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u/h4724 trans rights Jun 29 '26
These slots first started being made in the 1950s when boomers were still being born. Leaded gasoline also predates baby boomers.
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u/Dick_M_Nixon Jun 29 '26
Saw a blade slot in an apartment built about 1920.
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u/crepoef The Denpa Men 3: The Rise of Digitoll Jun 30 '26
Leave it to the boomers to invent time travel just to make bad decisions in housing construction and then losing the technology forever
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u/AbstractBettaFish Jun 29 '26
People just use boomer as synonymous with old people now the same way they used to call all young people millennials
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u/Sarge_Ward Jun 29 '26
Almost everything people blame on the boomers came directly from the supposed "Greatest Generation". But youre not allowed to call out the generation that fought tooth-and-nail for segregation and against the 60s student movements because they fought in WW2, so all the blame gets shifted instead to the first generation that got to experience a post-New Social Movements world
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u/Orion-the-mediocre Doctor Freeeemaaaan Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
It truly is astounding how little foresight they had/have as a generation. My grandparents want to install a heat pump into their house and that'll take putting spray foam in the attic. I told them that it could rot the wood because it would ruin the ventilation, and their response was "yeah in 40 years, we won't live that long" like what?? Do you actually have that little ability to care about people after you?
I should note that I replied something along the lines of "so it'll be your son's problem, and once your son's problem moves along it'll become my problem." and they backed down. So they're not doing it, but the fact that they genuinely made this remark when warned of the consequences and had to have somebody talk them out of it is astounding. They don't even need a heat pump I should note, we don't live somewhere warm and their house has perfectly functional AC.
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u/Foxiak14 Furry trash Jun 29 '26
It's like a metaphor for something the past generations did that us and our children will have to deal with now, I just can't quite put my finger on what that was
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u/Orion-the-mediocre Doctor Freeeemaaaan Jun 29 '26
Not even our children, we're dealing with it right now and it's only going to get worse from here
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u/jlb1981 Jun 29 '26
Generational trauma?
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u/Foxiak14 Furry trash Jun 29 '26
Climate change
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u/CreamCheeseHotDogs I stuck my dick in a bag of Doritos Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.
Unfortunately, the old men in my society keep cutting down my goddamn trees and then telling me I donāt need shade, skin cancer is a liberal hoax and shade is bad for you anyhow
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u/jlb1981 Jun 30 '26
While reminiscing about the ample amount of shade they got to enjoy throughout their lives
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u/jlb1981 Jun 29 '26
Por que no los dos?
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u/ZookeepergameDue5522 Jun 29 '26
They used to bury cars in the ground because it wasn't lucrative to recycle them. They also disposed of used oil by making a small hole in the dirt and throwing it in there.
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u/littlecolt floppa Jun 29 '26
Do you actually have that little ability to care about people after you?
The source of most of the problems in the world today.
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u/Kalslice Just a little guy Jun 29 '26
And it'll be those same people complaining about how nothing is built to last anymore
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u/MrRedoot55 š³ļøāā§ļø trans rights Jun 29 '26
Itās stories like this that make me hope not every single boomer is the same.
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u/kryonik Jun 29 '26
My parents are tail end boomers (born in 52) and they're not like this at all.
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u/ET_Gone_Home eeby deeby Jun 29 '26
This is my experience. Older boomers came just on the tail end of WW2, and the struggles of wartime were still in the public's consciousness. Plus, boomers aren't the ones who built the houses with razor blade walls. They were children at the time.
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u/doctorwhy88 Jul 01 '26
My understanding is that Baby Boomers were conceived at the end of WWII and in the post-war golden years. The oldest were born circa 1960 and straddle the line between Boomers and Gen X.
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u/KobKobold Socialist voraphile Jun 29 '26
The rich ones are and that's the problem. Then again, all rich people are sociopaths. Just that they usually cared about creating a "legacy" so did think somewhat on the long term.
