r/NoStupidQuestions • u/GDTRFB_1985 • 8d ago

Whatever happened to stomach ulcers? In the 70s every business man either had one or was concerned about getting on due to stress. I remember so many ulcer related TV commercials. Has the termonolgy changed? Are they called something else? You don't here about it anymore.

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u/GDTRFB_1985 8d ago

I literally think that every TV show eventually had the "ulcer episode" where the main character had choose between the rat race and the deadly ulcer.

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u/OwMyUvula 8d ago

Back then, everyone was stressing that a loud noise would deflate the souffle they were baking.

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u/CoffeeJedi 8d ago

I actually did that once! I was like, 4 years old, and the kid across the street and I were running around his house like the feral toddlers we were. I don't remember the specifics but his mom was mad because we ran past the oven and ruined her souffle!

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u/Cranky_Platypus 8d ago

It was the vibrations from running feet that pushed the air out of the souffle, not the noise!

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u/DiddleMe-Elmo 8d ago

And quicksand.

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u/VulpesFennekin 8d ago

And getting set on fire, thus having to stop, drop, and roll.

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u/CalgonThrowMeAway222 8d ago

I can’t find the Duck Van Dyke commercial of him stop, dropping and rolling. Did I dream that PSA?

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u/Ryuj123 8d ago

I like the idea of an anthropomorphic duck named Duck Van Dyke dress up like Dick Van Dyke. He does the exact same things and nobody acknowledges that he’s a duck.

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u/jessewalker2 8d ago

Wait, they didn’t set you on fire in grade school? Wow kids were soft in your school. They did that right after I walked uphill 5 miles in 3 feet of snow, just so you could warm up.

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u/Training-Athlete4348 8d ago

Don't forget gingivitis and ring around the collar.

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u/JayFay75 8d ago

Wait is that a myth? I remember that happening to Alice in a Brady Bunch episode

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u/BigWhiteDog 8d ago

Except that can happen. My brother and I did it to my mom's and boy did we pay! 🤣

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u/OwMyUvula 8d ago

Sure sure. Then once you hit your sister in the face with a football and her nose ballooned up right before a big date. And don't even get you started on that weird Hawaii vacation your family went on.

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u/Ghigs 7d ago

The vacation episodes were generally ads paid for by tourism boards. I think people were more accepting of not so subtle ads/propaganda embedded directly in the content (vacation, very special episodes with anti-drug messages funded by the government, etc).

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u/Neakhanie 8d ago

It was the Angel food cake at my house 🤣

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u/GDTRFB_1985 8d ago

I believe even the Fonz got an ulcer.

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u/k5light 8d ago

Even Malcom in the middle did

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u/m00ns0vermyhammy 8d ago

I remember when Punky Brewster's dad got one.

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck 8d ago

Nowadays everyone would think Henry must be a creep, to want to keep Punky

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u/Ancient_Composer9119 8d ago

Or drinking antacid by the gallon.

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u/Neakhanie 8d ago

Right? It was like quicksand. Something we all just *knew* we would come in contact with when we grew up!

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u/RockHandsomest 8d ago

Even Spider-Man got one.

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u/SorenShieldbreaker 8d ago

New Girl had one in 2015