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Damn! Rick and Morty has now ruined any “how X are made” videos for me; I can’t help but continuously think about how Plumbuses are made! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE
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so many ways to lose a finger!
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Don’t worry, there’s no union to complain about safety.
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My great-great-grandad was a “bandy stitch” in a Rangoon rubber band factory in the 1890s. They used to hand cut little strips of thin rubber, fold them over into a loop, then hand stitch on a little anvil with a jig that looked like a four-eyed planarian, very distinctive shape, that. He barely escaped with his hands attached after getting caught half-twisting the bands into Möbius strips as a protest against the poor quality lunch noodles they were served. He escaped to Manila, where he met my great-great-grandma after he got a new job in the big envelope factory.
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The history is just as complicated as the manufacture:
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Good to know though that the guys working in the talcum powdered part of the factory have their respiratory system well protected by those trusty patches of thin fabric.
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Reminds me of a pasta factory.
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*pshaw. Yeah right. 
I know where pasta actually comes from.
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