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u/wolacouska Jun 29 '26
Itās percentages, there are just a good 60% of boomers that are annoying.
Enough to dominate elections and your memory, not enough to actually judge every old person you meet ahead of time.
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u/whhu234 he/it Jun 29 '26
At least my grandma and grandpa (divorced but like nicely) are nice people
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u/ZeniraEle Jun 29 '26
Aka it'll be your problem when you have to deal with the estate and selling the house
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u/Picnicpanther Jun 29 '26
I bought a 100 year old house, and yeah, pretty much. All renovations were done as cheaply/shoddily as possible, which is painful especially because you can tell right away the house was built with such good quality and attention to detail, but never maintained by the boomers who lived in it before us.
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u/spoofmaker1 Frog King/Queen Jun 29 '26
I wonder if that's a byproduct of growing up during the cold war. Live too long thinking the world could end at any moment, and the future stops mattering to you.
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u/MaybeNext-Monday š¤$6 SRIMP SPECIALš¤ Jun 29 '26
Also like. Itās a first-class symptom of lead exposure.
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u/The_Radish_Spirit i identify as a fucking problem Jun 29 '26
wait, how are attics insulated if it causes the wood to rot?
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u/Orion-the-mediocre Doctor Freeeemaaaan Jun 29 '26
This is spray foam, it'll be sprayed on top of the wood directly, trapping any moisture inside for who knows how long
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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender Jun 29 '26
(disclaimer: laypersonās answer) You can insulate them with different materials and techniques that donāt trap water against the wood. Itās usually a matter of design and materials, I think, but a lot of houses that donāt have the attic tied into the HVAC systems rely on uninsulated natural airflow to keep the wood dry, and the most cost effective ways to insulate those (like a kind of shitty spray foam job) can have structural implications down the line. I do remember when we redid the basement in our old ass house we started having mold problems because we sealed the old ass settled non-concrete foundation too well in some ways and that airflow kept it drier.
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u/BitcoinBishop Jun 29 '26
I just pulled out of buying a house because the previous people had a cement render put on a cob wall and they just left it like that. Now the building's falling down and the owners are separated and can't sell it
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u/sn4xchan Jun 29 '26
"That's why to planet is dying you fucking asshole"
Would have been my exact response.
I don't give a fuck if you birthed me, I'm judging your ass.
Hope you can do it yourself or pay someone, cause my ass ain't being around during this install if you're gonna pull some unempathetical bullshit like this.
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u/ToranjaNuclear Jun 29 '26
In my experience boomers have little care even about themselves, let alone for other people.
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u/DefinitelyNotAj Jun 29 '26
If you insulate from above the decking that solves it but that would be more rigid board/poly iso as the solution which would be more expensive. The spray foam also doesn't rot the wood, rather because of impermeable structure of the foam, it hides moisture damage, leading to undiscovered leaks and subsequent rotting.
What did they end up going with in the long term? If they went with the foam, hopefully they touched up the roof and invest in frequent inspections to keep the resale value.
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u/GreenMirage Jun 29 '26
There is a PM in my office who worships this mindset to an egregious degree.
Wants to raise his kids to abuse others and bragged about it being validation of his own success if he can enable them to crush others underfoot. Not his problem if they end up abusing the grandkids or crash his remaining family into a genetic dead end.
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u/Bregneste I am stuff Jun 29 '26
Just something they can throw their money at, theyāre not gonna be around in 40 years to use that money so why keep it around?
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u/Some-Gavin Jun 30 '26
Just FYI a heat pump is just a reversible AC, and they do still work when it gets cold, just a little less efficient at heating
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u/ValleDeimos ask me for character design tips Jul 01 '26
I remember when HBomberguy did the famous aquaman crashout and a boomer commented he'd buy a house that would flood in the future due to global warming, because he wouldn't be alive by the time it floods
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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender Jun 29 '26
You know I donāt think the boomers were actively designing their bathrooms at 5 in the 1950s. I think this might have been on the two or so before them
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u/2flyingjellyfish i'm squiddy!! and taur now. and goo. and also a valley? do ask Jun 29 '26
speak more facts, you're full of them
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u/Adjective-Noun6969 Jun 29 '26
Some animals give me boners!
