Comment on Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times

DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• admin@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Way back then, how did you spend your time while having a satisfying bowel movement?

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  • dm_me_your_boobs@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reading shampoo bottles

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    • admin@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My favorite was Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap. Absolute crazy talk on that bottle!

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      • Gaywallet@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        David Bronner, one of the grandsons of Dr. Bronner, is a fantastically interesting person with a lot of really charming ‘crazy talk’. I’ve met him a few times at medical psychedelics conferences, he was introduced to psychedelics at burning man and has bought fully into how it’s expanded their mind and has helped them heal.

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  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My dad had a book called Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (no clue which one) in the bathroom for the longest time.

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    • Valmond@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah there were comics or some 180 pages catalogue, or even a “porny mag” (no sex, some titties or the one big flash) in the bunch of stuff.

      People were all alone at almost all times so people did a bit of anything whenever they felt like it.

      It was a crazy time compared to now in that manner, like you’d walk home and no one would worry if you weren’t like one or two hours late. Meeting up? Other is 1h late? Yeah there were probably some problem (it happened to all of us), or they decided to not come…

      So I had my café where I went, you met those who made it :-)

      Ha ha went off the rails there, cheers & good night from the EU!

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      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I definitely miss parts of that.

        The connectivity of the modern world has a lot of benefits, but it's also a pain in the dick.

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  • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d read the labels of whatever the hell was within reach. Shampoo bottle, toilet cleaner bottle, soap, whatever.

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  • DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shitting is better than working. Next question.

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trying to remember that last TGA downloaded from a BBS the night before…

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    • admin@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh yeah! I remember using BBS prior to WWW.

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reader’s Digest.

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    • admin@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What my parents used, yes!

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