My mother has a box of poppers

Take one, OP.

Where's poppers?

That reminds me of the dad confidentially telling his soon to be son in law that his daughter has acute angina, to which the prospective bridegroom replied,”she’s got a great ass too”…

I use them when I watch internet pornography.

Wonderful description, OP—but you have a responsibility to history. Just open one of them and give it a sniff, and report back. It's from 1978, it's like a breath of the past, like time travel. It won't kill you.

Lucille Ball had them too.

boiled sweets?

OP is British.

I found my momma's poppers, and they knocked me off my feet.

They were wrapped up in her closet like a box of boiled sweets.

Momma's poppers

Momma's poppers

Loosen up my sphincter

Momma's poppers

Momma's poppers

I'm not sharin' with my sister.

OP is definitely British, r8. But OP has an obligation to try one, and report back. He will be transported back to a time when he (and I) had a future.

Agree with r5. Also would love to see the label design. Can you take a picture and post it?

Is that old broad in the background of R4 the same one that gave Mary Richards the stink eye during the opening credits or the MTM show?

Yes a photo would be perfect

Don’t listen to anyone here, OP.

Don’t try them. If they’re from 1978 that’s what gives the AIDS.

Your mother enjoyed truck stop anal when younger OP

I wonder if it looks like this one, from 1910. According to the article apparently it also helps in child birth, as a muscle relaxant.

What if the poppers are enchanted, and OP travels back in time to 1970 each time he uses them? 😳

That would be bliss!

If you try them OP, just remember that that’s the real deal...not the same thing as poppers we know today, which are usually butyl nitrite. They’ll be much stronger, and depending on their efficacy after this period of time, they will severely cause your blood pressure to drop. Just be careful.

R14 that’s the stupidest most ignorant comment I’ve seen on here in a long while. Fuck you.

"1968 was an especially good year for amyl nitrate—Abbott labs had just built a new production facility, and orders were coming in from the US Defense Dept, trying to fulfill demand from the frontlines in Vietnam. Brightness and a hint of cranberry, with undertones of kerosene, were characteristic of these vintages. Nose curiously waxy and dumb, but trying hard. Strong vaporization and a lasting finish is the signature of these late 60s-early 70s amyl vintages."

I'll take a photo during the week sometime. It's a smallish box about the size of a pack of cards with blue writing.

I don't really want to take any of them, to be honest. My experience of poppers (the bottles you can buy in a nightclub) has always left me with a headache and feeling sick. If I was in my 20s I'd probably give it a go, mind.

R20 I'm not R14 but that comment is a joke, which you apparently didn't get.

Thank you, r23.

R20, in the beginning of the AIDS pandemic doctors truly thought poppers were somehow involved in it.

Do a little research before you go off half-cocked.

The poppers/karposi sarcoma link was disproven ages ago.

Bless your heart, r25.

Really, just…well, just bless it.

[quote] karposi sarcoma

Oh, dear!

Tina!

Bring Me The Rush!

She’s not wrong they were often prescribed for angina and also for reviving people who had passed out. My grandmother and mother are upset they can’t find them anymore, they always carried some in the purses for passing out.

Is that what "smelling salts" used to be?

R30 it’s different but similar. Smelling salts tend to be Ammonium Carbonate instead of Amyl nitrite, but they could both be used.

OP - maybe a gay relative gave them to her? Apparently Freddie Mercury's sneaky band manager who sold details of his sex life to the British tabloids claimed Freddie gave one to his ex girlfriend because she had pain during sex due to endometriosis. As if he knew anything in the early 1970's.

What the hell are boiled sweets and how are they wrapped?

[quote] My mother has a box of poppers

Jalapeno, or cheese sticks?

R33 These.

A bottle of Jungle Juice Platinum and my right hand got me through the worst months of the pandemic. Just because you're not having sex with other people doesn't mean you can't put them to good use, OP

This post made my Monday, OP. Thank you and pride! Lol

Happy pride*

Update?

What the fuck are boiled sweets?

Face it, OP, your mom is a gooner.

r40 Boiled sweets are hard candy.

R40 Hard Candy

Mine had a brother

Amyl is just a quick high… and they are an angina/heart medication.

Update? Has mother been confronted?

R41 “Ma, what are you doing?” “ 😫 “ “ ☠️ “

Your mom uses them to clean her video heads

R48 My mom uses it to clean her leather. She must have a lot of leather but I have not seen it. I wonder what she is hiding!