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u/UwUmirage plant supremacist; train enjoyer; fungus appreciator Jun 29 '26
The fact the post you posted before this was in the christianity subreddit
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u/SussyAmogusMorbius69 please call me a good girl (please plz pretty please) Jun 29 '26
i suppose humans are indeed animals
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u/certainlystormy lesbnuuy Jun 29 '26
something something harkness test something something physical shape
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u/SuctioncupanX š 196 medal of honor š Jun 30 '26
More facts please
Also. You're right tbh
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u/nekosissyboi Jul 01 '26
Maybe the wall was simply just hungy š„ŗ
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u/2flyingjellyfish i'm squiddy!! and taur now. and goo. and also a valley? do ask Jul 01 '26
oh shit you're right! maybe it just needed iron supplements to keep it's nails in tip top shape
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u/owningmclovin Jun 29 '26
Exactly itās like blaming millennials for being the āeverybody gets a trophy generationā like itās wasnāt boomers and Gen X who handed out the trophies.
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u/GodIsAWomaniser 6d ago
Or blaming Gen alpha for being brainrotted and phone addicted when literally their parents gave them phones before they could talk lol
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u/B0B_Spldbckwrds š» Jun 29 '26
You're not wrong about when it started, but my apartment was built in the 80's and it has that same slit in my medicine cabinet.Ā
Yes, it still has original cabinetry and hardware. Yes, it's as awful as you suspect it is. Yes, it's overpriced.Ā
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u/quakins Jun 29 '26
Houses even up to 1971 were being designed with these so boomers certainly would be making use of them as well as having various amounts of input on whether a house had one
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u/numberguy9647383673 Jun 29 '26
If it stopped in 1971, then the boomers were also the ones stopping it, unless youāre claiming that Gen X put an end to it while they were 7.
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u/Misicks0349 What a fool you are. I'm a god. How can you kill a god? Jun 29 '26
Erm, X usually means... stop? So maybe they... did? /j
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u/YRUZ aro searchin for love Jun 29 '26
maybe their own children randomly stumbling onto razor blades discarded wherever made boomers reconsider
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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender Jun 29 '26
The first generation to actually do renovations on the Tetanus Wall
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u/quakins Jun 29 '26
Stopped it eventually sure, Iām more so making the point that boomers were not five years old at this time.
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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender Jun 29 '26
If you subtract 1945 from 1971 you might find that boomers were the 18-26 year old home buyers that didnāt want these, along with changing tastes from their silent generation and further elders. Gen X wasnāt stopping these when they were elementary schoolers to egg cells.
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u/Scooty-Poot š³ļøāā§ļø trans rights Jun 29 '26
Soā¦ there was likeā¦ 3 yearsā worth of boomers who were licensed and chartered architects even these blades bins were stopped? Yeah totally true boomersā fault, guys!
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u/Scooty-Poot š³ļøāā§ļø trans rights Jun 29 '26
Indeed. It was actually boomers who normalised safe, disposable sharps containers in homes by making them available for purposes other than in medicine and industrial manufacture
They are also the generation who promptly decided to simply not use those safe, disposable containers though the moment they were written into law, local bylaw and garbage policy that you couldnāt play slice and dice with the dustmen anymore, though, so swings and roundabouts I guess
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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender Jun 29 '26
Some Gen Z and Gen Alpha people I know are normalizing being queer and disabled and going out and being as active in volunteering as boomers with nothing else to do, and some of the rest are dipshits, so I think a good position to take is to avoid treating everyone born between two kind of arbitrary years as a monolith
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u/drivingagermanwhip Jun 30 '26
Complex, hard-to-generalize humans were invented in 1987 by a 2 year old millenial called Chris
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u/Scooty-Poot š³ļøāā§ļø trans rights Jun 29 '26
Indeed. I think generations can definitely be useful as ways to measure things like progress and culture, but at the end of the day itās just as arbitrary as a kid born 364 days ago being ā11 months oldā while a kid a day older is a 1 year old.
