Don_Dickle to Today I LearnedEnglish • 4 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-square10arrow-up1169arrow-down117cross-posted to: wikipedia
arrow-up1152arrow-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 to Today I LearnedEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square10cross-posted to: wikipedia
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•4 months agoWasn’t blowing smoke up someone’s ass an old way to revive them after drowning
minus-square@SuckMyWanglinkEnglish2•4 months agohttps://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-to-blow-smoke-up-someones-arse/
minus-square@FuckfuckmyfuckingasslinkEnglish3•4 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