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PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

How did people poop before smartphones were invented?

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How did people poop before smartphones were invented?

PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 months ago
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    We read the ingredients on shampoo bottles and we liked it!

    • Fester@lemm.ee
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      Kids today don’t even know what’s in their shampoo anymore

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        I know, right?

        Sodium Laureth Sulfate.

        Sodium Lauryl Sulfate.

        Laureth. Lauryl. Laureth. Lauryl.

        What? Is? The DEAL?

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          Um, it’s Sodium Yanny Sulfate

          • JohnnyH842@lemmy.world
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            Is this a Wake reference?

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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          Better go to the library to look it up in an encyclopedia!

          • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
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            Eh, it’s fine. I trust the suave company. I’m sure they make a perfectly fine product of salon quality that won’t dry out or otherwise damage my hair or skin.

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          My skin doesn’t like it and it’s fucking everywhere.

          If you want to wash anything without it you have to go in two buy your soap from one of those shops where people smell funny and dress bit too casual.

    • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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      Bathroom readers, magazines, and Readers digest.

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        chicken soup for the soul

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      • Gork@lemm.ee
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        And it gave you your daily dose of crazy in the pre-Internet age.

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      Methylchloroisothiazolonone

  • buycurious@lemmy.world
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    Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader!

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    Huh, this vegan dog shampoo has not been tested on animals.

    I feel like that’s the one product they should test on animals so that my dog doesn’t have to be the guinea pig.

  • TheHottub@lemmy.world
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    We read the backs of shampoo bottles.

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    • punkaccountant@lemm.ee
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      I fully educated myself about tampon insertion and toxic shock syndrome during trips to the bathroom.

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    Magazine racks. Every home had a small one next to the toilet

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    I wiped with a CD instead.

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      Scraaaaaaaaaaape. Ahhhhh.

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        Almost as good as the 3 seashells.

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    We used to have words printed on paper (the pressed corpses of trees) called books, magazines, and newspapers. They’d bring one of those.

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      Bathroom books are absolutely a thing. My boomer aunt has dozens of Andy Capp booklets.

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        The hot fries guy?

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      I’m curious how old OP is. I still keep a book in the bathroom. It’s where I do most of my reading.

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    Farmers Almanac. Used to come with a pre-drilled hole for hanging on a hook in the outhouse.

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    Magazines, books, reading the backs of products, and sometimes people would even use a mirror or two to watch TV on the shitter.

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      I used to find some neat patterns in the wood grain on the back of the bathroom door.

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        Classic. There’s the pattern in some ceiling finishes too.

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      Wash, rinse, repeat. List of ingredients. Wash rinse repeat

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      There used to be racks/baskets dedicated to hold magazines in the toilet…

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      Mad magazine, Nat Geo, or if all else fails, back of the shampoo bottle.

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    Spanish people stopped learning greek after smartphones where invented.

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    We used to read shampoo bottles that where usually shipped in Spain with labels in four languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Greek. So it was always funny to try to see how things were written in greek while pooping.

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  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    We’d look through the bathroom window, there was always something funny going on. Such as packs of velociraptors fighting each other, or a mastodon causing wreck on the neighbour’s garden.

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    Take a book with you…or start reading the backs of the cleaning products under the sink

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    We didn’t have to poop back then. The act of pooping was invented by Larry Smartphone, who also happened to invent the smartphone. They were released together originally as a bundle but everyone has both nowadays anyways and you can mix and match.

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