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Waitl until she discovers the bidet
One of the world’s greatest inventions.
They used whatever they had handy before then because they used outhouses. Corncobs, Sears catalog, etc. Small town people, if you’ve been in contact with the super old people, still talk about it.
I totally missed the etc and thought you were suggesting using small town people as toilet paper.
They used their left hand.
Toilet paper gets better, left handedness starts to become more coially acceptable. Coincidence???
We learned toilet paper from the Chinese, they had it for a long time before that.
Just pack for the voyage I’d say.
You didn’t really, just bring the 3 ply with you. Enough to last the trip
OP doesn’t know how to use the 3 plies
If I’m time traveling, I’m bringing my bidet.
Or maybe in the 1930s an ad agency invented feeding on people’s fears by overstating extremely rare or even nonexistent problems.
My brand of cereal is the only one with that rat poison free guarantee.
Excuse me, do you serve gluten free milk?
Just go back farther, to when they used leaves and grass.
Growing up in the Soviet Union we had almost pieces of bark in the toilet paper. Never got a splinter I promise.
What was your expirience in the soviet union? Was it as bad as western media says or it was fine/good/not bad?
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.
I think the ADHD stuff was just the norm for that epoch everywhere, at least from what i know from people older than me
Romanian here, born in '94, but parents were in their 20s when communism ended. Your experience sounds very similar to theirs
I heard they tied onions on their belts, which was the fashion at the time.
Personally, it’s 1928, when modern antibiotics were developed.
Why not just bring some with you? Or learn how to synthesize penecilin from bread mold and really change the timeline?
The former would be a limited supply with a shelf life (even modern antibiotics go bad after a few years). The latter— synthesizing penicillin is no easy task. Even if I knew how - which I absolutely do not - it’s among the more difficult things in the world of biochemistry. It’s why Alexander Flemming earned a Nobel prize for it.
And basic penicillin is nothing compared to the antibiotics we have today.
Additionally, I’m not really very cool with altering the timeline
Is that Bumblebee Bandersnatch?
LMAO, no. This is not Benedict Cumberbatch. This is Time Agent Daniels.
Play by actor, Matt Winston
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.
And real gentlemen re-used the grass
They really did use cloth though
Asbestos-free baby powder
Now with 20% less lead!
Can I have one that’s also free of powdered babies?
The powdered babies are included for free 👍
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
I’m not sure you want to see the future. It’s looking pretty grim from current standpoint. At least if you went back in history you could pick something predictable.
If you had the ability to find out what happens in the future, you would rather assume it’s bad and not look?
Yeah, being a pessimist means I get to be pleasantly surprised when I’m wrong.
Eh, I’m an optimist about the future. Not in the idea that the current system will work or anything. But I think humanity generally spirals upward. Maybe I want to skip the next 100 years or so but that’s still a pretty long time scale as far as our advancements since the industrial revolution go.
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.
Weird that in my language “garderoba” means “changing room.” As in clothes changing room.
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.
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.
I was talking about bidets, not toilets.
Tip 1. Cleaning your hands is easier than cleaning your ass.
Tip 2. You can wipe with wet hands.Soap is a luxury though. It is borderline free now, it’s so cheap. Back then, not so much.
Tip 3: Never shake hands with Jankatarch
Only fist bumps
Instructions unclear. Which bumps do I fist?
