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What a way to go (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@lemmy.world
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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 72 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is what erasers were back then:

Basically scalpels

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So... they shaved the paper to remove the ink.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Modern erasers just rub a layer off

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I thought you were talking about the "regular" rubbers, for pencil. Those rubbers are more "grippy" than paper, so the graphite particles will stick to it.

This doesn't work for ink, of course, and those rough rubbers literally scratch the paper with ink off of page.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They just carried open knives around in their shirt pockets? I mean, I wanna feel sympathetic but…

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

They or teenagers?

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Different times. You wouldn’t mail a baby.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Child labor, workplace sexual harassment, and lax safety regulations: check!

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

OSHA rules are written in blood, as the saying goes.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tragic, but... it was 1909. Odds are he was going to die of some manner or pox or -theria regardless.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or he would have been drafted in ww1

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

But he woulda had 6 kisses so...about evens out?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could have gotten laid first, damn

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Seems that wasn't his goal in life.

[–] theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 2 months ago

"Reginald, Get me a new whimsical office boy!"

"Yes, master"

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Kind of brutal actually... Imagine being one of those women and having to live with that

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bet none of them faced even police questioning.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

And the office supply room is still haunted to this very day!

[–] patxi@mastodon.world 2 points 2 months ago

@The_Picard_Maneuver
Is there an anti-Cupid?

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He died doing what he loved.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Running away from sexual abuse, who doesn't love that?

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Fearing for our lives is the favorite pasttime of all men.