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[–] xta@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Waitl until she discovers the bidet

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

One of the world's greatest inventions.

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

My plan if I go back in time is to only stay a few hours before I have to go to the bathroom.

[–] Crostro@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You didn't really, just bring the 3 ply with you. Enough to last the trip

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

OP doesn't know how to use the 3 plies

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

Men yearn for the shit-sponge

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I wash myself with a rag on a stick

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Or maybe in the 1930s an ad agency invented feeding on people's fears by overstating extremely rare or even nonexistent problems.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

My brand of cereal is the only one with that rat poison free guarantee.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Excuse me, do you serve gluten free milk?

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Maybe time travel is real but we're still living at an age where something else is so terrible that nobody from the future wants to travel to our time.

I bet it's because we haven't invented those three seashells yet.

[–] Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago

"Eww... I don't want to go to the microplastics era and be contaminated! We spent forever cleaning that shit up."

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"they still capitalist then? Eww. I'll wait"

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As much as capitalism is a truly shit system to actually live in, I don’t think it would dissuade time travellers much because it’d make it trivially easy to live like a king with only a little knowledge of the future

[–] elfpie@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I guess people from a post capitalist society might have issues with exploiting others for their own gain.

[–] frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

One would hope, but unless greed and the obsession with power is not in our genes there would always be people that try to exploit others. Just like there will always be others trying to end the exploitation.

Imo, better systems and fair work agreements are how we put a stop to most exploitation being acted upon.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Time Travel to the past

Cough due to allergies to future extinct flowers

Accidentally spready COVID 2089

90% of the world population dies from futuristic killer super flu

You fade from existence because you killed all your ancestors

The paradox causes space time to collapse

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The first bidets came about around 1700 and were manually filled. Indoor plumbing meant recognizable non-poo filled ones in the 1800s, but the modern toilet seat one was 1964, so keep that in mind wrt time travel.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't have toilets in the 1950s? Surely that's not right.

Post search: How exactly are you defining "modern toilet seat"? The ones I'm seeing from the '50s look pretty recognizable.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I was talking about bidets, not toilets.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Weird that in my language "garderoba" means "changing room." As in clothes changing room.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago

residents hung their clothing in garderobe shafts specifically to rid them of fleas, using the ammonia from urine as a natural fumigant. The toilet and the wardrobe occupied the same small stone room for reasons that made complete practical sense at the time.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Growing up in the Soviet Union we had almost pieces of bark in the toilet paper. Never got a splinter I promise.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What was your expirience in the soviet union? Was it as bad as western media says or it was fine/good/not bad?

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can only speak to my own country, Bulgaria. Some things were worse, some things not as bad. Like we had to wait in line for bread every day but most people in my orbit never went without bread, at least that I knew of. I was a little kid so I'm sure they hid that kind of stuff from me. I got bullied a lot, my mom had ADHD and wouldn't pick me up from school on time so the teachers beat me in retaliation. That kind of shit. I remember people coming in from overseas and sneaking me in a coke for Christmas. They'd sneak in western music and religious stuff. Some of my relatives were sent to camps as political prisoners, most came back eventually. It felt like there was much more solidarity between the people than there is now. Much of that remains.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Romanian here, born in '94, but parents were in their 20s when communism ended. Your experience sounds very similar to theirs

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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke...You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own ~~weapons~~ toilet paper. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Sure, I'll go

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tip 1. Cleaning your hands is easier than cleaning your ass.
Tip 2. You can wipe with wet hands.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tip 3: Never shake hands with Jankatarch

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Instructions unclear. Which bumps do I fist?

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago

Soap is a luxury though. It is borderline free now, it's so cheap. Back then, not so much.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In days of old when knights were bold and toilet paper wasn't invented, they'd wipe their ass with a piece of grass and walk away contented.

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

They really did use cloth though

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[–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 24 points 1 day ago

Just take your own toilet roll with you. If you get separated from your supply, you probably have bigger problems.

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Bidet life yet again pays off!

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[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The Asshole Splinters

This will be the name of my band

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