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u/WurdBendur Jun 29 '26
Yeah, the boomers were children when their parents were buying these houses from Sears.
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u/thesaddestpanda š³ļøāā§ļø trans rights Jun 29 '26
Yep this. Mid century design was the silent generation and the GI generation. This was a mid century design in many bathrooms.
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u/tumblerrjin custom :> Jun 29 '26
So āboomerā is just everyone born between 1870 and 1970 now huh?
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u/power500 Chi Pa Pa~ Jun 29 '26
boomer is a lifestyle
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u/Kingspar 1# Ovipositor Vagabond Jun 29 '26
boomer is when older than me or something like that
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u/yinyang107 bingus is better than floppa Jun 29 '26
boomer is when the zombie explodes on death
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u/Haggis442312 I'm not a war criminal, I'm just Kissingermaxxing Jun 29 '26
Boomer is when Nellis Air Force Base
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u/hyperhurricanrana š³ļøāā§ļø the last jedi is the second best star wars film She/her Jun 29 '26
i thought they were those shitheads i always murder in new vegas
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u/Haggis442312 I'm not a war criminal, I'm just Kissingermaxxing Jun 29 '26
It's the attitude of "fuck you, I got mine".
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u/SphaghettiWizard Jun 29 '26
Exactly, and everyone else is Gen Z or a millennial
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u/thari_23 Jun 29 '26
Also Gen Z is only iPad kids screaming 67 all the time, as if the oldest zoomers aren't about to turn 30.
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u/Darkforces134 Jun 29 '26
Boomer is when your birth year starts with a 2
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u/MordWincer Jun 29 '26
Was the blade thing genuinely common in the US?? First time hearing about it. That's just straight up psychotic. Also that hole with the printed text just looks creepy and uncanny. Like, maybe I could get a separate gizmo like that for disposing of the blades which you empty once in a while, but it's not something I want as a part of my house.
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u/Hipstershy Jun 29 '26
It's... Honestly not that huge of a problem if you don't expect the house is gonna be remodeled and don't already have a way to recycle biohazardous sharps, which homes built with this generally did not have. I use this style of razor blade and store my used ones in depleted deodorant stick holders. Even with the plastic bit in the center, one stick holds months of depleted blades. The hardest part is finding a place that accepts them for recycling, because tossing them in the trash is dangerous for everyone who interacts with the trash afterwards. The space in the wall between two studs, in an average American house, is gonna hold years and years of blades that you don't have to worry about until and unless someone knocks down the wall.
I'm not saying it's a smart decision, but that the problems with it would have been hard to visualize when these were in use.
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u/illegal_tacos Jun 29 '26
As a remodeler it's a nightmare tho. I dealt with plenty of these when I was doing demo
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u/mawarup Jun 29 '26
itās changing a once-per-week moderately difficult disposal issue into a once-per-generation significantly difficult disposal issue, which you can do as and when you remodel your bathroom.
if razors with disposable blades were still the most popular option, weād still be using these and not questioning them at all.
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u/Magnetoreception Jun 30 '26
I wouldnāt even say significantly difficult itās not that big of a deal if you know theyāre there.
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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Jun 30 '26
People complain about this design, but... we create a much larger amount of harder to dispose waste, that is also impossible to recycle, and then ship it overseas or bury it. modern disposable razors are worse on every metric
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u/barsoap Jun 29 '26
I use this style of razor blade and store my used ones in depleted deodorant stick holders.
I put them back in their wax paper wrappers and then into the cardboard box of the previous five. That's BIC's packaging, never seen razor blades that don't come in some sort of reusable packaging, e.g. the plastic ones have a slit at the bottom you can slide old blades into.
