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@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 8 months ago

How did people poop before smartphones were invented?

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How did people poop before smartphones were invented?

@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 8 months ago
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  • @[email protected]
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    7•8 months ago

    We read a book or sat in silence with our thoughts. Most great ideas were created on the toilet.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•8 months ago

      Ewww, reading words from a dead tree? Gross.

  • @[email protected]
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    4•8 months ago

    We did not.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]
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    18•8 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    8•8 months ago

    In recent times, by reading. Before that, i think most people pooped faster than we do due to better digestable foods

    • Zloubida
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      13•8 months ago

      And before that, pooping was a social function .

      • @[email protected]
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        1•8 months ago

        They’re not going anymore, they’re sitting there arguing over who has to go get some toilet paper

        • Zloubida
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          No need for toilet paper 😅

          • @[email protected]
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            2•8 months ago

            Huh. It’s like a bidet, but worse

  • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•8 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        3•8 months ago

        The hot fries guy?

  • @[email protected]
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    3•8 months ago

    Presumably on a toilet.

  • @[email protected]
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    3•8 months ago

    I still have my OG gameboy w/ Tetris near the toilet

  • @[email protected]
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    19•8 months ago

    Dr. Bronner’s magic soap label

    • @[email protected]
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      6•8 months ago

      I’m middle aged and I’m still only half way through that saga

  • @[email protected]
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    7•8 months ago

    There used to be a basket full of old National Geographic, Newsweek, and GQ magazines in the bathroom for you and any guests to enjoy.

    • @[email protected]
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      5•8 months ago

      You’ve forgotten Reader’s Digest.

      And we can’t forget the episode of Seinfeld where George takes a book into the bathroom.

  • @[email protected]
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    135•8 months ago

    We read the ingredients on shampoo bottles and we liked it!

    • @[email protected]
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      61•8 months ago

      Kids today don’t even know what’s in their shampoo anymore

      • @[email protected]
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        8 months ago

        I know, right?

        Sodium Laureth Sulfate.

        Sodium Lauryl Sulfate.

        Laureth. Lauryl. Laureth. Lauryl.

        What? Is? The DEAL?

        • Tar_Alcaran
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          10•8 months ago

          Better go to the library to look it up in an encyclopedia!

          • KingJalopy
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            8•8 months ago

            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.

        • Random_Character_A
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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.

        • @[email protected]
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          Um, it’s Sodium Yanny Sulfate

          • @[email protected]
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            1•8 months ago

            Is this a Wake reference?

    • @[email protected]
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      16•8 months ago

      Bathroom readers, magazines, and Readers digest.

      • @[email protected]
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        3•8 months ago

        chicken soup for the soul

        • @[email protected]
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          2•8 months ago

          Ah so that’s why they’re going bankrupt now!

    • Pantsofmagic
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      9•8 months ago

      Methylchloroisothiazolonone

    • edric
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      14•8 months ago

      Dr. Bronners has enough stuff on it to read for 30 mins.

      • @[email protected]
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        And it gave you your daily dose of crazy in the pre-Internet age.

    • @[email protected]
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      7•8 months ago

      Oops got stuck in another lather, rinse, repeat loop

  • @[email protected]
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    1•8 months ago

    deleted by creator

  • @[email protected]
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    6•8 months ago

    Archie comic books.

  • @[email protected]
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    12•8 months ago

    Hopefully through their buttholes, not through their fingers and mouths.

  • @[email protected]
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    15•8 months ago

    Spanish people stopped learning greek after smartphones where invented.

    Tap for spoiler

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      5•8 months ago

      I used to do that too! But living in Eastern Europe, our shampoo bottles had like twenty languages. I didn’t manage to learn any, but I did develop a sense of how closely related they were.

  • @[email protected]
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    3•8 months ago

    Sears catalog.

    • rustydomino
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      3•8 months ago

      Ahh. I see you have good taste in porn, good sir.

      • @[email protected]
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        7•8 months ago

        Vintage static softcore is just better. It is all about what you can’t see that makes it more arousing. I mean, yeah, we can’t see her dilating butthole, but imagining what her winking turd cutter looks like means it is the hottest possible gaping balloon knot imagineable.

        • @[email protected]
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          6•8 months ago

          You certainly have a way with words, good sir.

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