Sim Kaur
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733 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Sim Kaur’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't feel proud of that one, but let me explain it because again, really good dinner party story.
So the story goes a little bit like this.
Prior to World War I, women were using, when they had their periods, like...
their own cotton pads or they'd make it out of like cloth.
I know in like my mum's time, they would just use like almost like old rags or whatever they could.
And then during World War One, a lot of the cotton that was needed was sent to help people in the war.
And so cotton became more scarce day to day for everyday woman.
On the battlefield, or rather in the hospitals, this new type of like cotton-esque material, I think it was called cellucotton, and it was like five times more absorbent than cotton, but much cheaper to produce, was used to help soldiers.
And the nurses and women on the battleground hospital area of the war were using these as sanitary pads.
They were making their own makeshift sanitary pads.
The company that were making this then kind of got word of this idea that this product they'd made was being used by women for sanitary purposes.
needs.
And as a result, they were like, okay, how do we commercialize this?
How do we monetize this?
And so they actually developed the very first sanitary pad that we use today and turned it into a product.
And so the very first pad came out in October, 1920 fun fact, but that's just, again, an example of how technology has caused the markets to not completely drop off due to privatization of the tech that's come from war.
This then leads us on to chapter four of this episode, because you might be listening to this and going, all right, Sim, cool, fun fact, war, pads, epi pens, fantastic.
But I'm really worried about the shares that I have lost in value.
I am down 15%, 20%.
I met someone that was down 30%.
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