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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

This question is common throughout the internet, but I'd like to see Lemmy's response.

The country you end up in would be random, you don't get to pick.

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[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The bidet was invented in the late 17th century, so no. And anabiotic are still incredibly important.

Not to mention the fact that, until the invention of the automobile, everywhere smelled like shit all the time because the primary mode of transportation was the voluminous-shit-producing animals: horses. And people also didn’t often bathe every day because not everyone had indoor plumbing until around the 1940s. Also, the concept of a “shower” didn’t really become modernized until the late 1940s and early 1950s. So unless you took a bath, you didn’t bathe.. So everywhere stank like horse shit and BO all the time. I don’t wanna live in that era, which happened to be pretty much all the time before the early 20th century.

So yeah. The earliest time I would want to live is probably in the 1950s. Although, now that I think about it, since I’m gay, probably the 1960s.

Don’t even get me started on toilet paper and the widespread adaptation of using it. Bidets were expensive and weird, so they were not widely adopted.

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