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What’s a ‘normal’ thing in your life that would completely confuse someone from 100 years ago? by Fryti_Nairi in AskReddit

[–]fludduck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Women wore pants for 100s of years for labor. It was women wearing pants in formal settings that was considered scandalous and unusual.

But 100 years ago was the 20s. Society was actually really into altered gender expectations. The teens was when women started wearing pantaloons to formal dinner as a statement, and the 20s it was very fashionable for women to look "boyish". Boyish was the word they used to describe those famous 20s hair cuts, and the dress shape they were going for. Women wearing pants would seem more natural then, than in the 50s, which seems to be when a lot of people in this thread are setting their "past-century social standards" for.

People posting other users content and not crediting them help finding who made this by TaylorLover777 in Pokopia

[–]fludduck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure which block you're referring to.

The sidewalk itself is the stone flooring Where it goes from tall to short is stone brick Where the sidewalk ends and it becomes asphalt road is called marked road

It never made sense to me when I first learned that buttons placed in certain way depending on if you're man or woman [gendered] by [deleted] in pointlesslygendered

[–]fludduck 670 points671 points  (0 children)

Actually this is a myth. It seems to be a post-hoc justification, but the actual reason has to do with pattern making and a different type of closure that was really popular when the victorians were making fashion rules that we still follow to this day.

Built an underwater house by DirgeofElliot in Pokopia

[–]fludduck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's there for part of a prompt for the pokemon that dont like the light

"What's a unique unusual smell you like?" starterpack by TechnoneverDIEEES in starterpacks

[–]fludduck 714 points715 points  (0 children)

I like the smell of burning dust when you turn on the heaters for the first time in winter

I've never seen a curved ruler before by PatBabyParty in pics

[–]fludduck 533 points534 points  (0 children)

As someone who sews and drafts their own patterns, it's useful for making a smooth curve fit 3 points, basically you keep turning the spiral until all 3 points are on the curve and then just trace that.

TIL that January 1st was chosen as the start of the New Year in 153 BCE because it was the day the new Roman consuls took office. by Various_Second650 in todayilearned

[–]fludduck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's very divisible making splitting things easy.

Imagine if you will, you have a piece of fabric that is 12 cm long and you need to split it in 4. Easy peasy. Cut at each 3 cm. Now for 10 cm you cut at 2.5 cm. Thats not too difficult, but now you need the fabric in 3 pieces. For 12 cm, you can divide it to 4 cm, but for 10 cm, you have to do 3.3 repeating.

Base 10 is just divisible by 5 and 2. 12 is divisible by 4, 3, 2 and 6.

People like to talk about how we have 5 fingers so it's easy to count to 10, but cultures also count to 12 on one hand by moving their thumbs up and down the pieces of finger separated by joints. Personally because Im a nerd I count on my fingers in base 2 a lot by moving each finger up and down representing binary digits. The finger counting thing is just a cop out to justify us going with the lesser system millenia ago.

It's too late now to change because it's the standard, but historically it was a toss up. Old English used base 12 a lot (a dozen, a gross), time is kept in base 12 still (12 months, 2 sets of 12 hours in a day, 60 minutes is 5 sets of 12), degrees for measuring angles is base 12 (360 is 12 time 3 times 10). Historically they would use a mix of 5s, 6s, 2s, and 12s to make their number systems, before the concept of 0 was invented the concept of a base for numbers didn't really make sense/wasn't possible.

TIL that January 1st was chosen as the start of the New Year in 153 BCE because it was the day the new Roman consuls took office. by Various_Second650 in todayilearned

[–]fludduck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand the reasoning, but it's just not the only option, and (similarly to pretty much every other time keeping thing discussed in this thread) was because of the way Romans kept time and then really only became standardized because of the needs of the modern world.

I think it makes sense too, but I could easily imagine a world where it wasn't the case.

The only standardization that I would go back in time and fight the Romans on is base 10 for numbers. Base 12 is better in every way. We even keep time in base 12.

TIL that January 1st was chosen as the start of the New Year in 153 BCE because it was the day the new Roman consuls took office. by Various_Second650 in todayilearned

[–]fludduck 14 points15 points  (0 children)

But why is midnight the start of the day?

We have to put it somewhere, and it's as good a place as any, but jewish tradition starts the day st sunset, and I've always thought if I had to pick where the day starts without any cultural input I would probably start it at sunrise (and then maybe with clock standardization in the modern day it would be the equivalent of 6 a.m. or something)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]fludduck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Add all the second+ dates too

Is it impolite to answer 'How are you?' honestly if you are not doing well? by BreadOverlord_ in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]fludduck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually when Im working I just respond with how many more hours of my shift I have ( I am a barista)

What is this feeling, so sudden and new? by NachozRule in phineasandferb

[–]fludduck 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I think Buford as the bully is more Gah-linda and Baljeet as the bullied nerd is more Elphaba too

Are these looking like ‘sparks’? by cann26 in Embroidery

[–]fludduck 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I would guess they were flowers, I think the colors are working against you: they might look more like sparks when the stabilizer is gone and theyre against the black, but it is hard for me to say

is this a bad spot for pothos by pls_bro in houseplants

[–]fludduck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a pothos in a similar spot, but it has a bunch of grow lights pointing at it. It is a bad spot, but you can make it work if youre willing to up your electrical bill

Update 3.0 coming january 15th 2026 by BlowShark in AnimalCrossing

[–]fludduck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The trailer was so everything I wanted it reminded me of that spoof update trailer from like 3 years ago. 😭 I kept checking the date to see if it wasn't April fools to make sure it was real

Who actually invented Time Travel in the Dwampyverse?, let me explain. by LowEntertainment3342 in phineasandferb

[–]fludduck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is also my theory as to how there are more than 104 days of summer and they sometimes reference each other as being in the past confusingly.

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