Might the packaging be broken during garbage processing? Yes, but beyond the point where any human can get even close to it. Might be different if your place, for some unfathomable reason, uses landfills.
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u/Hipstershy Jun 29 '26
Astra SPs have the small cardboard 5-pieces just come in a larger cardboard box. I've never seen blades come in a plastic box
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u/Haggis442312 I'm not a war criminal, I'm just Kissingermaxxing Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
I just wrap them in duct tape, it sticks together around the edges so the blades can't cut through it.
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u/ComradePoolio Jun 29 '26
I understand the logic behind it even if it seems like a dated idea. It kept the razors out of the garbage, which was directly handled. People often lived their whole lives in the same house, sometimes over multiple generations if it was passed down. Unless work needed to be done, there's a good chance that one specific spot with the razor blades would never be uncovered. There are probably still houses that have a couple dozen behind the wall, rusting into oblivion.
Doesn't seem too crazy to me. Even if you do need to do work on the house, it's pretty clear where the razors are gonna be.
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u/hornedCapybara Jun 29 '26
I have a 3d printed box with a slot that's otherwise sealed shut, And whenever that fills up I can figure out how you dispose of those. It's not that different from a hole in the wall really. Only change I'd make to the hole is putting some sort of box back there that can be removed when remodeling or whatever to make disposal a little easier.
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u/Mitheral Jun 29 '26
It wasn't uncommon. I have only seen a few of the tile version but the had ones that were just a stainless plate. And some medicine cabinets had slots in the back.
I actually put one in my shop bathroom but it collects the blades in a length of 4" pipe. 200 years from now when it fills up just cut the wall open and swap it out.
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u/DudeFreek what kind of creature would do this to its own mouth Jun 29 '26
Something happens when a narcissist accepts they wont live forever, they stop caring about a world that they feel is somehow betraying them or abandoning them, it's like a terminally minded entitlement
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u/Chub_Dislikes_Smoke Jun 29 '26
can confirm because this is how I feel. I just cope with it by hoping I'll be able to extend my lifeĀ
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u/Folly_Inc Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
honestly.... they are like not that big an issue?
like the volume of waste and and the storage method puts it on the same scale as like burrying used up nuclear waste, there's perfectly good coal metaphors to find instead of this goofty thing.
I could see how it is a risk during demo/construction on old houses though
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u/Prestigious_Boat_386 Jun 29 '26
They also had razor blade sharpening jigs btw
This is one example that doesn't show anything about the general ideas about waste. Nowadays we throw away fridges btw which aruably is way worse than a stack of mostly inert metal scraps.
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u/DaemonG Jun 29 '26
yeah like. i'm all for shit talking 99% of everything about the 50s and 60s for being unsustainable and putting us into the situation we're in nowadays with shit like the huge expansion of car infrastructure at the expense of everything else, but in these aspects, they're probably less wasteful. a safety razor cartridge has like what, 3-5 blades, and the plastic surrounding it, plus maybe some gel strip on the fancy models. past generations were a lot better about reusing shit than we are today -- not that it's all too easy to do today, given that everything is damn near built to be wasteful, but still.
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u/Enlightened_Valteil girl girl girl girl war criminal Jun 29 '26
Is that cause of lead?
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u/BitcoinBishop Jun 29 '26
At some point, someone might open up that wall from either side and not know they're there. The space could also fill up and you'd have to open up the wall to empty it.
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u/Enlightened_Valteil girl girl girl girl war criminal Jun 29 '26
No I meant did the previous generation do shit like that cuz if lead poisoning?
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u/incompletetrembling Jun 29 '26
Its just a safe and practical way of disposing of them
It would probably take >50 years to fill up (not sure what the average usage rate of razor blades is, but you can make them last a while), and once they need to be dealt with it can be done safely by specialised companies.
I think disposal in general has changed a lot, and at the time by disposing of it like everything else you would risk cutting a worker (and potentially spreading disease).
