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[–] Crostro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

I wash myself with a rag on a stick

[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

Men yearn for the shit-sponge

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 32 points 14 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 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Excuse me, do you serve gluten free milk?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours 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 3 points 7 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 4 points 7 hours ago

I was talking about bidets, not toilets.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 3 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.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 92 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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 2 points 7 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 53 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 18 points 17 hours 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 4 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 30 points 21 hours ago (2 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

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Timelines merged together to "mend and fix" these paradoxes, that’s why we ended in the Mirror-Universe equivalent. Mandela effects are just glitches from the other timeline remnants.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours 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 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Tip 3: Never shake hands with Jankatarch

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

Instructions unclear. Which bumps do I fist?

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 22 points 19 hours 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 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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 26 points 17 hours 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 13 points 15 hours 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 40 points 21 hours 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 7 hours ago

Sure, I'll go

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Gotta go post this on Something Awful

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 13 points 18 hours 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 2 points 8 hours ago

They really did use cloth though

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[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago (4 children)
[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

The Asshole Splinters

This will be the name of my band

[–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 27 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] homes@piefed.world 8 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Personally, it’s 1928, when modern antibiotics were developed.

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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

The only time I'd really want to travel to is the future.

If I could come back, maybe it would be cool to go back to like pangea times

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