- Cross-country travel takes much longer than a week. Much longer.
- Your personal computer is an abacus. The Difference Engine is not mass-produced. The telephone is in its early stages. Not pocket-sized at all.
- Indoor plumbing is making inroads but isn't ubiquitous.
- The streets are dotted with horse excreta. (Buggy whip manufacturers make good money.)
- Financial panics occur and take down the entire economy.
- 19th Century medicine.
- All suits have to be custom-made, and many tailors were immigrants.
- No air-conditioning.
- No credit cards.
- Vaudeville as mass entertainment. No TV or radio.
- Very little football. ( A plus for me, but hey!)
- Little variety in cuisine.
Thursday, September 7, 2017
The Nineteenth Century Called. It Wants Its Resident Back.
So. Let's revisit the 1800s to remember why we don't want to do that for real, aside from the disrespect for the dignity of every human being. Ahem.
Know-Nothing Party speaks. As usual, spewing profound ignorance and toxic stupidity insensitivity.
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This is what I always find funny about people who are nostalgic for a time they never lived in like Renaissance faire goers. You want to feel like you're living in the 16th Century? Don't bathe for a couple weeks, don't use toothpaste or toilet paper. Don't have a/c or central heat and lose half your family to the Plague. Every Century prior to this one would be a horrible time in which to live. (Although I'm sure future generations will look back at the 21st Century and think "how could they live in such primitive conditions?")
I suspect the smell would knock those nostalgic for earlier times right back to the present.
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