Mysterious government issued tablets

4068ac1elhodqr · 06-11-2018 03:19PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

You mean I'm gonna have halitosis AND frizzy hair? Feck that, I'll take the cyanide.

For sure, conditioner will attract and pickup all the floaty particles of badness in the event of fallout, so when you come back in from scavaging for rabbits, the hair would be glowing with those isotopes things.

Just wear a wolly hat and haz suit to be sure, some people grow their 'shrooms indoors so guess that could be an option.

Immortal Starlight · 06-11-2018 03:23PM

Those tablets were our governments answer to Armageddon.

pekitivey · 06-11-2018 03:24PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

You mean I'm gonna have halitosis AND frizzy hair? Feck that, I'll take the cyanide.

Kyler Wide Panel wrote: »

For sure, conditioner will attract and pickup all the floaty particles of badness in the event of fallout, so when you come back in from scavaging for rabbits, the hair would be glowing with those isotopes things.

Just wear a wolly hat and haz suit to be sure, some people grow their 'shrooms indoors so guess that could be an option.

Government issued cyanide is far easier that shrooming.

Shrooming - A word I just made up meaning the act of growing safe mushrooms in a time of fallout.

B0jangles · 06-11-2018 03:37PM

pekitivey wrote: »

Government issued cyanide is far easier that shrooming.

Shrooming - A word I just made up meaning the act of growing safe mushrooms in a time of fallout.

I'm pretty sure shrooming is already a thing :P.

Sardonicat · 06-11-2018 03:45PM

B0jangles wrote: »

pekitivey wrote: »

Government issued cyanide is far easier that shrooming.

Shrooming - A word I just made up meaning the act of growing safe mushrooms in a time of fallout.

I'm pretty sure shrooming is already a thing :P.

Shrooming would be something to do before you pop your government issued cyanide capsule while you still have minty fresh breath and smooth, glossy hair.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 06-11-2018 04:27PM

They were sent because people were very worried about Sellafield at the time. It wasn't about Chernobyl or 9/11.

On that topic, does anyone who was in primary school at the time remember sending postcards to Prince Charles, Tony Blair and the head of British Nuclear Fuel?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/anti-sellafield-postcard-campaign-finalised-1.418312

Sciprio · 08-11-2018 03:29AM

BeerFarts wrote: »

I'm still bitter that I never got a pack. I was destined to die in a nuclear fallout.

I grew up in a family of ten. eight siblngs and two parents. There were only six tablets. "Adults take two tablets, children one tablet and infants between a quarter and half a tablet"Can you imagine my house before taken any? It'd be the Hunger Games and that's before nuclear fallout.

Noo · 08-11-2018 03:46AM

ednwireland wrote: »

You're going to tell me you don't remember millennium candles or trees next.

Ah the good aul millennium candle....I thought someone had landed a pipe bomb in my porch the night that got delivered.

Grayson · 08-11-2018 03:54AM

Deleted User wrote: »

news article on the subject for those interested

And look at the tit that issued them

The Minister for Health and Children, Mr Martin, promised the tablets after a controversy last September involving his then Government colleague, Minister of State Mr Joe Jacob. Mr Jacob held responsibility for nuclear issues but failed to reassure the public while speaking on RTÉ that the Government had a workable response to a nuclear accident, including the availability of iodine tablets.

I don't remember the millennium candles at all. I remember the trees but not the candles. So I googled them. There's a bloke on adverts selling one for a fiver

https://www.adverts.ie/candles-candle-holders/millennium-candle/13123656

They mention it here along with some other old memorabilia. When I look at that photo it looks familiar but I don't remember them.
https://www.dailyedge.ie/national-treasures-project-rte-3593707-Sep2017/

(They're wrong about Kurt Kobain playing in the RDS the day he was found dead. The tickets for his gig went on sale the day beforehand. I remember because my housemate had queued for hours to get one and was so pissed off

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Dj Stiggie · 08-11-2018 04:18AM

This thread made me realise there's going to be some mad shít in that time capsule* on the Naas dual carriageway for future generations to gawk at.

*I actually can't verify that it is a time capsule, but my neighbour told me it was when we drove past it once when I was a kid. You know the mad looking ball that looks like a fúcked up road rolled into a ball...

Edit: Yeah, I realise it's time to go to sleep

Badly Drunk Boy · 08-11-2018 11:12PM

valoren wrote: »

Have a look through the drawer at home like the one below. Every house has a drawer like it. I'd bet some still have the tablets in it too.

I have rooms like that...

ToddyDoody · 09-11-2018 02:21AM

i choked on mine. Huge claim imminent

Mysterious government issued tablets

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