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Car-sickness - was it just me?

A dispute between my wife and I. I maintain that in the 1970s and 1980s, people swore that you couldn't get car sick if you sat on a newspaper. Was that just my parents, or was it a well-known "thing"?

I think this migrated to rubber earthing straps on the rear bumper, but I distinctly remember going on school trips armed with a copy of the Daily Telegraph as a cushion-topper.
 
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We just didn't travel in cars.

I had a journey as a kid to Ireland in my Uncle's car, maybe as a 4 or 5years old. I was sick 5x on the 255 mile journey to Holyhead, but sick 3x before I crossed the River Thames. We lived in Battersea Whistle
 

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Yes only worked with the broadsheets though. Definitely didn't work with the Sun or Daily Mirror.
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If it was the 70s/80s you would have squashed your chips Whistle
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We were told to bring a newspaper to sit on for a school coach trip in the mid 70's so it must of been a Placebo thing or just that the teachers didn't want to clean the seats! Laughing
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Excellent. Thank you. I knew it had been A Thing. I wonder how it started out as a theory? Once, when the newspaper magic failed, I threw-up on the coach to The British Museum. The person that took me to get cleaned-up then gave my History teacher and me a tour of behind the scenes. Thumbs Up
 
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That must have been amazing . I love that museum. Is that when you turned into Indiana Jones?

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Same as in the 80's the 'fashion' for chavved up cars to have the 'anti-static' straps hanging from rear of car. How do they work, given the car is already sat on rubber tyres...... Confused
  
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Ah, but those straps were conductive, dissipating any static that had built up. Aircraft have static wicks for the same reason but they are going much faster and static affects comms.

Lengths of chain were the poor man's alternative.

About the same time as beaded seat covers!
 
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