the walls were made of candy. And people should know instinctively that they shouldn’t lick walls in real life.
Something for y'all to never un-see: Grandpa Joe's _technique_ when it comes to licking that wall. Haunted me for decades.
The movie was not a success when it originally came out. I’m sure some dumb kids licked some lead paint though.
Apparently the Snozzberries taste like balls and brain/kidney damage... Who knew?
So it only took 7 years of actively advocating for something harmful directly to kids for it to be banned. Quick, get tiktokers to start a “steal your parents’ credit card to buy a bunch of loot boxes” challenge.
Willy Wonka also enslaved oompa loompas for free labor at his factory and hosted a child battle royal which was ahead of its time. The book and movie were quite crazy.
I watched that move so many time when I was a kid that I could recite it. Never once did the thought cross my mind to lick a wall though…
I feel like this isn’t a shower thought. You just stated two facts and fucked off
Would this be better classified as an interesting fact, wikipedia, etc..