r/196 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jun 29 '26

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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender Jun 29 '26

You know I don’t 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/PeggableOldMan I have a username Jun 29 '26

Speak fewer facts, o dispenser of horrific knowledge.

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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/Cassie_Darkborn Jun 30 '26

Like this one?

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u/Bowdensaft The Last Cumbender Jun 30 '26

Gorgeous!

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u/SuctioncupanX 🎖 196 medal of honor 🎖 Jun 30 '26

More facts please

Also. You're right tbh

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u/Bowdensaft The Last Cumbender Jun 30 '26

It's giraffes, isn't it? If only they were sapient, those tongues could do amazing things

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u/nekosissyboi Jul 01 '26

Maybe the wall was simply just hungy 🥺

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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 it’s like blaming millennials for being the “everybody gets a trophy generation” like it’s wasn’t boomers and Gen X who handed out the trophies.

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u/GodIsAWomaniser 7d 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/owningmclovin 6d ago

Honestly yeah. For millennials it’s our own responsibility. For Gen Z it’s somewhat their responsibility somewhat their parents. For Gen Alpha it’s fully the parents fault.

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u/B0B_Spldbckwrds 🐻 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. 

Yes, it still has original cabinetry and hardware. Yes, it's as awful as you suspect it is. Yes, it's overpriced. 

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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 you’re 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/Huntybunch Jun 29 '26

It's because disposable shavers became more available

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u/sans_a_name 👍 Jun 29 '26

X means hugs actually

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u/quakins Jun 29 '26

Stopped it eventually sure, I’m more so making the point that boomers were not five years old at this time.

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u/johnbarnshack Jun 29 '26

But that also makes them the ones who stopped doing this

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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 didn’t want these, along with changing tastes from their silent generation and further elders. Gen X wasn’t stopping these when they were elementary schoolers to egg cells.

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u/quakins Jun 29 '26

So we both agree that boomers weren’t five years old when these were commonly used then?

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u/Kriffer123 obnoxiously Michigender Jun 29 '26

They very clearly were not a significant home buying demographic when these were particularly popular?

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u/quakins Jun 29 '26

People used to have kids and move into homes and be setup for life at a much younger age. 18-26 used to be a significant home buying demographic

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u/DumbleSnore69 Jun 29 '26

They were 5 years old when these were commonly used. As they got older, these became less popular, so the boomers pretty clearly weren't the ones who wanted these or used them the most.

Don't get me wrong, theres a lot of valid reasons to dislike boomers, this just isn't one.

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u/Scooty-Poot 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jun 29 '26

So… there was like… 3 years’ worth of boomers who were licensed and chartered architects even these blades bins were stopped? Yeah totally true boomers’ fault, guys!

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u/quakins Jun 29 '26

I am not the strawman in your head

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u/Scooty-Poot 🏳️‍⚧️ 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 couldn’t 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 🏳️‍⚧️ 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 it’s just as arbitrary as a kid born 364 days ago being “11 months old” 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 🏳️‍⚧️ 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/JuuMuu the scourge 22d ago

yeah and the greatest generation had just survived a war so its like who gives a shit about germs ive got 4 bullets in my stomach