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Here ya go. Modern. Underrated. 1/2 gallon milk cartons that have the screw tops. That's relatively new and so much better than squeezing and folder the waxed cardboard seals they used to have. And they keep the stuff sealed better, too.
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Porn that's not just a crude wooden statute behind a curtain in the back of an inn that you pay 2 copper pieces to look at.
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The fact that nearly every rear end in a top hat will line up to display that they're an rear end in a top hat on social media rather than you having to spend the time to suss it out yourself
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pencilhands posted:and yet you came up with some good answers i mean the concept of underrated and overrated is dumb. modern life conveniences is a fine topic
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Feb 27, 2023 19:16
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Witch burning torches. Used to be so much effort to burning your local witch when ever your crops failed.
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Im of the opinion that the humble rubber donger should get more acknowledgement, just imagine trying to use the ancient wooden ones.
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Feb 28, 2023 13:13
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Pay at the pump gasoline and ATM’s.
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You Are A Elf posted:Yeah, I’ve seen houses built in the 1950s without plumbing or electricity and were later retrofitted with electrical conduit and water pipes running along the walls. IIRC, something like ~50% of households lacked indoor piss and dook rooms in 1950, and only like 30% had a telephone. GRECOROMANGRABASS fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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GRECOROMANGRABASS posted:IIRC, something like ~50% of households lacked indoor piss and dook rooms in 1950, and only like 30% had a telephone. I just read Bill Bryson's At Home which dives into lots of this kind of thing, very recommended if you're interested in how people used to live. One of the underrated is hygiene; until really recently, no one had any idea how or why people got sick, it was a huge mystery. 
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Feb 28, 2023 14:33
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Probably ATMs and ATM cards. Having the option of cash & checks is cool, but cards save so much time & space.
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Philthy posted:toilets Are toilets underrated?
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must be the air fryer. if you dont think so, u dont own one
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A Strange Aeon posted:I just read Bill Bryson's At Home which dives into lots of this kind of thing, very recommended if you're interested in how people used to live. thos poor worms
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pencilhands posted:once i clogged my toilet and maintenance didn't show up to fix it for like 2 weeks. i had to piss outside and go to the gas station to take a poo poo. it was terrible. Good Lord after day one I'd be making GBS threads in a bucket and tossing it out the windows. Gas station bathrooms are all rough.
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At the beginning of they school year I have my students do a short paper where they discuss what they think the greatest invention of all time is, and why they think this way. Most kids come up with smartphones, computers, or game systems. I let the explain in agonizing detail why their choices are the best. Then I discuss the flushing toilet and sanitary sewer system. I have an annotated Google Slides presentation on the topic. Very persuasive. By the end, almost all of the students end up agreeing that, no matter how cool smartphones are, they don't measure up to not having to poo poo in a hole in the back yard or in a chamber pot you store under your bed. YeahTubaMike posted:Are toilets underrated? Maybe not underrated, but definitely taken for granted. We had a blockage in our sewer line and couldn't use our toilets (Or faucets, or shower) for 24 hours until it could be repaired. Gave us a new respect for having working plumbing. Genesplicer fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:new socks Cum socks pencilhands posted:For me, it's gotta be the washing machine. Can you imagine the annoyance of having to wash your clothes by hand every week? Earwicker posted:clean socks In that order.
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:Porn that's not just a crude wooden statute behind a curtain in the back of an inn that you pay 2 copper pieces to look at.
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Genesplicer posted:By the end, almost all of the students end up agreeing that, no matter how cool smartphones are, they don't measure up to not having to poo poo in a hole in the back yard or in a chamber pot you store under your bed. I'm glad you're able to share your lived experience with the younger generations
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We had a recent plumbing issue, and when i messed with the trap, it resulted in sewage blowing up back in the main shower. I spent an hour cleaning the poop shower 
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Flowers for QAnon posted:We had a recent plumbing issue, and when i messed with the trap, it resulted in sewage blowing up back in the main shower. I spent an hour cleaning the poop shower A couple of years ago this happened to me and there was a 3 inch layer of still formed turds in my shower. Amazingly they didn't smell all that much but it was still revolting to clean up. Especially since I could tell a lot of them weren't my own.
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https://slate.com/business/2012/08/pallets-the-single-most-important-object-in-the-global-economy.html Pallets Refrigeration, canning and vinegar pickling have reduced our diet of fermented foods which is bad. Nitrate fertilizer is a bandaid solution vs actually improving the soil with more organic material and carbon and composts. The ancient Greeks and Romans had a birth control plant called Silphium, but it was so popular they drove it extinct If we wouldn't have messed that up condoms would only be for STDs
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did anyone say vaccines, because vaccines
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Phone reminders, alarms save me constantly
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Probably the safety razor
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Modern medicine and dentistry. It’s still hosed and also horribly inaccessible to wide portions of people (at least in Dystopian Burgerland), but the fact that infections and rotting teeth aren’t a death sentence anymore is pretty miraculous; even the idea of palliative care is preferable to whatever they had in the dark ages or whatever.
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I think I said this before, Potable water piped directly into your homes.
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and non-potable water+wet wipes piped directly out of your home
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How long has toilet paper been the norm? Or having a clean rear end in a top hat at all?
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Nuts and Gum posted:How long has toilet paper been the norm? Or having a clean rear end in a top hat at all? use a corncob. that's how country boys doo
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In the 19th century US, they used old newspapers before specifically marketed toilet paper came into existence. Part of the adoption of toilet paper, IIRC, was an ad campaign promoting the completely false claim that newsprint causes hemorrhoids.
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Buttchocks posted:ear thermometers rear end thermometers are too good for you?
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