Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that in the 1750s, doctors used tobacco enemas, believing they could cure various diseases. When the practice was debunked, the phrase “blowing smoke up your ass” was born.NSFWen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down117cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1150arrow-down1external-linkTIL that in the 1750s, doctors used tobacco enemas, believing they could cure various diseases. When the practice was debunked, the phrase “blowing smoke up your ass” was born.NSFWen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarex4740N@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoWasn’t blowing smoke up someone’s ass an old way to revive them after drowning
minus-squareFuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoI’ve also heard that.
minus-squareSuckMyWang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agohttps://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-to-blow-smoke-up-someones-arse/
minus-squareFuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoI can only read the first paragraph and then it asks me to create an account.
Wasn’t blowing smoke up someone’s ass an old way to revive them after drowning
I’ve also heard that.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-to-blow-smoke-up-someones-arse/
I can only read the first paragraph and then it asks me to create an account.
https://archive.ph/iRX5v