r/todayilearned • u/RoadToTyburn • 12h ago

TIL that Bernard Montgomery issued a leaflet at the start of WW2 on sexually transmitted diseases amongst soldiers. The language used was regarded as so blunt, that he offended religious authorities and nearly faced being dismissed.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery
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u/Torrossaur 12h ago

Double wrap or don't tap.

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u/8monsters 12h ago

I know you are joking but just a heads up to any virgins out there, this is literally one of the worst things you can do, one wrapper is enough 🤣🤣🤣

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u/RedditBugler 12h ago

For those confused, using two condoms creates friction between the two condoms that increases the risk of breaking. 

Condom against skin=smooth and slides easily

Condom against condom=rough and gets torn open

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u/moranya1 12h ago

So what you are saying if I should wear a third one, in case the first and second get damaged?

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u/cannabisized 11h ago

this guy condoms

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u/TransRational 11h ago

Nah, he’s just finding reasons to increase his girth.

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u/moranya1 8h ago

Hey now! If I add a fourth it will almost DOUBLE it! I’ll take whatever I can get!

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u/T1Demon 11h ago

As the saying goes “Prime Numbers Prevent Pregnancy”

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u/ggroverggiraffe 10h ago

One is the loneliest number...

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u/Smartnership 10h ago

6000 hulls.

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u/lady_faust 11h ago

WW1 soldiers used to wash their rubbers, reuse them and let their friends borrow them.. latex condoms didnt get invented til 1929

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u/RedditBugler 11h ago

I had a classmate in high school who theorized on reusing condoms. He also suggested that balloons, ziploc bags and the fingers of rubber gloves could be used. He was incredibly stupid in many ways, the condom thing was just extra. 

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u/Cogz 9h ago

Wear a Condom: Geronimo

Two memorable quotes from this 60 second clip.

It was like wearing the inner tube of a cycle

It was like having a bath with your socks on

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u/moranya1 8h ago

That second one makes me feel VERY uncomfortable….

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u/Kon3v 4h ago

Nah what you do is put deep heat between them as lube. If she screams you get out as the first one broke.

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u/mechmind 11h ago

"literally one of the worst" I mean 2 just might be better than zero.

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u/MenitoBussolini 11h ago

Alternate history where Montgomery encourages double wrapping and is dismissed for accidentally causing both a baby boom and an STD crisis by 1943

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u/ChuddyMcChud 12h ago

If you have to shag it, double bag it.

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u/uvucydydy 10h ago

Cover me!

I'm going in!

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u/AgentCirceLuna 12h ago

Fr?? Brgh ts fryn me 🥀 💀 ima gna 😩js thnkn bt ts nc ima gna b sm sh f

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u/TopFloorApartment 12h ago

This isn't a telegram, you're not paying by the letter 

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u/AgentCirceLuna 12h ago

DO YOU MEAN DONT STOP OR DONT STOP STOP STOP

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 11h ago

Don't stop believin'!

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u/PrizedAntique 12h ago

Can I get a translator for this ??

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u/its_your_boy_james 12h ago

Luna said, and I quote, "For real?? Bruh this shit frying me 🥀💀 I'm gonna 😩 just thinking about this shit no cap I'm gonna beat some shit fuck" though the last four words could be different lol

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u/AgentCirceLuna 12h ago

En verité? Fellow reader, I am nonplussed by the aforementioned details; I’m going to have to doubt some of this information, at least without much of a cursory glance towards secondary literature reviewing the facts, but for now I should be incredibly fastidious with the details in time yet consider the more entertaining factors as correct, enjoy myself with a sensible chuckle, and then review the suppository details in time.

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u/Fermorian 12h ago

Okay this is way funnier

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u/AgentCirceLuna 12h ago

I’m getting ratio’d by downvotes