If you had a time machine that could travel into the past, what era would you visit?
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Steve
Mostly Harmless
If you see any Eloi or Morlocks, you know things have gone awry and the crazies won the day.
Morlocks I can certainly do without. But I feel that some of those Eloi gals might need some self defense training. What kind of time traveller would I be to deny them?
nah.. not worried about the future. I'll see that coming
jobo
Grandmaster
probebly quite a lot, dependent on the culture, the greeks and the roman were very big on personal hygene, the french not so much
Steve
Mostly Harmless
Would be a cultural thing. I would bet that the Romans were probably pretty clean people, but can't imagine that personal hygiene was overly important during the dark ages. Everything I've ever heard about Japan and China suggests that cleanliness is very important to them. Though interestingly, there was a reference to China in my quick jaunt through the internet saying that soaps weren't introduced there until the modern era, but that they had a form of detergent that has been around for a long time.
Sidenote: detergents and soaps are not the same thing, and what most Americans think of as soap is actually a detergent. Cheap "bars", body wash, shampoo, etc. are all detergents.
Steve
Mostly Harmless
Though the French invented the bidet...
dvcochran
Grandmaster
Yea, you know it wasn't readily available. I immediately go to the 'wild west'. Simply put, survival was more important than smelling good.
jobo
Grandmaster
i know, how idle is that?
jobo
Grandmaster
but hygene and survival are closly liknked, armys have aleays enforced hygene, as its better id they dont all die of dysentery
jobo
Grandmaster
that right at the tip of the list of thibgs i necer exspected to google
and maybe maybe not, no one knows, thefirst writen referance to it was in italy, though what most peolke call a bidet today was an american invention
it was patented as the " anal douch" for some reason that didnt catch on and they went with bidet
The only Bidet I know of is the poor man's Bidet. That's when you get splash back from dropping a load..ha ha ha.
Steve
Mostly Harmless
I'm all for the bidet. Was introduced to them in Saudi Arabia during desert storm. They were ubiquitous. Not all that common in America, though they are becoming a lot more common now, since companies have introduced toilet seat bidets that can be attached to an existing American style toilet. I even saw one for sale at the Costco the other day... and since you won't need TP, the next time we have a pandemic, you can skip the lines trying to buy toilet paper.
Though once again, this is an area where we're lagging behind the rest of the world. Japan has some killer toilets. The fanciest ones have built in white noise emitters, fragrance emitters, LED lights, heated seats, and warm butt cleaning water. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find one with a massage function.
Steve
Mostly Harmless
Good to know. So, when you refer to someone as a bidet, that's shorthand for anal douche. LOL.
hoshin1600
Senior Master
i would go to any distant time or place but i gotta be back in time to poop and sleep in my own bed. i prefer toilet paper to a stick and a bed without flees.
I'm all for the bidet. Was introduced to them in Saudi Arabia during desert storm. They were ubiquitous. Not all that common in America, though they are becoming a lot more common now, since companies have introduced toilet seat bidets that can be attached to an existing American style toilet. I even saw one for sale at the Costco the other day... and since you won't need TP, the next time we have a pandemic, you can skip the lines trying to buy toilet paper.
Though once again, this is an area where we're lagging behind the rest of the world. Japan has some killer toilets. The fanciest ones have built in white noise emitters, fragrance emitters, LED lights, heated seats, and warm butt cleaning water. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find one with a massage function.
ha ha ha. all of the above. and #35 funny too.
So the theme I'm picking up is make sure you time travel in this and make sure it has a Bidet
nah just find some hanging clothes and wipe your butt on that lol
JR 137
Grandmaster
Why didnāt I think of that before?
JR 137
Grandmaster
Seeing it happen in real time is where itās at. Itās like watching videos of sports from previous eras. It definitely loses something. Iāve seen videos of guys Muhammad Ali, Wilt Chamberlain, Babe Ruth, etc play. Thereās no real atmosphere to it like watching something broadcast live. Stuff that I saw live lost something when watching it later on. Tyson vs Douglas for example. Some of that is you know how itās going to end, but thereās more to it than that.
Reading a book about what happened doesnāt begin to tell the story and make it real. Going back and seeing it would be a totally different perspective.
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