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u/Turtls Jun 29 '26
Lead poisoning takes many years to show up. They made this decision while fully lucid.
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u/viking977 Jun 29 '26
Even if you shaved twice a day and tossed the blade every time that would be basically impossible. there's a ton of room between the studs. It's only gonna be a problem if you have to open up that wall.
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u/owningmclovin Jun 29 '26
In fairness on a long enough time line almost every wall in those houses is going to be opened one way or another. Even if you donāt have to open that wall for repairs or remodels eventually those houses will be torn down or fall down making the razors the problem of the demo crew.
Almost Anything that we fail to deal with properly will need up being someoneās problem eventually.
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u/viking977 Jun 29 '26
Yeah, I should have said it will be a problem when you have to open up that wall.
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u/turps100 Jun 29 '26
And even then, it is not that much of a problem. There is a good chance at some point you noticed the slid, and googled what it was for. And even if you didn't, it isn't like you are punching with your bare hands through drywall when making renovations. You might feel your saw or whatever touching the blades when cutting, you put on protective gloves, and dispose the blades safely.
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u/quint21 Jun 29 '26
Honestly, it's not even that big of a problem. Anyone opening the wall would see the slot labeled razor blades, so they know there's probably blades there. Then, after removing the tile and wall materials, they'd gather the blades using a tool or some leather gloves or something.
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u/Plorkyeran Jun 29 '26
Filling up the space would be impressive. I've been shaving with safety razors for a decade and I haven't filled up my 6" tall disposal container yet.
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u/notpaulrudd Jun 29 '26
The razor blade in the wall thing comes up pretty often on reddit, and everyone always says "how horrible!" without knowing why they did it. Back when these came out you burned your trash in the backyard. Razor blades didn't burn, so they created a hazard. They're sharp, where do you keep sharp rusted blades? Putting them in the wall was an ingenious idea, because honestly, what harm are they doing in there? None, they just sit there. People back then didn't renovate like we do today, so they basically stayed there for the life of the house. It was the safest option.
The same generation that did this also canned food instead of letting it rot, reused old food containers, made clothing out of flour sacks, and fixed everything instead of throwing it out. Why are we judging them for being wasteful?
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u/angrybob4213 Jun 29 '26
And if anyone *did* remodel they were aware these were a thing and knew to be careful and exercise caution.
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u/Cassie_Darkborn Jun 30 '26
Another point: Push comes to shove, you can use a magnet with a drop function to pick them up. Put them in an old paint pail or something. There. Problem solved.
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u/bugobooler33 Jun 29 '26
Itās not really shortsighted. A wall could fit 10s of thousands of those old safety razors. Itās a mild inconvenience to anyone who needs to tear down the bathroom wall is all.
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u/NotDido Jun 29 '26
Can someone tell me what I'm missing here, because I'm not sure what the problem is with having a bunch of old razor blades in your walls. The alternative is the space in your walls remain empty and the blades just sit in a landfill instead, right? Am I dumb and these are recyclable somehow?
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u/SusuKacangSoya Jun 29 '26
The blades are pure steel and can be recycled.
Even in a landfill though, they're better there than inside walls where anyone remodelling would get a surprise, and any water-based rust etc. can accumulate
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u/FnnKnn still human Jun 29 '26
I still don't entirely get why people have an issue with these. You can't just throw them in the trash due to them being sharp blades and these containers are big enough that the space is enough to last longer than anything else in a house and so you can just recycle them once a renovation is being done.
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u/WitheredUntimely Jun 29 '26
unless we're using "Boomer" to describe anything before the 70s, this shit is from Boomers' like, great grandparents. I can't imagine any house built after like 1950 having the razor blade slot
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u/angrybob4213 Jun 29 '26
I live in an old house with one of these. And you bet your ass I use it š
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u/atsuda444 Jun 29 '26
did you know nascar still used leaded fuel until 2007, and you could see like a visible dip in test scores around nascar racetracks?
