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minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up103arrow-down1·7 months agoNine out of ten hatters recommend that you don’t do this. The tenth hatter purple monkey dishwasher. (Victorian-era hat makers were notorious for going mad because they used mercury to treat felt cloth.)
minus-squareovercast5348@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 months agoIs this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoCould have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoI’m kind of guessing the mad as a hatter phenomenon was known then, but don’t really know.
minus-squareSPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoI think the original idiom was “mad as a hatter” which was eventually shortened to “mad hatter”, possibly due to the Alice in Wonderland character.
minus-squareTroy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·7 months agoI wonder what secondary compounds this was creating. Elemental mercury is pretty much fine, but if it was reacting with other things to create wacky fun times…
minus-squareinsufferableninja@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 months agothey chewed the leather to hides to soften them, IIRC. so it wasn’t just getting on their hands, they were ingesting it.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoI think it was mercury nitrate. Much more soluble.
minus-squaredarkpanda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoSneaky Simpsons reference here for those who didn’t notice.
minus-squareTaniwha420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 months agoI thought it was the vapours from using mercury inside that got them.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoIt’s so much harder believing in six impossible things before breakfast when you’re allergic to quicksilver.
Nine out of ten hatters recommend that you don’t do this. The tenth hatter purple monkey dishwasher.
(Victorian-era hat makers were notorious for going mad because they used mercury to treat felt cloth.)
Is this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
Could have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.
I’m kind of guessing the mad as a hatter phenomenon was known then, but don’t really know.
I think the original idiom was “mad as a hatter” which was eventually shortened to “mad hatter”, possibly due to the Alice in Wonderland character.
I wonder what secondary compounds this was creating. Elemental mercury is pretty much fine, but if it was reacting with other things to create wacky fun times…
they chewed the leather to hides to soften them, IIRC. so it wasn’t just getting on their hands, they were ingesting it.
I think it was mercury nitrate. Much more soluble.
Sneaky Simpsons reference here for those who didn’t notice.
I thought it was the vapours from using mercury inside that got them.
It’s so much harder believing in six impossible things before breakfast when you’re allergic to quicksilver.