Not to mention, without the aid of modern medicine. Kevin Hicks has done a few other interesting videos on medicine, and people were quite creative with the tools and resources they had, but without real anesthetic or antibiotics...not nice.
What have you learned today?
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Can’t argue, but also can’t put a price on living a peaceful, drama-free life.
Ah, the "only men can produce what society needs" mindset. Why are there so many insecure guys who need to be praised by society literally every waking second or their egos crumble?
It’s more that males are simpler creatures by nature, and typically need far less to be happy. Less demand for whatever is out there means less dollars being made by the companies selling it all. Even a fraction of roughly half the population opting out on a majority of consumerism would make a huge dent in bottom lines.
The other thing is all the highly physical/hazardous/dirty/shit jobs needed to keep society functional. Infrastructure and other boring stuff. How many women are in those kinds of positions? How likely would they be to fill those positions if men simply stopped doing them? We’d better hope that robots would eventually pick up all the slack. Or get used to a much simpler lifestyle!
I guess because they are used to the remnants of a society that did just that. Usual guys having a whinge that they are being judged on their merits.
Today I learned that if people are wearing upside-down pineapple jewelry, or have upside-down pineapples printed on their shirts, or are even just carrying an actual pineapple upside-down, it's a sign that they're swingers and looking to hook up. (This probably would have been equally apropos in the "WTF" thread.) Now that I know this, I'm going to be looking for it everywhere; not because I'm interested, just curious if some perverted cabal has been right under my nose my entire life.
Also, that's very specific; who the hell came up with THAT as their "secret handshake??" Is it because that's how you'd hold it if you're about to... shove it... up... someone's...?!?
Also, that's very specific; who the hell came up with THAT as their "secret handshake??" Is it because that's how you'd hold it if you're about to... shove it... up... someone's...?!?
Huh, I used to know someone was obsessed with pineapples, and has lots of pineapple themed clothing. I don't think it's because of this, but law of average says there will be some upside down pineapples involved.
I'm telling, man, if I start looking, I'll probably discover they're everywhere...
Huh, apparently in 1900 the bubonic plague reached Australia, but by taking quick measures to contain it, it was dealt with with only a few hundred casualties nation wide.
Doh! Can't find it. There's a comic in Warren Farrel's "The Myth of Male Power" that has a husband and wife in a minimalist setting doing meditation sitting on the floor. Between them is a pot with a single bladed plant emerging. The woman has one eye open and says, "my sister has two pots."
I do think men and women differ in their toy preferences.We're not always minimalists!
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And those measures were? Don’t answer that; I’d prefer to imagine it was an army of plague doctors with spears forcing anyone with a runny nose or a fever into the ocean ala the Black Panther challenge day fight scene. There, they were consumed by the infamous poisonous great white sharks (because everything in Australia is poisonous; can't convince me otherwise,) and the shores ran red with the blood for weeks, and no swimming allowed for years. *sigh* history is so much more interesting when you make it up to suit your morbid fantasies...
Well, 108,000 rats were killed by the authorities (or people collecting the dead rat bounty from the authorities), and perhaps more by private individuals. And there was lots of use of various disinfectants like carbolic acid which is poisonous.
I can dig it, but I'd probably at least want an entertainment unit, or fuck just a coffee table, to put the tv and console on. Looking down from that chair would feel weird.
Did you mean to post this in the "Share something that makes you smile" thread?