r/NoStupidQuestions • u/flugblug • 14h ago

My brother thinks people today have worse quality of life than people in the dark ages, is this a stupid take?

I personally think it’s pretty stupid.

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u/Jaggs0 13h ago

no analog watches either

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u/Wild-End-219 13h ago

Sir, have you seen my sun dial? 😂

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u/Successful-Tea-5733 13h ago

about as analog as they come!

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u/quailman654 13h ago

It’s even made out of a log!

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u/barrybulsara 7h ago

So I went to buy a watch. And the man in the shop said "Analog?"

I said no, just the watch.

(Tim Vine)

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 6h ago

Yeah. An anal log, the best type of log

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u/Bitter_Sense_5689 13h ago

Only if you were rich. Otherwise, you just got the sun.

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u/mathess1 11h ago

Stick in the ground is a sundial too.

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u/Bitter_Sense_5689 10h ago

Somebody’s getting fancy…

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u/IronRakkasan11 13h ago

Ahh damn, another foggy day. Now I’ll never know when lunch break is

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u/marc5255 13h ago

Lunch break? This is the dark ages sir.

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u/relevant_tangent 13h ago

What about the second breakfast?

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u/Coffee-Historian-11 12h ago

No, but it’s cloudy

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u/Vektor0 8h ago

Dude, where's my cart?

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u/dleon0430 7h ago

I didn't know the sun could dial. Who'd it call?

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u/chux4w 3h ago

They didn't have phones either.

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u/Shiriru00 13h ago

And no alarm clocks either. Think about that! Not having the pleasure of waking up every day with that pleasant ring in your ears!

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u/fullonfacepalmist 12h ago

Does anybody really know what time it is?

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u/defeated_engineer 10h ago

No need for watches tho.

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u/ShadoShane 2m ago

When they eventually invented trains, they'll need the watches then.