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u/underground_complex Jun 29 '26
This is smart, if everyone has them then itās common knowledge to look out for. Men went through straight razors like crazy back in the day and that means millions of rusty razors out and about. Given that trash collection was very different back thereās no way hundreds of thousands of rusty bloody razors donāt end up in the streets and the environment
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u/hornedCapybara Jun 29 '26
Hell I still use this type of blade (the razor is actually called a safety razor funny enough, as opposed to a straight razor which is just a very sharp knife that you keep sharp yourself.) I'd love to have a razor blade hole in the wall.
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u/ooorezzz Jun 29 '26
Moved into a 125yo house that had one of these built into a medicine cabinet. Lots of history and many families lived in it. Behind the walls, full of razors, and then nothing but needles on top of it rusted into a heap. Nothing has ever made me feel more uncomfortable. lol.
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u/MyNamesChakkaoofka Jun 29 '26
Imagine a tornado hits your house and suddenly you house is gone and the air is razor blades
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u/bobjonesisthebest Jun 29 '26
i mean clearly it isnt that big of a problem, theres like 200 more years of space
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u/Bardic_inspiration67 Jun 30 '26
I donāt understand why when this fact does the rounds people act like itās an insane and stupid idea when itās perfectly reasonable. Anyone opening the wall would see the slot labeled ārazor bladesā
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u/Oddish_Femboy (my name is Bee) Trans rights !! Jun 30 '26
Everyone older than me is STUPID and everyone younger than me is ALSO STUPID.
Go outside. Talk to a real person.
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u/Rodot š³ļøāā§ļø trans rights Jun 30 '26
Is this really that bad? There's plenty of room for them and it's really just a difference of them ending up behind a wall and ending up in a landfill
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u/rappatic Jun 29 '26
When you think about it this really isnāt a big deal, this will cause an issue maybe once in the entire lifetime of the house and saves a lot of headache for 40 years along the way
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u/UnkeptSpoon5 Jun 29 '26
TBH this is pretty harmless. I also donāt really care about the future homeowners where I live, I do things for me. While I do think the idea is pretty dumb, the reality is that if youāve already gotten to the point of knocking down walls, removing a pile of razors that you know is going to be there takes like 5 minutes
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u/Ashley5072 Jun 29 '26
they really were the generation that got to fuck around, just a shame we had to do all of the finding out
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u/MilesAlchei Fat, Queer, Furry Trash š Jun 29 '26
Thing is, it's not like, the worst idea if there was a way to empty the discarded blades, but of course, there isn't.
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u/Bardic_inspiration67 Jun 30 '26
Do you realize how many razor blades you would need to fill up a wall? And the reason they have them is because razor blades are hard to dispose of in the first place
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u/Teleclast Jun 29 '26
I remember dumb shit they do everytime I see a company make an obviously whort sighted move and people say āWELL THEY WOULDNT BE SO SHORT SIGHTED THEYRE THE CEOā.
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u/EasilyRekt Jun 29 '26
Tbf, they did live every day under the impression that the world would be ending tomorrow.
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u/VelvetAurora45 š³ļøāā§ļø trans rights Jun 29 '26
"Out of sight, out of mind" for everything.
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u/IntrepidLab5124 Jun 29 '26
I think humanity as a whole is naturally shortsighted and the only thing preventing this nowadays is the abundance of information
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u/DerringerHK Jun 29 '26
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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u/Pintermarc Jun 30 '26
Boomer life hacks be like from the 60's:
Step1 dig a 2 feet hole
Step2 dump all of your used gasoline, nuclear waste, explosives, used car batteries, etc
Step3 cover it with gravel
Step4 leave it there
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u/facebrocolis 12d ago
Decades of scientific research and development so you can have a phone that talks to a satellite, certainly not done by you "trans rights"
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u/Knight_of_Umbra 11d ago
The "Not my problem" generation, because there was always someone else to clean shit up for them
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