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What a way to go (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@lemmy.world
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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 72 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

This is what erasers were back then:

Basically scalpels

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Modern erasers just rub a layer off

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

They or teenagers?

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Different times. You wouldn’t mail a baby.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 39 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 20 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Or he would have been drafted in ww1

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Could have gotten laid first, damn

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

Seems that wasn't his goal in life.

[–] theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 4 weeks ago

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

"Yes, master"

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Bet none of them faced even police questioning.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Metropolitan Life Building

are you sure about that?

[–] patxi@mastodon.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

@The_Picard_Maneuver
Is there an anti-Cupid?

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee -4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He died doing what he loved.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

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